NAME:
Miranda Collins
ALIAS:
N/A
Starry-eyed
AGE:
14 (born on November 23rd)
GRADE:
9
HEIGHT:
4'11"
BUILD:
Fairly average, leaning slightly towards the chubby side.
HOME TOWN:
Talos, in Paragon
POWERS:
Miranda is a Warlock: not in the male witch sense, but in the sense that a lot of modern video and table top games use: though she has magic of her own, she's mostly unable to use it without making bargains - Pacts - with other magical beings. Unlike the Warlocks in these games, however, she doesn't make deals with demons, but rather Celestial Beings: the Powers represented by the constellations.
Most Pacts involve the trade of a portion Miranda's raw magic (which she refers to as Star Dust), in exchange for the ability to use her remaining magic for some or all of the spells under the Power's demesne. They can also involve other restrictions, depending on the Power that makes the Pact (e.g. a Pact with Eridanus, the River, allows the Warlock to manipulate water to some degree. Eridanus is usually fine with whatever you do with this power, so long as you don't make permanent changes: a Master Warlock might be able to redirect a river, but as long as they put it back once they're done, Eridanus is cool with that. If they were to make permanent changes to anything under Eridanus' demesne, that would nullify the Pact).
There are 88 constellations that Miranda could eventually (in theory) make Pacts with, though at the moment she's only Pacted with four. Warlocks have theorized that the Sun and Moon are also Celestial Beings due to the way they interfere with Warlock magic - bringing the total to 90 - but no Warlock has ever made contact with the Powers behind them.
During the day, Miranda's spells are less effective and/or require more magic to use, due to the magical interference of the sun making it harder to focus on the desired Power. At night the moon also throws interference, but it's more directed: while the moon is passing through a particular constellation, it's just as hard to call that Power as it is during the day.
The actual execution of her spells involve calling on the "true name" of the Power, then using her will to direct how the spell is executed ((usually, this will be symbolized by the use of the constellation's symbol in dialogue:
, 
, 
, etc. All the constellations have a symbol, but not all of them have Unicode equivalents, in game these will be symbolized as such: <<Pyxis>>))APPEARANCE:
Miranda's relatively short. She keeps her hair cut short to just below her ears, and her bangs are just short enough to let her eyebrows show. She tends to dress in dark clothing, and wears little to no makeup.
Ever since she Pacted with Sagittarius, she's been unable to properly control her magic: even regular humans can see the motes of starlight that orbit her, seemingly without direction. When she casts a spell, they will tend to congregate towards the focus of that spell.
BIO:
Miranda grew up in Talos. Her father was never around much, and didn't seem to pay her much attention when he was. When she turned 13, her father came home and told her that he was going to start training her to use her magic.
Over the next year or so, Miranda managed to make three partial Pacts with Pyxis, Eridanus, and Sagitta. Last December she made a partial Pact with Sagittarius: she was in gym class at the time, when it appeared that she fainted. When classmates and teachers rushed over to help, they were warded off by a ghostly bow-wielding centaur.
Her mother was called in, and she was politely asked to leave the school, as they were not equipped to deal with Meta humans (read: she was expelled), but the principal was nice enough to offer some other schools as a suggestion that might be a better fit.