[hider=Dame Cecilia] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/0lWmPTq.jpg[/img][/center] [list][*][u][b]Name[/b][/u]: Cecilia [*][u][b]Age[/b][/u]: 23 [*][u][b]Gender[/b][/u]: Female [*][u][b]Race[/b][/u]: Human [*][u][b]Appearance[/b][/u]: A cocky grin. A head full of bright, long blond hair tied with a bow and into a braid. Cecilia stands at roughly five foot nine, being a bit on the taller end of the spectrum even if she complains that she feels a lot shorter than she used to for whatever reason. She isn't particularly often dressed in a way one might envision a knight all things considered. More of something like a roguish character out of some fairy tale. A cloak to hide her appearance and keep warm, armor to cover her vitals and help with her archery but otherwise dressed in fairly simple garb. [*][u][b]Personality[/b][/u]: A lackadaisical loveable rogue is what she calls herself. Seshaeal calls her a lazy rude miscreant. Both are probably applicable depending on your interpretations and dispositions. Cecilia is the type to let others do her work for her if she can help it, having no discipline whatsoever when it comes to such knightly things...but gone are the days of youth when she caused trouble for entertainment, thieved for her own fun or benefit or fought as a mercenary simply because that was the only thing she ever saw herself as amounting too. Now, she finds herself uncertain of quite what she wants to do, or if she can even pull off being something more than a petty criminal or mercenary, but she'll definitely try if given the chance. [*][u][b]Brief Backstory[/b][/u]: Cecilia's history begins not with her, but with a noble house by the name of Autmere. A well off family and noble house known for producing some of the best archers in the kingdom within their family. A well established family in Thaln, and ones who have always aided the kingdom in their times of need and readily defended the kingdom against the rebels in the War of the Red Flag. A little known secret however, is that the reason the family produced such great archers who could supposedly command the wind themselves was because of the heirloom bow that the family had, which supposedly housed a spirit of the wind that would lend its aide to the family. This, is not the noble house a young boy named Cecil would be born into. Cecil was born into a rival house by the name of Estierelli. A now disgraced noble house that supported the rebels in the Red Flag conflict, but before then they were quite an influential merchant family. No is quite certain when they became rivals of Autmere outside of the two families themselves, but the Estierelli's claim that they were thieves and liars, and Cecil grew up hearing such tales of the Autmere's. Perhaps, this was motivation enough for the family to later support the rebels. Regardless of hows and whys, Cecil was quite the roguish characters growing up getting into all manner of scrapes and run ins with the law. Thievery, being a big one. A spoiled little brat, as one could imagine, and eventually he would come to earn his fathers ire with his antics when it was discovered he was having an affair with the Autmere's daughter. So he was given an ultimatum. He would be disinherited unless he put some actual effort into supporting the family and break things off with the Autmere girl. Eventually, Cecil would come up with the brilliant idea of stealing what he thought the Autmere's had stolen from his family. Their magical Heirloom bow. Under the cover of night with help from their daughter, he'd infiltrate their manor and successfully managed to steal away the bow. What he did not expect, however, is that the bow did house a spirit...and one that in fact, seemed to agree with him using it...but not before he was discovered stealing it. With the help of the spirit though, he managed to escape but not before being wounded himself and having to flee into the nearby countryside, taking shelter in a seemingly abandoned stable. Where, he would later awaken to the fact that he was now a woman and the spirit seemed to be the cause of such a change. Seshaeal, she said her name was, and that this was just simply the consequence of using her abilities and definitely not because she thought it'd be funny. Ignoring the spirits incessant chattering and comments about how cute 'she' was, Cecil headed back to Thaln to discover that the news had spread quickly. Either he had been murdered by the Autmere's and falsely accused of theft, or that he had stolen the heirloom bow and made an attempted on the Autmere's daughters life. It was here, he made a decision. He would quietly disappear. He couldn't go back home like this - like anyone would believe him and even if he did, he'd just be tried for theft. It was no surprise that two years later, when Cecilia was now 18 during the Red Flag War his family ended up siding with the rebels in some misguided attempt for revenge. It was during the war, too, that Cecilia would now make something of a name for herself and eventually earn some recognition as a skilled archer on her own, eventually being recruited into the iron roses. The life of a knight suits Cecilia just fine. Just don't ask too much about where she came from. She keeps the bow and Seshaeal both underwraps for fear of her past coming back to haunt her. [*][u][b]Equipment[/b][/u]: Tempest Spirit bow A magic bow inhabited by a spirit of wind by the name of Seshaeal. The bow itself is made of smooth wood and decorated with some sort of green, glass like crystals. Its surprisingly flexible and sturdy. Supposedly one who holds it allows for them to use Wind based magic...only if Seshaeal likes them, of course. Cecilia can use Seshaeal's blessings in a number of ways, typically in powering up her arrows to fly faster and more accurate. A number of more uses though enable her to use arrows to deliver highly pressurized blasts of air to targets, use arrows to guide extremely powerful gusts of wind, etc, guide multiple arrows at once with air currents. Things of similar nature. [*][u][b]Skills[/b][/u]:[/list] Aside from her ability to channel and use wind-based magics thanks to Seshaeal's blessings and assistance, Cecilia is a skilled archer in her own right. Her fighting style is often quick, dirty, and makes use of somewhat unconventional tactics and her wind-blessed agility so she doesn't have to directly fight most opponents. [/hider]