Cydonia Mavro

The daughter of the current headmaster and owner of Pantheon Academy, Cydonia Mavro has lived on the island where the school resides all her life. Able to commune with its long-lost spirits, she is not only a fearsome fighter, but also a star student -- though often finds herself feeling like she lives within her older brother’s shadow. She is a hall monitor and a stickler for rules.

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Physical

Cydonia stands at just barely over 5’3”, with a neatly put-together air about her. Her saffron hair is kept in a clean straight bob, reaching just above her shoulders.

She has wide, angled eyes of mismatched green and red, mirroring her older brother’s. Her facial expressions are usually intense, but offset by her small stature.

She is missing her left arm, and thanks to some fancy magic, has a ghostly ‘prosthetic’ of sorts.

She wears the uniform of Pantheon Academy properly to the T. When out of uniform, she… is not fashionable. Jeans and t-shirts and not much else.

Skills & Abilities

Semblance

RETURN TO SHADOW: Cydonia’s acute supernatural senses come from her semblance. This ability allows her to communicate with long-lost spirits and borrow some of their abilities to bolster her own strength, oftentimes several at once. The blessings can affect either Cydonia herself or the properties of her weaponry. Return To Shadow is both an active semblance and a passive one, she can always sense their presence (and hear them - gets a little loud sometimes!), but has to actively choose which ones to accept ‘blessings’ from, and has to be careful not to accidentally accept any that might be detrimental. To receive the blessing, she must speak the activation words, “I accept this message!” She can rid herself of all blessings at once by speaking the deactivation words, “Return to shadow, now!” which then will either teleport her out of danger, or turn her briefly invisible so she can escape, depending on how much aura she has left. If she has half or more remaining, she will teleport, any less and she will turn invisible until her aura ticks away. Either way, it will completely drain her aura. If she loses her aura naturally or it is broken during combat, she will lose her blessings with no escape benefit.

Weaponry

Cydonia has extensive training with several weapons, and has a little collection she cycles through depending on her mood for the day.

DOUBLE DOUBLE: The Moonstone Axe. An extremely heavy double-bladed axe, carved from silver and adorned with moonstone. While wielding the axe, Cydonia deals a lot of damage, though also becomes much slower.

TOIL AND TROUBLE: The Sister Blades. Toil & Trouble are a knife (Toil) and sickle (Trouble). A dust crystal can be placed in the hilt of both. She is an expert at using these weapons to parry opponents' moves.

FIRE BURN: The Umbral Flames. A pair of short staffs, torch-like in appearance. Fixed with a Burn dust crystal, they release short bursts of flame that Cydonia can further manipulate through spirit blessings.

CAULDRON BUBBLES: The Argent Skull. These... 'weapons' are large skulls carved from marble, and are highly explosive. Cydonia has three of them, and can launch them at high speeds towards opponents. They then explode on impact, and can be reused once she picks them up.

PRICKING THUMB: The Witch's Staff. Capable of strengthening Cydonia’s melee prowess or sending dust-fueled energy bolts at long-distance enemies.

SOMETHING WICKED: The Black Coat. Essentially a suit of power armor, with built-in hoverjets and small, mounted guns. The coat is useful both close up and at long distances.

Non-Combat Skills

Cydonia is extremely intelligent and a great student, always eager to learn more, to better herself. She can speak several languages, and can do advanced arithmetic in her head.

Weaknesses

Sometimes she is a bit too eager to learn, and becomes extremely single-minded in her goals, ignoring all else until she gets something done. She also tends to take herself far too seriously, and detests when others treat her childishly. She is a very strict rule-follower, even when it becomes a detriment for herself.

History

Background

Cydonia was born not long after her father, Aides Mavro, took his position as headmaster of Pantheon Academy. As such, she has never left the island, and has spent practically her entire life training and studying. Therefore, she takes it very seriously. She has an older brother, and spent much of her youth within his shadow.

She was very quick to take to her training, eager to match her brother’s prowess, and hopefully surpass him someday. But with a semblance like his, she had a lot to live up to. With how much time she spent training, she is very close with the staff at Pantheon, and has grown to view them as an extended family.

In her early teens, there was an incident where she shielded one of her classmates from a vicious Grimm attack, and ended up losing her left arm in the process. Pantheon’s staff is stocked full of those with extraordinary abilities, and the injury was ‘fixed’ promptly via a semi-magical prosthetic -- though not without heavy scolding.

Cydonia has honed her skills to the point there isn’t truthfully much left for her to learn combat-wise. However, she is still lacking somewhat in her personality, often speaking bluntly and coming off as very serious when she doesn’t mean to be. Such an attitude earned her the roll of Pantheon’s hall monitor, a role which she takes VERY SERIOUSLY. !!

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