Name: Azalea
Age: 15
Birthday: July 17th
Gender: Female
Species: Unknown
Category: Student
Class: High School
Grade: Remedial
(Art gifted by the wonderful vongulli )
Appearance Description: On first glance, Azalea would likely be assumed to be ghost, demon, or nightmare of some sort, though in reality she's none of those things. She's short at 4'4", and is somewhat on the chubby/fluffy side in terms of build. Azalea's body is entirely pitch black, including her long and braided "hair", although she does have some blueish freckles interrupting this around her upper torso and her face. She has three large, striking blue eyes, two where they would normally be and a third vertically facing on her forehead, and she has no nose. Though she does have claws, they're just as soft as the rest of her. Azalea favors whatever clothes are comfortable, and sticks to bright colors and pastels most of the time.
Personality Description: Perhaps her most defining outward trait is an extreme sense of curiosity and fascination with each and every new thing. She doesn't hesitate at all to approach people or things to observe them up close as long as they don't seem to be hostile, often showing herself to be very excitable while doing so. In general, she seems to be an exceptionally positive and affectionate person, and craves physical attention quite obviously. She's rather cuddly and can occasionally impede on peoples' personal space without realizing it, but will gladly back off if she's suggested to.
Active Abilities: Gloom - Azalea is able to meld with the shadows cast by any living or nonliving thing almost instantaneously. She can move at a normal pace while travelling between nonliving shadows, and squeeze into even the tiniest of places. If the shadow belongs to a living creature, however, she's able to "lock on", for lack of a better term, in a sense haunting their shadow and following with it indefinitely. While inside another living creature's shadow, she's able to manipulate its appearance, growing, shrinking, or otherwise shaping it however she pleases. Whether she's inside a living or nonliving shadow, intense, bright light will force her to return to her normal form, essentially evicting her from it. She's able to stay melded for a maximum of four hours before needing to shift back, and in order to meld she needs to be within five feet of a particular shadow.
Passive Abilities: Duskfolk - Azalea is much lighter than she looks despite her appearance, only weighing about twenty pounds total. Her body is extremely soft and squishy (great for cuddling), and due to how much give it has she's somewhat resistant to physical kinetic damage. This resistance is nothing too major, simply redistributing impacts (punching a water bed vs punching a normal mattress). Azalea is able to float/fly whenever she wants, able to comfortably reach a top flight speed of sixty miles per hour, though she's more susceptible to wind than many other flying creatures.
Tactile Knowledge - By touching something with both hands, Azalea is able to learn both its name, and if living what they're scared of. She has to maintain contact for ten seconds, but never forgets names or fears learned this way.
Verbal Mimicry - Azalea doesn't actually have a voice of her own. Instead, she's able to perfectly copy the voice/general sounds of any person or animal, storing it indefinitely just like her knowledge ability.
Weaknesses: Spooky Appetite - Even though Azalea can eat normal food, and she does need to do this like anyone else, she also needs to feed on other creatures' fear to sustain herself. The fear of sapient creatures is much more effective, but any living thing will work to feed her. She passively absorbs residual fear simply by being in its general vicinity, and needs to feed at least once every two days at a bare minimum.
Common Magical Items: N/A
Biography: The first thing Azalea remembers with any sort of clarity is feeding on a crow, both its meat and its fear. She remembers her first taste of that fear almost as clearly as if it were yesterday, as well as the surroundings that she soon took in. Azalea had found herself in some sort of rundown shack, with not another sapient soul to be found. Magical reagents and equipment of all kind littered the place, a large majority of which she soon familiarized herself with by touch. She was quite young then, but someone had surely been there before to take care of her. The longer she waited, the clearer it became that whoever it had been wasn't going to come back.
The loneliness was a little hard to deal with, at least at first. It didn't take her all too long to begin exploring the foreboding woods around her little cabin bit by bit as the days went on, evading danger easily enough when it did crop up. Slowly but surely, she learned the names of the plants that shared her home, and many of the animals as well. She regretted having to deceive them with the voices of their own kind, especially since she often had to do so to eat them. Thankfully, along with its otherwise rather meager furnishings, there were a good number of books of all variety of reading levels left in her shack. Evidently, whoever had left her there, or perhaps more likely lost themselves in the forest, had intended to teach her themselves.
As she got older, Azalea was doing rather well for herself developmentally, all things considered. She had read every book in the cabin several times over, given there wasn't much else to occupy herself with there (she was always too scared to mess with any of the magical supplies). She was on friendly terms with a good amount of the local fauna, having primarily swapped her diet to fruit and the produced by predators chasing prey rather than her needing to haunt them herself. Azalea knew the land like the back of her hand, and though she was comfortable, she knew it was time to branch out. Drifting steadily out from the heart of the Forbidden Forest, Azalea finally found herself at the edge of an unfamiliar city, bustling with activity and all kinds of new things. Giddy with excitement, Azalea began to explore at her leisure, eager to meet lots of people and make her very first real friends.
Resources: Normal school stipend.
Additional Information:
Age: 15
Birthday: July 17th
Gender: Female
Species: Unknown
Category: Student
Class: High School
Grade: Remedial
(Art gifted by the wonderful vongulli )
Appearance Description: On first glance, Azalea would likely be assumed to be ghost, demon, or nightmare of some sort, though in reality she's none of those things. She's short at 4'4", and is somewhat on the chubby/fluffy side in terms of build. Azalea's body is entirely pitch black, including her long and braided "hair", although she does have some blueish freckles interrupting this around her upper torso and her face. She has three large, striking blue eyes, two where they would normally be and a third vertically facing on her forehead, and she has no nose. Though she does have claws, they're just as soft as the rest of her. Azalea favors whatever clothes are comfortable, and sticks to bright colors and pastels most of the time.
Personality Description: Perhaps her most defining outward trait is an extreme sense of curiosity and fascination with each and every new thing. She doesn't hesitate at all to approach people or things to observe them up close as long as they don't seem to be hostile, often showing herself to be very excitable while doing so. In general, she seems to be an exceptionally positive and affectionate person, and craves physical attention quite obviously. She's rather cuddly and can occasionally impede on peoples' personal space without realizing it, but will gladly back off if she's suggested to.
Active Abilities: Gloom - Azalea is able to meld with the shadows cast by any living or nonliving thing almost instantaneously. She can move at a normal pace while travelling between nonliving shadows, and squeeze into even the tiniest of places. If the shadow belongs to a living creature, however, she's able to "lock on", for lack of a better term, in a sense haunting their shadow and following with it indefinitely. While inside another living creature's shadow, she's able to manipulate its appearance, growing, shrinking, or otherwise shaping it however she pleases. Whether she's inside a living or nonliving shadow, intense, bright light will force her to return to her normal form, essentially evicting her from it. She's able to stay melded for a maximum of four hours before needing to shift back, and in order to meld she needs to be within five feet of a particular shadow.
Passive Abilities: Duskfolk - Azalea is much lighter than she looks despite her appearance, only weighing about twenty pounds total. Her body is extremely soft and squishy (great for cuddling), and due to how much give it has she's somewhat resistant to physical kinetic damage. This resistance is nothing too major, simply redistributing impacts (punching a water bed vs punching a normal mattress). Azalea is able to float/fly whenever she wants, able to comfortably reach a top flight speed of sixty miles per hour, though she's more susceptible to wind than many other flying creatures.
Tactile Knowledge - By touching something with both hands, Azalea is able to learn both its name, and if living what they're scared of. She has to maintain contact for ten seconds, but never forgets names or fears learned this way.
Verbal Mimicry - Azalea doesn't actually have a voice of her own. Instead, she's able to perfectly copy the voice/general sounds of any person or animal, storing it indefinitely just like her knowledge ability.
Weaknesses: Spooky Appetite - Even though Azalea can eat normal food, and she does need to do this like anyone else, she also needs to feed on other creatures' fear to sustain herself. The fear of sapient creatures is much more effective, but any living thing will work to feed her. She passively absorbs residual fear simply by being in its general vicinity, and needs to feed at least once every two days at a bare minimum.
Common Magical Items: N/A
Biography: The first thing Azalea remembers with any sort of clarity is feeding on a crow, both its meat and its fear. She remembers her first taste of that fear almost as clearly as if it were yesterday, as well as the surroundings that she soon took in. Azalea had found herself in some sort of rundown shack, with not another sapient soul to be found. Magical reagents and equipment of all kind littered the place, a large majority of which she soon familiarized herself with by touch. She was quite young then, but someone had surely been there before to take care of her. The longer she waited, the clearer it became that whoever it had been wasn't going to come back.
The loneliness was a little hard to deal with, at least at first. It didn't take her all too long to begin exploring the foreboding woods around her little cabin bit by bit as the days went on, evading danger easily enough when it did crop up. Slowly but surely, she learned the names of the plants that shared her home, and many of the animals as well. She regretted having to deceive them with the voices of their own kind, especially since she often had to do so to eat them. Thankfully, along with its otherwise rather meager furnishings, there were a good number of books of all variety of reading levels left in her shack. Evidently, whoever had left her there, or perhaps more likely lost themselves in the forest, had intended to teach her themselves.
As she got older, Azalea was doing rather well for herself developmentally, all things considered. She had read every book in the cabin several times over, given there wasn't much else to occupy herself with there (she was always too scared to mess with any of the magical supplies). She was on friendly terms with a good amount of the local fauna, having primarily swapped her diet to fruit and the produced by predators chasing prey rather than her needing to haunt them herself. Azalea knew the land like the back of her hand, and though she was comfortable, she knew it was time to branch out. Drifting steadily out from the heart of the Forbidden Forest, Azalea finally found herself at the edge of an unfamiliar city, bustling with activity and all kinds of new things. Giddy with excitement, Azalea began to explore at her leisure, eager to meet lots of people and make her very first real friends.
Resources: Normal school stipend.
Additional Information:
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