Name: Aneiren "Nye" Vaughan
Age: 19
Birthday: 21 October
Gender: Male
Category: Student
Class: College
Grade: Freshman
College Major: Humanities
Appearance Description: Nye is about 190cm tall, with a gaunt face, thin limbs, messy short reddish brown hair, a stubbly face, and several regrettable cheap looking tattoos on his arms, chest, and calves. On his back, there is, by contrast, an extremely well shaded full color back tattoo of figures dancing around a petroglyph, and writing in ancient runes.
Personality Description: Nye doesn't think too hard about things. He's impulsive, but not quick to anger, and his spur-of-the-moment decisions range from good-natured to mischievous. His intelligence is of a street-smart sort; he tends to be quick about common-sense solutions and somewhat slow about rote memorization tasks and scholarly procedure. He is both generous and thrifty, and often prefers to trade for things rather than buy them. He finds humor in intentionally misinterpreting people's social cues, and in making banal and obvious jokes, much to everyone's embarrassment. Nye is fairly normal when sober but becomes aggressively gregarious when drunk, which happens often.
Powers: Thanks to Nye's drinking habit and questionable taste in body art, he has come into the possession of a symbol of Druidic magi, written on his very skin. The sigils of the ancient petroglyphs, copied onto his back by a less-than-legal tattoo artist, have gifted him with the powers of Sacred Geometry. This is a most unfortunate power, however, as Nye is terrible at anything more than basic math. It is only ever by happenstance that he discovers a successful invocation, and more often than not, it happens by pure accident.
However, should he (with or without assistance) discover the proper arrangement of artifacts and persons, Nye gains the ability to amplify manifestations of magic. Unfortunately, Nye lacks the experience or mathematical knowledge to understand how using himself as a spell focus will actually affect a spell, and potential outcomes range from doubling its power, to negating it, to gaining the reverse effect altogether.
Nye has figured out but one use for this ability himself — the ability to glamer objects. While he cannot outright transform one thing into another, he is excellent at making a bronze coin appear gold, and an old shirt look new, or vice versa. Were Nye clever enough or malicious enough to make good use of this, he could be a very rich man. As it stands, he's been wearing the same leather jacket for about ten years.
Biography: Nye was born to a single mother in Swansea, Wales, and went to private schools for most of his life. Nye had several friends, who came and went, and paid good attention in music and history class, but not much else. When his mother passed, Nye took it very hard, barely finished school, and took up drinking heavily. Nye didn't have the discipline to hold down a regular job, but fortunately he had just enough musical talent to make a bare minimum living touring with his band, until his luck ran out. One night, while he was sleeping in the back of his van, his bassist fell asleep at the wheel. The whole vehicle and all the equipment inside were destroyed in fire, and the bandmates barely made it out alive.
The burns from the accident only intensified Nye's desire to finish his canvas of tattoos. After his discharge from the hospital, the nearest tattoo artist he could scrape up in his budget was an American expatriate with a deep appreciation for Neolithic culture and several rubbings from sites of Druidic ruins. But after Nye's latest tattoo was finished, for reasons he doesn't entirely understand, his luck began to improve. His clothes fit better, his food tasted better, and anyone he made friends with had a better day while he was around.
The best luck of all came when one day, he got a letter from across the sea...
General -
Birth Place / Hometown: Swansea, Wales, UK
Occupation: Student/Guitarist
Race/Species: Human (Welsh)
Personality -
Likes: punk music, street art, tattoos, cheap beer
Dislikes: homework, responsibility
Weaknesses: poor discipline, unpredictable powers
Strengths: unassuming appearance, explosive bursts of magical adeptness
Fears: driving too fast, commitment, being boring
Habits/Hobbies: trading for things
Skills / Talents: playing guitar, sketching, spraypainting
Powers -
Discovered when: 18 years old
Discovered how: Idle accident
How/Why they have it: Tattoos of sacred symbols
History -
Father: unknown
Mother: Sera Vaughan, seamstress (deceased)
Sibling: none
Age: 19
Birthday: 21 October
Gender: Male
Category: Student
Class: College
Grade: Freshman
College Major: Humanities
Appearance Description: Nye is about 190cm tall, with a gaunt face, thin limbs, messy short reddish brown hair, a stubbly face, and several regrettable cheap looking tattoos on his arms, chest, and calves. On his back, there is, by contrast, an extremely well shaded full color back tattoo of figures dancing around a petroglyph, and writing in ancient runes.
Personality Description: Nye doesn't think too hard about things. He's impulsive, but not quick to anger, and his spur-of-the-moment decisions range from good-natured to mischievous. His intelligence is of a street-smart sort; he tends to be quick about common-sense solutions and somewhat slow about rote memorization tasks and scholarly procedure. He is both generous and thrifty, and often prefers to trade for things rather than buy them. He finds humor in intentionally misinterpreting people's social cues, and in making banal and obvious jokes, much to everyone's embarrassment. Nye is fairly normal when sober but becomes aggressively gregarious when drunk, which happens often.
Powers: Thanks to Nye's drinking habit and questionable taste in body art, he has come into the possession of a symbol of Druidic magi, written on his very skin. The sigils of the ancient petroglyphs, copied onto his back by a less-than-legal tattoo artist, have gifted him with the powers of Sacred Geometry. This is a most unfortunate power, however, as Nye is terrible at anything more than basic math. It is only ever by happenstance that he discovers a successful invocation, and more often than not, it happens by pure accident.
However, should he (with or without assistance) discover the proper arrangement of artifacts and persons, Nye gains the ability to amplify manifestations of magic. Unfortunately, Nye lacks the experience or mathematical knowledge to understand how using himself as a spell focus will actually affect a spell, and potential outcomes range from doubling its power, to negating it, to gaining the reverse effect altogether.
Nye has figured out but one use for this ability himself — the ability to glamer objects. While he cannot outright transform one thing into another, he is excellent at making a bronze coin appear gold, and an old shirt look new, or vice versa. Were Nye clever enough or malicious enough to make good use of this, he could be a very rich man. As it stands, he's been wearing the same leather jacket for about ten years.
Biography: Nye was born to a single mother in Swansea, Wales, and went to private schools for most of his life. Nye had several friends, who came and went, and paid good attention in music and history class, but not much else. When his mother passed, Nye took it very hard, barely finished school, and took up drinking heavily. Nye didn't have the discipline to hold down a regular job, but fortunately he had just enough musical talent to make a bare minimum living touring with his band, until his luck ran out. One night, while he was sleeping in the back of his van, his bassist fell asleep at the wheel. The whole vehicle and all the equipment inside were destroyed in fire, and the bandmates barely made it out alive.
The burns from the accident only intensified Nye's desire to finish his canvas of tattoos. After his discharge from the hospital, the nearest tattoo artist he could scrape up in his budget was an American expatriate with a deep appreciation for Neolithic culture and several rubbings from sites of Druidic ruins. But after Nye's latest tattoo was finished, for reasons he doesn't entirely understand, his luck began to improve. His clothes fit better, his food tasted better, and anyone he made friends with had a better day while he was around.
The best luck of all came when one day, he got a letter from across the sea...
General -
Birth Place / Hometown: Swansea, Wales, UK
Occupation: Student/Guitarist
Race/Species: Human (Welsh)
Personality -
Likes: punk music, street art, tattoos, cheap beer
Dislikes: homework, responsibility
Weaknesses: poor discipline, unpredictable powers
Strengths: unassuming appearance, explosive bursts of magical adeptness
Fears: driving too fast, commitment, being boring
Habits/Hobbies: trading for things
Skills / Talents: playing guitar, sketching, spraypainting
Powers -
Discovered when: 18 years old
Discovered how: Idle accident
How/Why they have it: Tattoos of sacred symbols
History -
Father: unknown
Mother: Sera Vaughan, seamstress (deceased)
Sibling
