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Lazy Kitsune Wrote:Name: Penelope Crow
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https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/7279564Bio: As witches go, Penelope has always been on the kinder side of things. Like all witches, she certainly had her noticeable quirks that set her apart from most folk - a bizarre fashion sense, eccentric personality and the usual temper that came with all being with strong magical powers that made them dangerous as enemies and ferocious allies when needed. However if you hadn't gotten on her bad side, she was unusually friendly and welcoming for a witch. While she lived apart form civilisation, she would regularly visit the nearby towns to lend aid or partake in local festivities. After centuries of doing this some villages even set up holidays to celebrate her - whom some of them saw as a local forest spirit that would take human form in order to cure illnesses and tend to the wounds of the kindhearted as well as entertain children and those with childlike imaginations with her whimsical tales of magic.
How old she actually is is a mystery. Like man witches, she seems to have been around for a long time yet shows no sign of ageing. She herself will refuse to tell her own age - and while she has by no means mastered immortality, she's found ways to enhance her own essence with the longevity and timelessness of other magical beings. Still, while definitely talented in magic, she is not as masterful with it as witches that have lived for thousands of years. In recent years the woods around her home have come under the influence of a powerful blight - likely an unexpected side effect of dark ritual that happened not far from her home. While she was able to aid a team of adventurers in stopping those behind the ritual, the blight was left to her to heal. While she has been able to slow its progress somewhat, curing it entirely is out of her power. She needs the aid of a strong magical familiar to give her the added strength to her power to cure it and save not just her home but the surrounding towns and villages as well from the blight. So she pushes herself to call upon the strongest spirits that can she can sense to bind to her. Much to her surprise, she finds a young dragon that seems to have been scattered from her physical form. Merging her power with that of a dragon would no doubt help solve the blight with ease... and as an added bonus, come festival time the children would love to pet a real dragon. So, hoping that she's strong enough to handle this creature, she calls to it through the void and invites it to become her familiar, giving it a chance to manifest in physical form once more in front of her.
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Firehead Wrote:Name: Durxin
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https://e621.net/post/show/1870444Bio: A cocky young Drake, Durxin was always happy to prove his greatness onto others. One day though he messed with the wrong traveler and found himself face to face with an Archfey. Soon his physical form leaving him as a wandering spirit. The only way to regain his physical form was to allow himself to be bound as a familiar to those with magical talent. A humiliating place for a Dragon to find themselves, but he was given one out. If he could manipulate his master and make them submit, he would be free to retain his physical form even after his bond with the mage was severed. He just needed someone confident enough to try and bind a dragon to their service without having the competence to control one.
After so long adrift and devoid of physical sensation, the warmth you felt seemed almost too good to be true. A gentle tug guided you towards its source, its heat travelling across the land like a distant hearth in the cold. The urge to go towards it was strong, but it was no command. It was an invitation. "Come here," the warmth said "come and be whole again. Come and feel again. Let me be your home for a while. Lets be friends."
It would take a powerful mage to enact any ritual that could summon the spirit of a dragon, but given that you sensed no signs of magical compulsion, or barriers to bind you or any other magical tricks then perhaps this particular mage was only on the cusp of being strong enough to summon you. That or they were far too trusting... a trait which might make it easy to turn the tables on them if given the chance. Either way, this seemed like a better opportunity than any you expected to find, and the chance to feel your physical body again seemed almost worth it.
You felt the mage's magic mingle with yours, filling your being as you started to form a body once more. Your ears became capable of hearing, filled with the sound of a whirling vortex around you. You felt heat, not from the spell, but actual, real heat, around you and inside you. Your body formed and placed itself on the ground as the swirling magical winds around you started to settle. And you opened your eyes.
A human woman, presumably the witch responsible for summoning you, seemed to have fallen over onto her backside, giving you a clear view up her skirt as she brushed some loose sheets of parchment off of her and sorted out her hat. She was dressed even more bizarrely than most humans seemed to and took a slow and wobbly approach to getting back to her feet. Was she really the one capable of binding you to her? As little as she looked like a powerful mage, her 'lair', if you could call it as such, seemed even less impressive. You were in a rather cosy and cluttered room, with no sense of clear organisation or tidiness amongst the mix of books, loose sheets, jars, trinkets, plates and a whole manner of other bits and bobs. While the summoning circle scrawled around you certainly seemed legitimate, nothing else about this abode said 'powerful sorceress.'
I, however, was absolutely thrilled by circumstances, grinning widely and jumping up and down at the sight of you. Giddily giggling and holding my hat in its place, I bounced over to you and held out my hand. "Penelope Crow! Although you can just call me Pen! Or Peachy! Or Witchy! Or- Well, I have a few nicknames, it'd take quite a while to go through them all... Its a pleasure to meet you. I'm so glad a dragon agreed to become my familiar! You're a little smaller than I expected, but since when has size mattered, ey? Ey? Besides, it just makes it easier to fit us both under the same roof. Unless you don't like roofs... things with wings often don't like roofs, but I live in a tree... house... or sorts... so there's plenty of room in the tree part of the tree... house... thing... for you to sleep on a branch or have a little den of your own or whatever dragons like to do. Do you need a lot of meat? Or are you a vegan dragon? Are there vegan dragons? Do some dragons really eat gold? I have a lot of gold but I don't really have a use for it so I guess that'll sort that out if- Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm rambling already... did I tell you my name was Pen? Or Penelope. My names not Pen of course, that would be a silly name. Unless your name is Pen. Your names not Pen, is it?"
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