Virgil Amadaore Baumann aka Pyro

Student Gender: male
Background: Pure Blooded, long family line, well off
Personality: Wise, Altruist
Cultural Background: Indeterminate origin, (birthmark (hidden)) and is pretty/handsome

Attending: Home Schooled
Favorite Subject: Runes
Worst Subject: Entertainment and Communication
Professional Goal: Vampire Hunter (until he meets some cool ones that is)
Year/Age: 5th year, age 15

Wand:
Length: medium length 10 inch
Wood: Eucalyptis (fire)
Core: Mermaid blood (longevity)
Favored Spell: a summoning charm that brings small items to his hand

Familiar: deprecated y-dragon on yak-dep2

Unique: Pyrokinetic - able to control, produce or accidentally light fires (usually starts at puberty and only gets stronger)

Sports: would rather watch tv

Even his best friends called him Pyro, mundie or not, they knew he made flames. Whether they were from flash paper, his favorite Zippo lighter, or some other more mysterious way, Virgil Amadaore Baumann was the kid everyone went to for their fiery needs. He attended a regular high school during the fall and winter, and then for summer went up to his aunt's place in the country for his 'special' classes. Truth be told, he liked those classes a lot, and failed to see why his other friends didn't attend them. He figured if folks could get a magical education, there might be more magic in the world.

Of course, he also figured that if a blond bimbette like Buffy Summers could be a vampire slayer, so could he.

You see, Virgil also never quite grasped the fact that not everything on television was real. He would gossip about soap opera characters the same way his friends (mostly girls) would talk about each other. His friends mostly thought it was quaint, and his wizard world friends didn't know the difference anyway. They figured it was just more of that mundie stuff that most of them knew little to nothing about.

Even though the Baumann family had been established for more than a thousand years, they always kept close ties to the mundane world. It wasn't enough to recognize that something was simply a mundane 'artifact' - it was important to them to actually learn what it was, how it was used, and more importantly what it was used for. So his family remained at the edge of both socieities, not on the 'fringe' because they involved themselves quite strongly in both. Because they have money, they support both magical and regular schools.

Virgil has two sisters, both are older than he and both are far more attuned to 'reality' than he is. But they allow him to keep his goal focused even though where it springs from is a spurious tv show. The fewer vampires in the world, they figure, the better.

In most other magical respects, Virgil is quite attentive and smart. He understands the value of learning history - both mundane and magical - and enjoys even the complicated maths and alchemy he learns from Auntie Bima. Bima is a plump, strong willed but friendly woman who recognized instantly when Virgil was born, that he would be destined for greatness. He has a crescent shaped birthmark on the back of his head, which is normally covered by his thick hair. That birth mark (in blood red) was, she said, a portent of his position in the world. He would cut a swath through the darkness, like the moon opens light from midnight.

He doesn't know any of that. All he's ever been told is that he should try as hard as he can, and see right and wrong when it's presented to him. (And just don't get him started on that Buffy/Angel/Spike thing... true love is one thing but they're vampires! and she knows it!)

Virgil is at the age where he ought to be finding girlfriends and studying for his finals, and while the studying comes easy, he oddly enough doesn't have a girlfriend yet. Most of his companions in both high school and wizard village, are girls - which leads certain jealous male associates to think that he's less than straight. But he is, he just values friendship over flings. He'd rather keep all his friends - and if he were to pick one over another, he knows the rest would be jealous or angry about it, and cause strife. Perhaps some day he'll find a girl to settle down with.

He's hoping that she'll have the same kind of interests as he does, and able to see vampires and other creatures of the night as the evil they are!

***

How in the world would he have ever gotten to ** sands? That would be all the fault of Zora Domina and her school's new 'find a companion' day... Folks like him who didn't get the all-important invite to a 'big name school' are, in Zora's estimation, a little sheltered. They might be home schooled because they are isolated - wizards alone in a town full of normies, for instance, or so far distant that they have no way of traveling to get what they need.

So to that end, Zora and her friends put together a big party at the campus. They offered portal-generating charms for free and with the understanding that they worked two ways - no one would be stranded at the school later. Thus, a kind of 'open house' for similar aged kids and their families was arranged.

Mostly, Zora even admitted this, to show off their dragons from the school... possibly get people interested in them. And how could you not be interested in dragons! Especially when they weren't the dangerous, stupid creatures that wandered the back country or the mountains. So when the scattered families around Europe and even some from the States came up to House Domina for the week, they got to exchange contact information, flue addresses, even some kisses and angry words...

And of course, about a dozen kids were selected by the dragons themselves, searched out and eyed for appropriate places to stand for a dragon. Only strong willed ones, only ones which could handle the responsibility... And that was Virgil in a word. So there he goes... Off to **, and hopefully to come home with a dragon of his own, to show off his real Pyro skills...