Esper Hale-Lycan

**Esper Hale-Lycan** is the daughter of Headmaster Ender Hale and Leona Lycan. Burdened with being the child of two societally powerful people, she struggles with her identity; preferring to use her mother's surname despite not inheriting her mother's family curse. Traumatic events in her past have led her to become apprehensive of what the future holds, and she hopes Ember Moon will provide her with a fresh start.

## Biographical Information

### Relatives

* Ender Hale (father)
* Leona Hale-Lycan (mother)
* Owen Lycan (brother)
* Aliana Lycan (cousin)

## Academy Information

### Abilities

Psychic Emotional Reserve- She can read, extract, and store emotions. However, she cannot extract or store her own emotions, and excessive use of this power will take a toll on her mental health, as well as give her nausea and fatigue.

## Other

### Involved Arcs

* Professors Arc
* Rift Arc

## Personality

Having lived the majority of her life in her brother's shadow, Esper grew to be more of a follower than a leader. She tends to be reserved around strangers, and doesn't like to interact with people unless she absolutely has to. However, when it comes to close confidants and people she trusts, she is generally very open and enjoys spending time with friends. Esper has a competitive side to her, spending a lot of her free time learning new hobbies and trying to achieve greater goals for herself. Despite (or perhaps due to) her emotion-related power, she often has trouble identifying her own emotions and has regular bouts of emotional turmoil.

## Appearance

Esper stands at a height of 5'3", but she doesn't mind being short. She has silky black hair that she usually wears tied back in a high ponytail. Her hair is naturally straight, but she often curls it to create a wavy effect. The most unique physical characteristic that people tend to notice about Esper is her eyes. Born with pale grey and blank-looking eyes, she would have been deemed blind at birth had it not been known that her grandfather also had the same unusual eyes. Because of her strange colored eyes, she was often avoided by other children or pitied by adults who assumed she indeed was blind. Esper's wardrobe consists of mainly t-shirts and jeans, the former of which are all some shade of black, blue, or purple. As a child, she hated having to wear formal clothing.

## Quotes

* "In a world where magic exists, does nature even compare?"
* "Everyone is excited to see a quarter on the ground, but no one wants it when they find out what they thought was a quarter is just a rock. Quarters have actual value, but a rock? Those aren't special. Quarters can buy something, y'know? Rocks can't do that. I mean, in comparison to the rest of the world, does a singular rock even make a difference?"
* "I just wish I could go back in time and fix things. A lot of things, actually. But I suppose I wouldn't learn anything from that, would I?"
* "There's a lot to learn from the past. You can run from your past, but it will catch up to you eventually. You can forgive, but there's no use in trying to forget."
* “You have *no right* to tell me I can’t be friends with an Aldrich when you’re going behind my back making deals with someone who would betray us in a *heartbeat*.”

## Trivia

* Esper's name is short for Esperanza, which means "hope" in Spanish.
* Her Chinese name is 狼白玉 (láng bái yù), which roughly translates to "wolf of white jade".
* Originally, Kim was going to rp as Esper and Kai was going to rp as Owen.

## Gallery

Gacha versions of EsperOne of Esper's original picrew options