Catharina Sabana

Catharina Sabana ( カタリナサバナ,  Katarina Sabana) is a female mage living in Hartselle, Bosco. She is originally from Corden, Bosco, where her parents and younger sister live. She created the guild Travelers Thorn  for her friend Suri Micher and to honor the duke of Hartselle and his daughter, Aaren Faustininus Thorne and Annika Primrose Thorne. She uses Quartz-Make Magic  and was taught Sensory Magic by Kristel Solus. She also uses ring magic to change into different outfits. Her parents allowed her to leave home at 17 to start this guild under the condition that Janene Sovány be her guild master. After much persuation, Janene gave in and let the Travelers Thorn guild be based in her Tavern as long as they worked there. Janene, being a retired s-class mage, trains the girls in hand-to-hand combat and increasing their magic power in the mornings and afternoons unless they have a job.

Appearance
Catharina is a cute and chubby young woman. She isn't the slimmest girl, but she likes how she looks and likes her curves. She looks like a twin next to her mother, where she inherited most of her facial features and body figure from. Her skin is slightly tan unless she goes outside a lot during the summer. Underneath her chubbiness she has a fair amount of muscle and is quite strong due to Janene's vigorious training. She is a little above average height, standing at 5 feet 7 inches tall. She has long, curly brown hair that has a reddish/golden tint and since her hair gets in the way a lot, it can be seen in a ponytail or a half ponytail. She had deep turquoise eyes as a child, but they have turned into a light green in her later years, but are still big and round. She likes all colors, but red and black are her favorite pair. Her main outfit in a loose black tanktop with red cloth folds and belt. Her pants, that are also black, cut off mid calf with gold trim around the edges. She has one long, brown leather belts with golden buckles that raps around her hips twice. She wears brown leather boots that are a little over ankle length with brown leather straps. She has a long red and black fingerless glove on her left arm, and above it is her Travelers Thorn guild mark. This is her main outfit, however she has a lot of different outfits for different activities and different weather thanks to her golden ring given to her as a gift from her mother. Her ring is a requip ring that hold a pocket universe where she keeps her other outfits. She practically keeps her wardrobe in there.

Personality
She was a curious child, and would usually play outside and explore the forest and mountainside outside her home in Corden. She didn't have much parental control until her father, Jarvis, came into the picture. He made sure to keep her straight and with better manners. On the outside she obeyed, but her curious nature turned on the rebelious inside, and she longed to break free and break the rules. When she was about to start being more rebelious on the outside, her sister was born and she took on a role of new responsibility as role model and older sibling. She was always a playful as a child, always with a big smile of her face talking to her mother's adult friends. However, when she started school, she quickling became introverted as she was easily embarrassed and she had a few select friends. She became critical of other children as they had been of her, but as she got older, she realized how close minded she was being, and she stopped blaming everyone else and thinking everyone was out to get her and she became a lot happier. She also forced herself to be more outgoing. She loves human interaction, but it must be limited and on her time. Forced to interact with other people for too long wears her out.

As a mage, she wants to become better and stronger, but when she was younger, she was not willing to work and practice to become a better mage. She has a very lazy and prefectionist attitude, so even though she wants to improve, she has to be perfect at it or not do it at all. She even knows this is a bad attitude, but it is hard to shake. Janene helps be kicking her ass in training. Other than that, she loves being a mage and is very good at creating household items, small sculptures, jewelry, and spells she has already perfected.

Catharina is typically optimistic on the outside, even though it is in her nature to be pessimistic. She seems confident on the outside and while take chances while her teammates do not, but on the inside she is scared and she doubts herself. Her emotions are very volatile and she can go from being happy to the oppisite in two seconds flat. She is very good about calling people on their BS because her father used to mess with her when she was younger and she grew accustomed to it and learned to read people. With her friends, she is very possessive of them, even if she doesn't show it owtwardly. It is more of her own inner turmoil when her friends have somewhere else to be or are hanging out with their other friends. She then feels guilty about her feelings but keeps it all bottled up inside. Being a curious child, she questioned aspects such as religion, as her sitters where very religious and took her to church. She now considers herself agnostic, not believing in any form of religion, but believing their may be some sort of higher power. Hazeline and Jarvis taught Catharina to always ask questions, to not believe everything you hear, and that it is okay to think differently than everyone else. This, of course, allowed Catharina to be open minded and form her own opinions.

Though she doesn't always admit it, she can get very afraid. She is afraid of pain, falling, and of the things in the dark. Sometimes it stops her, and sometimes she pushes through, but it is never certain whether her fear will overcome her.

History
As a toddler, Catharina's father left her and her mother, but that didn't seem to bother her much as she got to spend lots of time with her mother. Her mother, Hazeline, soon had friends and roommates rent out the house they lived in so she could afford it. Around the age of four, Jarvis came into her and her mother's life. He adopted Catharina and married her mother, and a few years after that, Catharina's sister Anna was born.

Around the age of five, Catharina quickly became disinterested in her school work, and more interested in the arts, cooking, and magic. Her mother had a retired ice-mage friend who gladly starting teaching her, as long as Catharina stayed with school. She quickly grew frustrated as she did not succeed right away. She also did not like the cold and the training she received involved being able to withstand very cold temperatures. One day she was off exploring with her friend Suri when they found a cave. It was a bit dark, but since she was with a friend, she was able to go in and explore it. What they found was a massive crystal cave full of quartz crystals. A small opening at the top of the gave shined light onto the crystals and they were glowing. Catharina was entraced by it. She would go back to the cave frequently just to gaze at them; she started collecting quartz and studying it in books she got from her local library, learning about its composition and how it was created. Still having little success with her ice-magic training, Catharina couldn't get the quartz crystal cave out of her mind and with her concentration wandering, she created something, but it was not cold. She had created a small, clear quartz crystal. Her teacher laughed about it, they said, "Well, if that's your passion, who am I to force you to make ice?" Ava adjusted slightly, and allowed her to create quartz instead.

Over the Summers, Ava would take Catharina on training sessions, traveling around the country and doing magic training while seeing mages from other countries and cultures. Ava was an old friend of Ur, and she met up with her while traveling in the eastern countries. There, Catharina met two boys around her age, Gray and Lyon. They were Ur's pupils, and Catharina found them a bit weird and eccentric, and got especially ebarresed

Soon after Catharina started learning magic, she tagged along with her mother, Hazeline, to the Norvino Kingdom  where she was invited to play her violin for a summer festival being held there. Catharina was six years old at the time. As she was wandering around the palace, a young girl older than herself caught her eye on a balcony overlooking the garden. She didn't want to be seen or disturb the girl and she tried to sneak by her, but she took notice of her anyway. Catharina asked the girl how she knew she was there, and she said she could sense her aura and feel her approaching. Catharina pleaded with the girl to teach her as she was facinated with learning different magics at the time, and the girl finally taught her the basics of this Sensory Magic  during the week she was there for the festival. At the end of the week, Catharina found out this girl was the princess of the Norvino Kingdom, Kristel Solus. Hazeline was invited back each year for the festival, and Catharina begged her mother each year to bring her along so she could work with and talk to Kristel. Catharina did fairly well in her education, taking a liking to science and mathematics, but she was more interested in her activities outside of the classroom like drawing, reading, writing, cooking, music, and of course, practicing magic. She had two really good friends, Suri Micher and Ember Saffron, who both started practicing magic after Catharina because they thought it would be fun. Throughout the years, they all got more serious about their magic practices, and started to battle against each other as practice. On Catharina's 13th birthday, her mother and father gave her a magic ring. Hazeline had one that let her change outfits inbetween her performances, and Catharina was given. She currently has it loaded up with outfits for different situations like cold weather and swim suit weather, but she also has some magic outfits that are resistant to some types of magics.

Equipment
Magic Ring - Requip Magic

Quartz-Make Magic:
Quartz-make ( 石英メイク  Sekiei meiku) is a type of Caster Magic that is considered to be a specific type of Crystal-Make Magic. This type of magic allows the user to turn magic energy into a solid, crystaline form: quartz. The user can create static and dynamic objects out of quartz, and can resort to reusing the same quartz already created for other purposes. The quartz can be created in different colors since there are many different forms of quartz; however to do this, one has to know the chemical impurities in the quartz that cause it to become that color.

Catharina has to practice replicating quartz in these colors to get the chemical impurities correct. She can currently replicate pure quartz, which is white or transparent; rose quartz (light to deep pink quartz), amythyst (purple quartz), and citrine (yellow to orangish amber quartz), and is currently trying to replicate Carnelian (red quartz), Aventurine (blue-green quartz), and Onyx (black, opaque quartz. This one is hardest to replicate because of its dark and opaque nature).

Catharina's Spells:

 * Quartz-make: Shield: User creates a shield in front of the user that shields everything behind it. User can also create this shield in front of another person separate from the user, however, it takes a slight bit more time and magical energy.
 * Quartz-make: Gauntlets: User punches his/her fists together to create quartz gauntlets, making punches exponentially more effective and they are good for blocking with.
 * Quartz-make: Crystal Shards: Using both hands, the caster forms multiple shards of quartz crystal of varying sizes that are shot from the user towards an enemy.
 * Quartz-make: Great Wall: User creates a large wall of quartz to stop or trap one or multiple enemies. This consumes a lot of magical energy depending on the size and thickness of the wall.
 * Quartz-make: Cocoon: User casts a sphere of quartz around themselves as defense.
 * Quartz-make: Spike Sphere: Used after cocoon, this projects spikes from the defense sphere toward oncoming enemies.
 * Quartz-make: Rain: This attack is similar to crystal shards, however, all the shards are rain drop sized, and they literally rain down on enemies.
 * Quartz-make: Shates: User creates blades attached to the soles of shoes or feet (used on ice). The user can also create wheels instead of blades, allowing the caster to skate on more surfaces.
 * Quartz-make: Shuriken Blades: User creates small, hand-held blades used for throwing. These blades are not used to cause piercing wounds, but to distract enemies and maybe pin clothing. User can create them continuously as they are small and take little magical energy to create.
 * Quartz-make: Mines: The caster creates several small mine like projectiles and spreads them along the ground as a trap. They are not very noticeable. When the magical energy of her enemies gets close enough to the mines, the projectiles explode outwards to make a small to medium sized explosion. Since Catharina uses Sensory Magic, she is able to infuse the quartaz with something almost like instructions. She recognizes her magical aura, the auras of her companions, and the auras of her enemies, so she can make is so the mines only explode when subjected to her enemies' magical aura.
 * Quartz-make: Spider: The caster creates almost like a claw of quartz around the torso and shouders of the caster, and protruding out of the back are six, long legs that are capable of moving based on the casters will. This lets them move like they are they caster's own limbs. This is dynamic-make magic, and requires constant concentration and use of magical power to continue to use.

Sensory Magic
This magic was taught to Catharina by the princess of the Norvino Kingdom and the Leader of the Twelve Royal Knights of Norvino, Kristel Solus. She was taught this magic over the course of many years, but only once a year for a week at a time. She is not nearly as skilled as the princess or any other member of the royal family. She explained how the magic works to Janene, and she tries her best to give her ways to practice using this technique.

Currently, Catharina is able to see all people's energy, though dimly if she is not really concentrating. She can sense other people's magical energy, but she can not quite place where they are if she does not already know where they are. She can differentiate between a bright are dark aura. In a few years time and with much practice, she is able to close her eyes and "see" the people around her because she can sense their frequency of their magical auras. She can differentiate between people as well, and it is practically impossible to sneak up on her. She can shield her magical aura from other mages so they can not detect her. She will also be able to see fluctuations in a persons aura, being able to tell when they are not saying their true intent, as well as malfuntions in the body long before the physical symptoms become visible.

Ring Magic : Requip


This is a holder type magic that was taught to Catharina by her mother. When her mother performed, she would sometimes change her outfits during performance, but she would use this requip magic ring to do so. Catharina does not use this magic primarily for combat, and it holds more casual outfits for different outdoor or social settings. However, she does have a few outfits that are enchanted to improve her magical abilties, like her main outfit; It improves her magical recharge rate by 15%, as it is enchanted to attract Eternano particles after the user has expelled some of their magical energy. Some other outfits include fire resistant clothes, cold resistant clothes, and reconnaisance armour, which quiets her footsteps and movement.

Natural Talent: Catharina is a natural at using magic, however she is lazy  and a perfectionist and is still trying to overcome this to become a really great mage.

Hand-to-hand Combat: While not an expert by any means, she is fairly adept at using hand to hand combant thanks to Janene's rigorous training. She can defeat one person at a time, and her stubbornness to not lose a fight can keep her going if she needs to. She is the most adept in hand-to-hand combant of all the other members of her guild (besides her guild master).

Stealthy: She is pretty good at keeping quite, but it silent when using her reconnaisance armour. She also learns to hide her magical aura so she is virtually undetectable.

Musical Ear: Being around her mother who uses music based magic, she is resilient to music based attacks.

Cooking Enginuity: She is a very resourceful chef, and is able to prepare meals with a variety of ingredients.

Trivia

 * Catharina considers herself bisexual, as she considers both genders to be attractive and does not care what gender someone has as long as she relates to them on a personal level.
 * Catharina created the guild Travelers Thorn at the age of 18, as well as designed the guild mark.