andrea vasco

Name: Andrea Vasco, or Andy.


Age: 24.

Birthday: 7th of July.

Gender: Female

Species: Undead / Bio-Engineered, both on a technicality (an artificial life created from a lich's phylactery)

Category: Student

Class: College

Grade: Taking a Masters degree

College Major: Economics

Appearance Description:
- Brown eyes, behind wide, round glasses.
-Rounded face, with a bit of chin.
- Light skin, with a small hint of reddishness.
-Practical in clothing choice. Wears comfortable hoodies, plain shirts, and shorts or loose pants. Would wear pajamas to class if allowed.
-Hazel hair, wavy and long enough to reach to the shoulders. Slightly longer at the back. Has bangs that cover a part of the forehead above the left eyebrow.
-Average build, with slightly short arms.
-Stands roughly 5 feet flat.
-Weight changes depending on recently consumed magic. Almost ethereally light on normal days.


Personality Description: Andrea is very self-driven. Her interests will always take first priority - if she helps out people, it is always because she wants to. As such, she is incredibly stubborn at times.
Her confidence and stubbornness come off as arrogance, even if that was never her intention. She simply knows her capabilities as fact.
Despite being so self-centered however, Andrea seeks a lot of social interaction. She is extroverted and energetic, and does not have a concept of shame. She also does not have a sense of pride. Andrea does not mind being on the less positive side of the spotlight, and will shoulder blame and guilt at the drop of a hat if it does not contradict her interests.
She does not allow herself to be driven purely by emotion, and will always find some way to calm down before decisions. Nor does she hold grudges - for her, the past is past, and bygones are always bygones.
Puzzles are a great thing to her. To Andrea, the solving of a problem and the process of putting two and two together are highly enjoyable experiences.

Species Abilities:
Technically Dead - As a phylactery, Andrea is highly resistant to necrosis, decay, and nonmagical poisons. However, anti-magic effects are harmful to her, ranging from minor nausea to bleeding, both external and internal.

Powers:
Death, Defied - The powers that sealed the old lich Mynh'guxi noted that it had a horrible penchant for death, decay, and devastation, and so decided that they would ensure its prison could only ever do the opposite, and never to its own direct benefit. Andrea is capable of healing wounds, injuries and diseases without much effort - she can over the course of no more than a day close and heal any physical wound so long as the creature she is healing lives. Diseases are much more complicated and require up to weeks of regular healing sessions, much like any competent magical doctor would normally ask.

Andrea however cannot heal herself using her own abilities. She also resists any magical healing of any form. She can only heal through natural regeneration, or through nonmagical, mundane means.

Mynh'guxi's Legacy - A side effect of having once been a container for a magical being is that even in another form, the tendencies of a container to contain things persists. Andrea is capable of absorbing magic and digesting it as a peculiar form of nourishment and nullifying it in the process. She does this by way of ritual, which takes ten minutes at the very least (longer if the magic in question is more powerful) and takes time to digest, during which she cannot ingest more magic. As there is no universal measurement system for magical power, she uses her past experiences and her own capabilities as a point of reference - the most she can absorb is magic weaker than her own, and the process takes approximately two hours.

As part of her studies, she is attempting to create such a measurement system.

Biography: A lich named Mynh'guxi once roamed freely, a blight upon the world. So detestable was he that even his only servant loathed him, and betrayed him by one night stealing the phylactery that kept him alive.

The phylactery was given to a forgotten council of magi, who tried to destroy it but could not due to the sheer power of the lich. Mynh'guxi learned of this treachery and sought to reclaim his treasure - a quest the magi could not stop by force. In desperation, they instead turned his phylactery into a trap and kept the lich within itself.

Knowing he would break free at some point, the magi drew upon all their power to alter him while he was defenseless, creating a hollow shell that could only draw upon healing magic, as they could not fully erase his arcane power.

This shell would not remain hollow for long. Eventually, it formed into a new soul and broke free of its prison.

Now tasting existence for the first time, the soul wished for more. It found its chance in a stillborn child - the unfortunate child died almost as soon as she was born, and sensing a once in a lifetime chance, the soul took over, granting the child and itself life. Her parents felt something was strange, but none would reject a miracle, especially one so joyful,

Thus was the story Andrea found out from a scholar. Having grown up curious of her origins after discovering her magical abilities as a child, she sought out any source of information, finding it in the form of a wizened old seer.

Upon learning her fantastic past, Andrea made a decision - that past was no longer relevant and would never be relevant from that point onward. After all, she only asked out of curiosity; it could not change her relationship with her family.

Eventually, she moved out of the house after finding out about a certain magical academy. There she chose to study economics, intrigued by her own capabilities, the world of the fantastical, and how the supernatural would affect the flow of capital when abilities such as conjuration and replication among many others exist.

Additional Information: Andrea spends a few hours every week streaming on the Internet under her online handle The Vasco (the show itself is labeled "Channel Vasco"), mostly of her playing various card games and strategy games semi-competitively.