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flintlockandkeyPlayer Information
Name: Tex
Pronoun: He
E-mail: texside-at-google's email service
Other Contact: You know my name.
Character Information
Name: Charlotte "Carlie" Patisse
House: Patisse
Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Birthdate: April 21, 1980
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Physical Details
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Crimson
Height: 5'6"
Body Type: Athletic. Charlotte is pretty and curvy; she used to be pretty overweight when she was younger, but now she exercises religiously.It's to be a superhero.
Appearance Notes: She always wears a silver bracelet with a topaz set in it. When she dresses for combat, she tends to wear big great coats and tricorn hats, like aRevolutionary War French-Indian War fighter. She thinks it looks snazzy. Don't you dare imply that she must be a Weatherford, either.
PB: Urara Shiraishi from Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
Life Details
Background: Charlotte was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1980. Her father, Patrick, was a French-Canadian Patisse; her mother was a mundane that he married. He divorced her mother when she was little, judging it more expedient to dispense of any mundane relations for his mage daughter. Charlotte showed a natural affinity for Pulsing when she was a toddler. She floated her toys.
Her father worked as an assassin for House Patisse. In 1983, he left on an extended trip overseas in France. Charlotte didn't learn why he left until she was much older and realized that it matched Tours perfectly. When he returned, though, he brought her back a new brother: a boy named Adrian, who he said was a cousin. He was, on his mother's side. His father was an Almagoras. They became close friends and like siblings as they grew up.
Carlie discovered that she had her father's talent in magic, so he began teaching her. He strictly avoided teaching Adrian -- he lied, claiming his magical powers weren't strong enough -- which made a rift between them. He was envious of her, while Charlotte tried to protect her adoptive brother. She learned to fire a specially made gun for Imbuers and developed her Pulsing to focus on teleportation.
Life in Ottawa was relatively normal; her father worked for the Canadian military, and both Charlotte and Adrian posed as mundanes in school. However, last September, she enrolled in Paracelsus. She had a relatively uneventful first semester there, until the end. She helped other students fight off the monster attack. When she went home for the winter break, though, her life turned upside down. She found out two things: first, Adrian had been secretly studying magic, and had managed to drain the life from several plants nearby.
Secondly, after Otto von Schellenberg's betrayal, House Patisse was looking more closely than ever. Her father decided to do what he never could years before: kill the Almagoras that he saved. Before he could shoot him, Charlotte shot her father in the back and killed him. The rest was a blur; her cousin took care of disposing the body. They inherited everything from him. Adrian decided to go to ground to hide, while Charlotte returned to Paracelsus as if nothing happened.
Of course, rumors spread -- that someone killed her father in part of the brewing House war. And, beyond that, Carlie has been struggling with guilt and worry. Her outlet is unusual, to say the least. The rumors that a tricorn hat-wearing gunwoman discouraging criminals in Longpike certainly aren't related.
House Politics: Charlotte is deeply conflicted about her House and its politics. For much of her life, she was a firm believer in House Patisse's cause. Now, she isn't so sure; she is grappling with her adoptive brother being an Almagoras and her father's blood on her hands. She doesn't hold ill will towards her House, but she is scared that they will find out the truth. She isn't sure, yet, what she really believes.
Personality: Charlotte is outwardly cheerful. She is a talkative and outgoing sort, who wears her heart on her sleeve. Most of the time, even when things seem at their grimmest, Carlie simply can't wallow in her misery. She tries to find the bright side of life in everything she does. This makes her borderline ridiculous sometimes: she will be optimistic to a fault, trying to find the good thing in the worst possible situations. She greets friends and acquaintances alike exuberantly.
She is also a bit of a goofball by nature. She has a good sense of humor, and can both play and take a joke, but she also tends towards being a little ridiculous. She has a large ego -- she was a natural Pulser and picked up on Imbuing quickly, after all -- and that comes out in a tendency to boast. Her pride is considerable; she's the daughter of Patrick Luc Patisse, a famed fighter in her House. She keeps that pride, though it's dulled by the circumstances of her father's death. Her boasts, however, go well beyond this -- she has fun with saying she is good at everything.
Literally everything, sometimes.
Charlotte wears her heart on her sleeve, though, and that is true of the good and the bad. When she is angry, her temper is quick and sudden; when she is sad, she mopes and cries. She doesn't hide her emotions from others well. She is exuberant and expressive, so when she is angry or irritated, she can share it easily (and sometimes too quickly). She has trouble with a filter.
She is also a bad liar. This has become a problem, recently, of course; she pretends to be awkward about her father's death and avoid discussing it. However, she knows that she can't hide the truth forever. It isn't who she is. She tends to stutter and bumble her way through small lies. For large lies, Charlotte shuts down. She can become quiet, despondent, and non-communicative because she doesn't know what to do.
This is her defense mechanism for dealing with her father's murder. It's a terrible, horrible thing... that she mentally pretends she didn't do. She carries on with the same bright smile because it's easier to pretend, in her head, that she didn't kill him to defend her brother. She lies to herself about it, but she does so badly there, too.
Carlie wants to believe it was the right thing to do. She tries to always do the right thing; she believes strongly that the world should be just and that there is black-and-white justice to be found. She thought, for a long time, that her father represented that. This comes out in her behavior and beliefs. She is quick to try to befriend anyone, to refuse to write people off for who they are, what their bloodline is, and what they've done in the past... if she thinks they can see the right way forward. She will yell, scream, and fight if she thinks someone is wrong.
This clashes, though, with a need to be close to others. She grew up with one sibling and a father; she missed her mother from a young age and she felt apart from friends she hid her magic from. Charlotte can't let go of people. She shot her father not because she thought, in the heat of the moment, that he was doing something wrong -- she did so because he was taking away the brother she cares about most in the world. She has trouble reconciling the need for justice and the need for emotional intimacy.
Flaws: Charlotte is a pushy person. She wants to make friends and have people close to her. Sometimes, her cheerful nature wins over; sometimes, though, she shoves her nose into others' business and meddles until they're her friends. This can lead to one-sided friendships, where Carlie cares more than the other -- or is pushing herself on them.
She also has the aforementioned troubles with competing needs for emotional intimacy and finding justice in the world. Part of this entails seeing the world -- or reducing it -- to black and white. She can decide someone is horrible unfairly; similarly, she might overlook a friend's flaws, because she tends to see what she wants to see.
She is also fiercely protective of people she cares about or feels a duty towards, but this is often unfair. Her ego gets in the way; she decides she has to protect them, which can lead to her being patronizing towards them. This is true of others in general; she can be patronizing and has a superiority complex.
Also, she can and has killed to protect someone close to her. She can take something entirely too far.
Magic and Skill Details
Magic and Skills: Charlotte's first School is Pulsing. She is capable of levitating things and moving them through simple telekinesis, which she often uses in simple, mundane situations -- for example, floating her backpack next to her instead of carrying it. However, her real skill with Pulsing is personal teleportation. She can teleport herself in short-ranges to any place in her line of sight. She does need to be able to see it, or she risks teleporting herself halfway through a wall (but she can risk this in an emergency). She can't teleport others at present.
Her second School is Imbuing. This is how Charlotte fights. She has highly-focused Imbuing that uses artifact flintlock weapons that she knows how to make. These pistols look like flintlocks, but don't require muzzle loading or powder. She uses her Imbuing to magically create ammunition with a variety of effects (and the impact and range of modern firearms, when appropriate). She can shoot gouts of fire, bolts of lightning, and ice storms. She can also fire concussive blast waves and grenade shots, or shoot bolts of corrosive metal and the like. She can't do much else with Imbuing right now; it goes into making the gun and enchanting it to fire magical effects.
Her third skill slot is spent on marksmanship, specifically with pistols. Carlie is an awesome shot and could win competitions in trick shooting. She is best with old-fashioned weapons.
Name: Tex
Pronoun: He
E-mail: texside-at-google's email service
Other Contact: You know my name.
Character Information
Name: Charlotte "Carlie" Patisse
House: Patisse
Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Birthdate: April 21, 1980
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Physical Details
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Crimson
Height: 5'6"
Body Type: Athletic. Charlotte is pretty and curvy; she used to be pretty overweight when she was younger, but now she exercises religiously.
Appearance Notes: She always wears a silver bracelet with a topaz set in it. When she dresses for combat, she tends to wear big great coats and tricorn hats, like a
PB: Urara Shiraishi from Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
Life Details
Background: Charlotte was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1980. Her father, Patrick, was a French-Canadian Patisse; her mother was a mundane that he married. He divorced her mother when she was little, judging it more expedient to dispense of any mundane relations for his mage daughter. Charlotte showed a natural affinity for Pulsing when she was a toddler. She floated her toys.
Her father worked as an assassin for House Patisse. In 1983, he left on an extended trip overseas in France. Charlotte didn't learn why he left until she was much older and realized that it matched Tours perfectly. When he returned, though, he brought her back a new brother: a boy named Adrian, who he said was a cousin. He was, on his mother's side. His father was an Almagoras. They became close friends and like siblings as they grew up.
Carlie discovered that she had her father's talent in magic, so he began teaching her. He strictly avoided teaching Adrian -- he lied, claiming his magical powers weren't strong enough -- which made a rift between them. He was envious of her, while Charlotte tried to protect her adoptive brother. She learned to fire a specially made gun for Imbuers and developed her Pulsing to focus on teleportation.
Life in Ottawa was relatively normal; her father worked for the Canadian military, and both Charlotte and Adrian posed as mundanes in school. However, last September, she enrolled in Paracelsus. She had a relatively uneventful first semester there, until the end. She helped other students fight off the monster attack. When she went home for the winter break, though, her life turned upside down. She found out two things: first, Adrian had been secretly studying magic, and had managed to drain the life from several plants nearby.
Secondly, after Otto von Schellenberg's betrayal, House Patisse was looking more closely than ever. Her father decided to do what he never could years before: kill the Almagoras that he saved. Before he could shoot him, Charlotte shot her father in the back and killed him. The rest was a blur; her cousin took care of disposing the body. They inherited everything from him. Adrian decided to go to ground to hide, while Charlotte returned to Paracelsus as if nothing happened.
Of course, rumors spread -- that someone killed her father in part of the brewing House war. And, beyond that, Carlie has been struggling with guilt and worry. Her outlet is unusual, to say the least. The rumors that a tricorn hat-wearing gunwoman discouraging criminals in Longpike certainly aren't related.
House Politics: Charlotte is deeply conflicted about her House and its politics. For much of her life, she was a firm believer in House Patisse's cause. Now, she isn't so sure; she is grappling with her adoptive brother being an Almagoras and her father's blood on her hands. She doesn't hold ill will towards her House, but she is scared that they will find out the truth. She isn't sure, yet, what she really believes.
Personality: Charlotte is outwardly cheerful. She is a talkative and outgoing sort, who wears her heart on her sleeve. Most of the time, even when things seem at their grimmest, Carlie simply can't wallow in her misery. She tries to find the bright side of life in everything she does. This makes her borderline ridiculous sometimes: she will be optimistic to a fault, trying to find the good thing in the worst possible situations. She greets friends and acquaintances alike exuberantly.
She is also a bit of a goofball by nature. She has a good sense of humor, and can both play and take a joke, but she also tends towards being a little ridiculous. She has a large ego -- she was a natural Pulser and picked up on Imbuing quickly, after all -- and that comes out in a tendency to boast. Her pride is considerable; she's the daughter of Patrick Luc Patisse, a famed fighter in her House. She keeps that pride, though it's dulled by the circumstances of her father's death. Her boasts, however, go well beyond this -- she has fun with saying she is good at everything.
Literally everything, sometimes.
Charlotte wears her heart on her sleeve, though, and that is true of the good and the bad. When she is angry, her temper is quick and sudden; when she is sad, she mopes and cries. She doesn't hide her emotions from others well. She is exuberant and expressive, so when she is angry or irritated, she can share it easily (and sometimes too quickly). She has trouble with a filter.
She is also a bad liar. This has become a problem, recently, of course; she pretends to be awkward about her father's death and avoid discussing it. However, she knows that she can't hide the truth forever. It isn't who she is. She tends to stutter and bumble her way through small lies. For large lies, Charlotte shuts down. She can become quiet, despondent, and non-communicative because she doesn't know what to do.
This is her defense mechanism for dealing with her father's murder. It's a terrible, horrible thing... that she mentally pretends she didn't do. She carries on with the same bright smile because it's easier to pretend, in her head, that she didn't kill him to defend her brother. She lies to herself about it, but she does so badly there, too.
Carlie wants to believe it was the right thing to do. She tries to always do the right thing; she believes strongly that the world should be just and that there is black-and-white justice to be found. She thought, for a long time, that her father represented that. This comes out in her behavior and beliefs. She is quick to try to befriend anyone, to refuse to write people off for who they are, what their bloodline is, and what they've done in the past... if she thinks they can see the right way forward. She will yell, scream, and fight if she thinks someone is wrong.
This clashes, though, with a need to be close to others. She grew up with one sibling and a father; she missed her mother from a young age and she felt apart from friends she hid her magic from. Charlotte can't let go of people. She shot her father not because she thought, in the heat of the moment, that he was doing something wrong -- she did so because he was taking away the brother she cares about most in the world. She has trouble reconciling the need for justice and the need for emotional intimacy.
Flaws: Charlotte is a pushy person. She wants to make friends and have people close to her. Sometimes, her cheerful nature wins over; sometimes, though, she shoves her nose into others' business and meddles until they're her friends. This can lead to one-sided friendships, where Carlie cares more than the other -- or is pushing herself on them.
She also has the aforementioned troubles with competing needs for emotional intimacy and finding justice in the world. Part of this entails seeing the world -- or reducing it -- to black and white. She can decide someone is horrible unfairly; similarly, she might overlook a friend's flaws, because she tends to see what she wants to see.
She is also fiercely protective of people she cares about or feels a duty towards, but this is often unfair. Her ego gets in the way; she decides she has to protect them, which can lead to her being patronizing towards them. This is true of others in general; she can be patronizing and has a superiority complex.
Also, she can and has killed to protect someone close to her. She can take something entirely too far.
Magic and Skill Details
Magic and Skills: Charlotte's first School is Pulsing. She is capable of levitating things and moving them through simple telekinesis, which she often uses in simple, mundane situations -- for example, floating her backpack next to her instead of carrying it. However, her real skill with Pulsing is personal teleportation. She can teleport herself in short-ranges to any place in her line of sight. She does need to be able to see it, or she risks teleporting herself halfway through a wall (but she can risk this in an emergency). She can't teleport others at present.
Her second School is Imbuing. This is how Charlotte fights. She has highly-focused Imbuing that uses artifact flintlock weapons that she knows how to make. These pistols look like flintlocks, but don't require muzzle loading or powder. She uses her Imbuing to magically create ammunition with a variety of effects (and the impact and range of modern firearms, when appropriate). She can shoot gouts of fire, bolts of lightning, and ice storms. She can also fire concussive blast waves and grenade shots, or shoot bolts of corrosive metal and the like. She can't do much else with Imbuing right now; it goes into making the gun and enchanting it to fire magical effects.
Her third skill slot is spent on marksmanship, specifically with pistols. Carlie is an awesome shot and could win competitions in trick shooting. She is best with old-fashioned weapons.