player information ● name: rianne ● age: 32 ● contact:tricae ● other characters: Apping Wanda Maximoff this round
character information ● name: Bryn Zethir ● canon: Original ● canon point: n/a ● age: 26
● original world: Bryn's from a country named Askoupur, which does not exist on Earth or any alternate version of Earth, but a unique and entirely fictional planet called Teru. The country boasts of having once been three separate countries, bound together by their royal heads of state and the deities that sought refuge within their borders. While their merging was by no means a speedy or seamless affair, the country did manage to find a new balance with it's three provinces, and each of the three cultures of people who called them home found balance with their neighbors who became fellow countrymen. For many centuries, they achieved an unlikely sort of harmony between deity and mortal, magic and technology, as well as between the cultures of the three provinces, the Asarians, Aspurrans, and Kouhyarans. Such bonds were tested and relied on heavily throughout the years, when their neighbors to the south, jealous of their prosperity, attempted to invade and take over their country. And again, when the demons from beneath the earth found a way past the wards that normally kept them trapped in their own dark kingdom and nearly destroyed the country. And once more, against all odds, when the people of Askoupur waged war upon each other over the very contract that had brought them all together in the first place.
Despite the hardships, the country survived, and grew stronger still.
As centuries passed, the country evolved and advanced, taking it from a land of magic and simple mechanics to country of bustling industrial cities. And as the stigma of using both magic and technology in the same projects began to wear off and become a popular craze, the country enjoyed yet another boom. While the magic never grew (though it's flexibility and applications were explored thoroughly,) the technology evolved at an exponential rate.
Three thousand years after the country's formation, despite strong competition from some of its neighboring countries, and others further afield, Askoupur boasts of being the home to several important advances in both science, medicine and technology. Such achievements include the complete eradication of the deadly lher pox, the creation of the most highly regarded space exploration program on Teru, and the invention of both plasma and kiirium weapons.
Bryn's mother, Khara, was a prominent and well-respected owner of an emporium franchise in Askoupur's capital, Khipari. She was also in an open marriage with Asarian enchanter Rivik. Her father, Mathin, was a member of the Mercenaries Guild, and part of a team that Khara once hired for a two-month period. While initially Khara and Mathin only fell in lust, lust soon turned to love, and Khara eventually introduced Mathin to her husband. Khara and Mathin began dating, and eventually Rivik invited the man to move in with them. Two years later, Khara took Mathin as her second husband. A year after that, Bryn was born.
While Bryn was not blood related to Rivik, she was raised by him as well as Khara and Mathin, each doting on her equally. Having two fathers and a mother meant that she was rarely without family around. Khara was around most evenings, and when she worked late Rivik or Mathin were there to pick up the slack. And if Rivik was traveling back to the coast to reconnect with his family clan, or Mathin was out of town on a job, then Khara would be home early to pick Bryn up from school.
With three parents and primary school, Bryn had several circles of family and friends to socialize with growing up. Khara's brothers each had children, cousins for Bryn to play with at holiday meals. Rivik's family, larger by far, lived out by the coast but visited often. Mathin, however, was an orphan, but often brought Bryn with him to the Mercenaries Guild headquarters where the young girl promptly charmed each and every one of the soldiers there. Having parents from three distinctly different backgrounds and upbringings gave Bryn a more developed ability to adapt to those around her, making it easy for her to make friends through her primary schooling years.
It became clear as Bryn grew older, however, that as she understandably didn't have Revik's talent for magic, neither did she have her mother's passion for running the emporiums that had primarily supported their family over the years. Rather, she had a bit of that adventurous, wandering streak that her father had. By the time she came of age at sixteen, after years of training by her father's side, she decided that she would join the sky guard, with the hope that it would take her to other countries or serve as a stepping stone to one of the highly coveted positions shipside in space.
So at sixteen, having not been picked by the deities to become one of their Gifted, Bryn left her family and friends to enlist in the sky guard.
Her experiences in the military were fairly typical. Boot camp for all military branches last six months, and by the time she was out, her first assignment was shipside with a handful of the people she'd trained with during that time. Her first assignment lasted eighteen months, during which time she was offered two weeks of leave for every six months. Of course, she was rarely chomping at the bit to go when her work literally took her all over the country. Aboard the Airship Khashmul, she was given the opportunity to explore the furthest reaches of Askoupur, from the dense jungles of Asaria, to the steep cliffs of Aspurra and even the red rock mountains that cradled the borders of the Kouhyaran deserts. These places, and everywhere in between.
It was while she was home on leave for her eighteenth birthday that Bryn was approached by a representative of the Council. While Askoupur is guarded by its army, navy, and sky guard, the Council has a fourth organization known simply as the Council Agents. Typically, it taps members of its military to train to join its ranks (though some exceptional civilians with special skill sets have also been selected) and Bryn was surprised but pleased to learn that she had been selected. The Council Agents are elite, somewhat outside the ranks of the three branches of military in that they answer directly to the Council themselves. Sent on sensitive, secret missions, the agents are barred from sharing not only the nature of their work but even the fact that they've been raised to such an elite position from friends and family alike.
For six weeks, Bryn and eleven others were put through the rigors of the agent's training course. It's a gruelling period of time, filled with challenges Bryn hadn't anticipated, but by the end, she and seven others in her class pass the final test. During the following year, Bryn is assigned to a series of agents based on her skill set, each set to expand on her training and polish her own abilities. At the year's end, the Council gives her a promotion within the sky guard, a public acknowledgment that she can share with her family in lieu of her acceptance as a full fledged agent.
Thrilled with their daughter, Bryn's mother and fathers host a party in her honor, during which they gift her with a special set of weapons to mark the occasion of her promotion. The ikenium sword takes the default form of a thick, silver bangle inlaid with thin threads of aetherium. Made by Aspurran craftsmen and imbued with magic by Asarians bracelet shifts and morphs to form a blade at the will of its user, just as the barrel of the ikenium pistol widens or narrows to accommodate any caliber of bullet. In short, they were rare and highly prized weapons, often only found among the nobility and the wealthiest of Askoupurs citizens.
During the following seven years, Bryn operates as a special agent for the Council, capable of working both independently as well as in tandem with her fellow agents. It isn't long before she finds her niche, not as an agent with any particular focus or specialty so much as a jack of all trades used to fill in and adapt to whatever is thrown at her. She's sent to the Underground to work with thriving black market that's flourished there for the last hundred years, across the border to Cxe Zenin to protect the interests of both Askoupur and it's ally nation, and even investigates the rumblings of an uprising of demons set on invading the country as they did hundreds of years before.
It's after a string of unfortunate happenstances to the south in Rhevidjan, during a solo mission, that Bryn finds herself running through dangerous jungles and cursing her luck, wishing desperately that she were back home.
● abilities: None of Bryn's stand-alone abilities are magically based. She was trained as a soldier, and later given the more advanced training of the Council Agents. She has retained some of her lessons from her mother when it comes to handling her finances, as well as information about magic theory from Revik, and a great deal more of the tricks of the trade from her mercenary father Mathin, who has learned some field techniques they don't teach in the government military. Part of her training has included learning the basics for a variety of weapons, though she specializes in swords, handguns, and small blades. She also has a smattering of miscellaneous skills like acting as a field medic, picking locks, and doing basic repairs on her own cycle.
While her sword and pistol aren't abilities persay, it seems best to outline the basics of how they work. Bryn's sword is made of an Askoupuran based metal called ikenium. An ikenium weapon, made of a silvery metal, can be programmed to have default shapes which it can shift back and forth to. Those changes in shape are powered to the users bioenergy. Preprogrammed shapes require little energy to trigger a shape change, but ikenium weapons are also capable of taking other shapes on the fly. Such changes require a great deal more energy and if the person wielding the weapon is too weak, they could drain themselves to the point of passing out. Bryn's ikenium sword has two default shapes. It's main shape is that of a silver bracelet, an inch wide, that she wears on her right wrist. When it's shifted, a bracelet melts, expands, and reforms at the palm of her hand as a sword. Bryn's handgun contains ikenium pieces as well, allowing her to load bullets of various calibers to be shot out of a barrel that will shift to accommodate them. Bullets for this gun are made of solid metal, not requiring the cartridge case or gunpowder that modern bullets use. As such, the gun is also capable of handling non-traditional ammo on the fly. For instance, if Bryn gets into a pinch, she could load nails into the gun to shoot and the electro-magnetic shooting mechanism of the gun would handle it just fine.
● strengths:
→ passionate Bryn isn't a woman who is hobbled by her emotions, but instead is fueled by them. Her family, friends, and colleagues all benefit from her unwavering devotion, and she is all the more unshakeable and determined when invested in something that resonates with her. Her passions are things that give her energy, rather than drain it, which counts for a great deal when the odds are stacked against her or the situations she's faced with are especially difficult.
→ adaptable Of course, Bryn isn't a woman who lets her actions be dictated entirely by her heart. Mentally speaking, one of her biggest strengths is definitely her ability to be adaptable in all aspects of her life. It speaks not only to her resourcefulness, often times under fire, but is indicative of a flexible state of mind that lets her work with the world and people around her. Well aware that things often don't go exactly to plan, remaining open-minded not only keeps her from adding undue stress to a situation but often enough takes her in new and interesting directions that she might not have traveled otherwise.
→ well-rounded In many ways Bryn is a jack of all trades and master of none. Similarly, her knowledge and experiences can be classified the same way, having no particular exposure to one culture of economical background or another. Instead, she's interacted with people from all walks of life, broadening her world view not only within her country but beyond. In a very real way, knowledge is power and it's with an understanding of both the similarities and differences that people can share that makes her well-suited not only to her work but capable of connecting with so many people around her.
● weaknesses:
→ critical Unfortunately, the very things that are her strengths can also feed her weaknesses. Having a more well-rounded world view is useful for her, but she can on occasion become more judgmental of things she views as inherently wrong. As a woman of strong emotions and a certain level of competence, this can lead to her becoming more arrogant in her subjective views, and more outwardly opinionated. While this doesn't happen often, she can be stubborn in clinging to her few prejudices.
→ escapist Despite Bryn's heart being a boon for her in most cases, it isn't without its drawbacks. She can wield her emotions for good and use them to propel her toward her goals, but if something is troubling her and she doesn't have work or family to focus on, they can quickly overwhelm her. Rather than deal with things, she will on occasion indulge in her vices to ignore it all instead. Most often this involves drinking or smoking to excess, or relying on the company of others to pretend that everything is fine for an hour or three.
→ temper And when escapism doesn't work, when she's irritated or provoked, there are times in which Bryn will let her temper fly loose. There's only so much she can restrain herself, so many times she can bury her negative emotions so she can function before inevitably hitting a breaking point. Of course, not one for explosive bursts of violence, she will nonetheless cut to the quick verbally when given cause and a target.
● skills: ● housing: Communal and shared housing are both fine. I leave it in your hands. Whatever seems best for her or works most easily for you!
bryn zethir ♦ original ♦ not reserved
● name: rianne
● age: 32
● contact:
● other characters: Apping Wanda Maximoff this round
character information
● name: Bryn Zethir
● canon: Original
● canon point: n/a
● age: 26
● original world: Bryn's from a country named Askoupur, which does not exist on Earth or any alternate version of Earth, but a unique and entirely fictional planet called Teru. The country boasts of having once been three separate countries, bound together by their royal heads of state and the deities that sought refuge within their borders. While their merging was by no means a speedy or seamless affair, the country did manage to find a new balance with it's three provinces, and each of the three cultures of people who called them home found balance with their neighbors who became fellow countrymen. For many centuries, they achieved an unlikely sort of harmony between deity and mortal, magic and technology, as well as between the cultures of the three provinces, the Asarians, Aspurrans, and Kouhyarans. Such bonds were tested and relied on heavily throughout the years, when their neighbors to the south, jealous of their prosperity, attempted to invade and take over their country. And again, when the demons from beneath the earth found a way past the wards that normally kept them trapped in their own dark kingdom and nearly destroyed the country. And once more, against all odds, when the people of Askoupur waged war upon each other over the very contract that had brought them all together in the first place.
Despite the hardships, the country survived, and grew stronger still.
As centuries passed, the country evolved and advanced, taking it from a land of magic and simple mechanics to country of bustling industrial cities. And as the stigma of using both magic and technology in the same projects began to wear off and become a popular craze, the country enjoyed yet another boom. While the magic never grew (though it's flexibility and applications were explored thoroughly,) the technology evolved at an exponential rate.
Three thousand years after the country's formation, despite strong competition from some of its neighboring countries, and others further afield, Askoupur boasts of being the home to several important advances in both science, medicine and technology. Such achievements include the complete eradication of the deadly lher pox, the creation of the most highly regarded space exploration program on Teru, and the invention of both plasma and kiirium weapons.
Bryn's mother, Khara, was a prominent and well-respected owner of an emporium franchise in Askoupur's capital, Khipari. She was also in an open marriage with Asarian enchanter Rivik. Her father, Mathin, was a member of the Mercenaries Guild, and part of a team that Khara once hired for a two-month period. While initially Khara and Mathin only fell in lust, lust soon turned to love, and Khara eventually introduced Mathin to her husband. Khara and Mathin began dating, and eventually Rivik invited the man to move in with them. Two years later, Khara took Mathin as her second husband. A year after that, Bryn was born.
While Bryn was not blood related to Rivik, she was raised by him as well as Khara and Mathin, each doting on her equally. Having two fathers and a mother meant that she was rarely without family around. Khara was around most evenings, and when she worked late Rivik or Mathin were there to pick up the slack. And if Rivik was traveling back to the coast to reconnect with his family clan, or Mathin was out of town on a job, then Khara would be home early to pick Bryn up from school.
With three parents and primary school, Bryn had several circles of family and friends to socialize with growing up. Khara's brothers each had children, cousins for Bryn to play with at holiday meals. Rivik's family, larger by far, lived out by the coast but visited often. Mathin, however, was an orphan, but often brought Bryn with him to the Mercenaries Guild headquarters where the young girl promptly charmed each and every one of the soldiers there. Having parents from three distinctly different backgrounds and upbringings gave Bryn a more developed ability to adapt to those around her, making it easy for her to make friends through her primary schooling years.
It became clear as Bryn grew older, however, that as she understandably didn't have Revik's talent for magic, neither did she have her mother's passion for running the emporiums that had primarily supported their family over the years. Rather, she had a bit of that adventurous, wandering streak that her father had. By the time she came of age at sixteen, after years of training by her father's side, she decided that she would join the sky guard, with the hope that it would take her to other countries or serve as a stepping stone to one of the highly coveted positions shipside in space.
So at sixteen, having not been picked by the deities to become one of their Gifted, Bryn left her family and friends to enlist in the sky guard.
Her experiences in the military were fairly typical. Boot camp for all military branches last six months, and by the time she was out, her first assignment was shipside with a handful of the people she'd trained with during that time. Her first assignment lasted eighteen months, during which time she was offered two weeks of leave for every six months. Of course, she was rarely chomping at the bit to go when her work literally took her all over the country. Aboard the Airship Khashmul, she was given the opportunity to explore the furthest reaches of Askoupur, from the dense jungles of Asaria, to the steep cliffs of Aspurra and even the red rock mountains that cradled the borders of the Kouhyaran deserts. These places, and everywhere in between.
It was while she was home on leave for her eighteenth birthday that Bryn was approached by a representative of the Council. While Askoupur is guarded by its army, navy, and sky guard, the Council has a fourth organization known simply as the Council Agents. Typically, it taps members of its military to train to join its ranks (though some exceptional civilians with special skill sets have also been selected) and Bryn was surprised but pleased to learn that she had been selected. The Council Agents are elite, somewhat outside the ranks of the three branches of military in that they answer directly to the Council themselves. Sent on sensitive, secret missions, the agents are barred from sharing not only the nature of their work but even the fact that they've been raised to such an elite position from friends and family alike.
For six weeks, Bryn and eleven others were put through the rigors of the agent's training course. It's a gruelling period of time, filled with challenges Bryn hadn't anticipated, but by the end, she and seven others in her class pass the final test. During the following year, Bryn is assigned to a series of agents based on her skill set, each set to expand on her training and polish her own abilities. At the year's end, the Council gives her a promotion within the sky guard, a public acknowledgment that she can share with her family in lieu of her acceptance as a full fledged agent.
Thrilled with their daughter, Bryn's mother and fathers host a party in her honor, during which they gift her with a special set of weapons to mark the occasion of her promotion. The ikenium sword takes the default form of a thick, silver bangle inlaid with thin threads of aetherium. Made by Aspurran craftsmen and imbued with magic by Asarians bracelet shifts and morphs to form a blade at the will of its user, just as the barrel of the ikenium pistol widens or narrows to accommodate any caliber of bullet. In short, they were rare and highly prized weapons, often only found among the nobility and the wealthiest of Askoupurs citizens.
During the following seven years, Bryn operates as a special agent for the Council, capable of working both independently as well as in tandem with her fellow agents. It isn't long before she finds her niche, not as an agent with any particular focus or specialty so much as a jack of all trades used to fill in and adapt to whatever is thrown at her. She's sent to the Underground to work with thriving black market that's flourished there for the last hundred years, across the border to Cxe Zenin to protect the interests of both Askoupur and it's ally nation, and even investigates the rumblings of an uprising of demons set on invading the country as they did hundreds of years before.
It's after a string of unfortunate happenstances to the south in Rhevidjan, during a solo mission, that Bryn finds herself running through dangerous jungles and cursing her luck, wishing desperately that she were back home.
● abilities: None of Bryn's stand-alone abilities are magically based. She was trained as a soldier, and later given the more advanced training of the Council Agents. She has retained some of her lessons from her mother when it comes to handling her finances, as well as information about magic theory from Revik, and a great deal more of the tricks of the trade from her mercenary father Mathin, who has learned some field techniques they don't teach in the government military. Part of her training has included learning the basics for a variety of weapons, though she specializes in swords, handguns, and small blades. She also has a smattering of miscellaneous skills like acting as a field medic, picking locks, and doing basic repairs on her own cycle.
While her sword and pistol aren't abilities persay, it seems best to outline the basics of how they work. Bryn's sword is made of an Askoupuran based metal called ikenium. An ikenium weapon, made of a silvery metal, can be programmed to have default shapes which it can shift back and forth to. Those changes in shape are powered to the users bioenergy. Preprogrammed shapes require little energy to trigger a shape change, but ikenium weapons are also capable of taking other shapes on the fly. Such changes require a great deal more energy and if the person wielding the weapon is too weak, they could drain themselves to the point of passing out. Bryn's ikenium sword has two default shapes. It's main shape is that of a silver bracelet, an inch wide, that she wears on her right wrist. When it's shifted, a bracelet melts, expands, and reforms at the palm of her hand as a sword. Bryn's handgun contains ikenium pieces as well, allowing her to load bullets of various calibers to be shot out of a barrel that will shift to accommodate them. Bullets for this gun are made of solid metal, not requiring the cartridge case or gunpowder that modern bullets use. As such, the gun is also capable of handling non-traditional ammo on the fly. For instance, if Bryn gets into a pinch, she could load nails into the gun to shoot and the electro-magnetic shooting mechanism of the gun would handle it just fine.
● strengths:
→ passionate
Bryn isn't a woman who is hobbled by her emotions, but instead is fueled by them. Her family, friends, and colleagues all benefit from her unwavering devotion, and she is all the more unshakeable and determined when invested in something that resonates with her. Her passions are things that give her energy, rather than drain it, which counts for a great deal when the odds are stacked against her or the situations she's faced with are especially difficult.
→ adaptable
Of course, Bryn isn't a woman who lets her actions be dictated entirely by her heart. Mentally speaking, one of her biggest strengths is definitely her ability to be adaptable in all aspects of her life. It speaks not only to her resourcefulness, often times under fire, but is indicative of a flexible state of mind that lets her work with the world and people around her. Well aware that things often don't go exactly to plan, remaining open-minded not only keeps her from adding undue stress to a situation but often enough takes her in new and interesting directions that she might not have traveled otherwise.
→ well-rounded
In many ways Bryn is a jack of all trades and master of none. Similarly, her knowledge and experiences can be classified the same way, having no particular exposure to one culture of economical background or another. Instead, she's interacted with people from all walks of life, broadening her world view not only within her country but beyond. In a very real way, knowledge is power and it's with an understanding of both the similarities and differences that people can share that makes her well-suited not only to her work but capable of connecting with so many people around her.
● weaknesses:
→ critical
Unfortunately, the very things that are her strengths can also feed her weaknesses. Having a more well-rounded world view is useful for her, but she can on occasion become more judgmental of things she views as inherently wrong. As a woman of strong emotions and a certain level of competence, this can lead to her becoming more arrogant in her subjective views, and more outwardly opinionated. While this doesn't happen often, she can be stubborn in clinging to her few prejudices.
→ escapist
Despite Bryn's heart being a boon for her in most cases, it isn't without its drawbacks. She can wield her emotions for good and use them to propel her toward her goals, but if something is troubling her and she doesn't have work or family to focus on, they can quickly overwhelm her. Rather than deal with things, she will on occasion indulge in her vices to ignore it all instead. Most often this involves drinking or smoking to excess, or relying on the company of others to pretend that everything is fine for an hour or three.
→ temper
And when escapism doesn't work, when she's irritated or provoked, there are times in which Bryn will let her temper fly loose. There's only so much she can restrain herself, so many times she can bury her negative emotions so she can function before inevitably hitting a breaking point. Of course, not one for explosive bursts of violence, she will nonetheless cut to the quick verbally when given cause and a target.
● skills:
● housing: Communal and shared housing are both fine. I leave it in your hands. Whatever seems best for her or works most easily for you!
● network username: b.zethir
● network sample: Of Racetracks and Requests
● prose/action sample: Storm Prep, Monster Fighting and Speed Dating