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Name: Bonnie Lillian Jean
Also known as: Fish, Grannie Fish (courtesy Blackthorn) Beta (courtesy all Zeta-verse characters) Bubblehead (cousins, esp. Airi)
Age: 21
Race: Human
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 125
Hair: Platinum blonde/ white to light blue
Eyes: Blue
Complexion: Pale
Weapons: Trident, spear, parasol, assorted random objects
Elemental Affiliation: Water
Magic: Water summon, water manipulation, familar summon
Birthday: March 20
Sign: Pisces
Likes: Small animals, swimming, warm weather, beaches, the color blue, clothes, early morning, skinny dipping (but thats a secret), collecting small rocks and shells, umbrellas
Dislikes: Heights, the dark, being stalked, singing, several of the Zetaverse characters, freezing cold, fighting ice users (they tend to use her own attacks against her), boats (she gets seasick, ha ha)
Attributes:
Strength: C
Speed: C-
Dexterity: B
Duarability: C-
Valor: B
Intelligence: B-
Magic: B+
History:
Family History:
Several hundred years ago, a powerful river spirit rose from its underwater home and chose to
live amongst the humans that she had only observed for so long. For years, the deity lived as one
of them, protecting them, until suddenly, she vanished. There are no clear records of what
happened, but it is said that the spirit was injured by another powerful being and had to go into
hiding. Her descendants remained, and eventually came to be known as the Calder family, a
powerful clan of water mages or aquamancers.
The family’s greatest pride, is not their command of water, but the extraordinary healing
abilities of a few of their members. Not only are these individuals capable of healing themselves
and others using only water, but in some cases they can reverse the aging process. It has
been rumored some of the family members are hundreds of years old. The use of these abilities
is how that the Calders acquired their significant wealth. They currently run a
pharmaceutical/elixers company which produces some rather powerful medicines and other
curatives. However, production has dropped rather dramatically in recent years.
Despite the family’s wealth and magical prowess, over the time it had begun to decline. Fewer
and fewer of the family members were being born with the healing ability that they so prided and
more and more are being born with barely any abilities at all. To assure the potency of the
bloodline, they arranged marriages carefully and even allied themselves with an overseas water
clan specializing in blood manipulation, the Inoues, in order to keep the line healthy.
Birth:
When the daughter of one of the more prominent members of the Calder family
disappeared for a several days and reappeared married, it caused quite the stir. Lynda Coraline
Calder, had fallen in love with a fisherman by the name of Sydney Jean and married him.
Sydney had no magical ability and no wealth, and being an orphan, he didn’t even have any
family to speak for him. Despite enormous pressure from the family, they refused to back down
and stayed married.
A few months after the marriage, the Jean’s received a daughter into the world. It was a girl
with pale blue hair and they named her Bonnie. When it was found out the girl had the Calder
family’s signature hair color, it raised high hopes that she might have also inherited some of the
prized water abilities, despite the muddied bloodline. Old quarrels were put aside in favor of
raising a future aquamancer.
Little Bonnie:
As a child, Bonnie was normal enough. She was friendly, talkative, and extremely inquisitive.
Rarely cross, but (as a few of her classmates discovered), not hesitant to punch, kick, or bite if
provoked. Her insatiable curiosity led to a tendency to wandering off. She had the uncanny
ability to disappear at the most inopportune moments, sometimes being gone for hours. It gave
her teacher and her mother fits, but her father (who always seemed to find her quite easily)
thought it was just a product of a healthy curiosity.
Father's Death
When she was seven, her father died. She and her father had been driving from home when
Sydney hit a pocket of water and lost control of the car. The car went careening down the side
of the cliff into the sea below. Her father died almost immediately, but miraculously, Bonnie
survived. She was later found quite high up on the shore, badly injured, freezing, unconscious
but breathing and alive..
Monsters in the Water:
The following months were a blur. Her stay in the hospital, her father’s funeral, the comings and goings of concerned relatives were barely remembered. Violent nightmares started during these months, in which Bonnie saw glowing eyes which trapped her in swirling water. They subsided eventually, but she always remember them.
After a while, her mother decided to leave their old home. They moved to the city, away from the ocean that they had
loved. This was fine with Bonnie, as she found she was now terribly afraid of it.
No talent:
The time came and went for when it was typical for those in the Calder family to manifest
magical gifts. Little Bonnie was showing no signs of any talent. Most troubling, was that she
had developed a fear of their sacred element, water. This disturbed the Elder members and the
Grandfather decided she should be submitted to rigorous training to bring out any latent gifts
before it was too late. After much arguing, the mother consented and Bonnie was sent away.
For a full year, she stayed with her cousins and other extended family members in order to train,
but to no avail. She refused (rather violently) to go near any sort of water. Every lake, river, or
pond, had a monster in it, according to her. She was treated harshly, as no one seemed to
understand her fear of it. Her young cousins teased her terribly for it often forced her to tears.
Only Celia, the eldest of the cousins, and Eaton, the cousin to whom she had been intended,
were compassionate with her.
When no progress was made, the Grandfather decided desperate measures should be taken. It
was outrageous that a Calder be walking around without even one speck of magical talent. It
could not be tolerated. He began placing Bonnie in progressively dangerous situations, hoping
her instincts would kick in so that she might save herself. However, Lynda caught wind of this
after a particularly dangerous escapade which nearly killed her. Furious that her only child’s life was being used so
recklessly, she took Bonnie back and did not speak to many of the family members for years
afterwards.
Not afraid
Bonnie’s fear of water continued until a day when she was ten. Her cat had fallen into the pool
and while she was trying to retrieve it, she fell in as well. At first, she was frozen with terror and
in very real danger of drowning. Then, her limbs started moving instinctively and she began to
move through the water the way her father had taught her. Grabbing the cat (who had actually
been doing alright until Bonnie fell in and nearly crushed it) she worked her way back to the
pool side and out. For a while, she just sat there and stared at the water, thinking. No monsters
had pulled her under, she hadn’t drowned and swimming in the water had actually felt....nice.
The fear remained to some extent for a while afterwards, but that day was the beginning of the
end of it. It was after that time, that her power finally was ready awaken. But no one noticed
that, including herself, til several years later.
Little Brother
Her mother grieved deeply, but somehow managed to move on. She poured herself into her
work and eventually built her own company and became very successful. At one point she
remarried, but the marriage didn’t last long. They divorced after only two years, but that was not
before she had a son, whom she named Blake.
Unlike his half sister, he very quickly became
proficient at water magic, his first spells being only at the age of four. The Calder family was
ecstatic at this development, and Bonnie seemed to fade further into the background.
School and friends:
Like most teenagers in the city, Bonnie attended highschool. Schooling was something of a
challenge for her. Her mother, determined that she should be an accomplished young lady,
provided her with a multitude of tutors, art, singing, music, and dance lessons. Most of these
things she totally and utterly failed at, and none of them did she excel at. She did manage to join
the schools swim team for a while, but that was pretty much it.
While Bonnie was friendly enough, she had few friends in highschool. Those with magical
abilities snubbed her, and those without avoided her because of her family. However, she did
make three friends in a similar situation. Daniel, a boy from a clan of shapeshifters who was
late to manifest his talents, Carmichael, a strange boy who’s sole ability seemed to be
summoning small frogs, and Kim, a girl who had shunned magic despite the fact that here father
was a well known sorcerer.
Daniel was the ringleader of the foursome, and he had a knack for causing trouble. They became
pretty well known as the pranksters of the school, with Bonnie specializing in plumbing based
sabotage. She seemed to have a knack for fouling up toilets in peculiar ways. For much of school, they were all fast friends, and Bonnie felt like she belonged.
Trouble:
Unfortunately, there came a day when they picked a fight with the wrong crowd. Daniel orchestrated a prank against a rival clan of shapeshifters. They retaliated violently, nearly killing Daniel. He only survived because his brother, Evan intervened, fighting off his attackers. Bonnie stumbled onto the scene and was nearly caught up in the fight with only her umbrella to defend her. She took Daniel, who was near death to the hospital where he would recover, while Evan held the others at bay. Evan never made it to the hospital, he was found dead several days later.
Things changed after that. Daniel was not the same, and they all felt some responsiblity for what happened. Bonnie tried to hold the group together, but to no avail. When school ended, they all went their separate ways and never spoke again.
On her own:
After school, Bonnie didn't know what to do. Her mother was pushing her towards school, the Calders were pushing her towards marriage, and she felt lost. A fight with her mother inspired her to strike out on her own. She had no money, few connections, and no plan, but she left anyway.
For a while, she drifted from place to place, trying to find somewhere to stay. At one point, she even went to the Calder estate asking about a job. No one gave her the time of day. Eventually, Cedric (Celia's twin) came up to her, only to inform her that she had been released from her betrothal to her cousin Eaton. As politely as possible, he asked her not to return to the estate. She wasn't a mage, she wasn't welcome.
Dejected and angry Bonnie left. She was able to find a job or two, but she never stayed with it for long. There was just something missing. Determined, she pressed on.
Meeting the Lady
After getting kicked out of her second apartment due to accusations of tampering with the plumbing, Bonnie was once again without a place to stay. She remembered the old beach house her father had bought, and knew that her mother had yet to sell it.
For a while she lived there, using what supplies were still in good shape and trying to fix the place up. Emphases on the word trying. One night, while she was out walking at an unusually late hour, she heard the sound of a woman’s voice singing sadly. At low tide, she found there was a rocky pathway of stones that lead through the choppy water and out of site around the cliff. Curious, she followed it. She made her way to a small bay flushed against the rocks. There, sitting demurely on a rock was the source of the voice, beautiful blue woman.
Bonnie introduced herself, and they began talking. The girl asked her name if this blue person was a neriad or water spirit, but the woman laughed.
"No, but you may call me Lady Neriad, for I will not reveal my true name."
It turned out that the she was a powerful water witch, but was restricted to the confines of the bay. When she had been sleeping, a thief had crept into her lair, and stolen something precious from her. Bonnie, entranced, agreed to retrieve the item.
It took several days, but she eventually found the thief. It was an odd little man by the name of Cyril, who called himself a travelling merchant. Unable to convince the man to return it, Bonnie wound up spending every cent she had to buy it back. When Bonnie returned the
treasure, Lady Neriad was extremely grateful and rewarded Bonnie with a water crystal trident.
Magic!
When Bonnie grasped the weapon, something happened. The magic in the trident reacted with the power inside her that had been trying to get out. For a while, she attempted to teach herself water magic, and was marginally successful at it. Frustrated, when she had hit her limit, she returned to Lady Neriad to beg for instruction. The Lady had expected this all along, and smiled at her. She agreed.
"But in return, one day you will free me from this place."
That seemed reasonable enough, and Bonnie agreed. Her training began immediately, and whole new set of adventures began.
New developments
• Aquired a familar from the Lady; a water spout known as Nerene.
• Boyfriend is the dark elf aeromancer known as Speedy.
• Has a child by Speedy, a girl she named Aedre.
 OldBlueGenes · Tue Mar 30, 2010 @ 09:21pm · 0 Comments |
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