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[b]Full Name[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - Lina Joanne Massey[/COLOR]
[b]Age[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - 15[/COLOR]
[B]Place of Origin[/B][COLOR=#807B84] - Portland, Oregon[/COLOR]
[b]Occupation[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - High school student[/COLOR][/color][/SUP]

[sub][b]A V A T A R[/b][/SUB]

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[b]Character's Name[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - Lina[/COLOR]
[B]Pathos Affiliation[/B][COLOR=#807B84] - Queon[/COLOR]
[b]Role[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - Magic DPS (Burst Damage)[/COLOR]
[B]Profession[/B][COLOR=#807B84] - Herbalism[/COLOR]
[B]Weapon of Choice[/B][COLOR=#807B84] - Focus Bangles[/COLOR]
[B]Domains[/B][COLOR=#807B84] - Fire; Manifestation[/COLOR]
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[hider=// PERSONALITY][indent][SUB][b]P E R S O N A L I T Y[/b][/sub]

[sup][COLOR=SILVER][b]Energizer Bunny[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Lina is an [i]incredibly[/i] energetic person, always go-go-going. She still holds tight to that particular brand of constant and neverending energy that comes with youth. And consequently, she just keeps. On. Going. And though she needs more sleep than most people seem to, once she's up, she is [i]up.[/i] Borderline hyperactive, she sits just on the safe side thereof. But [i]just[/i] on the safe side, and a fountain of infinite energy that takes a long, long time to run dry. And, to some extent, it's also probably pretty annoying.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]Happy Lil' Squirrel[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Though because of the incredibly unfortunate situation she's found herself in her emotions are obviously somewhat unstable, Lina is, as a general rule, outgoing and consistently cheerful, and generally just an extremely pleasant person to be around. Chipper and surprisingly resilient, she is exceptionally skilled at taking all the bad things—anger, sadness, anxiety, pain—and transmuting it into joy and fun. It's not really a conscious thing; it happens to her pretty much automatically. While it's a defense mechanism to [i]some[/i] extent, it's less that, and more just...the kind of person she is.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]Lemming-head[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Lina is...well, a charitable way to put it would be "scattered." But if you were to put it slightly less charitably (or, more honestly), you would say that Lina is...well, she's an idiot. Even taking her age into account, Lina has a distinct lack of brain cells. Forever and always terrible at schooling and with none of the street smarts that might be used to justify it, she doesn't really have any excuse for it either. She's an unrepentant moron, and she's [i]proud[/i] of it, thankyouverymuch![/COLOR][/COLOR]
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[sup][COLOR=SILVER][b]"Explosions Are [i]Cool!"[/i][/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]There are people in Pariah that put a great deal of time and effort into buildcrafting, planning out what they're going to do in the game meticulously, weighing the pros and cons of each choice before finally pulling the trigger on a role and playstyle. Lina is...decidedly [i]not[/i] one of those. The only real reason she chose the playstyle she did, is, well, she thinks explosions are cool! And the playstyle she's settled into as a result is that of an [i]exceptionally[/i] dangerous fire mage focused entirely on offense to the exclusion of all else. She can do a lot of damage. A [i]lot[/i] of damage. But throw her at anything [i]other[/i] than a DPS check and, well, she's not much use.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]"I Really Like Flowers!"[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Back home in Portland, Lina keeps a garden with her mom, and she really, really enjoys it. So when it came time to choose a profession in Pariah...well, she didn't care much for enchanting, she didn't have any use for blacksmithing or leatherworking, she didn't want to bother with jeweling or anything...so she fell back on something that she's familiar with to some extent. She has a small plot of land in Iblenar where she grows alchemy ingredients. Halfway because they're useful and halfway because they're pretty. Notably, she's not [i]actually[/i] an alchemist; rather, she provides alchemists with what they need, and prepares the herbs if necessary (crushing berries, for example).[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]"I Run Track, You Know!"[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Now, you might look at Lina and think that she's a teenage girl with a minimum of physical strength, judging by those arms. And you'd be right. But in a surprising twist, she may not be strong, but what she is, is fast. Running track in high school—and not half bad at it—has made her a quick runner with more stamina than most people would probably expect out of her. Important for running from enemies. [i]Very[/i] important for avoiding fatigue in spellcasting.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]"My Mom Calls Me A Goldfish!"[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Lina's attention span is [i]shockingly[/i] bad, and she's so distractible it's almost impressive. While of course she can keep her eye on the ball if it's something important like a fight during a dungeon (especially these days) or something really bad happening in the party, for example, for anything that isn't really an active threat, she needs to kind of...be gently shifted back into line sometimes if and when she finds it difficult to pay attention.[/COLOR][/COLOR]
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[/cell][cell][b]Physical Description[/b]
[color=#807B84][indent]A sixteen year old just a hair under 5'2", Lina Massey is a short little kiddo. She's altogether incredibly average in terms of build, slender and petite as befits a young teenage girl. Her greatest distinguishing mark is her bright strawberry-blonde hair (she thinks that it's pretty), which falls to around mid-back, usually tied up in a ponytail in waking life. It's exceptionally messy and hard to control sometimes, but she embraces the chaos (she thinks it makes her look cool) and doesn't pay too much attention to how it's worn as long as it doesn't get caught on something and get yanked. Her face is kind and open, and ninety percent of the time, it's plastered with that gunpowder smile so typical of her. Her pale skin is covered in little scars, way more than most girls her age have, just because she's [i]so[/i] good at accidentally injuring herself in creative ways. She's always bouncing her knee or tapping her fingers, always trying to find some way to let out the wellspring of energy that's always burning inside her. 

The Pariah version of Lina isn't altogether different from what she looks like IRL. A little taller, maybe? her hair is definitely a little bit longer, and instead of looking disheveled it actually [i]does[/i] look chaotically fun. Her build is the same, as is the near-constant bright-eyed smile. The jeans and tanktop are replaced with a short robe, tall boots, and a big ol' wizard hat, capped with a bright ribbon, that sits atop her head. She wears her weapon—her spellcasting focus, really—around her wrists, focus bangles instead of focus rings (she tried using rings for a while, but she kept needing to replace them after she lost them repeatedly), brilliant rose gold bracelets each set with a single bright red ruby. She habitually fiddles with them, almost constantly (she remains exactly as twitchy as she is IRL).
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[b]Character Conceptualization[/b]
[color=#807B84][indent]It's not uncommon for those meeting Lina for the first time to assume that something awful happened to her. That something turned her life upside down, and that's why she acts so happy and dumb so much of the time; a coping mechanism, to ignore whatever darkness is in her past.

It's also not uncommon for those people to be confused when they discover that she's just a happy little idiot.

And she was always a happy kid, even way back when she was little. An only child, she was pretty much the sole occupant of both parents' time, and she had a really good relationship with them, all told. The worst thing that's happened to Lina is, when she was maybe ten years old, her mom Marian discovered that her husband was cheating on her and had been for a [i]while[/i]. One thing led to another, and before long, Marian won custody of Lina and kicked him to the curb. She lived with her mom from then on. But the two of them certainly wasn't badly off, given how much her mom made as a pediatrician. And she'd always liked her mom more anyway. She always made time for her, and was...really, in all respects she was a model parent.

Which is good. Because otherwise Lina's atrocious grades would probably have stretched her to the point of snapping.

That's not to say she let her grades go out of laziness. On the contrary, actually: she tried. She really, really tried. But ninety percent of the time, things just [i]did not[/i] click for her. Even in middle school they were pretty bad. Her essays were rambling messes. Her math was slipshod and shoddy at best and [i]completely[/i] off base at worst. Languages just skated off her skull. And it was the same with basically every subject. She stayed after classes; talked to teachers. Her mom even hired a tutor for her. And it helped enough for her grades to be at least [i]passing[/i]. But no more; among other things, her attention span was just [i]far[/i] too short.

And of course, high school has been even worse for her thus far. Midway into her freshman year now, she's been beating her head against the wall of education with a great deal of vigor. And seeing that she was...well, not miserable, it's not certain that Lina being miserable is [i]possible[/i], but [i]put out[/i], she ended up buying Lina a proprietary peripheral for this new game on the market called Pariah. She's been playing it in between trying her best in school, and it's actually been [i]helping[/i] her grades, helping get that energy out so she can focus a little better.

It's, uh...not quite helping anymore.
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[b]Other Information[/b]
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[color=#FFC5AD]Shine[/color] - A basic damage spell. Deals a moderate amount of light damage in a moderate AoE.

[color=#FFC5AD]Prism Burn[/color] - After a brief charge-up, fires out seven instant rays of light. They stop upon impacting an enemy. Each does moderate damage, allowing him to spread it out or focus it down on one target, but for every ray that impacts the same enemy, the next does less and less damage.

[color=#FFC5AD]Perihelion[/color] - The area around Hvitørn lights up brightly. For the duration of the effect—about six seconds—every light spell that Hvitørn casts is heavily empowered and restores a fraction of its fatigue.

[color=#FFC5AD]Backflash[/color] - An emergency "get-out-of-dodge" spell. Deals a small amount of damage in a small cone in front of Hvitørn, but launches him backwards, letting him escape from melee combat.

[color=#FFC5AD]Crimson Butterly[/color] - Lina's be-all-end-all spell, Crimson Butterfly suddenly manifests wings of flame behind her and a halo of flame above her head before she takes to the sky with unrestricted flight. During this time, she is able to launch explosive fireballs for a [i]much[/i] lower fatigue cost than they would ordinarily accrue. Once the duration ends or her fatigue simply becomes too intense, she drifts slowly to the ground as the wings fade away.
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