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Full Name: Acelin Jade Ashdown
Nicknames/Aliases: Ace, Lin, Jade, Ash
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 02/20
Place of Birth: Calais, France
Species: Shadowhunter
Abilities: Photographic memory, can often tell if someone's lying or not, really good at hiding emotions
Institute: New York
Parabatai: None
Appearance: Acelin's hair is a deep, dark black. Sometimes in the middle of the night and the moon shines on her hair just right, it can have a tint of navy blue. She keeps it long and uses it to hide her face in any normal confrontation. She puts it up into a tight, perfect pony tail when about to fight or solve a hard problem. It comes down to just below her shoulder blades and falls in soft curls. Her eyes are a molten silver, often changing for lighter to darker shades with the light. She is also strikingly pale, and often jokingly mistaken for a vampire. She is a short 5'7" when standing normally, and 5'4" when hunched in a hiding or hunting mode. Shes only 100 pounds due to her scarce diet and constant exercise. She could and has easily walked into any place 21+ without being checked due to her professional demeanor and tone of voice, and she can easily slip in without anyone even noticing her.

Personality: Acelin is kind, gentle, caring, and easily concerns herself with other peoples well being. She will go out of her way to help others, whether it be solving a puzzle, or getting them something. She has sympathy galore, and can understand people's difficult situation. She works hard, and is patient with those who need help, doing her best to help people grow and develop as humans, and overcome weaknesses. If she knows she can do something to help, she will do her best to do it, and she wont stop until she is finished.
Acelin also loves reading, solving puzzles, and overall intellectual work. If you put a puzzle in front of her she wont stop or take a break until it's done. If it's an impossible puzzle, then she will either solve it, or figure out it's impossible and make it to where it is possible. She likes 'reading' people, figuring out aspects of their life through their physical and verbal cues. If she is faced with a problem or fact, she will solve the problem and fact check. Often she doesn't believe something for a long period of time until she can make 100% sure it is right.
Acelin is a complex person, but very few people know her as well as she knows herself. She is shy, and rarely talks to anyone unless it's crucial for her to help them, or harm them. She usually does solitary activities, and avoids social gatherings like a swarm of angry hornets. Because of her social disadvantage, she often has a hard time conversing with people without being misunderstood, or having her point completely missed altogether. She usually just gets ignored, and doesn't talk to people because of that.
History: Acelin was born in Calais to a loving mother and a seemingly devoted father. When her father found out her mother was pregnant, he left France to hide out in America. Hoping to find him, Adela, Acelins mother, followed him to New York after the baby was born. Of course he then proceeded to go back to France without Adela's knowledge, but she continues to look for him in New York. Having been a retired Shdowhunter, Adela not only enrolled Acelin in Krav Maga on her 8th birthday, but had put a rune on the back of her neck to keep her from seeing anything shadow world related until her 18th birthday. It wasn't perfect, and a LOT of things slipped through the cracks, but Acelin didn't say anything.
She taught Acelin survival skills, and gave her a set of throwing knives for her 13th birthday. She said they were made of iron and decorated with pictures from a long lost Nordic tribe, while that was obviously not the case. Acelin practiced agressivly, making her own schedule of school, violin, throwing knives, and Krav Maga. To keep her training during most of her waking hours Adela home schooled Acelin, teaching her effectively and quickly to be able to keep her up to date on her practice. While she was focused more on Acelins self defense (for obvious and demonic reasons), she continued to push Acelin higher and higher on the American grading scale. She was reading early high school level books in the fifth grade, and college level textbooks as a freshman. Acelin loved everything she did, as well as the weekends when she was allowed to go wherever she wanted as a break, as long as she carried her knives along with her. She loved going to the nearby art museum, and never got tired of staring at her favorite peices. She loved art, and while she didn't have time to study it to become a professional, she did doodle a lot. And with those doodles came a LOT of accidental runes. More often than not she would accidentally set a notebook on fire. She would also doodle on her forearm in pen, and more than once accidentally gave herself some weird temporary power. She would of course quickly wash it off, but it was still spooky.
Acelin, now 16, has been doing all of this for a while. When she was 15 her mother died in a fire that spread suspiciously a lot like the fires she would accidentally set on her notebooks. She mourned severely, but kept up her Krav Maga and throwing knife throwing practice, somehow evading the landlord of the apartment building she lived in.
Likes/Dislikes: Reading, being alone, dark places, corners, fighting, sleeping, thinking, playing the violin/Attention, bright places, lots of people, loud noises, being injured to the point of not being able to defend herself, people who underestimate her, ignorant and arrogant people
Strengths/Weaknesses: Fighting, learning, knife throwing, doodling, remembering and memorizing runes she's "never seen" before, nurturing children and animals/Memories of her mother, her love of the violin, emotionally straining events, watching people get hurt or die
Fears: Her "vivid hallucinations" of demons and other "mythical" creatures. People viewing her as anything other than someone who is really good at fighting and antisocial. Her father.
Family: Mother-Dead Father-Missing
Sexuality: Complicated
Relationship Status: Open
Alliances: None
Residence: New

Hey Kaya, can you please approve or tell me what I can fix on my character? Thanks!

Acelin is APPROVED

sorry for the wait, luv

It's totally okay! Y'all are busy and have better things to do. Thank you!

No problem

Thomas Monte:
• Vampires can't have children
• Vampires can't be part of an Institute
• Vampires can't have parabatai
• Nobody can see through walls
• Vampires don't have claws, and they can't cut through anything.

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                         Adrienne Hamilton

                                        Addie

                                                {gender}- female
                                                {relationship status}- taken, dating Osten Price
                                                {sexuality}- heterosexual

                                                              {age}-26
                                                              {birthday}- 17th October

                                                                    {nationality}- Filipino British
                                                                    {City of Residence}- London

   

Addie was born in the middle of an unusually cold October in Oxford, England. Her parents were part of the professional class and worked as professors at the University of Oxford which gave them a nice cozy lifestyle. But despite the fact they had a reasonable amount of money they instilled the benefits of hardwork into their daughter. Nothing in her life has come free. She had a good childhood with lots of friends and a loving family. She was reasonably smart and always got on well at school but her interests didn't really lie in academia, she loved to sing. When she was young it started as a way to entertain herself why her parents heads were stuck in books, something that was fun. She would stand in front of the TV and dance around, singing to all the latest top 40 tracks which amused her parents greatly. When she started school her favourite lessons were music ones and with her parents encouragement she joined the choir as they believed it was one a good way for her to make friends and two they could tell she loved singing. So she did and Choir became her favourite part of the school day. Well until her parents got her professional singing lessons from a tutor. When she was nine years old she joined the local youth theatre group after encouragement from the her singing tutor as while the little girl was good at singing, she wasn't confident in performing in front of people. To everyone's surprise she fell in love with all aspects of performing, as what started as a way to gain confidence became a life long love affair with theatre. She performed in two shows a year and while she was only a chorus member to start with she loved the atmosphere of it all, the way the cast was almost like a mini family. As she got older she started secondary school and made a group of good friends that were still her friends now. She breezed through school and got good grades and her parts in the shows got bigger until she was one of the groups main principles. When she left secondary school she did at btec in performing arts much to her parents surprise as they wanted her to do something more academic but she wouldn't be swayed. She graduated with a distinction in performing arts and was accepted to Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. While at university she met Osten. She was working in the local starbucks to make some extra money and at the same time everyday he came in and ordered the same thing and eventually he asked her out. She said yes of course and they've been together ever since. She graduated university with a first and got a job in the ensemble for Les Mis. At 24 she got her first big role as Christine in Phantom of the Opera and just recently left Phantom for the role of Sophie in Mammia Mia. But not everythings is well in her life. She had been getting pains in her lower stomach recently and went to the doctor. The doctor told her something was wrong with her pancreas and they would have to do more tests. She thought a worst she would just have to her pancreas removed but it turned out it was much more serious than that. She had pancreatic cancer and it had spread. At most she had a year to live. She was devastated and didn't know how to tell her friends and family or Osten. How do you tell someone your dying?

   

           {fears}- dying, leaving Osten on his own
           {strengths}- singing, performing, acting, dancing
           {weaknesses}- Osten, a good book, not physically strong, clumsy until it comes to dance

           {likes}- performing, a good book, curling up with Osten on the sofa, winter
           {dislikes}- hot chocolate, snakes, spiders,

           {family}- Margret Hamilton(mother), John Hamilton(father), Gilbert Hamilton (brother)
           {alliances}- Osten Price

Addie is a literal ray of sunshine, she is almost always smiling and has kind word for everyone even those she doesn't particularly like. She tries her hardest in everything she does and takes pleasure in even the smallest of things, like getting a new book or learning a new song. She loves the winter and acts like a small child at Christmas when it snows, often running around out there without a coat or even shoes on much to the worry of her partner who believes she will catch a chill. She loves life and lives it to its fullest because what's the point of living otherwise. Addie is an optimist and always believes that the glass is half full even when the circumstances are dire. She cares more about the people around hers health than her own and is the one to call when your feeling ill as she will bake cookies and bring round chicken soup.

Tae-min and Adrienne are APPROVED

                        
   
                         Galahad

                              King of the Unseelie Court of London

                                                {gender}- male
                                                {relationship status}-
                                                {sexuality}- pansexual

                                                              {age}- 2000 years (he doesn't even know anymore)
                                                              {birthday}- whatever date he decides

                                                                    {nationality}- British
                                                                    {City of Residence}- London

         

Galahad is old and therefore his history is long and over the years many details have been forgotten and changed to suit the Faerie King's needs.

Galahad was born a couple thousand years ago, making him one of the oldest beings alive on the planet today. He doesn't really remember much about his early childhood, just a beautiful woman with long light brown hair and hazel coloured eyes who used to sing to him. He's not even sure who she is anymore but if he had to guess it would be his mother, the previous monarch of his Unseelie court. His later childhood and adolescence are something he has vivid memories of as the time wasn't exactly pleasant. In fact it was far from pleasant. An unseelie court isn't exactly the nicest of places and the court Galahad now rules is one of the worst. The fae are cruel and pray on any weakness shown and so Galahad was shown how not to be weak. He was beaten and tortured and wasn't allowed to scream. If he screamed the torture became worse. So he learned not to scream, to never show when he was in pain.

But not showing pain wasn't the only thing he learnt, he also learnt that to thrive in the Unseelie Court you needed to be cruel, it wasn't enough to just not be weak. He had to embrace his darker nature and he did. He became one of the most feared monarchs of the unseelies and also one of the most long lived. He has held the court now for nearly 2000 years and hardly anyone remembers a time when he didn't rule them.

And neither does he because that's all he remembers from his childhood and he doesn't remember much about his years of ruling, only that they pass by in a cycle of blood, vengeance, love and sex. It is always the same thing.

A few hundred years ago he fell in love with a seelie queen who he knew as Tatiana. She was a breathe of fresh air unto his monotonous existence but a brief one. He tired of her all too quickly as she proved to him she was just like all the over lovers he had over the years lovely but boring. She has hated him ever since and he regards her with veiled amusement. But don't get his feelings wrong over this matter he is very possessive over those he views as his and hates when they get ideas above their station including being with other people so when Galahad found out she had taken several other lovers he was furious, well that's what he led everyone to believe. Really he was delighted as it gave him the perfect excuse to start a war with the seelie court. Something he's wanted to do for centuries and has done in the past but this time, he wanted to remove the queen from her throne. He had a plan for her court and it didn't involve her ruling it, in fact it involved another woman. A woman he had met at a ball in London at the turn of the last century. She had been slightly tipsy and had slipped and he had caught her. He thought nothing of it then, she just another beautiful woman but they kept meeting and several years later they fell in love. He promised she would become the queen and she will, just not of his court and then through a marriage bond the two courts would finally be one.

Oh and one last thing if his name sounds familiar it is, Galahad was once a knight of a very famous king. What can he say? He was bored.

         


           {fears}- why would he let anyone know?
           {strengths}- tactician, a good leader, intelligent, bow and arrow, not showing pain
           {weaknesses}- cold, cruel, manipulative

           {likes}- blackberries, blueberries
           {dislikes}- noise, mortals, the seelie court

           {family}- none that's alive
           {alliances}- hasn't got any

If you ask anyone for one word to describe the Unseelie King they would say evil and in their terms he is but no-ones the villain of their own tale, too himself the fact he murders for fun and enjoys causing people pain is fine. It's the environment he was raised in and he hasn't changed all these years. He like all fairies is manipulative and enjoys toying with mortals, shadowhunters and other downworlders alike. He is very old and as such is actually more intelligent than most would give him credit for as he's seen empires fall and rise, kings die, wars start and end but he's still here. And well if you ask him if caused any of those events, the answer would be yes. What do you expect of him? He's immortal. He has to get his entertainment from somewhere. Even if it is from destroying mundanes lives and causing chaos. If there is one thing Galahad likes it is causing complete and other chaos and watching as everyone around him falls apart while he takes enjoyment in their suffering. Galahad is a cruel man and often seems cold and stern but many of those close to him could tell you of his passion, for he has a fierce temper that any one with the slightest bit of sense would be afraid of. For the past few hundred years Galahad has been very bored with his life despite his careful planning to finally destroy the seelie court and take it for his own.

zain abdullah turan ✕ male ✕ twenty-three

bisexual ✕ shadowhunter ✕ zayn malik

The resistant "Bradford bad boy" - as he was dubbed when he first moved to the States - is quite the looker. His entire presence reeks of dark and gloom, yet he still seems to have everyone's adoration. Perhaps the most noticeable of his features - his eyes - shine with mark of curiosity and mischief in their deep dark depths. Dark lashes curl up, giving his eyes an almost feminine appearance. Straight, thick eyebrows line above his eyes. His hair is always changing - undergoing a series of different colors of dyes. Right now, he's kept it it's natural inky black color and leaving it in its naturally distressed state. On his strong, angular jaw, Zain has well grown scruff that runs up to his ears and meets under his chin. A mustache of the same state runs above his rosy, pouty lips. Tanned olive skin has a series of different tattoos inked across his arms and his chest without the addition of any runes. Zain's even got a few piercings on either of his ears. He's a lean boy with strong legs and arms from daily training and work out sessions. At this age, he is as tall as five feet and ten inches and he keeps a healthy weight.

On the seventh of June, in the back of a dirty, run down shed in the slums of New York City , Zain Turan was very literally thrusted into the world ready to fight. His mother, Leena Turan, was heavily pregnant, but being the stubborn woman she was, had decided to come searching for her missing husband in the terrible fighting grounds between a vicious vampire clan and a raging werewolf pack. Daniyal Turan had been assigned to a group scoping out the zone, making sure that the fight that precipitated between the two groups did not end up harming innocent mundanes. It was a most vicious battle and poor Leena was hobbling through it with swollen ankles and a large belly. She'd been forced to take rest in the shed when the exertion became too much with only the help of her best friend to help her through the process. If the screaming hadn't alerted all of the Downworlders of her presence, then it was surely the wailing of her first child that did. Fortunately enough for them, when the fighting reached the shed and Leena and baby Zain were caught in the madness, the missing group of Shadowhunters had located them and brought them to safety.

Zain's life more or less followed the same pattern. He was always in the place he wasn't supposed to be. Childish curiosity pushed him to wander the Institute when he was younger, leading him to stumble upon different secrets and hidden truths earlier than some of the other children. And when he learned about his duties as a Shadowhunter, his parents kept nothing from him, wanting him to become the best Shadowhunter that he could be. That became his individual goal and sought to achieve it endlessly. Everything that he did ended up being some kind of point towards bettering his skills. He actually paid attention in his lessons and classes to the extent that he put extra effort in spending time at the library to do some self study.

Some would think that he's very reclusive and purposely has cut himself off from others in his life to pursue this "solo career." And for the most part, it's quite true. He knows that being a Shadowhunter means working as a team and depending on others as well. But, for the life of him, Zain is just quite incapable of much human to human interaction. Most people don't understand him or don't try to understand him. He has a short temper as well that is hard to control, especially around slow people. He needs people in his life that think on the same level and pace as him. Stupid questions irritate the hell out of him. Actually, most things generally irritate him. He doesn't know why he is this way and why he can't have more patience. He's always been told that he needs to be "patient", but it's been the hardest task to achieve so far. As much as he wants to be a leader, it's seeming like a quite unaccomplishable task because of his inability to work with others.

Family is complicated for Zain. Everyone knows his parents and holds them in high esteem for all that they've done for the Institute and the general betterment of society. It's something to be proud of, he knows - and he is - but it's tiresome to be continually compared to his brave father or his fierce mother. Not to mention, his own sister was growing well among the ranks. She had her own sets of expectations created in the light of their mother, but he still felt like he was on shaky ground with everyone. He had all the potential to be better, yet, he found himself anxious that whatever he did wasn't good enough. Everything he did was underestimated by himself and self deprecation seemed to take over his life despite all the rewards he reaped from all of his efforts.

Life took an even more bitter turn when his younger brother, Ahmad, was taken from the world too early. It was his turn to get his first marks - the Runes he had been so excited to receive - but everything did not go according to plan. Ahmad had a severe reaction to the rune and fell ill with a terribly high fever. The mark scorched his skin and was a sweltering mess of bumps and scarred tissue. Healers tried to remove the rune through basic methods and when that didn't work, they attempted to cut away the affected tissue. Unfortunately for the Turan family, the damage was already done and Ahmad's frail body could not take the fever that took over. Bedridden for the next few days, Ahmad was surrounded by his family. Zain didn't leave his side throughout it all. On the fourth day of his fever, Ahmad passed away in his fitful sleep. A part of Zain died alongside Ahmad that day and he's been inconsolable ever since.

After his brother died, the family was a mess. Zain couldn't handle his parents and his temper had only seemed to grown. Everything triggered him. He couldn't handle the pressure, the ever existing weight that pushed down on his shoulders. Everyone knew he was in a state of grief, but Zain couldn't handle himself. The people he had grown up with couldn't help him. Zain needed a change, so he got up and left the New York Institute and made a new home for himself in Los Angeles. It was a completely different environment to the one he was used to in New York, but he felt that new and strange was better than old and memorable. He wanted a blank slate in Los Angeles and a blank slate is what he got.

STRENGTHS: Zain is extremely intelligent. It might not look it with his brooding personality, but he's got the smarts of a computer and is very calculative in any situation. Strategy? He's got it all.

WEAKNESSES: Anxiety and grief. He's got so many burdens at this point that it incapacitates his quick thinking mind. He's so affected by this that he's put himself in danger by freezing in critical situations when his skills are needed.

LIKES: Zain is quite fond of books and art. He's dabbled in a bit of everything, but he's got great interest in these lonesome activities. Sometimes, he can be found out in the more dingy parts of the city, using spray paint to express himself.

DISLIKES: Conflict and drama. He can't handle it right now and if anyone tries to bring it in his life, he will completely isolate them. Zain will avoid confrontation by all means in order to keep his current sense of peace and nonchalance.

FEARS: At this point, he doesn't really care about the dangers he puts himself in. But, if he put others in danger because of himself, he wouldn't be able to take it. He fears losing another loved one, so he has separated from all of them. He doesn't want to care for another person, only for them to leave him - whether it be by death or literal leaving. It's best if he just leaves first.

* love interest - javier anhelo ✕ samuel larsen ✕ kaya
* friend - name ✕ face claim ✕ rper
* family - zara turan ✕ zara peerzada✕ me
* enemy - name ✕ face claim ✕ rper

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( NAMESAKE. )
Name: Liu Caiyi
Goes By: Chai

( BIRTHRIGHT. )
Gender: Female
Age: Immortal; stopped ageing at 25
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

( DETAILS. )
Species: Warlock
Mark: Silvery hair; purple eyes
Abilities: Casting magic

Residence: Beijing, but travels around



( PORTRAIT. )
Appearance: Chai is a tall, imposing woman, especially coupled with her unusual silvery-grey hair and her purple eyes. She has high cheekbones as well. It had been commented on before that she seemed to have a wardrobe filled with the exact same clothes as she is fond of wearing similar, or the same cloak.

Personality: A warlock of few words, Chai is someone who'll do anything at the right price. She has few real friends but has a large network of connections and acquaintances. She thinks lots of things are frivolous and unnecessary (e.g. keeping friends), but she'll go to parties if invited, if just to make more connections and keep old bonds alive. She's quite no-nonsense, but has a soft spot for children, or younger beings in general. However, she's quick-witted and easy to anger, even if it's not obvious.

History: Chai was born to a human mother who gasped in horror the first time she saw her baby. Silver hair and purple eyes were far from normal, and especially since she was a child born out of wedlock and from being raped by a demon, she was tempted to abandon her to die. However, her mother realised she could make a fortune selling Chai to the freak circus, so she raised her in secret, not wanting her neighbours to see her strange baby. When Chai was twelve, the circus arrived in her town, to which her mother gladly handed her off, using the money to fuel her opium addiction. She ended up running away from the circus soon afterwards and was found by a High Warlock, who took her in and raised her.

After having spent a considerable time together, the High Warlock was murdered when Chai was out on an errand — by what or whom, Chai still hasn't figured it out. Finding the memories of her old house too painful, Chai began her extensive travels.

( STATISTICS. )
Likes/Dislikes:

✔ Travelling
✔ Performing magic
✔ Tea
✘ Being reminded of her past
✘ Ignorance and stupidity
✘ Being cheated

Strengths/Weaknesses:

✔ Spells
✘ Rituals

Fears: Being murdered one day as her parental figure had been

( RELATIONSHIPS. )
Family: None as of now.
Relationship Status: Single
Alliances: None of note; she is generally solitary.

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