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[url=https://pin.it/61qJMni][imgleft="height=100,width=100"]https://i.imgur.com/DmmrP69.jpg[/imgleft][/url][url=https://pin.it/6WJJb3S][imgleft="height=100,width=100"]https://i.imgur.com/zMpWHpO.jpg[/imgleft][/url][url=https://pin.it/3QrlaZr][imgleft="height=100,width=100"]https://i.imgur.com/UlhGCBU.jpg[/imgleft][/url] [align=right][color=#C2B280][size=9][i]Slept in a room with the ghost of Gram Parsons Drank some wine I can't afford Went to San Antonio to the riverwalk and the rodeo Seen the white cliffs of Dover from the shore You can take me out of the country But you can't take the country out of me [/i][/size][/color][url=https://youtu.be/TBuPm6j-AYo]♗♝[/url] [color=white][I]"~"Dime Store Cowgirl" by Kacey Musgraves. [/I] [/align]
Notes for playing Primary Motivation:Limited time Scytharia likes new experiences, quiet or adventurous, near or far from home, and she has a deadline for these things Driven by impending death/ limited time-- She wants new experiences, quiet or
Character development gives her a reason to care about the curse being broken or stopped.
Broken by not having meaningful connections--
Mannerisms:
Position: chaser Total roll: ## = ??
Stats: AC: 18 Modifiers: +8 to catching and stealing, +6 to other. Special Skills: Natural Flyer, Great Catch, Swift Swipe Lives: <3 <3 <3
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:43 am
x♝xSCYTHARIAxxxTHEILERxxxBLACKWOODx♗xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Scytharia is the owner and head tour planner for Terror Tours in Diagon Alley. She and her boyfriend, Roland Bishop, travel frequently all over the world, scouting new tours for the shop. When home though, Scythe enjoys reading and can often be found at I Like You a Latte or Thanks a Brunch.
xxx♝BASICS♗xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx NICKNAMES Scythe, Sy GENDER female SEXUAL ORIENTATION pansexual AGE 26 BIRTHDAY October 22nd, 2033 -- Libra LANGUAGES English, common phrases in other languages as needed for work
BLOOD STATUS halfblood WAND 11 inches, sycamore and raven feather, quite flexible. Spiraled sapwood-heartwood shaft with a dark finish. [x] PATRONUSdragon
FACECLAIM Sasha Kichigina HEIGHT 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) WEIGHT 193 lbs (88 kg) APPEARANCEMagical scale tattoo on her left side collarbone. Slight pressure on the black feather visualizes a number that counts down the number of days before she turns 28. Slight pressure on the white feather visualizes the word "Live".
xxx♝SCHOOLANDCAREER♗xxxxxxxxxxxx ATTENDEDLone Star Academy of Sorcery CLASS OF 2052
CLUBS ■ Quidditch -- chaser (yr 5-7), reserve (yr 1-5) ■ Book Club (yr 3+) ■ Outdoors Association (year 2+) -- hippogryff riding, hiking, hammocking around the campus outdoors. ■ Scythe also always went to productions for other clubs: Music Club concerts, Drama Club productions or comedy nights, Dueling club tournaments, Junior Law League mock trials, etc. and frequently helped clubs plan events.
S.T.A.R. SCORES Astronomy ~ A Charms ~ E Combat Magic ~ O Herbology ~ A Magical History ~ E Magizoology ~A Potions ~ E Transfiguration ~ A
L.A.S.S.O. SCORES Charms ~ E Combat Magic ~ A Magical History ~ E
Agricultural Studies ~ A Cursebreaking ~ A Divination ~ E Draconic Studies ~ E Livestock and Ranching ~ P Texas History ~ A Indigeonous Magic ~ E
DREAM JOB Owning a little shop where she can plan grand events for people and have a cup of tea with them-- basically what she's doing with a tea shop! CURRENT OCCUPATION tour guide and owner of Terror Tours
xxx♝PERSONALITY♗xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ADVENTUROUS Knowing she only had 30ish years of life, Scytharia decided she wanted to live as much as she could in that time and not concern herself with a long lasting legacy or career. She loves travelling and seeing new sights, but also just experiencing new ways of life or doing new things. “I’m down to fail at something at least twice.”
DOMESTICAs part of her goal to experience life, Scythe really likes quiet interstitial moments. She enjoys exploring fantasy and sci-fi worlds as much as the real world, and sometimes found the most “productive” thing she can do is read a book or geek out with someone about what it would be like living in another world. This is also generally safer!
SOCIAL Scythe spent a lot of time on her own in her pursuit of adventures and experiences, but she was never alone. Aside from her moke, with each adventure she found people to befriend and talk to. While generally friendly, Scythe was never one to mince her words when she disagreed, which has landed her in more arguments than she’d like. “Arguing can be memorable...as long as there’s a point.”
DETAILEDHaving traveled a lot in her youth, worked on a ranch through her summer and winters, and gained a reputation as a party planner, Scythe had plenty of experience managing logistics. She thinks of planning something as part of the fun and vicariously lives through plans she helps make. Scytharia thinks things through, quickly breaking down a general plan into specifics, including a timetable and steps needed to facilitate them. While rather messy, she knows at least to assemble and get all the information before starting a project or assignment—it’s usually there, just in a jumbled mess of notes and thoughts.
DECISIVE Scytharia jumps to conclusions quickly, hates waiting or not doing anything, and abhors doing anything “not productive”. “I’ve only got about 30 years to live, so I’m not spending one of my 250,000 hours hemming and hawing over whether I’m going to do it. We’re going or we’re not.” As part of this, she has some preoccupation with streamlining and getting things done quickly and well. Inefficiency generally bothers her, tempered only by an appreciation of slowness and a desire to soak in whatever experience she’s getting. Generally, she has no regrets-- she might spend a few minutes bemoaning a decision or complain about wasted time, but doesn’t let anything get her down for too long.
♝♗HOBBIES ■ Making plans for other people ■ Reading/ TV/ Games-- She just liked stories about fantasy worlds ■ Baking and mixing drinks
♝LIKES ■ apple pie ■ cowboys and witches aesthetic ■ doing something new/ a little spontaneity ■ travel magazines and art books ■ inspirational sermons and meditative moments
♗DISLIKES ■ “dream big!”/ people telling her she’s not ambitious ■ indecisiveness ■ hospitals/ doctors ■ most paperwork and red tape ■ messes, even though she’s the messiest person she knows
♝STRENGTHS ■ Confident and intuitive -- Trusts herself and her gut no matter where it lands her. ■ Good luck (or maybe a touch of optimism)-- “Not sure if it’s a strength, but I’ve always felt I’m pretty lucky.”
♗WEAKNESSES ■ Messy and sometimes gets lost in the weeds. ■ For someone so preoccupied with her time life, she isn’t very careful about her health.
♝DREAMS ■ Having a fairytale romance and a bunch of (not cursed) kids ■ Getting a pet dragon (a pygmy dragon would be adorable!)
♗FEARS ■ Dying in a hospital bed, sustained on spells or machines. ■ Watching her friends die -- she should be the first to go. “Please no one go before me.”
xxx♝BACKSTORY♗xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ♝♗EARLY CHILDHOOD Scytharia was barely a year old when her aunt Galiene died in Scotland at just 34 years old. Knowing this meant she wasn’t safe either, Nicolette, Scythe’s mother, spent the rest of her years desperately trying to break the apparent curse on their family, one that inevitably killed all magical children. She traveled constantly, looking for clues about this curse and trying to break it. By the time the tell-tale dark purple tendrils started from her wand arm, the curse had already progressed beyond saving: organ by organ, her body started shutting down. Spells and medicine could only do so much and finally, when Scythe was barely ten, Nicolette strangled to death on a hospital bed as her blood turned to miasma in her heart.
Given Nicolette’s travels, Scytharia’s primary education was on the road, supplemented by a bunch of reading and extracurricular workshops whenever money and time permitted. Money was sometimes tight with just her and her mom, but Scythe was unruly at best in muggle elementary and Nicolette thought it more important that Scythe enjoy the years she had instead of hope in vain that the curse did not apply to her. After her mother’s demise, Scytharia lived with her squib grandfather at the family ranch and vineyard in Oregon. Scythe knew her birthfather was a wizard who claimed to be a descendant of the original person who cursed their family. She also knew he was lying and had left them; she didn’t care to learn anything else about him.
♝♗MAGICAL EDUCATION At Lone Star Academy, Scytharia didn’t really care about getting good grades, and her grandfather didn’t expect it of her. She liked learning, but living was more important than studying, and she only needed sufficient grades to do what she wanted. She toyed with different ideas like being an auror, cursebreaker or dragon-tamer, but her favorite place was a quaint little tea shop in the magical village near school, where she could always go to talk to people or just read and have a cup of tea.
Scythe became quite active at school, participating in Quidditch, the Book Club, and Outdoors Associations regularly as well as showing up to most events that other clubs hosted; indeed, she sometimes would join friends in planning these events: brainstorming, connecting them to people who could make snacks or find spaces, even if she couldn’t oversee or attend everything.
♝♗POST-GRADUATION Scytharia left her grandfather's soon after graduation to visit her cousin in Scotland for a few months and see the Isles. There, she found herself working at a cute tour agency, where she literally got paid to scope out locations for vacations. Just a little over a year after, the owners announced their intention to retire. They made a very generous offer for her to take over afterwards, and in January 2055, Scythe officially became the owner of Terror Tours.
In Winter 2057, Scythe met a semi-familiar face at the local coffee shop. Both avid travelers, the two started talking-- Roland was a travel writer and photographer, which, once they figured out their schedules, turned out to be perfect for Scythe to go hunting for tour plans. Traveling together led to dating, and as they traveled they searched for a way to break the Blackwood curse.
xxx♝RELATIONSHIPS♗xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx FAMILY ■ CousinSawyer Maceachthighearna, chef (halfblood) ■ GrandfatherArden IV Blackwood, vintner and rancher (squib); ■ Aunt/ UnclesGaliene Maceachthighearna,nee Blackwood, Unspeakable, Time Chamber (halfblood)Simon Maceachthighearna, carpenter (muggle); Sawan Amin, hotel owner (muggle) ■ MotherNicolette Blackwood, cursebreaker (halfblood) ■ Pets Alduin (her moke)
BOYFRIEND Roland Bishop FRIENDS ■ Best Friends:Julian Aster and Sawyer Maceachthighearna (npcs) ■ Alexandria Barrett, Penelope Barrett ■ Acquaintances: Lots of friendly acquaintances from Lone Star. Sawyer's friends. The old couple that all but gave her Terror Tours.
xxx♝UPDATES♗xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CREATED August 2020 UPDATED 17 September 2023 UPDATES MADE ■ backstory ■ (recent update) ■ (recent update)
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Favorites Accessory cowboy hat and books Outfit: Music: Country Dance: swing Form of magic Combat magic Food Apple pie.
Typicals Non-uniform outfit flowing southern dresses Hobbies: travel, journaling, making plans for people, reading, worldbuilding.
Misc Wand Sycamore -- sapwood and heartwood diferent tones. Questing, cannot be “bored” or will burst into flame. Owner Curious, vital, adventurous. Capacity to learn and adapt. Raven feather -- higher level of energy and imagination. +transfiguration and charms.
Best memories
Camping with Julian every summer after exams. Visiting Sawyer and having someone to tease and hang out with, even if he was 9 years older.
Worst memories
Watching her mom die. Just every step a new thing. Watching her grandfather sit at her side and tell old stories about how everyone else died and knowing that Sawyer was next.
Lyrics?? Move along, blue shadows, move along Soon the dawn will come and you'll be on your way Until the darkness sheds its veil There'll be, blue shadows on the trail ~"Blue Shadows on the Trail" by The Sons of the Pioneers https://youtu.be/j5Y3gO8rlVI
Paint me a doorway And I'll magic you a key Tell me a story Where the hero sets me free ~"Armies of Your Heart" by Elizaveta. https://youtu.be/wcRT7iRr9ak
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:57 am
Scytharia exams
CORE Astronomy ~ A
Scytharia enjoyed the stars, but studying them was very different. She paid enough attention to pass.
Charms E > E
Scythe was always great with charms, and used them to streamline her everyday. She was less articulate with the theory, but was proficient enough to understand and troubleshoot when things went wrong.
Combat Magic ~ O > A
Combat magic was thrilling and a ton of fun, but Scythe never did it too seriously. She had fun in class and wasn’t terribly worried about her scores on exams.
Herbology ~ A
Scythe thought it was really quite unfortunate she didn’t do well in herbology because of how useful it would have been to her indegenous magic studied or agricultural studies, but ultimately she had no patience for gardening and the only reason she didn’t get a T was because she knew enough about plants to identify what was useful in potions.
Magical History ~ E > E
Scytharia loved listening to stories about people long gone. She did though, have particular things she liked about it, and mostly she just wanted to dress up and experience epic moments in history. Her appreciation of the subject grew as she found out that knowing about a place’s history greatly enhanced her enjoyment of visiting it, and as she paired historical events to her ancestors’ journals.
Magizoology ~ A
Since she was ten, Scythe lived on a ranch with animals all around. She didn’t quite understand the academic study of magizoology, but she had a great respect for it. She dropped this class in favor of the more practical Livestock and Ranching elective, and for the more exciting Draconic studies.
Potions ~ E
Scythe’s idea of fine cooking was chopping cilantro to add onto instant ramen, and her idea of potions was a spell packaged in a bottle. She hated brewing potions, thought potions theory was far too complicated, but could appreciate their uses. While with time her techniques became more practiced, she generally preferred to be doing something other than waiting for a potion to brew.
Transfiguration ~ A
Scytharia thought transfiguration was awesome and exciting, but studying it was always a little painful and she often overlooked the theory in favor of wanting to just try something. Her written exam was mediocre, but her practical was very good.
ELECTIVES Agricultural Studies ~ A
Scythe spent the last seven summers working the fields of their guest ranch and vineyard, and working with plants and overseeing their harvest. She was happy to apply concepts learned in class to her work, but was not overly fond of studying for the class.
Cursebreaking~ A
Scythe entertained the idea of being a cursebreaker for a while but decided it was a little too dangerous and unpredictable for her tastes. Still, she gladly learned the spells, figuring they were useful.
Divination ~ E
Scythe took divination because her aunt Galiene and cousin Sawyer were seers. Scythe was no seer herself, but she had a strong intuition for parts of divination, trusted said intuition very much, and overall enjoyed learning about this intuition for things. Unfortunately, while her intuition helped with readings for friends, it generally didn’t bother with strangers.
Draconic Studies ~ E
Dragons! What greater adventure was there than raising, riding, and beholding the majesty of dragons? She nearly aced this class, missing just a few details.
Livestock and Ranching ~ P
While it seemed an obvious class to take given her home on a guest ranch, Scythe was utterly convinced by her last years there that this was not her life. She relied entirely on the practical to carry her grade and came up just short.
Texas History ~ A
Scythe took this because everyone she knew insisted she had to, as a non-Texan native. She had looked forward to stories about cowboys and Wild West dreams, but found plenty of other things to enjoy as well.
Indigenous Magic ~ E
Half her reason for liking this class was Scytharia’s appreciation for how in tune with life and cycles and nature the first people were. She put her utmost respect into the class, particularly in understanding indigenous stories, customs, and how that tied into the magic.
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:03 am
♝♗SCYTHARIATHEILERBLACKWOOD 18-21 years || Lone Star Academy Alumna || halfblood Owner and Tour Guide Terror Tours _______________
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Slept in a room with the ghost of Gram Parsons Drank some wine I can't afford Went to San Antonio to the riverwalk and the rodeo Seen the white cliffs of Dover from the shore You can take me out of the country But you can't take the country out of me ♗♝ "~"Dime Store Cowgirl" by Kacey Musgraves.
Post-Graduation Terror Tours Ownership
Weekdays
Wakes up around 6:30, gets ready, and usually goes Morning she kind of hangs out, goes for a hike, reads, plans, reviews things. Often heads tot eh shop around 9 and just gets ready. Opens the shop at 10:30 and usually does detailed planning and photography, thinking of quippy things in the morning. Takes lunch usually somewhere around Diagon or goes out to a cute cafe in muggle London or somewhere. Leaves organizing to the afternoon. If she gets an assistant she wouldn't go in the afternoon. Leaves 19:30 usually after setting everything back.
Unwinds in the evening with baking and reading, playing videogames. Showers once she has dinner almost ready and sleeps usually by 22:00, sometimes later if going out for a night-time thing.
Weekends: Monday, Sunday
Wakes up around 8ish Goes skating, adventuring, travels for fun. Sometimes just spends the whole day playing games and goes to the Silver Bullet for dinner.
