atratus and celo

[Atra]

GENERAL INFORMATION
Character Name: Atratus Mary Hestia
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Date of Birth: Sanguine 22, 1596
Race: Olisthir
Current Residence: Deliciae, Falian Lowlands
Class: Countess

Occupation: Ruler
Affiliation: N/A


PROS AND CONS
Strengths/Skills:
• Faith in the good of everyone
• Always willing to give second chances

Weaknesses:
• Naive
• Occasionally ditsy

Gifted Combat Skills: None really
Gifted Magics: Journeyman of Restoration
Gifted Stealth Skills: Good at Speechcraft, agile.


PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 140 pounds
Physical Build: Medium, unimpressive
Hair Color: Light blonde
Eye Color: Silvery-blue
Description:
Atratus is not overly short, but she isn't tall either. Her skin is pale, clear, and smooth. Her face is pallid, it shows emotion, though not much. There's always a slight smile on her lips, and it's debatable whether that smile is affectionate or not. The smile seems cold, calculating, and transparent. She's thin in the waist, but curvy in the chest and hips.

Atratus has long, long blonde hair with which she loves to brush and twirl. She has long bangs that hang down in her face, but don't cover up her eyes. Her eyebrows are thin, and they frame her eyes. Her eyes are usually light grayish blue, and large. Sometimes, her eyes change color based on two factors, light and mood. Usually, they range from a colorless gray when she's not feeling much emotion to icy blue to when she's feeling intense emotion, usually sadness or anger. That's why her eyes are grayish blue, she's usually somewhere in the between these two extremes.


PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS
Alignment: Neutral Good
Religious Affiliation: Holy
Likes: Nature, freedom of expression, kindness, faith, animals, fun, mischief, talking, knowing people.
Dislikes: Stress, grief, fighting, pain, and seeing others in any sort of negative state of being.
Description:
Atratus loves having fun, and getting into trouble. At first, when you meet her, she seems quiet and withdrawn into her own thoughts, this is not the case. Atratus loves being around people, and usually, people love being around her. She's very social, and very amiable. She fits in well into society. She can be ditzy at times, and she doesn't have much common sense, but she's very smart and very perceptive. She can notice details which weren't meant to be noticed. Oftentimes, this is a bad thing, because she's naturally nosy and roots into people's business where she isn't welcome.

She's kind, and she'll always help her friends, which for her are easy to make and keep. She's generous with herself, and she always tries to give people one hundred percent of her trust, and she's been hurt many times because of it.

Atratus's secondary personality is very dark and angry, almost cruel. Most people don't know this side of Atratus, and those who do are very unfortunate. It takes a lot to bring out this side of Atratus, which goes so against her naturally fun-loving disposition, but when it does, it comes out in a frenzy of anger. Auctor loves this side of her, just as Kyreer loves the other side of her. When she gets like this she gets malicious, cruel, savage, and all around evil. It's advised to never, ever get her like this, as she's a danger to herself and everybody around her.

HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

The history of Atratus is one of heartbreak.

Atratus's dark side wasn't always present, or maybe it was but it certainly wasn't always acknowledged. She was once completely happy, always bright, just a wonderful girl.

Eventually she met Dicipio. He was everything to her. Her best friend, her confident, and her lover. Dicipio had long curly black hair and a muscular build. He had warm brown eyes and a wonderful, kind smile. He was everything to Atratus. He and Atratus were happy together. One day, completely out of the blue, Dicipio left Atratus. He wouldn't talk to her, he wouldn't look at her. He hated her. Atratus still doesn't know why he left her so suddenly. As was mentioned, Atratus gives herself to people absolutely, and it doesn't break her when people betray her, it completely destroys her. Dicipio destroyed Atratus.

Months later, a new person came into Atratus's life. His name was Comitus. Comitus was different than Dicipio, where Dicipio mainly focused on the lover aspect of his and Atratus's relationship, Comitus was first and foremost her friend. Her best friend, better than Dicipio. She really did love Comitus. He was ashen blonde, and he has the deepest black eyes she had ever seen. His body wasn't as muscular as Dicipio, but it was toned in a strong way. During the long months of their friendship Atratus began to love Comitus as more than a friend. It took a long time before Comitus admitted his love for Atratus. Their relationship was lovely, and Atratus was happy for the first time in a long time. Even though they were now lovers, Comitus still remained as her best friend, that relationship hadn't changed, it had intensified. They came to each other about anything and everything.

Then, he disappeared. Not literally, of course. Atratus knew he was alive and well. But to her, he disappeared. He was gone, and wouldn't talk to Atratus no matter how hard she tried to reach him. He was effectively gone, and again, Atratus didn't know why.

This kind of pain was different than any she had ever experienced. Losing Comitus wasn't like losing Dicipio, this couldn't be healed. But she wasn't totally destroyed again. She was changed. She developed a new personality, one that contained all the pain and anguish from losing Comitus and Dicipio. This new personality was unconditionally horrible. She was a monster. She hated everybody and everything. She spent most of her time in a cougar form because her human half couldn't inflict as much pain as the teeth and claws of her cougar form.

Eventually, a young woman named Anima-soro heard of the lethal roaming cougar, who had killed many of the villagers. She set up a trap for it and set a trail of her own scent for the cougar to follow. Eventually, Atratus came, smelling the young maiden and following the scent to kill her. In her desperation to kill the maiden, Atratus became ensnared in Anima-soro's trap. She fought and fought, until she could no longer. In her exhaustion she reverted back into her human state. When Anima-soro came back to check the trap, she found a crying human girl. Anima-soro held Atratus as she cried.

She took her home and kept her there, and helped her. And Atratus began to heal. The evil wasn't expelled from Atratus, it couldn't be, but it was separated from her personality to form what was almost an alter-ego. Anima-soro died eventually of sickness, and Atratus will mourn her forever.

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GENERAL INFORMATION
Companion Name: Celo
Gender: Male
Age: Adult
Species: ?


PROS AND CONS
Strengths/Skills:
• Sneaky, incredibly fast
• Strong connection to nature

Weaknesses:
• Too friendly
• Wouldn't fight for any weaker reason than survival

Gifted Combat Skills: Speed, agility
Gifted Magics: Master of Earth
Gifted Stealth Skills: Sly, small, lithe, easily unnoticed, quiet, fast.


PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Height: 18" at shoulder
Weight: Twenty-six pounds
Physical Build: Speedy
Description:
Celo is a small white creature with a mainly cream colored coat. He is about the size of a small dog, not including the length of his long bushy tail. He has long ears on top of his rounded head and little tufts of fur on his cheeks. He has large, powerful back legs which he uses to propel himself forward at incredible speeds. He has long sharp black claws all four of his feet that he uses for gripping the ground for traction while turning at high speeds, climbing, and fighting. On the bottom of his tail is a dark green patch of fur that symbolizes a deep connection to nature. He has deep emerald eyes that resemble closely to the grass in Delicae. On his forehead are four red marks, he doesn't know why those are there, but they emerged when he came from one home to another. He has ten black spikes protruding from his body all the way around his shoulder and torso area. These spikes offer a natural protection to his chest and upper back area, because they're hard as bone and wickedly sharp.

Celo is from the Underworld originally, and when he came from the Underworld to Verus three things happened. For one, he got the four red marks on his forehead. They didn't seem to do much. also, his eyes changed from an ugly red-orange color to a beautiful emerald. The third reaction was that the light just around Celo's body seemed to hint at darkness, his body seemed to pulsate the darkness of the Underworld. It made other creatures subconsciously wary of him. If you listen closely right by Celo, the darkness seems to whisper. Nothing coherent, just a light whispering noise, barely there even when you're completely focused on it.

PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS
Alignment: Holy
Likes: Atratus, people, running around, making friends, causing shenanigans, being pet.
Dislikes: Anything that hurts Atratus, pain, intense light,
Description:
Celo is a very energetic little creature. He is always up and about, getting into trouble. Besides his natural energy, Celo is a lovable creature. He's very warm and affectionate, and attaches to people easily. He is especially fond of Atratus, he's always at her side making his odd drawn out coughing noises that communicate love to the person of focus.

The fact that Celo is from the Underworld has little effect on his personality besides a tough and sneaky vibe from him. He doesn't usually want or need to fight and use his claws and spikes, but he can, and he can do it well. His connection to nature is that he can communicate with it, he can talk to the trees and the grass and the bushes and know their thoughts and emotions. This is useful for battle as Celo can sneak into enemy lines undetected and ask nature what the enemy is planning.

Because of where he is from originally, he has a natural aversion the bright lights. He is okay with the sunlight in Deliciae but he shies away from Angels and those who use light magic. He's not openly mean to them, but he's not exactly friendly either.

HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

While the layout of the Underworld and the faces of those who lived there are a distant memory, there is and always will be one that is sharp and clear in his mind. The utter, choking, pressure that was omnipresent. It was like you were being pushed down on by blackness while at the same time uplifted by heat. It was a terrible, terrible place. Celo hated it ever since he was first born. He had a sister at one point, he thinks her name was Defluo. They weren't close, but they didn't hate each other. They had a sort of distant comradeship that brought them together when need be. That's how it is with creatures of the Underworld, don't get too close to anybody because chances are, they will be lost.

Celo's fortunate he never got too close to Defluo. His mother didn't care much for her children, but she wasn't a bad mother. She did what she had to for how long she needed to and then she was done, there wasn't any motherly love or affection for her children. Celo doesn't remember his father in any way.

One day, soon after Defluo disappeared, Atratus, for whatever reason. He waited until she was on her way out and pleaded with her to take him with her. He swore that he would protect her and make her happy until the day he died. He told her how unhappy he was here, how he longed for the color green and not the dusty browns, reds, and blacks of the Underworld. He showed her his green mark on his tail, telling her he didn't belong where there was no nature with which to connect. He needn't have told her all of this, because Atratus would have simply taken him from the harsh place if he had only asked once.

Then he was above the ground in the most stunning place he had ever seen. He gazed around him in absolute wonder at the lush, beautiful world. The light green grass which felt so ticklish and soft under his feet, the soft moist ground that was so spongy and comfortable compared to the hard packed earth of the Underworld, the tall brown trees crested so gracefully with their emerald crowns, the warm yellow sunlight pouring down on him, warming his soul to the very core, the bright reds, pinks, and yellows of the flowers surrounding him. He took a deep breath, not realizing how long he hadn't been breathing. He had arrived in Delicae.

[Holly]