Janus & Jaina, Twin

[Janus & Jaina]

You

Name/Alias: Ayanami 42

Age: *Checks* Yup still 16

Email: tlewreynolds@fromecollege.somerset.sch.uk

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Your Character

Name: Janus and Jaina Coeur

Age: 15

Gender: Male and Female

Student/Teacher: Student


Major on: Divination, Mystcism and music

Allegiance: Neutral

Race: 1/2 Human 1/2 Crystal Dragon

Description: Both twins resemble each other without a doubt, both with pale almost transluscent skin that when shilled makes their blue veins stand out with what would be an unhealthy pallor if they were not naturally pale featured. Their odd bones give them an incredibly frail physique looking like they would snap if they were grabbed too hard, which is not far from the truth. They both stand at 5'7 and weigh 96 pounds with have small mouths. Usually the pair dress in a set of none gender specific clothes- loose white trousers and shirt with wide sleeves and sandals. A loose white cape accompanies them hanging to just hlf way down their upper arm

Jaina looks out on the physical world with a pair of large golden eyes whose irises almost dominate her eyes like a Dragons and they shimmer as if with a reflective film. Her silky and thick hair comes down to halfway down her back a pale lilac in colour. She often seems to shimmer as if silmultaneously eminating and reflecting whatever light is around her, when she speaks it is lightly and almost composed of hollow air like a woodwind instrument yet still with a haunting echo.
When certain of her position Jaina prefers to dress in a pale tourqiouse dress covered by the short white cape that hangs around her shoulder clasped by a red gem.

Janus differs a little to his twin. His eyes are often narrower and more calculating dominated by his deep purple irises, his five inches of hair is a platinum blonde and likes to collect itself into thin strands that hang down and around his head. His voice carries all of Jaina's haunting beauty but is more grounded and confident like a stringed instrument.
Janus prefers to bunch up the cape around his neck and let it sit over the top of his ocher poncho which he wears over a thin blue shirt and cotton khaki trousers.

Piccies:
Jaina


Janus


Personality:
Jaina is quiet and introspective quite happy to sit by herself and ponder the mysteries that she sees and, in fact, embodies. She has an intrinsic belief that because of her dual nature and the power she possesses that she is danger to those around her. This makes her shy of most human contact and would rather sit alone singing to herself, trying to control the powers that she barely understands. It was the prospect of training and disciplien that brought her to Blacktides and she believes in nothing less, a trait that sets her at odds with her brother. She also has a charitable side, as a rule she never says 'no' to those in need, though she remains reserved and almost aloof even while doing so.


Janus wants nothing more than to savour the joy of living and feeling alive that he missed out on as a child. He approaches everyone and everything in the world with an infant's wonder and an infant's curiosity and bluntness. He asks, takes and gives without any reservation, far more open and relaxed than his sister. He'll do many thigns just for the sheer pleasure of doing them or annoying Jaina. For a person who for many years was supposed to be the figment of a little girl's imagination he is quite determined to live life to the full, this makes him careless and in some ways callous. He bears a deep resentment even anger to his mother for treating him like a figment of his sisters mind for most of his life and this can manifest as an anger against others. Though he would loath to hurt another due to his shared sense of mercy with his sister.

Powers:
Janus Sight
Only possible when the two souls inhabit a single body. Janus and Jaina are able to peel back the veil of time just a little bit and gain flashes or emotions from the future or gain impressions from a person or an objects past. But this power is incredibly undeveloped.

Freedom of Soul
Gleaned from Janus' resentment of being trapped inside his sister's body. The two souls seperate to become two incorporeal beings. They resemble themselves wearing what clothes they deem since it is a mental projection of themselves. The body itself dissappears and the two are able to travel as far away from each other as they wish utterly ignoring most of hte laws of physics. For example they can still speak to others however they cannot actually perform any physical actions including using their powers.

Dust to Dust
Also only possible when the two souls are sharing the same space and is only awakened under periods of extreme stress for the twins, be it physical danger or sheer fear or hurt. A blast of energy erupts from them to single object or foe demolecularising it into a pile of dust.

Soul's Face
Usually acompponying the asumption of authority of one of the twins. The body of Janus & Jaina transforms to accomodate for the soul that is asserting dominance. However not the soul's desired attire which can lead to some embaressing situations if the twins are not careful.

Strengths:
Musician: Somehow Janus maintained the paitience not only to learn how to play most woodwind and string instruments (Possibly absorbing information from Jaina) and not only that play them quite well. Who'd have thought it?

Singer: Jaina was taught by her mother to sing so that at first she had something to do other than talk to her 'imaginary' brother. Later it became Jaina's way of soothing herself or Janus when they were upset or angry.

Sense the Strings: (Not sure whether this is a power or simple intuition)
Janus and Jaina have an in born awareness of power from their father. They can sense it as it streams throughout the world, collects itself in special places or indeed people. They cannot clearly see these lines but they know they are there like the whispers of a poltergeist.

Survival: Janus and Jaina lived far removed from society as children and so learned a thing or two about living on their own that most children don't. They can make themselves reasonably comfortable in most temperate climates though they probably won't like it. Or at least Janus won't.

Weaknesses:
One Body: Ordinarily not much of a weakness but kids fight over toys at the best of times...

Brittle: Crystal laced bones may look pretty but Janus and Jaina would rather not have to look at them thank you very much or have anything untoward happen to them. While not exactly brittle bone disease they have to be careful to push their limbs too far.

Doubt: After destroying her own mother Jaina is terrified by her powers and while she will do all she can to control them she has become terrified to use them of her own volition often requiring Janus' bequest. Most particularly affect is Dust to Dust.

Those good ideas...: A lot of things seem like a good idea to Janus simply because he has no idea what will happen. When in control he could easily be persuaded to do all sorts of things regardless of what Jaina says.

Headstrong: He may have a heart of gold but when Janus gets an idea in his head their hasn't been anyone yet who can stop him.

Any Pets: Nope...

Extras: Janus has a tendency to either carry his flute or his violin, purely to show off of course.

All text relating to Janus is coloured Blue.
All text relating to Jaina is coloured Purple

History:
Like all D-Bloods the Twins' journey started before they were born. Their mother had been a recluse even by the standards of her quiet Italian village, prompted by her spirituality she left her home and choose to live instead high in the alps near the site where ancient oracles used to gain visions of the future. What she could not have known was that they had not been oracles at all. Rather they had been rare humans who had been granted the nigh unique gift of friendship with one of the elusive crystal dragons.

Those ancient people's may have long been gone but the Dragon still watched the world from high above timeless as the mountains it resided in. As the other Dragon's began enacting the cross breeding plan the Crystal Dragon picked up on it and choose the humble woman who had picked up where those oracles had left off so very long ago.

The union brought forth a tiny frail girl of golden eyes - Jaina. However what neither Parent anticipated was creation of second foetus that had naturally aborted. However gifted with the intense energy of his father's kin Janus' soul was able to survive by joining Jaina's.

As was the way of most Dragon/human relationships the twins' parents parted ways and the matriach Coeur set about raising what she believed to be a single daughter. Janus was there all the time at the back of Jaina's mind, learning and growing into an individual as she did.

As they grew into childhood the minds began to recognise each other as separate beings and communicated Jaina giving her brother his name after the two-faced Roman God. Their mother simply believed Jaina had created an imaginary friend in their isolation and proceeded to begin teaching her daughter about the natural world and about the gift of music. While happily learning these skill Jaina's continually insisted her brother was real and not a figment of her imagination, her mother just a nodded and smiled in reply. All this time Janus was growing slowly more and more jealous of Jaina and her gift of sensation and of course their mother's love.

As they approached their teen's their mother became more nad more impaitient with her daughter's insistance of this inivisble brother that she had unknowingly given birth to. At this time their powers began to manifest, first in the heightened awareness of what was happening in the world beyond their five senses, then slowly into glimpses of what had been or was to be.

On the onset of puberty the dual tearing forces of two maturing minds in a single body coupled with a mother's mixed emotions caused a horrific amoutn of mental stress which peaked one night as their mother threatened to kick Jaina out into the world alone unless she stopped with her childish fancies. With her mother shoutign at her and Janus silently screaming back Jaina's mind could take it no more and pure uncoloured light shot from her body turning everything- their house, their furniture their mother into a pile of grey dust.

Jaina was horrified by what happened while Janus was rather indifferent losing the mother who had denied that he even existed. As Jaina retreated within herself it was Janus' chance to assert his place int he physical world. Tapping into the raw energy that Jaina had called on Janus was able to change his body from its feminine self into something a little more suitable for a teenage boy. But somethings could not change and he foudn himself bound to his sister's frailty and complexion.

Still change was possible and Janus swore to find new ways to grow and experience it all launching himself into the world wth all the wonder of a newborn. His revelling that verged on the catastrophically dangerous was enough to rouse Jaina from her self-imposed mental prison. The two fought for the control of the body until their drove each other to anhilation at which point Jaina convinced her brother that she would share the world with him.

So it was that the twins set out into the world hand in (figurative) hand. Some years later they were travelling in Greece when they caught a tug in the world's magic. A area that was conspicuous in it's absence from the rest of the world, the rest of hte universe for that matter: Blacktides Island.

So it was that the pale enigatic twins boarded a boat and set foot on the Island that completely defied their perception. Imagine their suprise at what they found there. An academy fo the likes of them! It was uncanny but by no means unwelcomed.

[Janus & Jaina]

Fin.

[Krobon]

Accepted!