Taurus Heallion
Appearance
Taurus is a small girl with a bright persona. She has short deep brown hair the color of chocolate in the dark which just brushes her shoulders. The tips 0f her hair are colored an ocean blue, as if the waves decided to take residence at the end of her hair. Her hair is almost always parted to the side, and although she tries her best to comb it, it's usually a little wavy and unkempt. Her face is like an oval, more round than sharp but her cheeks are well defined. Brown freckles dot her skin like stars in the night sky, contrasting against her honey complexion. Her deepset eyes are the most vivid of every other part of her body, for the hold a tale of their own. Her left eye is hazel, a mixture of green, brown, and gold, while her right eye is milk white from blindness, a lightning shaped scar running through it from her hairline to her jaw. The mark is white and seems to glow, hot to the touch and evaporates any moisture that comes in contact with it.
Her stature is slightly hunched, from always looking down and avoiding eyes. She walks quickly and takes long strides even though she's quite short at 5'4. She's light on her feet and doesn't way much, who's explains her scrawny limbs and small curves. She usually wears a turquoise hooded cloak made out of rough material with leather armor. Straps cover the leather to keep her armor in place and to hold any weapons and items she may have. Underneath the cloak she wears dark pants and leather boots that come up to her knees. She carries a short sword and two daggers, one hidden in her pants and the other strapped to her armor.
Skills and Abilities
Taurus excells in crafting, repairing, engineering, coordination, stealth, using mechanical devices, navigation, trading, searching, persuasion, and making involving apportation, or movement. She practices her magic lifting objects or varying weights, from small books to large boulders. Although she's okay at melee combat, she's better with ranged weapons such as the crossbow or bow and arrow.
Apportation
[2]"Apportation governs magic involving movement. For example, a telekinesis spell, by which a character could “grab” an object and move it using magic, would be an apportation spell. Calling a dagger from a box at home to your hand is apportation, as is teleporting yourself to another place. Apportation can also cause a person or creature to move from one place to another under its own power. Spells that restrict movement would also be apportation spells.
Apportation is not conjuration — the object or the creature summoned is in existence at the time the spell is cast, the apportation spell simply “calls” the object or creature.
Characters or creatures may either be apported by compulsion (and come under their own power), moved by the spell’s power, or teleported. When the apportation spell uses compulsion, the skill total is compared to the target’s mettle or Charisma in much the same way a persuasion attempt would be used — the target’s attitude toward being apported must be assessed, and the spell works as if it were “persuading” the target.
Lightning Spell
- calls down lightning at target location (curse spell, severe pain on caster)Energy Blast
- can cause a small past of energy to push away target.Minor Healing
- can use magic to heal small wounds and injuries, and mend broken bonesNatural Healing
- can use herbs and other natural substances to heal wounds and injuries (skill)
Personality
Taurus is overall quiet and soft spoken. She doesn't like to talk much with people she doesn't know very well and she keeps a lot of things to herself. She's observant and very aware of her surroundings, likes to keep her eye on things so she'll have an idea of what will happen before it actually happens. She's creative with her ideas on how to solve problems and do things a better way, since she takes time to think about what she wants to do before she does it. She's accepting of other people's differences and she's not quick to judge anyone or estimate someone's ability, since she knows people can be different.
To be people Taurus does know well, she's very open and likes to have intellectual discussions. When she asks someone a lot of questions and tries to learn more about them, that's when they know she's interested and wants to be their friend. She's prefers to work alone and doesn't like to ask for help. She takes a special interest in calligraphy and studying maps. When she was younger she use to create made-up of places she wanted to go, eventually making one based off of the world. She doesn't like to sit still for long and she always has to be doing something, whether it's pacing, fiddling with an item, or tapping her feet. She's doesn't like when people give up easily, especially her friends, so she gets upset when they don't have hope or faith. She's honest but will get quiet if she's thinks that somrthing she'd say would be upsetting. She can be distrusting and inhibited when in anxious situations, clingy to people she likes and seemingly unemotional when scared, worried, or just thinking.
Biography & Lore
Taurus was born as Tabitha Preston to Elena and Jakoby Preston, living in a middle class neighborhood in Alliria. She has two older brothers, Brent and Isaac, and they're apart of the guard of Alliria. Her brothers are older than her by almost two decades, so they weren't living with her when the accident happened. Her parents were killed in an accident involving a stormy night and a flooding lake. Their horse slipped on the rocks and they fell to their deaths. No one heard of them for weeks until a traveling merchant smelled something foul and found them. Since her brothers had to focus on their duties in the guard, they couldn't take care of her so the city sent her to an orphanage and there she lived since she was seven.
She received her scar the night before her parents passed away. Her parents have a room in their house where they kept important and sometimes dangerous things, especially magic things, and that night Taurus had an odd feeling that she needed to go in there. She found it strangely unlock. Inside she found things she could barely comprehend but she could sense their magic and energy. She ran her hands over them, not fearful of what they could do. Towards the back, she saw something glowing underneath a covering. Curious, she removed the cloth and she was blinded by the light, but that wasn't what blinded her. The item was cursed and whoever touched it would have a great misfortune come their way, along with a physical trace of their curse. Of course she touched it and in consequence her parents passed away and she received the scar across her eye. Although Taurus doesn't think her scar had anything to do with her parents, she feels like it was her fault they died, karma for doing something her parents warned her not to do.
Before the accident Taurus was very talkative, bright, and easily excited but after their deaths she became reclusive, quiet, and solemn. No one could get a conversation out of her, not even her own brothers who came to visit once in a while, which they slowly stopped doing as time went passed. She never cried, just never smiled or wanted to play. She liked to be alone, read books, and just sit down and think. When she was old enough to get a job, at fourteen, that's when she began opening up more, since she had to communicate with other people for her job at a merchant's store. They fixed and collected things, making them brand new so others would want to buy them. Taurus had to make deals and since she was always thought of as persistent and stubborn as a bull, they named her Taurus. The nickname stuck and everyone began calling her that.
Eventually the government worker who comes to see to the orphanage every month decided to rename her Taurus, which she didn't mind, and he gave her the last name of a famous warlord long, long ago, Heallion. Her brothers don't know her by this name so when they mention her, usually no one knows who they're talking about.
References
- ^Faceclaim is Lydia Graham
- ^Information from Pazio.