Ilaria
I have friends on the other side.
Basic Info
Basic:
Full Name: Ilaria Verdone
Nickname: Soul-Binder, Reaper.
Gender: Female.
Age: Seventeen.
Birth Date: December.
Current Location: Fiore.
Magic: Soul-Binder.
Height: 5'5"
Weight: One-hundred and fifteen pounds.
Eye Color: Purple
Hair Color: (suppose to be) Gray.
Guild:
Guild: White Eclipse.
Rank: ??
Guild Mark: Right Hip.
Relatives:
Victoria Verdone (human-mother, alive)
James Verdone (human-father, deceased)
Seika Verdone (human sister, alive)
Daityas (biological father, alive)
Maggie (biological mother, alive)
Abilities
Magic: Soul-Binder
Description of magic and why she is able to do what she does.
In its normal state the magic takes on a ghastly blue color and significantly lowers the temperature in the area with a chill of death. The magic itself is unable to interact with the physical world and directly targets the soul. This means that Ilaria cannot utilize her own magic to block non spiritual attacks against her and vice versa, whereas one without spiritual magic is unable to interact with her magic. If there is any clarification needed about what can and cannot interact feel free to ask directly to figure it out.
Death Touched: Ilaria has been touched by death, and is now a conduit for the spirit realm. Living creatures that make contact with her have their souls pulled into the spirit realm and if they linger too long they will be unable to return to their living bodies.
Ethereal Kusarigama: Ilaria’s primary attack is using twin chained scythes that directly inflict damage to the soul of her opponents. The appearance of the weapons are shimmering in a pale translucent light. Like the blades, the chains are also manifestations of the spirit realm and they appear to be wrapped around her forearms. The length of the chains can reach up to 15 feet. The soul is a reflection of the will of the individual and is able to suffer attacks that would kill a physical being, however it is slow to recover from them.
Chained Hook: By embedding one or both scythes into an opponent’s soul, Ilaria is able to retract the chains and pull herself to the opponent or the opponent to herself based on their willpower.
Soul Shackles: Ilaria attempts to restrain her opponents by wrapping her chains around them after embedding her scythe to restrict their movement. She is also able to manifest additional chains from the spirit realm to accomplish the same task.
Soul Mending: Ilaria is able to repair damage to the souls of living beings by manipulating Soul Essence from the spirit realm.
Soul Binding: Ilaria does not possess magic of great destructive power, however she is able lock away even the strongest of magic into the spirit realm by using her Soul Talismans. The power of her bindings depends on how well restrained the opponent is, and the amount of talismans placed in the proper magic points of the body.
Soul Talismans: Ilaria is able to create paper talismans that are able to ward evil, and lock away magic. Such talismans can be used to create barriers, or placed directly on the bodies of living beings to prevent them from using magic. They can only be removed by an outside force, or Ilaria herself.
Ethereal Form: Ilaria is able to shift her physical body into the spirit realm for a short amount of time, while in this form she is able to move through physical objects.
Soul Atonement: In areas of sacred reverence, or where a large loss of life has taken place, the spirit realm has more influence on the physical world. This allows Ilaria’s magic to increase substantially as she is closer to the spirit realm.
Soul Possession: Ilaria is able commune with the lost souls of the spirit realm. By allowing a soul to take control of her body she gains the knowledge, instincts, and personality that soul acquired in their former life, but they are limited by Ilaria’s physical capabilities. However, lost souls are only able to exist in the physical world for a short period of time before they need to recover Soul Essence from the spirit realm. If a soul doesn’t return to the spirit realm, it will vanish forever.
There are a few known possessions she has experienced:
Soul of a War Hero: A soldier of a time long passed. He hasn’t revealed his name to Ilaria. A brooding warrior that has committed untold atrocities, and was quite skilled with martial weapons. Ilaria suspects he took his own life out of shame.
Soul of a Shrine Priestess: A shrine priestess skilled in understanding the occult and traditional medicine. She was murdered by a jilted lover.
Soul of a Magic Scholar: A powerful mage with vast understandings of magic and history. He was betrayed by his apprentice and murdered before completing his research.
Soul of a Fair Maiden: A beautiful young talented musician, and “entertainer”, who committed suicide after learning her lover was killed in battle. She specializes in stringed instruments such as the shamisen, harp, guqin and other similar instruments.
Curse: To be revealed.
About
After witnessing the Grand Magic Games on the Lacrima TV, especially Reve Revolver’s fights, she has aspired to become a strong hero like him and participate in the games. However, the female’s magic makes her feel closer to a villain than a hero causing her to overcompensate with an energetic attitude. From being raised on drama’s, sitcoms, and cartoons her social skills are poorly adjusted leaving her to create some awkward situations. This leads the female to use her overactive imagination to take on different personas for scenarios she’s not accustomed to.
When not accompanied by the living, the Soul-Binder becomes subdued in nature and overwhelmed with her curse of undeath. The female feels isolated at times from the real world with an inability to create true connections with those she cares for. She experiences a constant underlying fear of causing harm to others with the ‘curse’ she bears. Despite her achievements and efforts the female’s dreams always seem just slightly beyond her reach. Like the spirits that haunt her daily life, she too can’t escape the purgatory of being stuck between a villian and a hero.