~Character Profiles~ ^_^ UPDATED AGAIN...AGAIN! sweatdrop Updates are in underlined bold btw.
Name: Faith Talwyn Angwyn (Tall-win An-gwen)
Race: she doesn't know, and I'm not tellin' XD
Gender: female
Age: 18
Grade: senior
Roommate: Yue
Height: 5'0
Hair: black, chin-length bob
Eyes: light green, standing out from the rest of her like two bright jewels; round, with long lashes
General Appearance: Faith has a slender maturity to her young body that makes her appear older than she is. Her curves are subtle, and flaunted by tight and low-cut clothing. Her face is fine and pretty, with full lips, a straight nose, and large eyes that pull everything together.
Personality: Faith can be rather sarcastic, blunt, and rude at times. She gets annoyed easily, and doesn't like overly girlie, cute, or stupid people. Aside from all of this, she's also a bit...loose, morally speaking. Generally, she's too untrusting to let anyone see her vulnerable side, or to share anything particularly deep about herself. She attaches herself to people who she feels like she doesn't have to answer to, and tries to move through life the best she can.
Skills/Abilities: Faith has an uncanny power to make things...explode. Rather, when she's angry, glass shatters, things are set aflame, building beams bow, and the ground shakes. She's also been known to cause nearby metal objects to melt. Needless to say, she has problems controlling said powers. In extremely rare moments, she looses control completely and her form changes a bit; at these times, the only safe way to stop her is to knock her unconscious for a while. Her more human abilities include skill with knives and guns.
History: Born in a quiet town in Maryland, Faith's first memories are of her mentor and guardian, Liam. Her mother, who was young and unwed, abandoned her as a toddler. Liam raised her carefully, sharing his passion for the piano with his little ward. When Faith was nine, because of circumstances beyond her power, she received a new guardian. Her second mentor continued her education and her piano instruction, but left when she was thirteen. Her third and last guardian, Vincent, stayed until she was seventeen, and left her with her father's money. The summer before her senior year of high school, just before she turned eighteen, she was "scouted" for Tienlong. Realizing that her powers were still quite out of control, she decided to go with the scout to the school.
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Name: Sakai Kachiki
Race: half youko, half human (Japanese)
Gender: male
Age: 17
Grade: 12
Roommate: Brand
Height: 5'10
Hair: black, cut short and a little spikey
Eyes: dark brown, with a hint of grey around the pupils
General Appearance: Kachiki is lean and wiry in build, but still firmly muscled from an active life. His face is smooth, with a curving mouth, and while not quite handsome, he is still good-looking. Usually, he wears jeans, a plain white shirt, and a jacket.
Personality: Mostly an easy-going and carefree guy, there are only a few things that really get under Kachiki's skin. As a child, his environment was not always friendly, so he doesn't readily share his true feelings or become overly emotional. Instead, he prefers to grin and bare things on his own. He is *not* the sad-smile type, however, and his grin is almost always laden with charm. Though a bit of an urchin since a young age, he still has his own set of morals which are perhaps not the strictest, but that he forces himself to follow. Being the little waif that he is, getting stuck in one place for too long without much freedom starts to make him restless after a time.
Skills/Abilities: Being half youko allows him the use of illusion magic, but he rarely manipulates it unless he especially needs or wants to. Kachiki also senses life energy and shape-shifts. His mundane specialties are a surprisingly great mind for mathematics and drafting, and a few more...illicit talents.
History: When his mother was twenty-one, she met Kachiki's father, who used his abilities to take advantage of her. Nine months later, Kachiki was born. His mother did not want him, and while he was still a small child, she began to drink heavily. Eventually, she drank herself to death, and at seven, Kachiki was left without anyone to care for him. He wandered around, doing what he could to survive, and stealing when he had no other option. Inevitably, thievery became his way of earning an income. Not until two months before coming to school did he find out that he had any family; his mother's sister came searching for him. His aunt took him in, but finding his abilities beyond her area of expertise, sent him to Tienlong without much hesitation when a scout found him.
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Name: Isabella Lucia Barone
Nicknames: Bell, Bella, Lucy
Race: half youkai, half human (Italian)
Gender: female
Age: 16
Grade: junior
Roommate: Bridget
Height: 5'3
Hair: Blue-black, six or seven inches past her waist. Mostly kept in a braid or bun during the day.
Eyes: Dark brown with a touch of yellow and gold; large, luminous, with long lashes.
General Appearance: Bella has fair-ish skin with a hint of an olive tone. She has a small build with a slim waist, though she's rather busty. Her face is made lovely by high cheeks, a straight nose, and a small mouth. Usually people mistake her for a being a few years older than she really is.
Personality: The thing most people notice about Bella first is her inability at any kind of subtlety. Though she herself has little tact to speak of, she recognizes it in others (small nuances, and body language), and it is her competence in seeing that sort of thing that makes her clever. Her wit is sharp but her tongue is sharper, and her biggest fault is that she finds it difficult to be discreet; when she holds her tongue, her very expressive face gives away what she's thinking anyway. Bella tries to be accepting of others and kind to those who deserve it, but at times she's irked into being quick to judge. She's fiery, and doesn't care what other people think about her.
History: Hailing from the Bronx in New York, she was raised by various family members and her father, a human. Her mother, a full youkai, died by rather strange circumstances when Bella was a baby. Since the only living family she has are human relatives, she was raised in an odd environment for a youkai. All of her relatives speak Italian as a first language, so she picked up that first and doesn't have the New York accent on her English. Even surrounded by family, her life at home has always been less than happy. In fact, her family, namely her father, is the reason for that. Before being scouted, and coming to Tienlong, she's always gone to private, Catholic, all-girls' schools. And despised them, with good reason. Her last school was St. Michael's Academy.
Skills/Abilities: Her youkai talents include wind channeling/control and superhuman strength; physically, she's crazy-strong (hehe). She's always had to struggle with her control over the wind, and getting it to do more than laugh at her lightly isn't easy. She also excels in writing/literature, speaks three languages, and draws quite well.
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Name: Alec Owens
Occupation: English/literature teacher
Race: human
Gender: male
Age: 25
Height: 6'1
Hair: a shock of thick black hair, cut short
Eyes: light blue, nearly always pleasant
General Appearance: Alec is lean and broad-shouldered, with just the right amount of muscle to be considered handsomely proportioned and athletic-looking. His features are well-defined, and his complexion is creamy and smooth. Many of the female students have fallen in love with something about this good-looking man--his "lovely eyes" or his "wonderful smile"--and concentrate more on his face than what he's saying. It's rare to find his countenance anything but welcoming and agreeable.
Personality: What his students see is the face of a pleasantly smiling, polite, competent, and intelligent man. Alec never needs to raise his voice to get command of his class because his voice is the sort of light, musical baritone that easily carries above noise and captures the ear. He makes certain that his lessons are always interesting, and he radiates kind understanding--that combined with his youth make him easily approachable for most students. He's also been known to occasionally turn a blind eye to certain student capers, and has a gently teasing sense of humor. It's obvious that he genuinely cares for the kids attending Tienlong, and other people in general for that matter. As for what else there is to him...no student has yet guessed, but those bright twinkling eyes of his always hint at a secret.
History: Wouldn't you like to know? The only thing Alec is willing to say of himself is that he grew up in Maine with six sisters, and graduated from high school at seventeen. He claims to have had a fairly normal, boring life. His love of English and kids led him to study to be a teacher, and his powers made him a good candidate to teach at Tienlong. If he's hiding something, he's not telling anytime soon...
Skills/Abilities: Telekinesis and telepathy.
Hobbies: plays: piano, flute, and violin well, but dabbles in other instruments
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Name: Mikhail Petrovich Anpilov
Race: human
Gender: male
Age: 26
Height: 5'10
Hair: light blond, cut short
Eyes: hazel
General Appearance: The miracles of modern dentistry have kept this compulsive smoker's teeth pearly white. Lean and sensuous, with an almost slender neck and fingers, Mikhail looks angelic--that is, until someone sees him smoking like a chimney and drinking vodka. He always wears nice suits, but by noon, his tie is loose and the collar of his shirt is unbuttoned.
Personality: Laid-back and lazy. It's difficult to make Mikhail angry, and he's not much for yelling unless he's drunk. He isn't morally bankrupt, but he doesn't care much about his students. He wouldn't want them to end up dead or hurt somewhere, but if he sees them breaking rules, he won't say anything. As long as he can hear himself speaking above the noise in his class, he usually doesn't care what people are doing either.
History: Mikhail came from an upper middle-class family in Moscow with a secret. When he was sixteen, he left all secrets and family behind, immigrated, and graduated from college in the States. By the time he was twenty-four, he had earned a doctorate, but not a job. He became a math teacher at the high school level because of recession in the job market; he couldn't get employed as a physicist.
Family: father-Pyotr; mother-Tatyana; brothers-Ilya, Viktor, Sergei, Sasha, Ivan; sisters-Sonya, Nadia
Skills/Abilities: Speaks Russian and English, is pyrokenetic, has minor healing powers, and fences. Whether an ability or not, it's amazing that he can run so far and fence so well without coughing or getting short of breath, when he smokes so very much.
Other: He teaches trig/calc
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Name: Aliya Hartford
Race: Wolf Spirit
Gender: female
Age: 14
Grade: technically a freshman, but is taking senior classes
Roommate: needs one...
Height: 5'5
Hair: Sleek black with a hint of red, to her elbows. Sometimes worn in braids or ponytails.
Eyes: Yellow-brown with a touch of gold, large, slightly almond in shape.
General Appearance: Aliya is a thin girl. She has a heart-shaped face, high cheekbones, and a small, pretty mouth. Someday, she'll be a beautiful woman, but right now she's an attractive adolescent whose body hasn't quite matured. She has dark skin, and slightly pointed ears. Usually, she wears jeans and fitted tees in blues, reds, and yellows. As a wolf, she's as black as a starless night.
Skills/Abilities: The powers of a seer coupled with terribly strong empathy often make things difficult. Emotions she picks up on from people and places may cause her to have quick, helpful visions. She cannot, however, control when she has visions, what she will see, or the intensity of the images. Aliya also has a deep connection with the wind, and she insists that she merely channels it, rather than controls it. If she listens, she can hear things on the wind, voices on the wind that speak if she's willing to hear them.
Personality: Aliya is serious for her age, and doesn't mind being alone when she must. She is clever enough to get by, has the beginnings of subtlety, and usually knows when to keep her mouth shut. She has an abundance of natural instinct, and at times that makes her a bit untrusting. Because of her quiet intelligence, and a reserved manner that is so odd for someone her age, she doesn't have many friends. Unfortunately, she doesn't speak much around unfamiliar people, and has a tendency to stare…blatantly.
History: An "oops! baby," Aliya is thirteen years younger than her older sister, Kisha. Her parents are military, so she moved a lot as a child. They're still in love, and that's why she came along. Otherwise, her past isn't all that interesting. She was born and raised without much incident, save for her increasingly irritating abilities. Before coming to Tienlong, Aliya attended a private school for the academically gifted.
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Name: Ivan Petrovich Anpilov
Nickname: Vanya (the familiar form of Ivan, but only used by his family)
Race: human
Gender: male
Grade: 10
Roommate: needs one...
Age: 15
Height: 5'9
Hair: short, light blond
Eyes: light blue
General Appearance: Lean and athletic, with the muscles of a runner. He has a handsome face as angelic as his elder brother's (Mikhail), but without the chain smoking to ruin the image. His wardrobe widely consists of jeans, t-shirts, and running shoes.
Skills/Abilities: Ivan draws water to him with his mind--moisture out of the air, liquid from nearby lakes and streams, even out of pipes and underground springs--and manipulates it. Not *controls*, but works with it, borrows its strength. He can freeze water or boil it as well, even freeze the moisture in the air someone is breathing. He fences in the tradition of the rest of his family, though that's just about the only kind of weapon he uses well; he doesn't have the aim or the dexterity for a bow or anything that must be thrown. Following with the pattern of his family's powers, he heals as well. He also has a knack for languages, and while clever in school, he isn't the most spectacular student ever.
Hobbies: Russian folklore/history, languages (Russian, English, Ukrainian, various Slavic dialects, German, learning Italian), and running/cross country.
Personality: Ivan is long-suffering, finding much of his patience from his religion (Orthodox Christianity). He is proud of what he is and where he comes from, but is carefully respectful of other people. Though he gets embarrassed as easily as the next person because of his sense of personal modesty, he doesn't outwardly show his temper often. Most of his anger sprouts from old spots of contention between himself and his elder brother, Mikhail. Generally speaking, he would rather avoid physical confrontations, but doesn't run when faced with them. As a child, he saw a lot of violence in Moscow, and has no immediate desire to partake in anything of the sort. He becomes attached to other people without much effort, and ends up feeling--and taking--great responsibility for them, even when it causes him grief.
Family: father-Pyotr; mother-Tatyana; brothers-Ilya, Viktor, Sergei, Sasha, Mikhail; sisters-Sonya, Nadia
History: Born in Moscow to a family with five brothers and two sisters, Ivan is a middle child. His life was never perfect and his family secrets were never a joy to keep, but he still grew up loving Russia. Several years ago, his second oldest brother, Mikhail, went to America to go to school. Ivan has always felt a bit betrayed that Mikhail never came home, but felt even more betrayed when his parents sent him along after his brother to attend Tienlong this year. His parents keep saying that it will be best for him, and that he should be with Mikhail. Currently, he fails to see how it is best for him.
