The Magic of Science

Born in the technological land of Bosco, Gremalin Fen was abandoned as an infant and given that name by the orphanage due to one reason; she was born with horrible physical deformities and if it wasn’t for her countries technology she wouldn’t have lasted long in this world. Grema’s only gift from her parents was the magitech that kept her left organs working and the rest from spilling out of her body. Unfortunately she also lacked a left arm and leg, causing most her early childhood to her be bedbound until she could use prosthetics. Half of the reasons Grema never got adopted or made any friends in her childhood was because of these disabilities, but the other half was entirely her personality which could be summed up in one word; bitter.
From the moment she could understand what was happening, why she couldn’t do things other kids could do, why she was different, why she always had to rely on others, Grima became bitter with her fate. With the fair amount of bullying she got, what the popular media around her showed, the poor people on the street, he people who succeeded, the people who failed, and based upon the greatest people alive young Grema came to one conclusion: beautiful people are the only ones who succeed, an those who are ugly are born to fail. Grema knew herself to be ugly, thus she is bound to fail in life.

This ideal changed a bit when a few Bosco scientists heard of her disabilities and offered to upgrade her prosthetics. She became fascinated with their work and they became fascinated with her because it turned out she was not only a mage, but had regenerative abilities and unique blood. The scientists struck a deal with her; in return for researching her abilities and blood she was to receive the best education possible. Utterly fascinated with magitech and surprisingly full of ambition, Grema agreed and at the age of 8 left the orphanage.

She spent the next few years at Bosco’s best private school where Grema quickly found out she was a bit of a genius and quickly began skipping grades. This, her poorness, deformities and general bad personality made Grema very unpopular in the school and was constantly bullied. Unfortunately for those bullies Grema has not only a temper but also a spiteful side, leading to many fights during her schooldays, though there was people she was friendly with. During this time Grema changed her prior philosophy up a bit; society values beautiful people the most thus they get an easier time in life, while the uglier must work harder yet receive less. This caused her hatred for beautiful people to grow along with her bitterness of the unequal circumstances of birth in the world. So Grema turned to technology as a source of comfort and inspiration.

She graduated with a Master level Degree at the age of 15 and worked within the Bosco government labs as a magitech expert. This was one of the most joyful part of Grema’s life, surrounded by people who saw not only her appearance but her intelligence. Things went on like this for almost 6 years during which Grema constantly upgraded herself, until it all went downhill when she found out the research done on her was being used for scientifically unethical purposes. In the name of scientific pride Grema destroyed the research and the lab that held it. The Techno Council did not execute Grema due to her scientific contributions, instead they banished her from Bosco and made her swear a magical oath to not reveal any of its secrets she learned. Torn for the only place she knew Grema Fen headed to Fiore for a new beginning.

Since then she has failed many job application despite her past experince due to her explosive history. Thankfully Black Rose welcomed her with suprisingly open arms and at this time Grema is adjusting to her new enviorment and job.

Gremalin Fen, commonly known as Grema, was feeling grumpy. While this wasn’t and unusual situation at all, she actually had a legitimate reason for her dark mood for once. Ever since joining Black Rose she had been staying in their sorta guild hall- slash bar- slash inn- slash restaurant thingy for free, which was nice. The only thing was that Grema was expected to pay them back through non-job work. That would be perfectly fine with the mage if it wasn’t for the fact that instead of using her genius abilities to do actual useful things, her guild mates made Grema to menial chores instead!

‘Building character my ass.’ She fumed as the engineer marched down the streets of Era. This next thing they asked for was for the magitech mage to deliver a letter to another guild, Sabertooth. This errand was both better and worse than the tasks she had to do at the Inn. Better in that it was slightly more or a challenge. Worse because she was wasting her time travelling to Era when she could be researching, building her new house, or making more magitech items.

Thankfully the task of delivering the letter was simple. She merely left it with the barman and was one her way, relived to go back to Rose Garden. But something caught her attention on the way out. There was a blue haired man sitting on the guilds front steps, looking downtrodden.

“Eye of Magitech.” She mutters under her breath, slightly curious. Grema’s magitech left eye told her that this boy was a mage around the same power level, and had holder magic of some type. While it was imputing the information into her database Grema walked forward a bit, and the two made eye contact. The man had blue hair, almost glowing white skin, was wearing a blue parka, and of course was a beautiful person. ‘What the hell?! Are all mages beautiful people or something.' The masked person thinks angrily, and growls slightly outload.

“What are you looking at?” She couldn’t help at snapping at this rather innocent bystander.