Sycorax - Sycorax has good intentions, but she's really scatterbrained at heart. When she moved to Gaia to further her studies she was more than a little out of her depth, and only recently has she begun to feel comfortable in the company or so many powerful Gaian beings. Sycorax herself is a perfectly normal human. <i>Perfectly</i> normal. One hundred percent eldritch-free.
Sycorax would never have pictured herself as a mother, but she seems to have acquired 'children' in spite of herself. The first was her Mendel, Neon, who was basically a glorified science-project. She didn't do the best of jobs raising her tiny experimental teenager, but it taught her a lot of valuable lessons about taking care of other beings.
The woman is in her early twenties. She is perenially strapped for cash, because she works as a professional scholar. Sycorax can be quite bright, if a little lazy. However, almost all of the knowledge she has pretains to entirely useless theoretical subjects. She is living in Gaia right now in order to study the magical beings there, as her goal is to study the scientific theory behind magic. Sadly for Syc, she can't use any magic herself (much like a physicist who doesn't have the muscle to significantly move anything).
Right now, Sycorax is living in an old laboratory,'donated' to her, rent-free, by the infamous underworld scientist Jaes.
Neon - Sycorax's Mendel. Neon is a six-inch-tall glowing fairy, with a flamelike light-wings that allow her to fly. She is also a homoculus created from the element neon. Neon is cheerfully bellicose, and a bit of a daredevil. She's also hell on wheels with her tiny sword. Although she had a rough youth, Neon has become a mature-ish sort of woman, with an iron will and an indefateguable enthusiasm for all things "kickass". She is a tomboy and hates girly things.
Neon only visits home occasionally, now that the Mendels project has been cancelled and she's all grown up. She spends most of her time living with her boyfriend, the Mendel Iron.
Grus - A young boy who fell out of the sky. He is the personification of the constillation of the crane. Sycorax took him in, for lack of anything else to do with him. There's not a very good social services protocol for dealing with kids who fall out of the sky.
Grus is an extremely antisocial introvert. He likes nothing better than to hole up in his room with his books, for days on end. If he didn't have to eat, and Sycorax didn't make sure he got fresh air, he'd probably never come out. Grus' paranoia and shoddy social skills cost him friends, but he he has a lot of common sense for his age. This kid is four, going-on fourty. He'll probably end up a freaky nerd academic, just like his 'Mama'.
