I think I'm done. Just let me know if there's anything I need to change or if Phoebe here is too OP.
Name: Phoebe Eliot
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bisexual (doesn’t really care what gender partner is).
Astrological Sign: Virgo
Birthday: August 31st
Magic: Earth + Spirits = Golems.
Earth magic is exactly what it says on the tin. Phoebe can manipulate rocks and cause small-ish fissures in the ground to floor weaker enemies.
One noteworthy thing Phoebe can do is coat herself in rocks, giving her a suit of armour of sorts that can take on several light attacks or one large attack before breaking apart. However, this does require a lot of focus and can leave her thoroughly drained if not careful.
Her Spirit magic is a little bit more complex. While using it, the temperature around Phoebe drops and others around her may feel unsettled or have the hair on the backs of their necks rise up. On its own, Spirit magic isn’t actually offensive – using spirit magic allows Phoebe to pick up on things that most people would not sense, particularly things like strong emotion or intent. While she can’t usually figure out who said emotion/intent is coming from, she is aware that it is there. However, she cannot pick up on things that others are good at hiding or suppressing.
When combined, Phoebe’s Earth and Spirit magic create two golems that act as her bodyguards. She usually communicates to them via thoughts. The golems can be in either one of two modes: passive, or aggressive. Of course, being passive makes these golems completely benign and more like gentle giants who serve Phoebe diligently.
When they become aggressive they are quite a force to be reckoned with. Their power lies in their strength and durability; however they are quite slow, making them easy targets for opponents. Their main method of attacking is punching, but they are also capable of kicking if they aim in time.
Weapon: Golems.
In Jewish mythology, the golem was an artificial being created by mud and magic. It acted as a mindless servant for its creator and was said to be one of the inspirations for the creature from Frankenstein. However, when Spirit magic is involved, things change, and golems are essentially given “spirits” of their own. These tragic giants become more than slaves, gaining personalities just the same as humans do.
Phoebe’s two golems stand at seven foot and are made of smooth rocks that feel quite cold when touched. Both golems have cores where their “spirits” are located, and if these cores are removed then they will deactivate and their bodies disintegrate until said cores are either activated or enough time has passed for them to have enough energy to hold themselves together again. That does not mean that the cores themselves deactivate – as long as Phoebe is alive, they stay active.
The first golem, nicknamed “Corvus”, is indigo-coloured and sports white spots on his back that make up the constellation which he is named after, and this makes him appear as if he is made from the night sky itself. Corvus is even-tempered for the most part, and is generally polite and patient with others, but will not follow orders from anybody but Phoebe. The core in his abdomen glows a pale shade of yellow, resembling the rising moon.
The second golem, “Hydra”, is a deep shade of dark purple making him look as if he has been made from the morning twilight, with the constellation he is named after running across his shoulders and chest in gold spots. Hydra is a little more impulsive than Corvus and while the both of them are incapable of speech he will voice his feelings in grunts and growls. Like his brother, Hydra will not take orders from anybody but Phoebe. The core in his abdomen glows pale orange, resembling the rising sun.
Appearance: Phoebe generally has shadows under her large silver eyes and always appears disturbed or tired, when in actual fact she feels completely fine. She keeps her frizzy grey hair mid-length and sometimes perches a pencil behind her ears if she needs to remember something important. She stands at around 5’7” and has quite a lean figure, with pale skin that creates quite a striking contrast against her eyes and hair colour. Phoebe’s nails are also quite short thanks to her habit of chewing them whenever she gets stressed (she has started trying to counter this by applying a kind of nail polish that makes her fingernails taste bad when she starts biting). She tends to fidget a lot too, and while this isn’t so bad while she’s drawing or studying, it can become quite blatant if Phoebe isn’t doing anything to occupy herself.
Phoebe is particularly fond of wearing clothes that are generally muted colours such as grey, beige and pale shades of colours like yellow. The clothes she is most commonly seen in are usually practical, her favourites being a dark grey waterfall-style cardigan with a mustard and cream striped sailor top underneath. Alongside this is a set of torn, pale-slate coloured pair of denim trousers and brown, well-worn hiking boots. Phoebe also wears a Star of David stung along on a string of leather and is never seen without it. She has a small sketchpad and art supplies that she takes everywhere she goes and can often be seen scribbling in it whenever she gets the chance. Most of these drawings are either poses from people she watches as they pass by, or of fantasy-themed creatures she creates whenever she gets really bored or can’t see anything in the real world that she wants to draw.
Personality: If one was to try and spot Phoebe in a crowd they would have a hard time doing so, she generally blends in and is uncomfortable being the centre of attention. While she is quite skilled at the things she enjoys she does find it hard to take on compliments, often saying things like: “oh, it’s not my best work,” or: “I could do a little better,” as a response to praise. She tries her best to get a job done, no matter how large or small, and always makes sure that she does the most she possibly can to the point of obsession. This line of thinking can also creep into her everyday life which can lead to her attempting to perfect mundane tasks like cleaning or cooking. Phoebe has ruined many sketchpads as a result of erasing too much of pictures she isn’t satisfied with and ruining the surface of the paper she’s working on.
In addition to chewing on her fingernails to relieve stress phoebe also tends to chew on her pens and pencils when worried – particularly whenever she is evaluating her own behaviour. She is her own worst critic, and no matter how many times she is told that she’s a good friend, Phoebe will have trouble trying to believe it. She only sees the worst in herself or the flaws in her work, and is always comparing herself and her art to others thinking how flawed she is compared to them. This is true with her love life as well – Phoebe has never had a boyfriend or a girlfriend, and that is mostly due to her inability to see herself as anything but unlikeable. She finds it difficult to receive trust and keeps promises that people give to her fresh in her mind – and retreats from her potential partner if this promise is broken.
When it comes to others, Phoebe is the exact opposite. While she finds it hard to accept trust, Phoebe is more than happy to show others that she fully trusts them – even though those people are far and few between, and usually have to coax her out of her shell a lot. She tries to see the best in others – and takes it personally when she is pushed away or believes that she can’t see any good in the person she’s trying to help.
History: Hailing from the United Kingdom, Phoebe is the daughter of a pair of morticians – Jenny and Ivan Eliot. For as long as she could remember, Phoebe had lived around dead bodies and didn’t think anything of it. She was fascinated by death – most of the people her parents worked on looked peaceful, as if they had merely gone to sleep and this was all she thought about them until she got to school. Other kids knew about her, but of course being as young as they were, they could not understand why Phoebe could live around rotting corpses and dead people. They asked her so many questions – most of which were usually inspired by stuff they’d seen about dead people in horror movies – and when she expressed that dead people weren’t frightening in the slightest, most kids started to avoid her thinking that she was weird as hell. As a result Phoebe began to believe that her behaviour was a problem and while she tried to fit in, she couldn’t help but think that she was being treated like an outsider because of her own fault.
Life was like this for Phoebe until she met her grandfather. She was six at the time, and soon discovered that he was very different from other grandparents she’d met. For one he had a strange accent she’d never heard before, and two he always wore an odd-looking hat that he called a “yarmulke”. She soon learnt that he was of the Jewish faith, and that her mother had chosen not to be a part of it when she left home and married Phoebe’s father. Both her parents didn’t believe in any god or religion, and had merely told her that death was the end for everyone, so learning of belief in the afterlife amazed her. She took in everything her grandfather had to say about life after death, and knew that she wanted to know more long after she’d gone home. Phoebe became enamoured by ghosts, and studied them at every chance she got be it via books, television or looking at stuff online. Her parents didn’t think much of it but let her research these things regardless – at least the risk of her messing up their work had slimmed dramatically.
It was while working on this ghost crusade that Phoebe discovered all about astrology, which she was strangely drawn to. One constellation in particular caught her attention, and that sign happened to be her birth sign, Virgo, as well as two neighbouring constellations – Corvus and Hydra. While her grandfather had ignited the flame of belief, it was learning about Virgo that fuelled Phoebe’s desire to know more. While learning about ghosts and spirits was still important to her, Phoebe found that she was more at home with the stars, even feeling that perhaps, if the constellations really were as important as she believed them to be, then she wouldn’t be judged by them no matter how bad she felt about herself. Her grandfather passed away when she was eighteen – which broke her heart. But there was a silver lining to this cloud. Her grandfather had left quite a fair bit of money for her in his will – as well as a necklace featuring the Star of David as his parting gifts.
Of course, Phoebe set some money aside for a rainy day, but after learning all about an extremely good astrology course being offered at a university in Japan, she thought that it might be best to pursue it based on the strange, but fitting amount of faith she had gained from learning about religion and the astrological zodiac. She had more than enough money to buy a ticket and arrange for her transfer to the university and as of now is taking part in said course alongside eleven other students.
She can’t quite figure out why other people complain about the cold air around her so much though…
Other:
- Corvus is surprisingly good at brewing tea. Because of this Phoebe has designated him as the one who makes hot drinks for her.
- While she won’t admit it publically, Phoebe does follow some of the Jewish religion, including not eating things that aren't kosher foods.