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Character Full Name:[/b] Kyana Vexnal

Character Age:[/b] 45 (appears much younger, see Description)

Character Birthday:[/b] November 9th, 1960

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Character Ethnicity:[/b] European

Character Bloodline:[/b] Pure-blood

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[b]Abilities:[/b] Kyana's hands have been transmuted into amazingly strong black stone as the result of an alchemical accident. Their quasi-magical nature has rendered them immune most spells, especially efforts to return them to flesh. Subsequently, she is forced to wear gloves or garments with voluminous sleeves to hide their true nature. A beneficial side effect of this magic resistant nature is that she can deflect magic directed at her that is essentially bolt or ray-like. By closing her hand over an offending spell she can cause it to fizzle out, while an open hand harmlessly deflects it. The hands also grant her a horrible strength, able to crush objects that can be held or grasped with one hand (keys, jewelry, wrists, skulls). She also keeps a small quantity of unicorn blood, obtained at great price, in a vial around her neck in case of an emergency.

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[b]Describe Your Character:[/b] Kyana appears as a young woman in her mid twenties. She has hazel eyes mingled with crimson, and wears a perpetual tan over flawlessly smooth skin that speaks of frequent baths with very expensive soap. Her hair is an immaculate mane of scarlet, kept at waist length. While she does take care of herself, her appearance is largely due to her skill as an alchemist - the philters and potions she routinely imbibes. In the wizarding world, she dresses primarily for comfort, with dark robes and cassocks. When traveling in the muggle world she prefers dark glasses and cunningly tailored silk suits.

[b]Character Background:[/b] A quiet and introverted youth, Kyana had been born to wizardly parents but had inherited a type of Porphyria and anemia - the former characterized by extreme photosensitivity, and the latter making her weak and easily tired. Subsequently, her experiances with the magic of the world was limited to dark libraries among moldering tomes and borrowed manuscripts. Her youth was not actually a troubled one - she saw her pale complection as undesirable, and made little efforts to move away from her naturally posessed introversion. When frustrated by her inability to quickly master the wand, she turned her attention to alchemy. It was a subject that captivated her not because of the subject, but because she found herself to be quite good at it.
She made money by lending her skills to magical pharmacies - making minor antidoes, wart removers and magical cleaning agents. But this only granted her access to more sophisticated equipment and components. Her nights were spent hunched over the laboratory she had assembled, experimenting with bubotuber pus, wormood and asphodel. When she would make the smallest breakthrough, like increasing the yeild, duration, or efficiency of a potion, she would note it in one of the many journals she kept. As her career advanced, she grew accustom to advancing her research through risky new proceedures and shortcuts. Over the years she suffered from minor mishaps and maladies, until a series of disfiguring burns down the left side of her body prompted her research into beautification potions. Her final results were challenging of Sacharissa Tugwood's own potion, yet she never published her formulas. With a regiment of her improved beautification draughts, she made a new life for herself at greater heights than ever before. Finally, she "lost" her hands in an accident involving assassin-grade petrification poison and other, darker materials. Undeterred, she sought employment at the Ministry of Magic.

[b]Character Personality:[/b] Exceedingly vein, Kyana can be as polite and charming as a situation requires.

Likes:[/b] Daydreaming, wing-back armchairs, malted icecream, silk, satin and other fine things. She also adores flattery.
Dislikes:[/b] Superiors, people reading over her shoulder.

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Strengths:[/b] Exceptional intelligence, cunning, ruthlessness
Weaknesses:[/b] Obsession, paranoia, vindictiveness
Fears:[/b] Death, old age and being deprived of the "new" image granted to her by her potions

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