<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/RZyfrP4.jpg?1)</div>Name ~ Artemis Baker<br/><br/>Played By ~ pdragon<br/><br/>Age ~ 21<br/><br/>Sexuality ~ Pansexual- prefers to be bottom, but not necessarily submissive O/Os (https://elliquiy.com/forums/onsoffs.php?u=57462)<br/><br/>Breed ~ Witch<br/><br/>Power ~ Knows a variety of spells, rituals, alchemic recipes, and incantations. These magics require varying amounts of resources and time to prepare, with some spells being simple enough to invoke with a simple phrase or gesture, while others requiring a catalyst (tomes, wands, staffs, etc.) or complex rituals to use. Typically the more powerful a spell, the more involved the casting process will be.<br/><br/>Position ~ Customer<br/><br/>Personality ~ For the most part Artemis is a kind, energetic, and inquisitive individual. His deep curiosity and thirst for knowledge make him a natural when it comes to pursuing the arcane arts, and having grown up mostly around humans he still regards the supernatural with a sense of awe and child-like wonder. Of course, he has also experienced enough of the supernatural to know to be wary of it, and the eccentric teaching methods of his mistress has lead him into danger enough times for him to develop a bit of a complex when it comes to adventuring. Most often than not when he pops up at the cafe it's after a particularly harrowing excursion, and thus the members of the cafe tend to know him more for his exhausted, grumpy side.<br/><br/>Background ~<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> Long Bio</div><div class="spoiler_body">Growing up Artemis knew very little of his heritage. Abandoned as a young toddler he never got the chance to meet his real parents, and was raised for most of his life as an orphan. He managed to get adopted in his early teens, and his foster family was quite good to him, taking him in despite being one of the older kids at the orphanage, and treating him like one of their own. He honestly never had any "horror stories" like some other adopted children had, and the foster system has actually treated him very well, and as such he never really yearned for his birth family all that much. Obviously sometimes he wondered what it would have been like to meet them, but why bother giving them any thought when they obviously didn't care that much for him? Especially when he had a set of parents who really did care for him. <br/><br/>Things changed however when he came of age and was approached by a group of strange women. It was revealed to him that his mother had not been an ordinary human, but a powerful witch...just like all of them. She had not abandoned the boy out of callousness, but necessity, as a group of humans, religious fanatics still stuck in the old Salem days, had suspected her of being a witch (which was true fair enough just not in the way they thought) and started to harass and attack her family. She had intended to drop young Artemis off at the shelter and pick him up again once the issue blew over, but a confrontation outside their home escalated far out of hand, resulting in both her and Artemises father being shot and murdered. <br/><br/>At first the other members of the coven had thought it better to just leave the boy be and let him live a normal life, and thus left him to the care of humans. However with the boy's latent magic potential growing and growing by the day, with no proper outlet to release the energy swelling up within him (both a threat in it's own right and turning him into a beacon for threats lured by strong magic), they decided it would be best to finally assign him a teacher. Both intrigued by this strange new world, and spurred on by a previously unfelt swell of family pride, the boy heartily agreed to become an apprentice witch. <br/><br/>Of course his new life as a witches apprentice did not exactly play out how he thought. His mistress, <div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Lady Branwen</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i.imgur.com/gnJRKTr.jpg)</div></div> has proven to be a wise, powerful, but painfully eccentric teacher. Her methods are sporadic, enigmatic, dangerous, and at times downright perverse, with a preference for using "hands on" experiences to train and instruct. "Hands on" sometimes being very literal, the witch seeing no issue with "sampling" her apprentice time to time, and even using magic to subtly feminize his appearance and body over time. Though more often than not it actually means trekking out on dangerous expeditions to get first hand experience in the field, everything from trudging through murky swamps to collect alchemic ingredients, to fighting fierce beasts to test out new combat spells. <br/></div></div>