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[center][i][color=1dd09e]"One of these days, the sky's going to fall. When it does, don't forget you've got the strength to hold it back up."[/color][/i][/center]

[color=gray][center]Driven. Protective. Brave. Patient. [/center]

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[list][*][color=1dd09e][b]Name:[/b][/color] "Stormy" Scott Ryan Wheeler
[*][color=1dd09e][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Male 
[*][color=1dd09e][b]Age:[/b][/color] 36
[*][color=1dd09e][b]Sexual Orientation:[/b][/color] Bisexual
[*][color=1dd09e][b]College Degree:[/b][/color] Bachelor's in Education (World History)

[*][color=1dd09e][b]Languages:[/b][/color] English
[*][color=1dd09e][b]Notable Skills:[/b][/color] Strong | History Expert | Metalworking
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[color=1dd09e][b]Years of Magical Education:[/b][/color] 10
[color=1dd09e][b]Schools of Magic:[/b][/color] Abjuration and Evocation

[color=1dd09e][b]Abjuration[/b][/color] (9)
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[*][color=1dd09e]Chromatic Barrier[/color]
Stormy's Abjuration magic specializes in magical defenses that serve the purpose of defending against other forms of magic as well as physical effects. He can produce a solid barrier out of magic that acts like a shield. Stormy has a different shield for each type of magic, which is either dispelled or outright denied if thrown against them. For example, a fireball would explode against the shield, but a zombie raised by necromancy would have to touch a shield before the necromancy propelling it can be abjured. 

Stormy has to know what school of magic is being used if he wants to defend against it; A fireball used produced with Evocation would pass right through Stormy's Transmutation barrier. Each barrier can be made larger or smaller, but more concentration is required depending on how large a barrier is, or how many of each different type is present. Chromatic Barriers can be used to protect against physical danger, but they are broken much more easily by something a crowbar or a shotgun than a fireball.
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[*][color=1dd09e]Safeguard[/color]
Stormy can touch another person, human or witch, and wrap them in a protective layer of magic that shields them from harm. He has to touch someone in order to keep use this ability, and it lasts up to 30 minutes, with or without the manacles being used. While someone is Safeguarded, magic is dispelled upon contact, but they glow like a Christmas tree- It's very obvious that they're being protected by a magic shell. The Safeguard can be overtaken by focusing enough magic on it, eventually causing it to burn out faster. The Safeguard spell grows weaker the longer it is active and is strongest shortly after first being used. 

A person can only be Safeguarded once every five minutes. Stormy can’t use this on an entire group all at once.
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[*][color=1dd09e]Iron Dome[/color]
Stormy can create a glowing dome of abjuration magic. The Iron Dome is meant to defend multiple people from both magical and physical threats on a wider scale than a Chromatic Barrier. It requires Stormy to be standing inside it, as well as his complete concentration. Other witches can stand inside it after it is created, but unless it is broken from an outside source by a strong enough attack, no one can enter or leave. If Stormy loses concentration while maintaining the Iron Dome for even a moment, it vanishes. The Iron Dome negates magic on the inside, which can be useful, but poses a problem when Stormy is protecting a witch while they are trying to use something like healing magic. 

Without the Bulwark Manacles, Stormy’s Iron Dome is more of an Iron Hamster Ball, he doesn’t have the power necessary to make it any larger on his own, and it is much easier for magic to overtake the negation inside the smaller version.
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[list][*][color=1dd09e]Bulwark Manacles[/color]
The Bulwark Manacles are a pair of heavy chains meant to act as a conduit for Stormy's Abjuration magic. At one end of each manacle is a ring that rests around Stormy's wrists, and at the other is a latch to fasten them in place once wrapped around his arms. Each link in the chain has been painstakingly tempered and inscribed with multiple Abjuration runes by Stormy over the course of most of his life. The manacles are his life's work and bring out his full potential for magic. The countless runes require a great deal of maintenance and fine metalworking to remain intact, and without this pair of magic conduits. Stormy's other Abjuration abilities have been developed with the manacles intended to be a central focus, and without them, these abilities cannot be used to their fullest extents, if at all.

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[color=1dd09e][b]Evocation[/b][/color] (5)
[list][*][color=1dd09e]Convection[/color]
Stormy's Evocation magic is focused on heat. He can generate a flame that traps its own heat like a greenhouse effect, rotating and expanding outwards to form what looks like the inside of a small forge. This can be used to provide heat in cold or wet environments, light in the dark, or to heat something up. Stormy is skilled user of fire, but not a powerful one; Using this in a combat situation would be impractical, as it takes several minutes to make the heat build up enough.
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[*][color=1dd09e]Freezer Burn[/color]
As it turns out, concentrating heat into a basketball-sized sphere can be dangerous, and sometimes hurtful, so Stormy has a trick for soothing burns using Evocation. He can quickly lower the temperature of his hands enough that water begins to condense on his skin and whatever he touches. It is essentially a magic reusable ice pack. It's an easy ability that most evokers would have little trouble learning but doesn't provide much more cooling than a high-quality ice pack.
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[*][color=1dd09e]Driven[/color]
Stormy is extremely dedicated to completing a goal he resolves himself to. He spent most of life working towards multiple goals at the same time, even when more than one of them began to impact his health in negative ways. Trying to make him change his mind about what he's set out to do is an exercise in futility. [/list]
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[*][color=1dd09e]Protective[/color]
Like a dog watching over its children, Stormy naturally gravitates to the act of looking out for everyone around him. He tends to put himself last when his friends need help, which actually makes it easier for him to find a balance between taking care of himself and doing his part around Shipden. It may seem like he's letting his own needs to untouched, but the way he helps others is part of tending to those needs.[/list]
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[*][color=1dd09e]Brave[/color]
A kill squad of over thirty armed soldiers with the intent to exterminate every witch in Shipden could surround him, and Stormy would cross his arms in disappointment before he thought to run in fear. He knows when to back down from danger, and often does so easily, but when Stormy chooses to stand his ground, he doesn't even flinch. He's not afraid to get elbow-deep in sticky situations. [/list]
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[*][color=1dd09e]Patient[/color]
One of Stormy's most defining characteristics is his ability to just [i]deal.[/i] Intolerant humans, ignorance, slow outcomes, it doesn't matter. Stormy is used to spending years at a time working towards his goals, and teaching witches about magic subjects that they struggled to grasp. He understands that some things take time to change or make happen. [/list]


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From the time Scott Wheeler displayed an affinity for Abjuration magic, his life with his single foster parent became incredibly difficult. Stormy had no clear memories of his real parents, and practically grew up in the system. Before the age of twelve, he heard a lot about witches, even went to school with some of them until they disappeared overtime. His father had a habit of drinking himself stupid in the small hours of the morning and screaming at the tv about how witches were evil and a threat, and any other venomous expletives he still had the cognitive function to pronounce. Once Stormy realized he was one of those witches, he feared for his life but also started craving knowledge about magic. He learned what Abjuration was through countless hours of searching through the internet, and eventually got bold enough to experiment with it. Stormy vaguely learned that Abjuration was about shielding people from harmful magic, and he took that literally, so he tried to make shields out of thin air. Two months later, he could make a paper-thin sheet of solid energy the size of a dinner plate. He tried to hide it from his father, because the man was a walking time bomb of anger and toxicity, but it was in vain. 

What followed was the worst outburst Stormy ever saw out of him, a pitiful response from CPS due to his status of personhood as a witch, a trip to the local hospital, and finally a begged-for decision to send him to the nearest magic school. That school was by the coast of Delaware, where he spent most of his life. The teachers there were overworked, with one teacher for every forty witch students. The teachers he actually got to learn from weren't capable of teaching him very well when it came to Abjuration, but he was able to use the opportunity to do it himself. He used textbooks as substitutes for erratic internet searches and used the school's less-crowded environments to practice on his own. Most of the students there left around 2pm, but Stormy lived there with the other 100 students that left home permanently. His teachers didn't care enough to pay attention to experiments, they were just trying to not have a stroke during the stresses of the day. Stormy proved to be one of the better students in his Abjuration class though, and eventually some teachers actually got to know him enough to point him towards some more fitting sources of magic information. When he got his hands on more textbooks, he started to really internalize how overworked and strained the educational system was, especially on witches. Stormy considered himself one of the better students as far as magic skill, so he decided to help the teachers out as best he could. 

He got to know some of the younger magic students and started helping them with their magic training. Stormy took what he drilled into his head through countless hours of grueling study and directed it at others who needed help. While he didn't end up doing the teacher's job at that age, he was a significant help for his fellow students. After his first year of doing this, Stormy was leaps and bounds ahead of where he was before leaving home. Over the summer break, he managed to branch out into both a part time job at a gas station and furthering his handle on Abjuration. One day, he was walking across the coast when he saw a ruined boat with a rusted chain spilled across the sand. Stormy immediately had the idea to turn that chain into something magical, which became the start of a lifelong project of converting a mundane, rusted and forgotten piece of metal into a sophisticated masterpiece of Abjuration magic. It took two years for his shield magic to work through the countless runes he carved with Evocation and whatever he could find, but it did wonders for Stormy's magic growth as time passed.

Ten years of countless magic study and aiding younger, less experienced witches through the process of study in an inadequate environment cemented a feeling of superiority in Stormy. Not superiority in the sense that he was better than everyone, but a feeling that he could help them better than these overworked, underpaid teachers that tried and fumbled through the years. After one summer of working on his magic chains and pulling overtime at his now [i]full time[/i] job at a gas station with a 30-cent raise at the age of 23, Stormy funneled every last penny he made over the last decade of witch school into an education degree. He served as an assistant teacher for a witch school during the next four years, until finally at 28 did Stormy officially have a position at a magic school as a teacher of both world history and Abjuration. He joined the nearest coven out of legal requirement, but never interacted with them outside of the occasional coven representative looking for him for checking in on the school through their members. His Abjuration class was the source of some of the proudest moments in Stormy's life; He taught students how to master abjuration, how to combat every single school and get around someone doing the same thing. Stormy's students quickly felt like they could get somewhere when he started teaching.

For the next six years, that was his routine: Teach Abjuration, study Abjuration, use Abjuration and Evocation to work on the chains, work out at home for an hour or two, and repeat. Stormy was profoundly dedicating to guiding his students to be the best magic-users they could and helped them out of bad situations like his own whenever he found out about one having a bad father or an unsafe homelife. Other teachers knew him as [i]the[/i] witch to bring in for safety measures during practical assignments where fire or illusions were being used. Every day during every live exercise the school had, Stormy stopped them from getting dangerous, or immediately shut down a rampant magic experiment when it got out of control. He won five of the school's Teacher of the Year Awards. He might've won the last one if the fire didn't happen.

One day, he was in the teacher's lounge getting some coffee when he heard an explosion. Someone was shouting at someone else, and then could see people running down the street. When Stormy walked out into the hall to see what was happening, he saw smoke coming from the stairs. The building was on fire. He ran and pulled the fire alarm and in a mad dash, he started summoning shields to get people to safety. The only problem was the doors were barred. Whoever set a fire had locked them in, so they broke windows and tried desperately to break the doors open, but the clamor of panicked students won out over the teachers who tried to keep the peace. Almost half an hour had passed, and the air was no longer breathable, when someone managed to get a door open. Stormy lined a path with barriers and was the last person to get out alive. 30 people were killed, over a hundred were wounded, including Stormy. Apparently, the doors were barred with whatever the culprits had with them- Sledgehammers, stolen rebar, [i]chains,[/i] and cinderblocks. There wasn't enough time to salvage any of the building before it fell in on itself. That was the only witch school for 20 miles. 

After a stay in the hospital for burns and respiratory damage, Stormy spiraled downwards for months. Everything he worked towards was taken from him in a matter of hours. Several of the lives he impacted were put to an end, and now every witch in his city was without a school. Stormy was out of a job. He lost his apartment and was living out of a car for three months before he ran into Lina Calvo, who helped him transfer from his old Coven and move to Shipden. A year and nine months later, he now teaches at Bennington's human school, having found his rhythm again.  Stormy hasn't hit such a low point in his life since then, has gone to every length he can to pitch in for the Coven, from making runs into town for the mail or filling the back of his car with the things people need from town. Stormy also happily provides words of wisdom for Abjuration at the Coven whenever someone needs it.

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