Deviation Actions
Description
Name: Atkanah Kahele
Gender: Female
Height/Weight: 5’4 / 160lbs
Age: 250 (Birth: 12/16/1783)
Nationality: (Technically) Canadian.
Wizard Parent: Aimee Redstone (1st generation)
Child of Aimee Redstone, the most flightly of the first generation wizards. Aimee has traveled the world and one of those travels just happened to take her far into the corners of North America and into the land of the Inuit, where she spent some time living among the nomads. She especially hit it off with a young man named Nunataq and it wasn’t long until she found herself with child. Shortly after her birth, Aimee dropped Atkanah off in Dulcedomum and continued off with her travels. Atkanah has since then been raised by her grandparents, Johan and Aristar, and stayed at the house.
Guardian: Melton
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Spirit Information
[Base Element] Water
[First Spirit]
Name: Awa
Element: Water
A baby spirit she found in a polluted stream, Atkanah found herself being followed by Awa once her clean-up efforts culminated in more water spirits returning to the once abandoned body of water. She took to her right away and accepted a pact with her. She gets along very well with Atkanah’s second pacted spirit, Mu, as they both have very childish personalities.
Awa allows Atkanah to hold water as if it were a malleable solid, letting her shape it before freezing it up in whatever form she desires.
[Second Spirit]
Name: Mu
Element: Light
A lighthearted, silly spirit with the heart of a kid, Mu is a very childish and sweet spirit that always has a positive attitude and lots of enthusiasm to go around. He took a shining to Atkanah because she proved herself a very selfless person, always taking risks and doing sacrifices so the people around them could be safe and healthy. He is often one of those that asks her to take care of herself, though he is very easily distracted and sidetracked. He also loves to play with children and is an excellent babysitter and playmate.
Mu allows Atkanah a healing touch: any physical wound she can put her hands on, directly or indirectly (for internal organ and bone damage) will be healed.
[Third Spirit]
Name: Hazarmaveth
Element: Light
A very serious spirit, Hazarmaveth took the form of a skeleton that hung in the rooms of a prestigious medical university during a good portion of the 1800s. Atkanah managed to catch his eye by simply attending to class: the spirit had never seen a woman try to learn medicine in its many years of having seen students come and go. Her attendance started suffering with the constant bullying of her peers towards her and her homesickness. When she finally dropped out, he followed her into Dulcedomum and finally revealed himself as a spirit and offered a pact on one condition: that she never quit on furthering her knowledge on medicine. He saw potential in her that many other students in the university had lacked and he’d hate to see it all go to waste.
Hazarmaveth allows Atkanah to have an enhanced vision (not unlike x-rays) that lets her see where and how serious injuries are, especially if they’re under the skin. It also lets her see where sickness is affecting the body, so she can know where and how to heal.
[Fourth Spirit]
Name: Echo
Element: Wind
An exceptionally hard spirit to see, as it takes the form of leaves and feathers floating in a wind current, Atkanah pacted with Echo purely by accident. During one of her ventures to the outside of the house with Melton, she’d been in such a good mood she started humming a song that matched the howling and whistling of the wind in the woods. The wind spirit had been the one to make the tune and took to Atka when she continued the music it started and pacted with her on the spot. Atkanah is the only one that can understand what it says and it is otherwise mute save for the howling and whistling of a wind current.
Echo allows Atkanah power over her voice: her singing or humming serves as a tranquilizer and anesthetic.
[Fifth Spirit]
Name: Anthea
Element: Earth
Found while hunting for a specific medicinal herb, she was picked up by one of the house children at the time and given to Atkanah as a gift. Because it was a spirit and not a regular flower, however, it reacted with outrage that it had been uprooted and nearly killed. As an apology, Atkanah offered a pot with fresh water, nutritious soil and lots of light. Pleased with the arrangement, the spirit offered a pact as a way of thanks.
Anthea’s spell causes long vines to come out from Atkanah’s skin on her arms, allowing her to use them as a form of extended limbs.
[Sixth Spirit]
Name: Makinzi
Element: Fire
A troublemaker, Makinzi is a childish spirit who enjoys spending time with children and amusing people. Atkanah found the spirit one day while taking a walk with her newborn daughter, Healani, who was crying at the time. Attracted to the wizard because of the wailing, the fire spirit proceeded to make sounds and faces at the baby until it stopped crying. Atkanah thanked it for its efforts and talked to the spirit as she walked back home. Hearing that the place where she lived was packed full of other children like this one and many more people to entertain, Makinzi asked to be taken with and offered a pact to ensure she wouldn’t be left behind no matter what.
Makinzi’s spell gives Atkanah a powerful electric shock, which she uses as a defibrillator.
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Personal Information
Personality:
A quiet and softspoken person, Atkanah takes her job as a healer very seriously. However, she’s a bad judge of when hard work turns into overworking herself to the bone and often forgets to eat or skips out on sleep if that means she can spend more time with the people under her care or working on a way to make them feel better. She has extensive knowledge on different types of medicine practices and will give everything a try before ever considering throwing in the towel, which isn’t an option in her book. If she has one big flaw it’s that she’s stubborn and her priorities are skewed, often leaving herself out of the equation. She is, however, very selfless and caring and will always try to help out when there is a problem, medical or otherwise.
History:
Atkanah was born in the Canadian tundra, but was raised inside the halls of Dulcedomum after her mother – much as she’d done with her other children before her – left her in her grandparents’ care. She always liked looking after those that were sick and tired and would often play doctor with her cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents – whoever was available would become a patient, treated with medical concoctions made with mud and leaves from the farm and sand and water from the hot springs. As she grew older, she seemed to have an aptitude for potionmaking as much as she did for medicine.
She enrolled in medical school – quite a difficult feat for a woman during the late 1800s. She dropped out soon after since the environment was hostile and she couldn’t get used to the idea of being so far away from the house for long, but it was during this period of time she met her first guardian, with whom she formed a strong emotional connection with. However, he was killed during an outing to the city, leaving Atkanah with child and refusing to leave the house for decades. This became a point of conflict between her and her daughter, who wasn’t allowed to leave, either.
It wasn’t until many years later, in the 1960s, that she met her current guardian, Melton. He was asked to accompany on her first venture out of the house in years and continued to escort her in subsequent excursions to the outside. In these endeavors, they got to know one another better and soon grew fond of one another, pacting as wizard and guardian a few years after they met. About a decade later, she met the guardian Kei Kahele, during a house excursion to Hawaii, where he was dragged into the house after becoming a standby casualty of an encounter between hostile spirits and the house wizards. Atkanah overlooked his recovery, and got to know him better in the subsequent months, as he decided to stick around the house.
They have since married and had over half a dozen children together. They are expecting another one soon.
These days, Atkanah spends most of her waking time split between the waterwing, where she teaches potionmaking to her younger relatives, and the light wing, where she cares for the sick and injured in the healing room. She helps look after the orphans and other children that live at the house, especially her siblings, along with her grandparents.
Misc Info:
-Having grown without Aimee as a motherly figure in her life, around the same time as Nora, Jim, Prewitt and Terelle, she took her grandparents as her parental figures instead and calls Aristar and Johan Papa and Mama, respectively. She treats their children as if they were her own siblings – with a few pointed exceptions such as Artus. Her relationship with Aimee is complicated and rather strained.
-Being in charge of healing, her sheet shows two light spirits instead of one, since they are relevant to the abilities she displays on a day to day basis. She has actually pacted with a lot more spirits, whose pact marks remain dormant, as is such with most masters.
Children:
Anaaya (1888)
Healani (1986)
Nanook (1995)
Lihau (2006)
Nauja (2013)
Kalei and Kaleo (2014)
Momi (2019) [spirit born]
