revoice:: heart

♪Name: Heart Opal Clarin
♪Age: 20 (joined at 17)
♪Birthday: January 30
♪Gender: Demiboy (he/him or they/them)
♪Orientation: ¯\_(*ˊᵕˋ)_/¯
♪Species: Swan maiden/Human

♪Height: 5'10" | 178cm
♪Build: Very thin and slender, twig twink
♪Hair Color: Strawberry blonde
♪Eye Color: Turquoise

♪Title: Caged Bird
♪Skill:
Manipulight- The energy in Heart's amulet is mixed with light can be used for Heart to shape as he pleases through the cost of mana depending on what he wants to do. Much of the time he doesn't use this offensively and uses it for nice gestures since exposure to sunlight will generally replenish the supply and the simple magic does not eat away at his mana pool.
     Offensive: Offensively, he can direct the light to hit someone with the energy created, but he must be able to focus to create hits one at a time. His attacks are very small and weak individually, but the power stacks over time(though the time it takes adds to the limitation of focusing on one target) to build a more powerful hit.
     Defensive: Heart is able to shape the light into a barrier of some sort to absorb hits. The strength of the shield depends on the amount of mana that he puts into it. He has to shape these by hand so they would take slightly longer than most.
♪Minor Skill(s):
Illumination's Ballet- The one power Heart has that isn't fueled by the gem/mark on their skin is his meladis. His singing prompts small hearts of light to rain above the demon to purify them, falling and twirling in glowing rhythm to the song as if in a dance.

Mute- Heart can shift into a large swan, though this uses up more mana than his Manipulight so he uses it scarcely. This form isn't used for much other than swimming, as Heart is not well trained in combat. He is unable to communicate in this form without a voice to speak.

♪Weapon: N/A
♪Weapon Type: Magic
♪Combat Style: His abilities and physical weakness limit him to play support. He stays behind any guard he can manage to find and take his time bringing hits to enemies and letting his hits of light and energy gather to weaken them. Heart does fairly well in dodging and avoiding hits and will act defensively while taking advantage of the situations and locations that he's in.

♪House: Aivis'ra
♪Major: Manipulative magic
♪Program: Common
♪Occupation: Full time nerd.

♪Likes: Books, pastries, warmth, lullabies, sunlight, bad jokes
♪Dislikes: Darkness, holding grudges, loud noises, controlling people
♪Hobbies: Reading, swimming
♪Personality:
Heart is quiet person with surprisingly a lot to say, but sudden shyness usually prevents him from conveying what he wishes and leaves him with a more hushed and nervous label. He doesn't seem to be the most serious and can fall into crude words, though is very well-educated. He's generally calm but will protect what's important to him at any cost, which at times throws him into more of a panic than he would expect from himself.

♪Home Region: Diamond
♪History:
    A beautiful swan maiden once lived peacefully around the waters of Garnet. There were both soundness and tranquility in her life, living with others of her kind. This peace would not last forever, though. The swan woman would instead captivate the eye of a young human man, who did not intend to find such a being but soon wished to be with her with his all. Her power was contained on a single point- an amulet over her chest. While she was asleep, he cut her power away from her and took this for himself. Once the maiden had awoken, he simply held it out to her, but his demand made the jewel feel farther away than it could ever be. He would only return her power back if she would be his wife. The swan maiden complied with no other choice, but she never had her amulet returned to her and remained powerless, with no way to leave or search for her stolen jewel in fear of what the man would do if she attempted.

     The man had been rather lucky in life and well off, but this smitten man needed more to win over the unwilling swan's love. With passport and a decent head start financially, he was determined to do so by any means that he could to increase his current standing. This unfortunate maiden was taken to Diamond with him where he could prove his deserving by replacing her life with one of wealth and intellect. Despite the steady increase in worldly success, living in a treasure box of riches meant nothing to her– the woman only wanted her freedom. He hid her and her jewel away in their home so she would never leave, and maybe one day she would come to love him.

    Her plan to escape felt foiled by every possible means, but her key to freedom ended up being contained in the last thing she would expect to help: a child. This child was born on his birthday at the tender age of zero. Though originally unwanted, this new child became her everything, her Heart. When Heart’s jewel of energy appeared soon after birth, she immediately found a way to hide it away to a mark on his skin so her husband would be unable to take it from the newborn child, then used his human half as an explanation for its nonexistence. With the questions taken care of, the swan maiden and man raised their child as any other parents would.

    Heart grew up unaware of how his family came to be. The child lived with everything: two loving parents, to music, to a young and growing proficiency in magic, to all of the information he could ever hope to access at his disposal. He was comfortable how he was and needed nothing else. Despite all of the positives, his mother’s apparent despondency stood out as a constant that made his heart sink. Her little swan would go to ask, go to do something, anything to make her feel better, but she would simply tell him that “someday everything will be back to how it should.” A young Heart, seeing nothing out of place, did nothing. He continued learning magic and improving his skills as he grew, though continued to ask his mother periodically.

    It was only when the child turned twelve did she decide to reveal what had happened to her. Afterwards, Heart began to grow colder towards his father and promised his mother he would retrieve the amulet for her without fear. The now stronger swan hybrid diligently worked with the little information he’d gathered and searched and searched until he eventually found it. The child did not leave his promise unfulfilled and soon returned his mother’s energy to where it belonged to her.

    That night, she decided that she would only be safe if she made her escape at that time and asked Heart to come with her. Though Heart could understand her unhappiness through the years, he could not yet bear to leave everything he had known behind, even with his bitterness to his father lingering. But he did promise one thing: he would go to her someday. Heart knew that he wanted to reunite with his mother but the time wasn’t right. The swan maiden understood, telling him to hold onto his promise and that she would return when he did. He nodded and she left, leaving traces of herself to lift any possible blame from Heart. The swan maiden was never suspected of doing a thing.

    Years passed and Heart stayed with his father, keeping his resent for his father and wondering about his mother’s reach for freedom. He suddenly lost the feeling of content that he had his whole life, and he wanted to do something. Leaving for his mother was an option, but Heart still didn't get what freedom really meant to her, and thus wasn't sure what it meant to him either. All he knew was that the kind lifestyle he was given wouldn't settle anymore. He needed to broaden his views and horizons somehow. After learning of Enhalo, Heart figured that maybe he would be able to learn more about life there.

♪Overview:
Heart is rather intelligent, constantly aware of his actions and what the choices he makes will do. Through his general sense and education, he is naive when it comes to the world and wants to see and learn more. More or less, he has been limited to very little views in the past and wants to become more open-minded to whatever comes his way. He's rather relaxed and tries to be friendly but tenses up easily due to shyness.

♪Miscellaneous:
 The heart marking under his collarbones is where his gem is located. Because of what happened to his mother, he often hides this away as a mark on his skin.
     A heavy supply of mana and energy is kept here. If he were somehow to be separated from it, his magic would be drained significantly and he would be rendered helpless.
 The mark on his face, however, has no purpose and is just a birthmark.
 Very human-like in appearance. His source of power and the dark markings on the corner of his eyes, arms, and stomach are what give him away as a hybrid.
 His pupils are colored white.
 Heart plays around with the light sometimes when nervous. He used to have a bad habit of draining more of his mana than he thought by doing this and now keeps this to a minimum, or at least only makes very small creations.

♪Stats: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

♪Grades:
 Trial of the Body Shrine: A
 Trial of the Air Shrine: A
 Trial of the Cosmos Shrine: A