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[wearenotbroken]

OOC Information:

Name: Wreckless
Age: Def 18+
Time Zone: Central
Preferred Contact Method: Discord


IC Information:

Reserve Link: Reserve

Character Name: Courtney Marteniz
Series: OC
Character History:
World Description: Courtney's world is very simple, it's Earth but magic exists. The sky is blue, the sun rises and sets just like normal, along with the moon, and humans are apparently the only intelligent life form in the universe. Except not everyone is a simple human.

There are vampires, werewolves, demons, angels, The Fae, and mages. Courtney falls in the latter category. Sort of.

History:

Born October 1st, 1886, Courtney Marteniz was the only child of a wealthy plantation owner and his loving wife. On the surface, they looked like the typical happy family and, for the most part, they were. Courtney never wanted for anything except for the freedom to do as she wanted and to love who she wanted. Her father had other ideas though as he believed she would marry who he told her to as long as it was someone wealthy and of good upbringing.

They most certainly never believed that she would fall in love with the mysterious undertaker who had no fortune or family of his own but Courtney was taken with Josiah Cole almost as soon as she laid eyes on him. Still, she didn't approach him until her Abuelo's death seven years after the two of them first laid their eyes upon one another. From there, their friendship was fast-growing and their love for another one even more so.

In their time together, Courtney came to realize that Joe was a mage like her though he was on the opposite end of the spectrum from her as his power was tied to Death. Not that it scared Courtney as she vowed to teach him magic and to help him understand his power so he could control it better. For a little while, it worked but not even someone who had been raised knowing her power could be a match for what was to come. There was no way she could fight Death himself when he set his focus on Joe.

Despite her concerns and the fact that she didn't trust the man who had shown up on Joe's doorstep with the promise he could teach him how to resurrect his family, her lover wouldn't listen to her. Still, Courtney didn't give up on Joe. Not even when the town began to turn on him out of fear. She followed when he was run out of town, pleading with him just to listen to her because she knew there was no way to bring his family back.

In the end, she was there on the day Death betrayed him. She watched in horror from afar as he raised his brother who inevitably turned against him in a fit of madness and burned him alive. Courtney was the one who put out the flames and tried to save him but ultimately couldn't. Broken with grief, she gathered his ashes together and used magic to seal them in an urn. Completely unaware at first of the role she was playing in the creation of the Shade.

Not until years later when another strange man appeared on her doorstep and told her the significance of the urn. Who told her what Josiah had done and what he had become, of what he could be and why the urn needed protecting. Why she needed to be the one to protect it.

From that day on, Courtney continued to live, kept alive both by her power and by the role as the Keeper of the Urn. She watched and listened as stories of the Lord of the Vale and Reaper of the Wayward started to appear but ultimately she kept herself away from The Shade because she knew their time had passed.

Also due to her ever-youthful appearance and her precious cargo, Courtney never stays in one place for more than a decade. Sometimes even less than that if someone comes looking for the Urn in the hopes of controlling the Shade. So far though, she has beaten everyone who has tried to take the urn from her. Even The Scourge.

Character Canon Point: Her canon point is that she is coming from current times but she is also coming with CRAU from Boomtown. So she has reunited with The Shade but things are strained.

IF THEY ARE CRAU, this is also where you'll add that information.
Personality: To say that Courtney is almost loyal to a fault would be an understatement. Of course, she would argue that there could be no fault to that but deep down she would know it's true. After what she did for The Shade, she continued to be loyal to him or at least the idea of who he was and he could be. There were plenty of times she had a moment of wanting to walk away from her 'job' of being the Keeper and all it entailed but she didn't. Mostly because she knew that doing so would put him at risk but also all of the souls that he protected. Not that it means she is totally fine with The Shade as there is some deep, lingering issues and hurt feelings despite the fact that she cares for him.

Courtney also does her best to see the good in people even though it can be hard considering all the bad she has seen. This is evident in her dealings with the Horde and how she treats each personality. She is kind to most of them though she isn't very fond of Patricia who has tried to get her killed once or twice. She also treats other people kindly, quick to help especially if there is a link to someone that she knows or even cares about. She is willing to spend energy in helping others because it's part of her nature to care and protect.

She can't stand for others to be put down or treated cruelly, especially if she feels they don't deserve it. She has no problem standing up to others, especially those she views as being wrong. She has even gone against her own parents and friends when they didn't see Josiah as good enough for her. She even used her magic to play a little prank on a young woman that had humiliated him when they were growing up.

But that doesn't mean she is without flaws. She can be terribly stubborn when she puts her mind to something and she doesn't give up easily. If she believes strongly enough, she will go against others and even deal with being an outcast if she has to. She has learned to be comfortable with her own company too, especially after spending more than a century on her own. Truthfully, despite her caring nature, she does hold a part of herself back because she is used to losing people and having to move on eventually.

As the Keeper, she has also learned that sometimes she needs to make sacrifices to protect the urn. Sacrifices that she isn't proud of but deemed necessary. Not that she will talk about those willingly.

CRAU: With only a short time in Boomtown, not a lot has changed about Courtney despite the fact that she had finally agreed to 'date' the Horde. It wasn't an issue with who they were but more her own issues stemming from having been alone for so long and losing people. It's still a work in progress but she's trying.
She also found a bit of freedom in being in another place where she didn't necessarily have to be the Keeper.

Abilities:
- Spellcasting: Can cast various spells, protective barriers, incantations, so forth
- Life Mage: Courtney has the ability to affect and manipulate life energies/forces around her. Her passive effect on people around her is that they just feel good. Any aches and pains will fade away, any feelings of fatigue will be replaced by energy and so on. Actively, she can manipulate one's life energy to heal or, if she really focuses, to harm even though she doesn't like to do that. But she does see how useful it can be to drain a being's life energy if she needs to. She also has an effect on plant life as she can 'encourage' plants to grow (or die). She cannot manipulate plants as an earth mage can but she can grow some very nice gardens.

As Keeper of the Urn, Courtney is not a goddess, but rather a divine acolyte of the Shade, tied not merely to her sacred charge but to his celestial fate. She is not merely human, she is not divine--she is something new, something very similar to the archangels of Christian myth save that she has free will--complete with a warrior's aspect of armor and sword when she reveals her true face as a servant of Creation.

When in battle or about to fight, she can summon the armor and a sword. She also has enhanced speed and strength which makes it easier for her to fight other supernatural beings and her power as a life mage makes it very difficult to kill her. Not impossible but difficult.

She knows how to fight with a sword, hand to hand and she can use a gun if she needs to though she isn't fond of them.

Six Items:
A Claddagh ring and an opal necklace
A small bag filled with various stones (Quartz, Obsidian, Moonstone, etc)
A cutting from a willow tree that came from her family home
A little wood carving figure that looks suspiciously like her
Black leather jacket with hidden pockets


Character Samples:

Sample 1: A log with Horde

Sample 2:

Well, at least this isn't my first rodeo.

[ Courtney sighs as she tucks some dark hair back from her face, smiling faintly. Being pulled from one place to another is a bit dizzying but there are worst places she could have ended up, right? At least at first glance, this place doesn't look so bad.

Except she looks worried because there are people that she has left behind. People that she worries about. ]

So what can you guys tell me about this place? Good, bad, somewhere in between? Any sort of information would help.

[ Or so she hopes. ]