Nuvel Levun

Curious and Studious, armed with both Book Smarts and Street Smarts, Nuvel is a Ninetales on a mission. Hailing from the northerly California city of San Diego, Nuvel has traveled the state with his two closest companions, Rose Sedonis and Ignatius Zealunt, in search of both adventure, and a way to undo a curse placed upon him that robbed him of his tails. Currently he works at The Magnus Institue of Peregrine, both for his own gain in knowledge and the pursuit of it through others living within the City...

Appearance
Nuvel is a Ninetales, of course, a feral fox-like creature with rather glossy yellow fur coating his entire body, a crest of it upon his head and ample fluff upon his chest. His eyes are red, though gentle in shape. His tails...erm. He has three of them. It used to be nine. It happens.

Attire
To the surprise of nobody, the actual animal on the Archive staff does not follow dress code whatsoever, though he has on occasion worn a small, casual business suit sans tie to work. Outside of that he has a small rotating selection of accessories that he may wear one or more out on, ranging from a red striped bandana, a green scarf, a straw hat, and a series of 9 multi-colored tail rings. It’s been a while since he’s worn the full set.

Personality
Nuvel is a bit of a stickler for order, the kind of person who’s likely to be seen re-arranging his whole library alphabetically once every two months. And given his curiosity for knowledge, it gets reorganized a lot. He’s very social, likely to be seen at social gatherings and spouting random trivia about topics he thinks are neat. Course, he talks a LOT, to his own detriment...

Drives and Obstacles
Goal(s): Undo the cursed placed upon him by that fucked up book.

Motivations: You know? Before it was solely because of the magical power that was sealed with their removal, but now part of it is just that he misses showing off with them a bit...

Obstacles: He’s not gonna undo that curse overnight, and it’s taken a few years just to get around to regaining two of them...

Affiliations

 * The Magnus Institute: The Ivory Towers that sit along Peregrine’s Commerce District, to which people from all over go to about encounters involving the paranormal.

Romance

 * Single

Family

 * Finn Levun: A snooty but deeply emotional Delphox, Nuvel’s father is a man of passion, learning, and...dad humour. While a species well-tuned with magic, and indeed he has quite a bit of experience with it, he’s more interested in teaching others about topics of the more mundane and is endlessly fascinated with the world and everything in it. Apparently, he used to work as an explorer along with Rose’s father, Chuck, and a man named Frank, though he doesn’t use his spell-slinging as much as in those days. He loves Finn very much, and while he gets plenty of teasing from his son and wife on his sense of humour, they wouldn’t have it any other way.


 * Cinder Levun: A calm, though sassy Ninetales, Cinder is long-experienced with the art of Alchemy and, thanks to a bit of inspiring from Finn, a then-largely untapped talent in magic that even surpassed his. Usually working to take care of others with an assortment of spells and potions, she’s also quite good at alchemizing a variety of everyday baked goods. She’s quite proud of her son, even when he came to a head with that awful curse, and loves him and her hubby for all the world is worth.

Friends and Foes
Friends:


 * Rose Sedonis: A Sassy and rebellious Lilligant, who’s been Nuvel’s friend since early school, only bolstered by their own fathers being close friends. Always one for gossip, she oft lends an ear to Nuvel’s rather obtuse information, though also serves to be the straight man...er, woman to his ramblings. Along with Iggy, the three tend to hang out around mall outlets, as well as traveling together on the road. She hopes to become a fully-fledged healer one day.


 * Ignatius Zealunt: A Milotic who immigrated from the open sea to live on land in the guise of a human, and went to Nuvel and Rose’s school as a transfer student within Middle School. The two got along well enough with him, after a while. He’s a bit clingy, VERY flirty and kind of a show-off, but super passionate towards his friends. And...well. ‘Potential romantic interests’. He also tags along with Rose and Nuvel at their outings, and has opted to travel with the two, though doesn’t have a very complete mental picture of where he wants his life to go.


 * Jonathan Sims: Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London. Best described as a stick-in-the-mud, old man at heart, a huge skeptic and ‘always looking tired’. Even so, he deeply cares for his assistants, and would do just about anything to ensure their safety. Nuvel looks to him, both as his boss and as someone with experience...even though they’re the same age.


 * Timothy Stoker: A very bold and energetic man, who sounds from his voice alone like he does 50 bench presses a day. He’s not the kind of person who takes his job seriously at all, though Nuvel sees this less as a possible point of contention and more of as a breath of fresh air, compared to Jon’s stuffiness


 * Sasha James: A daring and investigative, though not entirely brave, woman who used to work in Artefact Storage before signing to be transferred to Research after only a few months, and then transferred up as an Archive Assistant. Nuvel finds her company to be quite delightful, as the two have been known to gossip a bit behind Jon’s back.


 * Martin Blackwood: A timid yet optimistic man, Martin is the new guy that finds himself a bit on the edge of the circle of friends that includes Jon, Tim and Sasha, though certainly eager to make the group calming batches of tea, which Nuvel’s taken to quite well.


 * Quezal Cotella: Well, alright, this one’s mostly because Nuvel really likes the idea of saying ‘Hey, I know a friend who has an IRL Epithet’. Either way, the two have gotten along well, and that’s not solely because of the petting, either.

Allies:
 * TMA employees: Look, Rosie’s great, but are we really gonna see her all that much in the RP enough for them to be friends?

Frenemies:
 * None:

That one guy:
 * Elias Bouchard: Nuvel hasn’t exactly interacted with him all that much, but this stuck-up and stuffy boss of his boss is far harder for him to feel sociable with. Probably because he has no patience for his rambling. Hmmph.

Enemies:
 * Jurgen Leitner.: Jurgen Leitner?! Stupid idiot motherfucking Jurgen Leitner god damn fool, book collecting dust eating rat, old bastard shithead idiot, avatar of the whore, the biggest clown in the circus, laughed out of town cowboy, MOTHERFUCKING JURGEN LEITNER. Stop pinning me when I talk about Jurgen Leitner I hate him so much, why does he have so many fucked up books?! Why did he decide to fuck around and find out, just set them loose? Is he dead? Is he a bastard man?! He has such a visceral effect on me not in the room never seen this man’s face and I know he has the world’s SHITTIEST BEARD GET AWAY FROM ME! If I wanted to get into heaven and God said “Jurgen Leitner’s waiting inside” I would piss on God’s feet for the sole purpose of getting sent back down. If I have to deal with Jurgen Leitner speaking one word, on voice, in podcast, not only will I close the tab, I will delete my bookmark out of spite and have to rewatch the entire series again for the experience of being able to skip all the times when he is mentioned or alive! I don’t even know why I hate him so much, he collects books, but I’m just mad because I’m angy. He better have some fucked up backstory to explain this if he’s just some rich shithead who’s a fan of creepypasta and wanted the irl version I’ll go kill him. BETTER have had a book make him kill a man cause if he didn’t I’m going to make him. paypal.com/IFuckingHateJurgenLeitner. Episode’s not even about him, vaguely mentioned what is supposed to be maybe his library and I lost it. Where the fuck is Jurgen Leitner if he’s still alive I’m going to so deeply wish he wasn’t. Crusty old man. I’ll punch Leitner and his sad frail old man twig bones will simply flake apart under my epic, huge, meat fist until all that’s left is one final book he kept on him at all times simply titled Now You Fucked Up in ancient Yiddish. I’m not breathing I’m hyperventilating at this point. I hope there’s a date given when Jurgen died or will die so I can make it a reminder on my phone. Every day once a year I will see it, and do anything but pay respects to the man who had so many fucked up if true books

Acquired/Learned Abilities

 * Fire Elemental Adept: With a lot of practice and patience, Nuvel has mastered the art of burninating. All fire spells that he casts ignore fire resistance, and all 1s on damage rolls are treated as a 2.


 * Cantrips: Of course Nuvel would be able to cast cantrips. It is easy for even bab. He has access to [Fire Bolt], [Ray of Frost], [Mage Hand], and [Dancing Lights].


 * 1st Level Spells: Nuvel had been left with but a single tail for a long while now, and has been slowly re-cataloguing 1st level spells that he could use for the time. This includes [Alarm], [Charm Person], [Chromatic Orb], [Comprehend Languages], [Detect Magic], [Mage Armor], [Identify], [Magic Missile],


 * 2nd Level Spells: He’s had maybe a year or so to read up on 2nd-level spells since he regained his 2nd tail, so he has a few recorded. He has [Aganazzar’s Scorcher], [Darkvision], [Enlarge/Reduce], and [Knock].


 * 3rd Level Spells: His 3rd tail has come back in recently, only a few short weeks before arriving in Peregrine. As a result, his loft of them is a bit short... they include [Fireball] and [Blink].

Skills

 * Flamethrower: An ability innate to Mozilla Firefox. Using his action, Nuvel can breathe a 15ft. cone of fire to target any creatures caught in range, who must make a Dex saving throw of 8 + Nuvel’s CON modifier and his proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level. He can only perform the move once per long rest.


 * Flash Fire: Given his strong affinity to fire, Nuvel has a natural resistance against fire damage.


 * General Skills: As a studious individual, Nuvel knows his stuff! He has advantage on Arcana, History, Investigation, Perception, and Persuasion rolls.

Weaknesses

 * Ramble On: Nuvel has a tendency to...well, ramble. If he’s caught talking excessively to another person like this while trying to do a CHA roll, he takes a -2 penalty.


 * *Turns on the hose*: Nuvel has an elemental weakness to water.

Key Items

 * None:

Weapons

 * None: His bite is worse than his bark. Because he has teeth. oh no.

Other Equipment

 * World 21 Smartphone Ver. 6: Moshi, moshi?


 * Scholar’s Pack: A good academic never goes anywhere without the tools of the trade! Includes a backpack, a book of Lore, a bottle of ink, an ink pen, 10 sheets of parchment, a little bag of sand, and a small knife. Actually, three small knives. Nuvel is considering knife tails.


 * Spellbook: A trusty spellbook that Nuvel keeps around with him in order to memorize the various spells he comes across in the world. Of course, a lot of them were copied from other people’s notes, but...details.


 * Arcane Focus: While it’s hard to perceive it among all the fluff, Nuvel is attuned magically to a silver spherical earring that he wears on his right ear.

Inventory

 * Rations 20: Biscuits that Nuvel keeps at the ready for Martin’s tea time.

Biography
Nuvel was born the only child to Finn and Cinder Levun on September 4th, 1994, in the hustle and bustle of the relatively large city of San Diego, California. The two parents tended to coddle the then-young Vulpix with all their love, affection...and of course, knowledge. His father being a respected teacher and his mother a professional caretaker and alchemist, the two made sure he had a secure education, beginning to teach him a short ways before entering school proper, and always encouraging him to read anything he desired. Given his curious and eager nature, this worked wonderfully for him.

Of course, despite being the archetypical kid bookworm, he still had an assortment of friends. Not many, though. There was one that he had early on, named Rose Sedonis, a Petilil whom he knew beforehand from her father and his father being friends as well. She was always something of the smarmy type, causing a ruckus and sometimes bullying Nuvel a bit over his book-adjacent interests. Though, one father’s scorning later, she started to try approaching him with a bit less vehemity, and...turns out the two were really able to hit it off.

As the years went on, Nuvel and Rose went about sharing their interests with eachother, and oft hanging out after School at various libraries and bookstores, or taking occasional trips to the mall. Nuvel wasn’t exactly one for dressing up or listening to heavy metal while reading, at least not at first, though he found through interacting with Rose that...he really rather liked talking. He’s always had a tendency to drone on, though, something he’s tried to rectify with practice and...well, if his plans of getting a job related to academics or book-keeping fell through, felt he could make a good Public Speaker. As for Rose, well, her father had fallen ill to a rather serious illness, and while he was able to be cared for and got better with the help of Nuvel’s mother and various doctors...Rose had decided on a career plan all her own, and the two found themselves visiting the Library a fair bit more frequently.

About a few years into Middle School is when their friendship dynamic changed up a bit, when the two had a new transfer student arrive in their class: a human...ish kid with long, red hair that drooped down along his bangs. The two would learn him to be Ignatius Zealunt, though he often encouraged people to name him Iggy. He was a bit...eager to make friends with other kids, which tended to put off a few people, and certainly Rose nor Nuvel knew how react at first to his insistence on joining in with them...but insist he did, and the two would later find out exactly why: He’d simply wanted to make friends with anyone and everyone he could, hoping to fill the gap made from moving. And...well, once they found out he was apparently a Milotic who moved away from living a life in the sea...it kinda clicked into place a bit.

So slowly, rather gradually, Nuvel, Iggy, and Rose became something of a trio. Still very much heading out to the library for some quiet, as well as various outlets at the mall - Nuvel soon enough developing the same sense for fashion that Rose had interest in, and Iggy absolutely ROCKED - as well as hitting up any food joints, bars (well, when they became legal age), spas, and even the gaming store from time to time. That was their life, all throughout school...

Of course, it should be said that Nuvel’s pursuits in books was not purely for academia, or entertainment. He also had a deep-rooted interest in magic, sparked by his mother’s expertise in it, which as a Ninetales he always felt attuned to through his tails. He’d started learning it at a very young age, and would study and practice new spells on his offtime constantly. When he evolved into a Ninetales, roughly around the same time Rose evolved in Middle school, that attunement only grew with his full 9 tails, as did his pursuit of more spellbooks and alchemical tools. It only figured he’d develop a preference for Evocation and Transmutation.

Of COURSE, then, in his pursuits, he would hear tell of darkly powerful books with a myriad of effects. Of COURSE he would hear only enough to think them powerful enough to control...and of COURSE he would find one at a second-hand book store. A rather ragged old book with a black spine and cover of a wizard, simply titled ‘Harry Blotter’. A simple ruse, he thought, for it to be but a parody of a children’s book, and odd still that this supposed cursed relic of unimaginable power read off as a Teen Fantasy novel. But there it was, with a rather odd library plate- 'From the library of Jurgen Leitner', and therein was the story...of a mage going forth on a journey, only for the book to slowly but surely dive from Fantasy Adventure to full-on horror as the protagonist of the book was slowly but deliberately deprived of his senses and magic, until he was swallowed whole by the darkness. And so, too, was Nuvel, in a profound way that he’s never been, and hopes never to be again.

The book left him blinded from all senses for days, and stripped him of all but one of his tails. He told people at the time, and continues to do so, that it had been a ‘freak accident’, always coming up with some brutal story involving knives, telekinesis, fire, cave exploration...it changed every time. Of course, his parents know the full story, as do Rose and Iggy, who stayed by his side while he recovered. He did regain them, thankfully, his senses...but he remained robbed of his magic. And so close to graduation, too...

Thankfully, he was able to find ways to reverse the curse, though is only figuring them out slowly. Apparently, simply getting back in tune with his magic is enough, though it served to be a very long process. A process that he considered more important than going to college, as Iggy decided not to go, either. Rose was considering attending for medical studies, though Nuvel pitched an idea to his two friends: to go traveling around in an enchanted Caravan, one who’s insides served to be far bigger to allow an accommodating living space. The idea for them to go town-to-town in a Ninetales-drawn minivan was...not the most appealing to the two at first, though Rose decided it’d be fun enough an idea to try, and that...perhaps online classes would be a good choice, if they were going this route. And Iggy, well...he figured he had nothing better to do, and that maybe it would serve as inspiration for what to do with their life.

And so, a good year of their lives was spent slowly traveling down California’s West Coast, taking in all the sights and sounds. Rose continued to study for a career in medicine, Nuvel continued to take the odd temp job to support them, and Nuvel continued to safely research any magic books they’d come across...that he could confirm were NOT cursed.

This continued for a while, until Peregrine, anyways...when Nuvel suddenly learned of the Magnus Institute. A place where academics try to study up on the supernatural, and the unexplained...fitted with a library chock full of information regarding that research. It was an opportunity he couldn’t miss. Hoping that something there could hasten his cursed bindings, now loosened by three tails, he applied and was hired right there on the spot, as Archive Assistant. Rose...well, was maybe a bit annoyed at the hasty decision, though he affirmed her that he’d just quit when they’d decide to travel more...if he wanted to, anyway. He gets the sense he’s gonna want to stay here quite a good deal longer.

As for his time in the Institute proper, it hasn’t been all that long, a few weeks tops, but he’s already made friends with the Head Archivist and his other assistants. Sure, there’s a few moments of weirdness here and there at work, but nothing too big for them to handle as a team.

Points of Interest
Former Homes: San Diego, California

Former Jobs: None

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