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Lena Duchannes | reserved
Contact Info: PM to journal, or eyeofthetiger @ plurk
Other Characters Played: Also apping Jim Kirk.
Preferred Apartment: None.
Character Name: Lena Duchannes
Canon: The Caster Chronicles
Background/History: http://thecasterchronicles.wikia.com/wiki/Lena_Duchannes
Personality: Outwardly, Lena is that kind of odd loner kid everyone knew in high school, the one who sat by herself at lunch and was always writing and doodling in notebooks and never really had many friends. She's quiet and aloof, awkward with other people and taking a long time to warm up to them. She's given to a lot of introspection--and a lot of moping, too, a lot of living inside her own head and dwelling on her own emotions.
When she does grow comfortable with and fond of someone, Lena is a loyal friend, compassionate and concerned with their well-being, and willing to defend and protect them. She's more relaxed, more willing to display her sometimes sly sense of humor. She tends to show affection by gentle teasing, but she's serious and supportive when the situation calls for it.
It's difficult for Lena to form close relationships. Her mother turned Dark at sixteen and fought it for many years, but she wound up killing Lena's father and nearly killing Lena when Lena was a baby. Lena's family moved her around a lot, trying to keep her safe from her mother, but Lena got tossed from some of those schools when her powers got out of hand. She wasn't brought home to the family homestead in Gatlin, SC, until the beginning of the book series. Wherever she went, she was picked on in school or ostracized for being different; the same happened when she arrived at Jackson High in Gatlin.
As a result of all this, Lena doesn't feel any sense of permanence in relationships with people. She's reluctant to grow close to anyone because her experience has always been that people will leave, or she'll have to go, so nothing lasts. Even with Ethan, when he first tried to befriend her and get close to her, she spent a lot of time trying to drive him away and refusing his affection.
She has a deep-seated fear of abandonment, and I think this fuels her nearly obsessive attachment to Ethan. He's the first boy she's loved, the first long-term relationship she's had. She genuinely loves him, and he loved her, but I think her jealousy where he was concerned and her drive, now, to get him back from death, is because she absolutely cannot abide the idea of having gambled on loving someone and then winding up losing him.
Lena also feels a great deal of responsibility for events and for the well-being of people around her. She knows how different she is, even within her own world of Casters; she's powerful and her coming was foretold. Her Claiming was meant to be a significant and destructive event; as part of the curse Genevieve brought down on the Duchannes family generations ago, if a Natural was born to the family, when she was claimed, the opposite side in her family would be destroyed--if she was claimed Light, the Dark Casters in her family would die, and vice versa. She spent most of the time leading up to her sixteenth birthday in a panic over wiping out family members, or the fear that she'd turn out Dark like her mother before her. She wound up eventually solving the problem by Claiming herself for both sides, Light and Dark, using her power to resist the curse.
But she feels like everything she does comes at a great price, no matter how good her intentions were. Ethan died once in the first book, and like her ancestor Genevieve, Lena made a bargain with the Book of Moons to get him back. The price was her beloved uncle's life (though he later returned--look, Caster families are high-drama, okay). She saved her family and took control of her own fate by resisting the family curse and claiming herself both Light and Dark, but the result was a breakdown of the world around her; Gatlin suffered plagues like those foretold to be coming at the End Times, the Caster world was off-balance, and, finally, Ethan sacrificed his life to restore order.
Lena was already a pessimist, a glass-half-empty-and-what's-in-it-is-probably-sour-anyway kind of girl. With all these events, and all the responsibility she feels, being a Natural and defying the curse often feels like a burden, a new curse of its own. Her moments of triumph are often answered with terrible consequences, her friends and family have suffered in trying to help and protect her, and though he did it to save her and everyone they knew, she lost Ethan, he had to sacrifice himself, to her thinking, to fix the mess she made.
That's pretty much where she is now--trying to fix the mess she made. She's been brooding over how she (in her perception) failed Ethan and caused his death, and obsessing over needing him back and being willing to get him back at any cost. Being without him and feeling like she failed so badly has made her pull away from people even more, worried about the effect she might have on them. She's grown hyper-responsible for the well-being of the people she loves; she's willing to do whatever it takes to get Ethan back, but personally, she hasn't shared any of her plans with anyone and she will not involve anyone else. No one else needs to pay any price for what she's done and is willing to do.
Lena's a good kid at heart, polite, respectful, heeds her elders though she visibly chafes at people exercising authority to take advantage of others, or at unjust situations. She's strong, jumping into situations and doing what needs to be done even when her tendency toward pessimism tells her there's no way it will work, she'll fail, everything will go wrong. She always tries to do right by people, and she's a responsible and compassionate person. And right now, she's consumed by grief, and trying to channel that into figuring out how to get Ethan back rather than giving into that grief and accepting he's gone.
Abilities/Powers: Casters are people who are born with innate supernatural talents and abilities, anything from being able to heal others, see through time, speak to the dead, or being able to manipulate light, or fire. Some of them are even born supernatural creatures, such as incubi or shapeshifters. In addition to their supernatural powers or state of being, they are capable of spell casting and rituals.
Lena is a particularly rare and powerful type of Caster known as a Natural. Her innate powers are weather and fire manipulation, but with much stronger influence than most Casters are capable of. She has also stopped time twice, in very serious situations. Because she's a Natural, her spells and rituals are much more easily cast and have greater effect.
She's still young, so she has trouble controlling her abilities at times. At the start of the series the weather tended to shift with her stronger emotions; she's gained more control over that by this time, though a strong, deep, powerful emotional reaction might still trigger a very localized shift in the weather (higher winds if she's angry, rain if she's crying, things like that). She has a little less grasp of her fire manipulation; it's a running gag in the books that she sometimes accidentally sets things on fire, also usually tied to an emotional reaction.
She can also telepathically communicate with other Casters, and she could with Ethan (who turned out to be a pretty special kind of Mortal, usually it's not possible with Mortals). Casters call it "kelting"; I'd be open to her being able to do it with other magic-users in the city if that's something that's usually within their abilities too.
Sample Entry: http://multiversal.dreamwidth.org/175750.html
Sample Entry Two: http://multiversallogs.dreamwidth.org/138182.html?thread=6073542#cmt6073542
I haven't been playing Lena terribly long, so if you require additional samples please let me know, I'm happy to write something.
Thank you for your time and consideration! :)
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