Ilya

About

Age: 18
Nickname: Flick.
Sleeper Alias: Willow.
Affiliation: She has affiliations in Canberra and Adelaide.
Master: None currently.
Mortal Relatives: Parents, and one sibling in Adelaide.
Physical description: Ilya is average height, with brown eyes, brown hair, and a casual appearance. She's friendly, but also bookish, and a touch shy.
Nimbus: The landscape around her seems to spin, causing vertigo and nausea in onlookers. Even on steady ground, others can't seem to find their footing and might stumble or reach out for handholds. Depth perception and spatial relations are limited, with an effect reminiscent of the drug in Limitless.
Membership: She's joined the Mysterium, and she's a member of a few local school groups, but does not yet have a cabal.
Summary:
Born in 1998, Ilya (pronounced ill-yah) is a young Mage, a hardworking girl who has always favoured living and looking on the bright side of life. She wears small glasses over big brown eyes and her straight brown hair is often up in a messy ponytail or braided with a flower in it. Her clothing style is casual, with jeans and a t-shirt her most common attire, what she wears sometimes borders on hipster, but never quite makes it. She's often spotted with her a book, the iron nails that she got from her dads collection when she was younger, or occasionally with her iPad, to write things down, or carry out her school study.
While ambitious, Ilya isn't always the most prudent when it comes to playing with her magic, which has from time to time resulted in no slight annoyance for her mentors. But she always tries her best to help people, and to do as she's asked by those she sees as her betters, relying on her own sense of judgment to make the right choice, even when it means she has to say no to her superiors. Her sense of right and wrong means she could have made a good guardian, as one of her mentors suggested, but since she's already joined the Mysterium as an Acquisitor, and is happy in this role, as it suits her skillset and life-goals well.
Ilya means well, she always has. That's not to say that she doesn't get things wrong, because somehow she's wound up on the wrong side of things just enough times to know that mistakes can hurt. On many occasions, she's scraped through on naught much more than sheer determination. However, this doesn't stop her bubbly, joyful personality from shining through.

Timeline

• 1998 - born to a baker and a carpenter in Radelaide.
• 2003 - starts school in Radelaide. Goes there for some time.
• 2012 - moves interstate alone to go to Canberra Girls Grammar. Boards there for the next four years to complete her studies. During this time she meets Ana and Dandere and becomes friends with them.
• 2014 - awakens during a year 10 exam.
• 2015 - meets and is (sort of) apprenticed to Ri'Neref. He tells her about Mages and what he knows, and under his recommendations she remains in hiding and doesn't speak to the 'crazy Mages' in the Consillium. Met Dornelia and became fast friends with her, until she disappears.
• 2016 - Ri'Neref tells her he is leaving very early in the year but he lets her know to call him if things get bad or she's in any trouble. Meets Beckett Shore, who she'd been 'following since before he was cool'. Goes to several of his shows and gets to know him, and he takes her under his wing to learn of the Mastigos ways and under his tutelage continues to avoid the 'God. Damn. Consillium. Mages.' Studies with him for quite some time. He goes missing shortly after her 18th birthday. Concerned, she goes searching for him.

Recent Timeline

• MAY -

Quotes

Quotes By

"if you have the will to follow through with what you believe in, the results will happen naturally."

- Pretending to be wise while also trying to convince a sleepwalker that she hadn't just appeared out of thin air.

"Shit, I gotta stop doing that."

- When teleport havocked and she wound up on the floor in the middle of her dorm.

Quotes About

"I... wish I could be like her."

- Dandere (Late 2013).

"Weird. But good, fun weird."

- Ana.

Conversations

Ilya: "Beckett?"
Beckett: "Oh hey kid."
Ilya: "Ah-" *freezes up*
Beckett: "Uh...yeah?"
Ilya: "..."
Beckett: "Do you talk?"
Ilya: "..."
Beckett: "Riiight."
Ilya: "Holy shit, you're actually Beckett.

- A wide eyed, open-mouthed fangirling Ilya meets Beckett Shore for the first time at one of his shows.

Rumours

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Inspirations and Soundtrack

Songs

• Being A Mage: Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi - I See The Light Now I'm here suddenly I see, standing here it's all so clear, I'm where I'm meant to be, and at last I see the light, and it's like the fog has lifted, and at last I see the light, and it's like the sky is new, and it's warm and real and bright, and the world has somehow shifted, all at once everything looks different.
• Her Birthday: Taylor Swift - 22 It feels like a perfect night, to dress up like hipsters, and make fun of our exes, it feels like a perfect night, for breakfast at midnight, to fall in love with strangers.
• Beckett's disappearance: Alan Walker - Faded Where are you now, was it all in my fantasy, where are you now, were you only imaginary, where are you now, Atlantis, under the sea, under the sea, where are you now, another dream, the monsters running wild inside of me.
• With Dandere and Ana Barenaked Ladies - Odds Are The odds are that we will probably be alright, odds are we're gonna be alright, odds are we're gonna be alright for another night, sure things go wrong, but I’ll take my chances, odds are long, so why not play, struck by lightning, sounds pretty frightening, but you know the chances are so small.
• Dornelia: Bastille - Bad Blood We were young and drinking in the park, there was nowhere else to go, and you said you always had my back, oh but how were we to know, that these are the days that bind you together, forever, and these little things define you forever, forever, all this bad blood here, won’t you let it dry, it’s been cold for years, won’t you let it lie?
  • Dornelia and Ilya 2015: Halsey - Young Gods And I've been sitting at the bottom of a swimming pool for a while now, drowning my thoughts out, do you feel like a young god, you know the two of us are just young gods, we'll be flying through the streets, with the people underneath, and we're running, running, running.
• Ri'Neref: Ronno - In Your Hands (Song For My Teacher) I know you had a lot to do, I'm glad that you paused awhile, you took time to listen, and to hear, to laugh, and just be there, I heard that lesson loud and clear, I mattered to you, you cared.

Characters

• Kuroko Shirai - A Certain Scientific Railgun