[OOC] Portal to Terra

[CaptainTabatha]

so, since our last thread is lost with the old RPG....lets try this again, shall we? Do you want to redo character sheets?

[WandererJiyuren]

I think we should post them at the very least. I still have mine.

[CaptainTabatha]

urr....let me see if I have mine somewhere

[WandererJiyuren]

Name: Jayden Phyro “Shadowblade”
Race: Human
Age: 16
Appearance: Just picture him with dark hair and an Earth hoodie and jeans.

Profession: Currently student. Will become wizard/portal master
Native Planet: Terra
Current Location: Earth, America
Special Skills: learns magic suspiciously well, sneaking in shadows, sword fighting, dagger fighting
Bio: Jayden was born on Terra. He was born into a secret assassin community known as the Plague. He was the son of the leader, Petas Shadow Wing Phyro. His mother was a mage named Euthith. From an early age he was trained in skills of combat and assassination. He was usually tormented by other children in the Brotherhood, calling his mother a witch who seduced their leader. This was because Euthith had not been born into the Plague, but had met Petas and fallen in love. When Jayden was 7, he received his assassin title, Shadowblade. Not long after this, a fight with the other children got ugly. Three older boys had him pinned, and a girl and another boy were taunting him about being half-outsider. Jayden’s mother happens upon the scene and uses her magic to repel the children and rescue her son. As a result, some of the assassins, noting that Petas Phyro is on a mission far away, decide to murder Euthith. They swarm Euthith in an ambush and successfully end her life, all as a mortified Jayden watches. Something in Jayden snapped then, and his dormant magic abilities awakened. Without meaning to, he opened a portal without a stone, falling into it and into America. This turned out to be such a powerful burst of portal magic that it opened up random portals all over Terra, and this is where the portal Ellyon fell through originated from.

On Earth, Jayden was put into the foster system when he was found. He acted as if he had amnesia, and hasn't spoken to anyone about what happened. He doesn't know that there are descendants of Terrans on Earth at all. He has currently been placed into his latest foster home, which is in the apartment next to Tavel, Cal, and Ellyon's...and is to be enrolled in Ellyon’s school. He's had to move around homes a lot from his inability to control his new-found magic, causing him to have accidents with it ever throughout his life.

Psychology: Jayden knows the importance of life more than most young people who life on Earth. After all, he has been trained to levy that very price on the heads of others. As such, he is heavily wary of his surroundings, to the point of obsession with the reasons people are where they are at any given time. His waryness often causes him to lose focus during conversations and events. As a result, he often makes clumsy mistakes that cause him to appear to be a klutz. Rather than try to avoid these mistakes, however, Jayden has resolved to use them to his advantage in hiding his true ability and the amount of danger he is capable of posing to those around him.
Unfortunately, those around him sometimes ridicule his clumsiness, reminding him of his tortured youth at the hands of other children trained in the same arts of elimination as he was. This causes him to distrust those around him easily, and he generally keeps to himself. Though he tries to be polite to his peers, often biting remarks escape him before he can consider other, more proper responses. For Jayden, socializing is a chore, and as a man with many secrets, he has rigid standards those who wish to socialize with him must meet.
Jayden harbors a deep-seeded hatred for those who torment those who are different, and for those who do not take other people’s opinions seriously. As such he does not discount any person as innocuous, but rather constantly analyzes the level of danger presented by each individual in a given area to each other individual in the area.
Though Jayden harbors this hatred, he is well versed in the art of patience, and will not retaliate against any individual unless a threat is posed to a life he does not feel needs to be ended. Many fights in schoolyards and parks have ended in Jayden being splayed out on the ground pretending to be unconscious as a result of this behavior. This protective behavior is not something he wishes to perform, however. In truth Jayden is a very passive individual at most times. He might even be described as humorless by those who do not know him well. He is so passive that he in fact prefers to go unnoticed, and will often decide not to perform at his fullest capabilities if there are onlookers he is aware of.
Jayden does not feel safe if he does not have a dagger of some kind on his person, and he is rather unfond of sleep as a result of his waryness.

Jayden wishes to return to the Terraplane someday and take revenge for the death of his mother. He also hopes to lead a normal life that his mother would have been proud of. He feels unsure of where assassinating might fit into this, and so has elected not to consider it as a career option at this time.

[CaptainTabatha]

Name: Ellyon Sivol
Race: Elf-believes she is human
Age: 16
Appearance: average height, with delicate features and honey-blonde hair. When her human disguise falls apart, her ears become pointed and her hair becomes silvery-white with blue-teal undertones. Her eyes are a bright blue regardless.
Profession: High school student, for now
Native Land: Terra
Current Location: Earth, America
Special Skills: Has good powers of observation, and a knack for picking up other languages. Is also a great shot, and has a way with animals.
Brief Bio: Ellyon was born as the second child to the elf king and queen. The first seven years of her life were spent with them, though she remembers little of it. This is because of Elven biology and how elves age. She had the mental capacity equal to that of a human 2 year-old, and was about the same size. Not long before her 7th birthday however, the long dead portals suddenly opened all over Terra randomly, and one was right by her bed. The young Ellyon fell through the portal and ended up in America.

Social services soon found her, and became alarmed by her strange appearance. They became more perplexed when she spoke in a broken unheard of language. Luckily, before anything came of it, a Terran descendent whisked her away, realizing what she was, but not aware that she came from Terra.

The Earth-Terran brought Ellyon to her husband, a middle-aged wizard named Tavel. They realized Ellyon was a full-blooded elf, something that had not been seen in centuries. Knowing that the darker members of the descendants of Terra would want her for their own benefit, so he cast a disguise spell on her for her own protection. He and his wife raised Ellyon with their own son, Cal, telling Ellyon she was their god-daughter. Tavels wife died a few years ago, and Tavel plans to tell Ellyon of her true race and about Terra when she is ready.

Ellyon aged as all elves do, with a sudden growth spurt starting when she was 8. She quickly grew both physically and mentally, catching up with her human counter parts. She is almost to full elven-maturity, which is around 20-25 years of age.

Psychology: She has almost o memories of her life on Terra. She wishes she had more memories of her parents, and is slightly sad that she never knew them. She does not let it show, and hides her sadness behind indifference and confidence. Part of her void is filled by Tavel and Cal, who are just as loving as any father and brother. She also distracts herself with hobbies and friends, and is fully immersed in the gaming culture as a form of fun escape. She knows for some reason she doesn't belong, but doesn't know where else she could belong. This has developed a sense of wander-lust in her soul, and she longs to travel the world.

[CaptainTabatha]

Name: Tavel Augerthon
Race: human
Age: 60
Appearance: average height, with hair that has grown out from a close military crop and the short beginnings of a beard. Hair is silver-gray. Has blue-gray eyes
Profession: upper-class wizard, scholar, part-time teacher, author. Retired firefighter, still does consultations for the fire department.
Native Land: Earth, but is a Terran decedent.
Current Location: Earth
Special Skills: reading people. Magic. Has extensive knowledge of Terra due to research. Can be a good strategist. Can help bring out the best in people. Listening.
Brief Bio:Tavel was born into a “normal” American family in the 50's. His father was a Terran descendent, but unaware of the fact. Tavel was a family name, the name of his father's grandfather. Tavel was born in 1953, a time when American families kept their problems to themselves. His family didn't have many problems, except for the accidents that became increasingly frequent as Tavel aged. They kept everything as hushed as they could, until 1971. Tavel was 18, and he chose to become a fire-fighter.

Several months after successfully becoming a firefighter, an enormous fire in the forest outside the city was threatening to destroy the whole area. Tavel and all other fire-fighters fought valiantly, but the fire was too well fed. The situation was absolutely hopless. All of them would have surely died that day. The frenzy of the fire and certain death caused Tavel's magical talents to erupt out, and a blast of raw magic pushed back the flames from Tavel's team, saving their lives. It gave them the edge they needed to beat the flames. The other fighters thought they had all gone crazy, and vowed never to speak of it again. However, there was one other fire-fighter who knew what he had witnessed. The other fire-fighter was another Terran descendant named Vincent, and he had elven blood. He could also use magic, having elf blood, but did not have near enough talent to become a full-fledged wizard. He confronted Tavel later, and this was how Tavel learned of Terra and the whole society of stranded descendants.

Vincent started to train Tavel in basic magic to help him gain control of his powers, since he recognized the potential for a wizard or mage. They had a successful career in firefighting, partially in thanks to magic. Both Vincent and Tavel remained fire-fighters for a few years, but Tavel needed more extensive magical training, so in 1980, they quit the force. Vincent introduced Tavel to other Terran descendants and helped hi get a magic teacher. Tavel thrived in this new community, and here he met his future wife, Rina, who worked in the child foster care system to help find abandoned Terran kids and get them with families who knew how to deal with them. They married in 1982, and in 1989 they had their son, Cal. During this time Tavel became a full-fledged wizard of considerable power and spent a good deal of free time with Rina researching their Terran heritage.

Then in 2006, Rina found Ellyon in child services. It was strange because all of the full-blooded elves left on Earth were ancient and had no children, and yet here was a very young pure elf. Tavel disguised Ellyon for her protection and he and Rina raised her as their own. Rina died in a car crash 3 years ago.

Psychology: Tavel is a crafty and slightly cryptic individual. He likes fire spells the most after being a firefighter. Ever since he found out about his heritage, he has devoted his life to studying Terran history and longs to see it someday. His sense of humor is somewhat dry and he can be rather blunt. Ever since his wife died, he's been more subdued than his past spunkier self. Once something peaks his interest, it becomes impossible to deter him.