Crow
'There’s more to magic than just being a pretty illusion. Underneath that delicate veneer, there lies a death - yours.’
What Kind of Mask is it?:
True
If True, in what state of completion is it in?:
In-Progress
How do you create/transform with the mask?
To summon: Mirror, mirror, on the wall.
To transform: Reflect my death, show my fall.
Brief Description of Transformed State:
The first thing that is often noticed is her pale coloring. Her silver eyes are merely a shade darker than her pasty white skin, just like her hair. Crow cuts a strange character with her sharp, delicate, almost aristocratic features and white elaborate crown that perches on her head. Her hair frames her head, making her face look smaller than it really is. Her pale silver eyes are blank and seem to be looking through people, almost as though they were an experiment that was conforming with her expectations. She rarely shows emotion, and her face oftentimes appears to be frozen.
Crow wears a black shirt and skirt. Other than the white lines that decorate both pieces of clothing, the most obvious sections are the over-exaggerated cuffs that cover both hands. She goes around in long black stockings (sans shoes) and black fingerless gloves. Silver sparks are oftentimes emitted from her fingertips at the most inopportune time. The designs on her clothing move by themselves in complicated designs, and a crow motif is quite common. With her slight build that is almost completely lacking in muscle, it's obvious that she's not built for combat.
Personality:
There is nothing more important to Crow than herself. Given the choice between sacrificing herself or living, she will always choose the choice that is more beneficial for herself. She isn’t above letting one of her ‘teammates’ lose their life if that can give her an opening or another second to cast a spell. She rarely thinks of others as humans. Instead, she believes that they are only worth the sum of benefits that they provide for herself. Also, Crow tends to be an elitist, if not a narcissist. She tends to view magical prowess as the most important thing that a person can possess and thinks of everyone else as an imbecile.
She is often quick to see the worst in people, being paranoid to an extreme. She will spend the majority of time with her teammates trying to find their weakness, just in case they turn. Every action of theirs that doesn’t directly benefit her will have her mind conjuring up future plots at her death. With almost an animalistic urge, Crow will keep a running tally of all imagined and exaggerated slights and has to persuade herself that killing them would be too much of a bother. This also leads her to keep her skills under wrap - preferring to pretend that she can’t do as much as she really can.
Her people skills leave much to be desired. Not only does she hate being touched (even as the initiator of the action), but also, she has the inability to talk directly to people - instead, she normally speaks over them. Crow rarely shows emotion, other than a bright dangerous-looking sparkle in her eyes when she sees someone's death arriving, especially from her hands. Cringing away from living bodies, she has a slight affinity with dead ones. On that hand, she is a slight health nut and often finds it important to make people stop smoking, drinking, or doing dangerous activities to - as she says, "keep their bodies in prime condition."
She has an urge to collect souvenirs - be they shards of bone, hairs, splinters, rocks, shiny objects, anything. Crow refuses to give up any of her little objects no matter what. She obviously loves magic and will do anything in her power to keep from doing it. Believing that everyone without it is far inferior to herself, she can be blind to other more conventional attacks. She hates hiding. Instead, she goes in guns blazing, drawing attention to herself.
Skills/Abilities when wearing mask:
Physical Durability
- While she is physically slight, Crow is able to push on despite physical battering. It seems more a case of mind over matter than anything else. Unless her mind is somehow clouded, she will continuing working towards her goal, almost like a zombie. She seems to not need sleep, drink, or food or simply partake of it very infrequently.
Mental acuity
- As your cliché mage, she learns and reacts quite quickly. It takes a lot for her to lose mental concentration, and she is also able to juggle up to three tasks in her head at the same time. Simultaneously casting spells is also possible, but sometimes has odd effects - for example, using Mistral concurrently with Lirael can oftentimes lead to disorienting bad-quality illusions.
Stench
- There is always a strange smell around her. While it seems sickly sweet in some situations, when the air is stagnant, even the slightest whiff of her will be gut-wrenchingly disgusting. It resembles the stench of something decomposing. For those with queasy stomachs or more acute senses, this is debilitating. Crow seems to be not affected by it in the slightest.
Skills/Abilities of Transformed State:
Mistral - Minor
- Illusions that are woven directly from the air. With quite a bit of effort, Crow is able to change the wavelengths of the light around her to show images that seem real. They can cover a distance of ten meters, but as this takes a lot of effort, Crow only uses this sparingly. It affects everyone in range, although if said person knows that it’s an illusion, they are able to pierce it. Looking carefully, details are often times difficult to see or not there completely - however, this depends on how well Crow is able to visualize her images.
Lirael - Minor- Magical arrows that hone in to their target. Almost as though directed by some supernatural force (they’re literally controlled by Crow’s mind), she is able to pull energy out of the air and her surroundings. The range is so that she is able to reach everyone that she can see - but whether or not they hit is up to the target’s dexterity. These arrows are clear and almost see-through, but on closer inspection, they appear to be feathers. When they travel through the air, there is an audible keening sound that’s nearly musical.
Avalon - Minor- A shining mirror-like waterfall of water that she uses primarily as a shield. It’s highly durable especially with magical attacks which are either deflected or neutralized depending on the velocity and power of said attack. While some stronger magical attacks may go through completely, they are often times much weaker than their original state. Avalon does very little when it comes to physical attacks, however - most of them passing through easily. Water is absorbed by the shield, which makes it stronger, while fire is dampened, but still goes through.
The major skill has not yet developed.
Weapons
She needs nothing but the magic that literally sparkles at her fingertips. Without the necessary strength to effectively use a weapon of any kind, she will oftentimes go without. A strange Renaissance-style side sword can be summoned, but with a weight of 2 lbs 4 oz and total length of 38 inches, it’s more for posing with than anything else. The hilt resembles the mask itself - covered in gold curlicues and studded with diamonds. Under ultraviolet light, the blade's strange texture (it looks like a bird's feathers) becomes visible.
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