Unlucky Six - A Modern Day Magi RP, Limited Acceptance!

[VitaVitaAR]

In that case, there's a new open spot for anyone interested.

[Raineh Daze]

14 posts. 14. The hell? O_o

[TentacleLord]

I'd like to put forth my claim then.

[VitaVitaAR]

Alright, putting your claim on the list.

[VitaVitaAR]

As seen here, we have a completed and acceptable Number 6 now.

Since the other candidate hasn't put out an acceptable idea, I'm going to go with this one. Sorry. ^^;

Since we've got all six spots filled, here's the OOC!

[TentacleLord]

Numba 5

Name: Gideon Drake
]Number: 5
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Appearance:

Personality: A harried young man who stresses over the well-being and mental health of his teammates. Despite this, he’s secretive when it comes to his own issues, feeling that he doesn't want to bother anyone.
Almost disturbingly uncaring when it comes to people outside his direct circle of comrades.
He's also surprisingly quick-witted when it comes to getting out of paperwork.
Abilities: Born into the Drake family, a mid-teir clan of mages known for their affinity for metal, Gideon possesses an exceptionally large pool of low quality mana. He actually knows very few spells due to this, instead perfecting his few abilities to make up for what others can in variety. At their base, all Gideon’s spells revolve around the movement and control of pure metals(Alloys don’t work for him). In most cases, he is able to solve problems by hurling many iron and silver spikes at the target. He can also use this ability to bind down rogue mages without killing them.
His most complex and complete spell is the Golem. A constantly fueled puppet that Gideon can control from afar, the seven foot avatar of hulking metal that is known as the Golem is the key to the young Drake’s offensive talent. Made entirely of folded iron, the massive frame operates like a battering ram, its joints worked by Gideon’s magic. Despite the advantage this gives him in long range-engagements, the limits of his lower quality mana show at distances and places beyond his line of sight. At these points, the Golem becomes sluggish and predictable, often halting movement entirely as Gideon tries to move to a better location.
As a whole, he uses his powers in a supporting fashion as he’s unreliable in a fight at worst. The Golem can be used to fight his battles alongside his partners by taking and giving blows where Gideon could not, along with the arsenal of metal that he can hurl from a distance.
Equipment: Given his affinity and quality of mana, Gideon relies heavily on his equipment.
Two dozen knives of pure iron, along with a longsword of the same metal, along with six silver rings carried in his pockets. The parts for the Golem are only carted around when the hunting operation proper has started. Outside of that, Gideon is unusually fond of well-tailored dress-shirts.
History: Gideon’s exceptional talents were hidden from a young age due to a design oversight in his teaching. Despite the backing and encouragement from his family, Gideon’s young years proved disastrous for both his social skills and magical capability. He was never able to cast anything complex enough to please either his tutors or his family nor was he able to do anything impressive enough to make friends.
His exceptional talent as a mana provider and battery was discovered soon after he enter the college at a low level and proved that he could outlast the professor when casting basic spellcraft. After a few more tests were run on him, the young Drake was quickly accepted into the ranks of more experimental magi.
Upon their urging and support, he joined the Unlucky Six less than three months later. If nothing else, Gideon had found a place where he could finally use his talents to their fullest extent.

[VitaVitaAR]

Looks good, but my only slight point of concern is that it seems like you're referring to a magical school other then the Tower, when that education would be handled by a tutor at most, if not by older family members.

Otherwise, I like him.

[TentacleLord]

Gotcha, I'll shift it to a tutor and/or family members.

Edit: Boom. Done.

[VitaVitaAR]

Accepted.

As a reminder, OOC here!

The RP will be starting as soon as Rin gets her bio posted!

[Rin]

Number 3

Name: Ashley Dragoslava Zilberschlag

Number: 3

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Appearance: Something like this!

Personality: The most immediately noticable thing about Ashley is how forceful she seems. She is outspoken and proud; both a perfectionist and something of a control freak. She will try her best to ensure that things go her way, and are on her terms, and gets rather irritable when this isn't the case. Not to say that she's not a team player or anything, just that she thinks that the team should be playing with her and not the other way around. However, she's not a bad person, per say, just something of an egotist; she is at heart a well-intentioned woman, partially due to her belief in noblesse oblige. Coming from a more traditionalist mage family, she is rather wary of more advanced technologies, and finds it difficult to wrap her head around computers, mobile phones and other such things; clearly they are made to aid those without magical prowess, so an accomplished mage such as herself does not need to bother with such things (and it's definitely not because she can't admit that she just doesn't understand how they work, honest!). Ashley happens to be something of a workaholic, not just because she is a perfectionist but because she hopes that if she becomes a reknowned magi her family will regain some of their lost recognition.

Abilities: Possesses incredibly high quality mana, although this is somewhat balanced out by the fact that fittingly for her perfectionist tendencies, it's more a case of quality over quantity. She is able to cast rather powerful and intricate spells, but her mana supplies run out rather quickly, leading her to have to be pragmatic when it comes to magic use. Ashley, and the rest of her family, possess an affinity for Ice, so naturally most of her spells are focused on ice, snow, cold and stasis. Amongst her spells, the most notable are Frostcast, a barrage that takes the form of a flock of birds formed of ice; Icicle Blade, a rather unsubtle spell that creates a sword of frost in her hands; and Glacial Barrier, a wall of ice that works as a defensive spell. In order to boost her spellcasting abilities, she usually carries some basic theurgy supplies, including some high quality chalk that has been mixed with some of her own blood for use in drawing magic circles. Whilst it is her speciality, not all of her spells are ice-based, and she has a basic knowledge of low level spells of the other elements with one notable exception; Ashley's affinity makes it rather difficult for her to truly master fire magic, and since she doesn't care about things she can't master, she knows only the most very basic of fire spells, and she's still not all that good at them.

As noted above, Ashley isn't very skilled with modern technology, and is usually far more comfortable (not to mention skilled) with looking up information in a dusty old grimoire than on one of those new-fangled computers. Finally, Ashley's cooking skills are so absolutely abysmal that her inability to make anything more complicated than a basic sandwich is notable as a "skill" of sorts.

Equipment: Ashley carries with her Baculi Magia, a magic staff originally created by her ancestor Vance Zilberschlag that she has had converted into a lilac parasol. To make up for her limited mana supplies, she is able to "store" up three spells inside it, allowing her to have a set of pre-prepared spells to cast without using any of her mana. As noted above, Ashley also carries various basic theurgy supplies, as well as a supply of chalk that has been mixed with a small quantity of her own blood.

History: Born to the at-the-time prestigious Zilberschlag family, Ashley's early years were spent being taught not only the secrets of magic but that she must live up to her family's prestige and never besmirch their name through dishonour or failure. The Zilberschlags were an old family, steeped in tradition and pride, and even as their mana capacity waned with each generation the quality of their mana remained strong. However, whilst most of the family were content to be the best they could, and had plans to marry into other old families in hopes of producing an heir with a large amount of high quality mana, there was one amongst them who cursed their weakening power. Elijah Zilberschlag, grandfather of Ashley, began obsessing over a way to increase the family's mana stores, and what began as simple research soon became something much darker. Using the family's affinity for ice, he began kidnapping other mages, freezing them solid in order to preserve them for later experimentation. Whatever he was doing with them, it quickly turned... Messy. Eventually, the smell of splattered corpses drew others to his workshop, and all were horrified when the results of his experiments were revealed. Worse still, amongst the victims were missing members of several prestigious mage families... As soon as the news broke and he was carted off to an asylum, the Zilberschlags' reputation took a massive hit. Even with their age and prestige, the things Elijah had done left them with a black stain.

Ashley tried to take this all in her stride, despite the revelations and the change in how other mages treated her. Even if her grandfather had devolved into an insane monster, she would prove to everyone that he was an isolated case, and that the Zilberschlags were still worthy of the prestige they once received. Having been enrolled at the Tower, she tried her best to excel at anything she did, and eventually her quest to restore her family's honour led to her joining the Citadel Six...

[VitaVitaAR]

Accepted.

IC posted!