[PG-13] Of Wolves and Witches OOC [Lady Celeste & Yamimoon]
Rating Info: May contain fantasy violence, drug/alcohol consumption, depictions of occult practices, and some sensuality.
Legal Disclaimer: Neither Lady Celeste nor Yamimoon owns any rights to the Yu-Gi-Oh! series; all such trademarks belong to Kazuki Takahashi.
Spoiler: Lady Celeste's CharactersCANONS CLAIMED :: Mokuba Kaiba, Ishizu Ishtar
Spoiler: Lydia ConnorName: Lydia Connor
Age: 15
Duelist?: Yes
Deck Type: Predominantly Light (mostly Fairy and Spellcaster monsters)
Spirit Monster: Maha Vailo
Occupation: High School Student
Appearance:
Personality: Generally timid and reserved, but always willing to step in and help those she cares about. She is loyal to a fault to those she trusts, often failing to see or pay heed to their faults and sometimes trusting too easily, but does not allow this to stop her from doing what she thinks is right.
Affiliations: Army of the First Born (by association only)
Family: Andrew Connor (adopted father)
Friendships: None yet.
Rivalries: None yet.
Enemies: None yet.
Crushes: None yet.
Bio: Lydia never knew her birth parents growing up; her mother, a prostitute, had died in childbirth, and failed to identify the baby's father before she passed away. And so, with no known living relatives, Lydia grew up in an orphanage for most of her life, where she first began to see her spirit monster, Maha Vailo, at age five. Quickly befriending Maha Vailo, she was often teased by other kids in her later childhood, since she could still see Maha Vailo long after they had outgrown their "imaginary friends".
But when Lydia was ten, a man named Andrew Connor visited the orphanage. Not only could Andrew see Maha Vailo as well, but Lydia could also see that Andrew had a spirit monster of his own. The two of them quickly bonded over this, and Andrew officially adopted Lydia three days later, after which he took to teaching Lydia about magic. Eagerly learning various spells and charms from Andrew, Lydia grew up happily with him over the next five years.
More recently, however, two women arrived at Andrew's home claiming to be close family friends, but during their subsequent visits, Lydia noticed that Andrew became more withdrawn from Lydia and evasive of Lydia's questions about the strange women. These visits became more and more frequent in the days leading up to Seto Kaiba's disappearance and the sightings of the Kaiba Monster: topics that Andrew has since refused to discuss with Lydia.
Spoiler: Andrew ConnorName: Andrew Connor
Age: 38
Duelist?: Yes
Deck Type: Stall Burn Deck
Spirit Monster: Invitation to a Dark Sleep
Occupation: Musician
Appearance:
Personality: Stoic and determined, Andrew makes a point to see every undertaking through to the end, but this can sometimes cause him to lose sight of the big picture or the consequences of his endeavors. He is loath to make promises or commitments, but will always keep those he does make, and when he does learn to really trust someone, he trusts them fully and unconditionally.
Affiliations: Army of the First Born
Family: Lydia Connor (adopted daughter)
Friendships: None yet.
Rivalries: None yet.
Enemies: None yet.
Crushes: None yet.
Bio: Centuries ago, an ancestor of Andrew's made a pact with a witch named Nakhti in exchange for wealth and power. However, for his part of the deal, the ancestor was ordered to capture an ancient pharaoh and two of his high priests, all three of whom Nakhti claimed owed a blood debt to her and her sisters. When the ancestor failed to find these men during his lifetime, his debt was then passed on to his son, and in turn it was passed down his bloodline and most recently to Andrew himself. Thus, it was this debt that effectively drafted Andrew into the Army of the First Born: a cult formed by Nakhti and her living sister Neema to revive a third, unnamed sister and take their revenge on the pharaoh and his priests.
Andrew quickly came to despise the witches and their cult, and though his debt forced him to serve them in their task, he frequently turned to music and other distractions to take his mind off of the affairs of the Army. While visiting an orphanage in Domino one night, Andrew's spirit monster, Invitation to a Dark Sleep, discovered a young orphan named Lydia talking with her own spirit monster, Maha Vailo, and informed Andrew. Intrigued, Andrew visited the orphanage the following day and quickly bonded with Lydia, whom he adopted days later and began teaching the ways of magic in his spare time.
As the mysterious pharaoh and priests had not yet emerged by this time, Andrew and Lydia lived together in peace for five years before the witches entered Andrew's life once again. On that day, Nakhti and Neema personally visited Andrew's home claiming to know the modern identity of one of the two high priests: Seto Kaiba. Shocked by the news, Andrew tried to dissuade the two witches from targeting Kaiba, but they warned him that his debt would pass on to Lydia if he failed to honor it, leaving him with no choice but to comply.
Before long, the witches set their plan into motion. Andrew sent Lydia to a neighbor's sleepover party in order to keep her out of the house and provide her with an alibi for the evening, while Neema created an illusionary Mokuba to lure Kaiba into Andrew's house, where Nakhti used her magic to subdue Kaiba more easily and imprison him in the basement. To prevent Lydia from discovering the plot, Andrew then placed an illusion spell on Kaiba to make him appear as a werewolf, but Kaiba caught him by surprise soon after this and escaped, resulting in the subsequent sightings of the Kaiba Monster.
Other Notes: Andrew has a dark lesion on the palm of his left hand, which he frequently hides with gloves, bandages, or long sleeves. This mark, which represents his debt to Nakhti, is magical in nature and can only be removed by either repaying the debt or releasing the marked person from service.
Spoiler: The WitchesNames: Neema, Nakhti, and Mekare
Age: Approximately 5,000 years old. (Mekare is the oldest, followed by Nakhti and then Neema, the youngest.)
Duelist?: Nakhti and Neema Only
Deck Type: Mostly Dark/Wind (Neema)
Beatdown Deck (Nakhti)
Spirit Monster:
Witch of the Black Forest (Neema)
Dark Elf (Nakhti)
Invader of Darkness (Mekare)
Occupation: Entertainers (formerly)
Appearance:
(From left to right: Neema, Mekare, Nakhti)
Personality: Mekare, during her lifetime, was best known for her stubborn will and volatile temper toward anyone who crossed her. Thirsting for power in all of its forms, she took whatever measures were necessary to secure power for herself or for her sisters, and she was never known to openly display any genuine care or affection to anyone except for Nakhti and Neema.
Nakhti is the most reserved and calculating of the three sisters as well as the most cunning, having learned over the millennia to use the desires of others to her own advantage. Though not as hot-blooded as Mekare or as spontaneous as Neema, Nakhti prides herself on finding ways to overwhelm her enemies with minimal effort on her part.
Neema is the most playful and flighty of the witches, frequently displaying a childlike manner and treating even the most serious of endeavors like a game. Despite this, she is loyal to her sisters without fail and ready to act on their behalf as necessary.
Affiliations: Army of the First Born
Family: Each other.
Friendships: None yet.
Rivalries: None yet.
Enemies: Pharaoh Atem (Yami Yugi), Priest Seto (Seto Kaiba), Priest Mahad (Dark Magician), Amun/Ray, the Sacred Guardians, the Children of the Shadows
Crushes: Pharaoh Atem (formerly), Priest Seto (formerly), Priest Mahad (formerly)
Bio: 5,000 years ago, in the time of Pharaoh Atem, the witches were part of a group of traveling performers in Egypt who one day caught the eye of a high-ranking palace official. Sensing an opportunity to earn a place for themselves in the royal palace, the witches secretly used a spell during their dance to charm and intrigue the official, who later employed the sisters to dance for the royal court. Despite lingering suspicions from the Pharaoh's Sacred Guardians, the sisters' performances were otherwise well-received by the court, which afforded the sisters a relatively comfortable life in the palace.
Nevertheless, the peace between the sisters and the Sacred Guardians was fragile at best, and Mekare grew paranoid that she and her sisters would be cast out into the street at the slightest provocation or once the Pharaoh eventually tired of them. Rather than resign themselves to such a fate, the witches made a pact that they would each marry into the upper class and thus secure their futures in the royal court. To this end, each sister set her sights on one of three key figures in the Pharaoh's court; Neema and Nakhti respectively tried to woo Mahad and Seto, the Pharaoh's two most trusted Guardians, while Mekare attempted to court the Pharaoh himself. But none of the three men showed any interest in the sisters, and in fact their advances aroused further mistrust among the Guardians, so the witches resorted to using magic to achieve their goal. By discreetly incorporating love charms and spells into their dance routines, the sisters steadily bewitched their three targets with each performance and, once the men were entranced, the witches secretly added potions into their drinks to further weaken their wills and slowly turn them into the sisters' obedient puppets.
In this way the witches effectively took control of Egypt for themselves, but their triumph was short-lived. The sudden change in their Pharaoh and comrades did not go unnoticed by the other Guardians, and Mahad's former teacher, Amun, quickly recognized the magic at work and took action, seemingly sacrificing himself to free the Pharaoh and his priests from the witches' spell. Outraged, the Pharaoh banished the three witches for their treachery, and the Sacred Guardians personally drove them out of the palace. But Mekare, furious and disgraced, violently retaliated against the three former suitors, her sisters quickly joining in after her. The ensuing battle was fierce, with the Pharaoh and his two priests easily defending themselves from the witches' attacks, and in her rage Mekare exerted too much power and died, her spirit descending into the Shadow Realm. Blaming the three men for Mekare's death, Neema and Nakhti took their fallen sister's body and vanished, but not before promising a cruel revenge.
Preserving Mekare's body inside a large magical crystal, Neema and Nakhti parted ways and traveled the world. Little is known of their exploits during that time, but they each took to gathering followers over the next five millennia through bargains and various other means, patiently waiting for their next chance to strike against Atem and his priests. Upon reuniting in the 1940's, Neema and Nakhti combined these followers into a single cult known as the Army of the First Born, the First Born being their sister Mekare. But by then, the time of the Pharaohs and the Sacred Guardians had long since passed, leaving Neema and Nakhti to bide their time until Atem, Seto, and Mahad would eventually return in the modern age.
In the present day, Neema and Nakhti have identified KaibaCorp's young CEO, Seto Kaiba, as one of their three foes. Wasting no time, the witches enlisted one of their debtors, Andrew Connor, to aid in Kaiba's capture, which was initially a success. However, Andrew dropped his guard in a crucial moment, allowing Kaiba to escape, but not before Andrew placed an illusion curse on Kaiba that made him appear to others as a werewolf, which led to a growing urban legend of a monster stalking KaibaCorp and the Kaiba household in the nights that followed.
Other Notes: Having survived the millennia through magical means, Neema and Nakhti must regularly absorb a steady amount of life force from outside sources (plants, animals, humans, etc.) to sustain their youth, or their bodies will begin to rapidly age and eventually die.
Spoiler: Yamimoon's CharactersCANONS CLAIMED :: Yugi Muto, Seto Kaiba
Spoiler: Luke SalomonName: Luke Salomon
Age: 19
Duelist?: Yes
Deck Type: Chaos Bringer (Spellcasters and Warriors mostly)
Spirit Monster: Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning
Occupation: College student
Appearance:
Personality: He is a kind hearted young man with ambitions for the future, but he also has a strong sense of duty to the one that saved his life. He is easy to get along with as long as he doesn’t see you as an enemy.
Affiliations: Children of The Shadows
Family: Ray (father) (His biological parent he doesn’t know what happened to them)
Friendships: None yet
Rivalries: None yet.
Enemies: None yet.
Crushes: None yet.
Bio: Luke grew up in a not so nice side of town, as well as home life. At home his mother was a drunk, and his father had left them before he was born. This caused him to have a lot of problems in life. When he was about three years old is when he first saw Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning, and they became instant friends. But this didn’t settle with his mother that told him that imaginary people don’t exist. This was told to him on his fifth year of birth, and he didn’t go unscathed form mentioning the fact that he had a friend.
His mother didn’t like him to have friends and he didn’t even go to school. She told him he was an embarrassment to her. So on days his mom worked he visited a local park that was only about a block from his home. This was the only place in the area that he could play, no one ever came to this place because of the type of people that lived there so he didn’t have to worry about meeting people, and causing his mother to hurt him again.
But one day about mid summer on his fifth year a man was sitting on a park bench waiting for someone, and Luke was causes of him, but when the man stood up and started to walk towards the kid Luke could see that there was someone behind him, but he couldn’t see it clearly. Because of this slight delay the man was able to get close enough to place a hand on his shoulder. The man introduce himself as Ray, and told the young man that he could see his spirit Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning, and that he also has a spirit. Luke was scared, but soon calmed down when the man said this. Then he knew that he wasn’t alone in this world.
Ray had agreed to take him from this place, and teach him the ways of magic, as well as all other forms of education. Luke didn’t even think about the answer it was yes. The man took him away form his current life, and raised him as his own child. Now he is in collage, as well as a member of the Children of The Shadows. He is assigned to watch over the Pharos current vessel.
Spoiler: Amun/RayName: Amun (Ray)
Age: Unknown
Duelist?: Yes
Deck Type: Fallen One (Cards of all kind reside in this deck)
Spirit Monster: Shinato King of a Higher Plane
Occupation: Teacher
Appearance:
Personality: He is very kind man, that has seen many things in his long life. He loves the arts, and has an affinity to see the real worth of an individual. He has a strong loyalty to the Pharaoh Atem, and will forever be his friend. He is also very protective of anyone that he is friends or family with. He is also a strict person, that sometimes is hard to get along with that comes form being a teacher.
Affiliations: Leader of the Children of The Shadows
Family: Luke Salomon
Friendships: Pharaoh Atem, High priest Mahad
Rivalries: None yet.
Enemies: The three sisters (Mekare, Neema, and Nakhti)
Crushes: None yet.
Bio: Amun has been around since the time of the first pharaoh’s, and he has trained many a sorcerer in the dark arts. The pharaoh’s of old saw that his students were the best in using magic, and asked him to come to the royal palace. When he arrived at the pharaoh throne room he was greeted kindly, and also asked to help with the protection of the royal family by being the personal sorcerer of the pharaoh. He of course declined the offer, but agreed to assign his best student to be the pharaoh’s guardian. They agreed and thus began the long relationship between the society of wizards (Children of The Shadows), and the pharaohs.
So from that time on when the new pharaoh takes the throne. One of his apprentices is assigned to protect him throughout his reign. Amun has never guarded a pharaoh personally, but he has befriended a couple. The last pharaoh that he befriended was Atem, and his most talented pupil and friend became this great pharaoh’s guardian. His name was Mahad, who treated the Pharaoh like a little brother and watched over him. Mahad also was part of the Pharaoh's Sacred Guardians, and one of his mot trusted advisers, alongside Seto.
Then the three sisters came into the city, and wormed their way into the palace. Even though the Sacred Guardians had their suspicions on the girls they allowed them into the palace to perform for the Pharaoh Atem. It wasn’t ling before they started courting pharaoh as well as the Mahad, and Seto’s hearts. And through the means of magic they succeeded, and had the whole kingdom in their grasps. Amun was unaware of this till about two weeks into them being at the palace and Atem invited him to the palace to see the performance that the girls were putting on for their soon to be slaves. When he arrived he saw what was going on during the dance, as well as how the three were acting and recognized it as high level dark magic, and potions. He didn’t know why these women are here, but they had to be stopped.
So he went to a secret garden that the pharaoh had planted for him that was filled with white flowers, and in the center of this garden he started to cast a high level spell that would destroy all of the current spell they were weaving. This spell was extremely dangerous because it takes almost all of the casters concentration as well as power too pull it off, and as soon as the spell was finished casting he fell into darkness of the Shadow realm. Falling into the flowers that were in the garden. When the spells were shattered the three sisters were banished from the kingdom. Atem and Mahad went to searching for there friend and mentor that they knew broke the spell.
It took quite a bit of time to find the location that Amun had chosen to cast his spell, and they were both shocked to see that he had fallen into the shadows. They went over to his body, and found the he was still alive, sot hey took his body to the pharaohs chambers, and watched over him. When the sisters attacked he was still trapped in the shadows, and it took a couple of months for him to recover from casting a spell that nearly killed him, but he returned from the Shadows to the news of the sister defeat, and threat.
As soon as he was able he went on a journey to find the remaining two and send them to the shadow realm to join their sister. But he didn’t find them and when he finally returned about ten years later he found that the kingdom was in ruins, and his friends had fallen into the hands of a sinister man with a sinister goal. So due to these events that he is not fully aware of, many great and treble things happened wile he was away. He was told that one day Atem, and the two priests would be reborn, and the sisters would try and take their revenge on them.
So Amun kept his society of wizards going, and trained every generation of wizard form that time till now. He had changed his name to Ray, and lived his life till this modern age as a teacher. The only ones that know his true name are the members of The Childern of The Shadows. Then one day he had a dream more of a premonition, of the child that would be the Pharaoh’s new vessel would be born soon, and the forces of darkness were closing in on him and his reincarnated priest. Now is the time for him to take up arms once again, and destroy the three witches that wished to destroy the great pharaoh.
Other Notes: The magic that is used to keep him from aging is a forbidden spell that he himself created. This spell has no fee to be paid for using it, but it does have a consequence. This spell never lets you taste death, because your soul already resides in the shadow realm entrapped in a black crystal. Even if your current body dies it is reconstructed, and you live once again. But this does cause a malfunction. If the mind is destroyed, then the body will live forever and you will still never know the peace of death. Finally, if the crystal that resides in the shadow realm is brought out by some force you can kill Amun, by shattering the crystal.
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