Lyria Cathlis

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Name: Lyria Cathlis
Age: 233 (Looks 18)
Birthday: November 3rd
Gender: Female
Species: Vampire
Class: High School
Grade: Senior

Appearance Description (Shared body with Trill Cathlis): Lyria and Trill stand at exactly 5'0" with pale skin due to their vampirism and 3 tattoos decorating their shared body; an abstract purple ink tattoo on their upper back, a yin yang symbol on their left ring finger, and a bat symbol on the inside of their right wrist, they also have a beauty mark under their right eye.

When Lyria has control of the body, she has white hair that fades into black the closer it gets to the end accompanied with golden eyes flecked with red around the pupil.

During the day, Lyria and Trill are often seen with jeans and their favorite black hooded trench coat to cover their skin from the sun with something long sleeved underneath. At night they can wear whatever they want without worry of the sun and take full advantage of this time, usually dressing in some stylish outfit they saw on a mannequin in a clothing store. They have a hard time finding things that match on their own; they have no fashion sense. They also bring an umbrella with them everywhere they go, normally a small one hooked onto their jeans.


Personality Description: Lyria is an extremely kind, sweet, and cheerful girl who hates to see any conflicts between friends. She can be soft spoken sometimes and is somewhat innocent as well as very loving. She has a great sense of humor, even finding things that wouldn't usually be that funny pretty funny, she also adores puns of any kind. The only jokes she doesn't get are ones with dark humor or those that are inappropriate.

She can be seen as slightly naive as Trill tries to keep her away from any unpleasant circumstances. Lyria is very considerate and selfless, and if something happens that would normally aggravate an average person, she commonly just smiles and moves on. Lyria can be pretty emotional at times and gets attached to things very easily. She does not like to be involved in any violence with other intelligent species' (She has no problem with killing animals for necessity). She tries not to get on anyone's bad side and does her best to quell any tension in the air if she can.

Due to the incidents in her childhood, Lyria also has an uncommonly used serious side to her personality. It mostly only surfaces when Trill is in any sort of danger, during which Lyria becomes very protective and determined. Although she is naturally very kind, Lyria is known to bottle up her negative emotions, this causes her to have emotional outbursts every once in a while.


Powers:
Mirror Hopping (2 Branches):
Lyria can enter a Mirror World through any mirror that she can fit through. Strangely, the Mirror World has no other people in it aside from her; however, it does have animals. She can exit through any mirror available, it doesn't have to be the one she entered from. Inside the mirror, she and Trill each have their own separate bodies and can still use their magic. They are unable to bring any other living things inside the Mirror World besides themselves, including plants and animals.

- She can put inanimate things inside of the Mirror World, but she cannot take anything originating in the world out to make duplicates.

- She can freeze and unfreeze a certain time frame and/or a certain place in a mirror. Coupled with the first branch, she can use handheld mirrors as a portable storage unit.


Light Magic (3 Branches): Lyria has a natural affinity to light magic. Her Light Magic is primarily used to assist, heal or otherwise support those who it is cast upon, but often herself as well. Having no effective offensive capabilities, it is purely a force of protection and salvation. Light Magic is almost entirely performed by hand gestures and hands must be used at all times to cast Light Magic. Light Magic is in most cases an active casting, meaning the mage must constantly cast the spell for it to continue being effective until completion. Only one branch can be used at a time.

- Healing: Healing Light allows the caster to mend certain wounds in an effective and quick way, though not without some drawbacks. This branch is practical for closing cuts and mending bruises, not re-attaching limbs or repairing blindness. Broken bone procedures are further complicated as they cannot be mended in a single session, and requires several hour long sessions. It is important to understand that Light Magic does not reverse time or magically make wounds disappear. It rapidly accelerates natural healing to a matter of seconds or minutes. Finally, it should be understood that despite the faster recovery rate, Light Magic is inherently a painful experience for the patient. Light Magic is often described as feeling like a fire-hot iron is poked around in a wound, sealing it shut purely by searing heat. It feels like the affected area is literally on fire, making the experience short, but painful. Self-healing with Healing Light is almost impossible. The pain caused will distract the mage so much they can no longer focus, which causes the magic to become unpredictable and unfocused.

Lyria's Level: 1/5 - Lyria can only heal small cuts and bruises.

- Cleansing: Cleansing Light uses the magic from Healing Light to cleanse diseases and other infections. Cleansing Light requires the mage to be in direct contact with the blood of the patient, meaning in many cases the mage will have to tap open a vein and push their fingers as close as possible to the opening, both preventing blood from flowing out, but also allowing connection to the bloodstream. The mage will then “flood” the blood circulation with Healing Light Magic through their fingers. Most blood-borne diseases can be cured through several sessions of this over the span of a few weeks. Additionally, certain disease side-effects will lessen or completely disappear. Cleansing Light mostly uses Healing Light, but because the process of actually cleansing the blood stream is such a different skill to the regular use of hands to heal wounds, it is classified as a different branch. Those skilled at Cleansing Light can also use this form of magic on bodies of liquid outside of bodies to cleanse pestilence and other corrupted substances. This will usually cure smaller diseased animals and cleanse the purity of the water, removing any harmful toxins or substances.

Lyria's Level: 3/5 - Lyria prefers to cleanse blood before she drinks it, resulting in her using this ability almost every time she feeds. While she does use it many times, enough to be considered an expert, she only cleanses the same amount of blood every time, limiting her progression. She can cleanse an average human's bloodstream along with a small bathtub of water.

- Blinding: Blinding Light uses the same magic as both Healing Light and Cleansing Light by using the light already radiating off of these two abilities, though it harnesses the Light magic in a much more uncontrollable manner. There are two ways of casting this form of magic: passively and actively.

A passive manner of casting this magic is by creating a small sphere of light that emits a constant burst of light until the spell wears off, often dictated by the casting time of the mage. For example, if the mage casts a spell for about ten seconds, the ball of light will remain for up to ten minutes without needing further attention or casting, unless the mage manually snuffs it out. Such spheres will often float where they have been cast, though can gently be pushed around the air almost as if defying gravity.

The more active form of casting this magic will cause an intense and sudden burst of light from the palms of the caster’s hands. The active form of Blinding light can cause a flash anywhere between a very gentle glow to a flare that is strong enough to blind a person for up to 15 minutes if they weren't looking away. It is often not possible to shield one's eyes fast enough to avoid Blinding Light as the flash is near instant and bright enough to require not even a second of exposure; however, some inherently fast species can manage to accomplish this.

Lyria's Level: 2/5 - Blinding light is about as bright as car headlights at this point and is generally enough to daze someone if they aren’t expecting it. Lyria doesn't use this much as she already has night vision.


Species Abilities:
- Enhanced Senses: All senses are more refined than a regular human's.
- Immortality: Can't die from aging / Weakness: She can still die from lack of blood consumption, standing too long in the sun without protection, beheadings, etc.
- Enhanced Speed: Can run at the same speed as a human at peak performance.
- Enhanced Strength: As strong as a human at peak performance.
- Blood Consumption: Can drink animal or human blood for nutrients and strength / Weakness: She can die if she goes without blood for too long. Also, drinking animal blood gives fewer nutrients than human blood and will require more frequent feedings.
- Night Vision: Can see perfectly well without light.
- Retractable Fangs: Can retract her fangs to look like regular canine teeth to blend in with humans / Weakness: Impossible to retract teeth in a state of extreme hunger.
- Weakness to sunlight: She has a severe sensitivity to sunlight. Without proper protection, she will suffer intense burns from the sun when exposed for more than 5 minutes. Her other vampiric abilities are also slightly reduced during the day.

Switching Control: Due to both being in one body, Lyria and Trill can switch control of the body between them. When they switch control, their minds will enter a mental "room" of sorts where they can see each other and one of them will take control of the body. During this time in the "room", the physical body will be an empty husk stuck in the same position it was in before the switch, it will also start to change it's physical appearance to whichever sister is taking control. This switch will usually take about 10 seconds to do.

When a sister is not in control, they can choose to either watch what is going on through the eyes of the body, but they are unable to control the body in any way, or they can stay in the mental "room" and do whatever they want. The room can change to be anything they want as it is only in their head. Whichever option they choose, they will always be able to communicate with the sister that is in control.


Biography: Lyria and Trill were both born 233 years ago in a small village in the middle of a forest away from any civilization. Originally, they were born into separate bodies as twins; Lyria was born first. They had a fairly normal childhood playing with the other village children and helping out where ever they could, they, mostly Trill, liked to cause a bit of mischief every once in a while to try and spice up the "boring old village life" as Trill liked to put it.

Both had a natural affinity for magic since birth; however, they never really touched up on it until much later in their lives. They also had a special mirror hopping ability that they used to capture scenic areas within small handheld mirrors, like 3D pictures you can walk in, or spend time by themselves.

When they were 16 years old, Trill persuaded Lyria to go deeper into the forest than they usually did to explore. They ended up stumbling across a small cottage in the middle of the woods with an old woman hanging up clothes to dry. Not thinking anything of it, Trill immediately tried to play a small trick on her her with her limited magical ability by slightly tugging on the clothes' shadows until the sheets themselves eventually fell. Not noticing the woman disappearing from view, Trill continued messing with the house with Lyria trying to convince her to stop bothering the woman. Appearing behind the girls, the woman, who turned out to be a witch, dragged them inside her cottage. The witch was furious with the fact that some low-leveled, wannabe mages had dared to disrupt her precious home, she decided to kill the one who caused the disturbance: Trill.

Horrified by the thought of her sister getting killed, Lyria pleaded with the witch to take her own life instead of her sister's. The witch considered her plea and thought of a much more amusing punishment for Trill. She then cursed the twins to share a body, with Lyria having dominance, and let them go. They decided to not go back to their village and freak out any of the villagers with their new selves or self.

2 years later, they got bit by a vampire in a bar incident, resulting in both of them getting infected and becoming vampires themselves. Many years later, they were offered a chance to go to the newly formed Manta Carlos but declined as they had no need to attend at that moment.

Nearly 130 years later, they started to delve back into their magic abilities, their fear of the traumatic witch incident prohibiting them using them before. It was around this time that the sisters decided to finally accept the offer to go to the aforementioned school to hone in on their magic.



Additional Information:

- Whenever Lyria experiences a particularly bad onslaught of emotions, such as extreme sadness, anger, shock, etc., that she doesn't want to show anyone, she will either retreat into the Mirror World or allow Trill to take control until she is able to calm down. She will also let Trill take control when she needs to thoroughly think things through.

- Lyria has a habit of sticking her tongue out or biting her lip when she is drawing.

- Lyria is particularly skilled in art. She commonly draws things in the mirror world where there is nothing to disturb the beauty and tranquility of nature.
 
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