Kahurangi "Reilana" Tamawhetu
Gender: ♀ she/her
Sexuality: Bi
Species: Human
Age: 18
Height: 5'6" (168cm)
Profession: High school student, amateur necromancer
Appearance:
Reilana has a carefully presented exterior. She wants anyone who looks at her to understand how she presents herself. That being dark, different, and admittedly a bit unapproachable. Dark clothes, dark makeup, chains, bones, and a variety of piercings are all characteristic of Reilana's style. A splash of colour in the makeup, or notably her blue underdyed hair break up the darkness for some stylistic flair. The tattoo on her chin is a different matter, representing her connection to her father's heritage. Her darker skin and broad features are his inheritance as well.
Personality:
Reilana presents a cool headed, detached outer shell to most people she encounters. She doesn't care to live up to anyone's standards for her; it's not her job to impress them. She's got her own way of doing things, and that's perfectly fine by her.
Past these walls there's a more sensitive side to her. Not touchy or fragile, but she'll let the big emotions out around those she trusts. Even when she's being more aloof, she can't help but express herself through her musical interest, or her performances in drama.
Abilities:
Necromantic Theorems - Reilana has practiced some basic necromancy since a young age. Primarily her focus has been on bone theorems, which allows her to manipulate and control bone matter. With more advanced spellwork, she can animate a whole skeleton. She's yet to manage the feat of generating bones from pure thanergy.
History:
Reilana was born and raised in the Nexus. Her biological father, Tamawhetu Matekohuru, is an immigrant to Riverside and the Nexus, being a Māori man from some version of Earth. She has a keen interest in her people's culture, keeping those ties close, even getting a tā moko in her late teens.
Her father and mother, Roimata, divorced when Reilana was young. The arrangement is that Reiana spends two days a week with her mom, though their relationship is strained. The two don't see eye to eye, especially regarding Reilana's interests.
One could call her a bit of a misfit growing up, and this was only emphasized when she picked up some oddities from her step-dad, Jostan. Jostan is a necromancer medium, and even before Reilana adopted the practice herself, it gave her a morbid interest in death. She's been collecting animal bones for near as long as she can remember, as one expression of that, and the goth mindset followed soon after.
She tended to be something of an outcast, but she only cared to have a few friends anyway. Most notably is Dulcinea, who's been her closest friend as long as either of them can remember due to the fact that their parents were friends before either of them were born. The two of them have largely been inseparable their entire lives.
These days Reilana awaits graduation from high school, on the precipice with all the uncertainty that implies.