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Name: Rakath
Age: Closer to 30 than he wants to admit.
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Character Basics:

Character Name: Chandra Nalaar
Journal: fistlogic
Age: 12
Fandom: Magic: the Gathering
Canon Point: Four months after the end of Fire Logic.
Debt:

Class A: 1
Class B: 20
Class C: 203

Arson, Jaywalking, Tresspass

GRAND TOTAL: 27 years, 11 months

Canon Character Section:

History: Chandra grew up on the plane of Kaladesh, in the lavish city of Ghirapur. She was an overall uninteresting child to two loving parents. She didn't fit in a city of rules, and order, and control. She was not a scholar, or an artist, or a mechanic. She had none of the skills her people cherish, and a habit of getting in trouble. Shirking the laws of the city whenever it pleased her (or she didn’t think past the immediate future). Of course, her parents were hardly model citizens, working to help undermine the laws and control of the Consul (governing body of Kaladesh).

Chandra became even more of a problem for her government. She developed a natural affinity for magic. Which, well, was not something her people had. ...That magic happened to be a control of fire and caused a great deal of property damage. The authority frowns on this sort of thing as well. Chandra and her parents ran to the outer reaches of the kingdom in hopes of avoiding the Consul's forces and the reach of their control. Meanwhile learning more of herself.

They didn't want Chandra to escape, for someone with her power to ruin their methodical control of the world. So they hunted her, and found her. They killed her father, burned the village they were staying in to the ground. Framed Chandra for the death and destruction. Dragged her back to the capitol to execute her, and wanted to make her a symbol of what happens to those who defy the law. Her spark ignited at the end set before her, found self-awareness, and transported herself to a new plane.

...She may have set the arena on fire as she left. Like, all of it.

In Regatha, she arrived at the monastery of Keral Keep. Home to an order of monks who train and study the art of pyromancy as their religious pursuits. They freely welcomed Chandra to their order (and started to train her), even after she tried to kill them all with fire.

...Okay so the monks based their order on a rather reckless and self-serving pyromancer by the name of Jaya whose teachings are little more than quippy bumper stickers. They might not be the best judges. And they personally teach the importance of individual freedoms and choice so they are cool with Chandra expressing her fears by trying to kill them all in blasts of flame.

This is what you get when you have monks that live on a volcano by choice. Chandra’s been staying with them ever since she arrived in Regatha.

Personality:

Chandra is a reckless and impulse driven child. Like, you think your little cousin is impulsive, but no Chandra is worse. She has zero patience and even less self-control. Fist logic or Fire logic is what she calls it, the sudden need to do something because it 'felt right.' Which happens fairly often with her, and usually the act is violent due to the context of the action. If threatened she fights, if frustrated she lashes out. But she accepts this is who she is, this is how her mind works.

She came from a world with laws that had zero respect for who she is, even before she was on the wrong side of the law. Her parents raised her with a love and care that accepted her, and they themselves had questions for this law. Chandra grew up with an ambivalence for the laws, they didn’t matter to her. Her parents mattered, her happiness mattered, their happiness mattered. The comings and goings of the law only mattered if it would influence how Chandra’s parents felt about her, and how their lives were impacted by her choices. She abided the laws to keep her parents happy.

And then she ended up on the wrong side of the law, and her parents chose her safety over their pleasant productive lives. Their occupations didn’t matter compared to their daughter. So she learned to embrace her own unique way of being, embrace her flame. What made her different was still a part of her, and so she loved it the way her parents loved it. She isn't malicious, people in pain does nothing for her. The act of hurting someone, well, it depends on if they deserve it. The rush, the adrenaline, the feeling in the thick of chaos is what she enjoys most. Sometimes that thrill comes from violence, but only those that she can face equally or those that deserve a good punching.

And in spite of how reckless she is, she isn't dumb. On the contrary she is a clever, fast thinking creature. Capable of many quick witted escapes and turning the tides with what she has on hands. Naturally her favorite answer often involves a lot of property damage, she isn't keen on doing subtle things. Subtle things rarely happen to her, so she and subtle are not on speaking terms. She learns and reacts quickly, her mind a constant roil or action even at rest. Quiet never really appeals to her, she’s too used to the chaos.

And in spite of what has happened in her past, she moves on, lets her future be better through her own actions. She will make her future better, because the past is something that cannot be changed. This doesn't mean she can't hold a grudge, in fact she’s very keen on revenge against the people that have wronged her in the past. Mostly because they deserve it. She lets go of what would hold her back, which is its own little grace. For what grace is worth to a pyromancer.

Powers/Abilities: Chandra is a planeswalker from the quaint little plane of Kaladesh. That isn’t as important as the fact that she is a pyromancer of some natural talent.

Planeswalkers have an innate spark that allows them to travel from one plane in the multiverse to another. They can’t take anyone with them, but it allows them to walk the planes and learn a great many magics within their wheelhouse.

In Chandra’s case, those magics have something to do with fire. Or heat. Or explosions. Generally it is big fiery destruction is what she does. Chandra is of course at the start of her journey, so her talents are fairly untamed. Finer points of control and more creative applications of her gift are beyond her, not without some added training and practice.

As soon as she gets her fire back, anyway.

Another interesting tidbit is that Chandra is very resistant to mental magic. Her mind is very active, chaotic, and rebellious, it impulsively repels mental manipulation as it is an attempt to bring order to chaos. And her brain likes its chaos.

Appearance: Chandra Key Art

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