Edith 'Nightmare' Casters

Edith 'Nightmare' Casters is a fan-character created by Handepsilon. She's a supporting character of 'Chaos Theory' character roster. She's a classmate of Bones in the Soleannan Arcane Academy and the little sister of Frost.
==Appearance==
Nightmare is a black-furred hedgebat with gray, glowing eyes. Her quills goes curling on the side. She has a small barely functional bat wings on her back. Her casual clothes is a simple blue dress with similarly blue gloves and pink shoes. She wears an enchanted tiara to suppress her mind-hearing and enhance her magical abilities.
==Personality==
Despite her nickname, Nightmare is a sweet, soft-spoken girl. Due to absorbing a lot of thoughts from people around her in her early age, she had become quite knowledgeable with many things. Before she had her tiara, she would sometimes answer or reply to other people's thoughts due to not being able to discern spoken and unspoken words.
She's very dependent on her psychokinesis when moving herself and other things around, but she has always wished to be able to use her own body to do things. Despite this, she always uses her powers and magical abilities liberally. She likes to roleplay a fantasy-themed adventure, with her as either a powerful NPC or the main villain.
She prefers to listen to actual words and reply in the same kind. The only times she would use telepathy would be if she preferred to keep the conversation a secret.
==Backstory==
===Early Life===
Edith Casters was born as the second daughter of Neil and Lilian Casters. Unlike her sister Elena, she inherited Lilian's psychic powers, something that the family first noticed when Lilian experienced dreams involving Edith before the latter was born. She started speaking her first words as early as 3 months old, and was already able to communicate intricately before her first year. She was given the nickname 'Little Nightmare' by Lilian, who claimed that Edith always appeared and brighten things up when she had nightmares
This created a brief rift with her older sister as Elena was uneasy towards both her and their mother. It took some time before the two warmed up to each others. Unfortunately this was only shortly before Elena was kidnapped by Mobo-Genesis and their father was killed in the event.
When Nightmare attended to the public school, she always accidentally blurted out the thoughts of other people around her, distancing herself from others, her teachers included. This caused her to become more withdrawn. It wasn't until her mother adopted Elena's old friend and Lilian's fan, an orphan named Tracy, that she had her first friend. The two grew close as Tracy trained to become Lilian's successor as a stage hypnotist, taking the stage name 'Trance'. The two would pull pranks on each others as past time.
===Reunion with Elena===
Elena, now nicknamed Frost, returned 3 years after she was kidnapped. Her sister now wielded a new ice powers and was employed by GUN in exchange for her safety. Nightmare was also introduced to her former handler, now partner, Gilfred Thompson, whom she trusted quickly after a brief peek to his memory. 
Frost at first was still rather uneasy with Nightmare's abilities, and often refused to participate in the pranks that she and Trance often pulled off. While Trance refused to back down when given the chance, Nightmare respected her older sister's wishes. The two started sharing their experiences with each others, and Frost began to warm up again to her little sister, apologizing for the treatments that she had given to the latter. As time went on, the two grew closer than ever.
===The Sorceress Quartet===
Nightmare met Bones only shortly afterwards. Unlike the rest of the kids, Bones was actually fascinated by Nightmare's abilities to read thoughts and lift things with her mind. In turn, Nightmare was also curious about Bones' dark powers. The hedgebat kid started learning to conjure energy spheres like Bones, and was surprised to discover how easy it was for her to replicate it, with the only difference being that her spheres were dark teal as opposed to purple. This caused Bones to become even more ecstatic. 
Through their friendship, Nightmare was also able to meet Severance and Kiki. Nightmare already knew of Severance through Frost's memories, but she still felt uneasy when actually meeting the half-succubus demon. Although the two became friends eventually, Severance's distant personality and background made it hard for Nightmare to understand her fully. Kiki, on the other hand, terrified her as soon as she heard the glimpses of her thoughts. The young succubus bore innocent and malevolent thoughts at the same time, making them too chaotic for Nightmare to bear. She did overcome her fears as she grew used to the demon, attempting to encourage the latter's good side whenever possible.
Eventually, after Bones discovered her magical heritage, she and the other two were invited by the echidna to learn magic together. Among the three, only Nightmare was the one without prior magical knowledge. Thanks to her psychic powers, however, she was able to adapt to her magic studies quickly using her friends' knowledges.
===Student of the Arcane Academy===
Following Bones' suggestion, Nightmare decided to attend to the Soleannan Arcane Academy. Her mother was quick to approve her decision, hoping that Nightmare would be able to find a better school environment in the Academy. It was here that Bones was given her tiara used to suppress and control her thought hearing. She, Bones, Severance and Kiki would share the same dorm quarters, with her sleeping alongside Bones in a bunkbed.
She was the first of the three to discover her magic specialization, which was illusion. She was assigned to a classroom under a teacher named 'Blakemore', an ancient vampire sorceress in the Academy. Nightmare grew fond to her illusion teacher, eager to learn advanced tricks from the get-go. She was never able to read her teacher's thoughts, and thus never really learned her true identity.
Due to her physical disability, she was allowed to skip the physical portion of the Physical and Sorcery Training class. Sometimes, however, she would attempt to disregard it, only to collapse completely due to overexerting her body. 
==Powers and Abilities==
Nightmare is a powerful psychic, capable to hear thoughts passively and lift things with her mind. This ability allowed her to absorb knowledge subconsciously when she was young. One instance was her capability to perform hypnosis without using her powers using the knowledge she learned from her mother.
Her psychic prowess came with the drawback similar to her mother's. Her physical constitution is so weak that she had to rely on her telekinesis in order to move around and lift things up. Her wings were also non-functional and only served as a resemblance to her father.
After learning magic alongside Bones, she became capable of manipulating dark energy, to the point where she didn't need to move around to direct her energy to perform spells. Her sorcery is arguably more powerful than even Bones herself. Her tiara now serves as a dampener to her mind hearing, although she was still able to hear muffled glimpses and focusing enough still allows her to read minds. Her specialty in dark magic is illusion, allowing her to conjure images of a whole new world in a small room and illusory objects that would feel semi-solid. She mainly uses this to roleplay with her friends and her sister.
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