Magica, A Role-Playing Game

[Alastor]

In the deepest parts of the forests of the world exist another world, a world of magic. Wherever there a forest, witchfolk- men and women who can use magic, in its various forms- flock to it like it was catnip.Even if you happen to be only a few dozen miles away from Salem, Massachusetts.

The humor of this is not lost on these people. Or to the normal, day-to-day people who run into them.

Of course, urban legends begin to spring up about these woods. Campfire tales about tall grey men who abduct children into the forest during the raging flames of a fire, tales about witches who dump the corpses of those they kill in the woods to frighten others.

And, to the surprise of some, there are no monsters in these woods. Nor are there corpses (except for the times there are; in which case, please call the police).

Really, any would be adventurer into the world of magic would be rather disappointed. It's all very mundane- these people, barring the talking animal familiars and magic, aren't very different from the modern person.

And of course, what would it be like if witches and people of Salem began to interact in more freedom? That's an interesting question indeed.

MAGIC INFO:
So, in this universe, everyone has a special talent. For the most part, those talents fall under five categories. We'll classify people as colors for the moment. Keep in mind we're really fluid with this and give you guys lots of freedom, just make sure with us for certain things.
-Green - Potions. Typically related to transfiguration and medicine. These witches use recipes and books, usually ancient in nature, with sometimes completely off-the-wall ingredients. Some potions may have horrible side-effects, and many have antidotes or a waiting period until they wear off.
-Orange - Charms. These are your more usual magics - you can make things float, you can make inanimate objects move, you can make fire, that sort of thing. Most special talents fall under this - like elemental control or weather control.
-Blue - Telepathy, remote viewing, and astral projection. These witches can project their souls into different objects, talk to people through non-vocal means, and see things they are not present for. Talents such as talking to animals or mind control fall under this.
-Purple - Empathy and psychics. These witches can just 'tell' things about people, and they're the ones who came up with the color system, from viewing auras. Special talents that fall under here include the ability to communicate with the dead or see things from the past.
-Red - Innocence. Typically associated with children and those with severe traumas, those who are red (or pink in some cases) are considered somewhat like magical creatures, rather than witches. These people are also considered HIGHLY dangerous, the more saturated and heavy the color - innocence is destructive to magic, and often those who have this color are not stable - their magic, therefore, is volatile. While it is a normal color for some normal humans, there have been very few recorded witches who were red - and are now used as cautionary tales. It is rumored that Abigail Williams was a red witch.
-Grey - Normal people. These people have no hints of any other area. Typically seen in non-magic adults. Greyscale colors are extremely rare - many people have hints of other colors to their auras, as unused potential for magic.

As a general thing, the lighter the color, the 'better' of a person you are, while the darker the color, the more 'evil' of a person you are.

BIO FOR WITCHES:

NAME:
AGE:
APPEARANCE:
COLOR:
SPECIAL TALENT:
FAMILIAR: (Optional)
BIO:



BIO FOR CIVILIANS:

NAME:
AGE:
APPEARANCE:
COLOR:
BIO:

[Penny Royals]

NAME: Elizabeth Jones
AGE: 28
APPEARANCE: s4.favim.com/orig/48/beautiful-girl-blue-eyes-dark-hair-Favim.com-464476.jpg
COLOR: Magenta - for the most part it's grey, but she has hints of pink and purple both.
BIO: Liz herself had a normal family life. Her parents were very supportive of her, and gave her as much freedom as she could possibly want. This led to several hobbies she picked up through the years - tae kwon do, violin, and riverdancing, among them. She was extremely dedicated to these three in particular (then again when your other hobbies included water billiards and even YOU didn't know how it worked...), using tae-kwon-do all throughout elementary, middle, and highschool, playing violin for the orchestra in middle and highschool, and taking the gold in a local competition for dance when she was 17 (she'd gotten silver since 13). She met Mason Stark when they were both in preschool and she knocked out one of his bullies (something she continued to do both for him and his younger siblings... although the latter is more hush-hush, since she was so much older than them), and they were inseperable ever since - she still has pictures of them hugging from that period of time, after all. The Joneses and the Starks got together often, then, starting a tradition of holiday dinner parties together since their kids were extremely close. Liz was present at every major function for the family, as Mason's only friend, and she was present at his siblings' births. From the time she was around ten onward, she babysat for them whenever April (and, at that time, Andrew) wanted to go out and have a break, together or not, and typically together with her own parents. She was very attentive to both children as they grew up with her - though of course, as she got older she'd focus more and more on talking with Mason and spending some time with him, rather than reading to Ryan or playing ponies with Willow. They were almost like a family unit as a whole - after the divorce, Andrew came to live with them for a time, even. Their holiday traditions continued even after that, although on some level they were, of course, greatly more awkward. She would usually just stick with Mason and the other kids from that time on, upstairs playing games until they were called down for dinner. Then again - she was over there most of the time after the divorce, not willing to let Mason have any time alone as he'd expressed not feeling very safe with his mother. She didn't understand it, but she stayed with him anyway, and became one of the few catalysts for the siblings to hide behind. It came as no surprise that, their senior year of highschool, Liz and Mason got engaged, after having been actually dating for about two years (she had had a string of boyfriends beforehand - and she was his first girlfriend). Both were going to college together, him for marine biology, her for law, as she had always been extremely good in debates classes, and wanted to be a lawyer more than anything. They planned to get married in the summer, after realizing in their first few years at universities and law schools that it would be a good idea just to get it over with as quickly as possible, and had reservations and other plans all set up, invitations all set out. Of course, as with all tragic stories, disaster struck. In June, after coming home from university for the summer, Mason was killed, and his younger brother Ryan - her younger brother, for all intents and purposes - was thrown into a coma. She and her parents took in the youngest, Willow, at that point, but it was still extremely hard to accept the fact of the matter for her. She tried dating a few years later - but getting back into the swing was literally impossible, and ended badly. When Ryan came out of his coma, she was the first person to be there, and stayed with him, determined to make him okay again - and it was via her determination, perhaps, that he was able to do so well and come home so quickly. She is, of course, fiercely protective of him due to all this, and will do anything to make sure he stays okay - she doesn't want to lose another member of her family, after all. She also greatly distrusts his girlfriend on a level she doesn't fully understand - perhaps for being a magic user, perhaps not. In any case, she is overworking her life in a major rehaul, no longer having to worry about him or Willow nearly as much. She's working on getting back into the dating game again now, and is continuing her college education for a degree in law - she had dropped out for some time after everything had happened, but now feels ready to get back into what she'd always wanted to do (as well as once again dancing and fighting, but, well...).


NAME: Ryan Stark
AGE: 20
APPEARANCE: He stands at 5'4, with a slim, fragile build to go with it, and is very pale. His blonde hair is somewhat long for a boy and fluffy, but he of course wouldn't dream of cutting it. He has brown eyes, and occasionally wears thin-rimmed glasses.
COLOR: He's a somewhat lighter shade of red
BIO: He was the middle child of three, with an older brother (Mason) and a younger sister (Willow), living with their mother (April) and their father (Andrew) in a more quiet part of urban Massachussettes. He was extremely close with his grandmother (Florence) who lived less than half an hour away in the woods, often taking the trek alone to go and see her throughout the week to get away from their mother, and the nasty divorce she and Andrew were going through at the time. When at home, he was typically shut up inside of the room he shared with his siblings, reading books or practicing his handwriting, and generally never coming out unless his older brother's girlfriend Liz was over. The divorce was finalized when he was seven, his brother was fifteen, and his sister was three. Their mother grew to be extremely possessive over them, rarely if ever letting them leave the house without her right there with them, and her possessiveness grew in other, more hidden aspects as well. He barely ever got to see his grandmother now, and treasured that time more than anything - especially the nights where she would take him off his mother's hands, and let him sleep over at her house with her. She died when he was fourteen - an eventful year. From this time period, the formative years of his life, he has extremely sporadic memories that pop up every once in awhile, mostly forgotten. After his grandmother's death, things got worse and worse at the house. Their friends were able to see quick changes in the kids - even the eldest, who was going to a university and engaged to his long-time girlfriend. Most people of course wrote it down to just that - her death. Not many looked past and saw their mother standing in the mirror behind them. It was summer, in June, when their lives were changed forever. Mason had been planning for months to move out, to go and live with Liz and her family until the wedding and until university started back up, and one night, without telling their mother, he finally took off to do such - and was, of course, caught by the very woman he intended to avoid. He and her were fighting when the middle boy came home from the store. To cut a long story short - both boys were shot multiple times. Mason died from his injuries, and the young boy slipped into a coma that doctors said he most likely wouldn't wake from. Their mother was sent to death row, and Willow moved in with Liz and her family as they grieved. It was three years later, at the age of seventeen, that the boy woke up. It took him until the following Christmas, almost a year, to be released from the hospital - and during that span of time, he remembers almost nothing. Now he's somewhat back to normal, still with regular lapses in memory, general weakness, easily fatigued and not quite able to stand all the time on his own, but for the most part - a normal person, with a girlfriend who literally only knows that her boyfriend is weak as hell. He detests being considered 'disabled' or 'abnormal', and will do everything he can to not have to use his wheelchair all that often.


NAME: Harley Ansel
AGE: 41
APPEARANCE:

COLOR: Purple
SPECIAL TALENT: Her empathy IS her special talent - she's one of the best and most-reknowned witches for it, and one of the originators of the color system.
BIO: Harley was born in Salem, with two younger sisters and the usual set of mother and dad - all non-magic. Needless to say, it came as a huge surprise when their little girl started telling them she could 'see pretty colors all around them,' and the feeling just got worse and worse as she'd start telling them the colors and what they meant. They were well-meaning parents, but of course, very freaked out by their eldest. She studied more about what was going on in various books, and eventually found, from a local witch, a contact of a woman in Britain - an extremely famous empath of the time named Eloise Whitaker. After much convincing (and a million and half phone calls), Harley was able to convince both her parents and Eloise to let her move over to Britain and study under a witch they had never heard of. It was very probable, yes, that she used some form of magic, but she never let on either way. Her times under Eloise were very hard, but extremely rewarding. Eloise honed her abilities, especially as an empath, and let her flourish and grow. There came a time, when Harley was a young woman, that she finally surpassed the old woman (and took her out for drinks to celebrate/cry over). Of course, Harley had had her eye on Eloise's son, a half-giant, for some time, and now was her chance. They married less than a year later, a very small, very simple wedding, and had three kids - a set of twins and a daughter, who moved on to America, and whom they're here to visit today.




NAME: Eloise Whitaker
AGE: 89 'or so'
APPEARANCE: www.laineygossip.com/Content/images/articles/judi%20dench%2006jul11%2001.jpg (ignore award)
COLOR: A darkened plum
SPECIAL TALENT: Eloise has always had a habit of... manipulating events in her favor, remotely. Many are violent, others good - it just depends.
FAMILIAR: Sol, a chameleon almost as old as her - after all, it's a MAGICAL familiar.
BIO: Eloise was born in the mid 1920s, growing up a child of the shortly-ensuing depression. As a teenager, she got herself into magic, into her own coven, even - including the likes of Florence and Siobhan. She is the last surviving member of said coven, and not much is known about her time there - except that in the 1970s she turned up in Britain with a son and a chameleon, and still sent Christmas cards to the then-alive members of the coven such as Florence, soon gaining an apprentice in Harley Ansel. She's actually quite proud of her now daughter-in-law, and even prouder of her grandchildren... for the most part, that is...

[Alastor]

NAME: May Ansel
AGE: 19
APPEARANCE:
COLOR: A pale-ish green, with light, faint sprinkles of blue and purple
SPECIAL TALENT:Stupidly good with potion making
FAMILIAR: Mason, a grumpy as hell fluffball of a cat
BIO: May is the third child of Harley and Bishop Ansel, with two older siblings - twins, a boy and a girl named Caroline and Griffon. The girls were the ones who got into magic, and both became good at their respective areas - May in potions, and Caroline in charms. May of course grew very powerful, her mother sending her off to study with multiple witches. It was with her third mentor, at the age of thirteen, that she summoned her familiar Mason. Eventually - that is to say, last year - she moved them both to Salem, Massachussettes, buying a house in the woods, and searching all around for a job (eventually settling at a decent one that she basically just went with for money). She has a boyfriend, at least! And now her parents are coming in to help her. (thanks pen for helping me with this)


NAME: Bishop 'Big Daddy' Ansel
AGE: 46
APPEARANCE: Something like this
COLOR: A soft blue, with slight greyness.
BIO: WIP

[Fiery Firefly]

Name: Amrita Chandra

Age: 20

Appearence: i2.listal.com/image/3354951/600full-naomi-scott.jpg

Color: A mid range color of orange, leaning slightly closer to darker.

Special talent: Is capable of manipulating wind.

Bio: Amrita was born to a Salem native witch named Donna Felton, a rather intelligent young witch with an orange aura (thougb much more lighter then her future daughter's) who decided when she reached adulthood to experience the "normal world". She left for university where she ended up meeting her future husband Arun Chandra, a normal human international student from India. Together they settled in Boston after school, and had three children, Somesh, Amrita and Ravi. Somesh and Amrita ended up having the same ability as their mother to manipulate air, while Ravi was just normal. Arun took the whole "marrying a witch and having two kids who can't stop whipping wind through the house " fairly well all things considered. The family lived fairly happily until tragedy struck when Amrita was 14, and her father was killed in a car crash. Her mother was so distraught that she decided even living in the world with normal humans was too much, and the family moved back to Salem. Amrita became very withdrawn after her father's death and her whole life was turned upside down, is not very social and any one with a purple aura could see her orange aura darkening more and more.

[Adlai Stevenson]

NAME: Goodwife 'Goody' Saltonstall
AGE: 28
APPEARANCE:


COLOR: Green, of a brighter shade than most
SPECIAL TALENT: A dedicated potion-brewer.
BIO: Goody Saltonstall was the black sheep of a family of black sheeps; the daughter of an excommunicated Catholic nun and an airline pilot with Parkinson's, Goody was originally going to be a triplet . . . before she apparently aborbed both her sisters in the womb. Despite this, she had her own set of problems, growing up; braces, a stutter, and asthma, all of which she was teased relentlessly for, and two out of three of which she eventually grew out of (she carries an inhaler for her asthma).

Goody discovered her family's dark secret as a young girl; the grandmother that she never knew had been a witch, and a powerful one, at that. The more she looked into her grandmother's history, the more she got hooked, in spite of her mother's religious views attempting to discourage her interests in vain. She dedicated her life to finding out more, and (to limited degrees of success) mastering the dark arts herself . . .

. . . well, it didn't go nearly as well as she'd like to admit, but she did find that she had one hell of a knack for brewing potions and spells in cauldrons and stolen Chemistry class equipment, teaching herself based off the collected notes and journal entries her grandmother had occasionally compiled in her day. All of this brought her closer to her passion in witchcraft, but merely scratched the surface, always on the outside looking in. Goody was thinking of giving up her demented hobby . . . until, that is, she discovered one last spell in her grandmother's book.

Headstrong and adamant to the point of obsession, Goody has an idea . . . an awful idea.

Goody Saltonstall has an awful, awful idea.

[JW%]

NAME: Kyle Trenton
AGE: 35
APPEARANCE:
COLOR: Orange with a slight afterglow of Blue
SPECIAL TALENT: Kyle is particularly good at enchanting items. After a bit of work, he can make knives that don't dull, doors that squeak only when it's an unwanted guest, or other things. He often has several of them with him on his person at any given time, leveraging his magic more dramatically.
FAMILIAR: He seems to have a tree beetle that sometimes visits him. It's hard to tell if that's a true familiar, or just a spirit who speaks with him and takes this form.
BIO: Kyle seemed to have a habit of taking things apart. He liked knowing how things worked, how things interacted. He was never really good at putting them back together though, something which seemed destined to annoy him and anyone around him. His family life was a little strange, as his parents spent most of their time working, leaving him to live with his grandparents most of the time. His mother and father eventually sent him off to school, where he learned to be an electrical engineer, though his grandmother said that it was a waste of the strong aura he had about him. As his grandparents became elderly and infirm, he returned home to take care of them, when not contracting for jobs installing or maintaining electrical systems such as alarms and computers.

[lovely corte]

NAME: Lena 'Lucky Lena' Dobeln.
AGE: 35.
APPEARANCE: i.imgur.com/nmvBM.jpg
COLOR: Orange.
SPECIAL TALENT: Focuses using her tattoos, able to do several unique spells based around them, including, but not limited to:
- Creating four, half-man sized 'Jesters'. They can defend her, do her bidding and fight for her. However, she more than ever really just uses them for house work. They are rude, offensive and prone to farting furiously in bed. She has named them Hobbles, Gassy, Mouthflaps and Wetfoot.
- Is capable of warping nature, either making it brutal and using it as a weapon to tangle her 'prey' in barbed vines, poisonous flowers or literal blades of grass or making it serene, creating vibrant gardens. She prefers the latter, more to the former.

She is also capable of, to some degree, making and teaching people how to use her 'form' of magic. She is a talented tattoo artist and is willing to create these tattoos, so long as they serve a greater or gentle purpose.

FAMILIAR: Although she has no animal, she considers the 'Jesters' to be her familiars, since they follow her around mostly, save for when she is working or in public.

BIO: A native born Swede, Lena immigrated with her single mother to America for work placement and to escape the clutches of her abusive father, who Lena would later find out was abusing his mother after finding out she was a witch.

Growing up in Boston in a heavily crime ridden area, Lena's mother voluntarily taught her daughter the art of being a Witch. She bestowed an 'honor' system onto her daughter, one she stood by to this day, that she would never use it for personal gain or to hurt another person. Her mother also taught her how to speak Swedish, since she was going to school to learn how to speak English already, both of which she became fluent at due to her intellectual superiority.

Cut ahead a couple of years until she was a teenager, Lena got into the 'hardcore' culture. Drugs, alcohol, sex and, her later calling in life, tattoos were all very much so apart of her life. She joined two bands, before being kicked out and hitch-hiking around the country until she was twenty-three, at which point she decided to settle and get a career in Boston.

Push ahead a few years, she now operates a tattoo parlor with a staff capacity of ten and has 'created' the art of 'Focus Tattoos' or 'Tattoo Magic'. Using them as a visual aid, she has only ever done them on herself so far. Requiring the aid of an expert 'Green' witch, she is able to create special inks that allow the actual process to work.

She has opened up shop in Salem to create a more distant, second-chain of her tattoo business and has come to oversee it personally, while her mother and her staff take care of her home and business in Boston.

[Alastor]

NAME: Sergeant Maximilien Dantes
AGE: 45
APPEARANCE
COLOR: Primarily a very bright shade of gray, with slight amounts of green, orange, and red sprinkled about
BIO: Idris Elba as a cop (more exactly, Pentecost as a cop). Blame Penny. He was on duty for the shooting that put Ryan in a coma and killed his brother.

NAME: Christopher Dantes
AGE: 27
APPEARANCE:
COLOR: Very, very bright orange with a small bit of grey scattered about randomly.
BIO: Son of the Sergent, boyfriend of Elizabeth, and a friend of Goody's. Generally a nice guy. He's reasonably sure that his life is slowly turning into a horror movie with the recent knowledge of magic being a real thing, and he hopes to god it isn't Night of the Living Dead or Evil Dead.

[lovely corte]

BIO FOR WITCHES:

NAME: Sophia Joseph Ribeiro.
AGE: 23.
APPEARANCE: 25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m80xphtpxC1rceajxo1_1280.jpg
COLOR: Red.
SPECIAL TALENT: Manipulation of bones and calcium. This extends to being able to tear the femur clean from the body and break the skin or pulling individual teeth out. Also, she can levitate milk and fuck with lactating people's titties.
FAMILIAR:
BIO: A born native of Salem, Massachusetts to Colombian parents, Sophia spent every second year with her father in Colombia after their eventual divorce when she was nine. She is a fluent speaker of Spanish, some Portuguese, and follows her Colombian roots.

More importantly, she comes from a long line of witches, both on her father's side and her mother's side, albeit she is the first Red in between any of the families. Her father was a Blue and her mother was an Green. Since her birth, her parents, grandparents and extended family have been helping her master her devastating abilities.

In recent years, she has taken to the porn industry. There was no dramatic 'she needed it for medical school', it was just a career. Originally, she had been studying Foreign Language and Relations, still doing so albeit online, but had taken the career option for two reasons:

A) It was fun, and
B) She makes a lot of money.

She paves the way for the care of her grand parents in Colombia and her tuition. Despite this, she has an innate fear of being 'noticed' from her career, refuses to attend signings and is generally paranoid.

However, in contrast to whatever fantasy someone has concocted about Sophia, the girl is an extrovert, confident and approachable. She is intelligent and warm with a funny sense of humor and is constantly battling both her abilities and her 'soul', finding herself torn between profession and religion, her Roman Catholic heritage inherited from her religious family.

[Penny Royals]

NAME: Angela Bathory
AGE: 30
APPEARANCE:
COLOR: A deep, but neutral ruby – used to be a darker orange color.
SPECIAL TALENT: I call it 'Skin Control'. Get her angry, or determined to get you to talk, and, well, you're gonna start finding scars opening up and blood running down your arms without you even knowing what's happening. But if you need help, she can heal those same wounds with very little difficulty (of course, still leaving scars, but alas)
BIO: Angela grew up in Salem, a wonderful and inspired young witch who lost her red, originally, rather early – while many start losing it around the age of 10, she had precociously matured around the age of nine, and started magic shortly thereafter, coming from a great community of witches. Her best friend was, herself, a red – Sandra Brooks. Sandra had a great talent for magic, a witch with the ability to easily predict the future, but she didn’t work at it as much as Angela, and thus stayed hidden for many years. Angela, at least, was very prominent throughout America, and became good friends with many upper class witches like Harley Ansel and her family. It wasn’t until long after college, when Angela, a psychology major, was an interrogator for the police force and Sandra, by now an elementary school teacher, were in their mid twenties that disaster struck. It had seemed like any other normal week, or at least it should have been. Sandra had called up Angela on Sunday, scared out of her wits from a premonition she had had, and made Angela come and stay over. It wasn’t until Thursday that her premonition came true – figures, in dark clothes, broke into the house and easily overpowered the two women. Sandra was killed, and Angela’s powers suddenly were getting very violent and out of hand. She still isn’t sure on the details, but she knows that she got out somehow, and that her captors’ hands seemed to have lost all skin. She fled and revealed her personal hypothesis to the bosses in Salem's law enforcement, and was given her own secret project overseeing all information in Massachusetts about red witches.





NAME: James Bellamy
AGE: 29
APPEARANCE:

COLOR: Eminence (yes this apparently a color)
SPECIAL TALENT: James, in the past, had a talent for necromancy of various sorts. Now, he himself seems to be gone, just a vessel for Belphegor, who radiates a false sense of peace, calm, and rest.
FAMILIAR: He has... several, in a way. He has a group of mice, each with its own soul of personality, and with the usual life span of mice. He also owns a snake (that doesn't contain any souls, at least, not in the Familiar sense) named Camille who helps... 'cut down' their population.
BIO: James is the vessel for the demon Belphegor, having come into contact with the wandering spirit years ago while practicing darker magic (resurrection spells, for instance). He no longer seems to have a personal control of himself, Belphegor having taken over totally. He can, however, 'fake it' and seem like a normal person upon occasion to carry out certain needs.






NAME: April Marie Stark
AGE: 53
APPEARANCE:
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COLOR: A quite dark red
BIO: April was born in 1969, the first child of Florence and Aaron Stark (they divorced shortly after her birth, leaving the girl fatherless). She was a very creative girl, finding most joy in painting and music - which she wasn't that good at, as her younger sister June seemed to have sapped up all that talent. It was shortly after June's birth (and the birth of June's stillborn twin brother) that April started to become hyper-responsible and aggressive, her red aura deepening instead of lessening as she grew older. She took care of her younger sister as their mother was mixed up greatly with depression and multiple boyfriends, and generally just became the mother of the house. Albeit, she was still allowed to be a somewhat carefree young woman, and left alone for the most part she was able to move herself towards her dreams. But of course, around the age of twenty five, she realized that all her friends had gotten married, and had left her behind. Even with the strangely liberated period that was the 1980s, she herself still felt a plethora of pressure to do the same... especially as her long-term friend and short-term boyfriend Andrew proposed to her, in public. Several months later, the two were being hitched, and she gave birth to Mason shortly thereafter. It all seemed downhill from there. Her painting became a hobby, she took up a job in business and worked hard. She had two kids after Mason, albeit much later - eight and eleven years after him. Her life generally became a standstill of bland sameness - until she finally divorced her husband when she was 38. All of a sudden her own things got much happier, albeit she became MUCH more possessive over her kids, but she started dating, and painted much more, and things were going great... until that day in August.

[Fiery Firefly]

NAME: Saskia Dijkstra
AGE: 17
APPEARANCE: img005.lazygirls.info/people/china_anne_mcclain/china_anne_mcclain__instagram_bMIk4Bdh.sized.jpg
COLOR: A light red when unmedicated, a cyan color when medicated, and a pale purple when her medication is fading out.
SPECIAL TALENT: Communicating with the dead.
BIO: Saskia was born in Salem to Pacal Dijkstra and his wife Annemarie It was very obvious from a young age that Saskia had some… issues. Unable to pay attention to anything, often throwing temper tantrums for no reason. Most people said she’d simply grow out of it, but her father worried as Saskia continued to not have her aura change from red to another color. Finally at the age of 10, Saskia was diagnosed with ADHD, and was given medicine to alleviate it… and when she was put under the influence of the meds, her aura began changing once she reached puberty to blue. However, when the medicine wore off it would revert to red. Saskia never really had many friends, as the normal kids found her too weird and the weird ones found her too normal. Hell most of her close friends that aren't Willow are ghosts.

NAME: Pascal Dijkstra
AGE: 52
APPEARANCE: images.buddytv.com/btv_2_700041533_1_434_593_0_/peter-mensah-photos.jpg
COLOR: Navy blue
SPECIAL TALENT: Has the ability to read people's dreams and be able to interact with people within them. When he was first developing them, he needed direct contact with a sleeping person, but after years of finetuning his abilities, he can enter the mind of anyone he chooses no matter how far away, as long as they are asleep.
FAMILIAR: Jacco a calico cat.
BIO: Pascal had been born and raised in the Dutch colony Suriname, and migrated with his family to the United States after Suriname gained independence and the economic prospects downturned. Pascal's early life was quite the "American Dream" going from a poor immigrant to the man he is today, a professor of history at Salem State University, a position he took shortly after the birth of his daughter Saskia. When he's not teaching he's creeping in people's dreams he serves as a member of the Council, sometimes feelign like he's the only one with common sense.

[Alkonost Storm]

NAME: Elisabeth "Sisi" Wittelsbach
AGE: 25
APPEARANCE:  
COLOR: Crimson
SPECIAL TALENT: Bringing things to life. This can extend from turning statues of creatures and so on to real flesh and blood to pulling concepts out of a person's mind and making them real and breathing.
FAMILIAR: A black gull named Soferl.
BIO: A young woman recently moved out of Bavaria and into Salem, Elisabeth was born into an ancient Witch lineage. While she was talented at wielding magic and her powers certainly merited close attention, her older sister Helene was oftentimes the favored one, having been singled out as the candidate to marry into a distantly-related lineage. Unexpectedly, somehow it was Elisabeth who captured the attentions of Helene's intended, Franz, and the two married for love. For a time, all seemed well except problems in the home situation quickly soured the affair. Eventually, Elisabeth filed for divorce and when the affair was concluded, left Bavaria and moved to Salem, MA in the hopes of finding a fresh start.

[Alastor]

NAME: Willow Stark
AGE: 17
APPEARANCE: tektek.org/av/168645
COLOR: A deep shade of orange, with a very distinct tint of red.
SPECIAL TALENT: Seems to have an unconscious control of the cold.
FAMILIAR: She has a normal pet rabbit named 'Ryo-Ohki', does that count?
BIO: Willow is the (currently) youngest member of the Stark family, and only daughter of April and Andrew Stark. She was also the only one to manage avoid getting involved in that whole 'shooting' thing. Because of the ensuing events, she was placed in the care of the Jones family, with whom she's resided with since. She's almost completely unaware of the witches, only knowing that her Aunt June and Ryan's girlfriend are in the faith.

Willow is a very... strange girl. Occasionally snarky and often oddly hyperactive, she's extremely prone to panic attacks and fits of sudden depression, mostly due to issues with her brothers and her mother. She's a princess at heart, though... and has an obsession with the majority of Japanese culture. She likes to wear Lolita-style outfits, read and watch various magical girl and harem (and yaoi, but don't tell any adults what that means) anime, LOVES ponies (they're her security item), and spends most of her time hanging out with her friends or playing dating sim VNs.

This was all Penny's idea, I swear to god.

[lovely corte]

BIO FOR WITCHES:

NAME: Father Elias Ramsey.
AGE: Appears to be in his late forties, early fifties. Is actually 140 years old.
APPEARANCE: i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02553/john-hannah_2553376b.jpg
COLOR: Blue.
SPECIAL TALENT: Capable of unleashing a portal in our world. He is also, as a powerful Blue, able to protect himself over large distances with relative ease.
FAMILIAR: His right-hand, decaying and bleeding. A metal-cage imbued in holy symbols contains the 'portal', while also relieving his arm of the pain.
BIO: Born on a Sunday in March, 1873 in Washington, Elias Ramsey grew up alongside three elder brothers and a younger sister to two parents in a middle-class neighborhood. His father was a Major in the United States Cavalry, while his mother was a stay-at-home housewife.

Growing up, Elias's family, as implied by their naming conventions, were devout Roman Catholics. After completing highschool, working odd jobs and getting his degree in Religious Studies, Human Psychology and History, Elias became a Chaplain.

Following his father's footsteps, Elias joined the United States Army. He fought in the Spanish-American Civil War in his mid-twenties, gaining respect after he personally went into the middle of combat to carry stretchers, watch over the dead and tend to the wounded. He was chastised for doing this to enemy combatants.

A relatively late Witch, Elias only found out about it during his late forties or early fifties during World War Two while serving with E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, after a Jewish POW, being administered to by Elias, rambled on about his 'aura' after having been liberated by Easy Company.

Questioning the purpose of himself after this new found discovery, Elias became what he now refers to himself as 'a many of many cloths'. He traveled the world, gaining religious knowledge and spiritual guidance to understand and further study the meaning of his own religion.

Ultimately, he came around full-circle, ending up in some tropical island, swatting mosquitoes and treading Earth among tribes who hadn't seen the white man or been disturbed in their entire history. After, with some degree of difficulty, addressing himself as 'Holy Man', he was coerced into exorcising a young man, bedridden and weak, of his 'burden'.

Upon his arm was decaying flesh, wisps of steam searing flesh only to have it heal over, tear and scar once more with a full-circle of scarred flesh that looked burnt in. The exorcism took almost a full day, at which point, from outside, one could hear howls and screams that were inhuman in nature.

Emerging, Elias was nursed back to health over several weeks by the tribe 'for his troubles', torn between the relief of death and the few moments of enjoyment when he would pass out from the sheer pain. In his 'nightmares', Elias would be plagued with visions of visceral torture and awake with fresh scars further up his arms, indicating that the decay was spreading.

Through a later strict combination of prayer and study, Elias was able to suppress his 'burden' with a 'cage' of papers covered in prayer, lined with holy water inside of a cage of stone. He returned to America, living out the rest of his life a hermit in a cabin, expecting to die very soon.

Only to find that he never aged. Stuck in the body of a fifty-something year old man, Elias lived a reclusive life for the next hundred or so years, devoting his life to pacifism and prayer. He fasted often and would later construct a better 'cage' for his arm out of engraved, imbued light-weight metals and the combined prayers of several religions, along with their symbols and dogma.

The next most notable thing was his 'recruitment' into The Council. With the power of his arm, with their 'guidance' he would later tap into the true nature of his burden, a portal between dimensions, and all the connotations that he had to endure along with it.

[Fiery Firefly]

BIO FOR WITCHES:

NAME: Lydia Feng
AGE: 30
APPEARANCE: vanessamae.com/vmh/gallery_stc/v-mae-11a.jpg
COLOR: Purple
SPECIAL TALENT: Being an empath, able to read the emotions of others and to manipulate them, can turn a calm person angry and vice versa for example.
FAMILIAR: None
BIO: Lydia was born in San Francisco to Frederick Feng a 4th generation Chinese American and his wife Meilin a Chinese immigrant he had met in college. Frederick had the same powers as his daughter, but would often use them for his own advantage, which quite disgusted Lydia. She ultimately decided to take a different path with her powers, she ultimately received a law degree from Harvard, and surprised everyone by using that to simply become a public defender for civil cases, using her powers to eliminate emotional responses in the courtroom, and to make cases as fair and unbiased as possible. She ultimately gained the notice of the Council and before the Jones brothers joined, she had been the youngest and least experienced member.

[Adlai Stevenson]

NAME: Nathan Showalter
AGE: 54
APPEARANCE:

COLOR: Blue
SPECIAL TALENT: Persuasion, Suggestion, 'mind control'
FAMILIAR: N/A
BIO: Nathan was born into a powerful family; his father was a Wall Street power broker, who had come from a long line of bankers and financiers. Nathan was sickly as a child, unlike the rest of his siblings, who grew to be famed in whatever it was they did; athletes, generals, actors, you name it. The same physical requirements did not exist in the asthmatic, multiple sclerosis-ridden Nathan, much to his family's dismay. The ambition, however, was just as strong.
In his teenage years, Nathan began to dabble into rudimentary witchcraft and sorcery, his father's Japanese spiritual guru his defacto mentor in the dark arts. His interests were never in the physical magics, potions and augmentations and resurrections, but the magic of the mind. With this understanding, Nathan 'pushed' his way through an Ivy League university, and 'pushed' his way through law school, and 'pushed' his way to become an acclaimed defense attorney, typically for witch-related cases.
However, Nathan was never satisfied; the power had gotten to his head, and whatever good intentions he may have had at the start to defend his fellow magic-users had quickly become a jaded, tyrannical sense of zealous authority; now, he was judge, jury, and if he saw it fit, executioner.
Perhaps it was this borderline megalomaniacal charisma that attracted the mysterious Council to Nathan, and their promise of even more power if he were to use his own in their interests. With an offer he couldn't possibly refuse (which is to say, a stranglehold on his offshore accounts and a few questionable activities he couldn't bribe or 'push' his way out of), Nathan played his part as the Council's mouth (within the whole 'eyes and ears' equation, at least) and played it well, turning the odds in their favor, and more importantly, against the Reds.

Nathan played a part in the conviction and life sentencing of April Stark - he was her defense attorney, who had just so happened to have been appointed to her. He inadequately defended his client, and in fact used his powers to convince the jury of the longest sentence outside of death they could manage; not too hard, for a child-murderer.

[Penny Royals]

NAME: Sasha Zelenko
AGE: 53
APPEARANCE:
max-pix.com/data/media/6564/Vladimir_Mashkov_01_01.jpg
COLOR: A graying indigo.
SPECIAL TALENT: Sasha can create mental shields, impenetrable from any outside force or influence, that can protect him and others. He also can, with extreme difficulty, as he is still learning himself, make another person's powers overreact - something Juste has been working on along with him.
FAMILIAR: A gyrfalcon lovingly called Anastasia. She doesn't seem to talk at all, so it's debated on if she's a real familiar or just a favored pet.
BIO: Sasha was born in 1960, to a single woman (and a witch) in the Ukraine whose husband had disappeared to East Germany. He grew up rather quickly, becoming the man of the house, while learning his mother's brand of magic. Not much is known about him after he left highschool and joined the army, until, that is, he showed up around twelve years ago as a member of the council...


WIP





NAME: Lucille Evelyn Jones
AGE: 15
APPEARANCE:
tektek.org/av/478822
COLOR: Gray, with several purple streaks that are becoming more and more pronounced as time goes on.
SPECIAL TALENT: She can 'read' people very well, see their intentions even in groups, and can manipulate (through normal human means, insofar as anyone is concerned) their emotions and wills.
BIO: Lucy, or Lulu as she's sometimes called, is the youngest of her extended family. For a while, that was a very obvious thing- though she was quick as a whip and very sweet, she wasn't exactly very mature, and like Willow was very spoiled by her mother. Of course, that changed as she grew up... shortly after the shooting, with everyone in her family taken over by grief, she seemed to be the only one who understood that above all else they needed to go on. She took over as mother figure at that point - she made dinner and breakfast, cleaned the house, did laundry, did as much shopping as she could, and kept tabs on everyone to make sure they were all okay. Even though that didn't last very long, and her mother came back to normal and did everything she used to, Lucy still has been left being ultra-responsible and maternal to her siblings, especially Willow. She is extremely close with May's older sister Carrie, whom she met online even before the shooting - they've been friends for years, and this is their third visit with eachother. She looks up to Carrie, and considers her possibly more of a big sister figure than even Liz - she feels more protected than protective. She's currently in highschool, focusing on psychology and sociology, and practicing witchcraft on the side with Carrie.

[Alastor]

NAME: Grendel
AGE: The soul itself roughly dates back to the 12th century or before, with the current gem holding the soul being forged in the late 1930s.
APPEARANCE:
COLOR: Its aura is reflected by the gem itself- making it a sea blue with a tinge of black wavering through at random times.
SPECIAL TALENT: It, for all intents and purposes, is a seer. It also manifests its 'voice' by implanting thoughts directly into the heads of people. Witches who touch the damn thing directly tend to be made either physically sick to the degree they can't hold it, or get their minds probed by it.
FAMILIAR: It has a fondness of one of Juste's mouses, which is used to transport the gem
BIO: Nobody knows what the hell this thing is, exactly. The most likely idea is that it's pre-Crusades witch that managed to figure out how to transfer ones' soul into a tangible form- or some sort of fair folk that managed to escape humanity's extermination of the ghouls. What is known is that the Council managed to get it from the Germans during World War II, which had in turn uncovered it during one of Hitler's dabbling in magic repaired the almost completely destroyed gem.

Grendel's quite amused in its old age by messing with people. Its most recent manifest this is by speaking almost exclusively in Welsh and speaking in Middle English, even if it likely) knows more commonly spoken languages.

[Alastor]

NAME: Caroline Ansel
AGE: 25
APPEARANCE:
COLOR: Primarily, she's a slightly vivid orange with a noticeable purple undercurrent. Some blue and green is splotched about in the mess too.
SPECIAL TALENT: She has the talent of learning things inhumanly fast.
FAMILIAR: Teeny tiny little mouse named Pepper. Seems to be a recent one, too.
BIO: Caroline is the eldest child of the Ansel family, and the 'magical' one out of the twins. She's notably talented in magic, showing surprising amounts of talent from a young age- to the point she started schooling/practice in the craft around two years before the average witch. Because of these talents, as well as her social status, she's likely a shoe in for the next generation of Council members- if it weren't for the fact she's part of a growing sentiment against the group. Carrie is very kind, generous, caring, considerate - in a way, she seems something like a Disney Princess (which infuriates her sister, who considers her perfect).

[lovely corte]

BIO FOR WITCHES:

NAME: Saint Ogier 'the Ogre' Perrault, the Seventh Peer.

AGE: 57. Is actually roughly one thousand two hundred and thirty six years old.
APPEARANCE: static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120204215140/hieloyfuego/images/f/f7/Gregor_Clegane.JPG

The man is called 'The Ogre' for a reason. He stands at almost seven foot five, with a heavy layer of muscle that permitted him long ago to wear almost impenetrable armor made of pure wrought iron and carry a blade the size of two men.

Today, however, he is prone to wearing heavy boots, black jeans and a loose hoodie, since not a lot fits him. He still carries his sword, Curtana, around on his back when he can, however, he has become accustomed to life enough that he realizes that he sticks out enough without carrying a gigantic weapon.

COLOR: Bright Orange.

SPECIAL TALENT: Effectively cancels out the ability to cast Magic in the proximity around himself.

FAMILIAR: N/A.

BIO: The former Paladin of the Court of Charlemagne, Ogier was renowned for his physical prowess and martial skill. However, what was valued most by the Church at the time, was the extent of his abilities, due to the passive ability to warp the ability to cast magic around him.

Because of such a natural ability, Ogier was chosen to be imprisoned with 'Grendel', the mind-manipulating gem, due to the unshakable nature of his faith and loyalty, as well as his ability to resist the gem. He 'died' at the age of thirty-seven, canonized and remembered among the court of his men, as well as throughout history.

Unearthed during World War Two alongside the gem, Ogier was imprisoned within the same facility as Grendel, as well as left to rest with him due to the nature of his abilities. Although he'd never let them take it without a fight, they soon found that knocking him out was a sure way to get what they wanted.

Eventually, he was freed by Allied forces. However, Grendel was separated from Ogier and he later went his own way, living in France, Germany and Denmark for a time, educating himself, adjusting and figuring out his next steps. He was contacted by the Council, after word spread among the community of the man they called 'The Ogre.'

He is the 'enforcer' for the Council, due to his physical size. However, he doesn't seek a fight for the sake of it. In recent years, he has become a frequent abuser of morphine, due to complications from his gigantic stature that leaves him with constant headaches. At times, this can result in lethargy and apathy or frequent bouts of aggression, the latter is the one he is known for the most.

One condition on him being a part of the Council is that he dictates the security of Grendel personally and all concerns about the gem run through him.

[Fiery Firefly]

BIO FOR CIVILIANS:

NAME: Darius Avon
AGE: 19 (at death) would be 66 if still alive.
APPEARANCE: 25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwj2p6iVO1qg8dh3o1_500.jpg
COLOR: Uhh... none? He's kinda dead.
BIO: Born in 1947 in Salem, lived a fairly uneventful life until he was drafted into Vietnam where he was killed in action. His body was transported back to his hometown, and buried in the local cemetary, and he became one of many ghosts that wander the cemetary. A year prior to the RP, he met Saskia who had just had her powers manifested. Darius had had no idea that witches were a thing, but he wasn't gonna complain, after several decades her finally had someone alive to talk to. The two became close and Saskia even developed a crush on him...despite his deadness.



Read more: tsdcv3.proboards.com/thread/5661/magica-role-playing-game#ixzz2rCMaKbYG

[Fiery Firefly]

BIO FOR WITCHES:

NAME: Annemarie Dijkstra
AGE:42
APPEARANCE: www.shewired.com/sites/shewired.com/files/stories/Sherri-Saumx480.jpg Well thats her actual appearence when she's not using her powers...
SPECIAL TALENT: The ability to shapeshift into any human form, by changing her height, skin tone, facial features... pretty much anything that isn't her actual gender (and even then she can morph into a concinving enough guy as long as you don't look closer)
COLOR: Orange
FAMILIAR: None

BIO: Annemarie was born as Annemarie Fisher in Virgina, to a black mother and a white father. Annemarie's powers manifested as a teenager and she ultimately used them to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. She used her abilities to morph into what was exactly needed for the role, something that mundanes in the audience attributed to very well done make up. She found herself gaining main roles, and being critically acclaimed. One night, a witch by the name of Pascal Dijkstra saw a performance she was starring in and was immedietely smitten by her. He entered her dream that night to personally give her congragulations on a job well done, and Annemarie became interested enough in the man to pursue a friendship in real life. Depsite Pascal being ten years older then her, the two fell in love and married and had one child, Saskia. She gave up her career to become a mother, and when Saskia was 10, she decided to get a teaching liscense to teach drama at Salem High.

[lovely corte]

BIO FOR WITCHES:

NAME: Tobias 'Toby' Jones.
AGE: 27.
APPEARANCE: blogmagia.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/m-shadows-34.jpg
COLOR: Bright Orange.
SPECIAL TALENT: The capability to voluntarily distort the space around him, disrupting the ability to use magic. While experienced Witches can still use their Magic, looking at him or his general area is often painful and can leave the side-effects of nausea, diarrhea and migraines for several hours afterward.
FAMILIAR:
BIO: A re-formed skin head, Tobias was the byproduct of an abusive household and a racist upbringing. All together, he has had up to two years imprisonment in relations to hate crimes. He is currently undergoing therapy for anger management and alcohol abuse.

His change from hate came when he was jumped by counter protesters. Bloodied and beaten, it was only when a young African-American kid pulled him out of the crowd and to safety that Tobias realized the suffering he was causing, how the hate only fueled his cause.

Both him, and his following brother, later covered their racist tattoos and severed ties to their racist youth. Albeit their latest induction to the 'Council' is a similar approach, it isn't unjustified and, surprisingly, they're tempered in their approach.

They believe that the Reds need to be identified and exposed, albeit death and torture are a far flung extreme. They're more in support of education and tracking.

BIO FOR WITCHES:

NAME: Benjamin 'B.J' Jones.
AGE: 23.
APPEARANCE: 24.media.tumblr.com/bc0585dc0a79c2fea6298d2c3593595c/tumblr_mp2j7bBVAy1qiby7ho1_1280.jpg
COLOR: Light Blue.
SPECIAL TALENT: Contains the portal to another dimension encased around his hand.
FAMILIAR:
BIO: A born follower, Benjamin was the subject of much of the abuse from their alcoholic father. While Tobias was able to beat the shit out of his father by the age of fourteen, Benjamin just took the beatings without complaint.

Tobias took care of his brother since they were kids, feeding and cleaning him since he was a child, the two are inseparable. Where Tobias goes, Benjamin follows exactly in his foot steps.

While he doesn't agree with the Council's ideals or ways, he remains a member to support his brother. At heart, he is a kind, sweet boy who wouldn't hurt a fly, albeit is prone to abusing himself with drugs and alcohol. He suffers from PTSD from the hands of his father.