MrBrown
Eternal Padawan
Aere
Birthdate: 1st December 1488
Nationality: Born in China but grew up in Italy
Height: 6'3 feet
Prominent Feature: Bright golden, Japanese-dragon lower half; golden, beast-like hands with dragon scales
Species: Ryu
Role: Magician
PersonalityAere is a very calm and collected individual but she has a flair for the dramatic and gossip. She appears to be very confident in herself, not just in her abilities but also in her appearance, though she is not arrogant and has a very kind heart. She is very wise, a consequence of her long life, and is not shy when it comes to giving advice, especially to those she cares about and treasures. Despite this, she is slow to truly trust others even if it appears like she is close with someone. Aere is very reserved about her past, changing the subject whenever it comes up. She has a large complex regarding her non-human features, especially her dragon tail and dragon hands, and hides those insecurities behind a mask of flirtation, confidence, and dark humor.
AppearanceAere is a beautiful Ryu, half-Chinese-dragon half-human, with short, shoulder-length white hair with two antlers on top of her head and two golden, mermaid-like ears. She has a voluptuous and curvy figure, matched with an aura of mature beauty to her, even if she looks to be in her mid-twenties. However, what stands out in her it's her lower half: a golden, 15 feet long dragon tail, with a light caramel underside and a thin mane of white hair on top going from the tip all the way to where the two halves meet. She has golden, dragon-like hands, each finger with a medium-sized claw. On her chest, above her cleavage, she has an intricate yellow tattoo in the shape of one of the halves of the ying-yang. She tends to wear the top half of kimonos, normally in light colors to match her tail and hands.
BelongingsCrystal Ball - the last thing she has from her mother, given to Aere by her mother on her deathbed. She uses it to offer readings to the visitors after her performance.
AbilitiesFlight. The inherent magic in Aere's tail allows her to fly elegantly across the sky, almost like she is dancing with the wind. However, this is very tiring for her and she cannot do it for long periods of time in a row.
Nature Magic. Aere is able to perform spells around the elements, such as fire, earth, water, and air, and combine the various elements for spectacular effects during her performances.
Divination. Through her mother's crystal ball or by reading the palms of others, Aere can see small flashes from one of the infinite possible futures for that person. From time to time, she also has flashes of great calamities, often in her sleep, that leaves her extremely tired.
TalentsSky Dancing. Though not her best skill, Aere is a moderate dancer in the sky while she is flying and often dances around her spells during a part of her performance for a truly captivating sight.
Acting. Throughout her long life, Aere has become quite skilled at hiding her true emotions and her secrets, something all true magicians must be able to do.
BackstoryAere was born in fifteenth-century China, to a Ryu mother. The first couple of years of her life were happy, living with her parents. However, her mother fell ill to a rare Ryu illness and died not long after Aere's sixth birthday. Unable to live in their house without the love of his life, her father moved from China to Italy, bringing her along and forsaking whatever life they had there.
In Italy, the people weren't used to Ryus like Aere and even if the adults-only gave her the confused second look, children went as far as chase her to try and touch her dragon tail or to get on her and ride her like she was some sort of beast. Because of that, she spent most of her childhood inside her dad's office, watching him paint and sculpt as she played with her mother's crystal ball and practiced whatever magic had started to appear.
As she got older, she started to leave her dad's office and see the city. She often did so at night to avoid other children and managed to see a whole different side of the city they were in. As time moved on, the people seemed to get used to her appearance, often waving at her from the street as she stood by the window. Aere would wave back and smile but the wound in her heart seemed to be permanently open.
When she reached her twenties, her father had started seeing other women, often bringing them to his office so they could be featured in his paintings. Aere was older now, and didn't judge her father for moving on. However, what she failed to realize at the time was that once the paintings were done, the women would simply disappear, her father appearing with a different one the following day. Confused after a few months of this happening, Aere inquired her father, also questioning what he had been doing with the paintings for she had only seen each one once and couldn't find them in the house.
Obviously, her father ignored the question and told her not to worry about it. Suspicious, Aere followed her father the next time he finished a painting, only to find him dumping the woman's dismembered body onto the city sewers. Outraged and heartbroken, Aere confronted her father, who then confessed he was searching for beauty that matched Aere's mother and when the women failed to do so, they were unworthy of living.
She ran away from him that night, heading straight to the police to report what her father had done but when they got to their house, he was gone, the house a complete mess as it was clear he had packed in a hurry. After that, it didn't take long for Aere to leave the city as well, vowing to never return. She traveled the world, hoping to forget what had happened to her family, wishing they could go back to the happy days when she was six.
Over the years, and then centuries, she always tried to find records of her father, trying to find out where he had fled to and where he had died, but she never managed to find anything, the man had simply disappeared...
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