Sorry it took me a second to get back to you
@Pepper , I was a bit busy. I love that. I mean, I absolutely love it. I was instantly reminded of the Lost Children from the forest in Ocarina of Time. Boy or girl? Either is fine with me xD Avoid the talking to plants thing. But, being really good with animals would be awesome. Almost on a mystical level, but not in a way that's obviously magic. Leave that for the imagination.
Now, here's the thing. I don't see our characters, as children, going into the jungle very often. I plan on them doing it later on, but not until they have to find the final component. I mean, they're just kids. They'll get into trouble, but even they understand that it's dangerous out there. So, here's a concept. What if you play one of the younger siblings of one of our characters. I mean, younger than the rest. Maybe five or something like that? And you incessantly try and follow our group around at the beginning. Then, during the event at the end of Part One, your character disappears in the woods. Never to be seen again. The whole event that makes it so that the two mage characters discover their powers is when you disappear. You followed us into the jungle, even though you were supposed to stay home. Something bad happens (we'll figure that out later), the two characters discover magic and manage to save us, but not you.
Flash forward several years and we're all now teenagers. The two mages have been training for some time at the top of the treacherous mountain with the monks and priestesses of Star Temple, occasionally visiting the village during special events, but not often. The thief and my character are still friends, but we don't really get to talk to the other two that often anymore. Time and distance has separated us so we don't really know each other that well. But then one day, one of the characters at the temple sees something. They're going up to feed the monkeys or the birds at the temple, when they see something in the tree. A child! And it's your character! You're alive!
But you don't answer when spoken to, and you disappear into the tree and jump wildly off the side of the mountain and into the treetops below with your stolen food. Maybe you CAN speak, but you don't really remember us, so you didn't see a point. You like to spy on humans in the Temple and steal their food here and there, so you've been able to hear enough conversation to understand human speech, you just never bother to use it. Your friends, the animals, don't speak it, so why bother?
But that mage who sees you, quickly has to tell us. They come down to the village with the other mage character, telling us what they saw. I'm thinking having
@xKisses character see that would be best, since she's planning on playing the one that really doesn't like being at the Temple, anyways, so this is a great excuse to not be there. They come and tell us, and maybe we dont' fully believe at first for one reason or another. Maybe it's a painful memory and drudging up things like that because some rambunctious wanna-be priestesses told a story about wild, jungle children to be able to have a reason to leave the Temple for a bit isn't worth paying attention to. Different reactions could easily come out of something like that.
And that begins the start of Part Two, the teenage years. Here, we search for your character. We've grown since children, and we know our talents, even if we haven't really gained a grip on them, yet. This is where we discover less of our physical talents, and more of what our personality talents are. Our fears and weaknesses. The internal things that drive our character. We'll be outlining all the issues and traits that will create conflicts and solutions for our characters in Part Three, when we reach the main plot.
Or, of course, we don't have to go with that at all. As a side note, just because I seem to go off into a long idea and seem stuck on it, doesn't mean I am. It's just how I think. So don't ever be afraid to read one of those things and go, "scratch that Machina, and start over" xDD
Oh, and thank you for the compliment on my writing style, as well xDD I forgot to mention that.