Ms. Marina Juliette & Mao the Cat

[Ms. Juliette]

Name: Marina Juliette

Age: 24 years

Sex: female

Occupation: Teacher; Languages

Powers and Descriptions:
Planar Conveyance
Can transport beings or objects from one plane to another, herself inclusive. Depending on the power of the being or object, the transition could take a moment, for very weak energies, to a number of minutes, for more powerful energies. By dealing with the planes so often, she has become very attuned to their energies, and can sense whenever someone or something is on a plane they do not belong - similar to how a well travelled person might determine someone's true origins from their particular accent and appearance.

Tongues
Tongues means that she can understand and speak all languages created by sentient minds. She can speak in a non-language that can be understood by the person(s) she directs it towards as well.

Personality:
Marina is a very cheerful person. She has been through quite a lot and has come out on top after it all because of her optimistic attitude and hope for the future. She really does love her students and will do all she can to help them on their paths to be better people and use their powers for good.

She enjoys the company of her cat-spirit Mao, and the company of various ghosts and other spirits that come visit her in her accommodation on Soto Island.

Marina enjoys savory snacks like slices of tomato and cheese on crackers, and hugging things. She dislikes bad hair days, running late, and having to grade assignments.

Despite her power of tongues meaning that she could easily be very much to herself and introverted, only speaking and being understood by the select few, she's much the opposite. She enjoys chatting to everything that crosses her path, and is extraverted by nature.

Appearance:
Marina has long brown hair which she often ties back, and amber-colored eyes. She looks very youthful and has a skinny frame, keeping a definite innocence about her. She stands at roughly 5'7" and wears a lot of clothing she would consider 'cute', although sometimes they can look a bit over the top or childish. She loves ribbons and bows. She has reading glasses that she puts on for class to seem smarter. They're just for show really, though. She has large eyes and a small mouth, with a button nose.


History:

Marina grew up in a normal household in Ontario, Canada. A place where all good fairy tales take place, don't you know. She had a little brother and two loving parents, who knew nothing about superpowers, and hadn't come into contact with the gifted themselves.

Whenever she was around 7 years old, her powers began to manifest, the two of them simultaneously. She started to cross the barriers between worlds without meaning to. The first time she did this was on halloween, when the barrier between the worlds is at it's thinnest- the best time for a novice to explore.

She suddenly found that she was no longer on her street trick-or-treating, but instead was at a strange festival with creatures of various sizes. Frightened, she tried to hide from them as they danced around the streets, occasionally disappearing from sight, crossing the realms themselves. It was here, while frightened and scared, that she tripped over the black cat on her path.

Mao didn't take kindly to being the subject of such assault and he gave the kid a good talking to about watching where she was going, and where were her manners, anyway?

Marina was awe-struck. The cat was talking to her. And she could understand it. She simply didn't know what to say. Eventually she fumbled out an apology.

Mao started to assess the situation whenever she replied to him. She obviously wasn't from around here, and she smelled really strange. More than that, she was speaking his native language fluently, and that was very unusual for some human child. He asked her a barrage of questions.

The cat shape-shifted into a human form and revealed himself as a spirit, introducing the girl to the spiritual plane that she had found herself on. Since she obviously was gonna be getting into a lot of trouble with a superpower like the one she'd gotten, he figured someone had to look after her on her journey, and promised to guide her... Well, in exchange for free pass into the material plane and maybe a bit of tuna when they got there.

So Marina took Mao back with her and told her parents that he was a stray she picked up, and convinced them to let her keep him.

She continued an ordinary existence, taking a number of languages at school for extra credit and picking them up the moment that the teacher opened her mouth. She passed the tests with 100 percent practically every time in those classes. Her teachers simply thought that she was very bright, and she did spend so much time in her room 'studying'.

In reality, she was locking her room and transporting herself and Mao to various different planes of existence, exploring, getting into trouble with the locals, and solving the problem as quickly as possible. She made many friends during these adventures, and by the time she was 16, her and her friends had already stopped an powerful evil spirit that wanted to make a bridge between the worlds permanently open and cause mass havoc on earth.

After this incident, the realms decided there had to be some sort of system put up in order to stop this. Marina was chosen as a representative of the material plane on the council that was established, as her powers and experience in the realms made her the perfect diplomat.

After she graduated her school in Ontario, she decided to apply for college to become a teacher. Her parents tried to get her to do something in languages, because it was obviously her passion, and that she would be higher paid as a translator or speaker, but she wanted to spread her knowledge, and money wasn't so important to her. They still didn't know that she had powers at all, as she had been nearly caught red-handed several times but always managed to cover it up.

Not to mention, there was a number of various items and gifts that she had acquired during her adventures back and forth between the various realms, and these had helped to keep her powers hidden at home as well as save her life while adventuring.

She eventually got her qualification as a teacher, capable of teaching English, French, German, and Spanish, all with honours. Although she was offered positions at various schools for her skills, she specifically applied to Solstice Academy. She wanted to be able to use her powers with pride, and teach using them, too. She wanted to show others the worlds that she had spent half her life in, without fear of what they would think.

She's been working there ever since, with Mao as her companion.

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Cat's name: Mao

Mao's age: 132 years. Quite young for a spirit.

Mao's powers:
1. He's a spirit.
He can make himself tangible or intangible based on his choosing. He cannot be killed, being already technically dead, but can be dismissed from the material plane by those who know how.

2. Specifically, a Cat Spirit.
He can also make himself appear differently to some people, and has various different forms, though he is most often a black cat. Whenever he is in human form, he has black neko-ears, dark brown hair and appears as a somewhat rough-looking timeless character, looking neither old or young.

3. Simple Spell-casting
He also has grasp of basic magic, able to preform simple spells- to, say, animate an object for a small frame of time, or enchant small objects, or a person's single action ( say allowing someone to jump a greater distance than would be normally possible just that once, for example (jumping the magic jump)). Each of these spells have time frames of only around 5 minutes if even that. After preforming these basic spells he cannot preform another for roughly half an hour, at least - but they have come in handy during Marina's adventures.

Personality:

Mao is very down to earth and somewhat sarcastic at times. He does take Marina seriously though, despite her being somewhat air-headed at times. He seemed to act as a sort of motivator for Marina in her youth, though now, after her adventures are through, she seems to be the one telling him to get out of bed and start the day.

He's very loyal to Marina because of all they've been through together, and will protect her with his life, er, presence. Overall, he's a pretty good guy with well grounded morals.


Code Words: Fantasy Reference

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[Moderator Alo]

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