Dehlia 'Dee' Senka

Dehlia senka,

this is gospel for the fallen ones

 For the most part, she's kind and respectful.  Any opinions that could be polarizing she often keeps to herself.  She isn't afraid of defending people being discriminated against though.  However, every conversation to her is an opportunity to learn something new about the world.  She likes the freedom of running, and running on rooftops and stuff are no different.   She can seem a bit imposing at times, but she's also relaxed at the same time.  If someone hurts someone she cares about, Dehlia can be fiercely protective.  It's a driving force behind her fighting.  Yes, she can fight without someone hurting someone, but it kind of puts her in combat hyperdrive.

She likes giving gifts.  Mostly stuff she's made.  For example, occasionally she'll give whittled animals or objects to friends or even teachers.  Generally they're made with the individual person in mind, even if it doesn't seem like it reflects something.  She can be a bit dense at figuring things out about herself, but when she looks at others Dehlia's pretty good at it.  Her denseness figures in that she can't always figure out when someone likes her.  That said, she can recognize if she likes someone, and she can recognize when someone likes someone else.  She's her own blind spot in that regard really.  For the most part, Dehlia is adaptable.  Her point of view and her combat style both.  She hungers for knowledge, so it's just part of the journey if something changes in her mind.  At the same time though, loud noises can overwhelm her.  Loud people, specifically.  Loud and boisterous can be fine.  She's tolerant.  But loud is not her favourite thing to be around.

If you're loud, ungrateful or betrays someone's trust, Dehlia has a tendency to judge you harshly.  Those are things she can't put up with.  Incidentally they're also things that link directly to her selfishness.  She's experienced those traits, so letting someone keep on doing that is something she won't put up with if she doesn't have to.  And if she has to be extremely blunt and hurtful to get that point across, so be it in her opinion.  Another interesting thing to note is that with her being loud, ungrateful or betraying someone's trust, her selfishness seems to trump her hatred for those traits in some cases.

As a student, Dehlia is competent and pays attention to her lessons because of her hunger for knowledge.  She's patient with those in years below her.  She's respectful to those in higher years.  Provided they aren't loud, ungrateful or trust betrayers of course.  Or provided they don't rub her the wrong way.  A senior, she's planning on continuing her master's, seeking yet more knowledge.

Dehlia is 5'11", with long red hair, in a vibrancy that can be rare to see.  That and it looks sharp to her that way.  The hair colour is luscious and shiny.  Her facial features like her nose, lips and cheekbones are fairly delicate considering she is not most of the time.  Vying for attention with her hair, another eye-catching part of her truly is her eyes.  Dehlia's eyes really are violet.  They're also quite expressive, and seem to mischievously dare people to mess with her.  She walks confidently, with good posture that keeps her back straight and official.  She has the height, and she isn't ashamed of it enough to be found slouching.  

She's slim built, but don't mistake that for a lack of strength.  Her frame is wiry and athletic, with well muscled arms, legs, shoulders and torso.  Even her feet have an impressive amount of muscle, presumably from climbing trees.  Her stride is, in three words, long, smooth and silent.  The silence in her footsteps is something she does without really thinking about it anymore.  Her posture is proud, yet casual and relaxed at the same time.  

If you looked close at her skin, you'd see it was pockmarked with small, light scars.  They are fading, but they are there nonetheless, a result of running from tree to tree and brushing against branches.  On her lower back, she has a small tattoo of a tree with birds flying from its branches, something she got in remembrance of leaving her home in the forest.


Dehlia makes an effort to look neat and well kept.  She has pride in her appearance after all.  All that said, you can find her in a t-shirt and jeans a good part of the time.  Stylish fitted shirts generally.  Black is one of her favourite colours, along with white.  She uses the colours to contrast with her bright eyes and hair.  Although sometimes she will wear a dress, casual is her go-to.

Parents
Mother: Tierra Jackson(deceased)
Father: Ulysses Senka (born Glenn - took a new name when he ran) (living in Arecia Woods)

Siblings
Brother/Sister: Ryan Senka (twin brother)

Extended Family
Meh: Name (deceased or living where)


Dehlia and her brother Ryan were born in Arecia Woods to a human father and a magi mother.  A magi midwife helped bring them into the world.  Twins.  One completely human, and one born with the prehensile tail of a monkey.  Arecia Woods was their safe haven.  Ryan was told never to wander out of it.  Dehlia always wondered as a child why she didn't receive the selfsame warning.  She would learn soon enough, but her childhood was filled with joy.  They used technology yes, but Ryan and Dehlia preferred to play in the forest.  Ryan's tail helped him in the trees, but Dehlia was a child known for her amazing adaptability.  She became pretty damn good at climbing the trees.  That said, they were taught by their parents to always be respectful of where they were playing, and to be polite to the trees that gave them such fun.  Dehlia took it to heart and so her mother taught her more about the earth.  Tierra was an earth magi, after all.  And although neither of her children were earth magi, Dehlia was eager to learn regardless.  She couldn't manipulate the earth, but it was educational nonetheless.  She learned to respect the spirits, and even goddess Arithelia.  However, while her mother was teaching her spirits needed to be respected, her father was teaching her that respect must be earned.  That some spirits were dangerous.  She was being taught to defend herself and catch food by both of them.  For her father, that meant teaching her how to use a sword.  His priority was his daughter being able to defend herself.  For her mother, food was the priority.  She didn't want her daughter to starve in the forest without her parents, so Tierra taught the girl how to shoot a bow and arrow.  How to hunt.  

When Dehlia was sixteen though, her world changed.  Her brother dared her to a race in the trees to the edge of the woods.  Never one to turn down a dare, she accepted and they raced.  She'd needed to get some stuff in town anyway.  Ryan had told her he'd wait in the forest.  So when she came back from her shopping trip she was shocked to find him not there.  She spent the night looking for him.  Her parents would kill her, was her first thought.  Her next thought was much more grim at the time: could her brother be dead?  He had his magic, so he must be able to defend himself right?  Man they'd both known better than to go too close to town.

Dehlia reluctantly ran home and admitted what had happened to her parents.  Her father searched high and low, with no results other than hearing about two men hauling off a guy with a monkey tail.  Dehlia and her father both tried to follow the trail, but it was to no avail.  All they found was Deneb's bandanna.  Dehlia blamed herself for it.  She felt terrible for having felt jealous of her brother's magic.  Everytime her parents looked at her, there was pain in their eyes remembering her twin brother.  It was like that because of her folly.  It was because of those looks that Dehlia left home at seventeen.

She'd been to cities before, but none as big as Dagos and Felici.  But when she came to the big cities, she thought of two things.  First, she looked for her brother.  Asked around discreetly.  She found out about a magi cult broken up by hunters.  When she tracked down one of the last members of it, she found out through 'interrogation' that they had kidnapped Deneb because of her father.  They hadn't wanted Ryan influenced by a hunter, and had kidnapped him with the intent to raise him to their thinking.  But hunters had broken it up, and in the commotion no-one knew what had happened.  Everyone including Dehlia assumed her brother had been killed and maimed by hunters.  And that right there is when she found out her father was a dishonored hunter, and that the reason Dehlia had grown up in Arecia Woods was because her father had fallen in love with her mother.

That revelation, and the fact her dad had never told her, ate at her.  She didn't go back to confront her father though.  Despite what she thought, going back could mean leading someone back to her father and mother.  She still cared, she wasn't heartless. When she exhausted every lead about her brother, she turned to something she'd learned about in the process.  At first, she resisted the idea of learning runic magic because to her, magic reminded her of her folly with her brother.  The idea was too tempting to Dehlia though.  She was her mother's daughter, and years of being taught 'alright you don't have magic but here's what it's like' was part of her mind and how it worked.  

She enrolled in the Runic College when she was eighteen.  She is a very good student even now.  However, when she was nineteen, her mother died.  She went back to the forest, careful that no-one followed her.  They buried Tierra together, mourning the loss of another family member.  It was then that Dehlia confronted her father about his time as a hunter.  He told her he regretted every magi he hunted, once he met her mother.  That he spent his time running, but also trying to make other hunters understand that magi weren't the enemy.  When he settled for good in Arecia Woods and made peace with the fact he was in love with a magi woman, he changed his last name to Senka, a name that means 'shadow'.  He wanted to be hidden like a shadow, and yet also hoped that his former self was only a shadow.  After that conversation, Dehlia had agreed to keep him secret, and had snuck back to Felici carefully.  She's been studying at the Runic College ever since, working diligently.

She understandably believes magi should have equal rights, but for the most part Dehlia keeps those thoughts to herself.  She knows people are racist.  She thinks the discrimination against Cyborgs is ludicrous, although she doesn't really know what to think about Androids.  

And she still believes that through her actions, her brother is dead.  That she killed him.

She's still at the Runic University.  No matter how much she learns about magic, she doesn't think she knows enough.  She has a hunger for the knowledge.  Speaking of knowledge, when she was twenty, she realized she was into girls more than guys.  She was still attracted to both, but she leaned towards girls.  It was a bit of a revelation.  It had taken that long to figure it out because of her time in the woods.  Hard to figure out your sexual preference when you're in the middle of nowhere seeing mostly family.  Also on the topic of knowledge, she's a fairly devout follower of Irileys, as he embodies most everything she believes in.  Knowledge ranks over most anything else.

As for why she's allowed to carry a bow and arrows around?  She's employed by a Felician businessman as part of his security force.  She acts as a bodyguard because she's proven she's a good aim.  Plus, with her parkour skills she's able to go places a normal bodyguard might not be able to.  Her employer greatly values her skills.  She has a permit to carry the weapon and use it to protect herself as well.  She met him before she enrolled at the Runic College.  She was broke and unemployed at seventeen, and she happened to save him from some especially violent protesters.  He decided to employ her.  And to make her a more valuable pawn, he paid for her years in the Runic College.  The deal was that she could work for him while going to school for as long as she wanted.  She'd get a decent wage, and an apartment in Felici.  In return, she would pay back every cent spent on her education.  Dehlia was told that normally she would've been paid more, but it was used for her apartment.  She looks for odd jobs to do on the side of her regular job and schooling, as in her mind that's going to be the way to get out of debt eventually.  

Dehlia's going into her last year until she gets her bachelor of law.  She was stuck between it, commerce and psychology.  However, she thought getting a bachelor of law served her better, and Dehlia plans to be a criminal lawyer.  Unfortunately this choice was also seen to benefit the person she is in debt with, and his family's company.

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.

***Your max circle count is 1.

ARCHERY I (STARTER): Can accomplish fundamental and basic feats with weapon. Example of weapons allowed at this stage: Recurve Bow, Compound Bow, Longbow, Crossbow, etc
Specialized arrows now unlocked:
Downer: Arrow can inject target with a Downer once purchased



Seer: A person with this ability has flashes of still images that go through their mind when they come into physical contact with either an item or another living being (person or animal). This is an unstable ability that works randomly and out of their control. Persons with this untrained ability have been known to be treated as insane so be careful who you share this with.

Runic Apprentice: 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.

***Your max circle count is 3.


Runic Advanced: 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.




MELEE I (STARTER):Can accomplish fundamental and basic feats with melee weapons.
Examples: Knife, Sword, Sai, Hammer, Axe, Whip, Lance, Chainsaw, etc

[b]Alderamin Sky, Yatorishino Igsem[/b] as [i]Dehlia Senka[/i]