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Character Summary
Name:
Jolene Meyers.
Aliases:
Jo - TBD
Age:
Eighteen. (18)
Birthday:
December, 18th 1999
Birth Place:
Van Etten, New York.
Gender:
Female.
Powers/Special Skill Set:
Magic - Jo is currently a practicing Sorceress with a refined focus on Runecrafting.
Editorial Nickname:
Sorceress - The Rune Mistress
Alignment:
Neutral-Good
How long have they been with X-Factor?:
N/A.
Appearance
Height:
5'6" / 167cm.
Weight:
115lbs / 52kg
Build:
Lithe, faintly curved.
Eyes:
Dark Honey Brown.
Hair:
Light Brunette / Dirty Blonde.
Skin Tone:
Olive.
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings:
Pierced Ears, though rarely wears any earrings.
Personal Style:
The best description for Jo's fashion sense is gender-fluid. She easily and often switches from feminine dresses and rompers to masculine leather jackets, jeans, and boots. One could hardly say she's resigned into any one style of clothing. While, despite what she might say, she does care a great deal how she looks but simply hasn't found a singular aesthetic that really fits how she feels she wants to display herself. So she has an amalgamation of styles at her disposal she can draw from depending on how she's feeling at any given moment. As for makeup and accessories she's rather minimalist. She isn't for flashy or eye catching. So she rarely wears any accessories, save for her locket, and maybe a simple bracelet at times. With makeup she adheres to a less is more approach; favoring natural tones that mask any blemishes and highlight certain features without being too obvious. Though 60% of the time she doesn't wear any makeup.
Psychology
Kind * Insecure * Intelligent/Scholarly * Hesitant * Observant/Reserved * Distrusting1
Sexuality:
Lesbian. Hesitant to disclose that information.
Relationship Status:
Single.
Personality:
While Jo may appear kind and giving she always has a thought in the back of her mind that the person can't be ultimately trusted. This leads to her often keeping personal details about herself close to the chest; though she will readily offer an ear to anyone. Jo is a self proclaimed confidant and aptly able to keep a secret. Harboring her own secrets, keeping others is quite easy for her. From this she has become rather adept at hiding behind emotional masks.
Beyond Jo's willingness to listen and help those in need she is most often found quietly kept to herself. She likes to spend her time either studying or practicing her spellcraft/runecrafting. When put in situations where studying or practicing isn't available she would often be found off in the corner, her eyes scanning across the room and intently listening to the happenings around her. She isn't much for speaking up unless addressed directly. While very intelligent for her age she also knows how little she knows about a great many things outside of her passions; this coming from a deep seeded insecurity of appearing unintelligent or ignorant.
Beyond Jo's willingness to listen and help those in need she is most often found quietly kept to herself. She likes to spend her time either studying or practicing her spellcraft/runecrafting. When put in situations where studying or practicing isn't available she would often be found off in the corner, her eyes scanning across the room and intently listening to the happenings around her. She isn't much for speaking up unless addressed directly. While very intelligent for her age she also knows how little she knows about a great many things outside of her passions; this coming from a deep seeded insecurity of appearing unintelligent or ignorant.
Habits:
Smoking Cigarettes - Nervous Fidgeting (Biting her lips / Bouncing her leg / tapping her fingers on tabletops)
Hobbies:
Reading. Drawing.
Fears:
- Public Speaking.
- Pitch black areas.
- Loss of control. Being Bound entirely.
Likes:
- Magic.
- Menthol Cigarettes.
- Sweets.
- Practicing / Learning Magic.
- Reading Books.
- Doodling.
- Being able to adhere to her morning routines.
Dislikes:
- Being stuck in pointless situations.
- Very Spicy food.
- Being tricked / Dishonest people.
- Being without nicotine or caffeine for extended periods of time.
- Ignorance.
- Being late for things / being held up from getting somewhere.
Cards On The Table
General World Skills:
- Cooking.
- Sewing.
- General handiness.
- Street Smart.
- Acting / Putting on a facade.
Combat Skills:
- Self-Defense.
- Basic firearms.
Medical Issues/Injuries
- Smokers Lungs. Has only been smoking for the past year so yet to be too serious.
Possessions:
- Pack of Menthol Cigarettes.
- Baby Bic pink Lighter.
- Small Rune Stone - Mental Protection Rune. Protects against mental attacks; once activated it lasts for 3 minutes before deteriorating.
- Small locket she keeps hidden under her shirt.
- Cellphone.
- Charcoal Ink & Brush.
- Small notepad with magical notes & doodles. Pen often clipped to the pages.
- Minimalist Wallet with cash, credit cards, and ID.
History
Why did you join X-Factor?:
Jo was approached by Serval Industries shortly after her eighteenth birthday. Apparently she has been on their watch list for Lord knows how long. While there wasn't anything particularly spectacular about Jo's abilities she was using them for less than saintly purposes. Free meals, lodging, etc. Nothing inherently evil though unjust. When approached she was given an ultimatum; Join the X-Factor and use and develop her powers for good or a detention center.
It was an easy decision, though primarily as a means to further progress in her studies of magic.
It was an easy decision, though primarily as a means to further progress in her studies of magic.
General History:
-- Childhood --
Jolene Martha Meyers was born a normal girl in a normal family to a Pastor father and Elementary School Teacher mother in a small town in New York. The town only had the one church that her father lead, so most people knew the family very closely. Nearly the entire congregation visited baby Jolene after she was born, gushing over the perfect family precious little blessing.
-- Youth --
Young Jolene was recently turned fifteen years old, still in the same small town, going to the same church her father lead. Jolene having the pressures of her parents image crushing down on her shoulders. Needing to look prim and pristine at all times. Not deter from her path. Do as she is told. Follow the teachings of the bible. The whole deal. It felt like every morning before she left the house she had to take a test. Her clothes modest, her hair and makeup done perfect, her attitude in check, and everything in proper order. Everyone in town knew her and her family, and if there were any slip ups or mistakes it would find its way to her parents and she would catch hell.
One day after school she was out looking through the local strip mall with her closest friend, Layla Kline. Layla was considered by the town a trouble maker, but Jolene convinced her parents she was trying to get Layla back on the right path. In truth Jolene loved spending time with Layla because she was everything Jolene wasn't allowed to be. It was exciting just being around someone with such little cares in the world; such a innocent spirit that let her desires guide her.
While Jolene and Layla were out walking around the strip mall they came across a small book shop she had crossed hundreds of times in her short life. But something was different this time. Something drew attention to it. Something strong enough she couldn't help herself but go in. She followed the pull through the store towards the back wear a few boxes lay, opened though filled with books not yet shelved.
Jolene began to carefully pull books out of the box, Layla asking what she was looking for though Jolene hardly heard her. There it was, pulling a book away from the middle and near the bottom and old looking book with partially faded letters resided. She picked it up in her slender fingers and looked over it carefully. Like a mother over her new born child. She had to have it. Jolene looking back up to Layla with an innocent smile. "I've been looking everywhere for this book." she lied. Layla laughing and shaking her head in a facade of not caring. She quickly paid for the book and ended the day with Layla to go immediately home.
-- The Rise --
Over the next six months Jolene read from cover to cover at least a dozen times. It was a book about Magic. Most scholars would say it was a book on the myths of magic and how ancient civilizations 'practiced' magic. But it was real. After her second time reading through it she decided to try one. A seemingly simple one. A sleep spell. It took her a few tries to get the words and gestures right, but when it succeeded she instantly collapsed into unconsciousness, sleeping nearly twelve hours before waking again. She was in thrilled disbelief. This was real. This whole book was real. She needed to tell someone, anyone, just not her parents or anyone who would tell her parents. So that left only one person, Layla. Jolene fumbled with her phone in excitement to text her to come over as soon as possible.
Layla thought Jolene was crazy at first, until Jolene created a small flame floating above her palm out of thin air.
For weeks they spent nearly every day together at an old playground no one visited anymore; covered in vines and moss. It was perfect and discreet. Layla tried to do the magic within the book but it never worked for her, only Jolene. Jolene had a strange connection to it Layla simply didn't. Though Layla didn't seem to mind too terribly much, as long as she was there along for the ride. Over this time Jolene filled notebooks upon notebooks with notes and tips to help remind her the small nuances she learned from day to day with magic. Practicing drawing small runes the book particularly emphasized on.
Layla and Jolene became incredibly close during this time, Jolene getting her nickname Jo from the other. Jo recounts the times as the two being inseparable. During this time Jo got her first kiss, and more. She learned who she truly was. Who she always was, who she was always hiding from everyone. Their romance a wildfire that pushed magic aside for a time.
-- The Fall --
One morning Jo was angrily shaken awake in the morning by her father. Him yelling something unintelligible to her drowsy mind. She quickly sat up, fearing the worst that her parents found out about her and Layla. As her mind cleared and she was finally able to understand the words and noticed the book he was displaying her heart sank. He found her book of magic. He yelled at her for practicing witch craft, the devil, etc etc. He was a whirlwind of anger and nearly to the point of striking her there in the bed. Most of the words have faded over time, though the bite at her heart from his anger still clings to her to this day.
Before she knew it he proclaimed he would fix her. Like she was broken, shattered and nearing worthless. And he would start by burning this heretical book of lies and demonology. He stormed out of her room and down stairs towards their fire place. Jo running after him pleading with him to stop and to listen and understand it wasn't evil. It was beautiful. But he heard none of it. WIthout hesitation he threw the book into the flame, though Jo didn't hesitate either. She rushed past him and pulled the book from the flames, burning her fingers in the act. She spun to face him, arms clung tight around the book defensively. He stared at Jo with fire in his eyes before raising a hand and striking it across her cheek with enough force to send her stumbling across the room and crashing into the couch. She faced him again, her eye bloodshot from the force though she didn't hold her cheek; they remained tight around the book. He then told her no devil worshiping witch would live in his home and told her it was the book or her that was leaving.
Jo hesitated, but quickly bolted off the couch and out of the house. She went to the only place she could think of, Layla's house. She knocked frantically on the door and when Layla finally opened the door she explained everything. Asking if she could stay with her and her dad, but she sadly refused. In truth Layla did this to protect Jo, she knew who her father truly was and Jo wouldn't have been safe there either. But Jo thought Layla also abandoned her, and before Layla could explain she ran off. Layla calling out for her to stop and wait, but Jo ignored the calls.
-- Present Day --
For over the past two years Jo had been living on her own in New York City. Using her magic to influence others to help her survive. Giving her free lodging, giving her free meals, etc. Stay as long as she could in one place before she had to move around again within the city. She abandoned her old life. Her old bonds. Refusing to build other bonds that could ultimately be torn apart and leave her abandoned again. She was surviving. Looking for new knowledge in magic, though she found hardly anything in this time. A few small books on rudimentary magic and the like. Nothing like her first book that she keeps with her to this day.
Extras
Character Quote:
"Don't let people know things about you they could ultimately use against you."
Theme Song:
Anything Else:
Peter Porker // Spider-Ham. Spicy posts.
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The Grimoire
Novice Practitioner of Runic and Light Magic.
Orbis Luminis.
- Type: Conjuration.
- Description: Within a flowing circling of her arms Jo pulls magical light out of the air, condensing it into a floating disk that covers about the size of her abdomen. Jo can manipulate this sturdy disks of condensed light freely within a six foot radius around herself. These disks can be thrown beyond her six foot radius; Though they follow their path up until twenty feet from Jo before dissipating. She can have, currently, no more than 2 disks created at any one time.
- Notes: Jo can create these disks without the proper gesture, though they aren't nearly as sturdy.
Ignis.
- Type: Conjuration.
- Description: With this Jo can create a small flame floating above her palm.
- Notes: This only really serves as a replacement lighter at this time.
Somnum.
- Type: Enchantment.
- Description: A sleep spell. Though Jo has yet to figure out how to use this on others. It has only put her to sleep instantaneously.
- Notes: She is incredibly embarrassed of this and will tell NO ONE she knows this spell. Period.
Influence.
- Type: Rune.
- Description: A rune drawn on a person makes them an influencer, after the rune is powered the Influencer would than touch another person with the rune marking, connecting the two. The touched becomes the Influenced, being easily influenced by the Influencer. This effect lasts up to twenty-four hours (depending on the willpower of the bound) and diminishing over that time. Ranging from completely agreeable to vaguely agreeable as it reaches its completion.
- Notes: There can only be one Influencer and one Influenced pairing at any given time. No one Influencer can have two Influenced.
Bolster.
- Type: Rune.
- Description: Organic Material - If used on a person this rune will increase their physical and metaphysical capabilities by double their current maximum limit. This Functions as Jo becoming a Conduit of energy that pulls from her magical reserves into another to increase their abilities. Depending on the amount pulled from her dictates how long she can keep the rune functional. The maximum degree the target is capable of is directly correlated with how much of her energy it pulled over time. Those with already high capabilities will pull more than those with low capabilities. Though this also infers a greater yield with those with the higher capabilities.
Inorganic Material - If placed upon an inorganic object it will greatly improve its strength. Making a cardboard box as strong as oak, stone as strong as steel. - Notes:
Tracking.
- Type: Rune.
- Description: A rune placed on a small object that emits a pull on the designated tracker. A Tracker Rune would have to be placed on a person that feels the pull of the tracking rune.
- Notes:
Basic Magics and Runic Disciplines
By: Ivan Mikelsson
Spells:
Solaris Mico
Jo creates a hand cage over her chest and focuses for a short period of time. Generating magical light within the hand cage and condenses it into a tightly bound ball of Magical Light Energy. Once created she slams the Condensed Magical Light orb into her chest and immediately thrusts her arms out to either side. A rapid, violent light scorches through her entirety until it completely covered her in a blinding flash of light. All those that do not divert their gaze in time become disoriented and blinded for a period of time.
NOTE: This process takes about 30 seconds to come to completion and is very physically taxing for Jo; As the condensed Magical Light basically tears through her body in the process.
Jo creates a hand cage over her chest and focuses for a short period of time. Generating magical light within the hand cage and condenses it into a tightly bound ball of Magical Light Energy. Once created she slams the Condensed Magical Light orb into her chest and immediately thrusts her arms out to either side. A rapid, violent light scorches through her entirety until it completely covered her in a blinding flash of light. All those that do not divert their gaze in time become disoriented and blinded for a period of time.
NOTE: This process takes about 30 seconds to come to completion and is very physically taxing for Jo; As the condensed Magical Light basically tears through her body in the process.
Runecraft:
Protect Mind
Simple mind protection rune. Placed on an item and powered will lay dormant until activated by a mental attack against the possessor of the runed item. Once activated it will feel as if your brain is being clenched in a vice, and the protection only lasts 3 minutes long. This Rune will protect its owner from powers of any degree of supernatural mental attack. It will not effect poisons, toxins, or drugs that effect mental faculties.
Stasis Lock
Once drawn and activated will put whatever object, person, or thing into a state of complete stasis. This effect lasts until broken or up to one full hour. Best used on injured targets needing additional time to get help. This Rune requires a great deal of concentration and is not suitable in a combat setting as of yet.
Primal Berserking
A large, intricate Rune drawn on a large piece of paper she places on the bare skin of the upper back of a person. With an activation spell the paper ignites and sears the Rune onto the skin. Once the rune is seared to the skin Jo has to enchant the Rune with energy. Once completed it put the wielder of the Rune into a state of frenzy, losing their mind in exchange for equivalent power. The more they let their mind slip the more power they get.
NOTE: The limited practice she has with this rune in practice she can only sustain the rune for 10 minutes. Though the target can retain hold of it in a worse case scenario, continuing to pull energy from Jo against her will. Potentially fatal for Jo if she can't keep control of the power flow. And the more the target mind slips the less they are aware who their enemies are. This Rune DOES NOT need to be written on paper, it can be drawn directly on the skin but takes a considerable amount of time and focus. The Rune would still sear to the skin once activated.
Soul-Bond
A marriage ritual and Runic bond between two people. This process requires a very intimate ritual and body markings. This process is primarily done in Ancient Nordic Marriages to bind the souls of betrothed together for eternity. This rune allows the two to connect on a intensely personal level, able to feel a small degree of what the other feels no matter the distance between them.
NOTE: Jo does not tell people of this Rune/Ritual.
Sacred Lands
Incredibly powerful and taxing rune to perform. Jo would spill her charcoal ink onto the ground and slam her hand into the pool of ink. With an incantation the ink spreads out over a fifteen foot radius around Jo and forms a intricate runic circle. Once formed Jo blasts the runic circle with her own Life Essence, activating the rune. Once activated all within the runic circle will feel a rush of restorative energy healing wounds and restoring strength, vegetation rapidly growing within the circle.
NOTE: This spell is INCREDIBLY dangerous for Jo and she is insanely hesitant to ever use it. One miscalculation in the amount of life force she pushes into the Runic Circle could tear her apart from the inside; At present she doesn't have the practice in this rune to perfectly dictate the flow of her own life force into it. It is tremendously taxing and will only EVER be used as a last resort.
Simple mind protection rune. Placed on an item and powered will lay dormant until activated by a mental attack against the possessor of the runed item. Once activated it will feel as if your brain is being clenched in a vice, and the protection only lasts 3 minutes long. This Rune will protect its owner from powers of any degree of supernatural mental attack. It will not effect poisons, toxins, or drugs that effect mental faculties.
Stasis Lock
Once drawn and activated will put whatever object, person, or thing into a state of complete stasis. This effect lasts until broken or up to one full hour. Best used on injured targets needing additional time to get help. This Rune requires a great deal of concentration and is not suitable in a combat setting as of yet.
Primal Berserking
A large, intricate Rune drawn on a large piece of paper she places on the bare skin of the upper back of a person. With an activation spell the paper ignites and sears the Rune onto the skin. Once the rune is seared to the skin Jo has to enchant the Rune with energy. Once completed it put the wielder of the Rune into a state of frenzy, losing their mind in exchange for equivalent power. The more they let their mind slip the more power they get.
NOTE: The limited practice she has with this rune in practice she can only sustain the rune for 10 minutes. Though the target can retain hold of it in a worse case scenario, continuing to pull energy from Jo against her will. Potentially fatal for Jo if she can't keep control of the power flow. And the more the target mind slips the less they are aware who their enemies are. This Rune DOES NOT need to be written on paper, it can be drawn directly on the skin but takes a considerable amount of time and focus. The Rune would still sear to the skin once activated.
Soul-Bond
A marriage ritual and Runic bond between two people. This process requires a very intimate ritual and body markings. This process is primarily done in Ancient Nordic Marriages to bind the souls of betrothed together for eternity. This rune allows the two to connect on a intensely personal level, able to feel a small degree of what the other feels no matter the distance between them.
NOTE: Jo does not tell people of this Rune/Ritual.
Sacred Lands
Incredibly powerful and taxing rune to perform. Jo would spill her charcoal ink onto the ground and slam her hand into the pool of ink. With an incantation the ink spreads out over a fifteen foot radius around Jo and forms a intricate runic circle. Once formed Jo blasts the runic circle with her own Life Essence, activating the rune. Once activated all within the runic circle will feel a rush of restorative energy healing wounds and restoring strength, vegetation rapidly growing within the circle.
NOTE: This spell is INCREDIBLY dangerous for Jo and she is insanely hesitant to ever use it. One miscalculation in the amount of life force she pushes into the Runic Circle could tear her apart from the inside; At present she doesn't have the practice in this rune to perfectly dictate the flow of her own life force into it. It is tremendously taxing and will only EVER be used as a last resort.
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