Artemus Blackquill

"You have no idea what I'm capable of, and trust me when I say you'll only get hurt trying to one-up me. You might want to turn back now while it's not too late, *Princess*," - **Blackquill** to Sapphire in *XIII: Death*

## Biographical Information

### Occupation

First-year student in Belvoire Academia of the Arcane
Team captain of House Ventus' Vortex team

## Relationships

### Friend(s)

Sapphire Chauvera
Kellan Xalvador
Xylon Lozano
Izaiah Alnazar
Lucio Damaris
Indirah Alnazar

### Enemies

The Devil
Kellan Xalvador, Xylon Lozano, Sapphire Chauvera, Izaiah Alnazar, Indirah Alnazar (all formerly)

## Arcane Information

### Keywords

UPRIGHT: Balance, peace, patience, moderation, calm, tranquility, harmony, serenity
REVERSE: Imbalance, excess, extremes, discord, recklessness, and hastiness

## Production Information

### Inspiration(s)

Draco Malfoy

**Artemus Blackquill**, commonly known as just his last name, is one of the characters of The Arcana. Like most of the main characters, he attends Belvoire Academia of the Arcane and is sorted into House Ventus as Kellan, Sapphire, Xylon, and Izaiah's classmate. Not much is known about his backstory, but he is mentioned to be a Pure-Blood mage, which means he's the offspring of both mage parents. He is also a gifted student, seeing as he could easily control the water Imperia as a first-year. His Patron Arcana is Temperance.

Blackquill's inspiration is *Draco Malfoy*.

## PERSON**Λ**LITY

Blackquill enjoys a quick-paced life with many activities through his day, as he's smart, quick-witted, and observant- this means that he could quickly find a way out because of his intelligence. His mind is usually filled with "strange" ideas as one might say. Contrary to that, Blackquill can't stay focused for a long period of time and can easily be attracted and distracted by other new things, so he often gives people the impression of being fickle. He's also shown to be very impatient; he could think of various ideas but couldn't think in depth, so others might think of him as superficial and/or elusory.

Blackquill is charming by nature and sometimes could come off as indifferent- he may give others an impression of being an outsider. He doesn't also like permanent things, he's good at using his innovation to think of new ways, therefore, he's more suitable for mental work with his curiosity. Blackquill is often humorous have the ability to quickly warm up the atmosphere of the conversation- in addition, he wants his life to be carefree.

## PHYSIC**Λ**L **Λ**PPE**Λ**R**Λ**NCE

Blackquill has black curly hair parted to the left side of his head, and has a dark skin complexion. As a mage, his eyes are light gray in color mentioned by Sapphire, which matches his pearl birthstone- his pearl earring is on his left earlobe. His structure is lean and slender; measured to be at least 5'6" in height.

#### **CASUAL**

Depicted on his concept art, his outfit is mostly a black blazer with silver linings, with his right arm being sleeveless. Instead, it has a white-colored wing ornament attached to its sleeveline, with a silver chain going across his chest. He has black slacks on with the same chain over his left thigh. Blackquill has gold cuff bracelets around his right forearm, accompanied by a silver bracelet.

## POWERS & **Λ**BILITIES

* **Spell Casting**- Blackquill has the ability to cast spells even without the use of a wand, since he's a Pure-Blood mage.
	+ **Element Manipulating**- He can manipulate the elements, fire ("Pyro"), water ("Aquam"), air ("Aura"), earth ("Tellus"), ice and snow ("Cryo"), and electricity ("Electro").
* **Extensive Knowledge**- He's known to be one of the academically gifted students in Belvoire and would hate it if someone passes him as a top student, with sparked his distaste with Kellan in the first place. Blackquill comes off as competitive whenever this happens, although there's no doubt he's actually a very fast learner when it comes to magic.

## RECCURING/RUNNING G**Λ**GS

* **Love Quarrels and Frenemies**- Sapphire and Blackquill bickering with everything, one-upping each other, as well as Izaiah and Lucio.
* **Ahh, Young Love**- Blackquill and Sapphire have obvious romantic tension between the two of them every chapter they're in.

## TRIVI**Λ**S

* His name means "the follower of Artemis", and his last name is a made-up name from the writers- signifying that black is the color he's often associated with, and "quill" (a writing item made from a feather of a bird), being relevant to his Patron Arcana, Temperance, as its animal is a dove.
	+ His last name "Blackquill" could be misleading for his patron, since the only other bird depicted on a tarot card would be The Hanged Man's crow, or raven. The Hanged Man is already Izaiah Alnazar's patron Arcana.
* Contrary to popular belief that he's either an Aries or a Sagittarius in House Ignis, Blackquill was actually born under the star sign Gemini, which sorts him into House Ventus. This was subtly hinted by Sapphire Chauvera, as she says that Blackquill is often "two-faced" when talking to people.
* The Renaissance outfit that Izaiah imagined him in is a reimagine of **Kath Aguinaldo**'s time as a freshman in high school in her music class, where the boys in her group dressed up as how the males would dress in the 16th century.
	+ This could also be a reference to how Kath and **Austin Dy** changed The Arcana's setting from being set in the Renaissance era to the modern times, as they couldn't do that much research into a story.
* Neither of the writers expected Blackquill to rise to fame- they thought he will get hate for bullying Kellan Xalvador but the readers seemed to love him despite his harsh nature.
* Out of all the characters in The Arcana, Blackquill is the only one to:
	+ Be called by his last name by default; he only also calls everyone by their last names, but he's also the only one to do it, not including the professors.
	+ Have the mosty prominent and defined curly hair. Lucio Damaris has the second.
	+ Have a repeated accessory or paraphernalia by birthstone: the first to have an earring as an accessory is Kellan.
* Draco Malfoy from the *Harry Potter* franchise is the inspiration for Blackquill, and they share the same birthday, June 5th.