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Gender: Yes

Race: Half-Elf

gender: female

Name: [S]arah
Gender: F

Your name is Sarah Kennigan; you turned sixteen last month. The next two years of your life don't look so great.

Sure, things are better than they were at the orphanage. This town has a terrible orphanage. But the bizarre woman who adopted you six years ago promised to make you her apprentice and teach you to do alchemy, but all you've done since then is chores. You're not allowed near the big cauldron in the living room which supposedly exists expressly for doing alchemy, and she never even touches the thing! You don't really have any idea where she gets all the Cole she sends you out to buy groceries and other random things for her with.

Her name is Marie Anacosta, but if she's in earshot it's 'Master'. Whatever dissatisfaction you have with the woman, you wouldn't dare cross her. She's this short, blonde-haired, unimpressive human woman who's looked twenty-something since the day you met her, and wears a cheerful expression and talks in a chipper, friendly way all the time, but you know just enough of the truth hiding behind all of that to not wish to learn any more. So it's two more years of calling this woman 'Master' until you are legally an adult, and can just get as far away from her as physically possible.

This you think of while going through your morning routine. Two more...less than two years, really. Maybe you'll sign up to be a royal knight or something. You catch a look at yourself in the mirror on the way out of the bathroom. You're half-Mana, which gives you an..unusual look. Your hair is the brown of dirt, hiding slightly pointy ears, and your skin is tinted partially green, which has caused many people concern about your health on first meeting you thanks to the unpleasant way it mixes with a normal human skin tone. Your eyes are yellow and glow slightly in the dark. You prefer practical clothes: Shorts and a shirt, so you wear that today; if your master sees you today she'll demand you put on a skirt and blouse again, of course, but chances are pretty high she'll be in her room or out all day today and not even spare you a passing glance.

You don't even know what your affinity is, so you can't even do any cool magic. When you ask full Manas what they think it might be, they just say to ask your parents, and, well...you've learned to just stop asking that question over the years. It's not like Master will help you, either.

At the point in your morning routine where you take a wistful glance at the cauldron sitting empty and unused in the living room-slash-storefront (your house is also supposedly an alchemy shop, but again, Master doesn't do anything) before looking for the paper listing what chores she wants of you today that you are interrupted by a few knocks on the door.

You pause, uncertain if you heard correctly or are hallucinating. There are a couple more knocks on the door. Hmm. Should you go and try to wake Master up, or just answer the door yourself?

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SpoilerNotes:
-Look, I technically included every suggestion! Technically.
-Mana already pretty much fill the role of "magical immortal pointy-ears" in this setting, so I interpreted elf into that.