Amelia Rose

Amelia Rose,

this is gospel for the fallen ones

Ami is basically a small mouse child who can be one of the sweetest girls you'll meet while simultaneously being a hidden ball of horrible sass and an absolutely outrageous passive-aggressive master.

Naturally she's a pretty dang tender and caring type of person. Although not everyone will know this, considering 9 times out of 10 she'll have her face buried in a book somewhere off to the side or be practicing her runes until the wee hours of the night. Truth be told, she is a little shy and often won't be the first to speak unless it makes sense for her to or a silence stretches too far. After that first encounter though, Ami's true nature quickly kicks in. She is an energetic, determined little thing that is consistently in a decent mood. She loves to joke around with others and adores puns, especially the terrible ones. She often makes many of them herself with those she's the most comfortable around. A small circle that also gets to experience the wonder and hilarity that is a drunk Ami.

However Ami is far from being perfect. She has severely low self-confidence (though she's been working on it) and can get extremely discouraged pretty quickly. In arguments she swiftly backs down and often goes silent as a ghost, passively taking it with a lowered head and small flinching if the volume gets too loud or she sees a limb move quickly. Any time Ami feels like she's failed, she will constantly beat herself up over it and repeatedly remind herself that she can't let it happen again. By far she is her own worst critic, and occasionally this can lead to isolated mental breakdowns and minutes of pure sobbing locked away somewhere.

Ami is a huge mess of mixed genes from both her mother and her father, though she tends to carry more traits seen from her mother's side of the family.

From her mother's side she's inherited her light brown/auburn hair. Depending on the lighting she's in, it can appear to be a light red color or a light brunette. No matter what, there are always traces of one or the other and it's lighter than any of her siblings. In further contrast she keeps it cut at shoulder length, not so much to stand out as to keep it manageable. One of the first things people notice are the red colored pair of glasses that rest on her nose. They're thick and pretty strong to make up for her fairly poor eyesight. It's a staple for any outfit she wears and stands out very clearly from all her other siblings. They were a gift specially picked out for her by her closest sister, Rachel. They almost never leave her face. Out from those glasses peer a set of light brown eyes that are nearly amber in color. This she got from her father, though her eyes are a tad lighter in shade and a 100 degrees warmer than his.

Physique wise, Ami is small, standing at a measly 4'10". Out of her family, who is already pretty short, she stands the smallest. She's not particularly strong looking either. Her form overall is a very delicate one, though she does exercise from time to time. Occasionally. Sometimes. Fortunately though by default she's relatively slim, even if her body doesn't have any crazy muscles or anything. All together, she has a very petite frame. Although it does hide its blemishes: there are a few faded scars here and there across her skin, mainly on her back or her hands.


Ami has a....decent understanding of fashion. Usually she doesn't concern herself far too much with like, like the fact she barely wears any makeup but for the bare minimum or the fact she doesn't try many different outfits than what works. Typically she wears skirts with tights/spandex underneath, and at least some form of jacket or hoodie on. She has been known to have full-on grunge days where she only wears sweatpants and hoodies; whatever makes her comfortable and bundled up.

Parents
Mother: Erik Rose (Living in Felici)
Father: Monica Rose (Living in Felici)

Siblings
Sister: Lily (Living in Felici)
Brother: Michael (Living in Felici)
Brother: Noah (Alive, but location unknown)
Sister: Paige (Living in Felici)
Sister: Rachel (Living in Felici)

Extended Family
Meh: N/A


Here we go: back at it with the backgrounds!

Amelia Rose's parents met through family connections. They knew each other when they were children, and seeing as how they were close to the same age their two families thought it would be perfect to set them up with each other. So very an early age the two knew they were going to be wed. Since both were fairly big name families with plenty of money due to family businesses, the whole thing was more political than anything. They were expected to have kids, and as fortune would have it they managed to have 6. Guess someone got busy.

Amelia Rose was born as the 4rd child out of the 6-bunch litter. She was small, painfully so even in comparison to her relatively short family. Yeah, height never really ran high in the Rose family genes on either side; the tallest of their bunch was 5'5". Ami's petite figure made her pretty easy to overlook, and having 5 other siblings made it even easier. Since she was stuck as one of the middle children, not much was expected of her other than she behave and not dishonor her family name. Although how she could do that to a family that already had some shady dealings going on the with underground was beyond her. Either way, Amelia was expected to obey orders and not cause much of a fuss. She tried for a long time to please her parents, but it never truly paid off. She wasn't Lily or Michael, who would go on to lead the family businesses: One stooped in cybernetic parts and the other in software. If anything she was just a footnote in a page of her family history. One her parents fully expected to stay that way. For a while, she did. Amelia buried herself in any book she could find, often staying until the very last minute before the library closed to finish off just one last page. Instead of spend her money on electronics or fancy clothes (though she was dragged out for that on more than one occasion by her younger siblings), she raided bookstores and put her tiny physique to the test carrying back piles upon piles of novels and literature. To say she was a bookworm was an understatement. This girl is Belle levels of bad when it comes to putting down a good read, and she can zone out so badly she won't realize 5 hours have passed her by.

It was a good thing she had her books; her relationships with most of her siblings weren't exactly the best, barring the only two younger than her. Lily and Michael were too busy being groomed by their parents to pay her much attention. They dismissed her almost as easily as Mother and Father Rose did. Noah was off in his own little world and rarely wanted anything to do with any of his family members, Ami included. He rarely ever came home, and the few times he was there were short visits at best. Paige and Rachel were her only true friends in the Rose household. Admittedly Paige was a bit more of a diva out of the two, and suffered from being spoiled rotten. However she genuinely cared for her little big sis, and was usually the culprit behind Ami's kidnapping to go out clothes shopping to update her outfits (because gods knew she needed help back then). Rachel was similarly caring, but not quite so spoiled. She would often simply spend time with Ami and even follow her on her legendary bookstore raids just to spend more time with each other. And like Ami and Noah, she was starting to dislike some of the other members of her family.

It wasn't until Ami was 18 that all hell broke loose and Noah officially left the household.

In an event only referred to as "The Incident," Noah ended up having a horrible fallout with the Rose parents and leaving the whole family behind. Things around the house after that became practically unbearable as Ami was scrutinized even further on every little thing she did. They didn't want another Incident. Already festering with a deep seated resentment over years of being dismissed yet expected to live up to family expectations, Ami was feeling herself crack under the pressure. Only Rachel and Paige knew about the struggles she was going through day by day, and only those two were aware of the toll each trial was exacting on her. After one particularly bad incident involving a locked door for more than a day, her sisters decided to act. They got information on the Runic University and together they managed to set Amelia up to attend it. In a flurry of planned movement and carefully enacted steps, they got Ami out of the Rose household and into the University without recreating the mess her brother had created.

Once at the University, Ami flourished. She actually enjoyed learning; who would've thought? Being the studious little bookworm she was, Ami had absolutely no trouble learning how to utilize rune magic or her other studies. Academics wasn't the issue at all. It was the social aspect to the university that eluded her at first. Stepping fresh off her family's doorstep, she was woefully shy those first few years she spent learning. As time went on though, she made a number of pretty good friends who gradually helped her open up. After years of being put down, she finally started to construct a backbone and build up some semblance of self-esteem for herself. Enough so that her humor, previously only seen by her little sisters, started to shine through.

At this point in time, Ami is pursuing her Masters in Literature and is only nearly there. She's turned from a shy little mouse into an easily flustered but nonetheless happy person who exactly managed to make some friends. It's a far better picture than the scene she suffered for years back in her family's house. Although she missed her sisters, she hasn't once gone back.

- Runic Novice: After a lengthy period of time studying the Olden Language you have now been given your first small amount of ink to practice. Well done, student. You can now do Simple Magic Circles with very basic Instructions.

(OOC: She won't be using her abilities in combat/be involved in a combat thread until she has Runic Expert/Runic Mastery)




Runic Apprentice: [Requires Runic Novice] You have proven yourself to be a trustworthy student in the Runic Practice. You are careful in forming each and every stroke (when being tested at least) and have memorized the symbols thus far given you. The professors have decided that you are ready to learn more symbols and phrases. You've now started to combine runes in to more complex Circles.

Runic Advanced: [Requires Runic Apprentice] This is the level that approved professor characters will be placed at. Not too newbie where someone will ask "um, why are you a teacher?" but still allowing room for the character to upgrade their abilities. Your circle knowledge is enough that you can even put a complex circle within a complex circle.
***Your max circle count is 5.


Runic Expert:[Requires Runic Advanced] You are at the top of your field. It is not an odd sight to see a Runic User at this level to not only charitably help society but take paid jobs through the Government and the Hunter Guild. But most importantly, you are the major force of the University itself. Your skill has reached the point that you can have even 3 levels of complex runes within a single rune.
***Your max circle count is 7.

Runic Master: You are highly respected and trusted, whether you are a student or professor. Now you've learned the Greater Rune. You are able to make any of your runes twice as powerful as before. An optional additional benefit of reaching Master Rank is if your character has been networking and proving themselves to the Head Master of the University he may share with you the recipe to the ink. This includes the University's metaphoric darker skeletons in the closet ... and perhaps quite a few literal skeletons as well. Do you really want to know? Or would it be better if you stayed ignorant?
***You have no max circle count



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[b]KYOUKAI NO KANATA, Mirai Kuriyama [/b]as [i]Amelia Rose[/i]