The Academy For Mythical Creatures discussion

Character List

Freshmen:
[None yet]

Sophomores:
Neha Arjun Menon - (demigod) (any collab open) ✅
(Face Claim: Virti Vaghani)

Juniors:
Emily Ashley Jones - (half dragon) (any collab open) 🟡
(Face Claim: Janae Roberts)

Seniors:
Daylen Callum Harper - (half-fae sorcerer) (any collab except significant other open) 🟡
(Face Claim: Hayden Christensen)
Amaira Sandeep Gupta - (tbd) (any collab except significant other open) 🔴
(Face Claim: Pooja Hegde)


✅ - Done
🟡 - In the workshop
🔴 - Yet to start

Note: Please don’t take any of my face claims. I’m aware I’m not finished creating my characters yet, but I’d really appreciate it if you could refrain from taking these claims)

✩°｡⋆ Daylen ⋆｡°✩

(view spoiler)["in my defense, your honour, i simply do not vibe with the law”

–Moodboard–

"local dumbass knew what they were getting themselves into but did it anyways"

〈〈INFORMATION〉〉

〈FULL NAME〉
Daylen Callum Harper
〈NAME MEANING〉
skilled blacksmith - dove - someone who plays the harp
〈AGE & YEAR〉
18 (Senior)
〈BIRTHDAY〉
24th November
〈BIRTH FLOWER〉
Chrysanthemum and Peony
〈BIRTHSTONE〉
Topaz and Citrine
〈GENDER〉
Male
〈SEXUALITY〉
Bisexual

"touch her and I’ll break your neck"

〈〈APPEARANCE〉〉

Face Claim:
Hayden Christensen
Distinguishing Marks:
Blackened fingertips from magic sessions gone wrong
A burn around his right wrist that looks like a bracelet design
A birthmark shaped like a star inside his left elbow
Species:
Sorcerer (Half-fae from his mother's side)

"how do you handle being judged by other people?"
"i don’t acknowledge lesser life forms"

〈PERSONALITY〉

〈HISTORY〉

〈HEALTH〉
(allergies, disabilities, etc.)

"unfortunately for everybody i will keep doing what i want"

〈〈RELATIONSHIPS〉〉

-Mother_
-Father_
-Grandparents_

-Best Friend_
(Open)
-Friend(s)_
(Open)
-Rival_
(Open)
-Enemy_
(Open)
-Crush_
Amaira Gupta
Significant Other_
Amaira Gupta - (daughter of a Gandharva/Apsara) (idk I haven’t decided bcs I need to do more research) 🔴

"is that a threat?"
"did it sound like a compliment?"

Likes:
Dislikes:
Fears:
Skills:
Weaknesses:
extreme temperatures
tendency to get overconfidents
fairly easy to distract
prefers to work solo and occasionally forgets he's supposed to be a team player
fancy chocolates
absolutely melts at handmade gifts
tends to misplace things frequently enough to be bothersome
Hobbies:
Language(s) Learned:
English, Spanish, Hindi
Clubs Taken:
Drama
Volleyball

"i’m forgetting something..."
"morals, probably?"
"no it’s something important."

Power:

“Quote”

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˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ Neha ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗

(view spoiler)["Nobody is coming to save you. Get. Up"



"Life doesn't end when you lose yourself for a while."

〈〈INFORMATION〉〉

〈FULL NAME〉
Neha Arjun Menon
〈NAME MEANING〉
love or affection - bright or shining - exalted one
〈AGE & YEAR〉
16 (Sophomore)
〈BIRTHDAY〉
4th January
〈BIRTH FLOWER〉
Carnations and Snowdrop
〈BIRTHSTONE〉
Garnet
〈GENDER〉
Female
〈SEXUALITY〉
Biromantic Asexual

"You came?"
"You called"

〈〈APPEARANCE〉〉

Face Claim:
Virti Vaghani
Distinguishing Marks:
A thin scar the length of her pinky on her left upper arm
Faint acne on both cheeks
Has a magical tattoo of jasmine (mogra) flowers on on her left shoulder that goes a little down her upper arm. She keeps it hidden most of the time, but when you press your finger on it the scent of the flowers starts to spread around. (Got this tattoo after A LOT of insistence from one of her friends to be rebellious and do something fun)
Species:
Demigod

"Just because I don't show it doesn't mean that I don't feel it."

〈PERSONALITY〉
 ‣ Outwardly she is all smiles and comforting demeanour, always down to help people if asked easy to talk to. On the inside her mind is a mess of overthinking and frustration. She grew up needing to always be good, whether in behavior or achievements and thus anytime she sees people who are overly confident or perhaps arrogant, or people to whom things come very easily, it causes this feeling of jealousy and annoyance that on the rare occasion bursts out in short snappish remarks. If it’s a former friend, then bitterness is present too.
 ‣ Her habit of bottling everything up, wars with this need to be seen. She regards her emotions as something that inconvenieces people unless it's positive emotions, does her very best to keep people from knowing when she's upset, isn't above lying or shifting the attention away from herself when this happens. And when she shows frustration, anger or expresses that she is overwhelmed, she is always expecting someone to guilt trip her by saying that she has no reason to be feeling this way and that they have dealt with much worse, which is why she is constantly preparing counter arguments in her head to double down on her negativity.
 ‣ Has money related guilt issues, gets this overwhelming sick feeling when people buy her gifts or spend money on her in any way and immediately neede to correct it by paying them back. This leads to disagreements due to miscommunication that she doesn't want to correct sometimes out of embarrassment.
 ‣ Gets this sort of thrill from joining people in whatever activities they might be doing. She might not be a fan of swimming, or swordfighting, but just to spend time with a friend she will always say yes. Being around people energises her in a way very few things do (unrelated to her powers, this is more like a mental/emotional recharge). Loves being around people, being in the middle of a crowd at celebrations, events, concerts because of the excitement and pure positivity all around.
 ‣ She constantly lives with this feeling that she isn't doing enough if she isn't the best, and often times has been called an overachiever or told things aren't that serious when she takes challenges and words to heart. Has a need to be needed by people, wants to help people, because that's a role she took on in friend circles when she was much younger and now simply does not know how to escape it. But the moment people help her she feels indebted to them.
 ‣ She subconsciously tiptoes around the emotions of those older than her. One might notice occasionally that her answers are carefully curated to appease whoever she is talking to. This is mostly when someone raises their voice or otherwise radiates annoyance or anger, and she either automatically tries to defuse the situation or gets the hell out of there and make herself invisible to whoever it is. But also a positive of this is that she is in tune with people's emotions often and tries to step in and help when someone is feeling down.
 ‣ The mental clock/calendar/schedule she has in her head is what she goes by. She has a certain way, a certain order and certain times she does certain activities. If someone tells (orders) her to do something, that makes her much less likely do. Even if she wanted to do something previously, simply being told to do it makes her mind vehementaly reject the idea out of spite. But if that doesn't occur, she has 5 steps ahead planned down to the minute and people rushing her or telling her to prepone or postpone as a precation annoys her. This also is a problem when some unknown variable causes a delay and almost immeditately she starts overthinking everything.
 ‣ Neha likes studying, but without pressure, without deadlines. With projects and tasks she will not function without an immediate deadline to keep her worried and working, but when it comes to studying she prefers calm and being given time and space to learn at her own pace. Mathematics especially gets her excited, certain parts of science less so.
  ‣ Follows rules and guidelines to the letter and gets irritated when other people don't, when others purposely break the rules. Sure, she understands the thrill but she could never consider breaking the rules herself. She considers knowing and following rules as a safety net, she can't be screamed at or hit if she isn't doing anything that is technically wrong. As such however she learns precisely how badly she can bend the rules without technically breaking them.

〈HISTORY〉
 ‣ she was born in india to a father that hadn't expect nor wanted a kid when he ended up with her. 25, focused on his career and having next to no understanding of how to take care of a child, he was less than impressed when all of a sudden he had a six-month-old to take care of and the child's mother giving him a cryptic message about dangers and a camp that she will need to go to once she is old enough. his family was very traditional and him having had a child with someone he wasn't married to was shameful to them and as such they were happier when neha wasn't in sight. as such there wasn't much help when he got her, scrambling around trying to understand why his six-month-old is crying her heart out or what she can reasonably eat, what to do when he needs to go to work and cannot take her with him. he tries. he neither wanted her, nor was her particularly happy when he got her but he tried, because it isn't the child's fault. trying isn't always enough.
 ‣ neha grows up surrounded by a diverse group of people, none of them except her father carrying any blood ties to her. there is her playgroup teacher who brings her back home when her father cannot pick her up, there's the neighbours whose sons she grew up playing with and looking up to, there's her father's colleagues who would visit and bring gifts and that one neighbour who's from a different state teaching her about the festivals she celebrsted back home. she picks up on multiple languages fast because of this, a talkative little toddler who mixes up words from different languages that technically isn't right but certainly makes sense. there are good times, there are a lot of good times and she will never deny it because those times matter to her, but later she will look back at her younger self and think 'you were so much better than i am now' and she can never not think that little girl with the laughter and energy would be much more preferable to her current self.
 ‣ they move to a different states when she is 3, then again at 4. her dad marries his girlfriend a little before the second move and when neha is 5 she gets a little brother. he's small, he's cute, he's a little... opinionated. they're inseparable, they are probably better of separated lest ww3 start, she hates him, when she's older she carries a picture of him with her. it's complicated. because there's jealousy, because her parents are much more lenient with him than they are with her. ("he's younger than you" "he's small" "he only responds to people being sympathetic to him. he doesn't respond to discipline the way you do"). she grows up hating him but unable to not care about him as her brother because it isn't fair that he was never hit for not studying properly, for staying out too late in the park with friends, for going to his friend's houses without informing their parents. he never learnt to read the room when their parents were angry because he was too young, because they wouldn't explode at him when he was a baby and later the fights started to occur less and less when he was older. she learnt to make herself invisible with those fights, learnt what to say and when to diffuse a situation, learnt to figure out what her parents wanted to hear when they're angry and what words of hers could turn a pleasant time into an atmosphere that triggered fight or flight.
 ‣ there are things she loves about this time too. stories her mother will tell her, mythological stories of which there are plenty. songs of their language and culture of which she's only been taught very little up till then. stories behind every festival of theirs, stories about their gods and demigods, about boons and curses, and her mother cultivates her love of stories that eventually leads her to love reading. her father is delighted by it and buys her whichever book she asks for (after ensuring it is age appropriate ofc) on the condition she reads every book atleast thrice. she listens to songs in her native tongue, knows the lyrics even if she can't understand all of their meanings, grows up immersed in multiple cultures and limited photographs because technology is always somehow iffy around her. this later contributes to her being unable to connect with the Greek side of her heritage because she never learnt anything about it, and the more she tries to immerse herself in it while in her teens, the further she feels she is from the culture(s) she grew up with. more often than not feeling like she’s being pulled between two different worlds while simultaneously being unable to be a part of either.
 ‣ at 12 she shows the first sign of her abilities. exhausted after running around for a long time she puts her hand on a friend’s arm casually, then starts to feel energised while her friend nearly falls over with exhaustion. that first time was dismissed as a fluke, two kids not understanding their own limits and exhausting themselves, then it kept happening around more people. a pattern built up. and not just getting energised, but losing energy too. she cannot control it, collapses thrice in school before her parents pull her out for a week citing sickness. it’s impossible to ascertain what’s wrong with her because there’s no signs other than exhaustion, nothing wrong no matter how many doctor visits it’s been, her parents make sure she eats enough and drinks enough water, her sleep schedule is monitored like crazy, everything is fine but she randomly has bursts of energy or exhaustion that come out of nowhere. with the way she genuinely pales and her eyes roll to the back of her head, no one can even try accusing her of faking anything. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[ ‣ a whole year passed with the struggles of her first abilities, her schoolwork and social life suffer for it. her friend groups drift away slightly even when they care and try to include her. her mood and mental state drops low, and sometimes she even starts to skip meals. it becomes a habit, she loses her appetite a little but her abilities and her body’s survival instincts ensure that she absorbs enough energy to stay alive most of the time. her parents try helping her, but it’s a slow process. they’re stressed and worried too. the tension explodes once in a while and she has to sit there and listen to them get angry, trembling with fear, frustration and worry of her own. it’s during one of these emotionally charged instances that a burst of unusual strength has her make a dent in the metal door of a shelf. everyone wants to dismiss it, but they can all tell there is more to it all even if no one wants to voice it. neha overhears her mother vaguely talking to her friends about this, asking for advice, she listens to her parents discuss their worry when they think she’s asleep, everything gets more and more confusing and scary till the invitation to this school arrives and with it arrive some answers.
 ‣ demigod. that’s what she is. that is the cause of her abilities. gods and monsters, myths and legends, they’re all real. she’s a living proof of it, the daughter of a greek goddess. it’s difficult to wrap her head around it for a long time, she stays firmly stuck in shock and denial for a long while and they have to have a representative of the school come over multiple times before she and her parents agree to give this school a shot. her parents look up the school, research it as much as they realistically could before they sent her here. And here is where she has been for two years now, still figuring things out a little.

〈HEALTH〉
(Mentioned under powers)

"I was the good kid. And it got me nothing"

〈〈RELATIONSHIPS〉〉

-Mother_
Bia, greek goddess of strength, energy, force, power, etc.
-Father_
Human
-Stepmom_
Human
-Grandparents_
Paternal Grandparents, Human, estranged

-Best Friend_
(Open)
-Friend(s)_
(Open)
-Rival_
(Open)
-Enemy_
(Open)
-Crush_
(Open)
Significant Other_
(Open)

"People talk of love they would kill for, love they would die for. Your love is one I would live for."

Likes:
being told stories, reading, singing, heights, physical affection, sweets, wearing rings, fancy earrings, a pair of celestial bronze knives she's had since she arrived, the colour blue, late nights, motorcycles.
Dislikes:
chocolates, mangoes, being put in charge or given huge responsibilities, her head or hair being touched, staying still for too long, winters, learning languages.
Fears:
small enclosed spaces (claustrophobia), dogs, being unable to trust anyone around her, making people angry with her.
Skills:
sketching, and drawing geometrical figure and floor plans
singing
rapid calculations
deescelation of situations
talking to people
creative writing
baking (very rarely does it)
puzzle solving
Weaknesses:
dancing
asking for help (makes her feel like she’s imposing on people’s time or will be indebted to them)
is guilt and stress driven
unhealthy love for information gathering
lacks physical strength over most people
overthinking
bad at basketball
Hobbies:
Reading, writing, bracelet making, sketching (only decent at it so never likes showing anyone her sketches), singing, stargazing, movies (only when watching with other people), hanging out in groups, helping out with organizing things.
Language(s) Learned:
English, Hindi, Malayalam
  ‣Language(s) Still Learning: Greek (slow going) and German (on hold right now)
Clubs Taken:
Newspaper club
Yoga Club
Band

"You're so polite with your sadness. You don't want to ruin this for anyone."

Power:
  ‣ she can drain energy. all sorts of energy. from plants, animals, people, she can pull energy from them with a simple touch (she's joked that once she figures out how to use sunlight like that, she'll be unstoppable) (she cannot in fact function as a solar panel as it turns out however :( ). balancing this out is her abilities to give energy out. exhausted friends, people around her who have missed meals and are on the verge of passing out, with a touch she can give them her energy (also means she needs to be eating three proper meals a day and be snacking sometimes in between but uh... funny story... Also, thing is... she cannot 100% control her abilities.
  ‣ oftentimes, especially when she is upset or in pain or exhausted, if anyone happens to touch her she will automatically start to pull energy from them. on normal days she can keep a lid on these powers, but on the bad days you will only see her in full sleeves and pants and gloves, hiding away as much of her skin as she can so someone doesn't accidentally touch her and almost die because she's upset enough for her ability to drain them near death. it makes the bad days worse because she can't seek out hugs or comfort in that form without putting people she cares about at risk from her.
  ‣ and her sleep, these powers mess up her sleep unless she is quite literally sedated and (very rarely) sometimes not even then. unlike most people she doesn't wake up from sleep feeling energised and relaxed. pliant maybe, but exhausted too. in her sleep she isn't fully in control, so slowly and steadily her abilities leech out her energy and push it outwards into the world. sleeping on beds minimises it, but on quests when they sleep on the floor a lot of her energy seeps into the ground so she's not fully functional on mornings. drawbacks of her abilities are not something she likes sharing with people because it just feels so... unreasonable, and in her mind she's convinced herself it isn't that bad. the only person who knows is one of the campers who works in the infirmary and sometimes has to deal with her.
  ‣ her mother being a goddess of strength also gives her enhanced strength when her emotions are particularly heightened. extremely happy, terrified, enraged, any of that and she could probably break down a door or a tree with ease. she's not sure. never tested it out.

"Just because I understand why people are the way they are doesn’t mean I like it."

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