INFO
PLAYER
NAME: Yan
CONTACT: Yandere#7980
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Early AM - Early PM (EST)
BRACKETS/PROSE: Either but prose is easier for my mobile tags.
CONTACT: Yandere#7980
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Early AM - Early PM (EST)
BRACKETS/PROSE: Either but prose is easier for my mobile tags.
CHARACTER INFO
NAME: Ciro (birth name: Shirota, Shigeaki)
AGE/SEX/SIGN:200+ years / MALE (he/him or they/them) / Cancer Sun
RELATIONSHIPS:Owns a tea shop with another witch (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ceremonious ) where they use the basement to provide magical services to special clients in secret.
HISTORY: Ciro was born in the early to mid 1800's. He knows the exact date, but doesn't like to reveal his age, even to his closest friends. His early childhood was largely unremarkable. His parents were both witches that lived among humans in peace for generations even as their coven members fled to avoid further industrialization. His mother in particular cared for the sick and was invaluable to the people there so she and Ciro's father stayed behind with the best of intentions.
When Ciro was born, he was named Shigeaki after his mother's brother who died when she was young. She always told him that he would live the life of a dozen men over to make up for what the world had taken from her. It wasn't until later that he realized she meant that more literally than he could have ever imagined. Despite his father's strength in psychical magic (particularly earth magic), he did honest work with the other men in the town as a fisherman. He did everything right to give them as little reason as possible to distrust or fear them. Some nights he would argue with Ciro's mother about it. He would warn her that it was only a matter of time before they turned on them, and she insisted that as long as she healed the sick they had use and wouldn't be troubled.
One evening after school Ciro was playing with friends in the woods between the town and the pier, and like many children he was susceptible to peer pressure. He'd made the mistake of mentioning to one close friend that he could start a fire without matches, and that one friend spread the word until there was a small crowd around him waiting to see what magic he could do. He'd only ever done it once before, he saw his father doing it and thought Ciro was too young to be able to manifest any sort of ability so early, so he'd told him how, thinking it would just be harmless information until he was of age for proper lessons and training.
Two children died in the forest fire, and more were permanently burned. The townspeople came for his family that night, but his father caught word ahead of time and they were just able to escape. They traveled around Japan, but word seemed to spread as fast as that fire had, and eventually they saved up enough money to escape the island on a ship to Europe.
Ciro spent his young adulthood traveling with his parents until the war that took them from him. He made it to Canada living as stealthily as he could in a new society where anything magical was frowned upon, and much of what he was taught his whole life was deemed illegal. Gradually he made his way further south, not staying long in any single place until he came across another witch. Ciro knew the moment he touched him what he was, and that he was wanted because he'd been tagged by the group of humans responsible for enforcing any anti-paranormal laws passed by the government.
He hid Rune away, provided support for whatever he needed to deal with his tag, making himself an accomplice, but it gave Ciro exactly what he needed to stay in one place, a friend. Someone like him.
Several years later they open a shop together where they sell tea during business hours. The floor above the shop is where they live, and the rooftop is off limits to most because Ciro has turned it into a lush rooftop garden. The basement beneath the shop is where both Ciro and Rune do all of their "illegal" work. Not all of it is necessarily bad, but since all magic is outlawed they have to do so in secret to avoid detection.
PERSONALITY: Ciro is outgoing and friendly. He doesn't do well with rules, and tends to have a hard time respecting personal space. He's about as hands-on as they come, and being that physically affectionate sometimes gets him into trouble or gives him a reputation. Fortunately he doesn't seem to mind it at all, or at the very least doesn't show it. He's a free spirit in a lot of ways with an affinity for herbalism (from his mother), and would be adequate with physical magic had he not given it up. He likes gardening, the outdoors, speaking to insects, and being in nature. Although he finds living in the city to be depressing, he always brings home plants, and expands his rooftop garden whenever he has the time.
AGE/SEX/SIGN:200+ years / MALE (he/him or they/them) / Cancer Sun
RELATIONSHIPS:Owns a tea shop with another witch (
ceremonious ) where they use the basement to provide magical services to special clients in secret. HISTORY: Ciro was born in the early to mid 1800's. He knows the exact date, but doesn't like to reveal his age, even to his closest friends. His early childhood was largely unremarkable. His parents were both witches that lived among humans in peace for generations even as their coven members fled to avoid further industrialization. His mother in particular cared for the sick and was invaluable to the people there so she and Ciro's father stayed behind with the best of intentions.
When Ciro was born, he was named Shigeaki after his mother's brother who died when she was young. She always told him that he would live the life of a dozen men over to make up for what the world had taken from her. It wasn't until later that he realized she meant that more literally than he could have ever imagined. Despite his father's strength in psychical magic (particularly earth magic), he did honest work with the other men in the town as a fisherman. He did everything right to give them as little reason as possible to distrust or fear them. Some nights he would argue with Ciro's mother about it. He would warn her that it was only a matter of time before they turned on them, and she insisted that as long as she healed the sick they had use and wouldn't be troubled.
One evening after school Ciro was playing with friends in the woods between the town and the pier, and like many children he was susceptible to peer pressure. He'd made the mistake of mentioning to one close friend that he could start a fire without matches, and that one friend spread the word until there was a small crowd around him waiting to see what magic he could do. He'd only ever done it once before, he saw his father doing it and thought Ciro was too young to be able to manifest any sort of ability so early, so he'd told him how, thinking it would just be harmless information until he was of age for proper lessons and training.
Two children died in the forest fire, and more were permanently burned. The townspeople came for his family that night, but his father caught word ahead of time and they were just able to escape. They traveled around Japan, but word seemed to spread as fast as that fire had, and eventually they saved up enough money to escape the island on a ship to Europe.
Ciro spent his young adulthood traveling with his parents until the war that took them from him. He made it to Canada living as stealthily as he could in a new society where anything magical was frowned upon, and much of what he was taught his whole life was deemed illegal. Gradually he made his way further south, not staying long in any single place until he came across another witch. Ciro knew the moment he touched him what he was, and that he was wanted because he'd been tagged by the group of humans responsible for enforcing any anti-paranormal laws passed by the government.
He hid Rune away, provided support for whatever he needed to deal with his tag, making himself an accomplice, but it gave Ciro exactly what he needed to stay in one place, a friend. Someone like him.
Several years later they open a shop together where they sell tea during business hours. The floor above the shop is where they live, and the rooftop is off limits to most because Ciro has turned it into a lush rooftop garden. The basement beneath the shop is where both Ciro and Rune do all of their "illegal" work. Not all of it is necessarily bad, but since all magic is outlawed they have to do so in secret to avoid detection.
PERSONALITY: Ciro is outgoing and friendly. He doesn't do well with rules, and tends to have a hard time respecting personal space. He's about as hands-on as they come, and being that physically affectionate sometimes gets him into trouble or gives him a reputation. Fortunately he doesn't seem to mind it at all, or at the very least doesn't show it. He's a free spirit in a lot of ways with an affinity for herbalism (from his mother), and would be adequate with physical magic had he not given it up. He likes gardening, the outdoors, speaking to insects, and being in nature. Although he finds living in the city to be depressing, he always brings home plants, and expands his rooftop garden whenever he has the time.
ABILITIES
EMPATH:Ciro can sense a person's emotional state easily if they aren't guarding from it, or using magical wards to do so.
SMELL/TASTE/TOUCH: He's very experienced in magical perception and can smell, taste, or feel magical properties in people, plants, and objects. Usually he needs to do all three to get a full understanding of someone/something's magical profile. It can be gross to witness at times, but he tries not to be too nasty in front of others. Relating to this ability, he can get a feel of the kind of residual magic that was performed recently in the space around him.
PHYSICAL MAGIC: Due to his childhood trauma, he has largely been disinterested in using/practicing/honing his physical magic skills. He doesn't ever attempt elemental magic except under very specific (and controlled) circumstances. The type of magic he prefers is making charms/potions/edibles/totems where he infuses his magic directly into something (or occasionally someone). He is technically able to do physical magic, but it almost always goes wrong. He can do simple spells like door locking/unlocking, simple wards, and uncomplicated reversal spells. For everything else he bothers Rune.
PSYCHIC ABILITY/DIVINATION: He can't read minds, at all. If he gives that impression it's usually his ability to sense moods. Ciro can, however, look into a person's possible future using cards, crystals, or candles. Usually he see's the most likely future, but he always gives the disclaimer that once he sees it and shares it with the person it tends to stop being the most likely future. So a lot of the time his readings don't come to pass, good or bad.
SMELL/TASTE/TOUCH: He's very experienced in magical perception and can smell, taste, or feel magical properties in people, plants, and objects. Usually he needs to do all three to get a full understanding of someone/something's magical profile. It can be gross to witness at times, but he tries not to be too nasty in front of others. Relating to this ability, he can get a feel of the kind of residual magic that was performed recently in the space around him.
PHYSICAL MAGIC: Due to his childhood trauma, he has largely been disinterested in using/practicing/honing his physical magic skills. He doesn't ever attempt elemental magic except under very specific (and controlled) circumstances. The type of magic he prefers is making charms/potions/edibles/totems where he infuses his magic directly into something (or occasionally someone). He is technically able to do physical magic, but it almost always goes wrong. He can do simple spells like door locking/unlocking, simple wards, and uncomplicated reversal spells. For everything else he bothers Rune.
PSYCHIC ABILITY/DIVINATION: He can't read minds, at all. If he gives that impression it's usually his ability to sense moods. Ciro can, however, look into a person's possible future using cards, crystals, or candles. Usually he see's the most likely future, but he always gives the disclaimer that once he sees it and shares it with the person it tends to stop being the most likely future. So a lot of the time his readings don't come to pass, good or bad.
PERMISSIONS
PHYSICAL AFFECTION/ROMANCE: YES
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: YES
RELATIONSHIPS: YES, let's discuss
PSYCHIC/MANIPULATION:YES, let's discuss details for more fun
FIGHTING/INJURY: YES
MURDER:YES, but let's discuss first
MANIPULATION: YES
BACKTAGGING: YES
THREADHOPPING: YES
FOURTHWALLING: NOPE
NOT INTERESTED IN: N/A
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: YES
RELATIONSHIPS: YES, let's discuss
PSYCHIC/MANIPULATION:YES, let's discuss details for more fun
FIGHTING/INJURY: YES
MURDER:YES, but let's discuss first
MANIPULATION: YES
BACKTAGGING: YES
THREADHOPPING: YES
FOURTHWALLING: NOPE
NOT INTERESTED IN: N/A
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