Eden "Arcana" Doe [Approved] (Mina)

[Eden]

Name:
Eden "Arcana" Doe

Age:
18 years old

Height:
5'3" / 160 cm.

Weight:
123 lbs. / 56 kg.

Gender:
Female

Appearance:



She often opts to throw on a tee and a pair of jeans rather than a skirt or some slacks. Make up? Jewelry? Anything cosmetic? Please. She doesn't even get her hair cut regularly, which is why she's often seen with tousled, long hair that probably has more split ends than you can count.


Personality:

Personality? What personality?

She rarely speaks unless spoken to - and most times, not even then - and she never appears particularly animated about anything. If anything, the emotion she displays most frequently is irritation. She harbors a slight aversion for just about anything and everything, it seems, no matter what it is. She especially avoids children, small animals, crowded areas, semi-crowded areas, areas where anyone besides herself is residing, loud things, bright things, eerily quiet things, etc.

She has a blanket distaste for the entire world and everything in it, just about. She looks out for numero uno, number one - and that's me, myself, and I - at least, that's what seems to be the case. But you'd be an idiot to think that there's only one side to a living, breathing, sentient person.

In reality, Eden is a three dimensional person with likes and dislikes and a personality as developed as that of anyone else. It just takes more than a brief acquaintance and the exchanging of a few words to reveal anything more than a gargoyle-like misanthrope lacking a sense of humor. True, there isn't much that amuses her, and far fewer things that she truly enjoys, and she doesn't have very many friends - but she's only human, after all. She probably craves Chinese in the middle of the night, gorges on french fries with her number one combo, eats way too many ramen noodle packets to be healthy.

Well, okay, she thinks Chinese is too oily and it makes her nauseous sometimes. And she thinks the french fries from just about every fast food chain are too limp and greasy. And she hates how salty ramen noodles are. And, of course, she really isn't just an ordinary human, but the point is this: Her name is Eden, and she doesn't like very many things, and she probably doesn't like you very much, but - but -

...

Well, anyway, there's more.

She's highly intelligent and perceptive; therefore, she's usually very good at judging people. Albeit a bit harshly. She has few friends, some acquaintances, and she certainly isn't interested in expanding her social circle. What's the point? She's content to ignore the rest of the world as thoroughly and devotedly as she can and simply tend to the training of her magic and her mind and perhaps some minimal socializing to spice things up.

Wait, what's that? The governments of the world are attempting to put their collective booted feet down on a certain population that happens to include her?

Jesus, she never gets a rest, does she?


Background:

Before she drew away from her family and became an independent, Eden was a high-functioning, successful adolescent who excelled in academics with nary any effort and was headed straight for some pretentious Ivy institution where she would undoubtedly have made a name for herself and then married herself off to some other bigshot intellectual.

But there was more to the world than money and jobs. Like the magic that came to her like a mountain spring, hot and boiling and refusing to be ignored. She stopped resisting and eventually accepted her birthright with open arms - but in doing so, she turned her back to the rest of the world. How could she go back to dabbling in such child's play when something so grand and novel had opened up to her? She retreated from her family and friends and became the miserly recluse she is today, but she chose to stay in Manhattan so that she could at least remain within reasonable driving distance of her family. Her fascination with her power hadn't completely stripped her of her filial piety, after all.

Her parents and brother gradually drifted away from her, for the most part. They visited her every holiday off work and occasionally over the weekends, but she had become too closed off to really be able to keep in touch with them. They found it difficult to communicate with her, even when they sat in her living room with her, and therefore could do nothing but give her the space she seemed to crave.

Even as Eden continued to build the wall between herself and the rest of society, she was working to hone her magic and broaden and reinforce her knowledge of the arcane. She displayed a passion for magic and the practice of it that far outstripped any attachment she might have had to all other things in her life. There was nothing that made her feel more alive than her own power and what she could accomplish with it. She threw away all secular dreams - university? A solid career? A family (well, she never wanted one in the first place)?

None of that. She just needed herself, and that was all. She even began her quest for the knowledge of the old world when djinn walked freely and magic was here, there, everywhere. How were djinn so powerful? Could she possibly unlock their secrets? Could she possibly lift the restrictions on her human body and become something greater?

Meet Eden, mage extraordinaire.


Roleplay Sample:

Dem Ray-Bans.


Abilities:

She's a mage, and does mage things. She relies on movement and speech to facilitate the use of her magic, rejecting the use of any material medium. She's what you would call an all-around mage, putting greater focus on offensive/defensive power while also acquainting herself with other miscellaneous and more specialized types of magic.


Breaking Point:

Eden strives for perfection. At least, her idea of perfection, which is continuous evolution, growth. Her darkest hour would see her struggling against what she sees as hopeless odds, an adversary she finally believes she could never even hope to conquer. When she hits the glass ceiling over her head and she sees no way to get farther up, that's when everything hits the fan and goes everywhere.



Starting Stat Exp:
HP: 400
Energy: 800
Attack: 400
Defense: 400
Speed: 400
Agility: 1200
Magic Power: 1150
Magic Defense: 1150
Magic Skill: 1300