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Full Name:
Esperanza Rosalind Ciervo
Nicknames/Aliases:
Esp, Espie, Esper, La Hija de la Muerte
Age:
15
Gender:
Female
Primary:
Necromancy
Student
Secondary of Interest
Familiar Conjuration
Secondary
Blood Magic
Description:
Clocking in at 5’3”, Esperanza is a woman of a slim, almost twiggy build, with tanned skin and sad brown eyes. Black hair falls just above her shoulders, and the girl herself is typically found wearing a distant, dreaming expression. Hers is the face that could blend into a crowd easily, if not for a few key quirks that keeps that fairly difficult.
Namely, her right pinkie and several of her toes amputated right down to the knuckle, and a tangle of ink across her wrists, arms, and back. The tattoos are by far the most eye-catching, stylized to appear as pitch black feathers, and, in the case of her back, wings, sprouting from her skin. There are times when portions of her tattoos are hidden- most frequently in bandages, as a direct result of her Blood Magic usage. The girl herself is quite twitchy as well, with a stilted, awkward grasp on the English language and a thick accent. Esp typically wears a variety of multicolored blouses, long-ankle length skirts, and loafers throughout her everyday life.
Personality:
By all means, Esperanza can be considered a decent person. She genuinely makes an effort to be friendly and understanding to her peers, and is an intelligent young woman, but is still very much...peculiar, to say the least. Esp has a difficulty grasping most social norms, which can lead her to speaking a bit too much of her mind, sacrificing small animals in the name of her god, and generally struggling to interact without eccentricities.
Nevertheless, Esp is a kind soul who is eager to experience the novelties of school, and is fiercely loyal and stubborn towards what- or who- she believes in.
Skills:
- A highly skilled necromancer for her age, as a result of being taught her craft since she was a young child.
- Has a fair amount of talent in Blood Magic for the same reason.
- While not planning to go into Healing, Esperanza also possesses strong knowledge of the human body, and can patch up wounds in a pinch.
Weaknesses:
- Has little, if any, social skill.
- Esperanza has no experience in combat whatsoever, relying primarily on her magic for both offense and defense.
- Her devotion and loyalty is not always a good thing.
Brief History:
While many bloodlines can be considered “eccentric” by the standards of others, the Ciervo lineage is one of the more strange ones. Based in rural Mexico, the Ciervos are a line of Necromancers that found their start back when the Mayans were still alive and well. They have made a name for themselves for their rather interesting community- a cult by their own creation, based around the worship of the Lady Death. The methods have ranged from cannibalism to live human sacrifice in the past, although due to the intervention of other magical groups, they have tampered these practices down for the most part.
The cult rounds to about a few hundred members in modern times, and is a primarily matriarchal society led by La Hijas de la Muerte: The Daughters of Death. As the name would imply, the Daughters are a group made up of exclusively female necromancers chosen as young girls, who are seen as the leaders and guardians of the cult. It is their job to organize and perform the various sacraments, rituals and ceremonies the cult performs in their god’s name, overlook and make decisions, tend to the bodies within the public crypt, and protect their community from harm.
Esperanza was one such girl, having been chosen as a young child after an incident involving the channeling of her great-grandmother’s spirit. She was promptly whisked away to reside with the other Daughters, and, while tutored in the basics of learning, her education was primarily focused around learning control of her own developing powers, varieties of blood wards, preparation of cadavers, and so on and so forth. While allowed to roam the grounds of the cult and visit family, most of her time was spent in the crypts. For the most part, Esp was content with this life, albeit somewhat lonely.
When the invitation to Marchand first went out, the cult initially refused vehemently, more content to protect its own than risk sending out one of their own- and one of their strongest, at that. However, as the disappearances grew closer and closer to their boundaries, they eventually relented, sending one of the few Daughters that fit into the age range: Espie.
While nervous about leaving her home, Esperanza is very much excited as well, eager to be treated as a regular girl and make a few friends.