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The Oleander Twins, Zaul and Azura
Gender: Male and Female
Age: Unknown. Physically, about mid-twenties.
Race: Half-Elves
Side: Pure Neutral...? Pretty much Neutral Good, actually.
Weapon(s): None. At times, possibly whatever they can get their hands on.
Skills/Magic: None whatsoever. Due to...certain circumstances, they can no longer perform Artes. But they can still hold their own in pure hand-to-hand combat if need be.
Becoming omnipresent beings (which will be further explained in their Bio section) came with a catch. Nature chooses to recognize them as "dead", and dead beings can't utilize the life energy needed to fuel Artes independently.
Personality: Often bearing smiles that just might be smug, they both come off as easygoing. Though, Zaul tends to seem more serious than Azura, who shows a more playful side. They can be rather cryptic, appearing to know a lot of things our heroes don't (especially about what's going to happen next...), but choosing to withhold that information. They also appear to be quite affectionate with each other...
Bio: Long story short, Zaul was of a secret guild called the League of Ethical Exsphere Testers, and his experimental Exsphere used to take the place of his right eye. Upon being found out by Lloyd, the guild reached a compromise with him—that for their leader, "The Doc", to continue his experimenting, he would never go public with his methods. After all, though ethical, there still was a risk of being misused.
Azura, on the other hand, is of a clan of nobles. Actually growing bored with the comforts of such a life, she decided to leave her home for a life of adventure. She ended up becoming a soldier who worked under the Midgard resistance forces being led by the Imperial Adepts of Izumo. She too once lost an eye (her left) in a skirmish, and became outfitted with an odd-looking and artificial (but working) one.
That aside, these two can't really be properly explained without dropping the major spoilers surrounding them...
Zaul and Azura aren't really twins in the sense of biological brother and sister. Rather, they are genderbent versions of each other. The former is from Aselia while the latter is from Vanaheim.
Azura, who is of the present-time Vanaheim, was contacted by an underground organization of scientists from a bad future where Loki overthrew both the rulers of the countries and the Gods and is ruling over both Aselia and Vanaheim in vicious tyranny. So, suffice it to say, Azura was being guided by them to undo that future. They equipped her with the means to travel between both worlds without use of the Otherworldly Gate so that she wouldn't get caught too easily.
She was chosen specifically because she was observed to have "corresponding atoms" in Aselia—in the form of Zaul. In fact, it is that aspect that makes the devices work with her so easily.
Upon finding her male counterpart and cluing him in on the situation, he agreed to help almost without question. It helped that they formed a bond pretty shortly after meeting.
But somewhere down the line, the scientists of the bad future were found out by Loki, which led to the Oleander Twins' world-jumping devices becoming sabotaged. However, that actually worked out in their favor...the resulting accident caused the "threads" of their being to join the "fabric" of time and space. They have transcended its boundaries, as well as those of life and death. They are both dead and alive, everywhere and nowhere—that last bit meaning they are virtually omnipresent and can appear and disappear wherever and whenever they please.
That is also why they now have both their eyes. In the case of Zaul, the loss of his life renders him free of his Exsphere (which held his own life, since it wasn't cultivated on another's), and the state they attained allows them to make slight modifications to their appearance. Their previous loss is symbolized by a scar over their respective regained eyes.
Using their newfound abilities to view all the lines of possibility leading up to the undoing of the bad future, they use their observations to guide our heroes. However, they cannot be entirely open with their knowledge because they've found that their direct interference results in unfavorable results, or even the annihilation of reality in the future for some reason.
On the bright side, they truly don't have a lot to fear anymore. Their now paradoxical existences render them invulnerable and put them outside the grasp of even Loki's power. After all, you can't exactly kill what's already dead.
Azura, who is of the present-time Vanaheim, was contacted by an underground organization of scientists from a bad future where Loki overthrew both the rulers of the countries and the Gods and is ruling over both Aselia and Vanaheim in vicious tyranny. So, suffice it to say, Azura was being guided by them to undo that future. They equipped her with the means to travel between both worlds without use of the Otherworldly Gate so that she wouldn't get caught too easily.
She was chosen specifically because she was observed to have "corresponding atoms" in Aselia—in the form of Zaul. In fact, it is that aspect that makes the devices work with her so easily.
Upon finding her male counterpart and cluing him in on the situation, he agreed to help almost without question. It helped that they formed a bond pretty shortly after meeting.
But somewhere down the line, the scientists of the bad future were found out by Loki, which led to the Oleander Twins' world-jumping devices becoming sabotaged. However, that actually worked out in their favor...the resulting accident caused the "threads" of their being to join the "fabric" of time and space. They have transcended its boundaries, as well as those of life and death. They are both dead and alive, everywhere and nowhere—that last bit meaning they are virtually omnipresent and can appear and disappear wherever and whenever they please.
That is also why they now have both their eyes. In the case of Zaul, the loss of his life renders him free of his Exsphere (which held his own life, since it wasn't cultivated on another's), and the state they attained allows them to make slight modifications to their appearance. Their previous loss is symbolized by a scar over their respective regained eyes.
Using their newfound abilities to view all the lines of possibility leading up to the undoing of the bad future, they use their observations to guide our heroes. However, they cannot be entirely open with their knowledge because they've found that their direct interference results in unfavorable results, or even the annihilation of reality in the future for some reason.
On the bright side, they truly don't have a lot to fear anymore. Their now paradoxical existences render them invulnerable and put them outside the grasp of even Loki's power. After all, you can't exactly kill what's already dead.
Other Notes: Both do indeed speak with a Southern American accent.
I also felt the need to show you guys because they have that major aspect about them...that they supposedly have seen all the timelines of every possibility. I'd like you guys to tell me if it'd conflict with any of your planned character development arcs. But for the most part, they're more concerned about things that directly have to do with the antagonists, so I'm pretty sure your arcs will be fine. Not to mention, they have seen things they'd rather prevent happening, but choose to leave alone because interfering would mess up the future.
I created them for those times in the plot where we all might hit writer's block and have no idea how to get from point A to point B.
Also as a homage to the Lutece Twins. ;D 
