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astralprojection) wrote2025-08-10 02:06 pm
astralprojection) wrote2025-08-10 02:06 pm
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PLAYER INFO
Name: aster
Pronouns: she/they
Contact: celestiyall @ everywhere
Permissions: Here
CHARACTER INFO
Name: Astrid
Canon: OC
Canon Point: pre-adventures
Age: 25
Species: Elemagus
History:
STORY SPECIFIC:
-Millions of years ago, a planet known as Llamunides (think fantasy style world) was under attack by a powerful Entity, who was defeated by a band of Warriors who sealed him inside the planet using magic, bound by their souls.
-A few centuries later, the planet exploded because cultists tried to revived this Entity using a powerful magic they couldn't control, leaving only the chunk of planet left of the area where the Entity and the Warrior's souls were imprisoned, which had also been bolstered by the planet's life energy/afterlife in an attempt to heal it over the years, making it a huge magical bomb of sorts.
-Hundreds of years ago, a planet known as Rethea (think more technologically inclined world) had an asteroid (guess who) projected to crash into their planet within the next several years, causing a panic scramble to try to find a way to interfere with the path and do whatever they could to protect they planet.
-Nothing could successfully fend off the asteroid's path, so an evacuation was initiated, with the people of the planet spending the rest of their time creating underground bunker cities called Alternative Residential Compounds/ARCs (50 total were able to be made in time), linked together by teleportation technology, so they could wait out the destruction before returning to the surface and minimize the loss of life.
-Flashforward many many years of living underground later: the ARCs weren't intended to be used in a long term scenario, so they started sending out expedition parties to try to scout the surface, but none would ever return, leading to them to the belief that the surface wasn't safe, and thus resigning everyone to a life lived underground.
-Gradually, there began to be a shift in the world as they knew it: magic began to appear, and then, babies began to be born with horns/scales and/or secondary animal ears, indicating to them that something odd indeed had crashed into their planet.
-Horns and ears (known as Armatus/Armati and Elemagus/Elemagi respectively) had their own specific affinities: ears tended to manipulate a specific type of element, while horns had enhanced strength and other types of enhancements, and both had an ability to hear weird voices that they couldn't explain.
-Armed with generations with these new powers, new expedition teams were able to hit the surface, allowing the ARCs to finally expand and start creating settlements outside in a world that was now not only habitable, but green and thriving.
ASTRID SPECIFIC:
-The brightest thinkers in STEM were gathered to have an ARC all to their own, in order to preserve the knowledge of mankind for the future of the world -- this would become ARC-43, where they would document all they knew and experiment for the betterment of all the ARCs, and often travel to the other ARCs to assist those stationed there.
-Astrid's parents met because of an expedition to another ARC by ARC-43, her father being an expert in the field of agriculture, and ARC-15 having a bad crop problem they couldn't solve -- they fell in love hard and fast, despite the fact he was betrothed to another.
-When Astrid was born, it was with a primary set of animal ears and a tail, making their parents with great elation sure that they would amount to something amazing and great and revolutionary in their life and abilities, as having this many animal features wasn't common.
-Astrid's dad hoped that he could bring them and their mother back to ARC-43 with him to be a family instead of the family he was destined to have, but when he was finally called back, it would not be with his new family in tow, his family forcing him to shun his child as a bastard and go back to where in their eyes, he rightfully belonged.
-Their mother never got over this, and she would fall in love hard and fast over and over again, only to be left behind over and over again: this netted Astrid several more siblings, all of which Astrid ended up having to help raise due to their mother's incompetence or general inability to step up as a parent, with a chip on their shoulder at every man that attempted to try to insert themselves into their life as a father figure.
-As they grew, they developed an odd set of powers that the other Elemagi could only describe as being the element of "mind", due to the odd nature and subset that it fell under, and while they were very interested in what they could do (i'll talk about it more in abilities or else i'll die of word count), since they weren't very battle-forward, they were often left to contend with figuring it out all on their own while the elders focused their attention on others.
-Oh no i have one sentence left okay so after the death of one of Astrid's siblings while on an expedition with Astrid they were disowned by their mom and then sent to ARC-43 to be studied further by their departments because of their unique skillset, and they agreed because they had nowhere else to go in the world, but after being shunned by their dad when they got there, they have SOOOOO much anger towards the world still.
Personality:
✽ What is your character's main motivation? What drives them and keeps them going?
-I think they really want to prove they're worth something in this world most of anything! They feel incredibly unloved in life even if they wouldn't admit it, so they want to prove they're capable and useful and worth having around. Being rejected by both your mom and your dad kinda sucks!! Being only situationally useful kinda sucks!! They want to harness their abilities as strongly as they can to show that they're a contender for being a valuable asset to anywhere they are.
✽ What is their biggest regret? Why?
-Not being able to save their brother. He was an Elemagus with control over fire, and quite cocky with how powerful his abilities were. When he was old enough to start going on expeditions, he bit off a little more than he could chew with a monster attack and ended up setting a forest ablaze and died in the resulting chaos. Coincidentally, this is the event that led Astrid to learning they could talk to the dead.
✽ What is their worst fear? Their greatest comfort?
-They're very afraid of being abandoned again after being shunned twice. They at least can take comfort in the fact that since they had saved people's asses a few times with their prophetic dreams, people aren't gonna be throwing them in the trash any time soon.
✽ Top three strengths?
-Intelligent. Schooling in their original ARC was pretty basic, but once they got to ARC-43, they got some pretty intense schooling that they took to voraciously.
-Quick thinker. While they don't have a whole lot of martial prowess, they have the ability to think and act rather decisively, so they're proficient if you stick a sword in their hand, but they're not much of a leader type by choice, so it doesn't really translate into directing others necessarily.
-Curious. Very curious about the world, very curious about other people even if they aren't great at being super upbeat or anything, necessarily.
✽ Top three weaknesses?
-Resentful. Dual wielding mommy issues and daddy issues, hates how life has turned out and all the people in their life that have tried and failed to make a difference.
-Self worth issues. Why aren't they good enough :(
-Temperamental. A little bit of a short fuse.
✽ What was their last lie?
-Lots of "I don't even care", "I'm fine", etc.
Inventory:
-sword
-backpack
-first aid kit
Abilities:
while the other elemagi labelled astrid's powers as "mind" based for lack of knowledge, the more accurate term would be "spirit"
-communicate telepathically with others; rather than being a mind to mind thing, its more like spirit to spirit
-astral project into others dreams
-astral project into the afterlife
-prophetic dreams
-see/talk to the dead
future abilities they don't know they have rn:
-distinguish people's souls
-manifest spirits visibly to be talked to
-summon spirits to assist in battle
Sample: tdm :)
Name: aster
Pronouns: she/they
Contact: celestiyall @ everywhere
Permissions: Here
CHARACTER INFO
Name: Astrid
Canon: OC
Canon Point: pre-adventures
Age: 25
Species: Elemagus
History:
STORY SPECIFIC:
-Millions of years ago, a planet known as Llamunides (think fantasy style world) was under attack by a powerful Entity, who was defeated by a band of Warriors who sealed him inside the planet using magic, bound by their souls.
-A few centuries later, the planet exploded because cultists tried to revived this Entity using a powerful magic they couldn't control, leaving only the chunk of planet left of the area where the Entity and the Warrior's souls were imprisoned, which had also been bolstered by the planet's life energy/afterlife in an attempt to heal it over the years, making it a huge magical bomb of sorts.
-Hundreds of years ago, a planet known as Rethea (think more technologically inclined world) had an asteroid (guess who) projected to crash into their planet within the next several years, causing a panic scramble to try to find a way to interfere with the path and do whatever they could to protect they planet.
-Nothing could successfully fend off the asteroid's path, so an evacuation was initiated, with the people of the planet spending the rest of their time creating underground bunker cities called Alternative Residential Compounds/ARCs (50 total were able to be made in time), linked together by teleportation technology, so they could wait out the destruction before returning to the surface and minimize the loss of life.
-Flashforward many many years of living underground later: the ARCs weren't intended to be used in a long term scenario, so they started sending out expedition parties to try to scout the surface, but none would ever return, leading to them to the belief that the surface wasn't safe, and thus resigning everyone to a life lived underground.
-Gradually, there began to be a shift in the world as they knew it: magic began to appear, and then, babies began to be born with horns/scales and/or secondary animal ears, indicating to them that something odd indeed had crashed into their planet.
-Horns and ears (known as Armatus/Armati and Elemagus/Elemagi respectively) had their own specific affinities: ears tended to manipulate a specific type of element, while horns had enhanced strength and other types of enhancements, and both had an ability to hear weird voices that they couldn't explain.
-Armed with generations with these new powers, new expedition teams were able to hit the surface, allowing the ARCs to finally expand and start creating settlements outside in a world that was now not only habitable, but green and thriving.
ASTRID SPECIFIC:
-The brightest thinkers in STEM were gathered to have an ARC all to their own, in order to preserve the knowledge of mankind for the future of the world -- this would become ARC-43, where they would document all they knew and experiment for the betterment of all the ARCs, and often travel to the other ARCs to assist those stationed there.
-Astrid's parents met because of an expedition to another ARC by ARC-43, her father being an expert in the field of agriculture, and ARC-15 having a bad crop problem they couldn't solve -- they fell in love hard and fast, despite the fact he was betrothed to another.
-When Astrid was born, it was with a primary set of animal ears and a tail, making their parents with great elation sure that they would amount to something amazing and great and revolutionary in their life and abilities, as having this many animal features wasn't common.
-Astrid's dad hoped that he could bring them and their mother back to ARC-43 with him to be a family instead of the family he was destined to have, but when he was finally called back, it would not be with his new family in tow, his family forcing him to shun his child as a bastard and go back to where in their eyes, he rightfully belonged.
-Their mother never got over this, and she would fall in love hard and fast over and over again, only to be left behind over and over again: this netted Astrid several more siblings, all of which Astrid ended up having to help raise due to their mother's incompetence or general inability to step up as a parent, with a chip on their shoulder at every man that attempted to try to insert themselves into their life as a father figure.
-As they grew, they developed an odd set of powers that the other Elemagi could only describe as being the element of "mind", due to the odd nature and subset that it fell under, and while they were very interested in what they could do (i'll talk about it more in abilities or else i'll die of word count), since they weren't very battle-forward, they were often left to contend with figuring it out all on their own while the elders focused their attention on others.
-Oh no i have one sentence left okay so after the death of one of Astrid's siblings while on an expedition with Astrid they were disowned by their mom and then sent to ARC-43 to be studied further by their departments because of their unique skillset, and they agreed because they had nowhere else to go in the world, but after being shunned by their dad when they got there, they have SOOOOO much anger towards the world still.
Personality:
✽ What is your character's main motivation? What drives them and keeps them going?
-I think they really want to prove they're worth something in this world most of anything! They feel incredibly unloved in life even if they wouldn't admit it, so they want to prove they're capable and useful and worth having around. Being rejected by both your mom and your dad kinda sucks!! Being only situationally useful kinda sucks!! They want to harness their abilities as strongly as they can to show that they're a contender for being a valuable asset to anywhere they are.
✽ What is their biggest regret? Why?
-Not being able to save their brother. He was an Elemagus with control over fire, and quite cocky with how powerful his abilities were. When he was old enough to start going on expeditions, he bit off a little more than he could chew with a monster attack and ended up setting a forest ablaze and died in the resulting chaos. Coincidentally, this is the event that led Astrid to learning they could talk to the dead.
✽ What is their worst fear? Their greatest comfort?
-They're very afraid of being abandoned again after being shunned twice. They at least can take comfort in the fact that since they had saved people's asses a few times with their prophetic dreams, people aren't gonna be throwing them in the trash any time soon.
✽ Top three strengths?
-Intelligent. Schooling in their original ARC was pretty basic, but once they got to ARC-43, they got some pretty intense schooling that they took to voraciously.
-Quick thinker. While they don't have a whole lot of martial prowess, they have the ability to think and act rather decisively, so they're proficient if you stick a sword in their hand, but they're not much of a leader type by choice, so it doesn't really translate into directing others necessarily.
-Curious. Very curious about the world, very curious about other people even if they aren't great at being super upbeat or anything, necessarily.
✽ Top three weaknesses?
-Resentful. Dual wielding mommy issues and daddy issues, hates how life has turned out and all the people in their life that have tried and failed to make a difference.
-Self worth issues. Why aren't they good enough :(
-Temperamental. A little bit of a short fuse.
✽ What was their last lie?
-Lots of "I don't even care", "I'm fine", etc.
Inventory:
-sword
-backpack
-first aid kit
Abilities:
while the other elemagi labelled astrid's powers as "mind" based for lack of knowledge, the more accurate term would be "spirit"
-communicate telepathically with others; rather than being a mind to mind thing, its more like spirit to spirit
-astral project into others dreams
-astral project into the afterlife
-prophetic dreams
-see/talk to the dead
future abilities they don't know they have rn:
-distinguish people's souls
-manifest spirits visibly to be talked to
-summon spirits to assist in battle
Sample: tdm :)