[OOC] The Marchand School of Sorcery

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^{Took longer than an hour, but here she is.}

Mina Thomas

_{{ "Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others." }}

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Full Name:

Mina Nicole Thomas
_{└ Also known as Nickie}

Alias:

La Estafa
_{└ Con in Spanish}

Gender:

Female

Age:

Seventeen

Primary:

Trickery

Secondaries of Interest:

Shadow Step and Levitation

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Looks:

Dark, thick locks of hair cascade down Mina's back and curls around her youthful face. Her skin is the color of peanut butter, and speckling her nose are freckles that are a darker brown than her skin. She'll usually cover these freckles, as well as any other blemishes, with a thin layer of concealer and foundation. She has a prominent nose and full lips that always look poised to speak something important. But her most compelling feature is her piercing brown eyes that can change from affection to aversion without notice. Mina stands at five feet and six inches tall, and weighs in at around one hundred-sixty five pounds. She is also very toned and athletic, thanks to spending a good portion of her time exercising.

Mina carries herself elegantly with good posture, long confident strides, and her head held high. Due to this and her love of high heels, she often looks taller than she really is. When smiling, you can see that she has two rows of perfectly white teeth, a slight overbite present. When it comes to her fashion sense, Mina surprisingly likes to keep it simple. When out and about, you'll usually see her wearing pants or jeans, a plain T-shirt, and a pair of sneakers or heels. When it's cold, she'll swap the T-shirt out for a solid colored sweater or wear a black, leather jacket over top of it. Mina does not have any visible scarring, but does have one that does down the length of her thigh from a childhood incident.

Personality:

It is very clear that Mina is a genuinely friendly young woman. On the surface, she proves to be a very energetic and lively person. When she's with her friends she is rarely seen without a goofy grin on her face. She can be described as the bright ray of sunshine in a group, always trying her best to make others happy whether it be by giving them authentic compliments or cracking jokes. Many of her friends also describe her as adventurous and spontaneous; she's usually the one trying to get people to step out of their comfort zones and try something new. What most people don't realize, however, is how little they actually know about Mina. She has a tendency to be a bit "two-faced," and is great at socially accommodating when around different groups of people in an attempt to be liked by everyone. Some call it "fake," while Mina just calls it adapting.

Mina's intelligence is mostly based on her determination to succeed; all throughout grade school, she has studied more than the average student in order to "stay ahead of the game," as she likes to say. She's very articulate and observant, tending to notice things about people that they may not even be consciously aware of themselves. With the aid of her eloquence, Mina is very manipulative, like her mother, and finds joy in getting others to do as she pleases. Another trait she inherited from her mother is her love for the finer things such as flashy jewelry and expensive shoes. As a result, she is a bit of a kleptomaniac and takes things without thinking. She does not like to talk about her own personal life, instead preferring to hear about the lives of everyone else. She's very blunt and straightforward, and doesn't hesitate to put someone in their place. She also has anger issues and a bunch of pent up frustration; when pushed to her limit, she will blow up at whoever is nearby.

Crush:

"Crushes are for kids."

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Skills:

✣ Holographic Projection | Thanks to a few years of training from her mother under her belt, Mina has grown to be very adept at holographic projection. She can create, shape and manipulate holograms, fully three-dimensional images. As such they are based on sight only and have no effect to other senses or have physical presence.

✣ Physical Ability | Mina has been very physically active since she was a child; she's always been a part of some sort of sports team that requires a great deal of strenuous conditioning and training. Even during off season she'd be found jogging around or doing other exercises in order to stay in shape.

Weaknesses:

✣ Details | Mina, despite being very observant, often forgets to add little details when she creates these projections; She'll sometimes make mistakes such as creating things that don't exist or situations that would never happen in a million years. One common mistake is misplacing a feature on a person, or forgetting to add shadows to their forms.

✣ Reckless Risk-Taking | Mina takes a lot of risks, whether they are dangerous and life-threatening or not. She has never been one to back down from a challenge and is an overall adventurous person. Although her risk-taking sometimes leads to disaster, she always hopes for the best possible outcome.

Brief History:

The Thomas bloodline is fairly new compared to others, only being able to be traced back to the African slaves that had been transported to Jamaica in the early 1500's. Though not being a particularly prominent family, the Thomases did play a significant role, behind closed doors, in the abolition of slavery in the small island as well as the eventual independence of Jamaica within the British Commonwealth. The family kept a low profile ever since Jamaica gained its independence, living among the "normal" people of the island and continuing to pull strings behind the scenes. Those who know of the Thomas family know them to be a bloodline of noble, unrelenting activists and gifted illusionists.

Mina herself was born in the bustling city of Chicago as the only daughter of Jamaican immigrants Dionne and Martin Thomas, two very powerful illusionists. Throughout her childhood years, Mina grew to be very knowledgeable about her family's history and their extraordinary abilities. In fact, when her own abilities began to manifest, her parents took it upon themselves to teach her as much as they could about how to control them. She was constantly instructed by her parents to keep her abilities under wraps so that she could live the "normal life" that they'd envisioned, but this all changed when she received an offer to attend a school where she could learn more about harnessing and controlling her magic without worrying about staying hidden. It took a great deal of convincing, but her parents eventually gave in.

Other:

Her laugh is infectious.

_{Who knows, who knows, who knows, who knows
I just go where the trade winds blows}

[EchoicChamber]

@Ejected Approved! She looks good. She might be without a named roomie for a bit, though, until someone else makes a female character. Is that okay with you?

[Ejected]

^{That's fine. Thanks!}

[EchoicChamber]

@Ejected Also, just so you know, there's also a Discord channel for the roleplay. It's really handy for staying updated and having stuff to do in between posts, but it isn't mandatory or anything. c:

[EchoicChamber]

@Sailorsadie Delaney is approved!

[EchoicChamber]

Hey, all! Just wanted to give y'all the heads up that I might be out of commission for a few weeks. I have a midterm on Thursday and a bunch of finals next week, which will keep me a bit preoccupied if I'm responsible and all that.
Wanted to put the message on here as well as the Discord, so nobody thinks that I just up and vanished or anything, haha.

[Infinite Cosmos]

Student Character Sheet

Full Name: Ramses Ozymandias Duran

Nicknames/Aliases: Ramses/Ozzy/Stone Mason

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Primary: Terramancy

Secondaries of Interest/Secondaries Illumination and Tracking

Description: Quite short, only about five feet tall. Dark hair, olive skin. Dark, brown eyes. Strong facile features. His build is muscular, and stocky. Imagine a lumberjack, but only five feet tall.

Personality:Generally outgoing, mostly upbeat. Fiercely loyal to those he considers his friends. Would rather shy away from action but will not hesitate to act if he sees harm coming his friend's way.

Crush: Too new to have one currently


Skills: Expert builder, can create spectacular structures. Combined with his secondaries, he makes for an excellent companion to go on adventures with.

Weaknesses: Far too docile, despite being a manipulator of rock and stone.


Brief History: The Durans have long been know and commissioned as stone masons. Their history tracks back to antiquity. Some of the world's most well known structures has had the 'Duran Touch'. Their fortunes were amassed that way. The last 5 generations had settled in the American West, in the Rocky Mountains where there is an abundance material for them to work and play with. Their family, however, traces their ancestry back to the cradle of Civilization itself, thus explaining the odd name for an American. They also still worship some of the older gods, hence his name.

During the war, his family built tunnels and caves underground. Bringing whatever they could, they left most of the worldly possessions behind, and vanished as best they could. This led to Ramses being born into relative anonymity. His family continued to work as much as they could as architects and builders when the war ended, but projects were tough to come by. Whatever funds and resources they kept with them through the war was quickly depleted and their lifestyle turned more and more meager. Ramses grew up in a three bedroom home that they built themselves, receiving education from his mother and generally staying out of the public eye. However, with his family still remembering the old days, modern sensibilities are not lost on him.

Being sent to Marchand, his family sees it as a way from him to get in touch with the world, and maybe grow up to be his own person...

Other:

(Anything else you think everyone needs to know about your character.)

[EchoicChamber]

@KillBox Approved.

[Prosaic]

Howdy, friends! I've made our official Familiar Conjuration and Illumination professor! His name is Aldridge Baines.

[BogeyDope]

@EchoicChamber Heyyy I got a present for you. Been a long time coming!

Liana Washington

Liana "Valkyrie" Washington

"I'm up for hire if you're too much of a pussy to kill the villain yourself."

Full Name
Liana Renee Washington

Nicknames/Aliases
"Wonder Woman" (from Iraq), "Valkyrie" (from US)

Age
29

Gender
Female

Staff Role
Security Staff (Contractor)

Primary
Trickery
Liana uses the element of trickery in order to aid her in her line of work as an assassin. Over the years, she's been using this type of magic to make herself one of the sneakiest and deadliest out there, through a variety of ways.

One of her most commonly used magical feats is the ability to conceal larger weapons. Most assassins often resort to the use of knives or handguns due to their concealability, and often have to sacrifice power and range for it. However, Liana can conceal any kind of weapon she pleases through the method of teleporting weapons through concealable areas into places only she knows about. The weapons she has is almost innumerable, ranging from knives to sniper rifles... whatever she needs for the job. However, while she can get any kind of weapon she has stored beforehand, she normally relies on an enchanted Type 56 (AK, listed below in Secondaries) that she can augment to be silenced and fire enchanted rounds. Normally she carries it around openly so she can react quicker in an emergency, but when she has to, she can easily conceal it through concealment teleportation.

One of her other go-tos with trickery magic is the forgery of just about anything. She carries a wallet full of blank cards so she can easily forge whatever she needs at a moment's notice, whether it would be a driver's licence for that state, counterfeit cash, a permit for the AK she has slung to her side, or a badge for a government agency. This was her primary method of escaping from the authorities, as well as infiltrating them. Being an assassin with a moral code not to harm innocents, she's often pulling out fake IDs much more often than she pulls out her firearms. The forgery that she creates on something can only last for 24 hours, so while she can easily create huge stacks of counterfeit cash to pay for things, her enemies won't know that they got scammed until it is too late (she pays people she likes with real money she rightfully stole). She can forge other things, ranging from documents to checks, as well as entire signs.

Liana can cast other illusions, often times adding or removing features of herself in order to suit whatever situation she is in. She casts other illusions too, such as making herself appear different when infiltrating enemies that know her, or making her face blur with every camera she passes. Sometimes, whenever she is fighting in open battle, she likes to cast a spell to make her look like she's wearing 'war paint' on her face, as to make herself look more intimidating in battle. She can cast other minor spells in the trickery field, but the three mentioned here are what she's pretty good at through lots of practice.

Secondaries
Magical Weapon Infusement
Liana carries a Norinco Type 56 (Chinese AK) almost at all times, with the ability to conceal it whenever necessary. It's her personal rifle that she holds very dear to her, complete with a heart carved on the left side of the wooden butt stock (with arabic written inside of it) and around 192 small inked tallies on the right. It shows clear signs of wear, having been used for years. When her AK is concealed, it is kept in a seperate, buried safe full of spare enchanted AKs and other weapons that she can access at any time through her trickery magic. The AKs she owns are guns that are only keyed to her, and will fail to fire in someone else's hands unless a command word is used.

She has a seperate ammo dump for magazines that can fire just about any kind of round she has enchanted beforehand. Rounds from this AK are often modified 7.62x39 rounds that have the same ballistic performance as a 7.62x54R round, and often come in the forms of many pre-enchanted rounds (such as armor-piercing, silver, non-lethal rubbershock, incendiary, explosive, nerf foam). However, these rounds are pre-enchanted, so Liana would have to reload her weapon with the correct magazine in order to fire them. The enchanted magazines cannot fire from standard AKs, unless Liana uses a quick spell in order to key the standard weapon to the magazines and allow them to fire (as to prevent theft of enchanted ammo). Liana can make her gun's noise almost completely silent, and let the cycled rounds teleport into a seperate depot, but she can do this only at the cost of the 7.62x54R ballistic power.

The AKs she uses also come with bayonets attached to them, which she can fix and use as a melee weapon. The bayonet on the gun can be enchanted to be perpetually ablaze, coursing with electric energy, or be used as a directional flashlight (pointing away from the weapon in either folded or unfolded form). Like the rounds Liana uses, the bayonet can easily be enchanted for anything else. The AK's butt stock is often enchanted to increase the impact force of it for whenever Liana uses it to hit someone. While Liana's enchantments with her weapons can be absolutely limitless, her enchantments are only limited to AK-patterned rifles. While she is familiar with the operation of other weapons, learning how to enchant AKs and 7.62x39 Soviet ammunition took a whole lot of time for her to learn and perfect. She can use any other weapon just fine, but she relies on her AKs for her magic output. While she normally carries them openly, when her forged permits made from her trickery magic won't cut it, she keeps them 'concealed' in a place where she can easily draw them quickly.

Shadow Step
Liana's ability to step through shadows was something she learned in her early days of her career from an assassin who was quite good at it. However, while she uses it often to get around and infiltrate enemy areas, she is still intermediate at it, often having a little trouble getting through, and falling from cielings. She can travel through the shadows to pass through walls and go through different floors, but she can only move through the shadow space for a certain amount of time before she would have to leave again (as she will be feeling quite sick if she moved around in there for too long). She often uses the shadow space to hide from the enemy, but again, can only remain in there for a short amount of time, up to about three minutes before she would need to take a breath again. She normally uses this ability defensively, or simply as a form of traversal. While Liana cannot use it to chase someone, all too often she uses the shadows to hide bodies and kill her marks, leaving them there to never be discovered again.

Description
Liana can best be described as an African American woman with darker skin, but with the facial inflections of an Asian. She has some defined muscles that make her look a little tougher than most women her size, being at 5'6", but the only muscles on display are often her arms as she wears basic grey T-shirts and skinny cargo pants that match whatever environment she is in (they aren't enchanted, she changes them everywhere she goes). She wears combat boots at almost all times, and when needed, she can summon and don tactical vests that carry armored plates, as well as a baseball cap of any color pertaining to whatever environment she is in. She normally wears a ponytail, but she can change her black hair to whatever suits the occasion. She is often seen with an AK slung by her side, with an empty pouch or two to pull out whatever she needs.

Personality
Liana's a rather casual person, and thanks to her magical abilities she's accrued over her long career, she can afford to be. While she's casual in regards to herself, she still values the lives of others, and takes them and her particular line of work very seriously. Liana hasn't been around too many people, so she might act casual in the face of authorities as well. She might be quite cold (emotionally and literally) when on the job against enemies, any friend she does make she's absolutely loyal to. While she loves a good fight as anyone else, she's not the type to kill unnecessarily. She targets her marks and her marks only, and tries to minimize damage to others as much as possible. She will also go out of her way to help others, and has proven time and time again that while she has no room for enemies in her heart, it's because that room is reserved for those she cares about.

Relationship
Her family is either dead or estranged. She did have a fling with someone during her tour in Iraq, but Liana doesn't like talking about it. She's single, DTF and somewhat lonely.

Skills
Magic
Weapon Concealment/Teleportation
Quick Forgery (Documents, IDs, Money)
Light Body Illusion (Changing facial appearance, concealment from cameras)
AK-Patterned Rifle Enchantment
7.62x39mm Soviet round Enchantment
Casual Shadow Walking
Intermediate Shadow Hiding

Mundane
Journeyman Assassin
Advanced Combat Experience (Urban and Desert Warfare)
Mixed Martial Arts
Advanced Weapons training in AKs, ARs, CETMEs, Glocks, BHPs, 1911s, Mosin-Nagants and Barretts
Advanced Driving Technique
Advanced Communications
Novice Investigation
Novice Surgery

Weaknesses
Liana is just as human as anyone else, and has little to no defenses on a normal day. When she expects a fight, she would normally wear a tactical vest with SAPI plates on it to protect her from gunfire and possibly explosions, but other than that, she has every other shortcoming a human being would. She is completely reluctant to fire upon innocents, and will probably save them first if given one of those cliche "Sadistic Choices". No one really knows what her real name is, as Liana Washington is a name she gave herself when she began her career as an assassin. Knowing who she is and displaying it would be shocking, at the very least. Liana also loves animals (especially cute ones), and will probably lose her shit if she sees someone harming any.

Brief History
Born and raised in New York City, Liana grew up in a rough environment that really screwed up with her mind, as well as her sense of morality. When she was young, she lost her mother and brother to gang violence, as well as many friends she knew and loved as well. In turn, she was desensitized to violence, and enjoyed the idea of killing the bad men and women behind the murder of her loved ones. She grew up to become a killer, though while she retained the memories of the pain she went through when losing her family and friends to gang violence, she never inflicted such pain upon the innocent or the good, and even helps them if she can (though she might go too far, like murdering an abusive spouse in one instance). Since she was 16, she was a a hitwoman for hire. She went under a strict training regimen, having learned from books and other assassins (that she later killed when she found out that they targeted innocents too). She learned her first magical techiniques from these assassins, and started to perfect them and learn her own as well. At one point, she was hired by a criminal gang to kill an NYPD police chief and his entire family, to which she responded by eliminating every single armed member of the group, and torturing their boss to death. However, later in her life, after getting some heat from the police, she decided to leave New York and go to Iraq as a contractor, helping out Kurdish and Arab forces in fighting a recent uprising of terrorism in the area. Liana remained there for four years, using her time there to lay low and practice her magic, normally by infiltrating terrorist strongholds and using enchanted weapons on the enemy inside. While she had been good with all kinds of guns in New York, Liana learned how to use the AK effectively, as well as enchant it, during her time in Iraq, using terrorists as a testing group for enchantments. Briefly after she first arrived, Liana had a fling with an Arab woman there, who gave her the AK Liana uses today. However, the war shifted, and the terrorists got desperate. After the last town was liberated from terrorist control, she returned to the United States to use her newfound experience to gain some more contract work. She did some odd jobs for the CIA for the next two years, and by the time she was 29, she had been all across America taking out bad guys the CIA no longer wanted to use. Her schedule soon freed up, and she started looking for jobs other than assassination, looking to give security a try (hoping to score big bucks as a risk management specialist, since she would now how to get into places and get out). Due to her extensive background and her history in Iraq, as well as her strict code of ethics, she was hired by Montana as a contractor for the security team for Marchand High.

Other
Liana is bisexual, with a preference for women. However, she can and will make exceptions for men, provided that they meet certain criteria with her. She is a woman who sits snug in between the alignments of True Neutral and Chaotic Good. She likes to drive around in a stolen and modified black 1995 Dodge Stealth, because she likes the car, and loves how fitting the name is for her. She normally uses it to commute, but she uses whatever vehicle she can commandeer in emergencies.

_{Face Claim: Yvonne Houston
Disclaimer: Details regarding her backstory in Iraq, while based off of true events, are entirely fictional.}