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Name:

Terrance Evander Pruitt

Nicknames:

Livia sometimes calls him T, but other than that, he doesn’t really get close enough to others to warrant nicknames. Sometimes people call him Terry to get under his skin, but he despises this name because it does not give off the impression he wishes to.

Age:

Nineteen

Gender:

Male

Familial Dynamics:

Terrance is the eldest child of five. His siblings are Livia (16), Tomas (13), Phoebe (10), and Lester-Philippe (7). His mother was terminally ill from the time he was nine until she passed away just after Lester-Philippe was born, when Terrance was 12. Because of the age difference between him and his siblings, Terrance often takes a rigid stance on the death of his mother and believes that he’s the only one who weathered the full impact of her loss. Their father has never been an easy man to deal with, but he was and has always been the hardest on Terrance, and things only got worse after her passing.

He respects Livia and tries to look out for her, often trying to control her wild side like the overprotective father they didn’t have. With Tomas, he’s quite indifferent, the pair never talk. He’s extremely close with Phoebe, perhaps most close with her out of all of them. She’s the only one that truly brings out his soft side and his emotional capabilities. He has never really had much of a relationship with Lester-Philippe because he’s the youngest and the closest to their father. The only one he talks to their mother about is Phoebe, and he doesn’t get to see her often because of being shipped off to the academy. Their father believed Terrance was good for nothing and wouldn’t be able to carry on the family legacy, so he sent him away at thirteen, the minimum age for entrance. He sent Livia to a different school, then transferred her on her thirteenth birthday as well. Finally, he worked on brainwashing Tomas, and with minimal success and a preference for his youngest son, he sent him to the academy as well. This is his first year, while the two youngest children receive education from someone that Terrance’s father pays to come in and individualize their education.

At the academy, Terrance tries to conceal the fact that he comes from money as often as he can, although he has certain expectations regarding how he is treated there. A lot of the staff and faculty at the academy have had some kind of relationship with his father or wished that they had. At times, this is useful, and at others, it’s not at all. The dean of the academy was almost his stepmother, and she’s just as wicked and cutthroat as his father, even more so now that the pair had a falling out that was less than amicable.

Appearance:

Terrance is definitely considered attractive, if the throngs of students that throw themselves at him regularly are any indication. He has fluffy brown hair that is styled quite precisely the majority of the time, although it can tend to become quite wild and unkempt when he’s asleep or studying furiously, which occurs quite often. Still, he tries hard to keep his overall appearance perfectly in order, which is only one indicator of his obsessive and anally retentive demeanor. His skin is somewhere between olive and bronze, and he stands at around 6’4. He is quite a bit taller than the majority of the men and women in the academy, which certainly doesn’t help him with trying to keep a fairly low profile. He likes to be known for his academic prowess and skills, not his reputation and his physical attractiveness.

In addition, his eyes are a pale hazel color that seem grayish-green. They’re often a bit sad, though he never speaks of it. He doesn’t have any piercings or tattoos, though he has scars on his shoulders and back that speak of the unspeakable horrors he’s seen. This is part of why he always wears sweaters rather than revealing his muscular and refined physique. In addition, he seems like the kind of figure who gives good hugs, which is often told to him, despite his cold exterior.

Clothing Style:

Terrance’s clothing style is confined almost exclusively to collared sweaters and pullovers with riding breeches. He wears mostly dark colors, although he’s been known to wear something completely bright, flashy, and out of character for him at a party or two. He doesn’t really like to be predictable despite his organizational genius and his tendency to have everything exactly in its place. While he mostly dresses one way during the academic day and his time riding, his personal time is completely separate and he seems like a different being.

Scent:

Terrance smells oddly feminine yet masculine in a way that seems difficult to comprehend. The truth is that he still buys his mother’s perfume to feel close to her, and often mixes it into his cologne or sprays it onto his clothing separate from his own hygiene routine. He smells of horse grain, old books, coffee, pine, and jasmine. Because he’s so hygienic and organized, he often gives off, above all, a very clean smell like fresh linen. While this seems as though it may be an overpowering or confusing scent, he doesn’t use an excessive amount of cologne, perfume, or any other scent, so it remains quite faint and only noticeable if someone is standing close to him.

Social Dynamics:

Terrance is not the most social figure, but he's very well-known at the academy because of the various positions he holds. For example, he's been class president for the last three years, and he's running this year for student president of the entire academy, a right reserved only to students in their penultimate or final year. He's also a mentor for younger students, a tutor for nearly all of his classes as well as many classes he's done in years prior, and he works in the library and in the faculty offices during the time he has that's not designated for classes, studying, and horses. Because he stays busy, he pays little mind to the student drama happening around him, and is often seen alone. It's not that he's not well-liked, it's that he doesn't do much of the liking. Because of his family's philosophy on life, he's been taught from a young age to keep others at a distance. This is undoubtedly due to his father's experiences in government and politics.

Because of this, he does best with people who are more outwardly emotional and more extroverted than him. He admires people who are honest, no bullshit types, because the general atmosphere of the academy is that of polite, elitist students who suck up to him and anyone else in a position of power. Because he’s confined to his duties as a responsible and upright citizen, he thoroughly enjoys studying people who are quite troublesome and cause lots of drama within the academy. Sometimes they inspire him to do the same, for he is not without his own mischievous side. In addition, he truly dislikes those who are clingy, and has a bit of a tendency toward individuals who are quite unpredictable. Like anyone, Terrance enjoys a mystery, and his fickle emotionality can do much better without a source of constant affection.

Backstory:

As previously mentioned, Terrance has spent the last six years at the academy. Prior to this, he was privately educated at his home in the capital city of their realm, where his father was not only a well-known politician but a businessman known for monopolizing the majority of the country’s resources. He grew up in such a way where he had little exposure to the people or their needs, and only knew his family and a few others who were very close to their family, primarily staff. Now that he will be graduating soon, he hopes to return to the city in order to get his own job in politics, countering his father’s terrible practices and educating the masses on ethics, philosophy, and his overall vision for how things should be run throughout the realm. While he would rather be a professor and stay at the academy, he feels a duty to push back against his father, as he believes he is the only one who can.

Academic Standing:

As far as academics go, Terrance is absolutely the best and the brightest out of his class. He’s excellent in all of his non-performance classes, which is likely due to his maddening hunger for knowledge that keeps him in the library until early in the morning. He speaks a variety of languages including most of those spoken throughout their realm and several dead languages that he learned for various reasons, primarily as a hobby. He also enjoys the arts such as analyzing literature and art and playing music. However, his magic abilities keep him from graduating early, as he’s always suffered with an inability to commit to one thing. When he initially entered the academy, he was quite interested in the inner-workings of a fellow student, Caleo, and declared fire as his element despite having significant strength in his earth element roots. Seeing how much destruction the earth elements caused the country and acknowledging his father’s expectations that he grow his abilities in order to succeed him, it seemed fitting. However, his fire skills are weak at best and are best suited for assisting him in earth-related ventures. He is a light-wielder, meaning that the best he can do is create light where there is none by diverting it from other sources or storing it within himself. That doesn’t assist him much with self-defense or any of the other uses measured by the academy, leaving him as an average student at best where performance classes are involved.

Athletic Standing:

While most of the riders are only allowed to bring one horse and get assigned to one horse each semester, Terrance’s father made it so that he would have the opportunity to bring as many as he pleased. As he has grown better and better as a rider, he’s been able to take the coveted spot of team co-captain for nearly every team at some point or another in the past three years including polo, dressage, eventing, showjumping, reining, breed showing, cutting, and vaulting. Although it keeps him absolutely scheduled to insanity, Terrance is a very gifted rider and has managed to convince his father and everyone else that he is going to pursue a path as an equestrian athlete following his graduation, which is both pathetic enough and non-threatening enough in Terrance’s father’s eyes to keep him at bay, temporarily. For the most part, when Terrance is not in classes, he’s down at the stables training, caring for his horses, or strategizing.

Magic Abilities:

Terrance considers himself a jack of all trades type, and has picked up many variations of magic from others who have expressed vulnerabilities around him. He sometimes jokes about being a bit psychic, but it’s not confirmed whether or not he’s taken up this skill from someone, or whether it’s simply humor. His main skills are light-wielding, which he can use to illuminate a path or blind someone temporarily. His greatest strength lies in his ability to heal, although it comes at the price of wiping a memory from the person he is healing and absorbing it himself. Sometimes this is pleasant, sometimes the memory is the source of his nightmares for weeks. He can harm or heal both living and non-living objects, and the more he heals or harms that person, the more memories he steals from them. While harming someone is extremely easy, it takes a gigantic deal of effort for Terrance to heal people, and is sometimes at his own detriment depending on the weight of the injury.

Affiliations:

tba later in plot (to keep track), for now, the basic info is listed within the social dynamics section.

Horses:

Because it is the beginning of the year, Terrance has not received his assignment for the semester yet. However, he’s strongly biased toward mares, and has four of his own at the stables currently. Caledonia, known colloquially as Callie, is a black splash warmblood who is quite big-bodied, standing around 16.3hh. Because she’s quite a large mare and holds a very nonchalant, accepting temperament, she’s his mount for dressage and vaulting mostly. Hesperia, also known as Hess, is a smaller mare, and is a Thoroughbred Connemara cross. She’s 15.1hh but most of her height is in her legs, so she is still able to carry Terrance with little issue. She’s a markingless dark bay who is full of vitality and is quite agile and quick. She is primarily utilized for eventing and showjumping, but he’s also been trying to get her to fit as his polo mount because of her size and agility. Despite this, she’s quite young and a bit too hot-headed for this as of yet. She’s also his cutting mount when an academy horse is not available who is more equipped for the task. His third mare, Esther, he bought as a foal, and has successfully gotten her trained for breed showing. Because she’s only three, he’s just beginning to break her now, but suspects she’ll be his next show jumping mount. Celestina is his fourth mount, a large liver chestnut warmblood mare. He utilizes her primarily for dressage, showjumping, and eventing, although he’s looking to trade her in for a different horse soon. He received her in the late spring and has simply not been pleased with how they work together. She doesn’t show the level of personality the others do, so he’s hoping to sell her and get something new soon.

Other:

none for now :)

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Appearance:

Caleo in an odd way looks the way her name insinuates she would. With wavy and full hair that appears more redhead than brunette coming up to just above her shoulders and eyes that veer more towards copper than hazel, Caleo could not have a more fitting name. She stands at just above 5’6, her legs making up the majority of her height. Her long fingers and delicate hands always seem to be adorned with rings or playing with some knickknack or other. Her warm skin is sparingly dotted with orange freckles, mostly centered along the heights of her cheekbones and across her shoulders. Her dark auburn eyebrows make a slight contrast against the other relatively soft features of her face, her lips however are always cracked from her near-constant gnawing of them. Her limbs seem to have a mind of their own, her legs always bouncing and fingers tapping away if they aren’t already preoccupied. Stark red tattoos crawl and weave all the way up her right arm, the lines mimicking the flames of fire.

Caleo’s diamond shaped face is most noticeably framed by her wayward hair and deep set eyes that seem to challenge anyone they settle on. Her lashes are hard to notice at first due to their golden hue, but bounce off her woodish eyes when you’re looking directly into them. Caleo’s small nose scrunches often, bringing a crinkle to her eye whenever she’s amused or annoyed or frustrated, or anytime really. Her frame is marked with tones arms and legs and an absence of curves, giving an slightly androgynous impression. Her choice of style is lackluster, she almost always goes for practicality over form. Which, of course, means having lots and lots of pockets. Her one vice is adorning her hands and fingers, making an excuse that having rings makes punches more damaging. Caleo has a slit that cuts across her left eyebrow, and several other small marks and scars scattered mostly around her arms and shoulders. Her voice is hoarse and lower than one might initially assume, and she likes to talk with many changes in tone and pace to emphasize her own resonance.

Personality:

While she’s not necessarily defiant all the time, Caleo isn’t very complacent either. Her impulsiveness and lack of restraint have gotten her into trouble more times than she can count, but she can't help but to trust her instincts. Which, occasionally, do end up working in her favor. Caleo prefers to act first and ask questions later, going hand in hand with her belief of, "It's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission".

While Caleo would never admit it, she finds it hard to work efficiently with others. The combination of wanting independence whilst having a bit of a despotic complex leads to her becoming easily frustrated and vexed. Truthfully, she’s sharp to react and even sharper to respond. Caleo finds it hard to take accountability despite what her outward confidence may imply. This doesn't mean she's an introvert: Her dry humor and deft quips can practically instantly lighten any mood. She likes to meet new people and try to decipher them in her own anomalous way, micro-analyzing them and how they interact with the world around them. Anyone with a good sense of humor and spontaneous character is sure to land on her good side. Just making a quick remark or accepting (or giving her!) an exciting challenge is enough for Caleo. While she's anything but a people-pleaser, she'll make at least an initial effort to be pleasant and not get on anyone’s nerves, though she can have a hard time grasping social cues; occasionally leading to some particular misunderstandings. It takes her a second to really trust people, and her trust once broken is almost unfeasible to gain back. If that trust is earned however, Caleo is intensely reliable and willing to go to extreme lengths for those close to her.

Caleo is incredibly inquisitive, and it's easy for her to get caught up in things that may not pertain to the subject at hand. She’s tremendously observant and subconsciously scans places, people, and things, mentally storing away seemingly useless details. Her thoughts can run a bit erratic, often jumping from one topic to another without any real rhyme or reason, though it all seems to make sense to her in her mind. Caleo always seems an air of chaoticness around her, between her rapid ideas and prompt retorts and audacious confidence in herself. She tries to not let her mind get carried away, and pull herself together when she’s really needed. Once she really gets into something, Caleo is hard-working and relentless. Though she likes to be with others, she rarely finds herself able to let down this wall of self-protection, choosing to act the way she does and always be moving at 100 mph to never really have to be alone with herself or give anyone a chance to ask something about her.

Family:

Caleo comes from a relatively small family, for most of her life it was just herself, her mother and father, and older brother Jamie. Her brother was just barely a year older than her, and they were inseparable ever since they were kids. They did everything together, and were each other’s best friends. In fact, Jaime and Caleo were so similar that most people thought they were twins at first impression. Their powers however were a direct reflection of one another. Caleo, with her fire powers and Jaime with his water powers. Even still, they learned to complement one another, and were a pretty damn good fighting duo until a sudden bout of sickness that had ravaged the town also took his life two years ago. The loss completely devastated Caleo, who suffered from a deep depression for months until she was able to slowly recover. Since then, she has had an extremely hard time getting close to people and is very selective with who she trusts.

As for her parents, she has always had a wonderful relationship with both, and since Jaime’s passing she values every second she can spend with them tenfold. Caleo always knew she would go enrolled at the academy, it was something her family had done for generations, and she held great pride in following in her mother and father’s footsteps. Before going to the academy, she was very interested in her father’s work and would often accompany him to his job, where many diplomatic matters were debated and trialed. She loved to study the history of the academy, knowing one day she’d be going there.

Backstory:

Caleo grew up in a large homestead with a vast amount of property. Their large house was situated in the middle of the property, completely surrounded by beautiful landscapes and forests. She had gone to one of the most elite schools in her borough before becoming of age to enter the academy. Her hometown was quite far from the capital city and thus the academy, but the benefits of the prestigious institution along with the need to uphold the family name made the choice easy for both Caleo and her family. Since her father was a member of the board of sponsors, it was practically guaranteed that she’d be a student there. Even if it hadn’t been for her dad’s political ties, Caleo passed the entrance exam with flying colors, easily making the mark as one of the top of her class. The transition was especially easy since their family had decided to hold Jaime back a year and send the two siblings in together once Caleo had reached 13. Of course they would both go back home whenever they had a chance to during long breaks and over the summer.

Her family also raised horses as a side income, and she quickly became very involved in the business. They would selectively breed some of the highest performing horses in the realm, mostly specializing in the disciplines of eventing and fox hunting, though many of their horses are versatile and can perform exceedingly well in a number of disciplines.

Academic Standing:

While Caleo struggles in some of her less “hand-on” classes, her obsessive nature means that she does decently well academically, even if she doesn’t study that much. She has an appreciation for specific niches and often becomes completely absorbed in a certain topic for months, before the novelty wears off and her focus goes into some other thing. While not exactly practical, it does mean she has a wide knowledge of very specific things, which can prove to be useful. As for her performance classes, Caleo has rightfully reached the top, if not the number one spot in the academy. She consistently scores extremely well, showcasing an unusual ability to harness and manipulate flames.

Athletic Standing:

Despite growing up with horses almost all her life, Caleo’s skills tend to be very discipline specific and she has a hard time trying out other styles. While she’s quite skilled after more than a decade of training in eventing and foxhunting, she rarely expands beyond her comfort zone, perhaps daunted with the concept of not being as skilled as she pushes herself to be. While in all actuality, she’s been very interested in trying out polo and reining, though she uses the excuse of not having a horse available to try them out. Physically, Caleo is particularly athletic, both riding and fight training keeping her exceptionally in shape. She has muscles toning all over her body but especially her legs and her abdomen.

Magic Abilities:

Caleo's fire abilities are not just a simple display of flames; they are an intricate dance of controlled power. She can summon fire at will, manipulating it with grace and precision. Flames respond to her emotions, flickering and blazing with intensity based on the strength of her feelings. In moments of calm, her flames could manifest as gentle and warm, casting a comforting glow. However, when angered or threatened, her power surge into a fierce inferno that could rival the sun.

Her control over temperature was another facet of her abilities. Caleo can manipulate the heat of her flames, making them searing hot or just warm to the touch. This mastery over temperature extended to her surroundings, allowing her to create pockets of warmth in frigid environments or cool breezes in scorching heat. As she honed her skills, Caleo discovered the ability to absorb heat from her surroundings, leaving a trail of chilling air behind her.

As she began to train at the academy, she became a formidable force to be reckoned with. Of course, every student is given a basic level of training to be able to defend themselves and potentially fight in the case of an attack. Caleo however, showed an extreme aptitude for this kind of magic wielding, her powers being at her strongest when fighting. Not only can she easily create fire, the flames spouting from her hands, she can shape her flames into projectiles, launching them with precision and speed. These fire projectiles can range from concentrated fireballs for targeted strikes to wide-spread bursts that cover a larger area. Caleo can also mold her flames into a large construct, providing her a temporary shield-like protection.

Affiliations:

To be decided later, though will form a strong relationship with livvy. <3

Horses:

Along with the other students, Caleo hasn’t yet received her annual assignment yet, though she’s hoping for something that will really challenge her this year. As for a personal horse, she’s bringing her mare, Feronia, a dutch warmblood. She stands at a beefy 16.3 hands, though Caleo swears she seems to grow to more than 17 hands on competition days. Fero is light chestnut with tones of chrome and medium high stockings on all her legs. In the summer, stark dapples appear all along her barrel, flank and even some on her shoulders. One of Caleo’s favorite thing about her is her large, distinctive blaze marking that covers the majority of her face. The mare is a beast of an animal, and she knows it. It takes someone experienced to be able to handle her, but once you get her going she floats like a dream. Caleo’s goal with her is to reach upper levels of eventing, and hopefully translate some of that training into foxhunting as well. Despite how much she loves this mare, Caleo struggled with the idea of leaving her other horse, Themis, back home. Themis is a 16.1 dark bay tobiano Holsteiner gelding, with small white splotches on his neck, thigh and all four legs. He, like Feronia, has an irregular blaze that goes down to his nose. Caleo mainly used him for show-jumping and all-purpose riding, but decided to give him a year off and focus on Feronia, who still needs plenty of training.

Strengths:

| Insistent | Witty | Alacritous | Adaptive | Resourceful | Perceptive | Ardent | Meticulous | Agile | Dutiful | Tumultuous | Resolute |

Weaknesses:

| Clumsy | Intense | Rambles | Impulsive | Connecting with others | Easily frustrated | Listening | Mordant | Resentful | Wayward | Short-tempered |

Other:

Theme song:

American Money -Børns