Post by arianna on Jun 20, 2008 15:57:49 GMT -5
Name: Rowan Shandeigh Rhiannon.
Nicknames/Alias: None.
Race: Human.
Racial Abilities: None.
Age: 17
Grade: Sophmore (He's been advanced grades in previous schools, but he's also missed years and been held back, so when all is added and subtracted, he's about a year behind in school.)
Height/build: Medium height and medium-skinny build. Not a weight trainer, by any means.
Birthday: August 13th.
Zodiac: Leo.
Weapon: Unlike most witches, Rowan keeps his athame sharpened, though he's never had to use it offensively. His broom (yes, a broom) can double as a quarterstaff, if necessary, but he would probably get his butt whomped in any serious fight.
Magic/Techniques: Rowan is a male witch (a Seventh...will be explained further in history), and he's well-versed in all basic witchcraft. He tends to use more defensive spells, though he's got a decent arsenal of offensive ones as well.
Physical Description: Rowan is mostly unremarkable...average height, average build...other than his bright red hair and hazel green eyes. He's latched onto the school uniform with noticeable relief for, perhaps in order to compensate for his gender, his family 'witched him up' to an insane degree - broomstick, witch's hat and all. Black dresses are hot in the summer, he kept getting hit on by horny warlocks, and the d**n hat looked stupid and drove him crazy. The first thing he did after arriving was to burn the floppy thing.
He prefers less ostentatious outfits, for his hair signals his presence loudly enough, but he has held onto a few nifty items they'd given him. For one, he wears a set of earrings that are little more than spell bases that his athame, wand, and chalice hook onto. (They shrink to a miniature size in order to fit.) His oldest sister fashioned him a sort of scabbard that straps to his back for his broom, to sling it 'cross his back. Finally, passed down through the family, he's always wearing the herb bag that belonged to the first Rowen...it's been enchanted many times with protection and luck spells of all kinds...as well as an expander one that allows the bag hold nigh well anything he chooses to shove in it. Unfortunately, this means he loses all sorts of things in it as well.
[No picture drawn yet, sorry.]
Personality: Rowan is rather bright and cheerful, trying to get along with everyone who passes his way. He often gets himself in a lot of trouble by trying to cast spells he hasn't got the skill for in order to help one of his friends or acquaintances, or even a complete stranger he happens to notice that's in trouble. Since he grew up with six older sisters, he quickly had to learn to hold his own, and sharpen his wit...but for the same reason, he also has the patience of a saint. (His sisters loved to sit him down and dress him up...even now, he sometimes returns from holidays with his hair braided and beaded in some intricate style.) Every once in a while, though, when he's alone, Rowan...dims a little, and lets himself think about his mother, who he still grieves for, even now, and his father (a Seventh in his own right, and a powerful warlock), who he never did and still doesn't know.
Rowan is always keeping his eye out for a warlock, for in his family, the Seventh always chose a partner, binding to a seventh son of a seventh son (a warlock, basically)...he also has to keep an eye for not-so-good warlocks who want to bind with him, and get the power he soon be recieving. (Poor warlock who will eventually end up with him...brought up to expect a witch as a partner, getting Rowan'll floor him. ^^)
History: It all begins with Rowan's great, great, great, great grandmother (who he was named after, though hers was the more feminine Rowen) who was the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter...she was the first of the witches in his family. (Her mother was not a Seventh, as they are called...all seventh daughters of seventh daughter are witches; seventh sons of seventh sons end up being warlocks) She had seven daughters, and her seventh daughter had seven daughters, and so on down to Rowan's mother, who had six girls before having Rowan...alwalys seven daughters first, in the family, than daughters and sons in any order after. Thus, when Rowan ended up being male...he caused quite a bit of controversy. (His great-aunt thought he was some kind of demon spawn and ought to be killed...he's since become her favorite grand-nephew, though he's always a bit cautious when visiting.) He is a male Seventh Daughter of a Seventh Daughter (or Seventh, for short). Since he's also the seventh Seventh in his family, he's going to have a lot of power coming to him, especially when his birthday rolls around next year -- Sevenths come into their full strength at their eighteenth birthday.
Rowan has been bumped from one family member to the next (as you may guess, he's got a lot of them) over the past couple years, ever since his mother died five years ago. His sisters are divvied up among the family as well, so he doesn't get to see them much. Needless to say, he's attended a number of different schools, and his education is spotty in some areas. He learns quick, though, and has read a great deal, so he'll quickly catch up in anything he's seriously behind in.
Class Electives (please choose five, must have at least one magic class):
- Healing and Regenerative
- Art of Defensive Spells
- Magic for Everyday Use
- Mythology and Folklore
- Herbology