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ICly, When your character is on a canon update, they completely disappear from the world. It's almost as if they were removed the game, however there's a key difference. Their amulet will remain and be in a translucent state. Characters will be gone from the game from three days to a week. They will reappear wherever their amulet is and can continue their progress from wherever they left off. They will also retain all of their memories.
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ICly, When your character is on a canon update, they completely disappear from the world. It's almost as if they were removed the game, however there's a key difference. Their amulet will remain and be in a translucent state. Characters will be gone from the game from three days to a week. They will reappear wherever their amulet is and can continue their progress from wherever they left off. They will also retain all of their memories.
If you have any questions, contact one of the mods or ask them on the form.
Player:
Character:
Current Canon Point: The canon point upon application.
Updated Canon Point: The new, desired canon point.
Updated Background: All we need is all the new information, so just a summary of what's happened between the current and updated canon point.
Updated Personality: If anything has changed about the character's personality fill it here. Just like in the original application process, we need as much details a possible, especially if there were any big changes.
Updated Abilities:
Other: Anything else worth mentioning.
Questions:
Here's the clean copy and paste form:
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Character: Chise Hatori
Current Canon Point: Post Chapter 32, "Examples are better than precept."
Updated Canon Point: Post Chapter 38, "The darkest hour is that before the dawn."
Updated Background:
During her sleep after waking Elias from his own, Chise does a bit of out of body experience wandering. Chise's forte in magic lies in the field of sleeping and dreams it seems, given how she put Elias into such a deep sleep with a lullaby, and she experiences another piece of her skills here. In this dream she ends up on a busy street and finds Cartaphilius among many transparent looking people, feeling his emotions and pain as she does so. Cartaphilius himself can't seem to recognize his own name and doesn't remember anything from their previous meeting. He tells Chise he can see right through her like a ghost and so he assumes she's already dead but doesn't realize it.
They talk for a bit with Cartaphilius revealing some sort of memory involving finding a creature beneath the earth and his conflict between being Caraphilius and being 'Joseph' at the same time. When he begins to beg for a way to find salvation and to be saved, Chise wakes up horrified and clings to Ruth. She tries to piece together why he would ask to be saved and why it almost seemed like he was someone else. In the midst of this Lindel's selkie is awoken from where she was dozing while she waited on Chise to wake up. Alice enters and hurries Chise along because something big has happened in the two days Chise has been asleep.
In the living room she meets Tory Innes, an enthusiastic research from the College, as well as Adolf Straud. The College is an organization made up of and working for the sake of wizards. They teach youngsters with magical potential how to be wizards and pass on the knowledge to preserve it for future generations. The news they bear is grim - whelps from the land of dragons, where Lindel lives and Chise had visited before, have been poached. They're fairly sure Cartaphilius is behind it. They surmise he means to use the dragons as part of his research. They ask Elias for his help as a former student of Lindel's and Elias declines, at least until Chise reminds him of the time he enclosed her in his vines during a jealous tantrum and states she can't stand the idea of the whelps she played with being in chains.
Chise ends up stringing some things together and wondering if Cartaphilius might be selling the dragons for money at the very same auction house she was sold at. In the end she borrows a phone and calls Seth, the mysterious man she made her own contract to be sold with, finding that one of the whelps has been put up for auction. She secures invitations to the auction for the group and there she ends up making contact with someone who offers to help pay for the dragon in exchange for a little of it's blood.
In the end though the whelp is so frightened by it's experiences with Cartaphilius that it ends up sucking up all the magic in the auction house to achieve sudden growth into it's adult form and in fact eventually devolving into something like a wyrm, capable of breathing fire. Chise can hear it's pained, frightened voice as it repeats over and over again how scared it is. She begs Elias to tell her how to calm the dragon so she can return it to it's home. Elias' plan is to have Chise draw the dragon's magical power to herself and before it settles Elias will take in the power.
The plan fails unfortunately. Elias and Ruth, who was hiding in Chise's shadow this whole time, fall off of the dragon. Chise decides rather than wait for everyone to catch up with her and the dragon, she'll do as Elias said - absorb the dragon's magic into herself. Unfortunately the dragon's magic also comes with a price - the dragon's curse. The fear, madness and pain coursing through the dragon translated into the dragon's magic and now gnaws it's way through Chise's body. The human body can't handle this, much like it couldn't handle her sleigh beggy abilities to begin with, and so her body will break down over time. Chise takes this news in stride, commenting that adding a third curse to the two she already bears (her body and her mother's words to her just before she committed suicide) isn't that bad. Elias retreats then for a full day to gather his thoughts. The pair agree to find a way for them to stay together and beat the dragon's curse.
Soon after this the pair receive a visit from the person who offered to help pay for the whelp at the auction, a witch named Mariel. Mariel reminds Chise quite a bit of her mother and attempts to use a little magic to help heal Chise's arm, now heavily changed thanks to the dragon's curse. Mariel talks about how she has the blood of temple prostitutes in her veins and like spirits or fair folk can lend power to others. She offers Chise a spot in her coven as well as the possibility of finding a cure for the dragon's curse thanks to witches specializing in curses. As she leaves she tells Elias through the same magic she used to talk to Chise at the auction that she doesn't believe Chise will live to see spring. Chise also celebrates her birthday on this day, though she had managed to totally forget about it.
After this Elias and Chise use their invitation to join the coven for a meeting. It turns out the coven has no way to help them lift the dragon's curse after all - or so they say. Mariel wants to stay on the good side of Phyllis, the head of the coven, and so slips Elias a note afterward without Chise noticing. Experienced in moving curses from one person to another, she tells Elias the only way she knows of to deal with Chise's own curse.
"The only thing that can take the place of a life is another life."
Updated Personality:
The biggest change in Chise's personality is her wish to live now. She has gradually come to learn that she doesn't have to strive for worth through the approval of others and that even someone like her can earn thanks from others all on her own. She claims taking the magic from the dragon whelp was the first unselfish thing she's done for someone else and so it likely is, at least in her own eyes. Gradually she's gone from simply wanting to die when she sold herself off in the beginning of the series and feeling relief when she learned she didn't have that long left thanks to her body to now actually looking forward to life. She's making tentative plans, hoping for things, looking forward to other things she can do. Learning magic, helping others and finding a family in Elias, Ruth and Silky has given her a purpose and has begun to unfreeze a heart that wasn't quite so frozen to begin with.
Chise now actively wants to live longer and no longer passively sits by while Elias searches for ways to extend her life.
Updated Abilities:
No updates here, save the dragon's curse is sapping away at her life bit by bit.
Other: I'll be on hiatus for most of the month but I plan for Chise to pop off for her canon update immediately and likely return around the 9th/10th. That way she can exchange gifts and spend Christmas in her new home here, taking some time before she tells anyone else (save close CR) about the curse.
ALSO, Chise will be returning with her left arm looking like this. She tends to keep it covered either with a sleeve or a cape but she can still use it despite it's claws, gnarled appearance and size.
Questions:
So technically in canon, Chise likely only has a few months at most to live before the dragon's curse consumes her body completely. I do have plans for her to seek out more Arehtei help now that she ICly knows about a ritual using her crystal that could help her live longer that I'll likely PM or contact mods about soon. If I can though I'd like to slow down the progression of the dragon's curse while she's here so I can have time to set things up.
Also Chise is building her own garden and is going to be using the excess emotional magic she produces to feed the garden, thereby wicking some of it away from herself and helping her body out. Would it be possible for her to keep a garden blooming through most of the year thanks to that magic?
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The garden magic is fine!