Lisette Aster

Personality:

She carries herself with pride, elegance, and seduction.
She talks a big game, cocky, smug, and always armed with a sharp tongue and a quick wit, always thinking of the next excuse to get out of the more mundane parts of her job.
Despite what impression this may give however, she is very skilled in the dark arts and a wand is never far from her hand, she always carries a talismans and crystals. Whether it be for her own gain or for someone else, if it involves an excuse to show off her own powers or her abilities are put into question. She will accept any and all challenges that come her way, and make a good show of it too.

On the job, she prefers more form-fitting clothing, she feels that the casting process should be just as much of a sensual matter as it is her ability to prove herself when challenged.  Her dedication to the magical arts are just as important as her appearance.

Outside of work however... She is exactly what that first impression gave. Her room, always so messy you'd think an earthquake happened every morning just in her room alone. Clothes lie everywhere, on the floor, on the chair, on the bed, even a bra or two will somehow find their way on the balcony. Despite this, she finds absolutely nothing wrong with it, and can find anything  and everything she needs as if it was perfectly normal.

Background:

Taught and motivated from a young age, Lisette was born from an extended family of alchemists and sorcerers practicing many different aspects of the art. Her mother working as a seamstress in the day, and moonlighting as a dark mage in the latest of nights. Sewing the strings of cloth and fates alike and everyone around her would be none the wiser. One night she chose to meet with a noblewoman visiting town... Ohhhhhh she was a devil, wearing the most beautiful red dress and the most bewitching ruby red necklace atop her bountiful bust. With a shockingly tight corset, she would work hard to keep all eyes on her at work. She used her body  to hypnotize the men unfortunate enough to cross her path and enter her lair, draining them of their health, and their wallets. When rumors of her started to spread among the family, she immediately made attempts to cut them out of both her and the young lady's life

From these stolen funds, Lisette would be trained by both her mother and various tutors. How to act like a proper lady and princess, how to greet guests, how to seduce young men, make her bed, how to read both the faces of others and their minds, and of course what would be drilled into her budding head the most, magic. She would be subject to learning many theories and manuscripts about the basic of magics, and later in life the dark arts. The very same arts her mother would practice and use to manipulate others into her bidding. All the while using remaining funds to live lavishly for herself.

Alas, her schemes and methods wouldn't go without garnering trouble... and it would be on her 18th birthday that the pot of trouble would finally boil over. 

It was with this incident that her idea of the world shattered. Her mother captured, her magic a forsaking of the very gods her family tree worshiped, and her own vein attempts at resistance moot. She ran, ran as far as she could, nothing but the clothes on her back to keep her warm.
It took her months to even start to break out of her mother's teachings, the world was not kind to someone connected to a dark witch, let alone someone who could actually use the same arts as one of the largest dark mages of recent history. Each day was a struggle to survive, trust was suddenly a foreign concept, left starving on the streets. It was one faithful encounter that changed her course, two strings crossing, either by the hands of god, or one she conjured up, who will know? It was that day she would start to find a new home, and build herself back up. More strings crossing together, weaving together a warm and kind basket for the lost little bunny to find herself in.

Powers/Abilities:

Hypnosis:
Taught by her mother dearest, is able to cast and sound multiple frequencies
with simple hand gestures to slowly influence and control the thought of others.
The strongest mages can hold up to ten people under their control at one point in time, but
through thorough conditioning over many months, could amass a small army if left unchecked.
Lisette can hold up to three people under her spell over the course of several hours.
Certain high-quality gemstone are known to amplify these hypnotic signals allowing for more people
to be caught at once, for longer periods of time. Certain gemstones also have the capability to contain
and echo these signals, allowing for someone to be put under a caster's control for an indefinite amount
of time at the cost of the victim's mind and personality potentially being warped.

(NOTED AND ENFORCED BY STATE OFFICIALS)
NO PERSON IS ALLOWED TO LEGALLY STUDY BOTH MAGICS
AT ANY POINT IN TIME!
PLEASE REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES TO YOUR CLOSEST STATION

Low-Level Summoning:
Summoning magic utilizes the latent pools of mana in the atmosphere or via the usage of elementally aligned
crystals mined underground (or in rare cases, generated by elemental sprites in the wild).
Through the use of these crystals and their purity, they can be used to summon divine beasts of heaven and hell alike, to
temporally fight on the summoner's side should they possess the qualities required to control such beings.
Lisette can only summon small beasts such as dire wolves, or a swarm of giant wasps for offensive purposes, or call out to
 household animals such as cats, hamsters, rabbits, bunnies, etc. in addition to having some level of communication and understanding
 of the animal's respective languages.

High-Level Dark Magic:
Taught by the dark mistress, being her mother's main field of practice the dark arts
were personally drilled into her mind from a young age. Theories, Laws, Channels,
Tethers, and much more was all crammed into her mind. In addition to the standard practices,
she is extremely proficient in the casting of hexes and curses, force temporary madness on a victim,
purple flames, and potentially alter one's fate for the worse via the enhancing of talismans
to transfer one's fortune and luck to another, or alternatively, corrupting it.

Higher levels of Dark Magic (Elite, and Primal) include full necromancy, summoning a murder of crows,
complete poison immunity buff, complete neurotoxin immunity buff, self-resurrection rituals using the remains
of corpses, and one-way caster's Lich conversion.

High Level Smoke Manipulation:
A type of Illusion magic primarily used for escaping from battle, but has an alternative use as
a method to control the spirits of the dead to scare, confuse, or even force the possession of the living. Traditionally,
Smoke Manipulation was used to guide lost souls on the surface and underground back to the land of the dead
and eventually into the cycle of reincarnation.

OOC:
The  first adopt I ever got now has a profile! 2/27/23 has been a very productive day actually... I guess the little bit of stress out of the way did wonders for the brain.
Anyway, this one I had some beats and ideas in my head but otherwise wrote in almost one sitting. Took me a hot minute to actually phrase things in a way to hopefully make it not boring to read, while still keeping it easy to follow along... I slipped into writing as if I or a third party was talking part way into the background but I wasn't quite sure how to rewrite it back into the omnipotent narrator perspective so I kept it as is.
There was also a fair bit I had to cut out because it was practically bloated with a bunch of filler that after re-reading I didn't feel very comfortable keeping inside the main background segment, for it was either A: Too long-winded, B: Such a minor point of the character, or C: Could've been in the fun facts/notes segment, speaking of!

Fun Facts/Notes:

Lisette's Mother isn't actually designed yet but in my head she does resemble a more obsessed version of her daughter. Fair skin, long silky pink hair, a bountiful bosom able to bury the greatest of sorrows, great red rubies decorating her body, and deep eyes that could enrapture even the strongest of wills. She strongly believes that form and appearance is just as if not more important than the function itself, and she preaches about those beliefs constantly to anyone willing to listen.
She lives in a dorm with three others, the owner of the dorm is actually a relative of her missing father, reconnected by a few sympathetic folks over at the city's library and Leona's connections.
Lisette's Father left both her and her mother at a young age, she doesn't remember him at all but does wonder about where they've been, all she knows from the dorm-keeper is that they are alive. She isn't too worried about it though, figuring she'll have a chat with him if he ever comes around.
Leona is the library's current manager and Lisette's neighbor, she specializes in illusion magic and makes most of her money as an entertainer rather than her legal job as a librarian.
Her best friend, work buddy, and in some cases friendly rival, is Tsubaki. Having been the first to find her, teach her, and get her back on her own two feet. They've gotten pretty close in the two years they've known each other. They may get at each others throats every now and then but even under the worst circumstances, there is no one else they'd rather rely on than each other.