Description
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Name: Maurisen Selen Airius
Nickname(s): Mauris, Tiny Minnow
Age: 12 (chronological)
Birthday: August 7th
Gender: Male
Height: 4’4” / 132cm
Weight: 83lbs / 37kg
Blood Type: N+
Voice Sample: Singing (Calc Piano ver, Riseha Cover)
Race: Schetherian (Aquatic Meridian)
There are only five sentient races on Cephorim, the Rindule and the four ‘middle’ races that have a second form that looks like a mixture of the Rindule and different divisions of the animal life. Because of their mixed appearance they have come to be called “Meridians” as a whole in the Common tongue.
Each race is able to interbreed with each other, but the genes do not blend with each other. The offspring will be the same races as either the mother or the father of a mixed racial couple, and not a hybrid.
The Schetherians are known as “Aquatic Meridians” according to the Common language. This is because their second form is aquatic in appearance, and their racial abilities allow them to live in the water. They are not fish, however, and some of the members of the race will take offence when referred to as such.
World: Cephorim (Magical Fantasy theme)
A world run mostly by magic, all scientific advances were made through study of magic and simply adapting magical happenings to be able to be used without magic. And even then there isn’t much that is run by pure science. Most things that are more convenient to be used without constantly monitored magic, or that need to be used by people who can’t use that specific element, are set up with Script Magic. Stoves, cold storage, lights etc. They do not have any sort of instant long distance communication since they are more inclined to talk to people in person and developed teleportal devices for trips that would take too long to walk for.
All people have the ability to use Free Form Elemental Magic, but are limited to only being able to learn 2 elements out of 8 (Water, Fire, Wind, Earth, Dark, Light, Lightning, and Metal) that they were born with. Aside from this Free Form magic they do have some Scripted Magic, but it is only for housing and very few other things.
Cephorim has seen a tentative peace for hundreds of years now, with the nations being polite neighbors with each other, light trade and political interactions but no real friendship until the most recent 20 years. The peace was tested once there was a sudden increase in natural disasters, unexplained deaths and declining resources that started in BCE 687. With this there was also a major increase in assassinations that for most of the years no one could explain. Only in the recent few months (BCE 728) have they learned of the existence of other worlds and also learned that much of their troubles have come from Forsaken off worlders. Because of these recent events the people of Cephorim tend to be rather skittish towards otherworlders. They do not mean to be rude, they’re just afraid to have more people killed. About 98% of the world’s families are patchwork families; people who are not related by blood but have bonded together and become new families because at least one of their immediate blood relatives have died.
History:
Mauris is the only son of Ourin Zen Airius and Amery Hayner Selen, and is the first Airiusian prince to have been shown to the other nations as a baby instead of an 8 year old. This was because his mother died when he was 8 months old and in order to keep him close and not have to worry about him Ourin took him with him most of the time. Consequently Mauris practically grew up on his dad’s lap, at first because that was were he was held, and soon enough because that’s where he chose to stay. Being so young and close to Ourin emotionally Mauris became a prime target for assassination attempts, getting 36 obvious attempts on him by the time he was 12 years old. With his dad was where he learned was the safest for him, so he’s become afraid to leave his side for too long when they’re away from the underwater palace or if there are guests over. This doesn’t prevent him from having normal lessons on all the usual topics, math, sciences, history, magic, martial arts, etc.
At only 12 years old not much has happened in Mauris’ life. He doesn’t leave home much, only to sometimes accompany his dad on political trips to the other nations, but they were never ones that required him to stay overnight. Presently he’s just focusing on lessons and helping his dad out when he can.
After spending two years in Selendris, Mauris appears to be getting more willing to interact with other people, but he’s still very wary of strangers and takes a long time to allow them to deliberately touch him. He’s only relatively comfortable with strangers when he’s with one of his family members, and only sort of comfortable if he’s only with Trance or Sabrina. If he’s on his own completely he’ll get rather cranky and defensive, not wanting people to come too close and having snappy retorts. Trying to grab him or otherwise touch him while he’s alone and doesn’t know you will probably get you stabbed in the eyes or punched in the throat or some other important but non lethal place.
Personality:
Mauris is a rather withdrawn and skittish boy who’s an odd mix of being rather childish in some aspects, but strangely mature in others. He has a great fear of strangers and that affects his ability to interact with them. As long as they’re patient with him and don’t try to get too close to him without his permission then he generally does okay and can hold long and polite conversations with them without trouble, aside from the issues he has with speaking the common language. But if they’re doing things to make him uneasy his speech tends to get sharper and more snarky, especially if they ignore his warnings about not touching him.
He doesn’t tend to get along with people around his age or younger since most of them don’t understand why he doesn’t want them to touch him, doesn’t want to play the games that they do, or otherwise doesn’t understand what it is they were doing. Adults tend to confuse him less, but there are still some that are very strange to him that he avoids talking to, especially the ones who aren’t willing to listen to him.
Abilities/weapons:
Freeform Magic: (Main)
Focuses: None, he’s still studying a balanced course.
Elements and skill level: (Basic -> Novice -> Median -> Advanced -> Master)
Water: Novice
- This is his primary element because he has been using that element more than Metal. Therefore his Water magic is his main offense and defense.
Metal: Basic
- He hasn’t been able to use Metal as long as water, and therefore it’s significantly weaker than his Water abilities. He can create shapes fairly well because of his dad’s skill and help teaching him, but he’s not very fast and it takes a lot of his focus.
Unique Attributes:
- Mauris is one of the few Cephorians who have been taught to be able to use their magic in an almost unconscious state.
- Since he’s still pretty young his magic tends to mimic patterns from his teachers, who happen to usually be Ourin, Mathias, and sometimes Lenma. Sometimes he has classes with other teachers, but his main practice sessions are with his family.
- He sometimes mixes little spikes of metal into his water magic to give it more of an edge when needed.
Martial Arts (Tahn): (Minor)
Mauris’ skill with martial arts is purely defensive and his primary skill with it is just knowing how to dodge and get away from attackers. He’s pretty agile, being able to climb on things fairly easy, and his small size makes him pretty hard to catch. He’s also been taught how to stab people in the eye, and hit other weak points in people.
Water Breathing: (Passive)
As a Schetherian he’s able to breathe water like it’s air. He does not have gills, his lungs are simply adapted to be able to pull oxygen from water. It only works with water though.
Cold and Pressure Resistance: (Passive)
As a Schetherian he has a resistance to cold temperatures and high pressures, enough that he can swim around in the bottom of the ocean without problems. He can still feel the cold on his skin, but it doesn’t ‘go to the bone’. The only time he’ll shiver is if he has a fever or if in temperatures below about 30°F/-1°C.
Additional Info:
He has a great fear of being touched by anyone but a select few people. This is because of the amount of times assassins have used contact poison on him either delivered by themselves or using someone else. It usually takes a long time for him to eventually like someone enough to want to start snuggling them and therefore he’ll approach them, but they can’t rush it.
Mauris can’t say the sound L very well at all, and he hates the feeling it makes him have in his throat so he’ll avoid saying it. His native language doesn’t have that sound, so he ends up trying to speak that language more than Common. If he has to speak Common though he’ll either avoid words with L in them completely, or he’ll change the L into an R or Y depending on where it is.
He has a very heavy accent because of lack of practice with the Common language, and it gets worse when he’s tired.
As a side effect from being taught to react to things in a subconscious state, he’ll end up babbling nonsense when he’s half asleep.
Aura:
Color: deep red and blue mixed together to purple hues for a swirl of three hues. Like some clouds at dusk.
Movement: A mix between clouds and thick foggy mist.
Temperature: Cool, but also humid.
Extras: Very anti touchy to those Mauris doesn’t trust/ isn’t familiar with etc. It’ll shy away from them almost like a scared kitten. However for the people Mauris trusts and likes his Aura will cling to them almost desperately.
Important Relations:
Father: Ourin
Mother: Amery Hayner Selen
Uncle: Mathias
Aunt: Lenma
Cousin: Trance
Adoptive Grandma: Nagini
Close Family Friends:
Uran
Harlow
Falin
RP Prompt:
"You suddenly woke up in one of the 3 starting worlds, with no clue why/where you are and no luggage besides the clothes you currently wear and anything you had been holding. What do you do?"
Mauris hated waking up after passing out, but this time is was scarier because everything had been such a mess before and when he woke up they were all out in the middle of nowhere. He didn’t even recognize the place from his lessons, and after seeing the others’ reactions he knew this wasn’t a place on his world. For a time he hoped they were just lost in Aria, but that didn’t seem to be the case, and that was confirmed when someone came and told there where they were. The boy’s first reaction was to hold tight to his dad and watch quietly, and that’s what he would keep doing until he felt safe enough to do otherwise.
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