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guru_clefPersonal Information
Name:Chicklet
Age: Adult
Personal Journal: Chicklet
Email / AIM / MSN / Plurk:ChickletLARP (Plurk)
Current Character(s): Gabriel Agreste/Papillon
Character Information
Character Name: Clef
Fandom: Magic Knights Rayearth (Manga)
Character History:
In a world where magic was cast by a combination of will power and imagination, where the strongest will in all the world was the Pillar that was needed to keep the world itself stable... Guru Clef was known to be the third strongest.
He served the Pillar, Princess Emeraude, as her magician. He trained new mages, he kept the world safe, and he did whatever was needed for his people and his world. He was also one of the keepers of the legends, especially the legend of the Magic Knights.
When the second strongest will, the priest Zagato, kidnapped the Princess and hid her away where her prayers could no longer sustain the land. He vowed to help save her, but he knew he could not be the hero. Still, he helped any who wished to try, even though he knew that legend stated that the only ones who could save the Pillar would be three knights from another world. He did not know why only people from outside of Ceiphro could save the Princess, but since he could not best Zagato himself, he would do all he could to help those who could, and to keep the damage from getting too bad.
And then they arrived. The Magic Knights. And his hopes faltered. These three girls? THESE three girls? These were the legendary Magic Knights?
Sadly, they spent so long bickering, that he had only taught one of them to unlock her magic by the time Zagato's first minion arrived. One of his former students. He sent the Knights away, and broke his own heart as he fought her.
Some time after the battle, he became aware that the Knights had finally bonded with Makona, which allowed him to touch the other two, and teach them what they needed to know.
He planned to find them, after they gained weapons from Presea, but apparently he was to Awaken instead.... (He doesn't show up again in the first manga trilogy, I figured this was a good explanation as to why! :D)
Character Personality:
Clef tries to be as dignified as his position demands. He is over 700 years old, the third strongest will, and named Guru by his people. He is a teacher. He is a servant of the Princess. He is a summoner, a mage, and in some ways, a warrior. In all ways a scholar.
And yet... And yet he can be dragged easily into shouting matches. While he has al the patience in the world for his magic, he seems to have none for people, and for foolish actions. He also... is sometimes a bit socially inept - like when he wanted to see what type of armor the school uniforms were, so pulled at one girl's skirt. He realized after what the other girls thought, but he had been so focused on training them as Magic Knights, he hadn't thought until they reacted, how his actions could be perceived.
More than 700 years old, and he still does not understand women. If he did, perhaps the story would have been shorter, perhaps he would have aided Zagato, or would have gone elsewhere if he could. Because it had never dawned on him why Zagato had kidnapped the Princess, and he failed to realize the depth of the love between them.
Add men and romance to the list of things that he still does not understand.
You know what? Make that people and relationships, and we're all good.
He works hard at his magic, and is both creative and very strong willed. He is constantly seeking to learn new magics, and willing to teach what he knows. When someone doesn't set him off he seems calm and almost sage. He is sage, not so much calm.
Powers and Abilities:
Third strongest will on a world where Will = magic (well, you need imagination or the magic just runs wild, nightmares creating monsters in the absence of the Pillar being a prime example). Of the Pillar, Zagato, and himself, he is the most broadly learned.
In other words, using a power very like bending, he is a freaking power house.
He can summon, he can awaken magic in others, he can use his magic to guide theirs. He can teach. He can do attack spells and defensive spells and communicate over distances.
Magic in Ceiphro is intent/will plus creativity. There is nothing he could to learn to do there, without practice, except apparently save the Pillar. He believed her when she said only those from another world could, which sapped his will, so he could not. (No one from their world could, because no one of their world would have the will to do what needed to be done... to kill the Princess.)
Samples
Network:
[Clef addressed the device.]
"Hear me. I am Guru Clef of Ceiphro. Recently come here. I have been told of this magic called bending, and I seek to learn it. While I understand that until I learn to bend, I have no ability to repay the favor, I can instead pay it forward. While I was on my own world, I was a teacher of a very similar form of magic. So I vow this to whomsoever shall teach me, and teach me well. I shall pass forward that teaching once I have learned, and help the next generation to arrive, and the people after that, and those after that. These are the words of Guru Clef."
"I thank you in advance for your assistance."
Third Person:
Clef sat in the room he had built for himself with his newly acquired bending. He had been told that he learned fast. No one believed when he said that he had spent more than seven hundred years learning. They laughed and looked only at how long he had been Awakened. They failed to see that perhaps Ceiphro, with such similar magic, might be close to Awakening as a whole.
Bending was new, but not. It was simply another way to use what he already knew - not unlike creating light from stone magic, once he knew how to do so with fire. Once he understood the mechanism, he was able to apply all that he had learned in Ceiphro, over hundreds of years, to his powers here.
But it was imperfect. And this room was exemplary of that. Home, he could have summoned a room full of books, a library such as the one he had created through bending would have had every tome he could desire, and would be a place he could easily pass a few decades.
Here... He was able to create the room. Every book case just as he wanted it. But his attempt to creat books to fill it... Was substandard. He created books of glit covers and leather bindings, fine as any library, but blank within. When he focused on what he expected to be upon the page it appeared, but only what he expected, and exactly as he envisioned it. A page at a time. For a tome completely memorized he would have been able to recreate with time and effort. And it would be time and effort well spent indeed. But he wished his books returned precisely because he did not have them memorized.
Clef sat on the floor, staff beside him, staring at the empty shelves. They stared back as though they were empty graves. People praised his bending, praised how quickly he learned.
Why then did he see only how far he had yet to go? Why then did he feel himself a failure?
And why was he unable to decide if Ceiphro would be saved or destroyed, should he find in some rare tome somewhere the way to awaken his friend, his Princess?
Name:Chicklet
Age: Adult
Personal Journal: Chicklet
Email / AIM / MSN / Plurk:ChickletLARP (Plurk)
Current Character(s): Gabriel Agreste/Papillon
Character Information
Character Name: Clef
Fandom: Magic Knights Rayearth (Manga)
Character History:
In a world where magic was cast by a combination of will power and imagination, where the strongest will in all the world was the Pillar that was needed to keep the world itself stable... Guru Clef was known to be the third strongest.
He served the Pillar, Princess Emeraude, as her magician. He trained new mages, he kept the world safe, and he did whatever was needed for his people and his world. He was also one of the keepers of the legends, especially the legend of the Magic Knights.
When the second strongest will, the priest Zagato, kidnapped the Princess and hid her away where her prayers could no longer sustain the land. He vowed to help save her, but he knew he could not be the hero. Still, he helped any who wished to try, even though he knew that legend stated that the only ones who could save the Pillar would be three knights from another world. He did not know why only people from outside of Ceiphro could save the Princess, but since he could not best Zagato himself, he would do all he could to help those who could, and to keep the damage from getting too bad.
And then they arrived. The Magic Knights. And his hopes faltered. These three girls? THESE three girls? These were the legendary Magic Knights?
Sadly, they spent so long bickering, that he had only taught one of them to unlock her magic by the time Zagato's first minion arrived. One of his former students. He sent the Knights away, and broke his own heart as he fought her.
Some time after the battle, he became aware that the Knights had finally bonded with Makona, which allowed him to touch the other two, and teach them what they needed to know.
He planned to find them, after they gained weapons from Presea, but apparently he was to Awaken instead.... (He doesn't show up again in the first manga trilogy, I figured this was a good explanation as to why! :D)
Character Personality:
Clef tries to be as dignified as his position demands. He is over 700 years old, the third strongest will, and named Guru by his people. He is a teacher. He is a servant of the Princess. He is a summoner, a mage, and in some ways, a warrior. In all ways a scholar.
And yet... And yet he can be dragged easily into shouting matches. While he has al the patience in the world for his magic, he seems to have none for people, and for foolish actions. He also... is sometimes a bit socially inept - like when he wanted to see what type of armor the school uniforms were, so pulled at one girl's skirt. He realized after what the other girls thought, but he had been so focused on training them as Magic Knights, he hadn't thought until they reacted, how his actions could be perceived.
More than 700 years old, and he still does not understand women. If he did, perhaps the story would have been shorter, perhaps he would have aided Zagato, or would have gone elsewhere if he could. Because it had never dawned on him why Zagato had kidnapped the Princess, and he failed to realize the depth of the love between them.
Add men and romance to the list of things that he still does not understand.
You know what? Make that people and relationships, and we're all good.
He works hard at his magic, and is both creative and very strong willed. He is constantly seeking to learn new magics, and willing to teach what he knows. When someone doesn't set him off he seems calm and almost sage. He is sage, not so much calm.
Powers and Abilities:
Third strongest will on a world where Will = magic (well, you need imagination or the magic just runs wild, nightmares creating monsters in the absence of the Pillar being a prime example). Of the Pillar, Zagato, and himself, he is the most broadly learned.
In other words, using a power very like bending, he is a freaking power house.
He can summon, he can awaken magic in others, he can use his magic to guide theirs. He can teach. He can do attack spells and defensive spells and communicate over distances.
Magic in Ceiphro is intent/will plus creativity. There is nothing he could to learn to do there, without practice, except apparently save the Pillar. He believed her when she said only those from another world could, which sapped his will, so he could not. (No one from their world could, because no one of their world would have the will to do what needed to be done... to kill the Princess.)
Samples
Network:
[Clef addressed the device.]
"Hear me. I am Guru Clef of Ceiphro. Recently come here. I have been told of this magic called bending, and I seek to learn it. While I understand that until I learn to bend, I have no ability to repay the favor, I can instead pay it forward. While I was on my own world, I was a teacher of a very similar form of magic. So I vow this to whomsoever shall teach me, and teach me well. I shall pass forward that teaching once I have learned, and help the next generation to arrive, and the people after that, and those after that. These are the words of Guru Clef."
"I thank you in advance for your assistance."
Third Person:
Clef sat in the room he had built for himself with his newly acquired bending. He had been told that he learned fast. No one believed when he said that he had spent more than seven hundred years learning. They laughed and looked only at how long he had been Awakened. They failed to see that perhaps Ceiphro, with such similar magic, might be close to Awakening as a whole.
Bending was new, but not. It was simply another way to use what he already knew - not unlike creating light from stone magic, once he knew how to do so with fire. Once he understood the mechanism, he was able to apply all that he had learned in Ceiphro, over hundreds of years, to his powers here.
But it was imperfect. And this room was exemplary of that. Home, he could have summoned a room full of books, a library such as the one he had created through bending would have had every tome he could desire, and would be a place he could easily pass a few decades.
Here... He was able to create the room. Every book case just as he wanted it. But his attempt to creat books to fill it... Was substandard. He created books of glit covers and leather bindings, fine as any library, but blank within. When he focused on what he expected to be upon the page it appeared, but only what he expected, and exactly as he envisioned it. A page at a time. For a tome completely memorized he would have been able to recreate with time and effort. And it would be time and effort well spent indeed. But he wished his books returned precisely because he did not have them memorized.
Clef sat on the floor, staff beside him, staring at the empty shelves. They stared back as though they were empty graves. People praised his bending, praised how quickly he learned.
Why then did he see only how far he had yet to go? Why then did he feel himself a failure?
And why was he unable to decide if Ceiphro would be saved or destroyed, should he find in some rare tome somewhere the way to awaken his friend, his Princess?
