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Lofty: Schreier

Apparent Age: 21 yo, Male, Pendulum

After his contact with the goddess was cut off, he worried for her safety. The situation in Elrios only worsened those concerns. Torn by the guilt of failing to fulfill his mission, of causing the El to be damaged, he was further horrified at the sight of humans who continued to recklessly mishandle the El’s power. Why did they keep making the same mistakes? He knew there was nothing he could do - after all, the El was bestowed upon Elrios by the goddess herself. Even so, he could not rid himself of his disgust as he watched humans use the El's power carelessly.

“Should the El really be left in their hands? If only my voice would reach the goddess…”

Anxiety made his physical condition worse. Could it be the wound he sustained inside Henir’s dimension? As a temporary solution, he gathered faint El energy to heal himself. He knew that, using this method, he could maintain his form until he either returned to normal or fulfilled his mission. But the small amount of El energy he had gathered into his body influenced him.  A new power awakened inside him, which he called Arte.

“This situation cannot continue. I must gather the scattered El energy and let the goddess know of this blasphemy.”

Ain maintained his physical condition and assisted the El Search Party, remaining vigilant for any chance to contact his goddess.

Schatz Reprise

Apparent Age: 21 yo, Male, Pendulum

Did the goddess forget me? Left without an answer to his calls, Ain began to think the worst. No, that can’t be it… He tried to suppress his anxiety as his thoughts spun. Perhaps pursuing the El’s whereabouts is not enough to reach the goddess.

But his barely-suppressed anxiety boiled over the moment he discovered the corrupted Dark El. Shocked, horrified, he tried to purify the Dark El in a panic, but instead accidentally exposed his rift-wound to the demonic energy within. He realized what had happened too late. The demonic energy had already corrupted his creation magic.

Once he managed to regain his composure, terror melted into fury. Not only did those fools shatter the El the goddess had given them, they carelessly used the shattered pieces of that El with no remorse. Shameless and ungrateful beings, taking the El’s blessing for granted. The goddess may have given them this blessing, but they did not deserve it.

Awful, uncontrollable emotion pushed him to a decision. No… If the El is left as it is, it will only get worse. My duty is to return energy to El. For that, the destroyed El must first be restored.  But I cannot leave it to those who had damaged it once before. The El must be protected, and I, the emissary of the goddess, must be the one to do it. And so Ain began retrieving the El energy scattered throughout Elrios.

Even as he retrieved the energy, his own power slowly turned. The demonic energy that had fused with his wound still corroded his body, corrupted his being. Perhaps if he used the energy he had retrieved… But that would be misusing his goddess’ power for his own gain. He could not bring himself to do that, especially as he’d completely failed to fulfill his duty. Thoughts like these tormented him with guilt.  Unbeknownst to him, his corruption was spreading to a point he couldn’t even fathom, as the demonic energy took root deep inside.

Bigott 

Apparent Age, Unknown, Male, Pendulum

“...I’ll make it so that the goddess will have no choice but to come and find me.”

A twisted emissary of the god who doesn’t hesitate to destroy to force an answer from the goddess. A class that uses Arte formed by continuously retrieving and returning El energy that supports effective and powerful battles.

The Giant El had been restored. All the energy Ain had gathered had been absorbed into it. He had not expected it, but neither did he mind. The restoration of the El was needed for his mission. For a moment he believed he could soon fulfill his duty. Now, if he sacrificed himself and injected his strength into the Giant El, it would return to its stable state… 

As he stretched his hand toward the El, he winced and recoiled.  An instinct deep within screamed that he shouldn’t do this. Before he could even think, an instinctive repulsion pulled his hand away from the El and toward the ground. The reason for this repulsion soon became obvious. A god’s representative who’d been corrupted by demonic energy and steeped in the power of chaos cannot fully restore the El.

Everything was in vain. He believed everything would return to its place if he could just fulfill his mission, and now what should he do? He couldn’t just decide what to do alone. Confused and more desperate than ever, he called out for his goddess’ answer. Whether she chose to enlighten the path of her foolish emissary, or descend to punish him for failing his mission, or replace him with another… Be it salvation or destruction, so long as she replied, Ain was willing to heed any answer. However, the only thing he received was that same horrifying silence.

Why…? He couldn’t understand. The sudden explosion of the El, Henir, demons, his authority changing from Ishmael to Elria… Unforeseen events piled up, one after another, things he hadn’t been tasked to deal with. He grew resentful of the goddess. He cried out, pleaded, begged, threw his resentment up in prayer, and received only silence. He wasn’t asking for something he didn’t deserve, like those foolish creatures of Elrios! How could she insist on silence in all these situations? Unless she had completely abandoned him–

As his crisis of faith petered into exhaustion, Ain decided to give up and find another way. At this point, he had to hear an answer. Any answer. And if he couldn’t reach the goddess himself, then he would force her to look for him.

“I will return the El to the goddess.”

Even if it means destroying the goddess’s beloved Elrios.  If I can reach her… it’ll be worth any sin.

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translation by yours truly editing courtesy of @blazingsnark

note: these are heavily edited and are not direct translations but we did our best to stay true to the source while not sounding like complete garbage -- enjoy!

Second Selection

Age 15, Male, Sickle

A second life given to Noah.

Setting aside the confusion after his return to the Temple, Noah finds a sliver of hope in one difference he’s made this time -- saving Yuria and meeting Clamor.

Clamor is in a similar situation as him and calls himself Noah’s friend. Not only that, he’s been attentive and caring to Noah’s feelings and condition. Noah’s been ignoring it, but he’s always secretly been yearning for the concern and care of another. All of this allowed him to slowly trust Clamor more and more.

As the peaceful days passed on, a seed of anxiety grew in the corner of his heart. It has significantly reduced from before, but he still gets nightmares from time to time. He torments himself with guilt over being the only one to enjoy happiness. He contemplates if he has to throw himself into the mire again to finish his revenge, and the only thing that stops him is the friendship he has with Clamor.

“There’s no need for you to suffer or take responsibility for anything when you were nothing but a victim. It’s okay for you to choose the path you want,” says Clamor. Noah now sees that he has another path laid out before him besides getting revenge.

A new encounter in a different present… If the life he has right now was given to him because he had completed his revenge, then perhaps… this life can be used to pursue happiness.

He doesn’t know what kind of future this decision will bring him, but having someone by his side gives him courage. As a part of making a new decision for himself, he learns magical knowledge from Clamor.

Stellar Caster

Age 17, Male, Sickle

As his knowledge of magic increases, Noah grows confident that his unexpected return to the place where he started has to do with the mutated power within him, and that if he doesn’t take control of it, then he might return to the beginning again at any time.

Not wanting all the time he spent to be in vain, he reaches the Rosso Clan’s laboratory while hunting down information related to the El’s elemental power. He finds Clamor’s inventions in the horrific experiments conducted by the Rosso Clan. He almost begins to doubt Clamor, but the man he knows would never create something for such a dark purpose. Before he can find the truth, he is struck unconscious when someone attacks him out of nowhere, returning him to the starting point once again against his will.

When he opens his eyes in the Temple, the seal on Clamor is once again unbroken.  Noah despairs, but soon realizes the relic in the heart of the Temple may hold the clue to both his mutated power and Clamor’s past. Even though he was sent back in time, his memories of days spent with Clamor remain with him as part of his own past. Perhaps he will be able to alter the future of this path to be what he wants.

After entering Seven Tower in the past through the relic, he finds out his power of the moon mutated because of the power of the sun. He then uses the knowledge he’s learned to figure out a way to stay longer in Clamor’s memory.

In Seven Tower, a repository of knowledge lost forever, and a space that’s completely cut off from the real world, Noah concentrates on studying the great flow of the sun, moon, and the celestial bodies, as well as the power of time within himself.

Celestia

Age 18, Male, Sickle

“Aren’t you curious which future awaits us at the edge of the cosmos?”

An observer of the constellations who travels between the memories of the cosmos and the present, forging a new future for himself. A class that developed his mutated power in his own way by utilizing Clamor’s artificial spirit magic.

The two years spent in the past with Clamor have a profound influence on him. He can now not only stop himself from being returned to the start against his will, but also stay in a specific time period and use his unstable mutated power to his benefit by utilizing Clamor’s artificial spirit magic. Though his partner can’t remember the time they spent together when Noah was in the relic, he knows the time and the memories will stay with him. Who he is now is the result of his hard work in the past.

“I hope you can join me in the future I will forge with my choice.”

Noah wants to give freedom of movement to his friend who’s been his strength this entire time. He adds artificial spirit magic to his power to successfully turn Clamor into a spirit. No one was able to turn a soul imprisoned in a magical item into a spirit before, but it was possible because Clamor was a part elf who had a natural affinity to spirits, and Noah had maximized his own potential.

Being able to turn Clamor into a spirit gives Noah pause. He had magically repressed the time he’d spent in the relic, considering it a lost time that no one can remember, but he realizes that the result he’s achieved now wouldn’t be possible without it. He’s been treating that precious time of learning as completely worthless, and yet without that, he couldn’t have helped Clamor. The time he spent in the relic matters even if he’s the only one to remember it.

After some deliberation, he accepts the importance of that time and releases the seal he cast on himself to repress it. In that moment, the bound time affects Noah’s body all at once. The two years catch up with him instantly and his body ages accordingly, but he feels much more comfortable knowing this appearance suits him.

“Let’s follow the starlight you and I both wish for. No matter what lies at the end, I can accept it if it’s the consequence of my choice.”

Noah, his body and mind now matching in age, starts his path as an observer of the constellations who forges his own future.  His precious partner walks by his side, liberated with the aid of Noah’s new power.

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Noah Ebalon

Age 15, Male, Sickle

With a sickle as his main weapon, he uses the corrupted power of the moon and darkness. He used to be gentle and passive, but after a series of events, he became pessimistic and easily depressed.

Second son of the Ebalon family, one of the distinguished families of Elrianode in the past. For a long time, he lived not remembering his brother’s murder at the hands of Henir Order. He awakens when the influence of the newly restored Elrianode slowly reached the ruin he was sealed after the El Explosion.

His fast movement adds to the destructive power of his sickle. He uses the corrupted power of darkness called “Power of Shadow,” which he tries to control with the moonstone using the technique passed down in the Ebalon family.

Second Revenger

Age 15, Male, Sickle

“Even if this shadow becomes darker...”

Immediately after waking up in the ruin, Noah realizes his body is not how it used to be. Was everything just a dream? No — he could tell by how his body struggled to keep up with his usual battle style, that none of this was just a simple nightmare. Attempting to regain his familiar senses through battle, he tries to figure out the reason why he has reawakened.

He lost his brother, and lost the place he was meant to stand in. He believed Noah Ebalon, a son of the Ebalon family, was among those that were lost in the El Explosion. He was left with nothing but the grief of losing his brother and the guilt of being the only survivor.

Suddenly, he realizes there’s only one path he could take. There was no need to search for a reason in the first place. He already knew the only thing a survivor could do.

Revenge. And through revenge, he will comfort his brother’s soul. He believes that no matter how many times he has to go through the same thing, it is his only purpose and reason to live.

Silent Shadow

Age 15, Male, Sickle

“An even darker silence.”

His usual senses in battle are quickly returning as he pushes his body to its limit. However, he’s been struggling to properly use the Power of Shadow, a corrupted power of darkness. Up until now, he has adopted his family’s method of controlling the moonstone to keep it in check, but using a power that could run rampant at any time was too great of a risk.

He successfully finds a clue to controlling this power thanks to Clamore’s help, but after an incident that happens shortly after, he’s devastated and loses his faith in them. What went wrong? Perhaps thinking everything he does would go well was foolish. 

Though he was distraught, he realized what he felt wasn’t a betrayal, but a loss. After 500 years, the world he knew felt like clothes that didn’t fit him. He had avoided befriending anyone, believing he didn’t belong in this world. He could do nothing but admit that he found comfort in Clamore’s presence, who was in a similar situation as him. They were someone he identified with; someone who sympathized with his loneliness, and understood his fear. Before he knew it, he had considered them his friend he could rely on.

Determined to move on, he applies the clue from the laboratory on his power, and succeeds in drawing out power similar to the moonstone used by his family.

Liberator

Age 16, Male, Sickle

“It’s neither duty nor responsibility. This is my choice.”

Master of the shadow who liberated himself by facing the dark memory of his past. A class who is able to draw out the strongest power of the shadow by using the moonstone, beyond just merely trying to control the shadow.

A journey for revenge. He pushed himself to come this far with the resolve to exact vengeance on the Henir zealot who destroyed the world and murdered his brother. He knew it was pointless to torment himself with figuring out why he was the only survivor. However, thanks to everything he's experienced so far, he realizes that he cannot go on without his own goal.

Noah knew from the beginning that his brother wouldn’t want revenge, but without that goal, he would’ve been lost, without a reason to live. His kind-hearted brother became a safe haven for him even until the last moment, but now that he’s remembered the sincerity his brother tried to teach him, and realizing this repetition is not a curse but a chance, he couldn’t stay a child any longer.

Although he lived through a time that wasn’t his own because of a goal that wasn’t his, the struggles he went through and the bonds he made are his own. He no longer wants to lose what’s precious to him. To protect what he has right now, and to make sure no one suffers the same fate as him, the goal he must walk toward became clear.

“Making sure this tragedy doesn’t repeat   — that is my choice and my will.”

Facing the truth, and freeing himself from the pressure of revenge, he becomes a master of the shadow who unveils darkness by his own will.

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Jazz beginner level 8-11 yr old 5-6pm

Jazz beginner level 6-8 yr old 6-7pm

Students will learn basic jazz techniques (such as leaps, turns, and kicks), in addition to terminology, which will improve coordination, rhythm, balance, flexibility, and confidence. They will also learn to combine movement together to create dances.

Los estudiantes aprenderán técnicas básicas de jazz (como saltos, giros y patadas), además de terminología, que mejorarán la coordinación, el ritmo, el equilibrio, la flexibilidad y la confianza. También aprenderán a combinar el movimiento para crear bailes.

Tap beginning level 1pm-1:45pm

Tap dance is a percussive style that originated in the United States in the 1700s and is practiced using shoes with metal plates to create sound. Our tap classes draw from both Broadway and contemporary Rhythm-Tap styles and emphasize precision and musicality. Classes begin with foot isolating warm-ups, progress to rhythm and step-based skill building in the center of the room, and end with traveling across the floor. Students will also learn choreography.

El claqué es un estilo de percusión que se originó en los Estados Unidos en la década de 1700 y se practica usando zapatos con placas de metal para crear sonido. Nuestras clases de claqué se basan tanto en Broadway como en estilos contemporáneos de Rhythm-Tap y enfatizan la precisión y la musicalidad. Las clases comienzan con calentamientos de aislamiento de pies, progreso al ritmo y desarrollo de habilidades basadas en pasos en el centro de la sala, y terminan viajando por el piso. Los estudiantes también aprenderán coreografía.