Scout Smith
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Background
Okay, so long story short? My brother Sebastian and I are homeless orphans. Sure, I could go into detail about 'Oh our clan killed our parents because they had my brother turned into a werewolf as an infant in order to keep him from becoming possessed by a demon and our Gypsy clan found out and tried to kill my brother but our parents tried to protect him and died so my brother grabbed me and we took off and we've been homeless drifters ever since and my stupid brother wants to live with old traditions and stuff but hellooooooooooo, we're gaje now, not Rom, so get over it and go steal someone's wallet so I can smoke cigarettes and eat food and maybe get enough quarters to wash our clothes' but I won't.
I'm sixteen. I've lived in a few states now. I can't imagine being stuck in one place forever. I've met people who traveled the world. I've met people who never left the state they were born in. Someday I want to be one of the people who sees the whole world. But for now, I'd be happy to be someone who convinces her brother that the gaje world isn't so bad so maybe he'd stop being so hung up on what we don't have anymore and focus on what we do have.
The Curse
"May you wander over the face of the earth penniless, never taking a lover to bed, never drink water twice from the same well and never cross the same river twice in a year."
This is the curse that was placed on Scout and Sebastian as they fled the clan. It's more of a metaphorical statement than a true one, intended to mean something like You'll always be broke. You'll never have anyone who loves you even if you love them, or if they love you they will die or leave you. You'll always have wanderlust. Basically, you suck and will never be happy with your life.
Though it was actually intended, and placed on, Sebastian, Scout's convinced that it means she'll never be happy and she'll never fall in love. There's no real telling if there was any actual power behind it to make it a real curse, but it doesn't matter. Scout believes it entirely and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
The Name Game (or why I have a stupid name)
Scout Smith. That's my gaje name. That's what I go by. Sonira, the name I was born with, doesn't really seem like me anymore. When I was younger it did. Sonira means sunlight. I think our parents hoped it would balance out Sebastian. His name was Dracian, which means dark wolf. When we left the Rom world behind, we decided we needed names that were more normal and common. So Dracian stole a magazine from the library and we flipped through it and chose names from it. Seriously, I thought Scout was a really cool sounding name and some actress named her daughter that so... well, it stuck even though I shoulda picked something like Sally or Molly or even Beth. Guess Scout kinda fits me, though.
My Brother, the Wolfman! GRR! ARGH!
Bastian is my family. I mean he is my ONLY family. I don't care that he's a werewolf. I don't care that he's done things he doesn't think I know about. I don't care about any of that. It's not his fault he's got a beast inside that snarls to get out sometimes. Even when he's changed, it's still him. I still look into his eyes and I see my brother. He's never hurt me and never will. It's hard to explain to people how and why we're so close. Some people think it's weird, that we're too codependent. But we have to be. Our survival usually literally depends on each other. And if anyone ever tries to hurt my brother, I swear on all that is holy that I will rip them apart with my bare hands and hex the parts that are left.
Likes and Dislikes of a Teenage EmoPunk Enchantress
I like comic books. I like emo punk music. I like fingerless gloves. I like freshly washed clothes. I like cigarettes. I like movies (especially theaters that have the showings for a dollar and a half so I don't feel so bad about going).
I don't like being seen as a kid. I don't like being hungry. I don't like the times I have to deal with skeezy people who know what I can really do who think I'm only as useful as my ability to create Draba. I don't like that it took me two years now to lose the accent, but when I'm talking to Bastian (who refuses to lose his), I slip back into it. I don't like that we have to look over our shoulders just in case someone who knows the truth finds us. I don't like that my own people consider me and my brother unpure because of what our parents did to him.
Personality
Scout is an outgoing, opinionated young woman who veers from being far older than her age to being a little too eager to fit in. She's spent years bordering two worlds, not belonging to either of them, and it has made her determined to fit into the 'gaje' world so she'll have a place to belong.
She's fiercely loyal to her brother and is hesitant to make friends because she usually ends up losing them. This has left her guarded and wary of people.
When she is playing up her Gypsy heritage and doing the whole 'Look at me! I'm a Gypsy! I'll read your tarot cards and tell you the future!' thing, she adopts her old accent, even though she's mostly lost it over the past few years. When she's being a 'gaje teenager' she veers toward being a foul-mouthed punk brat. When she's being an enchantress around mystic types, it's pretty hard to tell how she's going to act.
Powers and Abilities
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ENCHANTING
I am Drabarne. An enchantress. I create Draba, items with mystical and magical abilities. Good luck charms, love bringers, charms to ward off evil, that sort of thing. It's what we're all taught as children, but in some of the Rom, there is actual power there. I could feel it ever since I was little. It's like a tingling warmth that wells up in me and fills whatever it is I'm focusing on. For a while I thought it was only for charms, but during our travels, Bastian has managed to find others who are aware of this world we're in. Sometimes these people are able to show me things and in exchange, I'll enchant items for them. I haven't really told Bastian some of the things I've created. I've enhanced weapons, or at least I know I've done something to them based on what they've told me to do. Some of them are outright sleezy jerks, but sometimes they give me money or things we need.
Enchanting objects is not exactly a talent I can use to find a real job someday, but it's all I have to offer in an attempt to help us get by. When things are too bad, we seek out the mystics in the area we're in and offer my services to them. Lately I've been feeling like there's a deeper well of something inside of me and the more I draw from it, the deeper I realize it is. It sounds crazy, but I'm wondering if there might be more there than I realize and everyone else has seen it but hasn't really told me what to look for.
(OOC NOTE: Scout has no idea that she's got the makings of a pretty powerful enchanter. She's hardly tapped into her abilities so far. Mostly it's been stumbling onto new things or being used without really understanding what's behind it. If you wanna take advantage of this ICly, hit me up and we'll work it out.)
INSIGHT
I think it has something to do with my other ability, but I can see things.
By see, I don't always mean with my eyes. I can feel things. Sense things. Hear things without words. It's hard to explain. It's like I have some sort of sixth sense about people. It comes in pretty handy when I'm doing the whole fortune telling thing. I have to make sure I add enough bull into it so they're amazed at how accurate I am without me having to do more than drop subtle hints about what I picked up. People act weird when they think you really have some sort of fortune telling ability. Seriously. But it's a quick buck when we need it to play up our heritage and read palms.
I haven't told Bastian about that, though. He thinks I'm just good at reading people. I don't want him to think I'm starting to become our mother, and I think this is some sort of precursor to the visions she used to have that caused nothing but pain and hardship for all of us and I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if I became like that.
GRIMOIRE
Black Cat's Friend
Quick Cast: Yes
Requirements: Quick Casters touch the lock and say the Old English word for either lock or unlock, depending on which they are doing. Others must meditate for five minutes and then touch the lock and speak the word.
Effect: The lock unlocks or locks as if a key was used on it. This spell will not work on door chains, slide bolts, bars, or similar door securing mechanisms. The power level of the spell depends upon the complexity of the lock:
PL1 Simple locks such as those on footlockers and diaries.
PL2 Basic locks such as those on most house doors, cars, and lockers.
PL3 Complex locks such as security and electronic hotel locks
Skeleton Key
Quick Cast: Yes
Requirements: Quick Casters must touch the lock and say Oscail, all others must spend 15 minutes chanting, and then touch the lock with their finger while saying Oscail.
Effect: Not all locks fall into the realm of the mundane, and Sorcerers have ever been seeking knowledge locked away by others, as such a spell was fashioned in the long past to help with this. The casters learned to break through mystical seals on doors and other locks. When cast the spell will release a small spark of bright blue light that will ripple for a moment over seal and if successful, break.
PL2 A simple lock.
PL3 A medium level lock.
PL5 A strong lock.
Expectations Fulfilled
Quick Cast: Yes
Requirements: Quick Casters make a motion of handing something over and whisper a few words. Others must do a five minute ritual before making the same ritual.
Effect: The caster makes a small illusion of an item the target expects to see, such as a test paper or fake id. The illusion looks, feels, and sounds like the real thing but it vanishes when it is put down or looked away from. The impression that the item was there remains. Most people assume they dropped or lost the item.
(YES! FAKE ID FTW!)
Slicing Wind
Quick Cast: Yes
Requirements: Quick Casters make a gesture towards their opponent and speak the latin word for wind. All others must meditate for five turns and then invoke the word for wind.
Effect: A gust of wind slices into an opponent as if a blade, doing 2 x Willpower per success level of damage.
People
FAMILY
Bastian is Scout's much adored brother. He's everything to her. He takes care of her and in turn, she keeps his secrets. Even the ones about him that he doesn't know she knows. She doesn't seem to mind the fact that he's a werewolf and in turn, she doesn't tell him she thinks she's getting mom's psychic abilities.
FRIENDS
POTENTIAL FRIENDS
TO BE WARY AROUND
Feriþi-vã. Periculos! (Beware. DANGEROUS!)
Recent Events
Well, she's made a few contacts, got messed up with a jerk of a vampire, decided to go to the school (NOT as a student!) to find out about students using magic to set things on fire, lost her backpack and most of her stuff in it when someone set it on fire, then ended up getting a new backpack and some other stuff from her boyfriend. Oh yeah, and she has a boyfriend now! A CUTE one! She's not quite sure what that means because she's never really had these sort of strange hormone-driven feelings for anyone before, but she likes being around him, she likes it when he kisses her and he buys her things (which she doesn't like that he does that, but she likes that he thinks to do it).
In short, she's got no freakin' idea what she's doing.
Oh yeah, and she's been to the boat thingy and made some contacts and has been like making things for people. Things like lefthanded screwdrivers that fixes things that aren't broken or some crazy thing like that. Whatev. What, does she have a sign on her that says 'Will work for smokes'? -- er she does. nevermind.
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