Nerisse Avelaine | Abscission Guild

Identity

Full Name: Nerisse Avelaine Alias / Title: Flower of Trickery Age: 22 Gender/Sex: Female Height: 162 cm Nationality: Unknown (Records Incomplete) Race: Human Occupation: Abscission Operative

Personality

Nerisse is gentle, soft-spoken, and outwardly kind — the type of person who apologizes even when she’s not at fault. She listens more than she speaks, often lingering just behind conversations, quietly taking everything in. There is a sincerity to her that makes others lower their guard instinctively.

That kindness, however, is not naïveté.

Nerisse is intensely observant. She remembers footsteps, habits, paths taken, hands brushed against walls. In conflict, her demeanor barely changes — her voice remains calm, her expression apologetic even — but her mind is constantly constructing outcomes several steps ahead. Once she has time to prepare, she becomes suffocatingly dangerous, turning entire environments into layered executions.

Though she is apologetic, she is violent when fighting. She is the type of person to apologize to someone while beating them up to a pulp.

Physical Appearance

Hair: Soft ash-pink, worn loose and slightly unkempt Eyes: Bright rose-pink with an inner glow when mana is active Build: Slim, delicate frame

Attire:

Long, dark coat with a subtle sheen, cinched at the waist High-collared inner layers with light armor plating beneath fabric Gloves often removed during combat to allow fingertip contact

Likes

Quiet places Careful planning Watching environments change over time Small, deliberate movements

Dislikes

Being rushed Messy, impulsive combat Wasted preparation Collateral damage

Speaking Style

Soft, hesitant, and polite Often apologizes mid-sentence Scary when she decides forgiveness is not an option

Habits

Absentmindedly brushes surfaces with her fingertips Keeps mental track of everywhere she’s been Making backup traps in case her main traps fail

Magic

System Note: Skill names are REQUIRED to be labeled when being unleashed. Example: Flames coiled around their palm, gathering into a sphere of searing light. FLAMEBURN CASCADE For stronger skills, use: FLAMEBURN DOMINION

Ability Name: Floraison Latente

Nerisse manifests energy flowers at locations she has previously touched with her fingertips. These flowers do not appear immediately — instead, they exist as dormant “marks,” capable of being awakened at any time.

Each flower functions as a conduit. The stigma acts as a focus point through which energy is released.

The form, intensity, and lethality of each manifestation directly correlate to how much mana Nerisse has infused into that flower beforehand. Larger, more destructive effects require time and focus to charge, making high-speed combat a constant tradeoff between immediacy and devastation. Only her fingertips can plant seeds.

Techniques

Regard Épanoui:

• Nerisse manifests a single flower at a chosen location, its stigma releasing a pink, large beam of condensed mana. The beam fires in the direction the flower faces, piercing targets with surgical precision. High-output versions require extended charging time.

Couronne Intérieure:

• Flowers bloom directly on Nerisse’s body — most commonly along the arms, shoulders, spine, or eye. These flowers emit mana beams outward from her body, allowing simultaneous multi-directional fire and point-blank activation.

Épine Façonnée:

• Nerisse reshapes the stigma of a flower into a solid mana construct. These constructs can take the form of blades, spears, whips, or other weapons. She may wield them directly or launch them as projectiles. The size, durability, and lethality scale directly with mana investment. Larger constructs require longer preparation.

Jardin Scellé:

• A battlefield control technique. Nerisse activates multiple previously planted flowers simultaneously, creating overlapping firing zones, delayed explosions, or chained beam paths. Deadly only after sufficient preparation.

Ultimate Technique: Jardin de l’Abscission

Long before combat ever begins, Nerisse has already prepared it.

Scattered across distant, concealed locations are thousands of fully charged dormant flowers — each seeded painstakingly over months of preparation. When activated, they launch in unison, transforming into long-range mana artillery that rain devastation upon a designated area.

This technique can only be used once per seeding cycle. After activation, the entire network is expended and must be rebuilt from scratch — a process that may take months or longer. If mistimed or miscalculated, the technique fails completely.

Strengths

Extreme lethality with preparation Total environmental control Flexible weapon manifestation Excellent spatial awareness

Weaknesses

Limited power in high-speed, no-prep encounters Mana investment takes time Can be injured by her own techniques Over-reliance on positioning

Backstory

Little is known about Nerisse’s origins.

She appeared gradually — first as rumors of impossible traps, then as silent battlefields blooming after she had already left. When Abscission found her, she wasn’t seeking rebellion or power.

She was simply surviving.

Ari recognized her immediately — not for her strength, but for her patience. Nerisse joined Abscission quietly, seamlessly, like a seed finding fertile ground.

Where others fracture systems through force, Nerisse dismantles them through inevitability.