Ashe Drauxailles-Arcachon

• Name: Ashe Drauxailles-Arcachon (Ash Droh-Zhay Ar-ka-shon)
• RPer: TheGreatNevareh
• Sex: Male
• Rank/Affiliation: Hydiran of the Order of Water
• Age: 28
• Height: 5'8
• Weight: 121 lbs
• Weapons: Staves/Polearms. Owns a particularly nice wide-bladed glaive. Also mildly able in unarmed combat, but not really an able monster-fighter without his weapons. He uses a fighting style that involves him being constantly in motion for both offensive and defensive purposes.
• Armor: Black-dyed cuir-bouilli cuirass over a sleeveless longcoat with a hood. Also wears arm and wristguards. Relies more on constant motion and magickal protections than hard armoring to keep from harm.
• Description: Ashe is very, very pretty. Not handsome, pretty. He has porcelain skin, slim, seductive eyes, and a generally wispy build that makes him as or more attractive than most women he knows. His hair is silky and smooth, bleached white and then dyed a pale blue, his eyes are another shade of pale blue, and his eyebrows are absolutely perfect. He'd be remarkable in drag. Ashe tends towards clothes that show off as little of his body as possible- usually the only things visible are his fingers, his neck, and his head.
• Style: Watching Ashe fight is like watching someone dance. Ashe whirls around and around, periodically stopping to change direction. Rather than hurt his opponents he lets his opponents hurt themselves against a variety of traps he sets up in his movements. He has developed some of his own spells that are useful specifically against aggressors. His weapons can be used both defensively and offensively, they give him surprisingly long reach, and they have their own strong leverage that he can work into his own whirling routine.
• Philosophy: Ashe believes very strongly in perfection. The closer he can get to perfection, the better. He's in the game of life to win, and it doesn't really matter what methods he uses so long as he does it as perfectly as possible. He prefers to avoid scars when possible and finds other Orders to be a bit misguided... imperfect, perhaps? He avoids doing anything in front of other people that he can't do perfectly. However, Ashe NEVER says anything along the lines of "I'm perfect! Nyahh!" or "You're so inept."
• Skills: Ashe does not do anything that he can't do better than other people. He designs his own clothes, he cooks, he cleans, and he is VERY good at improving his own appearance. He's also a gymnast in the performative sense: he can do cartwheels and contort himself, but he can't use any of these skills in a quick practical application. He's unusually intelligent, as well. He's a research magician for the most part, and he delights in using spells he developed to show other people how perfect he is. One of his best skills, however, is emotive. He can manipulate people reasonably well without them even knowing it. People feel what he wants them to feel. Most people who spend a lot of time around him think he's supremely talented and are terribly impressed with his competence (whether or not said competence actually exists).
• Persona: Ashe is cold. Very, very cold. Cold and distant, all of the time, even to his lovers. He unnerves people with his strange beauty and his strong presence. The longer someone spends around him the more and more they decide that he's really not that bad of a person because of said talent for manipulating people. However, some people like his coldness because it's a coldness that doesn't ask for anything of anyone. He's terribly self-contained and some people like that he doesn't demand or need anything from them. He's... an acquired taste. Ashe always seems to know just a little bit more than you do, is just a little bit abler than you are, is just a little bit better-looking or more attractive, but that's okay since he doesn't hold it over your head... at least, not openly.
• Completed Experimental Magical Style: Glass
  Glass is the creation and manipulation of extremely thin, hard ice sheets for the sole purpose of breaking them. These broken sheets become a swarm of extremely sharp blades that rip into foes relentlessly. The Glass-ice can be made thick or thin, but it takes a reasonably long time to make terribly thick Glass-ice; the stuff exists to be broken and used as a hail of knives. Ashe's most common use of Glass is to fashion a highly breakable shield, mentally-controlled that orbits around his body. It takes absorbs one impact, breaks, and becomes a hail of extremely sharp fragments that his foe has just thrown themselves into. Right now, Ashe is experimenting with directing this flow of perfectly sharp knives to fight opponents that are further away.
• Resulting Spell: Glass Shield
  The Glass Shield spell crystallizes a thin glass-ice screen that shatters upon a single forceful impact, not only blocking the blow but also creating a swarm of small blades that the striker suddenly finds themselves the target of. Few things fall for this twice, but then again, most things stop attacking him (or stop, period) once engulfed in a swarm of icy knives. The Glass Shield lasts more or less a minute, more if it's cold and less if it's very hot. Ashe can maintain a single Glass Shield or set of Broken Glass at once- after hurling the Glass-ice at a target, he's free to fashion another one. Ashe does not need a source of water to create a Glass Shield.
• Situation: Ashe is... well, he's perfect. He breezed through his previous ranks and it's likely that he'll breeze through this rank and the next one. He has no lovers and it is unlikely he'll ever have any- Most women are turned off by his eerie beauty and incredible lack of manliness, and most men (who are into that kind of thing) find him a wee bit creepy. As for what he wants, who knows? He's in a reprieve at the moment, improving upon his spell-art Glass (which he seems unlikely to teach anyone since no one really has the courage to ask him and he's too much of an introvert to go shouting about it to everyone). He is a remarkably bad teacher, however. He's also a bit of a recluse, rarely leaving the As'nar Trixerite compound except for his daily walks. He has a bit of a spotty history since he's beaten up people for making fun of his appearance, carrying them halfway to death before he thinks they've learned their lesson.