Marcella Jager
Apprentice Marcella Jager- Jager (a.k.a. Marcia)
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Marcella is in peak physical condition, displaying strength and stamina among the highest in her age group.
Body Features
Marcella is shorter than most, but strongly built. Although she has access to food on a regular basis, she has been discouraged from exessive eating, and most of her weight is in muscle.
Facial Features
She is dark skinned, with long black hair, and deep narrowly-shaped brown eyes. Her brows are thick, and give her the look of a constant scowl. In other words, she has a very pronounced resting bitch face.
Identifying Characteristics
She can be identified among natives of the kingdom by her skin tone, which is not common among those in her social circles, and comes from her mother. Her dark brown eyes are recognizable as similer to her father. Later in life, she can be known as having a tatoo on he palm for fire magic.
Physical quirks
When she is angry, her jaw grows tight and sticks out when she's thinking.
Special abilities
None other than her training, and later an affinity for fire weilding.
Apparel & Accessories
Her apperel changes due to circumstances, but she prefers to wear a tunic like garment with an undershirt, and breeches. She wears a belt containing essential tools, as well as pockets for hidden knives. During her apprenticeship, she wore a sunrise pouldron on her shoulder, but later, she changes her garb with gifts from freinds, and things she has aquired during her adventures, such as the owl feather twisted in her hair from Gwydion, and a magical pearl ring from Blyana, similer to those worn by herself, Lyell, Kahru, and Gwydion.
Specialized Equipment
At the start of her mission to capture Lyell, she is gifted a silver dagger by Princess Rajni, which she uses to defeat him, and later to kill the Princess's father, the king, but she looses it in a fight against her father.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Marcella was born in 1070. At the age of six, Marcella met Lyell, a local orphan boy, and Lilith provided for him and taught him how to read and write. They played together constantly. When Marcella was eight, Lilith decided to leave her husband and hired a man to take them both across the border. He found out, and in a fit of rage, he killed her, framing the hired man as a mage that had murdered her. The man was found guilty due to Marcella's testimony and hung. At the age of ten, Marcella and Lyell were playing in the woods when a Mage Wolf attacked and abducted Lyell. She thought he was dead, and began her training as a Mage Hunter that same year. In 1089, Marcella is sent with her father across the border to track down a mage. She discovers that it is her old freind, and abandions her loyalties to save him. This results in Marcella comitting regicide and arson to escape. She acts on her moral objections to the starting of a war, and goes with Lyell to the Temple of Ria to provide intel to the Majan. She leads a company of men in Druidswood during the early weeks of the war, gaining respect was a soldier, but her past as a Mage Hunter, and the daughter of Commander Jager comes to light. She flees, and arrives in Ranvyk in time for the Ranvyk Massacre, in which her father attacks the village. She defends the village to the best of her abilities, saving as many as she can, but the village is still lost. In combat with her father, wounds him and looses her dagger. The people of Ranvyk see her dedication and courage, and name her as a hero. She eventually makes up her mind to fight for the Majan for the rest of the war, and learn to be a mage.
Gender Identity
Marcella identifies as cisgender female.
Sexuality
Marcella has not had the opportunity to explore her own sexuality, but has expeirenced attraction to the Princess Rajni (female), and her freind Lyell (male).
Education
Marcella was educated in reading, history, writing, and basic math and science by her mother before her death, then taught by tutors until the age of ten. After that, she began her full training in Mage Hunting, which includes many forms of combat, stratagy, wilderness skills, injury treatment, geography, history of the kingdom's battles, Majan culture from a martial point of view, combating magic, and tracking.
After her desertion, she begins to study Majan culture from among them, and magic.
Employment
Marcella worked under her father as an apprentice, hoping to ascend to a Hunter in her own right, but comitted treason when she found she was being manipulated. After that, she is a leader among the Majan in war, a spy, and a tactition.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Notable acheivements include: her capture of Lyell in Majan territory, and taking him back across the border while being persued, her assasination of King Theodore III and subsequent escape from his castle which included wounding Princess Rajni, and burning the Mage Hunter's Library, her unlikely victory in Druidswood, and her role in the defense of Ranvyk, as well as her role in the rest of the war, the eventual defeat of her father, Jager.
Failures & Embarrassments
Marcella regrets the many years she spent under her father's cruel hand. She feels guilt for the part she played in the persecution of the Majan, and the harm she caused to Rajni when she betrayed her.
Other failures include being shot in the chest by her father, and only saved by Lyell, and the pain she brought him and his freinds either directly, or indirectly during her service for the king. She regrets causing harm to Rajni, but knows that it was unavoidable. Later, she fails to save Ranvyk, and the deaths of the townsfolk weigh on her.
Mental Trauma
Marcella developed PTSD after the loss of Lyell as a child, experiencing irrational anger, paranoia, flashbacks, and panic attacks. The condition worsened under her father, becoming CPTSD due to his constant emotional abuse. She developed an acute fear of abandonment and anxious attachment style. This morphed into Borderline Personality Disorder, dissacosiation, self isolation, suspicion of others, and and unstable emotions.
Intellectual Characteristics
Marcella is not particularly academic, nor does she have a great ability to empathize with people. However, she is dedicated to what she beleives is right, and has an iron will as well as a high tolerance for pain. She works well under pressure.
Morality & Philosophy
Marcella is a protector. She does what is nessecary to help those she loves and trusts. She does not have a fixed moral code, other than basic human compassion which she was taught to ingore. In spite of this, Marcella is fiercely loyal to those who have earned it. Despite her life bringing her into constant situations of violence, she has a longing for peace and gentleness.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Firstly, she is motivated by the desire to please her father, and feel worthy of his love, but she realizes what he has done, is motivated by a desire to safe Lyell's life, then to make amends for her past wrongdoings, and to take revenge on her father, which evolves into the desire to fight for the safety of the Majan people, and the hope for peace.
Likes & Dislikes
She dislikes the color red
She likes confined spaces, and old tunnels.
She dislikes polite conversation
She likes dancing, but didn't know it
She dislikes hypocracy
She likes honesty
Virtues & Personality perks
Determination
Bravery
Grit
Loyalty
Vices & Personality flaws
Anger
Ignorence
Recklessnes
Pride
Hygiene
As well as she can. Often, when in the feild she can become very dirty.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Bahltair Jager (Father)
Lilith Jager (Mother)
Lyell (Freind/Love-Interest)
Gwydion (Freind/Mentor)
Rajni (Freinds/Love-Interest/Enemies)
Blyana (Rivals/Allies)
Kahru (Freind)
Vidarr (Ally)
Ophir (Rival/Enemy)
Deoirdh (Freind)
Family Ties
Bahltair Jager (Father)
Lilith Jager (Mother)
Religious Views
Not specified.
Social Aptitude
Introverted
Lacks social manners
Can be passive agressive
Or just agressive
Non subserviant
Hobbies & Pets
Marcella meets a cat during her apprenticeship, who latches on to her, and follows her into exile. Eventually, he becomes her familier.
Marcella was not given the opportunity to enjoy an hobbies, but later in life she finds she likes to dance, especally with Lyell, or to his music.
Speech
Her speech is blunt, and is not wordy. The sophistication changes depending on her company. It can becoem very imformal and causual around Lyell and those she's familier with, while taking on a more elegent nature in polite company when she is pissed off.
Relationships
History
Marcella was Lyell's first and best friend. After their separation, each dearly missed the other. When Marcella found Lyell again, she was anguished by her duty to kill him and eventually rescued him, going on the run together. After that, they began to trust each other more, and an ambigious romantic relationship forms. Beyond that, they are partners through danger and life companions.
Relationship Reasoning
Despite tribulation, the pair always find each other again and seek stability in each other. Lyell loves Marcella, on meanings of the word, and counts her as his closest family member. He admires her strength and courage. Marcella loves and and admires Lyell, looking to him as a role model for compassionate behavior.
Shared Secrets
Many.
History
Rajni and Marcella met at a dinner the king hosted for Marcella and her father. Rajni was fascinated by Marcella's honesty and brashness. On the same night, Marcella saved her life from an assassination attempt. Rajni started to feel a growing attraction towards the other girl, but did not reveal it. Marcella betrayed Rajni by killing her father, and after they became bitter enemies.
Wealth & Financial state
Little
Intellectual Characteristics
Marcella is an ISTJ-T personality type and an Aries. Although introverted and independent, she struggles with attachment and trust. She also has a hot-tempered streak, which can get in the way of logical thinking, making her reckless and impatient. As she is unable to process guilt, grief or hurt in healthy ways, she channels these into anger, which she sometimes cannot control. Besides this, she is known to be brave, self-reliant, honest to the point of bluntness, practical, and cool-headed in a crisis. She may struggle to process emotional nuance in others and lacks the sensitivity to handle this. She also finds existential philosphical ideas to be useless and prefers to deal with fact.
Current Status
In training to be a Mage Hunter
Current Location
Ethnicity
Other Ethnicities/Cultures
Honorary & Occupational Titles
TBD
Age
20
Date of Birth
1070 ND, 15 Ari.
Circumstances of Birth
Born to Lilith and Balhtair Jager
Birthplace
Capital City
Family
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Castle
Pronouns
she/her
Sex
Female
Gender
female
Eyes
Dark Brown, narrow
Hair
Long Black, usually tied back or braided
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Mid brown
Height
5ft, 5in.
Weight
130lb
Quotes & Catchphrases
"I've got you." Between her and Lyell.
"Do you hate them more than you love me?"
"A legacy of blood."
Belief/Deity
Monarchist
Aligned Organization
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