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✦ Impulsive, extroverted, and almost constantly teasing. Has an easy way of interacting with most people. ✦ Has big time trust/abandonment issues and panics when relationships start getting too real. Also struggles with opening up/talking about her emotions and issues. This has improved a lot over her time in ML. ✦ Is nearly obsessed with magic, and very good at it. Her self-worth is inextricably wrapped up in her magical ability. ✦ Can be petty and absolutely holds a grudge. Oftentimes her emotions get the better of her and she makes dumb decisons. ✦ Exceptionally competent when it comes to magic, and is a quick learner generally. ✦ Has a super close ride or die relationship with her brother, but also feels like she can't quite live up to his expectations, and fears disappointing him. ✦ Born to a non-magical mother in NYC. Kyna's father was the heir to an old (though not particularly powerful) magical family called the Belroses. Her older brother had no magical ability, and the entire thing caused a bit of a scandal. ✦ Kyna immediately showed great magical aptitude, and her father became obsessed with her magical education. This was mostly as a sort of narcissistic extension of himself, and he eventually grew tired of playing house and ditched the family when Kyna was 10. Kyna and Nico eventually took on their mother's name, Medina. ✦ This left Kyna with a host of abandonment issues, and tied her self-worth firmly into her magic. Her brother became a magical cop, while Kyna later ended up doing the same thing—breaking curses, hunting down missing persons who seemed to have met magical foul play, and dealing with monsters/possessions/etc., in a less official capacity through a young woman named Thea. This is also where she met her best buddy, Jacob. ✦ Kyna is a witch (or mage). She can use magic, which often takes the form of manipulating electricity, along with some other general abilities. She can sense or be drawn to other magical creatures and be sensed in turn, is more sensitive to the effects of magic in a space, and can commune/bond with spirits or other magical entities. ✦ Magic is essentially a background energy that can be stronger/weaker in certain areas, become corrupted or corrupt things around it, cause strange effects, etc. ✦ Certain humans are born with the ability to tap into this energy to differing effects. This can be genetic (leading to multiple old magical families) or a fluke. Being a mage at all is very rare. ✦ Humans have limited ways of interacting with magic—usually they have one main ability (healing, creating illusions, manipulating energy, etc.) along with the general set. ✦ Anything that causes a longterm, permanent effect (warding, strong enchantments, curses, or breaking those things) requires a pact or at least temporary help from something more powerful, like a spirit. These pacts vary in seriousness and in "payment". Some mages or families have a specific entity or spirit they trust and work with regularly, sometimes called familiars. Sometimes these deals go very bad. Most mages work with them on a near constant basis anyway. ✦ Spirits and other magical creatures can influence or even possess humans. ✦ A non-magical person can allow a mage to bind a spirit to them, giving them some magical abilities. This is about as smart an idea as it sounds like. ✦ Monsters, certain cryptids, and spirits exist, but creatures like faeries, vampires, etc., don't. Think more occult/horror than Twilight or Kate Daniels. The line between spirit/demon is pretty murky, and the same entity might be viewed in wildly different ways by different people.  Nico Medina - Kyna's older brother. Basically a magical cop, but can't use magic himself. He and Kyna are very close and he's the only person she opens up to regularly, but they constantly butt heads over Kyna's choices.  Jacob Barrow - Kyna's bff and coworker. A former ranger medic with the ability to use healing magic and a messy past. His magic is incredibly rare and highly valued, but he doesn't come from a magical family, so he's essentially an outsider to Kyna's world.  Thea Delamare - Kyna's boss. Comes from a wealthy, well-connected magical family and is no-nonsense and often harsh. Ostensibly runs their crew to help people affected by magic who fall through the cracks, but isn't always open about her motives. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
