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» Name: Perenna Lexington

» Date Started: 07.26.11

» Critiques: Open

» Last Updated: 07.28.11

» Note: I am planning to get her via RL slots from Omie.

Biography:
» Early Life: Born as the only daughter of a large family, her parents thought that they were blessed to have her. The only problem with her was that she was born very premature, smaller than a lot of babies at birth. Most thought that she wouldn't make it, but she did. Her family thought she was a human like them at first, but soon would learn that as a baby, she had died at first, but came back as a Majin with the desire to live. They even accepted and praised her for the little avian wings that were on her back.

As she grew, her muscles would be unable to gain much strength, even if she tried working them out. Her weak muscles however, didn't effect her immune system.

It took her a long time to gain enough strength in her muscles to play like a normal child would, but her capabilities were a lot lower than those of other children her age. When she tried to play, a lot of the time the only strength that she had would be from the wings she was born with; something that she didn't understand. The kids that she tried to get along with shunned her because of her wings.

With the incapability of being active with others her age as well as her uniqueness, she became very distant from them and spent most of her time reading, learning about anything she was allowed to do.

Her family tried to get her to be active in their world; being royalty, they had to show their faces. Many of the older generations would wonder: what happened to that daughter of yours? The younger generations didn't even know that she existed. Once the elders passed away, it was like she didn't exist in the world, and for those times, she was appreciative of being hidden.

» As a Witchling: Growing steadily, her wings would gain strength, but her body's muscles would stay virtually non-existent; she would be able to day to day jobs, but they would require a lot of her energy and end up needing to rest for a day before re-awakening.

When she was 8, she learned that she was a Mononoke. It took her a while to understand why she had the wings, just thinking it was some random mutation, but with some training from an older Mononoke, she was able to transform into small bird. With that, she would fly to Makai Royal Academy and learn from the teachers there, hidden as a small bird along the walls.

The day her parents introduced her to the head of the school was filled with commotion; none of the students ever noticed that she was there. Many tried to approach her, but her parents, being protective of their daughter, never let them any closer than a few feet away. With this, she was able to take the Grave of Fairies trial as a 'special circumstance' and graduate to become a Witch at the age of 13.

» As a Witch: Her skill was discovered to be one of a flame that heals, accidentally cutting herself one day and healing the wound. At first, she thought she was going to burn though her skin and make it worse, but instead of an intense heat, it was warm and comforting, like drinking something warm.

She's tried many times at this point to be more social, traveling around Moonfall during the day and night, but it seemed to her as though people would point at her and whisper behind her back. It was not always negative comments about being different, but more so that she was special and different. The barrier that kept her from making friends were the fact that she was afraid of them and others were afraid of her potential power.

» As a Ars Lilium: With an increased healing power, she started to heal the wounded, mostly those that were hurt working in Clarus Arbor. At this point, she could heal deeper and more mature wounds and sometimes diseases. With diseases however, she would fall sick with the disease herself. Her immune system was strong though and she would just need a few days rest before getting up again.

Her favorite place to be would be in a small clinic in Clarus Arbor. She still lived with her family in Lumena Castle Town, but with her ability to change back and forth between human and avian, it was easy for her to travel. Her familiar was also an avian, a bird named (insertbirdtypehere). [Let's just say she's not very creative when coming to naming things.] They would both make house calls and her favorite patients were a family that worked hard day by day and lived off only what they were able to make.

One day, her and her familiar were headed towards the family, but she saw that their house was on fire. They both rushed, but was too late. The anger inside of her was so strong; she tried to heal them with her powers, but only tears rolled from her eyes. She knew that they were robbers, but why did they have to kill them? Suddenly, she burst into flames and thought she was going to die. She actually wanted to die.

Instead, however, she woke up the next day, changed. She herself had changed, but the family was still dead. Her familiar, however, bowed to her and welcomed her new abilities as a sage.

» Present Day: She is known as 'the Phoenix', not for being able to resurrect herself, but bring those that are close to death back to life. A lot of the time she wears a cloak and travels the land, searching for those that are near death, and choose those that seem worthy to continue to live. If not traveling, she can be found at home, in her tower, reading.

Not many people know how she looks at this point, always wearing the cloak, but around others that she knows, she's more playful and child-like. It seemed as though because she had lost her childhood because of her birth defects, she made up for them now.

Externally, she shows a lot of happiness, but in her heart, she still feels lonely and longs for something more.

» Note: Ages are tentative since I don't know the age restrictions on when a student can become a Witchling, Witch, etc.

Ability Concetration/Theme: Dance enchantments

» Tea: Phoenix Ashes (Can be changed if I have to) Phoenix Masquerade
»»» Phoenix Feather
»»» Maiden's Tear
»»» Glowing Cinders
»»» Plume of Peacock
»»» Ashes of Dryad's Tree
»»» Angel Down

» As a Witchling: Intelligent, Learning about being a Mononoke, practicing enchantments

» As a Witch: Dancing in one place to help support people around her; also debuff if enemies are too close. Can't do much besides the dance, however.

» As a Ars Lilium: Dancing in small areas (5 feet radius max; even that is hard for her to do). Can walk away from the circle, but only inside circle of magic, not out.

» As a Sage: Dances in a higher area in a circle, and the whole area would be effected by the enchantment (whether it be protection, healing, etc.). Spell can be only done once a month because it is physically draining. After she dances the circle, she is able to stop and the spell lasts for 5 minutes to an hour (this all depends on the physical and emotional strength she has to keep it up).

My only immediate concern is her powers as a sage, Oversoul's can't bring people back from the dead and nor can they heal anyone with incredibly grave injuries. Because the Oversoul strips energy away from its caster, you would in essence be killing your OWN character to save the other one. If you wondered where I got that detail it was here.

Well if that's your preference then I can't argue, I just regard it as dangerously close to godmoding, that's all. n_n;;

Okay. Biggest problem I have at the moment: her age.

Just think about it. At the age of 8, or even 9, wouldn't a child be scared of the forest? And how much can you really remember to keep yourself safe in such a forest? If she was 11 or so it wouldn't be so bad, but really, if i were her parents there would be no way I would let my child into a forest I've heard so many rumours about alone at the age of 9. Not without a full escort and guard of course.

As for her body, just a little inconsistency here. If her body's weak, why is her immune system so strong? Usually the body being weak is caused by a weak immune system. Nothing else here on her biography.

Moving on, her personality...

Righteous isn't really the right word for her, I think. I'm not sure what I would term it, but righteous is just not it. It's more like, non-judgemental. Or ethical perhaps? She has her own ethics and sticks to it. And I'm not too sure about reclusive either. You rarely go around helping people and bringing them back from near death if you're reclusive. Maybe shy? She seems more like shy than reclusive. Reclusive is like deliberately keeping away from people at all costs.

Overall, it's fairly solid but there are points which definitely need working on. C: