Witchy Woman | Only A Memory | Swimming Home | Gods & Monsters | Scarlet | Last Train Home
{“I can’t say whether or not I believe in a God or Goddess or some higher power. I mean, by the technical laws of our physical world, magic shouldn’t exist, yet here we are today. Fighting wars for things we don’t know are real and over things that shouldn’t be.}
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{N A M E} Aura Testament Alessana
{N I C K N A M E} Tessa (most know her by her middle name, and this is a derivative of it.)
{A G E} 19
{G E N D E R} Female
{R O L E} The Witch
{B I R T H D A T E}
August 30th ; Virgo ♍
{S E X U A L I T Y}
Bisexual
{N I C K N A M E} Tessa (most know her by her middle name, and this is a derivative of it.)
{A G E} 19
{G E N D E R} Female
{R O L E} The Witch
{B I R T H D A T E}
August 30th ; Virgo ♍
{S E X U A L I T Y}
Bisexual
{Fighting is useless. War, death, total chaos… these things are all scary, destructive things… yet it’s part of the natural cycle of civilization, isn’t it?}
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{H E I G H T} 4’9”
{W E I G H T} 110 lbs (plus or minus 10 pounds depending on if she gets to eat that day or not)
{E Y E C O L O R} Hazel
{H A I R C O L O R} Blue
{A P P E A R A N C E}
She typically dresses herself as a gypsy would; long flowing skirts and a variety of pretty blouses and shirts. When she travels with the caravan, she wears the colors of the season that they wear, but she always maintains her hairstyle with a headband with some sort of flower or other cute thing on it. While traveling by herself though, as she is prone to do when she finds runes of interest or a large library, her main color is orange, usually in the form of a shorter than usual dress with a large side bag strapped across her body. She occasionally pairs it with black leggings, and ankle-height leather boots a gypsy hand crafted for her. While surrounding herself with the mage community, she varies between this pairing, and another slightly more provocative outfit consisting of a blue vest, a yellow bikini top, and white shorts and sandals.
{O D D I T I E S}
She has an odd sort of accent that’s hard to recognize, as it’s not common in most of the areas she travels to.
{W E I G H T} 110 lbs (plus or minus 10 pounds depending on if she gets to eat that day or not)
{E Y E C O L O R} Hazel
{H A I R C O L O R} Blue
{A P P E A R A N C E}
She typically dresses herself as a gypsy would; long flowing skirts and a variety of pretty blouses and shirts. When she travels with the caravan, she wears the colors of the season that they wear, but she always maintains her hairstyle with a headband with some sort of flower or other cute thing on it. While traveling by herself though, as she is prone to do when she finds runes of interest or a large library, her main color is orange, usually in the form of a shorter than usual dress with a large side bag strapped across her body. She occasionally pairs it with black leggings, and ankle-height leather boots a gypsy hand crafted for her. While surrounding herself with the mage community, she varies between this pairing, and another slightly more provocative outfit consisting of a blue vest, a yellow bikini top, and white shorts and sandals.
{O D D I T I E S}
She has an odd sort of accent that’s hard to recognize, as it’s not common in most of the areas she travels to.
{“Thank you, but I’ll have to pass on the drink. Last time I drank… well… yeah. lets just say bad things happened to innocent people. Namely, myself.}
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{P E R S O N A L I T Y}
{Intelligent | Innocent | Caring | Reckless}
Aura is truly a very sweet and caring individual. It’s not unheard of for her to adopt in animals she finds or donate her time to hospitals and clinics just to help people out. She’s even been known to stop along her path to play with children, or help someone who’s lost their way. She quite enjoys relaxing outside with a book and beautiful skies surrounding her and breathing in the nature around her.
As she knows nothing of her parents, she assumes they were mages as well. The gypsies that found her near the ruins of a former mage village assumed the same and took her in. Since then she has traveled with her adoptive family around the world, learning how to use her magic as well as various trades of her caravan.
At a young age she had a love of reading and knowledge in general. Any free time was spent in a cart or on a horse with a book in her hands. As they were constantly trading goods and services, she had a constant flow of new books in her hand. As she got older she started wandering off even farther away from her people, searching for more information on magic, and culture, and language. Even to this day she loves finding a library and can spend a week or two in there reading every book she hasn’t read before. This is where she’s happiest.
While she is generally sweet and playful, she does have a temper and a reckless streak. She will, without hesitation, jump in front of someone she cares about to save them from a sword. She’ll also use her magic without even thinking of the consequences if it means helping someone, or even distracting the enemy from something. She doesn’t enjoy fighting by any means, and will go out of her way to avoid a fight when possible, but she always puts an innocent’s life above her own and will jump in if she thinks the battle is unfair.
{Intelligent | Innocent | Caring | Reckless}
Aura is truly a very sweet and caring individual. It’s not unheard of for her to adopt in animals she finds or donate her time to hospitals and clinics just to help people out. She’s even been known to stop along her path to play with children, or help someone who’s lost their way. She quite enjoys relaxing outside with a book and beautiful skies surrounding her and breathing in the nature around her.
As she knows nothing of her parents, she assumes they were mages as well. The gypsies that found her near the ruins of a former mage village assumed the same and took her in. Since then she has traveled with her adoptive family around the world, learning how to use her magic as well as various trades of her caravan.
At a young age she had a love of reading and knowledge in general. Any free time was spent in a cart or on a horse with a book in her hands. As they were constantly trading goods and services, she had a constant flow of new books in her hand. As she got older she started wandering off even farther away from her people, searching for more information on magic, and culture, and language. Even to this day she loves finding a library and can spend a week or two in there reading every book she hasn’t read before. This is where she’s happiest.
While she is generally sweet and playful, she does have a temper and a reckless streak. She will, without hesitation, jump in front of someone she cares about to save them from a sword. She’ll also use her magic without even thinking of the consequences if it means helping someone, or even distracting the enemy from something. She doesn’t enjoy fighting by any means, and will go out of her way to avoid a fight when possible, but she always puts an innocent’s life above her own and will jump in if she thinks the battle is unfair.
{I will not cry. I will not cry. I will not cry.}
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{W E A P O N S}
{S T R E N G T H S}
- Magic - She is very adept with mid-level magic, though she has a large arrangement of low-level spells she uses on a typical basis. She also has two or three high level spells in her arsenal, and two Forbidden spells she keeps to herself very well.
- Spear - She is well-taught in using a spear, and will often fight with in when she’s in areas she can’t risk using magic in. Her choice in weapon is due to her petiteness and the fact with a spear, despite its weak spots and how open it leaves her, gives her better range especially while aiming to kill
{S T R E N G T H S}
- Magic- she is mostly self taught, but has had a few tutors in her magical education. While she doesn’t have a lot of powerful spells under her belt (yet) she has a wide variety of low and mid level spells, which can make her a formidable foe. Her strongest magic though is her buffer spells and her healing magic.
- Spearmanship - she has been training with spears since she was 10, as she was always too short to be able to effectively fight with a dagger like other kids.
- Agility - Because of her size and long hours traveling by foot she has strong fast legs and is very effective at moving in, out and around obstacles.
- Theft - long ago she learned well the art of pickpocketing to survive, and can easily charm a man, empty his coin purse and be long gone before he notices. She usually reserves this for nobles and the like and uses the money to support local businesses.
- Socialization - her sweet disposition and likeability (and other assets…) make it easy for her to charm merchants and citizens in general. Because of her time with the gypsies she is also an EXCELLENT haggler and with enough time and motivation can get the price of most things she needs cut down to half, on a good day. She can fit herself into almost any crowd with SOMETHING to talk about, thanks to her travels.
- Strategy - as she typically hates fighting she tends to only go in head first on a whim when someone needs help or she can’t keep running. As such she never has a real strategy and even if she did it would probably be a half-cocked plan that would still land her in trouble
- Clumsiness - she is TERRIBLY clumsy most of the time, so as fast as she can be, if she loses focus on what’s ahead of her she’s likely to trip, run into a tree (or wall), or some how get herself caught.
- Magic - her greatest strength also tends to be her greatest downfall. Because she’s used to being able to use magic while traveling with the caravan, and occasionally uses low level magic without people using, there are times where she forgets she can’t use magic in towns and cities where it’s forbidden or frowned upon and gets herself in trouble. she’s proud of being a mage. unfortunately.
- Recklessness - Her need to jump into fights that aren’t hers if she feels they’re going unfairly is her second biggest downfall and often lands her in pain or in jail.
- Alcohol - occasionally to shut her brain down for a bit she drinks… too much… and ends up in trouble… major major trouble.
- Memory - she has a very faulty memory… she can remember every useless fact in the world, every spell she’s ever read about, and the history of small countries, yet she can’t remember her parents faces, or the name of the man who primarily raised her on a normal day. However there are days when she can recall every detail perfectly… it just depends on the day pretty much.
{Oh! I’ve always wanted to read this book!!!!}
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{H O B B I E S}
{H A B I T S}
- Reading | ”Most of these books are older than anyone in this town… they’ve seen things, they’ve heard secrets…”
- Napping | ”Yes. I’m sleeping in a tree. You have an issue with it?”
- Writing | ”Sometimes my head doesn’t work right… that’s why I have this little leather book… it remembers everything for me, from my point of view… then… then I can never forget it again, right?”
- Drinking | ”Mmm this is a very nicely aged wine… *chugging sounds*”
- Dancing | ”I did NOT trip over my skirt, I intended that to be apart of the dance dammit!”
{H A B I T S}
- Drinking | ”Wh-what? I did NOT drink 7 bottles of wine and a barrel of ale to myself! I’d be dead, were that the case!!!”
- Whistling | ”Nothing better than a little song while reading a book, right? Right?”
- Animals | ”Ooh look a kitty! Come here kittykitty! Ouch WHY ARE YOU ATTACKING ME OH GOD MY FACE!”
- Music | ”Growing up with a band of gypsies… you get used to constant sound; music, laughter, drinking and dancing… it becomes a part of you until you’re naturally drawn to the sound of instruments and frivolities…”
- Children | ”There’s nothing more beautiful than the world through a child’s eyes.”
- Books |”The first time I used magic in a major city, there was a revolution going on in a capital city in the far north and the villagers tried to burn down the royal library… I was 10, and I just remember blinding rage and begging the elements to help me… so they did. Sure some books were lost to water damage… but for the most part it was saved…”
- Magic | [i]”Magic is the lifeblood of the planet… just… no one realizes that. Elements control everything. Sure there’s bad magic, but most of it is neutral until in the hands of the user it’s used for good or bad. I want to show that to the world someday.”
- Older men | [i]”I don’t go out of my way for relationships. I travel too much for that, and I enjoy my solitude sometimes… Guys my age fall head over heels in love and try to never let go… whereas most men don’t care… they get it. They’ve been there before, or still are there… They understand my wanderlust.”
- Bugs | ”No.”
- Snakes | ”No.”
- Long-Term Commitment | ”Uh well… see. I have this… place, that I have to do things at… You’re a sweet guy but.. um… oh look fire! *uses a spell to set fire to something behind him and flees*
- Any Commitment to anything or anyone | ”No point in getting attached to things when you know you’re going to be gone in a day or two…
- Fighting | ”I don’t see the point in fighting… I have nothing to prove. I’m a mage, not a warrior.”
- To read every book in the world
- To become one of the best mages the world has ever seen and show the world what amazingly GREAT things magic can be used for.
- Eventually she would like to settle down somewhere with a beautiful view and her own personal library. She’s completely convinced she’d be alone though.
- Being completely alone forever.
- Running out of things to learn.
- Dying
[i]{I don’t know who I am… I never have, and I probably never will...}
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{H I S T O R Y}
Aura was born in a tiny mage-based village in the far reaches of the North. Her parents were the High Mages of the village (basically the leaders), and her earliest years were filled with magic and learning. Her first real memory is of being surrounded by a library of books at three years old.
When she was about four, right around the time of her birthday, their village was attacked by a group of mage hunters. Aura was the only survivor. She woke up one day freezing cold with snow falling around her as the last of the fires burnt out, unable to remember anything outside of her name.
She sheltered herself in the only building that was semi-standing and waited for help to come for a few days before the gypsy caravan came to trade wares and found the village completely destroyed. Riordan Alessana, the leader of the caravan, found Aura by herself and took her in and from there on out she was trained by the various mages that would join the caravan for traveling safety.
Her first real spell was a healing spell she used on a bird whose wing was broken. When she was 10, her caravan was part of a festival in a northern city which there was a minor revolution taking foot in. She spent most of the time at the Royal Library and was inside reading when the cityfolk decided to set it on fire. Instead of saving herself she tried figuring out how to use magic to put the fire out. At that time her powers were still quite weak and she was inexperienced with elemental magic… She begged with all her might for a way to save the precious materials in there, and the element of water answered her prayer, and offered her a contract of sorts to use the power of the elements… she agreed without hesitation or even stopping to listen to the terms… therefore, she ended up with very harsh terms indeed. While she saved the library, she couldn’t remember much other than waking up an hour later with the fire gone and her body drenched in water.
However a side effect of her particular… magical agreement with the elements is that in exchange for her more powerful spells, she loses a memory. However most of this isn’t permanent. She just loses conscious access to the memory… occasionally recall happens after weeks of not using magic. Occasionally it stresses her out, but for the most part she’s accepted this trade off, if it means she can help people.
At age 14 she started splitting off from her ‘family’... she was determined to learn what happened to her family, and who killed her entire village after her adoptive father told her the entire story of how she was found and who her parents were, although he knew little about them personally. She even went so far as to make her wake back to her original homeland. She only found ruins and very few clues.
Since then it’s been her mission to find a way to bring some sort of understanding to people who lack magic and maybe in the meantime find out who she really is, and why the elements made such a cruel deal with her. Her strongest bond is with the elements of wind and water and light; she’s extremely good at quick healing, and using bodies of water to her advantage. However, water is the ONLY element she can ‘control’ and perform high-level magic with.
With the death of a noble being placed on her shoulders though, she’s changed her mission to clearing her name. She has no clue why this is even being blamed on her to be honest. Yes, she had spoken with him before, but their last interaction was weeks ago, and she only got back into town the night the murder happened, and was in the local library researching a new lead on the group that killed her village… She’s trying not to let this change her disposition… she’s used to be hated for a variety of reasons, mostly magical, but now she’s being literally hunted, and she can’t relax like she’s used to doing while traveling...
Aura was born in a tiny mage-based village in the far reaches of the North. Her parents were the High Mages of the village (basically the leaders), and her earliest years were filled with magic and learning. Her first real memory is of being surrounded by a library of books at three years old.
When she was about four, right around the time of her birthday, their village was attacked by a group of mage hunters. Aura was the only survivor. She woke up one day freezing cold with snow falling around her as the last of the fires burnt out, unable to remember anything outside of her name.
She sheltered herself in the only building that was semi-standing and waited for help to come for a few days before the gypsy caravan came to trade wares and found the village completely destroyed. Riordan Alessana, the leader of the caravan, found Aura by herself and took her in and from there on out she was trained by the various mages that would join the caravan for traveling safety.
Her first real spell was a healing spell she used on a bird whose wing was broken. When she was 10, her caravan was part of a festival in a northern city which there was a minor revolution taking foot in. She spent most of the time at the Royal Library and was inside reading when the cityfolk decided to set it on fire. Instead of saving herself she tried figuring out how to use magic to put the fire out. At that time her powers were still quite weak and she was inexperienced with elemental magic… She begged with all her might for a way to save the precious materials in there, and the element of water answered her prayer, and offered her a contract of sorts to use the power of the elements… she agreed without hesitation or even stopping to listen to the terms… therefore, she ended up with very harsh terms indeed. While she saved the library, she couldn’t remember much other than waking up an hour later with the fire gone and her body drenched in water.
However a side effect of her particular… magical agreement with the elements is that in exchange for her more powerful spells, she loses a memory. However most of this isn’t permanent. She just loses conscious access to the memory… occasionally recall happens after weeks of not using magic. Occasionally it stresses her out, but for the most part she’s accepted this trade off, if it means she can help people.
At age 14 she started splitting off from her ‘family’... she was determined to learn what happened to her family, and who killed her entire village after her adoptive father told her the entire story of how she was found and who her parents were, although he knew little about them personally. She even went so far as to make her wake back to her original homeland. She only found ruins and very few clues.
Since then it’s been her mission to find a way to bring some sort of understanding to people who lack magic and maybe in the meantime find out who she really is, and why the elements made such a cruel deal with her. Her strongest bond is with the elements of wind and water and light; she’s extremely good at quick healing, and using bodies of water to her advantage. However, water is the ONLY element she can ‘control’ and perform high-level magic with.
With the death of a noble being placed on her shoulders though, she’s changed her mission to clearing her name. She has no clue why this is even being blamed on her to be honest. Yes, she had spoken with him before, but their last interaction was weeks ago, and she only got back into town the night the murder happened, and was in the local library researching a new lead on the group that killed her village… She’s trying not to let this change her disposition… she’s used to be hated for a variety of reasons, mostly magical, but now she’s being literally hunted, and she can’t relax like she’s used to doing while traveling...
{People at like books, you can try your best to judge by the cover, but sometimes there might just be a surprise on the inner pages.}
{F C} Levy McGarden from Fairy Tail
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