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GENERIC SILLY URBAN FANTASY AU

NO REALLY WE JUST KIND OF DID THIS ON THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING WHIMS

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this is a free account so deal with the troll!ammond icons I don't have space for human ones

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Your name: Bramble
Character Name: Ammond Raidie
Character Original Canon: Homestuck (fantroll)

Character Description: Ammond is, for the purposes of this AU, species-swapped to human; she's a tall eighteen-year-old Latina, with very short black hair and hazel eyes. Usually favors simple clothes with a mild punk aesthetic, and has multiple piercings. Rides a stupidly souped-up motorcycle and, since graduating from high school a few months ago, works full-time in her uncle's autoshop.

She uses a formulaic, ritualized form of magic that she's synthesized from a variety of influences, one part a decidedly nontheist take on a variety of world religions, one part medieval alchemy by way of high school chemistry, and two parts superstition and folk magic. Some of her spells are perfectly safe and even an improvement on the source material. Others are decidedly not.

She's kind of a smug little snot.

Character AU History: Growing up, Ammond's family was generally stable but not particularly prosperous. They lived in a neighborhood which had been much more affluent a generation or two back, with a wide cross section of the extended family living within walking distance. Ammond was an only child but grew up surrounded by cousins, often supervised by her paternal grandmother while the various other adults in the family were at work.

Ammond's grandmother had some skill and training in folk magic - not enough or with the proper background to ever consider herself a proper magic user, but more than most people. Ammond, along with a couple of her cousins, showed an aptitude for the basic fortune-telling and warding types of spells they were allowed to try as children. Ammond's cousins had no great lasting interest in the craft. On the other hand, by the time she was in her teens, Ammond had begun experimenting, picking up new tricks from just about any source she could get access to, applying them to what she already knew, and just generally mixing and matching different schools of magic to see what worked.

The resulting system relies heavily on astrological timing and on material components, although not always the same timing and components as tradition dictates. Its development has gotten her banned from or shunned by multiple magical groups within the past few years, as her playing fast and loose with the accepted forms of magic tends to rub some people the wrong way. She's also not exactly welcome at her parents' parish anymore, but she's less concerned about that - she was never particularly religious, and she's perfectly aware that most mainstream religions keep their more interesting magic far out of reach of the laypeople.

Since graduating from high school last spring, Ammond has been working full-time at an autoshop owned by one of her uncles. She lives in a studio apartment a few blocks from where she grew up, from which various family members still attempt to drag her home for home-cooked meals several times a week.