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 Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:43 pm
~Mia Edana Chevalier~
~A Character Quest Thread~
Created: 7/17/11
Updated: 8/25/11
Critiques: Closed- Mia now exists!
Notes: 11/23- Starless actually gets online and finds her kitten waiting. Eeeeee!
11/10-Mia is dropped off!
10/16- Mia is officially done! And I just sent in her order form! Now all that's left is to pay and wait, yay!
8/25- So, I've decided Mia will be a lynx! Now all that's left is to decide whether she will be a bobcat or a Eurasian lynx, and to integrate that into her personality a little!
8/4- So there is at least one wolf mononoke, and possibly another one coming. As such, Mia needs a new animal! The options are in the poll above, I'd appreciate any votes!
7/26/11- Finished and open for critiques! Mia's concentration is still being thought of and things may seem a little disjointed right now, so please comment on it if you think of something! I may add another personality trait later, and tea ingredients will be narrowed down over time. Thank you!
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:32 pm
The Girl Name: Mia Edana Chevalier
Meaning: Mia: "Mine" ( Italian), "Bitter" (Danish/Swedish)
Edana: "Fiery" (Gaelic)
Chevalier: "Knight" (French)
Race: Human
Stage: Witchling -> Witch -> Ars Lilium-> Cerberus Knight
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Position: Mononoke: Bobcat
Ability Concentration: Illusion-specialty in figment spells; strength goes figment, pattern, phantasm, shadow, glamer. Also strong in Enchantment, especially Compulsion, and Evocation.
Theme: ?
Height: 5'2"
Build: Fit and in shape, but still curvy
Hair: Long, slightly dark chocolate brown with bright blonde streaks (like basically stripes). Full blunt bangs that are straight across (although they can be a little piecey), pulled back into two low pigtails.
Eyes: Bright Green
Skin: Fair
Uniform: Knee-highs or thigh-highs instead of tight. Not many other preferences, although trying some kind of cream color would be interesting for the shirt and/or socks or whatever tickles your fancy.
Other: Large, cat-like ears with black tips and some spots and a small, short-ish tail with a few spots that ends in a chunk of black (need refs)
Personality: Mia is most often described as a sweetheart. Bright and energetic, Mia likes to befriend everyone she meets. Around new people, she'll be a little shy and quiet, observing them and weighing what they say and do before opening up. She tends to store information on people in her head, and is thinking of starting a written record of everyone she knows for fun. Mia is a very considerate girl, always willing to help anyone out, no matter if how well she does or doesn't know them. Her wit and intelligence endear her to those who know her better, as she loves to make people laugh, often affectionately at others expense. She even gets loud and a little brash when in a group.
What no one knows, though, is that Mia feels isolated. She often slips through the cracks in groups of people, everyone assuming she is out with someone else. This often ends up with her being alone at night or missing parties because everyone thought another person invited her. She has many friends, but she feels she doesn't mean as much to them, as they do to her. She just never seems to be able to get to the deepest level of a group. She always hides this, though, under a smile and her short temper.
Above all, Mia is mentally strong. She is physically tough, too, capable as a fighter, although she prefers magic. While she isn't the strongest, she can take whatever a person or life dishes out. She'll get back up every time she's hit, and if she can't, then she'll crawl. She's used to defending herself and others, and her she is fierce if threatened or angered.
Background: Mia is for all intents and purposes, a normal witching girl in Lilium Hallow. She grew up on the edges of the town of the Makai Academy. Her family was a happy, upper middle class one, with Mia being the only child of a shopkeeper (her mother) and a healer (her father). Her parents both had traces of magic as many do. Her mother had only a few wisps of it, enough to do small household related things. Her father also had stronger magic, mostly related to art and painting. While Mia could simply live at home and walk to the Academy, she lives there instead, as her parents agreed it was time for her to be independent, and that was the best way to do things. Her family supports her in all that she does, but they know that once she graduates, they might not see her for a very long time...
As a young child, Mia had a large group of friends who all played in the fields and forest around the town. When she was around seven or eight, it was discovered she was a mononoke. During a game of tag she suddenly transformed into a sandy brown wolf pup. Her friends saw this and were either terrified or jealous, despite the existence of other mononoke. Despite her attempts to tag along and continue as if all was normal, she was rejected again and again by the children. Since mononoke were considered "prodigies" the children often accused her of getting special treatment in school and from other adults. While Mia could have escaped to the Royal Academy, she fought not to go until the technically "right" age in order to have a normal childhood. Friends her age, though, became few and far between.
Mia developed a tough outer shell and became rebellious and loud, launching verbal attacks against her bullies. She began to reject social norms and feminine things, resenting them because of what she'd gone through at the hands of regular children. She even gave up her beloved ballet for martial arts, gaining the confidence and skill to defend herself. She grew more and more insecure however, fighting internal battles with herself over her appearance, her personality, and what made people not like her.
As she grew up, she eventually made other friends, although she only had two or three close ones, and they were not a group. None of them would be attending Makai either. She slowly worked through her self-image issues and insecurities as a teenager, although the insecurity of being left out and ridiculed behind her back still plagues her. Mia has only recently shed that tough exterior and embraced herself as both girly and a tomboy. She is still somewhat unsure of herself and others, therefore, although she is dancing again, in all styles, which help her express her emotions. Mia had decided to try and let the past be the past and to get rid of her former resentment, and let her history instead make her kinder. That is how she will win. Mia enters Makai as a girl craving love and attention, not from her family, but from her peers.
Likes: Fashion, cute things, broken things, reading, music of all kinds, nighttime, rain, exercise, dancing, laying in the sun, napping in front of fires, cuddling-but she decides when and where, having her hair or ears played with
Dislikes: Following trends, when things she treasures change, being left out, having nothing to do, insects-especially wasps, having her tail pulled
Fears: Rejection, ridicule, growing old
Hobbies: Dancing, pottery, reading, writing, hairstyling, makeup
Favorite Food: Creme Brûlée cheesecake, milk, food with lots of flavor- especially salty, sweet or crunchy
Traits: Positive
Loyal- Once you are Mia's friend, she is your defender for life. She would give her life for yours even if you've only known her for a few hours. She treasures her friends and family and the memories they give her above all else, and will do anything to protect them.
Tenacious- Mia is tireless, especially when she has a project to work one. She will throw herself into it, stopping at nothing to complete it. She will work into early morning hours to complete something, and always finishes what she starts. She also will find any way possible to turn "no" into "yes" and "not possible" to "possible.
Creative/Imaginative- Fairly self-explanatory. Mia a dreamer, often staring out the window in class, when she can get away with it. She thinks up various scenarios of herself and others, new worlds, things she can do with magic, etc. along with choreographing dance routines in her head. It allows her to have a fairly open and optimistic mind, which keeps her going through the tough times.
Gracious- Mia is grateful for the people and things around her. She tries not to take her life and friends for granted. The smallest kindnesses towards Mia are given great thanks. Mia appreciates most actions more than people will ever know.
Positive/Negative
Analytical/Observant- Mia has the tendency to remember things and places. She can often read situations or people well and predict how something will go. Unfortunately, this also leads her to replay conversations and situations over and over in her head, creating anxiety and worry that she said or did the wrong thing, or was misinterpreted.
Empathetic- Mia is somewhat of an empath, easily feeling other's emotions. She is compassionate, therefore, and often prone to give someone the benefit of the doubt. She sees people as a greyscale, but it can lead her to not always trust her instinct about a person, and she is often drained when dealing with the negative emotions of a person.
Negative
Possessive- Mia doesn't mind change, but it does make her uneasy. When this comes to her friends and lifestyle, this evolves into full blown possessiveness. She doesn't like new people suddenly inserting themselves into a group until she's approved them. She doesn't take kindly to friends drifting away, either, unless the split is mutual.
Internal- Despite expressing anger and happiness easily enough, Mia never expresses deep insecurity, depression, sadness, etc. People may think she does, but on closer inspection, those are fleeting, shallow reflection of how she really feels. She's afraid of rejection and ridicule, so her most strongly felt emotions are held inside herself, felt fully only when she's alone.
Short Temper- Mia can be a bit explosive when provoked. She is annoyed fairly easily, but she often stores up hurt and anger until it unleashes itself on whoever provokes her closest to her boiling point. Her anger generally comes quickly and then is gone, although it may be preceded or followed by very vicious, snide remarks. This is also a cover for her vulnerability.
Melancholy- Mia will hit funks, sometimes every few weeks, sometimes every few days. They are always when she is alone, and she never expresses them. Instead, she is just quiet on those days. Inside, she is inexplicably sad to the depths of her soul, and she cannot explain why. She prefers it if it rains on these days, so she can curl up with a blanket by the window and just think. She'll be lost in thought more often on these days.
Visual References:None yet
Theme song: "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:20 am
The Future Witchling-> Witch -> Ars Lilium -> Cerberus Knight?
This will not be an easy journey for Mia. Mia has often wavered between what she wants to do after she becomes a witch. She wanted to be an Ars Lilium when she was young, but when she went through her rebellious stage, she thought of becoming a reaper. Now, as a witchling, she is torn. After she graduates from Makai, she will decide to work towards being an Ars Lilium. She will realize their discipline is too strict for her, though, and she'll think of them as puppets of the royals. She will therefore move to Moonfall and pursue becoming a Reaper. She will form friendships and relationships with Reapers and Black Hearts, and begin to try to join their ranks. She will almost succeed and be on the verge of becoming a reaper when a major, shattering event will occur in her life, involving someone she loves dearly.
(Tentatively) The boy/man (a Reaper, ideally, or just a witch) she loves will be in some dire danger unless Mia makes him reject/hate her. She will try, but she will watch how much both of them are hurt by it. She will give up trying to save him through that in order for them to be able to have a short time together. Whatever danger he was in shall come to pass, therefore, and while he won't die, he will afterwards resent her for it, saying she's bad luck and the worst thing that ever happened to him. Mia, thinking she is selfish for getting the one thing she's always wanted, will make what she sees as a belated sacrifice. She will, as a consequence, go back to the Ars Lilium and train avidly, working for a virtuous cause to atone for what she caused. It will be an act of love/rememberence, an honorable sacrifice on her part. Her melancholia will become much more prominent in her personality, and she will be a sort of dark Ars Lilium in personality and history. As of right now, she will advance to Cerberus Knight.
Most Likely Tea Ingredients: * - denotes especially interested in using
- Hummingbird Skull
-Rotting Rose
--Neon Toadstool
-Tiger's Blood
-Dragon's Scale
-Diamond Dust
Ram Horn
Embers
Obsidian Mirror
-Iron Filaments
-Fox Tail
-Glowing Cinders
-Vintage Pocket Watch
Star Fruit
--Pumpkin Spice
--Burnt Flowers
Red Cap Mushrooms
-Broken Gear
--Cracked Mirror
-Ink Vial
Black Salt
--Bitter Tears
Butterfly Wings
-Torn Butterfly Wings
-Dark Chocolate
-Siren's Harp
-Poppy Seeds
Wolfsbane
Dragonsbane
Moondrop
-Cherry Blossom Petals
Lantern Oil
Ghost Lamp
Caramel Cream
Dragon Breath
-Scarlet Ale
Eye of the Oracle
Star Fragment
Faery's Soul
-Glass Rain
-Siren Heartstring
Ashes of Dryad's Tree
Bottled Soul Fire
Devil's Dandy Dogs
Succubus Smile
Sylph's Whistle
Electric Heart
Thread of Nine Souls
Possible Tea Ingredients:
✤ Hummingbird Skull
The skull of a once delicate, swift, and colorful creature.
✤ Rotting Rose
Even though it's dying, it still exudes a sweet smell, telling the story of its once beautiful, elegant life.
✤ Mantle of Beasts
A cloak made out of varying skins of beasts. It is said to instill the instinct of the wild in those who wear it.
✤ Neon Toadstool
A bland, ordinary mushroom in the day, a vibrant, glowing mushroom in the night.
✤ Tiger's Blood
A potent, spicy liquid. Not for the weak of heart.
✤ Dragon's Scale
Dragons are said to be wise and everlasting, with hides too tough to pierce.
✤ Sea Glass
A simple piece of glassed honed by the sea to become beautiful and coveted.
✤ Maiden's Tear
A tear of an innocent. It symbolizes virtue and innocent love.
✤ Rose Petals
Large, pliable petals of an elegant species of flower.
✤ Shark Fin
It's said that Sharks can smell blood a quarter of a mile away, and can sense a living thing because of the electricity it creates. Can you?
✤ Diamond Dust
Even the hardest of beauties can crumble to dust.
✤ Ram Horn
Stubborn and hard-headed as a Ram!
✤ Black Cat's Paw
It makes you feel lucky....or does it?
✤ Embers
embers leftover from the campfire. Perhaps they could be of some use.
✤ Obsidian Mirror
Mysterious, yet revealing.
✤ Severed Serpent Tongue
Bite your tongue!
✤ Moonstone Runes
A handful of small moonstones with ancient runes carved into them. Someone must have dropped them.
✤ Iron Filaments
CLANK.
✤ Cactus Flower
Cacti do not grow in forests. What is this even doing here? It's exotic, and prickly.
✤ Chameleon Tongue
A little eccentric, don't you think? Hey! Where'd you go!?
✤ Fox Tail
So soft and fluffy...poor Fox. ;_;
✤ Glowing Cinders
Persevering before they diminish, they prove to be beautiful and hypnotic.
✤ Black Opal
It seems dark and dangerous, as if it might suck you inside its blackness.
✤ Mountain Stone
It gives a feel of the mysteries and perils of the wild.
✤ Vintage Pocket Watch
A small, slightly rusted trinket found by a skeleton. Well...he won't be needing it.
✤ Star Fruit
A sweet and sour exotic fruit.
✤ Pumpkin Spice
Sweet and comforting, with a savory aroma.
✤ Burnt Flowers
Once beautiful, now somber and woeful.
✤ Honey
The ever-useful golden syrup of life! Sweetens your teas, heals your wounds!
✤ Scorpion Sting
Violent and fierce.
✤ Red Cap Mushrooms
Said to grow on battlefields where much blood was shed.
✤ Broken Gear
A broken gear from some mechanical device.
✤ Bloody Claws
Claws ripped off an angry beast. It brings about a sense of ferocity and vindictive dominance.
✤ Narwhale Tusk
Apparently this Narwhale lost its way, and ended up in the forest. Better not let its death be in vain, then.
✤ Cracked Mirror
Sometimes beauty brings an icy chill to the heart.
✤ Ink Vial
It seems like something a scholar would have in their room at all times.
✤ Lapwing Tail
The tail of a creepy, monochromatic bird.
✤ Bat Fangs
Spooky, yet so tiny they're almost cute.
✤ Black Salt
Interesting color for a salt.
✤ Endless Shadows
Endlessly dark and macabre.
✤ Drop of Rum
Sometimes used as a pick-me-up.
✤ Bone Ash
Used in potions and spells to restore flesh and bone.
✤ Bitter Tears
Full of regret and angst. A dangerous ingredient to use.
✤ Bat Skull
All that remains of a once flapping bat. It's kind of spooky, yet traditional.
✤ Butterfly Wings
Delicate, gentle, graceful.
✤ Torn Butterfly Wings
Fragile, graceful, and broken.
✤ Dark Chocolate
Fancy and refined chocolates for the more adult taste.
✤ Siren's Harp
The musical instrument used by those seductive sea-broads!
✤ Poppy Seeds
They can be used for good OR bad!
✤ Violin String
Taken from the instrument one used their whole life to play beautiful music.
✤ Wolfsbane
Often used in potions and herbology. It has a sense of the wild.
✤ Dragonsbane
Often used in potions and herbology. It has a sense of ferocity and strength!
✤ Moondrop
A graceful and mysterious gem that at times appears liquid.
✤ Cherry Blossom Petals
Youthful and precious.
✤ Lantern Oil
Scraped out from the bottom of the lantern.
✤ Firefly in a bottle
Collect enough of them, and you can have a lamp!
✤ Ornate Hilt
Beautifully engraved hilt of a sword.
✤ Horse Hair
Long strands from the tail of a horse.
✤ Ghost Lamp
Sometimes, it can be seen swaying on its own in the night.
✤ Caramel Cream
Somehow comforting and sweet.
✤ Dragon Breath
It swirls and sparks inside the jar it's kept in.
✤ Scarlet Ale
This alcoholic beverage is almost as dark red as blood.
✤ Kitsune Tail
A fluffy tail that still occasionally twitches. Taken from a dead Kitsune.
✤ Treant's Bark
Rough and patchy bark ripped off a treant that was mistaken for a regular tree. He's pressing charges.
✤ Firecracker
Explodes into fancy colors and sounds.
✤ Snow Flower
A flower that blooms in the snow. It is white and fuzzy, with crystalline droplets.
Possible Rare Ingredients:
✤ Eye of the Oracle
Strong divination theme. It gives the power of foresight, or the ability to read the past.
✤ Star Fragment
Strong astrological theme. It gives the ability to use meteor magic.
✤ Faery's Soul
Grants the power of Faery Flight, giving the character faery-type wings.
✤ Magma Drop
Able to manipulate and bind with the Earth's fiery kiln.
✤ Kikuri-Hime's Fan
Strong underworld theme. Grants strong abilities in necromancy.
✤ Yggdrasil Sap
Strong forest theme. It gives the ability to use powerful life magic.
✤ Glass Rain
Storm Theme. Grants ability to manipulate weather into a concentrated area.
✤ Siren Heartstring
Through meddling in the power of Sirens, you have become one yourself. Sort of.
✤ Wolfsbane
Often used in potions and herbology. It has a sense of the wild.
✤ Ashes of Dryad's Tree
Life and death meet. Able to dissolve into Ashes.
✤ Sundrop
Able to manipulate light into the body. Strong glowy-theme!
✤ Angel Down
Strong holy/angelic theme. Strong holy magic.
✤ Bottled Soul Fire
Strong necromancy/spirit theme.
✤ Devil's Dandy Dogs
An eerie charm bracelet depicting large, vicious dogs; they have rubies for eyes. It seems to have an aura of malevolence; is it true that the wearer's soul will be corrupted?
✤ Chaos Fragment
The ability to create portals and hammerspaces.
✤ Unicorn's Horn
Horns of choice. They bring about a high efficiency with Holy or Darkness based magic.
✤ Succubus Smile
Seductress/Seducer Theme. Strong enchanting abilities.
✤ Sylph's Whistle
Strong Wind Elemental Theme.
✤ Ifrit's Heart
Strong Fire Elemental Theme.
✤Undine's Embrace
Strong Water Elemental Theme.
✤ Yggdrasil Seed
Strong Earth Elemental Theme..
✤ Electric Heart
Strong Lightning Elemental Theme.
✤ Thread of Nine Souls
Strong Celestial Elemental Theme.
✤ Jagged Tooth
Maybe it comes from a shark!
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:01 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:44 pm
I'm just going to pop this up there a bit. Thanks to people who voted in the poll, I'd appreciate any more votes! A bear or a bobcat, hmm?
I'm begging you, criticism, please!
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:24 am
✰★✰ Hᴏʀʀᴏʀ ♥ Mᴇɪᴅᴏ ✰★✰ 
I don't see anything too outlandish to correct. xD One thing that would be a good feel for a mononoke is to choose an animal and their behavior, and slightly knit that behavior into your character, so it'd be good to make up a choice. :3 (That's up to you though.) I'll approve when you decide on a creature~
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:28 pm
Thanks for the advice, and her animal is all picked out now! I'll get the bobcat worked into her personality a bit later. biggrin
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:48 am
All done! Mia's been ordered!
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:48 pm
 I'm freaking out right now. 4laugh
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