Alias: Jinx
Real Name: Iatatha-deki
Race: Free Spirit
AttributesBody: 6
Agility: 6
Reaction: 6
Strength: 6
Charisma: 6
Intuition: 6
Logic: 6
Willpower: 6
Edge: 6
Magic/Force: 6
Initiative: 12 Passes: 2
Active SkillsSpellcasting 6
Assensing (Aura Reading) 4(6)
Perception 4
Infiltration 4
Arcana 4
Counterspelling 4
Knowledge/Language SkillsEnglish N
Spirits (Black Magic) 4(6)
Black Magic Groups (CAS) 4(6)
Tulsa Talismongers (Ritual Materials) 4(6)
Magical Theory (Spellcrafting) 4(6)
Spirit Summoning (Free) 4(6)
Magical Artifacts (Black Magic) 4(6)
Metaplanes (Black Magic Attuned) 4(6)
CAS Magicians (Black Magicians) 4(6)
Positive QualitiesAstral Chameleon
Negative QualitiesCompulsive - Mild (likes to steal small shiny trinkets)
Compulsive - Mild (likes to pull small pranks)
Media Junkie- Mild (Watches old reel movies )
Spirit Bane (Bug Spirits)
Vindictive
PowersAura Masking
Realistic Form
Mutable Form
Low-light Vision
Enhanced Hearing
Accident
Psychokinesis
Materialization
Life Pact
Sapience
Astral Form
Banishment Resistance
Immunity to Normal Weapons
SpellsTradition:Black Magic
Death Touch
Knock Out
Detect Enemies
Mindlink
Orgasm
Orgy
GearAmulet containing spirit formula
LifestyleSee Jondera's Sheet
2 months paid
PersonalitySelf serving and arrogant. Views any non magical creature as a lesser being. Delights in playing pranks and causing mischief. Jinx enjoys tricking people into spirit pacts with malevolent spirits, such as djinns, daemons, and oni. Though he lacks the ability to summon and bind spirits in the traditional sense, he is extremely knowledgeable in the calling and summoning of free and wild spirits. He is smart enough to avoid extremely powerful spirits of destruction, who wait for such foolish acts to bring them into this world. Views the anarchist cause as his ultimate prank on metahumanity.
BackstoryNot many creatures can remember the circumstances of their creation. Not many creatures have the mental capacity to understand such things at the time of their birth. While most meta-humans might think such knowledge would be a blessing, oh those precious childhood memories, Jinx viewed it as a curse. You see Jinx wasn’t born to some loving parents who were thrilled to see their bloodline continue. Jinx was born, if it could even be called that, out of pure malice. He was a manifestation of his conjurers rage and hatred. He was the construct of a twisted mind, which created the spirit for one purpose. That was, to have a loyal and devoted slave to bend to their every whim.
You see. For all the power that summoned spirits have, there is one glaring weakness, services. A magician is limited in what they can do by the strength of the connection between them and their spirits. Once your services are up, your spirit is gone and there is nothing you can do about it. For this reason magicians searched for a way around the limitations of services, and they found one, Ally spirits.
Unlike normal spirits, Allied Spirits are born directly from the ideologies and personalities of their conjurers. As such there is an internal bond between the two, resulting in a spirit that is free from the hassle of services. Since they are tied to their conjurers, they are generally easier to control as well. They cannot harm or directly work against the one who brought them into this world. Because of this, some magicians believe that they can do whatever they wish to their Ally spirit without repercussion. It is rare to find such a magician that lives long.
This misguided train of thought plagued the magician who created Jinx, a fledgling black magician named Uriah. The young man was a tortured soul. All his life he had been under the boot of one person or another. Even when his magical abilities manifested, and he found his way into the dark arts, his life did not improve much. His mentor was a cruel mistress known as the Black Witch, who did not abide by any sign of weakness and failure.
Like a virus, this attitude spread to the way Uriah treated his spirits. Unlike some people, spirits are not the type to abide by such treatment for long, and soon Uriah found that they would refuse to answer his calls. Seeing this as another sign of weakness, his mentor abandoned him. Even she knew just how far to push her spirits. Abandoned by his teacher and his spirits, Uriah found himself on the brink of self destruction. He delved into tome after tome, searching for anything that might save him from his despair. It was not long before he came across the ritual to bind an Ally spirit to oneself. Uriah believed that this was exactly what he needed. It was a spirit that would never abandon him, a spirit that would never question his orders, something that he could finally lord over.
Thus Jinx was born. It did not take long for Uriah to begin delving into things that were beyond his abilities. The creation of his loyal pet had created a sense of misguided power in his mind. No matter how much he demeaned the spirit, no matter how many times he ridiculed or abused it, it remained by its side happily, or so he thought. You see Ally spirits are not mindless slaves. They have feelings and ambitions of their own. Though they are irrevocably bond to their conjurers and forged from their emotions, they are still completely separate beings. This was something that young Uriah failed to grasp.
It only took a week for Uriah to wear out the patience of his so called ‘loyal slave’. The repeated menial tasks and physical abuse took its toll quite fast. However, Jinx was in a bind, quite literally in fact. The spirit hated his master, and yearned for nothing more than to crush his little head. Unfortunately he knew that he could not do anything to harm the man. As long as Uriah maintained the bond, Jinx would never be free.
Luckily for Jinx, Uriah made the mistake many young magicians are known to do. He overestimated the reach of his power. As such, he tasked Jinx with the procurement of a particularly rare tome that was in the possession of a much more powerful magician, Uriah’s original mentor. Unlike Uriah, Jinx was not delusional. The spirit knew that the woman’s power and influence in the magical world was beyond what Uriah could fathom. If the young magician had bothered to show a bit more respect to Jinx, he might have warned his master of the repercussions of his request.
Jinx had been to the woman’s liar before. The day of his birth, Uriah had brought him there. The young magician wanted to show his former mentor that he had progressed and no longer needed her. The only reason Uriah walked out of that place alive was due to the fact she viewed him as a lost puppy begging for attention. Stealing one of her possessions, that was no longer the act of a student seeking their master’s approval. No, that was the act of an equal and rival. Jinx would do what his master had asked of him with great joy. The repercussions of the deed were Uriah’s to deal with.
The young magician never stood a chance. His narrow-mindedness had blinded him from many avenues of magic. He had devoted himself almost completely to the study of summoning, ignoring all else. He was foolhardy enough to believe the Black Witch would come to him in person and fight him as an equal. The nuisances of ritual spell casting had escaped his studies, and thus he paid for it. One might almost think his former mentor still had a soft spot for her student. She could have chosen a most unbelievably painful and slow spell to kill him with. Instead, one day Uriah just dropped to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut.
It was like an insurmountable weight had been lifted from Jinx’s shoulder. Many ally spirits mourn the day of their conjurer’s death. This was not such an occasion. With a smile, Jinx ripped away the amulet Uriah wore around his neck. The item had been imprinted with Jinx’s astral signature at the time of his birth. It was a dangerous item that one could use to create a spirit formula if they had the knowledge. It was the first item that Jinx finally owned, and the rush of the procurement never left him.
Jinx finally had the freedom that he so desired. The question was now what to do with it. Like most ally spirits forged from extreme emotions, Jinx was irrevocable imprinted with a part of his summoner ‘s personality. In Jinx’s case it was Uriah’s need to cause harm to others. The drive to harm was greatly reduced in Jinx’s case, and manifested as a penchant for pulling pranks. These pranks were not always as harmless as causing an old woman to trip and break her hip.
One of Jinx’s favored forms to appear as is that of a young kitten. Like his former master, Jinx craved attention, and nothing garnered love and affection quite like a cuddly little pet. At least that is what Jinx thought. When a young woman decided that kittens made better soccer balls than pets, Jinx set out to make her life a living hell. He stalked her for the next year to exact his vengeance.
He started small. First, there were small accidents here and there. She would trip on a curb, or misplace her homework. Then things slowly ramped up. Jinx began to appear to her before something bad happened. He made sure to manifest as that same little calico cat that she had kicked. soon, she wrecked her car six times in one month, barely making it out of the last one alive. Her medication while she was hospitalized was mixed up. Her relationship with her boyfriend ended when he found someone else. Her sister died in a mysterious fire. She begged and pleaded with people to believe her that the ghost of a dead cat was haunting her. Even when her parents hired a paranormal investigator, he found no evidence of magical interference. It didn't take long for the family to decide the girl needed serious consoling. They shipped her off to a hospital for study. Jinx was with her every step of the way, intent on making her suffer for eternity.
However, something caught his eye one night at the hospital. Somebody was escaping from the facility. He didn't know much about these things, but he knew such a feat was supposed to be impossible. That was the point of this place wasn't it? If this person could escape, maybe his victim could as well. He decided to keep an eye on the escapee's progress. There was something odd about the creature’s aura that peeked Jinx’s curiosity. It wasn't long before he forgot why he had been at the hospital in the first place. So, just like a kitten who was tired with their old toy, Jinx abandoned the woman he had driven insane and followed this new one. He wondered what kind of mischief he could get into around her.