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[center]Name: Ethel Storm

Age: 18

Birthday: 13/11

Magic: Cursed Body
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Due to a cursed grimoire, Ethel's body itself is made entirely of ethernano, as such her body is more versatile, durable and flexible than the norm. She is also capable of regenerating from wounds or even lost limbs, at the cost of a sufficient amount of magical energy and over time according with the wounds inflicted, or just reattaching the lost limbs or even manipulating them still if they’re within a few meters of her. Though the main purpose of her magic seems to be manipulating it to become various elements, generally things she has come into contact with and as such only has a limited range she can transform into it. Much like a take over magic, she is able to do a partial transformation or a full body transformation.

While she is able to sustain injuries that would normally be fatal or outright kill others and continue to fight, thus making her seem ‘invincible’ or ‘immortal’ to others, they will severly hamper her ability to do so, and if she sustains enough damage will retreat inside the lacrima core which she forms her body around to try and protect what little magic she may have left. The lacrima core essentially also doubles as a device to help her control the vast ethernano her body is made up of, helping her reign in her magic when it goes beserk. Though if her lacrima core were to ever be broken, no one is actually aware of how it will effect her well-being, though one can only assume it won’t be for the better.

When in her elemental states, she is typically just given generic manipulation abilities over the elements her body creates, for the most part unable to control the elements around her without exerting a large amount of magical power. And compared to a ‘normal’ mage of the same element, she seems to lack the same punch to her magic. She is also only able to use up to a third of her immense magical reserves safely, due to the sheet amount she needs to maintain her form and keep her mental state intact. Anymore than 50% and her ability to regenerate is gone, and anymore than 60% will cause her body to start breaking apart/fade away into nothingness, and she’ll be forced to retreat to her core or face fading away from existence.

Elements Obtained (Scales from Beginner, Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Mastered in terms of control):
Rock (Intermediate), Earth (Novice), Fire (Intermediate), Wind (Advanced), Water (Beginner), Metallic (Beginner), Ash (Novice), Lightning (Novice), Crystal (Intermediate) and Ice (Advanced)

Later potential gains:
Magma/Lava, Bone, Plant/Nature, Poison/Acid, Smoke, Mud, Sand, Snow, 
Blood or Plasma? Maybe more gas or liquid states? Slime?

Potential Advances in her magic:
Shapeshifting
Dual or more elemental form
Ability to learn other forms of magic?
Being able to create copies of herself
Draining/Being able to receive magic from others? Or perhaps being able to use her magical reserves to power up her allies by giving them a magic boost

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Requip:
She knows basic Requip magic, though more to store items than much else.

Magic Level: A

History:
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Ethel’s past is fragmented ever since she gained her magic, with parts of it out of order or missing entirely. Her confusion over her own background is only confounded further by the addition of Ariel’s memories.

But from what Ethel can claim to be her memories, she is the daughter of a wealthy merchant woman and an ex-soldier of the Fiore army, born as the 2nd child and youngest daughter to the happily married couple. However, soon after she was born, her mother found out about an 'affair' her father had had 2 years or so prior, after going to a party with some old friends of his and drinking way too much. He ended up sleeping with a friend's daughter, and thus Ethel now had an older half brother, and her mother subsequently filed for divorce. However, during the process, her mother and older sister feel deathly ill.

Still madly devoted to his soon to be ex-wife, her father pleaded with several medical wizards and doctors to help cure her. None could help, and with nowhere else to turn to he went to the nearby church for help. After being told to leave his wife and sick daughter at the church since their healer wasn't going to be back till the next day and this would allow him to see them as soon as he got back, he returned the next day to the heartbreaking news they had passed away during the night shortly before the church healer returned.

Grief-stricken her father took the then three-year-old Ethel and traveled Fiore in search of her half-brother and his mother. He searched fruitlessly for years only to find out that the mother had passed away years ago and her son had been put into a nearby orphanage. However, by the time he arrived, he was too late. The son had already been adopted and the orphanage, with the father having no proof to the claim that he was the boy's biological parent, refused to tell him who adopted him.

This was when Ethel was nine and soon after her father began to train her to use weapons using his military training, because at this stage he was rather crazy and decided that the best way to protect Ethel was to train her to protect herself. And the sooner she started, the better right?
After being put through a few years of vigorous training she eventually became somewhat skilled with daggers, shortswords and short bows, though due to her petite frame her father had only been training her with light weapons as anything much heavier was out of the question.

It was when Ethel turned 14 that things began to get really fuzzy. She can’t recall the exact details, or rather subconsciously doesn’t want to, but all she can recall is that she was given a book as a present from her father...and then the next thing she knew, a man by the name of Sora Kaze had sealed her rampant magical powers having come across the girl in her berserk, newly-formed magically malformed body. Upon further study of the book revealed an odd, curious curse that the mage wasn’t familiar with, one that had turned Ethel’s body into almost entirely ethernano, though as the years went on she soon eventually became entirely magic.

After Ethel explained what happened Sora offered to help her find her father, however once they returned back to the camp Ethel and her father had made. Although upon arrival, her father was nowhere to be seen. All they could find was a box of important papers with leads on her brother and a letter from an old friend of her father. The contents of the letter stated that the church they had gone to for help seemed to have lied about her sister's death as he had seen a girl the spitting image of her mother when she was young on a wanted poster, under the name Shiro Hime.

Upon learning this new information she went out to search for her brother, sister, and father. Not wanting to leave the young girl by herself Sora appointed himself her guardian and introduced her to Mai and Jess, his traveling companions. The four of them decided to search for her family on the agreement that she would become Sora's apprentice. This would go on for 2 years, the latter year finally hunting the dark mage down only for her to escape and deny any claims of Ethel being her sister. The Shadow Heart mage even cut Ethel down at one point, shocked when she began to slowly put herself back together again only to flee before she could.

Eventually, their hunt brought them to Crocus during the Grand Magic Games, after Sora heard some interesting rumors that the two Shadow Heart members would be in the vicinity for some reason. This was where she acquired Chu from a traveling mage by the name of Verick, before shortly meeting Cody Bloodstein for the first time. Curious about his physical resemblance to her father, she never really got the chance to investigate it further as they chased after her sister who had escaped the city after being taken down by some Phoenix Wing mages.

It wouldn’t be for another couple of months, as the thought of Cody continued to weigh on her mind, that she eventually convinced Sora to take her to Phoenix Wing to confront the older boy to learn more. The wind mage would agree, though upon arrival, their group was separated, and by the time Sora found Ethel, it was already too late. She had met Ariel and subsequently merged with the living lacrima girl. Though with the aid of Jarvis and his own sealing magic, they were able to separate the two.

While Ariel went to Tenrou, Ethel instead found herself recovering at Phoenix Wing’s guildhall. Though when she came to, no one was at the guildhall, and with a fuzzy mind, she eventually found herself at Nolan Waltz house. After Sora came to an agreement with Nolan, she was left in his care as a fellow Phoenix Wing mage, after Sora had talked to Jarvis about the prospect of the girl joining Phoenix Wing for her own protection if nothing else.

It would be about another year before she would be able to confront Cody, though much like Shiro before him, Cody also denied the claims to their sibling connection, despite Ethel’s insistence that he physically resembled her father too much for it to be a coincidence.

As such she has spent most of her time either with Nolan, Ariel or Cody, generally floating between the three for various reasons. Not that she has neglected her training though, taking any chance she can get to practice her magic, learn how to better control it, and spar with anyone who’ll take her on.
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Personality:
Ethel is an aloof and apathetic individual for the most part, despite her best attempts to understand others she ultimately falls short on most occasions. While it’s strange to describe it as such, Ethel’s emotional responses can come off as more ‘reactive’ than natural; or, rather than seemingly having emotions of her own, she seems to take in the emotions of those around her and react accordingly, rarely displaying anything different to those around her.

She’s also surprisingly reckless, and somewhat selfless, in how she goes about things with very little concern for her own personal safety, especially in a fight. Does someone have a sword? She’ll let them stab her so that she can snap the blade. Someone’s shooting at one of her friends? She’ll gladly take the bullet without hesitation. Booby-trapped room? She’ll charge in ahead and take whatever punishment it dishes out to clear the path.

Taking both of those above, her reactions to most situations tend to come in rather unconventional ways, which others find off-putting or weird. Sometimes even as idiotic or completely insane. There also seems to be little consistency or reason for some of the actions she may take, especially those taken out of curiosity. This can sometimes be put down to her apathetic nature or simply because she can be unaware of the potential consequences of actions taken.

Her strongest traits, however, are possibly her seemingly single-minded, possessive and overprotective nature of those few she has managed to form any significant bond with. Perhaps it’s because she finds it so hard to connect with others, that those who manage to do manage to form such a strong bond. Can be overwhelmed by emotions at times, leading to mental breakdown/shutdown or sudden outbursts as she finds the emotions strange and unnerving.


Guild and guild mark location: Phoenix Wing, Light Violet on the left side of her neck

Team Members: Nolan + Ariel
Cody

Three Strengths: 
1. Versatility
2. Is a god-tier limbo master
3. Unpredictable reactions

Three Weaknesses: 
1. Cookies. She absolutely loves cookies, and as such can be used to bribe and/or distract her.
2. Her magic power is very slow to recharge by itself due to the sheer amount she needs, mostly regaining magic from absorbing ethernano in the atmosphere around her or being given it via outside sources
3. No concern for her own safety

Greatest Love: Chu and other such adorable creatures. And cookies/sweet food

Motivation: To reunite her family

Appearance:
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Additional Details:

Claims to be the younger sister of both Shiro Hime and Cody Bloodstein

Ethel can survive being shot in the head, stabbed through the heart or being decapitated due to her magic, though these can take her out of action for a while depending on the circumstances, while being poisoned merely makes her sick, the severity of which will vary.

Ethel is 4’11

Ethel owns a dagger that has a magical gem attached to store additional ethernano that used to belong to her father

She also owns a magical cloak which is enchanted to withstand powerful magical attacks and helps hide her presence from others. Due to her immense magical presence, she is almost always wearing this.

Chu: https://i.imgur.com/LwZ12rG.jpg

While it is unnecessary for her to do so, she is able to eat, sleep and drink like any normal person, though she is able to go without doing any of the above for days on end, her mind can still grow weary and she’ll have to rest at one point.

The grimoire in question is still in Ethel's possession, though she rarely ever produces it even if asked. A strange sensation always coming over her whenever it's out, so she prefers to keep it hidden away in her Requip space

She owns a bag of broken/crushed up lacrima, which she carries around and munches on like rock candy to help quicken her magical energy recovery. As well as any potions that Neil might concoct for her to have/test

Is able to form clothes of her own through her magic, though unable to create clothes for anyone else

Character Relations:
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Ariel Gratas: Ethel feels a very strong connection to the older girl, perhaps as a byproduct of their temporary merge and subsequent sharing of one anothers memories. Otherwise, Ariel is like the older sister she always wanted.

Nolan Waltz: Mixed feelings about Nolan, mostly to the confusion between her memories and Ariel. Regardless, he’s like an older brother to her, though her constant causing of trouble causes him nothing but grief.

Amaya Van Isis: She doesn’t seem to like the older girl much, seeing as Cody is more fixated on her than entertaining the thought of believing Ethel’s claims. But it isn’t like she dislikes the girl entirely either though, just more annoyed with her.

Jasmine Lockwood: Another one she doesn’t seem to care much for, though if Jasmine is around, it means that Rajah isn’t far behind so she tolerates Jasmine at least.

Rajah: Much to Rajah’s chagrin, Ethel is very fond of her cute and fluffy form

Joshua: Doesn’t care much for him

Cecilia: Loves Cecilia as much as she does anything soft and fluffy

James Avelane: Finds the Paladin to be funny and cool

Zero:

Zanaram:

Hunter:

Damian Gerald:

Penny Hoffman:

Roseletta Griffonbane:

Brianna Lyffobelt:

D’angelo Schultz:

Trinity Stratos:

Neil Yoska:

Markovis Pendergast:

Belius:

Jamie:

Jarvis:
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