[Hider=Ky Lien][center][h2][color=Lightcyan][b][u]Ky Lien[/u][/b][/color][/h2][hider=Appearance][img]https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c2/e8/4d/c2e84d8acda18bc880ecd113fc3d581f.jpg[/img][/hider][hr][color=LightCyan]✦[/color] Character Theme | [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QB8j-c0wCk][color=LightCyan]When I See Pigs Fly[/color][/url] ✦[/center][hr]
[b][u][color=LightCyan]Full Name[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Ky Lien[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=LightCyan]Age[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]13[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=LightCyan]Gender[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Male[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=LightCyan]Species[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Human[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=LightCyan]Personality[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]There’s not much about Ky Lien that most won’t immediately recognise as the typical traits of any ordinary thirteen year old boy. He is possessed of a boundless energy, insatiable curiosity and a mischievous streak that his elders find both endearing and quite irksome at times. He’s as hard headed as the rocks he throws around; quick to show his bravado and spirit when either are challenged. He brings a playful energy to most situations and often plays the clown in lieu of treating a situation seriously.

Ky has a distinct lack of emotional maturity and often speaks his mind, which often comes off as insensitive or crass. Grappling with the emotional rollercoaster of adolescence and his own trauma often makes it hard for him to process emotional responses that are uncomfortable for him. When this panic grips him he has quite a temper and often regulates his feelings with violent outbursts against whatever inanimate object happens to draw his ire. Joining up with Rising Starborn has definitely been a welcome help in working to process those feelings; especially with so many friendly, experienced mages around to offer their support when needed. In a lot of ways, being with them reminds him of what his own family was once like before things got complicated.
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[b][u][color=LightCyan]Strengths[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]✦ Confident. Ky is fearlessly naïve and willing to take on most challenges head on. 
✦ Lighthearted. He brings an energetic, positive vibe to almost every situation.
✦ Strength. Physically strong and able for his age.[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=LightCyan]Weaknesses[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]✦ Untrained. Has little martial or magical training.
✦ Stubborn. His hardheadedness is often a detriment.
✦ Emotional. He is easily flustered and prone to losing his cool.[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=LightCyan]Guild[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Rising Starborn
Marked on his right shoulder.[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=LightCyan]Mage Rank[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]C Rank[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=lightcyan]Team Members[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]None[/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=LightCyan]Magic[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent][i][u][color=LightCyan]Geomancy[/color][/u][/i]: Caster Magic that allows for the manipulation of earth and geomagnetic forces. Unlike Earth Make, Geomancy is focused around controlling the earth that is present nearby the caster. They are unable to produce their own matter. Earth is not an element that is easily tamed, requiring not only magical fortitude but also great physical strength in order to manipulate effectively. For this reason, Geomancer’s train their bodies to become exceptionally strong; able to shift and shape the earth with mighty blows.

[hider=Spell List][b][u][color=lightcyan]Lesser Geokinesis[/color][/u][/b]: Ky can manipulate small to moderate amounts of earthly material with his magic. He can shape this matter into basic forms, but not to the extent that they can be effectively weaponized.

[b][u][color=lightcyan]Rock Surfing[/color][/u][/b]: Ky kicks up a slab of earth from beneath him that he can freely maneuver around with. Allows for quick movement and repositioning.

[b][u][color=lightcyan]Stone Remnant[/color][/u][/b]: The Geomancer conjures an effigy of themselves from the earth at a desired location. The remnant remains and can be manipulated with their other abilities. In a pinch, Remnant’s can be used as cover. Ky can conjure up to 3 remnants currently.

[b][u][color=lightcyan]Stoneskin[/color][/u][/b]: The Geomancer encases parts of their body in a thick layer of earth, decreasing their speed and agility in exchange for enhanced durability and weight. Ky can encase both of his fists in [u][color=lightcyan]Stoneskin[/color][/u].

[b][u][color=lightcyan]Rock Sling[/color][/u][/b]: Claws up the ground to send a wide volley of jagged rocks in a targeted direction. While not the strongest of spells, it is very fast and can be easily chained into after other attacks.

[b][u][color=lightcyan]Threaded Volley[/color][/u][/b]: Ky tears up a series of five small to medium rocks that orbit him temporarily. On command, he can fire individual rocks at desired targets or volley all of them at once as a stronger attack.

[b][u][color=lightcyan]Boulder Smash[/color][/u][/b]: Winds up a heavy punch, encasing Ky’s fists in [u][color=lightcyan]Stoneskin[/color][/u] if not already applied, before delivering a solid haymaker to the opponent. Can also be used to shatter relatively solid constructs.

If used on a [u][color=lightcyan]Stone Remnant[/color][/u], the strike will send it flying a considerable distance before the effigy erupts for heavy damage when it collides with something.

[b][u][color=lightcyan]Upheaval[/color][/u][/b]: Ky raises up a large slab of earth to act as cover. Can be fired forward to slam into opponents.

[b][u][color=lightcyan]Earth Shock[/color][/u][/b]: Blasts a target with geomagnetic energy that shocks and [u][color=lightcyan]Magnetizes[/color][/u] them for a short duration. [u][color=lightcyan]Magnetized[/color][/u] targets charge any [u][color=lightcyan]Stone Remnants[/color][/u] near them, causing them to strike them with a lesser [u][color=lightcyan]Earth Shock[/color][/u]; refreshing the magnetized duration and destroying the remnant.

[b][u][color=lightcyan]Geomagnetic Grip[/color][/u][/b]: Pulls a [u][color=lightcyan]Magnetized[/color][/u] target towards Ky. Can also be used on [u][color=lightcyan]Stone Remnants[/color][/u] to quickly pull them back to Ky, colliding with anything along their path.[/hider][/indent][/indent]
[b][u][color=lightcyan]Equipment[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]✦ Training Bo. A wooden staff with no remarkable qualities. The grain is splintered from excessive force being applied.

✦ Handwritten Note. The letter meant for his mother. He can't seem to part with it.

✦ Strange Rocks. Ky enjoys collecting any oddly shaped or coloured rocks and crystals he comes across.[/indent][/indent]

[b][u][color=LightCyan]]History[/color][/u][/b]

[indent][indent]Ky, the younger of the two Lien sons, grew up with much adoration for his elder brother Kim. The two were inseparable and were the pride of their parents. The name Lien holds some significant weight in Fiore, being the namesake for a prominent  wizarding corporation. Ky’s great grandfather had originated the organization, passing it unto his son and so forth. It was expected that Kim was to be groomed to inherit his father’s position, but the boy had loftier ambitions. Their mother was far less stringent than the boy’s father was; a free spirit who fondly remembered the old ways. She shared stories of heroic mages banding together in guilds not out of some sense of profitable pragmatism, but real comradery and heart.

It was these tales that drew Kim to Pergrande in the first place - a land free of the bureaucracy that had tainted Fiore’s guilds. Of course, confessing his desire to migrate to a foreign nation did not go over well with his father. Ky was quite young at the time, but even he remembers the argument that tore their family apart. Feelings that sat just beneath the surface burst forth in a tidal wave of screaming and crying. Words said that could never be unsaid.
Their father offered an ultimatum. 
Leave and you will never be welcomed back.

Ky knew a choice had been made when he saw his brother slip away through the front door of their home for the last time.

Wracked by grief, resentment, and abandonment, the Lien family was never quite the same after Kim left. The father absorbed himself in his work and became irritable at any mention of his first born. His anger often misdirected towards Ky’s mother. She grew withdrawn, the flame of passion having sputtered and faded from her eyes on the night everything changed. Ky, too young to understand and process his own feelings, grew agitated and impulsive. Labeled a problem child and delinquent. Soon enough it felt as though everyone, even his parents, had simply forgotten he was still there. As though he had left with Kim that night.
Perhaps he should have.

The finality of that thought set things in motion. He packed a knapsack and pilfered a hefty amount of jewels appropriate for enticing a morally dubious ferryman into looking the other way while he stowed away on one of the trading ships headed to Pergrande. His hands clutched the handwritten note he had decided not to leave his mother. Doubt crept in but he pushed it out. Instead, he thought of his brother. Finding Kim was his priority. He wasn’t sure where to start, but his aimless wandering once the ship landed ashore eventually led to a chance encounter with Jenna Wolfsbane. She offered a warm bed and a chance to earn his keep. Ky accepted, joining up with the Rising Starborn guild in Rembrandt.[/indent][/indent][/hider]