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((Posting....at last. Yaaaaaaaaaay! ^_^ *Took out the bit about her having only four fingers. She has five fingers instead. xD ))

Name: To’prak Maeko

Age: 23

Species: Female Chipmunk Kith (Afrennen)

Eyes: Olive Green

Hair: Dark brown with red highlights. Straight with side bangs,
hair ends at elbow length.

Height: 5'6"

Build: A medium build, average weight (she isn't fat, but that doesn't mean she has a sixpack. Sooo, slightly slender looking) broad shouldered, with a medium waist. Walks with a rather straight posture.

Skin Tone: A rather golden-tanned looking skin tone. Her facial stripes (are same as in her profile) thin grayish white, two at each side of her face, starting from tip of her nose, to the bottom of each ear. Short black pencil thin stripes appear only just before and after each eye. The stripes on her back are indistinct; five stripes, alternating between light and dark color, light stripes of whitish gray, and dark stripes of reddish brown. Starting from the front bottom of her neck, to the back of her neck, then straight down all the way down to the bottom of her back.

Appearance: To’prak looks mostly human if it wasn’t for her skin tone, stripes, and other chipmunk features. Her hair, is almost always tied back loosely with a ribbon, usually tied right at bottom back of her neck. An oval face, she has rather large chipmunk ears (both intact, and work rather well), her hands seem human like, only the inside of her hand being slightly padded, darker tone, her nails are black, harder then regular humans, the same can be said for her feet. To’prak does though, keep her nails cut short. She only has fur on her ears, and her tail. To'prak's tail is bushy, and edged with buff. The entire tail is grayish brownish mixture and is rather long, over 80% of head & body length.

Affiliations: To’prak hardly has any friends. Usually remaining rather polite around others, she is rather too shy to strike up much conversation with anyone. Maybe some of the others working in the same library as her may count. Though she has yet to really have a ‘group’ of affiliations. Her family, whom she still keeps in contact with and loves deeply, is still living back at home in Afrene. She hasn’t seen them for five years now.

Occupation: A map maker, graduated from the Thevan University. Currently a librarian at the Thevan University in Eddacaro.

Clothing: ‘simple’ is the main word to describe her clothing style. Rather used to just simple looking, earth colored dresses. To’prak doesn’t dress to really stand out much, she usually just tries to blend in with the crowd. She looks like she might just blend in with the old books if one wasn’t paying attention for her. Only on rare occasion will she wear pants, with a simple shirt. Mainly when she’s sure no one’s looking at her.

Accessories: Hardly any accessories other then; a small silver square-shaped locket necklace, and the dark blue ribbon she ties her hair with. Sometimes may be carrying an umbrella, or wearing plain colored gloves

Abilities/Skills: Her combat skills are not much. She was trained in the art of stick fighting when living back at home in Afrene. Still practicing a once or twice a week in private. If needed to she can use almost any stick like object as a weapon (which means it’s not a good idea to try anything when she has her umbrella). The only other exercise she gets is from taking walks around the library, or to cafés. Her greatest ability would be map making. Graduated amongst the top of her class, a highly skilled map maker, she seems to have a knack for being able to describe nearby places never having set foot there. Rarely gets lost, somehow To’prak manages to find her way out of any unknown territory. Her other abilities include the extras she gains from her chipmunkself (similar to things in original profile) Excellent hearing, able to see 90% better then most others in the dark, speed-wise able to move from a standing position to complete run, moving up to 28 feet per second. Her tail is rather strong, main reason it mostly gets used to carry more books when her own two hands are full.

Hobbies: She doesn’t have many hobbies other then reading books, practicing her stick fighting, and taking care of the plants in her small house.

Touch: Manipulation, control over earth and plants. It is a mesh between the two, she can tell the terrain of the land ahead, she may even cause volcanoes to erupt, earthquakes to start, quicksand’s to appear, cause the flowers to bloom, fruits to grow, turn even coal into diamonds if she tried. *Please note: The one thing is, To’prak is not aware that she is god-touched.* As of right now, she is not aware of the possibilities of what she can or can’t do with earth and plants.

Sigil: Markings that look like flowing vines cover her wrists and ankles like bracelets. The same markings go around her bellybutton as well. They look dark enough to be mistaken as tattoos if seen. Though because of her long sleeved dresses, hardly anyone has seen her markings. She has been told by her father, that as per tradition, every third born is to be tattooed with similar markings in her family. It hasn’t occurred to her that they might be anything more then just simple tattoos she’s had since she could remember. *Please note: To’prak herself does not know of this, since she isn't aware that she is one of the godtouched.*

Manifestation: The vine like markings on her wrists and ankles start to twist and grow, spreading out like serpents; ones on her wrists; move over her hands, as well as up her arms, reaching over her shoulders, coming together and intertwining at her neck, and stopping right at her jaw line. The ones on her ankles move over her feet, as well as up over her knees, ending right at her hips. The one in a circle around her belly button is the only one that doesn’t move, but instead glows a rather light neon shade of green.

Her body goes through greater changes as well, changing substance, depending on what she uses her touch for. For example, dealing with volcanoes, her arms and legs will turn into hot lava, dealing with a garden of flowers, she may sudden start growing leafs, or flowers may suddenly start growing out of her, dealing with desert, her whole body can dry up, turn into sand, start to crack and break. What this means is the length of use of her touch is very lethal to her. If To’prak is not careful, she may get turned completely into sand, and be blown away into pieces by a sudden wind. If she still has her wits about her after the use of her powers, she can change back, so it will have to take a great loss of control for her to completely loose it, and not be able to turn back to her normal self.
*Please note: To’prak herself does not know of this, since it is yet to happen to her.*

Weaknesses: To’prak is not immortal, like any other being she can be harmed, or even killed. She is also rather afraid of heights. Being rather shy, her greatest personal weakness would be her lack of strength in herself, or more, lack of belief. She is lacking in confidence in herself when dealing with other people.

Brief History: To’prak was born on Afrene, in the city of Lmiara, the only daughter, third child to a family of five children. Both parents rather well educated, her mother an author, now a stay at home wife-gardening, her father a retired lawyer. Three of her five siblings chose to stay in Afrene, each finding a suitable career and living close to home. The two younger brothers involved in agricultural products and trading, the second oldest chose the life of a lawyer, while her oldest brother chose to go off and enlist in the Afrene army. Growing up amongst the boys, she could usually be herself only amongst them. Though the brothers protested in seeing her go off to another country, her parents were rather encouraging. She was the only one who wished to attempt at living away from the family. Living with her four brothers, she became rather shy as she grew older. Finding it easier to hide behind their strength, and confidence. Secretly To’prak has always wanted to see the world, travel, learn about the different places, be strong like her brothers. So she was sent off to the city of Eddacaro, on Thevia. Yet, despite her dreams, somewhere amongst her hard studying and sudden loneliness she lost more confidence then she was hoping to gain. Graduating from the world-renowned Thevan University, amongst the top of her class, she became a rather skilled map maker.
To’prak doesn’t think much about the ‘Godtouched’, thinking others should just well be left alone and not be bothered. Aside from the few she had seen as a child on Afrene weren’t very friendly, and usually kept to themselves. She might help one out if one asked her for help, but mostly To’prak chooses to keep away from them whenever she can.

Though a while after graduating, To’prak found things felt safer behind the university walls, so that’s where she decided to remain. Renting out a rather small house close by the campus, she started applying for jobs nearby. Now currently a librarian in the Thevan University, she spends her days going through books, exercising once or twice a week, oh- and watering the few plants she has in her small house.

WARNING: This character has got NOTHING to do with the original Avatar :WARNING

Also, I am still working on the character. If things seem weird, that's probably either because I meant to do it that way or because I haven't changed it properly yet XD

Name: Astara Aneirin Virgo (True name Tamara Agatha Kovan)

Gender: Female (trying to pose as a male)

Age: 25

Species: Hare-kith (Thevian)

Eyes: Deep brown

Hair: Long dark brown hair running halfway down the back, usually in a low ponytail

Height: 5'8" (without the ears) 6'10" with the ears

Build: Long and slender, more athletic than muscled. She has not a feminine figure, but it's not like anyone would think of her as being a male if she would walk around in normal clothes. The way she looks now though, she will probably be considered some kind of pretty boy

Skin Tone: caucasian, mediterranian style, though her face is tanned from being outside all of the time, the rest of her body is quite pale because in her standing, she cannot show anyone she is actually female.

Appearance: She does not have a very feminine figure, but it is not like she would be mistaken for a man if she would walk around in the clothing she is supposed to wear. Her kith heritage can only be seen by the two hare-ears extending a bit more than 1 ft above her head, a small fluffy tail and her typical dark-brown eyes with enlarged pupils. Then there is her sigil...

Clothing:
- She usually wears loose-fitting clothing or long jackets (with shoulder pads) to disguise her still remaining feminine shapes and also to cover her sigil. This she does by not using the left sleeve of the coat and using her left arm as little as possible. Trademark is her cowboy-hat like headgear with added holes to poke her ears through. Her clothes are actually quite plain, but she's playing around in the dirt all day anyway so why care about flashy clothing. It does make her seem somewhat impressive though
- Her left arm and part of her left upper body is taped in with bandages, covering almost all of her sigil. This will probably not go unnoticed though.

Accessories:
- Never Broke - She always has a bit of money on her and once a month she is allowed to withdraw a substantial amount from a bank account which seems to belong to no one. With this, she funds her projects
- Secret Stash - She rents a warehouse to store her equipment and her findings. She usually has a rented horse as well
- Tools Aplenty - What is an archaeologist without equipment? She has equipment for about 5 men in storage and usually has stuff like a shovel, a pick and other general equipment with her at all time
- Prepared for the Outdoors - She also has some other general adventuring equipment, like a bedroll, water for a day or two, beef jerky, stuff like that.
- Fancy Weaponry - And what's a decent grave robber.. no, wait, archaeologist without a means of defending herself? For this she has two short taggers hidden in her coat. It's not much, but hey it's better than nothing. The arm bearing the sigil also packs a mighty punch, but the sigil will be seen immediately if any of the bandages come apart.

Occupation: Archaeologist. Even though a woman of her standing is not allowed to partake in such jobs, it has been her lifelong dream to find out the past of the strange lands she calls home. Being a strong woman she eventually got her way, albeit through blackmailing her father and acting like a guy.

Affiliations:
- First of all there is her fund giver of course, her family. Though first reluctant to allow a woman of her standing to get into archaeology, However, after blackmailing her dad, he finally gave in and now allows her to do whatever she wants as long as his name isn't mentioned and as long as she pretends to be a man
- Due to her work, she's actually quite well known in the villages she has settled herself when she was at a dig. She has got a couple of friendly faces and a couple of people who really do not like her in each of those towns.

Abilities/Skills:
- Incredible Pysique - She has excellent physique, something she needs as an archaologist. She won't win any olympic medals with it though
- I know old stuff - She has taken her interest into archaeology, rituals and everyday living of the people of ages past.
- Multiglot maniac - Beside her own language, Thevan, she also speaks Milanese and Cho fluently, knows how to stay alive in Arannen and Süminth and is learning the basics of Sarantican
- I can hear you! - Because of her ears, she has improved hearing so no whispering behind her back because she will hear you!
- Feel the Burn - Thanks to her Sigil, het left arm is almost completely fireproof. Handy

Hobbies: She made a job out of her hobby, finding things other people have long forgotten. She also likes stuff like reading, learning foreign languages

Touch: Unmake - The ability to accelerate entropy for nonliving matter, enabling oxidation / decay / erosion to occur at an alarming rate.

Sigil: The sigil is an arm completely covered in large overlapping pointy black scales. These scales go up onto parts of her upper body, completely blending into the flesh about halfway up her body. This arm is nearly completely fireproof to boot.

Manifestation: The manifestation is roughly divided into three stages (though these are not actualy discrete and will have a transition phase)
1: The arm starts to throb and smoke seeps out from between the scales accompanied by the smell of burning flesh and sulphur.
2: The arm starts to expand, allowing the scales to give way to a display of an inferno inside the arm. At that moment, any clothing still in contact with the arm as well as any other objects of little importance will immediately decay.
3: The inferno is at its fullest, completely revealing the fiery spectacle that is actually her arm. At this point, the heat is intolerable, even for the character, inflicting serious burns

Cost: At the first two stages, the main cost is that it drains energy from her body, with any of her clothing still in touch with her arm instantly vaporized on level 2. At level three the heat will be almost unbearable even for her and she will be severely burned. Strangely enough, these burn marks heal quite rapidly and leave no scar tissue.

Weaknesses:
- Just a girl - First of all she is a woman in a man's world. If her true identity is exposed while in the wrong company, that might spell the end of her career. It's quite hard to hide your gender when the coar that was covering it all just got destroyed by your own powers!
- Can't touch this - Secondly, all of her powers only work when in direct touch with the object she wants to affect. If she cannot reach it, nothing happen
- Nonliving only! - The powers do not work on a living person at all. No effect, period. That, however will not stop the cave-in she created to do just that for her.
- kith anyone? - Furthermore, even though she is used to a rough life, she can still die as easily as any other person. Bullet through the head still means she's dead.

Brief History:
Born as a girl of higher standing, as a daughter of the filthy rich Anton Kovan, a well known steam engine manufacturer, Tamara was destined to become nothing more than another beautiful prize on some rich loser's hand. This was not what she ended up to be however.

From very early age it became clear that Tamara was quite a bright child, learning Milanese as a foreign language before the age of twelve. She also excelled at math and geography. It was also at about this age that she decided she wanted to go her own way. From this age, she would quite often sneak out of the mansion dressed in some of her elder brother's clothes to look around at the cities. Especially the really old buildings were of interest of her. She wondered if there was anything left of the time before the large cities were built. The realisation that she would probably never be able to find out such things finally made her rebel against her parents.

Threatening her dad she would go into the world as an adventurer using her own name as much as she could finally persuaded the family into letting her go her own way. She had to use a different name and act like a man though.

A few years later, Tamara is starting to realize that the birthmark that hadn't faded away by then had made the choice for her father a lot easier as well. This way he precious daughter would still stand a chance if she was really a godtouched. If she would have stayed at home, public pressure would have forced her family to give her up to the Thevian authorities. From that day started the adventure of Astara Aneirin Virgo, first class archaeologist.