Haunted || Charlie Simpson
[size=]"The truest test of a man's character is not hiding emotions, it's feeling them fully and keeping a calm mind in the process."[/size]
Ila Teller Avani
|| Age ||
20
|| Rank ||
F
|| Gender ||
Female
|| Area ||
Earth
|| Sexuality ||
Heterosexual
|| Romantic Interest ||
TBA
|| Nationality ||
1/2 Irish, 1/4 Italian, 1/4 Native American
Amber
|| Hair ||
Auburn that stops just below her hips. She usually wears half up with two braids coming around her head to a ponytail at the back.
|| Height ||
5 feet
|| Weight ||
102 pounds
|| Scars ||
She has four jagged, white scars that look almost like claw marks that go from her lower right jaw down across her chest and end just below the left of her ribcage.
|| Tattoos ||
She has the words "eram terra. sum terra. erô terra." tattooed on the inside of her right wrist. It means "I was the earth. I am the earth. I will be the earth." in Latin. On the inside of her left wrist, she has the five alchemy symbols tattooed in a line in the order: Fire, Air, Balance, Earth, Water
|| Piercings ||
She has three piercing in each ear and she mostly only wears studs in them.
Impassioned
|| Personality ||
Ila's personality is hard to describe in just one word because she is known to freely show any emotion she feels. In some ways, she wears her heart on her sleeve; however, that is not to suggest that she is sensitive or soft in any way. She is tough, resilient and able to stand up in the face of difficulty, but she will never hold back any anger, sadness, happiness, or any other emotion that she is feeling. She may seem outspoken and overly-confident at times, but the truth is that she simply lets everything out and has a hard time holding anything back. This often means that Ila is seen as rude and obnoxious, but it also means that she is empathetic to the emotions of those around her.
While Ila's mood seems to be constantly changing, this change is only skin-deep. On the inside, Ila has a certain calmness and solidity about her that is easily detected. Despite her rapidly changing and often -seemly- dramatized emotions, Ila also gives off an aura of calmness. It is as if she is so self-assured in her own personality that she is able to stay peaceful on the inside. This tranquility often only comes to the surface when it is absolutely necessary for Ila to stifle her emotions, but it is not difficult for her to bring this calmness out of herself because it is something that is always inside of her.
|| Likes ||
// Fighting // Laughing // Nature // Philosophy // Exercise // // Anything Expensive // Mysticism // Studying Different Religions // // Winning //
|| Dislikes ||
// Being Stifled // Losing // Sitting Still // Being Polite // Hypocrites // // Disappointment // Green Tea // Fire // Confinement // Shoes //
|| Oddities ||
// Personality and demeanor may change in a matter of seconds //
// Rarely wears shoes //
// Chews on many things including pen caps, her fingernails, and toothpicks //
// Acrobatics // Ila has always had a natural ability to jump around with grace and ease like a squirrel. She spends a good amount of her time in the trees, although she likes to be close to the ground, so she rarely goes to the tops of tall trees.
// Wood Carving // This is more of a hobby for Ila, but she has become quite good at it over the years. She often carries pieces of wood with her and carves with the hunting knife she keeps in her waistband.
// Martial Arts // Despite her small stature, Ila's body weight is mostly muscle. She is quick on her feet and knows where and when to hit. She is well-versed in many forms of martial arts.
// Quick to Adapt // Due to her quick-changing personality, Ila has a natural (and sometimes unintentional) ability to adapt to any social environment.
|| Flaws ||
// Emotional // While she has the ability to stifle her emotions, Ila generally wears her heart on her sleeve. She may be able to hide physical flaws and weaknesses easily, but she is not careful when it comes to hiding her mental and emotional weaknesses.
// Empathy // Although it comes in handy many times, Ila finds her unintended empathy with everything around her more of a personality flaw. With her constant vibration sensing, Ila has become so attune to feeling creatures' vibrations that she will often actually feel a creature's current emotion.
// Patience // With Ila's constantly changing emotions, she is also a bit hyperactive. This means that she has trouble standing still and has very little patience for anything that she feels takes too much of her time.
|| Weaknesses ||
// Fire // After her parents were killed in a fire, Ila has been unable to be around fires any larger than a campfire. Even campfires can sometimes upset or scare her depending on her current mood.
// Death // While she has gotten better at witnessing or hearing about death, Ila still has issues when dealing with any loss of life. Perhaps this is because she is so physically connected to the earth and its life, but whatever the case, Ila is not great in dealing with death.
// Helpless Creatures // When Ila hears a call for help from any creature in trouble, she will almost never ask any questions and will come directly to the creature's aid. She knows that she should be more careful or she may be drawn into a trap, but it is a natural reaction for her to help a creature in need.
// Strong Vibrations // Ila has been sensing and feeling the vibrations of everything around her for so long that it has become a second form of hearing and seeing for her. This means that it is hard -if not impossible- for her to simply "turn off" this sense and any vibration that is too sudden can be jarring.
|| Hobbies ||
// Whittling // Music (Particularly the Lute) // Exploring // Cooking // Exercising (Particularly Running) //
// Earth Manipulations // The user touches the earth with any part of their body or sends energy through a weapon and is able to shape and move the earth around where they are. This power includes, but is not limited to, smashing rock, lifting boulders from the ground, creating cracks in the earth, and creating earthquakes.
// Vibration Sensing // At the lowest level, the user is able to feel the vibrations coming from everything around them. With energy, the user is able to sense the exact shapes of the objects as well as (if it is a living being) the various other characteristics such as heart rate, blood pressure, and sometimes body temperature. The user may also be able to reach out and "feel" for a certain object or creature's vibrations, but this is only possible if the user has felt their vibration before.
// Plant Manipulation // The user touches a plant and is able to bend and move the plant around (but only within its natural range of motion) and cause excessive growth in plants. This power does not work with dead plants.
// Life Calling // The user closes their eyes and sends their inner voice to any being or group of being asking for help, safe passage, or any number of things that the creature can provide. For any creature that is not humanoid, this calling is also something of a pulling sensation. The creature has the ability to pull away from the calling if they have a strong enough will, but most creatures have a hard time resisting the call.
|| Special Power ||
// Life Creation // The user draws "life energy" -which is basically another word for the user's soul- out of themselves and is then able to divide that energy and, with it, create a small army of any one species of living creature. The more divided the energy is (i.e. when there is a large amount of creatures are created), the weaker and less powerful the creatures are. The more concentrated the energy is (i.e. when there is one -or a small number- of creatures created), the more powerful the creatures are and the longer they will exist for.
|| Secondary Area ||
Water
|| Skill Set ||
Ila's primary weapons are her two carved wooden bo-staffs, her hunting knives, and her throwing knives. Her combat style is a mix between using her natural earth-affiliated strength, her martial arts training, and her speed. She moves quickly and never stands in one spot for too long, and she makes quick and precise moves.
Ila typically prefers comfort over appearance, but she also enjoys spending time in the morning making sure that she looks presentable. Her style mostly consists of comfy sweaters for cold weather and light, flowing shirts for warm weather. She wears no jewelry (aside from her necklace and earrings), and she wears very little makeup unless it is a special occasion. One notable thing about Ila's attire is that she only wears shoes when it is absolutely necessary. She dislikes them because she feels that her feet are a constant connection to the earth and they allow her to continuously feel the vibrations of everything around her. Shoes cut off that connection and they muffle and distort the vibrations.
|| Keepsakes ||
She keeps her mother's gold wedding band on a chain around her neck. The chain is visible, but not many people know what is on the chain because it is always tucked inside her shirt. Her brother has their father's wedding band. She also has her two carved wooden bo-staffs from her mentor.
|| History ||
Ila was born in a small, mountain town in Northern Italy to her mother, father, and older brother. She had a rather happy upbringing despite the fact that her parents were constantly fighting. To Ila and her brother, Samuel, the two seemed to hate each other, but they stayed together for the sake of their children. Their parents never spoke to their children about their family's line of Earth Keepers because there had not been one in their family for generations, and they figured that they would tell the children if one of them ever showed signs of being capable. Ila always had an affinity for nature and the earth, but her parents figured that it was just a childish thing that she would grow out of.
For the first nine years of Ila's life, everything went right. She and her brother were best friends despite their seven year age difference. He was her protector and friend in every sense and Ila felt like she could be herself around him. However, Ila's happy upbringing was cut short when a man broke in in the middle of the night and set fire to their home. Fortunately, Ila and Samuel survived, but both their parents were later dragged out of the house dead. There was not much to salvage from the house besides a few pictures and their parents wedding bands (which they still wear today).
After the fire, both Ila and Samuel changed. They lived with their elderly aunt and uncle when tried their best to nurture them, but they had both retreated into themselves. The siblings were no longer best friends and Ila found herself wandering into the woods more often than usual to seek emotional refuge in the earth and the living beings all around her. It was here that she met an adolescent bear cub named Mato and she found that she could communicate with him as if he were a normal human being. She continued to meet everyday with Mato, but he never told her who he really was until one day about a year after their meeting, Ila returned from her meeting with Mato to find that Samuel was gone. He had left a note on her pillow apologizing and saying that he had to leave, but he did no further explaining. Feeling hurt and alone, Ila returned to the woods to find Mato, but instead she found a boy who looked to be her age with a striking resemblance to the bear she had grown so close to. He confessed that he was Mato and also told her that he was her demon, thus informing her that she was an Earth Keeper. This was ridiculous to Ila who did not even know that her family had a line of Earth Keepers somewhere on her mother's side; however, despite the absurdity of the situation, Ila believed Mato and forgave him for his lies. After this, Ila and Mato left together to find somewhere else to settle. Looking back on it, Ila feels guilty that she did not inform her aunt and uncle of her leaving, but she knew that she had to find Samuel and make things right between them.
Ila and Mato traveled for weeks living on nothing but the Earth until they reached another small town in the mountains where an old Earth Keeper named Elijah noticed the strong aura that surrounded Ila and Mato. He took them in and trained them. He became a mentor and a strong father figure to Ila and his own demon, an elderly tigress shapeshifter- became a mother figure to Mato. She was a quick learner and was a K Rank within a year and a half. However, one of the most important things that she gained from her time with Elijah was her ability to keep a calm and tranquil mind even though her emotions were constantly changing. He taught her how to calm her anger, control her sadness, and rein in herself when she got too excited. Elijah eventually sent her to be placed in a guild, hoping to expand her boundary beyond what he could teach her. She was placed in Lone Sin and has been with the guild ever since. She enjoys the excitement the guild brings, but she often returns to the small mountain town to visit Elijah and calm herself when things get too hectic. She has stopped searching for her brother, but has sworn to herself that she will find him one day and reconcile with him.
Mato
|| Age ||
21
|| Gender ||
Male
|| Area ||
Wind
|| Oddities ||
// He prefers his bear form //
Green in both forms
|| Hair ||
Thick, messy, and brown with reddish undertones in both forms.
|| Height ||
Human: 6 feet
Bear: 10 feet 4 inches in length, 5 feet at the shoulders
|| Weight ||
Human: 135 pounds
Bear: 1,400 pounds
|| Scars ||
He has four claw-like scars that look almost identical to those on Ila's torso, but his run from his right shoulder down his side and end at the top of his right hip.
|| Birthmarks ||
He has an oddly shaped birthmark at the base of his neck, but very few people know this because he is normally in his bear form where his fur covers the mark.
Passivity
|| Personality ||
As many demons are, Mato is a reflection of Ila's true personality. While Ila is expressive and emotional, she always holds a calmness and tranquility in her mind and she never lets her thoughts run wild even when she is letting her emotions run rampant on the outside. This peace of mind is the "true" personality that Mato is a representation of. His personality is primarily calm, collected, and easy-going. Like Ila, he has a deep empathy for any creature around him; however, unlike Ila, Mato is able to let nothing of the emotions he feels show on the outside. This often results in him giving the impression that he is aloof and does not care about others; however, Mato feels every emotion that the creatures around him feel. He just does not show those emotions like Ila does.
|| Likes ||
// Quiet // Ila // Meditation // Exercising // Music // Sleeping // Logic //
|| Dislikes ||
// Fire // Loud Noises // Storms // Change // Being Disrupted // Ila's Brother
|| Talents ||
// Logic // The way Mato's mind works is in a logical, sequential way. This means that he is talented in creating plans, drawing conclusions, and predicting outcomes.
// Strength & Resilience // His body is primarily muscle and he is able to hit a target hard in both his human and bear forms (moreso in his bear form). In addition, he has a high pain tolerance and a lot of stamina meaning that he can stay standing in a fight or stay awake when he is in pain.
// Writing // This is a rarely used talent because Mato is embarrassed by it. Every once in a while, Mato will write a poem or a short story and they are always beautiful, but he is afraid of anyone (primarily Ila) seeing his writing.
// Lying // Although he hates to admit it, Mato is a frequent liar. Since he is able to hide most emotions he feels, lying comes easily to him. He tries not to lie about important matters, but he sometimes slips and lies on about something important.
|| Flaws ||
// Overprotective // Mato is overprotective of almost any creature that he deems in need of his protection (which is a lot of creatures). While his protectiveness can be a welcome thing, it is sometimes unnecessary and can be more annoying than it is helpful.
// Unmotivated // There are few things in this world that motivate Mato, and when he is motivated, he is capable of anything; however, it is not often that he is motivated by anything other than Ila.
// Self-Deprecating & Self-Conscious //
|| Weaknesses ||
// Fire // Like Ila, Mato has been fearful of fires ever since the death of Ila's parents. He is still better at dealing with fires than Ila is, but it is still a major fear and weakness of his.
// Children // He has always had an extremely soft spot for the youth of any species. He hates to see any young creature get hurt emotionally or physically. His need to protect them has occasionally caused him to do stupid things.
// Ila // He is overprotective of many creatures; however Mato's overprotectiveness is tenfold with Ila. He is willing to go to great lengths to protect the girl who has been his best friend for his entire life.
// Slowness // Although Mato is a strong and resilient hard-hitter in battle, he is also a bit on the slow side. He practices his speed and agility, but he remains a slow moving, heavy weight, hard-hitter.
|| Hobbies ||
// Meditating // Reading // Writing // Puzzle Solving // Sleeping // Working Out //