You're hired! I will let you know when classes will begin and send a notice when interaction between staff and students begins. This will like be at a sort of welcoming ball just before classes start.Name:
*knock-knock-knock*
"Just one moment! Lionel, please start the recording for this next interview."
*creeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaak*
"Good morning. Jasper Wereldzaad, I take it?"
"Yes, I am. It's a pleasure to meet you. And you are the famed Professor Draconis?"
"Flattery won't help you in this process, Mr. Wereldzaad, but yes. Now, please, take a seat. Let's begin the interview."
*ehem*
"Yes. Please."
Age:
"Now, the application you filed says that you are, 'Either thirty or nine years old'."
"That is..."
*sigh*
"It's a long story."
"Can you summarize it for me, Mr. Wereldzaad?"
"I... Can certainly try."
Race:
"Really, it all lies in origin of this... Body."
"I take it that this is not your original body?"
"No. No it is not. I remember very little of my past life, but I know I was once human. After my death - please don't, the story is too far long - I was reincarnated as this. I have reason to believe that I was thirty when I was died, but I have been like this for nine years."
"So if you are no longer human, than what are you?"
"Honestly, Mrs. Draconis, I have no clue."
"Well quite frankly, Mr. Wereldzaad, you look rather like a dryad or a hamadryad."
"Yes, I thought so, too. Except both of those species are exclusively female and are able to command the plants and animals of the forests to aid them. I can command neither flora nor fauna and am categorically male."
"So you are in fact male?"
"Well... I FEEL male, and I was male before I died, but physically? No. I have no genitalia of which to speak, so really my gender is more a psychological thing."
Appearance:
Pretty much like that. Except that he is LITERALLY MADE OF WOOD.
Desired Staff Position:
"Alright, then. I'm afraid that the application you submitted was met with an... Unfortunate disaster involving maple syrup and copious amounts of raw lye. As such, I'm afraid I'll have to ask you which position you are seeking again, Mr. Wereldzaad. Lionel, please make a note of his response on the new application sheet."
"I am hoping to teach your courses on History of Creatures."
"Very well. May I ask why?"
"Of course. It's rather close to what I already love to do; you see, I'm a biologist. Well, more accurately, I'm a biomancer."
Qualifications:
"A Biomancer?"
"Yes. We're a rare breed of magician. Our magical research and expertise is geared towards the study of plants and animals and how to enhance and augment their already naturally existing evolutionary advantages."
"Mr. Wereldzaad, I thought you said that you've only been around for nine years. How could you possibly have already established an understanding of biomancery in that time?"
"That's one of the things I remember from my life; I remember every detail of my research, of my understanding of magic, chemistry, and biology. I don't remember doing the actual research, but I remember every scrap of the results. I can even visualize the papers that I wrote about them afterwards. I may only be nine years old in memory making, but I am twenty four years old in academic study."
"I believe you mean something closer fourteen years, Mr. Wereldzaad."
"No, I mean twenty four. I know the dates on the papers I wrote, and they account for fifteen years of research."
"But that would mean that you were fifteen at the time you wrote your first paper."
"I am aware. I do not remember what it was like, but I am sure it must have been rather tedious at the time."
Personality:
Jasper is a generally quiet individual. Largely anxious, deeply introverted, and slightly socially inept, Jasper has kept to himself most of his life, much preferring the company of animals to that of his fellow human beings. In fact, he has a deep unending love for animals, no matter how vicious or aggressive they may be. This is largely what drove Jasper to the study of biomancery.
Jasper, despite it all, is a very trusting soul, instantly letting people in, even if they have shown no reason to be trustworthy. This may seem at odds with his anxious and introverted nature, and it is, but Jasper was gifted with the fortune of never having untrustworthy people around him for much of his early life.
While he is quick to trust, he is by no means quick to forgive. He will overlook trespasses or wrongdoing quite often, truly believing that it was done with no ill intent, but when he feels that he or someone else has been wronged then he will be bitter and hold onto that resentment for far longer than is normal. This is especially true for someone who mistreats animals in particular. To him, this is the greatest sin one can commit.
History:
Until the age of ten, Jasper was raised by his grandparents in small, remote town. Very early on in his life he had discovered that he had a natural talent for magic, and nature magic came especially easy to him. He experimented whenever he could with the practical applications of magic throughout town, so much so that by the time he was nine, much of the town's systems that SHOULD have broken down by then were still operational due to his meddling.
Not long after Jasper's tenth birthday a mage from one of the acclaimed wizard universities stopped into town on his way through. Immediately spotting the handiwork of a very talented amateur mage, the professor sought out Jasper, and began to try and convince him to come with him to the university where he would be taught by some of the world's best wizards and witches. Jasper refused.
A week and a half of trying to cajole the boy were to no avail, and finally the wizard relented. However, he did not disappear quietly. Instead, he went on a two year sabbatical and stayed in the town, teaching Jasper personally from the comfort of his own home. Although it was not the wizard's intention, he inadvertently took up the place of the prominent father figure in Jasper's life, and when the time came after the wizard's leave was up, Jasper followed him to the university to study and be with him.
Jasper spent the next twelve years of his life studying at that university, researching complex topics and contributing as much to the academic understanding of some fields of magic as some of the faculty present there. And although Jasper was a unparalleled prodigy in the theoretical studies of nearly every branch of magic available to him, he was unable to adequately cast magic beyond what was needed for biomancery due to a number of physical and psychological limiting factors (his anxiety included).
After he left the university, Jasper wandered the world in search of more knowledge. Eventually he came to settle in mountains outside a small town in the middle of nowhere. For the next few years he acted as the town's wizard and local hermit, researching the animals and plants in the region up in his cavern home. However, the peace was broken by the arrival of a very special item: a seed said to have fallen from the literal World Tree.
Not long after the seed come to him, an old colleague from the university came to visit having heard of Jasper's new acquisition. The other mage begged Jasper to allow him to study the seed with him, and Jasper foolishly obliged.
What Jasper did not realize, and never would, was that his colleague was practicing darker magics, summoning evil beings from far beyond to increase his own power. However, the idiot was not too keen on being cautious, and after only a year of studying the seed, he accidentally released a monster in Jasper's home. Making a quick getaway, the mage took everything he could and stabbed Jasper, killing him on the spot.
The nature spirits and lesser fæ of the region, whom Jasper had long since befriended, panicked when they realized Jasper was dead. Even before the other mage had escaped, they had taken the seed and, using a bastardization of Jasper's theory on soul transplants, placed Jasper's soul into the seed. They carried it far, far away from there, and for the next twenty some-odd years they nurtured the tree that grew from the spot that they planted the seed.
Much to their surprise, nine years ago a fully formed wooden body looking identical to Jasper sprang up from the ground, panicking at the unfamiliar setting. The spirits, oddly, were nowhere to be found, and Jasper had no memory of his prior life beyond his general understanding of the world and his detailed memory for his research. Since then, he has again traveled the world in hopes of finding some information about who he once was, and while he found some fairly quickly, he has been at loss for multiple years now. Finally deciding to settle down, he has found his way to Bermuda Academy and is applying for a teaching job.
Apologies for the lateness, but you're hired if you still want the position!
Sorry for the lateness. You're hired if you still want the position.
(Preferred Form)
Name: Vladimara Ovinia
Age: 167 in humans years, but 24 in Nixie Years
Gender: Physically Genderless, but identifies as female.
Species: Nixie (Shapeshifting water spirit. Literally just a puddle of water that takes shape.)
Sorry for the lateness. I'm afraid the position for Political Studies has just been filled. If you'd like, you can either withdraw or alter your application.
Scottybird Corvus
I worked really hard on her. She was originally intended to be a student, but then the cut off happened so I made her a staff member instead.
Thank you!!!
Honestly she makes for a better teacher than he would a student.'Course I'm still interested. And it's alright to be late. This is rpnation so naturally it plays second fiddle to real life.
And thanks
