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Name: Niamh Marley

Nickname: Neev (the phonetic of her first name)

Age: Nineteen

Birthday: June 3

Sign: Gemini

Gemstone: Agate

Blood Type: AB

Fav. Food: Irish Stew

Hated Food: Anything deep fried

School: Destiny City University

Hobbies:

Collecting seashells -- Niamh can spend hours combing the beach, finding perfect shells to match her preferences and her likes when it comes to her rather sprawling collection. She might not collect the most wanted shells, but she will collect as many as she could desire of her favorites, especially Wentletrap shells, finding the spiraling smoothness of them to be pleasing and almost relaxing. Shell collecting is something that she has done since a young age, having gone beachcombing since she was a child with both of her parents, having started her collection with the help of both of them. Shell collecting provides a relaxing task for her to do several times a week, giving her a chance to get fresh air.

Sculpture -- Feeling her fingers in the sand is nothing compared to feeling her fingers on and in clay or arranging pieces into larger forms. Niamh enjoys working with her hands, creating sculptures of people and living, seemingly moving creatures and things using either clay or found objects. A source of pride for her will always be a minature nymph-esque sculpture, created from wood found on the beach, running through waves of kitten's paw shells. Often, for supplemental income, she creatures bust sculptures of people and pets by request, doing fine, realistic work. Sculpting tends to be a very emotional work for her, generally something she does during periods of heightened feelings, so that she might be able to pour the emotions into her work.

Upcycling -- Old shower curtain? Make a dress! Find a stack of excess pallets outside of a warehouse? Turn them into a table! Niamh loves to use the old to make the new, taking used items to make what she might need or what anyone might need, rather than poring money into fresh, but wasteful new consumer items. Where some see trash or junk, Niamh sees treasure, the potential to make something beautiful out of a disaster, to move forward with what one has rather than moving forward and hoarding more excess. She lives a second-hand life, preferring to buy vintage, to resell, to trade, and to create from excess rather than buying anything consumerably new.

Virtues:

Generous Almost to a Fault -- Niamh is a giver. She likes to make things for others, likes to give gifts and to give time to other people, just for the sake of doing it. She likes to share, and bonds by giving gifts, enjoying the light on other's faces when they receive a gift that they love. She is always willing to give up her own free time to help a friend with moving, painting, shopping, whatever it might be, and she's always willing to give what spare dollars she has to charities or friends in need.

Lively and Bright -- Energy bubbles from Niamh, who seems to go from one task to the next without faltering, constantly keeping herself busy with new things to do. Niamh always eases into conversations, finding new things to talk about without issue, gesturing with animation as she speaks. She rises early and enjoys the brightness of mornings, watching the world slowly come to life, enjoying the energy of other people around her. She seems to go and go and go, always finding time and energy to create and offer help.

Hands-on Habits -- Niamh is the sort to dive in and get dirty, rather than giving orders for others to do it. She'd rather be in the middle of a project than guiding from the sidelines, shaping a figure or building a home, instead of drawing the blueprint or trying to put words to ideas for a student. She's willing to do the dirty work so that others can enjoy the final result, putting in the grunt work and enjoying the sweat and grime while she does it, finding satisfaction in muscle work.

Flaws:

Holier-Than-Thou -- Being the sort that lives on second-hand clothing, makes her lights from repurposed bottles, and enjoys a lifestyle of generally clean living, Niamh has an issue with judging others for not doing the same thing. Every so often, she'll offer (generally unasked for) tips on how to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle, on how to eat better, on how to exercise better, even things as simple as how to organize the bookshelf better. She feels that because she knows things that she
finds to be 'better' for the person and for the world, that she needs to share these ideas with others so that they could also live better, even if they're just finet he way they are.

Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde -- Behind all of that sweetness, that energy, and that creativity lurks a darker side, a moodier half that tends to bring a sharper tone to that perky voice and a shadow to those bright eyes. Niamh buries a lot of negative feelings to live a positive life, but if enough buttons are pushed, she's capable of becoming something of a bully, edging into rude, judgemental, and irritating, pushing her ideas and voicing her opinions rather loudly -- again, whether her opinions want to be heard or not.

Maybe This- No, This! -- Niamh is notorious for starting several projects at once and never really finishing them, for moving from topic to topic then back to three topics before at random times, for taking forever to make a final decision on anything. She'll come with several game plans, then struggle to pick just one, trying to mush all of them together, trying to create a new game plan out of many. She's fickle and mercurial, which occasionally makes her difficult to work with until she is guided down one path and given a set task list to do in a specific order. School work and creative work tend to be started all at once, then jumped around on, often resulting into a jumbled workload that never seems to have any sense of organization.


PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: Large, slightly hooded, bright but pale green

Hair: Natural redhead, somewhat orange-gold in tone, often plaited either in one or two braids, or with a braid decoration, naturally board-straight, going all of the way to her mid-thigh

Face: Square shaped face with a pixie nose, all of her features spattered with intense freckles -- from her forehead to the tips of her toes -- somewhat pronounced cheekbones, strong chin, rounded ears, always pinked cheeks

Clothes: Well-used v-neck shirt of any eco-design (examples x, x, x, x) underneath an old set of women's military coveralls, either left unbuttoned up top or pulled down with the arms tied around her waist, sandals by sseko, jewelry and decorations made from recycled objects.

Other - Has a triskelion tattoo on the left side of her chest, just below her collar bone.

Updated her to quest for her as a Knight! Open to crits for her, eagerly want them!

Your civi seems darling to me and well balanced - I can't think of anything to suggest changing about her.

I think your look and general idea for Teamhair are very good! Her power makes sense and builds upon itself well, in my opinion.

My one concern is actually in how you word the description of the page weapon. Mostly the last sentence, really - when you say that it would "cause the opponent to reconsider her weakness" and following. I definitely see what you're trying to say about her having a big stick, but because the page level weapon has no real magic it would seem best not to say how her opponents would react to it?

It may not even matter, in the long run, but it caught my eye as a little bit odd.

I hope this crit helps, as tiny as it is! :3

Unfortunately the weapon you've chosen is very dangerous and will likely not be accepted as the club you've presented it as. It will be too close to a Negaverse weapon.

To quote Mouse: (in the knight guide) "Weapons CAN be used in self-defense! While they're primarily meant to be channeling media, it's perfectly alright if the weapon can also be used to block or deliver hits, so long as you don't get too over-the-top with it. You shouldn't be able to do much more physical damage with your weapon than you can with your fists or your feet, unless you tone down a bit on the magic power in exchange."

By way of example I was not allowed a whip with because it could be wielded as a deadly weapon. So while the branches might be find the full on Shillelagh might be a bit too far to use.

As far as powers go I'd like to know how the affects end? Is it a tapered affect that is easier to break the longer you remain enspelled or does it end all at once and is there a way to dodge or for the spell to be disrupted? Those are kind of important, too. Keep in mind there has to be a weakness or a rate of failure. Even senshi attacks don't work 100% of the time because there are usually complications.

Hope this helps! ^_^

@Zaia -- Thank you so much for the crit! I did a little tweaking to clean it up a little, made it seem like less of a deadly weapon.

@Yuna -- Okiedokie! I'm good either way. I just chose blue because it's the color that the Celtic/Woad warriors painted themselves with, and Earth Knights have a Celtic feel to them. I thiiiink I'm gonna switch it the first green in the Earth color swatch.

Thank you so much, Iris!

I definitely understand about the shillelagh, and I can do a bit of tweaking in the wording to make it less of an offensive weapon and more of a... support, if that makes sense? A figurehead to her spell, rather than her actual weapon.

As for the power, I definitely understand you there. The powers I selected were a little vague, mostly because I wasn't quite sure of where to go with them! So I really appreciate the guidance in where to go to make sure they fit properly with the skills she should have.
I can definitely run with that. I did some editing and tweaking and fit her powers and weapon a little more into the way it should be, if you could let me know if that was an improvement? Also, do I need to put in specific check rolls that might have to be made for the effects of her spell?

Oh, eek! It's out of there now, sorry about that. <3 Sort of god-moding, isn't it? XD; Sorry about that.

Thank you again, for all of your help <3