Simon Algard
Tandis que la plupart des élèves passaient leur temps à se mêler, à flirter ou simplement à s'acclimater, Simon évita le chaos et se dirigea vers l'endroit où il se sentait le plus à la maison : la bibliothèque. Ce qu'il détestait le plus d'être loin de l'académie, c'est qu'il était coupé des vastes réserves de connaissances qui étaient à sa disposition. En dehors de l'école, il avait déjà créé un programme de lecture pour lui-même et connaissait déjà les livres qu'il voulait pour sa première semaine d'école. En plus de ses lectures, bien sûr. En sortant de la bibliothèque, il se sentait comme un cheval de bataille. Ses sacs contenaient encore tous les livres dont il aurait besoin pour ses cours, ainsi que sa nouvelle collection d'enregistrements qu'il n'avait pas le temps de déposer dans sa chambre. Simon aimait ses livres, mais il voulait juste que le papier ne soit pas si lourd. "Si j'étais un élément de l'air, ça résoudrait tant de problèmes..." il s'est brouillé à lui-même alors qu'il passait un groupe d'étudiants de différents âges qui traînaient à une table.
Name: Simon Algard
Age: 16
Year: 6th
Element: Fire
Parents and backstory: Simon never knew much about his biological parents. From what he understood, his mother was very young, and his father was a deadbeat that left her unable to care for a child. He was brought up in an orphanage, and the closest he had to actual parents was the orphanage staff. He was a reserved child and kept to himself, but he formed a bond with a woman there named Teresa, who taught him to read and always brought him new books to nurture his apparent intelligence. Teresa was a teacher as well as a mother for Simon, and he is one of the few people he actually cares about. He was, unfortunately, never adopted, and so spent all of his childhood in the orphanage until he was summoned by the academy to hone his talents.
Appearence:  
Typical dress: Inexpensive clothing. A single-colored T-shirt and some slacks or jeans. Simon doesn’t have the money for fashionable outfits.
Favorite weapon: Words. Simon would rather talk his way out of a situation than resort to physical violence. However, he is not beyond verbal lashings. If you do something stupid, he will call you on it. He may call out the futility of your efforts, he may simply insult you. Or, he may decide to use sophisticated rhetoric to convince you to do his bidding. Either way, Simon is more of a speaker than a fighter.
Hometown: London, England
Non-Elemental talent: Studying. Simon has a ton of book smarts. Give him a piece of information, and he is great at memorizing, comprehending, and analyzing it. He knows how to research information as well, and always seems to find what he is looking for.