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Character rp history:
༉‧₊˚. council hall offices: lucien wyver [@bella] - lorelei delacroix [@aelin] (finished)
༉‧₊˚. lucien’s office: lucien wyver [@bella] - lorelei delacroix [@aelin] (finished)
༉‧₊˚. sol aureus club: eadric calico [@elizabeth] - elara calico [@aelin]
༉‧₊˚. club serpentine: clarissa clairmont [@kyleigh] - juliette rostova [@aelin]
༉‧₊˚. the campfire: alianna calico [@elizabeth] - alisa romanova [@aelin]
༉‧₊˚. the fighting ring: khaos sanguini [@alpha] - rosalind rostova [@aelin]
༉‧₊˚. sapphira’s office: sapphira daenerys [@alpha] - lorelei delacroix [@aelin] - lucien wyver [@bella]
༉‧₊˚. outer city path: lacey reinhart [@kyleigh] - juliette rostova [@aelin]
༉‧₊˚. the council room: maverick pari [@alpha] - adéla lafortézá [@aelin]
༉‧₊˚. cogbucks café: tris delacroix [@elizabeth] - arya ellington-wyver [@aelin]
༉‧₊˚. gingerlily library: isla rey [@aelin] - antonio stormvale [@bella]
༉‧₊˚. place + link: character [@user] - character [@user]
arya:
- 1 ongoing
lala:
- 2 finished
- 1 ongoing
- private log
- 3 letter threads
rosalind:
- 1 ongoing
- shared log with sisters
juliette:
- 2 ongoing
- shared log with sisters
celia:
- shared log with sisters
alisa:
- 1 ongoing
elara:
- 1 ongoing
- private log
lysa:
- 0
adéla:
- 1 ongoing
- 2 letter threads
megan:
- 0
elissa: (incomplete)
- 0
daphne: (incomplete)
- 0
alaia jade: (incomplete)
- 0
tyene:
- 1 letter thread
sua:
- 1 letter thread
grim: (incomplete)
- 0
isla:
- 1 ongoing
cleo:
- 0
(view spoiler)
OMG IT WORKS YOU GUYS CAN’T SEE BUT IT WORKS
does this work? what about this?
wait this is so cool what
wait does this work if i hover with a cursor? time to get laptop out tomorrow
༉‧₊˚. arya ellington-wyver.
arya: [adjective - sanskrit] noble, honourable.
ellington-wyver: [name - voxthain] the combined surnames of two houses.twelve
female
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
don’t let the hard days win.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
they say a line is a dot that went for a walk.
if i ever went for a walk, i’d be the queen in a blink.
arya ellington-wyver. an innocent, lovely little child. or so everyone thinks. you would have thought, an adopted daughter of fae and topaz ellington-wyver would be the perfect lady. but no. arya is wild and adventurous, and has developed a keen interest in swordplay and fighting. she often acts rashly and without thinking, but does she care? no. she is a lovely and kind child, but does not fit in with what society expects of her at all. in the place of a perfect child who sits upright all the time and smiles to the point where her cheeks hurt, there is a wild spirit running around the training grounds with a sword in her hand, a bow in the other and a quiver strapped to her back. arya loves to play rebel, and she really does not care about what others think of her and her ‘weird’ hobbies.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
every hardship you endure just makes you stronger, they say.
great for me.
that means i’m already stronger than most people alive.
family.
adoptive mother: topaz ellington-wyver [@rory]
adoptive mother: fae ellington-wyver [@isabella]
adoptive sister(s): marianne ellington-wyver [@kyleigh]
adoptive uncles: lucien wyver [@bella], julian ellington [@elizabeth]
birth mother: elissa leclaire [@aelin]
birth father: robert smith [npc] †
friends.
- tris delacroix [@elizabeth]
enemies.
none.yet
significant other.
none.
pets.
nymeria [wolf]
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
what i lack in physicality i make up with sheer willingness and talent.
but you must not forget my thirst to learn.
a thirst to prove myself.
a great warrior may have all the talent in the world, but they are nothing without willpower.
and occasionally, a stroke of luck.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
abjuration - level ii:
nondetection (muffles sound, obscures sight slightly), freedom of movement (parkour ease, better agility)
enchantment - level ii:
animal friendship (make an animal more friendly or put them at ease by mere suggestion, especially in aggressive encounters)
at cogworks, arya works mostly on developing her abjuration skills.
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
sword - ‘needle’:
arya is extremely talented with a sword and it is her main weapon.
bow and arrow:
she can shoot rather accurately, but occasionally her aim isn’t that good, or arya is simply tired and doesn’t have the energy to hold the bow properly.
nymeria:
nymeria, arya’s wolf, isn’t a proper weapon, but she will jump to arya’s defence whenever she is needed and follows her lead.
༉‧₊˚. history.
one only lives by seeing and living outside the box. breaking rules.
but what most aim for are to become the rule makers.
me? i’ve lived outside the box my entire life.
i’m aiming for the stars.
all arya could remember about her birth parents were that they were poor, and couldn’t afford to keep her. but they had loved her, she knew this. suddenly, one day the house caught on fire and killed her parents. arya escaped - but barely, and on her shoulder, there is a burn mark that vaguely resembles a paw print, and it has been there to this day. therefore, without anything except a desire to live, arya took to the streets, but not for long. soon, she ran right into topaz and fae ellington-wyver, and they were surprised at this four year old fending for herself on the streets successfully. before she knew it, arya was part of the ellington-wyver family.
little did she know that her birth mother had actually been elissa leclaire, head of house leclaire. she had never played a part in bringing up arya, instead giving her away to the streets for some random commoners to pick her up - which they did, only it was their house that went up in flames. to this day, arya remains blissfully unaware of her ties to house leclaire and more nobility, and elissa remains unaware as to who arya is.
she soon forgot about heradoptivebirth parents and life on the streets as she adjusted to her new life as the daughter of two very noble and honourable women. but, arya soon found that the life of a lady didn’t suit her. ‘that’s not me’, she would often say. she refused to do what was expected of her, but surprisingly her parents supported her, and she loved them for it. when arya was eight, she was wandering the woods with her sword, needle, and ran into a wolf pup. it was all alone and bore a scar on its coat of fur, and it wasn’t afraid of arya’s sword. then, all of a sudden, arya saw herself in the wolf and took pity on it. they had both been hurt and abandoned at a young age and had to fend for themselves, and both were unafraid of anything. instead of pointing needle at the wolf, arya scooped it up and headed home with it.
she had no idea what taz and fae were going to say, but she was still astonished when they let her keep the wolf. her uncle lucien was less enthusiastic about the idea, and often avoided the wolf as much as possible. nymeria - arya’s wolf - followed her everywhere, and even slept with arya. she was very loyal to arya and defended her whenever she could, even at cogworks. for arya, she valued nymeria’s life above her own, and as nymeria would defend arya with her life, arya would defend nymeria with hers. she had saved nymeria, and nymeria meant everything to her. it meant that she had done something worthy and saved a life.
arya is a student of cogworks and her homeroom is amethyst. she loves cogworks and especially the fighting lessons, but she doesn’t really have very many friends. a true lone wolf at heart, like nymeria. and she didn’t particularly want that many friends anyway. as long as she had nymeria, arya was happy.
༉‧₊˚. lorelei delacroix.
lorelei: [name - german] a siren who sang fishermen to their deaths.
delacroix: [name - french] ‘of the cross’.twenty-seven
october thirty-one
voxthain
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
i don’t follow the rules.
i make them.
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. personality.
there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.
any bad word you usually associate with people you dislike, that’s probably a fitting description for lorelei (lala - to friends and family only). manipulative? yup. annoying? yup. toxic? yup. selfish? yup. arrogant? yup. snobbish? yup. you get the idea.
lala does not give a care about anyone’s feelings, not after she was hurt so much she couldn’t go back to being normal.not that she was ever normal, of course.she used to be the brightest ray of sunshine, but years around toxic people and being in a toxic family finally started influencing her. now, she goes around hating everyone and everything. act like an angel, hate like a devil. all people see is the nice, deceptive outer shell of her, but inside? it’s a devil, hiding a scared child. but mostly devil.until lucien turns up.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
words are never enough.
it’s deeds i want.
deeds, and care. a love deep enough to consume the universe.
family.
mother: evelyn delacroix [@kyleigh]
father: ezekiel delacroix [@charlie]
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): athena delacroix [@bella]
cousin(s): draven delacroix [@bella], elliot delacroix [@bella]
aunt(s): esmeralda delacroix [@bella]
uncle(s): oliver delacroix [npc] †
will be updated as time goes along and members get made.
friends.
elara calico [@aelin].
enemies.
lucien wyver [@bella].
significant other.
none. [to be: lucien wyver]
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
the strongest people aren’t those who wield the most power.
the strongest people are those who are strong in the heart.
those who stare death in the face and laugh.
those who never give up.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
illusion - level iii:
disguise self (difficulty depending on the length of time and complexity of the disguise)
enchantment - level iii:
charm (making an entity more friendly in a subtle and temporary way), command (temporarily stop someone from moving or freezing them in place)
transmutation - level i:
mending (fixing small wounds or ailments on living things or nonliving objects)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
sword - ‘brightroar’:
lala loves fighting it out when she is annoyed or mad. slashing and stabbing is her go to way of de-stressing.
bow and arrow:
let’s face it. lala can’t aim when firing. otherwise, no problem!
pistol:
surprisingly, lala’s pistol aim isn’t actually that bad, making shooting one of her preferred weapons.
༉‧₊˚. history.
history is all man-written.
who cares about the past?
live the present.
the past is just a burden.
after all, you only live once. make the most of it.
[trigger warning: suicide, murder]
lala grew up in the notorious delacroix family, a noble family of great wealth and an even bigger will in voxthain. like all children in voxthain, lala attended cogworks school and remained there until she was eighteen, which was nine years ago. since she was small, lala had always been too smart for her own good. her grades were all that mattered to her, and this worried her parents. after all, the delacroixs weren’t known for their amazing brains, but more for their amazing mouths and manipulation skills. but lala, like the special kid she was, became the nerd of the family. instead of spending precious time bonding with friends, she sat by herself with an economics book in front of her, or a military one.
when lala was fourteen, she suddenly had the idea to create, launch and run the school’s newspaper. and of course, lala being lala, this fantasy quickly became reality, and poof! the school newspaper was born. many people wrote for it, and many others read it, becoming a very popular school thing. people were surprised at it being a delacroix who started the newspaper, but upon seeing studious lala, they thought that she was a cute, innocent, well-intended and harmless girl with a huge brain. if they saw lala now, they wouldn’t believe the two were the same person. when she left the school, lala’s beloved newspaper passed to her cousin, draven.
of course, all lala’s success made her much more popular at cogworks, but also prompted lots of jealousy. thanks to her parents, lala only talked to those with famous connections and names and the toxic and snobbish people that belonged high up in society in order to gain fame amongst them and promote the delacroix family. she turned down friendship offers with people like lucien wyver, whose house was crumbling and not worth being associated with. but naturally, all this time with horrible people started influencing the ray of sunlight also known as lala delacroix.
but then suddenly, when she was sixteen, a bully decided that she’d had enough spotlight time, and he was jealous of her popularity, happiness and brains. he knew that if she got worse grades, she would lose her self-confidence, and she would lose popularity. and the only way to decrease her grades were to distract her, so he started feigning feelings for her and started fake dating her. but lala, being blind to things like real friendship and being surrounded by false friends everyday, didn’t see that he really didn’t care about her. the poor girl took it all very seriously. and because she cared, genuinely, her grades started decreasing as she worried about her new ‘boyfriend’ as he kept on getting ‘sick’ on exam days.
lala had one true friend, a girl called anna. anna, despite not being in a noble family, cared about lala. she wrote for the newspaper, and would often check in on lala’s health - both mental and physical. and she was ‘dating’ lala’s ‘boyfriend’s’ best friend, a person more horrible than lala’s ‘boyfriend’. the girls were both hopeless romantics and they believed in their ‘boyfriends’.
until, of course, two years into their relationship and their last year at cogworks, they finally caught the two boys cheating on them with prostitutes. lala was so angry she struggled to process it all. but anna was devastated. she had given up everything for this boy, only to find he had been toying her all along. and anna ended her own life by jumping off cogworks’s tallest tower. that was the last straw for lala. her hatred for both boys finally spilled over the top when she found anna’s limp body, and anna being an orphan, she had no family to bury her, so lala had to do it herself. she buried her best friend with her writing notebook, a photo of the two and the promise that the boys would pay.
never again would lala be weak.
never again would she be defenceless.
never again would she be manipulated.
oh no, she would be the one manipulating others.
screw kindness. screw being a model student.
she was a delacroix.
lala poisoned her ‘boyfriend’ the next day after anna’s death. she then also turned on anna’s ‘boyfriend’, but only after he had succumbed to grief because of his best friend’s death. stuck in her fury and thirst for revenge, lala changed. she became the person her parents had always wanted her to be, and used her cunningness and manipulation to earn her a position as a councillor. she always had a fake charm around her, but inside was the monster that would never rest until every revenge of hers was achieved. she would never forget anna. she would fight for those like her and anna. she would be the change the world needed.
*squeals* the AESTHESTIC>>>
HEHEHHEHEHE i’m really enjoying making her bahahah
but.. you're making her blonde?
yeh… her fc is actually dark haired, but the character she portrayed is blonde so she’s actually dark I should probably specify that
oh. so... is she supposed to have dark hair? in that case you could maybe use different pics?
I suppose so but I like her cersei lannister era I think it was her best and CERSEI!!!
GUYS I QUOTED LORD VOLDEMORT *le gasp*
it’s the bellatrix vibes y’all lol
actually I might keep lorelei blonde, it fits the vibe of ‘outside angel, inside demon’
but, bellatrix has dark hair... and lucien is blond.... we don't want them giving malfoy ugh, lucien is far too close to lucius lol
ok i have changed it ;)well not really i just added stuff
lol i need to find a pic of her with dark hair now
well i have one on the template but unfortunately cersei lannister is blonde throughout the entire series 😭
༉‧₊˚. arya ellington-wyver.
the ellington-wyver estate; another normal day.
arya sighed as nymeria refused to go away, much to her uncle lucien’s dismay. “that’s not you,” was all she said.
༉‧₊˚. lorelei delacroix.
cogworks; the day of anna’s death.
she would never let anyone get the better of her again. lala’s hand didn’t even shake as she poured the poison.
༉‧₊˚. rosalind rostova.
rosalind: [name - german] lovely rose.
rostova: [name - russian] a family name.nineteen
september eight
asterath - snake (double agent)
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
my code name is fortune for a reason.
fortune favours the bold.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
lies upon lies upon lies.
that’s who am i, is it not?
rosalind is quite… mysterious. people who look at her sisters and think they’re sneaky definitely have not come across rosalind. our lady fortune is quite the masterpiece. her cunningness is what lets her progress so far without anyone catching her. before anyone has realised that rosalind has made her move, she is already ten steps ahead of them and on her next mission. her reputation as both fortune and mina lang, a sword fighter at the ring, is quite astounding. people fear rosalind, and that’s without knowing that mina lang and fortune are the same person. rosalind always thinks ahead, and according to her, the perfect alias is one that nearly matches up perfectly to her own true story. it is harder to slip up that way. therefore, everyone knows mina lang has two sisters. they know fortune is a skilled fighter. but rosalind was never the one to fear. that’s her sister juliette. rosalind just has good brains. she’s careful, and never lets anyone get the better of her, or find out who she is. in reality, she’s a lovely girl who is kind and caring, but prioritises missions over sentiments.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
i don’t care about anyone or anything is what i tell them.
again, lies.
family.
mother: alessia rostova †
father: lorenzo rostov †
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): juliette rostova [@aelin], celia rostova [@aelin]
friends.
none.yet
enemies.
none.yet
significant other.
none.
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
the best way to commit a crime is when you’re so subtle they don’t even notice you did it.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
abjuration - level ii:
nondetection (muffles sound, obscures sight slightly), freedom of movement (parkour ease, better agility)
transmutation - level ii:
vision (allowing someone to see clearly in the dark or grants resistance to bright lights)
illusion - level i:
minor illusion (creating a sound or light that isn’t actually there)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
pistol:
rosalind doesn’t really like weapons like pistols, but will use them if she has to.
poison:
rosalind’s best weapon is poison. she poisons literally everything, from vases which can kill if you touch them, hair pins, blades, everything. it is her main choice of weapon as anyone can succumb to it, and you can’t defend yourself from it unless you know what it is. it is also untraceable, which is important for her undercover work.
blades:
rosalind uses blades as a last resort, but she is pretty skilled with them nonetheless. she doesn’t tend to use them, lest it reveal her alias as mina lang, a sword fighter at the ring. stick them with the pointy end is what she says.
༉‧₊˚. history.
i’ll make sure the world remembers me.
everyone has heard of rosalind before, but perhaps not by her true name. the snakes know of her as ‘fortune’, her code name. this code name has spread across asterath as people claim she is an assassin working for a covert branch of club serpentine, but she is just a normal snake, officially a night rider spy. rumour has made it that fortune is a double agent stationed within the night rider ranks, and naturally rosalind was called to investigate fortune, or rather, she had to investigate herself, which her sisters laughed about when she told them. and of course, rosalind ‘couldn’t find’ fortune, causing people to call her ‘lady fortune’, the one that couldn’t be found by the night riders’ best spy, so she must be as great as a lady.
others know her as a completely different alias. mina lang, a sword fighter at the fighting ring. the perfect place to hear the juiciest gossip of late, and also polish her hand to hand fighting skills. no one would ever suspect her as being rosalind ivanova, a famous night rider spy, let alone lady fortune. she reports back to both scorpions and snakes, but the scorpions get limited information and believable half-truths, and snakes get everything. among the scorpions, she is known as rosalind ivanova as she wouldn’t dare let her true last name out into the open, not when her notorious sister juliette was out and about, scaring the living daylights out of people.
rosalind was born the eldest of three sisters, to a family that had just recently joined club serpentine. rosalind was naturally closer to her younger sister celia as the two were twins, but she couldn’t help but like mischievous juliette when she came along a year after they were born. the sisters had grown up fighting, and training to be true snakes, but they soon all developed different talents. rosalind’s was listening in on conversations and remembering exactly what was said in them. spying, basically. she could keep a secret, and was a good actress.
but her physical strength was lacking. therefore, when rosalind was ten, she was sent to practice to become a sword fighter. she was only supposed to be practising, and return to the snakes once her course was over, but soon she realised it was the hub of all information. she could overhear plenty to do with all sorts of gangs, and she was skilled enough to be a fighter there for a long while. therefore, she kept training, and when she was sixteen, rosalind made her debut in the ring. she loved it there.
a month or two after her debut into the ring, rosalind’s mother suddenly passed away on a mission and her father wasn’t the same anymore. a scorpion had killed her, he claimed. he became more violent, and demanded revenge for his wife. in one of his fits, he called all of his children over, and he had three innocent people captive. he told them that in order to become proper snakes, they had to learn to be ruthless. rosalind was a sword fighter, though. she killed the young boy she had without a doubt, and returned his body to his family. juliette killed hers even faster than rosalind herself, and did the same. but celia had always been the soft-hearted one, and she couldn’t bring herself to harm the little girl she had. her father threatened to kill celia’s sisters, rosalind and juliette, instead, and celia panicked. she killed their father, instead. shortly after, celia fled to the arachniads, who took her in. juliette took their father’s position, and rosalind was determined to avenge their mother, when her father couldn’t.
rosalind approached the night riders shortly after celia fled, telling them of her work at the fighting ring and why she should be their spy. a year after she joined, rosalind found the scorpion who had killed her mother, and sent juliette to finish the man off, in which she did. rosalind then found out why her mother had died - she had played the same role as rosalind herself and had been caught. her mother had been the information leak amongst the scorpions, and rosalind realised that she had to be much more careful than she had originally thought. if anyone found her still in touch with both her sisters or her true allegiance, rosalind would meet the same fate as her poor mother.
༉‧₊˚. juliette rostova.
juliette: [name - latin] youthful.
rostova: [name - russian] a family name.eighteen
female
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
what’s in a name?
that which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.
just like a person.
called by any other name, they are still themselves at heart.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
these violent delights have violent ends.
i’m just afraid they’ll never end.
everyone knows juliette, whether they would like to or not. juliette rostova, sansa chen, romeo, they’re all the same person. she is cunning and sly, and thrives in the world of deception and lies. she is one of the most dangerous snakes, and yet no one realises that she is acting until the act is over, and sometimes people still don’t link the act to her. she disguises herself to fit in, and she is every bit the spy her sister rosalind is - maybe even better. juliette knows when to listen and when to speak, and leaves enough clues behind to direct people in the wrong direction, and yet still let them know that it was her. she has many faces, but she isn’t afraid of anything, and wears each one like a solider would wear armour. she knows she can get through things and uses her extreme intelligence and quick thinking to manoeuvre and manipulate situations so everything goes her way.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
don’t waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it.
good for me, i never waste anything.
least of all my love.
family.
mother: alessia rostova †
father: lorenzo rostov †
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): rosalind rostova [@aelin], celia rostova [@aelin]
friends.
none.yet
enemies.
none.yet
significant other.
none.
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
go wisely and slowly.
those who rush stumble and fall.
go so slowly and so wisely that they don’t even know what’s happening before it has.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
conjuration - level iii:
teleporting (harder the further the distance)
enchantment - level v:
suggestion (make someone do something by sheer will), zone of truth (make someone tell the truth)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
pistol:
juliette never misses. she has a pistol on her at all times and isn’t afraid to use it. shoot first, questions later.
blades:
she literally sleeps with a blade under her pillow. if she has run out of bullets or for some peculiar reason cannot use her guns, juliette turns to blades, and she is incredibly talented with them.
poison:
juliette would rather not use poison (that’s her sister rosalind) and it’s too secretive of a weapon to be her. juliette is playing the open game. she needs people to know that those crimes were committed by juliette rostova (and not any of her aliases). however, as a last resort, she will use it, and she poisons (nearly) all of her blades too.
༉‧₊˚. history.
sometimes even i don’t know what i’m doing until i’ve done it.
and by then, it’s nearly always too late to go back.
juliette’s identity remains a mystery to most. all the crimes she’s committed are under the name ‘juliette rostova’, her true name, but when she’s interrogating (subtly) or spying or mingling, that’s all under her alias ‘sansa chen’. sansa chen is a respectable lady of asterath and no one knows how she climbed to the top of society from nothing and even has somewhat of a reputation in voxthain. her code name is ‘romeo’(romeo and juliet, who am i kidding lol)and everyone thinks romeo is a man, so great for juliette.
born the youngest of three chaotic sisters, juliette grew up in the shadow of her sisters, and always strove to be better than them. she practised fighting extra hard, honed in on her magic with much more concentration than the twins combined and pulled the majority of the dark pranks against their parents. soon, she was the best fighter, actress, lady, infiltrator and (depending on who you ask) the best spy out of her sisters, and a valuable asset to the snakes.
when her mother died, juliette passed her father’s test very very quickly (see rosalind’s history for info), and didn’t shun celia for her choice. the three sisters only became closer, even though they were more far apart as they each pursued their own paths. juliette does miss her parents sometimes, but refuses to think about them to focus on whatever her task is. ‘sansa chen’ is often sent to spy on and infiltrate any council meetings and she often goes above and infiltrates voxthain courts. no one really knows how she manages it, but she always has her ways. she also owns a home in voxthain where her sisters can visit her discreetly and it is a relatively safe place to meet up.
aside from spying and infiltrating, juliette is also often sent to question people (as either ‘romeo’ or her true self) as she possesses the ability to make people tell the truth. and when she isn’t doing any of this work, she is often sent to do the club’s dirty work as an assassin. juliette does not mind killing and it improves her reputation as a cold, ruthless killer on the streets of asterath. juliette often leaves a petal of a white rose somewhere near the crime scene so people will know it’s her.
༉‧₊˚. celia rostova.
celia: [name - latin] heavenly.
rostova: [name - russian] a family name.nineteen
september eight
asterath
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
never judge a book by its cover.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
imagine if there was a world full of love and peace.
could the frail human race survive such a pure world?
i doubt it. we can only destroy.
celia liked to think of herself as gentle. the ice to her sisters’s fires. she was always the least violent out of the three sisters, preferring to use words and reason as her weapon. celia now works as an intelligence operative under the spiders - exactly what she was meant for. however she can be feisty and aggressive, and when she cares she cares deeply. celia has always preferred logic over emotion or action, and when she does something, it is usually what she perceives as morally right, even when she defies others. she will do anything for those she loves, even if it includes causing chaos and going against everything she stands for. celia can be quite sneaky, and keeps her identity a secret to all. she is a very careful person, and every step of hers is a calculated one. though she can be surprisingly impulsive if it is something to do with a loved one.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
love - a hopeful thing. a mere flicker of light. a spark is all that’s needed.
one show of affection goes a long way.
family.
mother: alessia rostova †
father: lorenzo rostov †
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): rosalind rostova [@aelin], juliette rostova [@aelin]
friends.
none.yet
enemies.
none.yet
significant other.
none.
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
how can you ever hope to protect others when you cannot protect yourself?
and yet, i always strive to protect others.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
transmutation - level iv:
fabricate (creating a new prosthetic or object from thin air)
illusion - level iii:
disguise self (difficulty depending on the length of time and complexity of the disguise)
evocation - level i:
basic summoning of elements (cooling a hot drink, lighting a match without a fire source), creating a gust of wind for dramatic entrance
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
knife:
celia likes knives as they are quiet and easy to hide.
pistol:
celia’s preferred weapon is a pistol as her aim is great and it’s quick. she sleeps with one under her pillow every night in case of a sudden attack, or if she needs to make a quick exit (her identity is leaked) and she doesn’t have a weapon.
garrotte wire:
she stole this one from her sister juliette as juliette goes around wearing a garrotte wire necklace - turns out it can really come in handy!
explosives:
whenever celia needs to make a scene, explosives are her best friend. she loves making these and always keeps a couple in her bag.
༉‧₊˚. history.
life is like a story. the ink splatters everywhere on the page.
the ink forms something resembling a shape.
you look, and—
celia was born the younger twin of rosalind and an elder sister to juliette. she was always overshadowed by them, but would go to the ends of lux to protect them. she had a wit to match both of her sisters and if she practised more, her weaponry would not be any worse than theirs. when the three were together, celia would always be the one working at the kettle and making tea for everyone whilst her sisters worried about their latest assignments.
celia had a pretty peaceful childhood, or so she thought. everything was fine. she was happy, and formed unbreakable bonds with her sisters. juliette adored celia’s lovingness and calmness and rosalind adored celia’s kindness and wit. her parents used to call juliette the glue of the family, but it was really celia. even if she was panicking like hell, she would act calm for the sake of her sisters. without celia, the rostov family would be in shambles, and she knew it.
a month or two after her sister rosalind’s debut into the fighting ring, their mother suddenly passed away on a mission and her father wasn’t the same anymore. a scorpion had killed her, he claimed. he became more violent, and demanded revenge for his wife. in one of his fits, he called all of his children over, and he had three innocent people captive. he told them that in order to become proper snakes, they had to learn to be ruthless. rosalind was a sword fighter, though. she killed the young boy she had without a doubt, and returned his body to his family. juliette killed hers even faster than rosalind, and did the same. but celia had always been the soft-hearted one, and she couldn’t bring herself to harm the little girl she had. her father threatened to kill her sisters, rosalind and juliette, instead, and she panicked and killed their father, instead.
shortly after, celia fled to the arachniads, who took her in. juliette took their father’s position, and rosalind was determined to avenge their mother, when her father couldn’t. celia soon fit into the spiders like a jigsaw piece with its neighbours and no one remembered where she had come from or her real name. her code name was jade as she always wore a jade pendant around her neck - her parents’s favourite colour - to remind her of what she had done to end up there. it weighed on her conscience 24/7, but celia had learnt to live with it and was now fine with taking people’s lives, but she would much rather not. around the spiders, celia was known as just ‘celia’, claiming she was an orphan and had no idea what her surname was. she still keeps in contact with her sisters and often visits juliette in her house in voxthain.
celia is very happy in the arachniads as they are neutral. she couldn’t ever work for something evil like the snakes, especially with the fact that she is wanted by the snakes for murder. to evade capture, celia’s hair is dyed red and she grew it out longer than before. celia also wasn’t meant for something with literally no purpose - the scorpions. working as an intelligence operative in a neutral but important gang was celia’s dream, and now she’s living it.
༉‧₊˚. rosalind rostova.
house of rostov; the day of her father’s death.
rosalind didn’t bat an eye as she heard celia’s gun. she knew where her sister had pointed it. and she was proud.
༉‧₊˚. juliette rostova.
house of rostov; the day of her father’s death.
juliette grinned as the gunshot ripped through the air. “someone finally grew up.”
༉‧₊˚. celia rostova.
house of rostov; the day of her father’s death.
her hand was surprisingly steady. “i’m sorry father. but this is best for all of us.” her finger traced the trigger once last time, and celia pulled.
༉‧₊˚. alisa natasha (tasha) romanova.
alisa: [name - hebrew] joy.
natasha: [name - russian] born on christmas day.
romanova: [name - russian] a family name.seventeen
december twenty-two
runalithe (formerly kainan)
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
don’t judge. just watch, listen, and remember. and never forget.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
“rohan, if you were to describe me in one word, what would it be?”
rohan smiled. “unpredictable.”
“i was looking for something like ‘insanely smart’ or ‘devastatingly beautiful.”
he ruffled my hair. “those are two words each, alisochka.”
alisa (known as tasha amongst the runalithe squad) is a very sneaky and cheeky little thing. no one would have expected a 17 year old to end up as the runalithe squad second in command, but alisa did, and there must have been a reason for that. she is smart and resourceful and uses everything to her advantage, especially people. who would expect a ray of sunshine to backstab them? most of the squad has no idea how such an innocent and naive girl ended up as their second in command, but that’s only because alisa has never told them. having grown up in violent and modern kainan, a city near to runalithe and like asterath, she learnt how to be silent and keep secrets from a very small age, and she developed a knack for spying and squeezing into very small spaces that no one would think a human could fit into. alisa’s mind is like a labyrinth - continually storing new information into every corner she can find. she just watches, but never forgets. everyone sees her as the happy, bubbly baby of the squad.
being the second in command for runalithe, one would expect alisa to be very organised, but just as her brother rohan used to say, she is probably the most unpredictable person ever. if she can have her favourite food for breakfast, she’ll still choose simple bread and butter, just because. no one knows what goes on in that mind of hers, least of all alisa herself. but she is very creative and a quick-thinker, and surprisingly not that bad at leading, even though most of the crew has no idea why they should listen to her when artemis - the leader - for some reason isn’t doing her job. alisa has a certain way of getting people to like her and her natural charm is one of her many weapons, so people often follow her orders without questioning why, simply because (and also because they can tell that she is very loyal and dedicated to the cause). alisa is the type of person who will suddenly appear out of nowhere and make a random remark - most likely a cold or funny one. during an important meeting about killing people, alisa would be the type of person to rudely interrupt and say ‘do you have any bread? i’m starving.’
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
pain never goes away. you just have to learn to live with it.
family.
mother: katarina romanova †
father: nikolai romanov †
brother(s): rohan romanov †
sister(s): n/a
cousin(s): dimitri romanov
friends.
- beaker
alisa would say beaker is her friend, just because. she finds beaker cute and just a little ball of fluff for a distraction, and a definite liability to the squad - but then again the crew see alisa herself as a liability to the squad sometimes and she doesn’t like it one bit, which is why she likes beaker as she thinks they can relate.
- lumi
alisa has always been a cat person, but lumi is just so amazing that she can’t help but love her. intelligent and outgoing? sounds just like alisa herself.
- cookie
cookie isn’t exactly alisa’s best friend, but she likes to think of everyone as her friend, because that way she isn’t going to worry about making impressions or how to get at them this time. she knows not to provoke cookie and will ignore cookie most of the time - which is what the cat wants, which is why cookie doesn’t mind alisa half the time. but the occasional treat is given, of course.
- emilie [@bella]
alisa’s work doesn’t actually clash with emilie’s so they don’t tend to interact when working but in lunch breaks and rests, they tend to hangout. alisa likes emilie because she’s friendly and doesn’t tend to poke around her work - unlike other members of the squad - and they are relatively close in age so alisa is happy to chat with emilie.
enemies.
none.yet
neutral relationships.
- artemis [@elizabeth]
alisa tends to avoid artemis as much as possible. their relationship is… strained. she knows artemis suspects her and doesn’t trust her, and she is also sceptical of artemis as she thinks artemis is hiding something very important, but doesn’t know what. if they have to talk, then they will - and get into arguments along the way - but other than that, they just avoid each other and honestly don’t mind each other.
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
dragging me somewhere i don’t want to go is like getting an upset cat to go take a bath.
my life, my own rules.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
illusion - level iv:
invisibility (depending on how long and how many entities are under the spell; you are still a physical entity)
enchantment - level iii:
charm (making an entity more friendly in a subtle and temporary way), command (temporarily stop someone from moving or freezing them in place)
abjuration - level ii:
nondetection (muffles sound, obscures sight slightly), freedom of movement (parkour ease, better agility)
transmutation - level i:
mending (fixing small wounds or ailments on living things or nonliving objects)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
being sneaky:
not an official weapon? says who? of course it’s an official weapon! you can eavesdrop on conversations, witness things you ought not to, do things you shouldn’t do. and it’s not an official weapon? well, it’s alisa preferred weapon, official or not. (it better be official.)
pistol:
alisa has perfect aim, but that doesn’t mean she likes shooting. guns make such a loud noise you can’t be sneaky with a gun, and they’re hard to hide, but she will shoot if she has to.
knife:
at least one can be sneaky with a knife. it’s silent, and easy to hide, which are great bonuses for being sneaky. alisa is horrendous at throwing knives, but as long as you stick ‘em with the pointy end, who cares about the in between? not her, at least.
explosives:
you have to be sneaky to plant one of these, granted, but as soon as you do the planting, what then? you’re not being sneaky anymore. at least they make a huge scene and that lets you be sneaky again, and god does alisa love chaos.
driving:
not a weapon, i know. alisa just likes to claim she can drive… but in reality cannot. she knows what each of the buttons do but has never actually taken to the road before, meaning that when she drives… we don’t talk about how every time she tried to drive she ended up crashing within ten minutes. eleven, actually, is her record.
༉‧₊˚. history.
i’ve found living in the shadows is a very good idea.
everyone notices you when you come out, but it’s nice to disappear every once in a while.
continued.
༉‧₊˚. history.
i’ve found living in the shadows is a very good idea.
everyone notices you when you come out, but it’s nice to disappear every once in a while.
alisa was born to a notorious gangster family from kainan - a city well-known for being controlled by gangs like asterath in faerûn. her older brother - rohan - was 6 years older than her, and always played the part of protective older brother for alisa, leading to the two being very close. they did everything together, and rohan taught her lots of what she knows and follows now.
kainan was a city not too far from runalithe, but alisa grew up distanced from the big city, growing up as second-heir to her parents’ gangster empire they had inherited from their ancestors in kainan. their gang was called the scarlets, but there was also a rival gang in the city called the emeralds. everyday, the scarlets were focused on how to best the emeralds and how to gain land from them, making acquaintances and planting spies to watch their every move, and also keeping an eye out for any potential emerald spies in amongst their own ranks.
since birth, alisa has practised her gift of being sneaky. sneaking into official meetings even her brother wasn’t allowed in? check. hiding in the most smallest and unexpected of places just to prank rohan? check. gathering information and actually knowing more about the current state of kainan and the emeralds than their parents? triple check. alisa was having the time of her life living as a child in gangster kainan, and so was her brother. if anyone asked her why her pistol aim was so accurate, she’d reply “it’s because my brother taught me.” if anyone asked about her knife throwing skills, she’d say “it’s because my brother died before he could teach me.”
which leads us onto the next topic. when alisa was thirteen, life couldn’t have been better. her sneaking skills were getting better, she was a lot more talented herself and she actually knew what she was going to do with various pieces of information. and plus, rohan was 19, and had gotten himself a girlfriend, which meant one more person for alisa to prank and scare to death. until her parents and brother went on an important trading mission to nearby runalithe.
they never came back.
she was devastated, to say the least. after crying her heart out (which she will now fervently deny - alisa romanova never cries) she tried to claim and run the gang herself - she was, after all, heir apparent - but her cousin dimitri laughed in her face and tried to take over the gang. the scarlets, of course, all supported the 20 year old man (who even tried to take away rohan’s claim when he was alive) over the 13 year old girl they barely even saw. and just like that, alisa became a stranger to her own gang. dimitri - who wanted to consolidate his claim over the gang - offered up a reward for whoever could give him alisa romanova - dead or alive - and the emeralds had also always wanted her - dead or alive. alisa had no choice but to flee her home.
alisa faked her death and fled to an international trading hub - the small township of venzhu - on the coast of faerûn where the shadowfog has not hit yet. there, she lived in a modest apartment and found a maester from the sister cities who taught her some magic and trained her in more weaponry. she learnt to stop speaking in the kainan dialect of their language - speaking the language perfectly normally except for a hint of an asterathi accent which she picked up from her maester.
after 4 years of training and following her maester’s death, alisa was finally ready to move on. her mind and skills had all been honed, but she wasn’t about to return to her home city which had kicked her out. there was nothing for her in quiet venzhu either, and the sister cities were too far away for alisa to want to go there. so there was only one logical place to go to: runalithe. the place where her family had perished.
alisa was determined to avenge her family against the shadowfog which had consumed them. she finally realised that saving faerûn from the shadowfog was something she had meant to do all along, and finally realised the purpose of her training. the runalithe government was sceptical of alisa at first when she applied to become part of the squad, but due to her stubbornness, they finally offered her a position - asterath infiltrator, which she declined politely. she knew why they had offered her that - kainan was very similar to asterath - but alisa was determined to put gangs behind her. if she had been looking to return to a gang, she would have gone home. alisa knew she was meant for something more, so she self-applied herself for second, and stuck with it. “my brother didn’t die for nothing,” was what she said to them when she grabbed the position. no one was going to tell her otherwise. and there she was. a revenge-driven little sister, intent on saving faerûn and avenging her family.
alisa still speaks with a hint of the kainan dialect and asterathi accent from her maester which makes people think that she is from kainan, or worse, asterath, but whenever they ask her, she abruptly switches the topic. the last thing alisa needed was for word of her existence spreading to dimitri in kainan - who was still after her last she heard. he hadn’t bought her faked death and was still searching for her, and surprisingly hadn’t given up. her last name ‘romanov’ was enough of a clue already, but she claimed to be from venzhu where she had spent the last 4 years. there were romanovs in venzhu - but they had nothing to do with her. the squad doesn’t know anything about her backstory except that her family died because of the shadowfog and she was determined to get revenge. alisa isn’t sure why she won’t tell them about her backstory herself, but she supposed a girl can have her secrets. it wasn’t out of self-pity - most squad members had an even more tragic background than her - but she guessed it was because she felt uncomfortable telling them about her. surprisingly, she can be quite humble and she likes to keep the illusion of being the mysterious, happy girl in the squad. therefore, alisa adopted her middle name - natasha (tasha for short) - and lied about her age. she claims to be twenty instead of seventeen - before the crew truly starts thinking of her as an immature liability which is exactly what alisa doesn’t want to be known as.
༉‧₊˚. elara calico (née leclaire).
elara: [name - greek] hazelnut.
calico: [noun - indian] a type of textile.forty-seven
march twenty-three
voxthain
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
sweet like a dove, that’s what they say.
but doves hurt too.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
the scars and the ghosts of the past will never go away, i fear.
elara is a literal dove. soft, gentle and loving, she is prepared to give anyone a second chance (except her sister elissa) and when she loves, she loves very very deeply. she forgives everyone who sins against her (except her sister) and despite coming from a classist family and being part of a classist family, she treats everyone equally who deserves to be treated equally. despite eadric being eadric, she still loves her husband deeply and would take a bullet for him, if she had to. elara is the definition of an overprotective but loving mother and would go to the ends of the earth for her children - and the two that aren’t hers as well. she is the type of person that is incredibly easy to manipulate, but no one wants to because of how pure and loyal she is.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
the most powerful weapon, in my opinion, is love.
family.
mother: eliana leclaire †
father: edmur leclaire †
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): elissa leclaire [npc], lysa leclaire [@aelin], lyanna leclaire [npc] †
husband: eadric calico [@elizabeth]
children: alianna calico [@elizabeth], isley calico [@snail], aiden calico [@kyleigh]
step-children: alexander calico [@bella], artemisia calico [@elizabeth]
friends.
lorelei delacroix [@aelin].
enemies.
elissa leclaire [npc].
significant other.
eadric calico [@elizabeth].
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
magic is just an illusion.
if people weren’t so focused on extra abilities, maybe they’d reflect on themselves more.
god knows how many need that.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
conjuration - level iii:
teleporting (harder the further the distance)
enchantment - level iii:
charm (making an entity more friendly in a subtle and temporary way), command (temporarily stop someone from moving or freezing them in place)
transmutation - level i:
mending (fixing small wounds or ailments on living things or nonliving objects)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
knife:
elara hates weaponry and violence, but anyone can wield a knife if they have to.
༉‧₊˚. history.
i believe that everyone is alive for a reason.
i have yet to find my own, but i know others have.
elara was born the second eldest daughter to two powerful nobles. from birth, she was gentle and well-behaved, and never really cried unlike her elder sister elissa. she was everything elissa was not, and the two grew up polar opposites despite only being four years apart in age. elissa had always been set to inherit the leclaire title and lands, and she knew it. she often exploited this power over her younger sister, but while elissa had their father’s love, elara had their mother’s. she was very similar to her mother, and spent lots of time with her.
elara kept her mother company throughout her childhood. she had no interest in learning how the power game worked, instead focusing on the gentler and more ‘womanly’ arts of crocheting, embroidering and cooking. her mother’s health wasn’t at its best, and she kept having miscarriage after miscarriage, but elara stayed with her and comforted her when even her own lord husband wouldn’t. finally, when elara was fifteen, her mother managed to give birth to another daughter, her little sister lysa.
due to her mother’s health still being a concern, elara took to tending to lysa herself. she learnt the arts of child-rearing from her mother and she doted on her little sister. lysa was cute, funny and gentle, just like elara herself and her mother. she cared for lysa, and is still closest to lysa out of her sisters.
five years after lysa’s birth, their mother gave birth to her final child, lyanna. however, this claimed her life, and lyanna was a sickly child from birth. elara mourned day and night for her mother, who was also her role model. her mother had remained strong despite everything and elara just didn’t know why this had happened. she raised lyanna like her own child (elara’s twenty by now) and it was around this time she met eadric calico.
she fell instantly in love with this handsome noble, and accepted his proposal eagerly. despite his being three years older than her, elara genuinely loved him. he was kind to her and was everything a husband should be. but just days after marrying eadric, the leclaire estate went up in flames. elissa had been out of the house, and little lyanna living with elara at the calico estate, but her father and lysa had still been at home. her father had gotten away unscathed, but he was found in bed with another man, and elara was deeply hurt to know this. it was bad enough that he had been unfaithful, even with her poor mother dead, but with a man especially when knowing that his former wife had been homophobic? elara was shocked and disappointed in him, and she never spoke to him again. meanwhile, lysa had nearly died in the fire, and had to get mechanical replacements so she might have a chance of staying alive. her sister was never the same.
about two years later, alianna came around - named after elara’s mother eliana. but it was around this time elissa started behaving weirdly. she had never liked elara, but now elissa was sizing up her husband, and elara knew exactly what had happened when elissa wound up pregnant. elara was more angry at elissa than eadric, and vowed to never speak to her again. she raised the child - alex - as one of her own, but didn’t stop loving eadric, even after all that.
years passed by, and when elara was thirty-eight, she received news that lyanna had died at cogworks. the girl had gone by anna and ditched her surname in hope of being ‘normal’, but had been manipulated and toyed with nonetheless. all she had when she committed suicide was her best friend - lorelei delacroix. through mourning for lyanna together, lorelei and elara became good friends, and elara is one of the only people who knows the woman underneath lorelei’s mask. lorelei, in turn, has a soft spot for elara and sees elara as one of the only true and purely good souls on lux, and respects and loves her for it.
when alianna ran away some years later, elara was shocked. she had just received news of her father’s death, and had no idea why her eldest would run away. she had always been headstrong, and had suffered a defeat when running for councillor, but running away had not been on elara’s list of expectations. after losing a child, she is a lot more self-conscious now and takes extra care with her children. she still has eadric to rely on, and despite all they’ve been through, she still loves him as much as she did twenty years ago. she has learnt to be strong and finally learnt to cope with alianna’s disappearance.
༉‧₊˚. alisa natasha (tasha) romanova.
runalithe; the day they set out for the sister cities.
alisa had to remind herself that she was doing this for her brother, not in order to have fun. but she could still have fun along the way, no?
༉‧₊˚. elara calico (née leclaire).
calico estate; the day of her wedding.
her new home. elara stared at the welcoming house, and smiled.
༉‧₊˚. lysa leclaire.
lysa: [name - hebrew] god’s promise.
leclaire: [nickname - french] a cheerful individual.thirty-two
july thirty-one
voxthain
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
tragedy?
what would you know of tragedy compared to me?
༉‧₊˚. personality.
i have stared death in the face.
and i never once blinked.
lysa is everything her elder sister elara isn’t. impulsive, sometimes rude (though the passive aggressive sort), determined, outspoken, a natural extrovert, sociable… all these things. she is incredibly smart and good at spotting the tiniest details (thanks to having a computer in her brain) and amazing at analysis, but sometimes she speaks without thinking and can occasionally come across as rude even though it was unintentional. if lysa is making threats, she always veils them so it seems like she is being perfectly nice but there is nearly always a hidden meaning in her words in these situations.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
i was allowed to live on for a reason.
so i will.
family.
mother: eliana leclaire †
father: edmur leclaire †
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): elissa leclaire [@aelin], elara calico [@aelin], lyanna leclaire [npc] †
friends.
lorelei delacroix [@aelin].
enemies.
none.yet
significant other.
none.yet
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
i wish people could truly be dedicated to just one thing.
just one.
and do it well.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
transmutation - level iv:
fabricate (creating a new prosthetic or object from thin air)
conjuration - level iv:
create food/water, create an automaton/machine from magic
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
knife:
being a militia medic, lysa has always deemed it necessary to carry a blade around here 24/7, in case of any accidents or emergencies and her own life was at risk.
pistol:
she also carries around a pistol in case she has to lend it to anyone or use in a dire situation - and her aim is very accurate (she’s a machine lol) making it a more reliable weapon for her to use.
༉‧₊˚. history.
time is both your friend and your enemy, and i know that more than anyone else.
lysa was born the third daughter of the leclaire household and to an ailing mother. she was practically raised by her sister elara and grew up bubbly and laughing, as children typically were. she lived the first few years of her life completely normally like nothing was wrong - because nothing was wrong. until lysa hit the age of five, and the family both gained a new life - lyanna, and lost another - her mother. lysa had never been close to her mother, but her second mother elara had been and elara changed a lot. she stuck to lysa as if lysa was the only person she had left, and lysa had been afraid to let her down.
eventually, elara found happiness with eadric calico when lysa was eleven, but shortly after the wedding, the leclaire house went up in flames. apparently elissa had trashed her room and more than what she had originally intended went up in flames - including lysa. to this day, she can still vividly remember the feeling of the flames on her skin, the choking sensation when she had nothing to breathe but smoke. she had struggled to call for help, and the rescuers managed to get her out just in time for her to still be alive. she still has nightmares from this and refuses to be close to fire.
though her life came at a cost.
lysa woke up a few days later in the thorne hospital, and immediately something was amiss. when she opened her eyes to look at her surroundings, there were pieces of information hovering over the eyes. elara calico, née leclaire. twenty-three. lysa struggled to understand what had happened, until her nurse asked her ‘how are you feeling?’ to which lysa replied with ‘fine,’ which was a lie, and a little orange light flashed in the corner of her eye. a lie detector. that when she realised what had happened.
she had a new hand, a new foot, half a new brain and heart and a new lysa in general. gone were any giggles, any light-hearted laughter. she had nearly died, and that awoke something in lysa. at cogworks, she was bullied for her metallic parts, but her perfectly logical computer-brain beat them every time in everything but physicality, and lysa didn’t let that get to her. she just deferred any bullies to the computer side of her brain and let the computer deal with them. lysa was determined to make a difference the way her nurse had made a difference for her. she wanted to save people, and contribute to society. she had been allowed to live on for a reason - to do the same thing for others. living on borrowed time was one way to put it. there was nothing wrong with being a cyborg - it was simply another way of living - so she learnt to embrace her uniqueness and wield it as her strength, because then no one could use it against her as a weakness. the only weaknesses are the ones you allow to weaken yourself.
she focused on transmutation at school for healing properties and conjugation and mechanics so she could fix herself and others like her if anything went wrong. after graduation - which her computer brain aced - lysa went to apply to become a militia medic immediately. she only got an apprenticeship at the beginning, but lysa persisted, and being cyborg, she caught on incredibly quickly to her job. within a couple of months, she was promoted to a full, proper medic, and her practices were efficient and effective - leading to her becoming very popular within the militia and also outside. now, lysa also volunteers at the thorne hospital when she has free time and loves her job.
when lysa was twenty-three, the next tragedy in her life struck, one named ‘lyanna leclaire’. in her devastation, she was quick to blame lorelei delacroix, anna’s only friend, even though the logical part of her mind told her otherwise. lysa cared not, but soon came to see the truth and apologised to the girl, and they mourned lyanna together, becoming good friends along the way.
now at thirty-two, lysa just continues to live her life, saving others and not being ashamed of who she is. she is a renowned nurse and medic across voxthain, and has just started to extend her services to asterath and in secret, the fighting ring fighters.
༉‧₊˚. adéla lafortézá.
adéla: [name - german] noble and serene.
lafortézá: [name - filipino] the fortress.twenty-five
november twenty-seven
asterath (also voxthain at times)
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
this is going to be one hell of a ride—
hold on tight.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
you just gotta live your life and have fun!
keep believing in yourself, and you’ll get there.
adéla is a human embodiment of the phrase ‘you only live once’, preferring to live her life dangerously and adventurously. she is a very direct person, preferring to express thoughts as soon as they come, not caring about the consequences - a perfect example of speak before you think (yes, i know it should be the other way around in an ideal world). a great person to be around, adéla is kind and thoughtful, most of the time - she can sometimes come across as insensitive and rude as she always speaks before thinking, but at heart, she is just a loyal and soft soul yearning for more adventure and in love with the thrill of adrenaline. she believes in everyone being alive for a reason and in giving people second chances (most of the time). adéla is very determined and impossible to sway once her opinion has been given (or so she thinks). she makes jabs at everything and uses her wit in everyday conversations, and not many manage to keep up with adéla’s mind. however, adéla has not a clue about how to deal with emotional situations, preferring to laugh it off or get the person in question to do so.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
i live my life outside the box with my own rules!
never stop dreaming for what is right, and never give up.
family.
mother: samara banneran
father: yoonsun lafortézá
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): n/a
friends.
- tyene sand [@aelin]
- park sua devoe [@aelin]
enemies.
none (yet).
significant other.
to be: coleson rogers [@elizabeth].
sister councillor.
sapphira kiah daenerys [@alpha].
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
life is like a miracle, a blessing.
my tip is to enjoy it!
༉‧₊˚. magic.
conjuration - level iii:
teleporting (harder the further the distance)
enchantment - level iii:
charm (making an entity more friendly in a subtle and temporary way), command (temporarily stop someone from moving or freezing them in place)
illusion - level i:
minor illusion (creating a sound or light that isn’t actually there)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
knife:
adéla has a blade on her, always. she knows her views can potentially bring danger to her, and being in violent asterath, who knows what can happen?
pistol:
she is a ok with a pistol, but it is not her preferred weapon as she was shot when she was younger and still has ptsd from that.
sword:
too big. adéla complains they are too big to carry around easily therefore doesn’t tend to use one, and she also secretly thinks they’re quite heavy.
༉‧₊˚. history.
the best will always be too far for you.
just look at what you have now and what you could have if you tried.
and in a way, they will be the best, or get the best out of you!
adéla’s father was a wealthy voxthain trader who lived his life travelling lux and visiting out of the world places, and seeing incredible things. once in his many journeys to asterath, he saw adéla’s mother samara and one thing led to another, and out came adéla. unlike many traders before him, yoonsun lafortézá acknowledged his child and actively tried to play a part in her life, therefore adéla spent her childhood in voxthain when her father was around, and underground in asterath with her mother when he was on his travels, which was the majority of the time. nevertheless, adéla developed a close bond with both her parents.
once, when adéla was around nine, she was caught in crossfire between the snakes and night riders. adéla panicked, and didn’t get away fast enough, leading to her being shot in the arm by a stray bullet. she still has trauma from this, and she thinks it unfair that civilians of asterath have to deal with this everyday - and she wants to change it, hence her anti-gang stance. she didn’t want anymore children to experience what she had, in fact, she was only shot in the arm - it could have been her heart if it had been a few more inches to the left.
when the time came, adéla was enrolled in cogworks school and she soon became very popular due to her natural charisma and ability to make people laugh, as well as being smart and kind and the occasional clumsy. she was a teacher’s favourite, and no one at cogworks disliked her, though there would be the occasional jealousy because of her wits or beauty or popularity. her parents were incredibly proud of her, and she had so much fun at cogworks.
she originally worked at the neon cogs bar after graduation, but that was only to boost popularity. when she was twenty, adéla ran for councillor in asterath, and got it because she had the support of everyone who didn’t take a side when it came to the gangs. adéla was neutral, in fact, she was in favour of abolishing the gangs, which she voiced on the council quite early on in her councillor career. this was popular with the voxthain council, which she worked closely with, but less in her own council as many members were gang-affiliated or secretly gang-affiliated. however, adéla stands by her opinion, imagining an asterath where there were no gangs, or houses like voxthain. just the council, and a bunch of citizens without any rank.
because of her views she was scouted by the blacklights of asterath and having heard of them and their work towards a peaceful asterath for the citizens, adéla decided to join them and is now their insight to the council, though they tend to ignore this fact. with the blacklights, she is a normal citizen here to keep the peace, and she likes it as she feels like she is contributing to her city in a way she wouldn’t be able to with her current profession, and she is treated as equals when with the other blacklights and normal citizens.
༉‧₊˚. adéla lafortézá.
samara banneran’s house; the day adéla got selected to be a councillor.
adéla read the message, her mother watching intently. a smile spreading across her face and a dip of her head was all her mother needed before spreading the happy news to her father. she had done it. adéla lafortézá was an asterathi councillor.
༉‧₊˚. megan (mei) avanzini.
megan: [name - welsh] pearl.
avanzini: [name - italian] to advance.twenty-four
september thirty
asterath
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
i know you wanna take my hand—
so come over, come over and dance!
༉‧₊˚. personality.
do you think i’m fragile?
megan - also known by her stage name mei - is a fearless, sexy, funny bundle of joy, and an absolute born performer. she grew up dancing, and has never stopped since. her body flows with music and when dancing, she is truly herself. kind and loving, megan cares for all those around her, but to fully open up to them she still finds difficult. she has few true friends (and she loves teasing them), but she would die for those friends if need be. when megan loves, she loves so deeply no one can pry her away from that love - she is one of the most stubborn, determined and headstrong people in asterath. megan’s forte was never in her wit, but her ability to shine in any kind of spotlight - even when there isn’t one. her aura and star quality makes her a valuable asset to the band, and she knows it. the way she dresses is to make statements. nothing about her is left to chance, and while she seems wild and just genuinely fearless on the outside, inside she is insecure and ever-doubtful of herself, though this has gotten a lot better in recent years. if megan ever needed to make a new year’s resolution, it would be ‘believe in yourself’.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
now playing: hot [album] - le sserafim.
family.
mother: camila avanzini
father: jaime avanzini
adoptive-brother(s): raidan myrr (@ash)
sister(s): n/a
friends.
- athena delacroix [@bella]
- raidan myrr [@ash]
enemies.
none (yet).
significant other.
none (yet).
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
attracted by the beautiful shimmering,
i believed that the only reason for existence was to burn even brighter.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
enchantment - level v:
suggestion (make someone do something by sheer will), zone of truth (make someone tell the truth)
transmutation - level ii:
vision (allowing someone to see clearly in the dark or grants resistance to bright lights)
illusion - level i:
minor illusion (creating a sound or light that isn’t actually there)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
knife:
megan carries one on her person 24/7 even though she knows she’s both a cogworks teacher’s assistant and part of a band, and knows that she really couldn’t be safer - at least within cogworks’s walls - but better than sorry, right? like even if some for peculiar reason, her magic failed her, she still had steel, right?
༉‧₊˚. history.
there’s a fire living inside me
and it won't burn out after dark
because i’m burning hot.
megan’s parents, camila and jaime avanzini, were traders and dealers in asterath long before megan came along. they were the masters of the weapons ring and ran a burlesque club where they did secret deals with club serpentine members and traded with them all they needed. before, having children was never a thought that ever crossed the avanzinis’ minds, until camila avanzini was getting old, and truly wanted to start a family. therefore megan came along when she was forty, hollering at the top of her lungs to the skies and the gods above from birth.
as soon as megan was born, the avanzinis’ lives changed dramatically. they cut off official ties to club serpentine - having served them for many years - and changed their burlesque club to a normal bar, as megan wasn’t old enough to be wondering around a burlesque club by herself at night with a bunch of drunkards. of course, they still did deals behind the counter of the bar, but the bar wasn’t officially a club serpentine hotspot. the avanzinis spent a lot of time with their daughter and megan grew up happy and in a loving family, though there was a constant shadow surrounding her. megan was lonely. she had always wanted a sibling but whilst her mother tried, she was too old, and megan also knew that her parents had always secretly wanted a son.
she developed a passion for dancing when she five, and stuck with it, growing up dancing. if there’s one thing about megan, it’s if she has set her mind on something, she sticks with it until the very end. since she was young, she competed at multiple dance tournaments and competitions - winning the majority of them. ballet, contemporary, pop(kpop *cough cough*), tap… name any type of dance and megan can do it - even figure skating! she enjoyed any type of performing art, though dance was her favourite, and she was a born performer and actress. her acts fooled everyone - from strangers to her parents! megan also enjoyed singing and playing the drums, and performed at the bar in both dance and music from a young age - sometimes combining both together!kpop :)
when she joined cogworks, megan developed a keen interest for enchantment, and honed in on learning that type of magic particularly, and was very successful. she joined all sorts of clubs - mostly performing arts and dance related - when she was young, and soon practically everyone in the school knew her as the dance prodigy. due to her natural aura and charisma, she was very popular at school, and megan often regarded it as her second home. however, due to her popularity, megan began to doubt those around her and if they were truly sincere, and whether or not she was truly as amazing as everyone thought she was, or if they were all mocking and making fun of her. self-doubt began gnawing at her, but outside she was just as flawless as always, using dance as a way to dispel all that self-doubt and anger and uncertainty.
when megan was ten and seeking a private place to practise her new routine for a new dance competition, she came across raidan - an orphan, living in forgotten places of the school, with no one and absolutely nothing. megan took pity on him, and told her parents about him, and they agreed to let him stay with them at the bar until he found better accommodation. and so megan returned the next day, an offer of a temporary home with her.
over time, it became obvious that raidan wasn’t going to leave. he fit into their family like a missing piece in a jigsaw puzzle, and her parents finally had the son they had always wanted - and megan the sibling she had always dreamed of. an older brother to protect her, share secrets with, play with, annoy… finding him and taking him in might have been one of the best things megan avanzini ever did with her life.
a few years later, raidan and his friends were forming a band, and megan wanted. in. she tagged along and annoyed the band members and raidan until they let her officially join, and she served as drummer and sub-vocalist. as the baby of the group, she was loved by all and was what kept the band together when the elders would argue amongst each other. their first ever performance was at her parents’ bar, and it was a massive success, which led them to perform at multiple places throughout the sister cities.
when they had gained some fame, megan finally convinced athena and the others to let her choreograph and perform some dances for some of their songs that were suitable for dancing - and the addition of her dances massively boosted their popularity - or at least megan likes to think they did. after graduating, she spent a couple of years fully dedicated to the band and helping her parents out in their bar before applying to be a teacher’s assistant at her second home - cogworks. luckily for megan, she got the role of enchantment and astronomy teacher’s assistant, her dream job, and has worked hard to be worthy of it.
at twenty four, she is living the life of her dreams. performing and dancing her heart out for a living, and also having the job of her dreams: lucky in two words is megan avanzini.
༉‧₊˚. megan (mei) avanzini.
her parents’ bar; their first performance.
megan took a deep breath. it wasn’t the first time she had performed at her parents’ bar, so why was she so nervous? it’s because you’re not dancing, and she knew it, but she picked up the drumsticks nevertheless and let the music direct her, as it always had.
༉‧₊˚. arya ellington-wyver.
relationships, trackers & plans.
༉‧₊˚. family.
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. other.
(view spoiler)
nothing to keep track of yet.
plans:
- ellington-wyver family dinner!
༉‧₊˚. lorelei delacroix.
relationships, trackers & plans.
༉‧₊˚. family.
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. work.
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. others.
(view spoiler)
lala ran into lucien wyver in the council hall offices and it didn’t go particularly well. wyver got on her nerves yet again and lala decided to go and raid his office to find out his secrets.
she does that three days later in lucien’s office and she fails to find anything except his plans for the shadowfog - and gets caught by none other than lucien wyver himself.
the next morning, she drops by sapphira’s office to offer the girl condolences for the loss of her father, and to propose an offer of friendship, which sapphira daenerys accepts. well done, lala. you finally made an ally within the council.
plans:
- befriend sapphira daenerys [@alpha]
- fall in love with lucien wyver [@bella]
- talk to lucien wyver [@bella] at the voxthain gala
[lala part 2 (if needed)]
༉‧₊˚. rosalind rostova.
relationships, trackers & plans.
༉‧₊˚. family.
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. fighting ring.
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. snakes.
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. scorpions.
(view spoiler)
rosalind had a fight with khaos sanguini at the fighting ring. [more details to be added as rp progresses]
plans:
- have lacey find out about celia?
༉‧₊˚. juliette rostova.
relationships, trackers & plans.
༉‧₊˚. family.
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. snakes.
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. others.
(view spoiler)
recent roleplays go here with other character(s) and place name.
plans:
- plans go here
༉‧₊˚. celia rostova.
relationships, trackers & plans.
༉‧₊˚. family.
(view spoiler)
༉‧₊˚. spiders.
(view spoiler)
recent roleplays go here with other character(s) and place name.
plans:
- plans go here
༉‧₊˚. elissa leclaire.
elissa: [name - greek] god is my oath.
leclaire: [nickname - french] a cheerful individual.fifty-one
april twenty-two
voxthain
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
you only live once.
make the most of it!
༉‧₊˚. personality.
i wish i could say that i have lived my life with no regrets, but that wouldn’t be true.
how i wish it could be though.
elissa is a queen, and she knows it. never one to show weakness, elissa is your casual boss girly and an absolute extrovert - but only in the right circles. she has always been a party girl, but to the commoners, she can come across as reserved - perfect for her classist background and personality. always confident, nothing gets under elissa’s skin - and if anything does, something must be truly, truly wrong. elissa is determined and always gets her way and is too self-assured that if anyone says that she’s wrong, she refuses to believe it. she is the type of person that flits here and there never settling down, disposing of anything that may force her to do so - children, for one. she rarely considers others’ feelings and often speaks before thinking, maybe later coming to regret it, though elissa leclaire isn’t the type to regret things.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
relationships and people come and go.
i learnt that the hard way.
family.
mother: eliana leclaire †
father: edmur leclaire †
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): elara calico [@aelin], lysa leclaire [@aelin], lyanna leclaire [npc] †
friends.
none.yet
enemies.
elara calico [@aelin]
significant other.
kind of eadric calico [@elizabeth].
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
will there ever be a day where no one judges you for just being who you are?
༉‧₊˚. magic.
evocation - level v:
mastering elements (summoning giant storms, making an explosion), elemental endurance (fire resistance, longer underwater breathing)
illusion - level iii:
disguise self (difficulty depending on the length of time and complexity of the disguise)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
sword:
elissa can use one (not very well) and carries one around ceremoniously, but mostly for show. if she ever needed to use it, she would balk and back away instead of standing her ground and fighting. what a show-off.
༉‧₊˚. history.
everyone claims that i’m a horrible person.
trust me, if you wanted horrible, i can show you horrible.
but this is just me. imperfect, true me. can no one accept that?
elissa had always been the favourite of her father, the leclaire patriarch. she grew up exactly like him, her father moulding and shaping her into what he wanted his little heir to be like. classist, sociable, popular. whilst he tried the same with elara, her mother had gotten to elissa’s younger sister first and wouldn’t let go, so her father focused all of his efforts on elissa. not that she cared anyway - elissa was a natural attention seeker and she thought of her mother as too weak for a powerful matriarch.
in cogworks, she was the popular girl. your popularity at cogworks was solely based on how much elissa liked you, and if she didn’t like you, she made your life a living hell.regina george, i know.she was loved and feared by everyone and she was smart, beautiful and sporty which made everyone jealous of her too. her father was incredibly proud of his little princess, especially when she had a little spring fling with eadric calico in her later years in cogworks. he fully expected the man to propose to her once they graduated, but it never happened. they had been prom king and queen and were the hottest girl and bachelor in the school, but eadric had his eyes on elissa’s timid little sister and elissa had her own eyes elsewhere.
daniel.
༉‧₊˚. daphne targaryen.
daphne: [name - greek] laurel.
targaryen: [name - unknown] a powerful house in game of thrones.twenty-eight
august five
voxthain
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
why so blue?
i would do anything to turn a frown upside-down.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
life is full of mysteries which makes it unpredictable, but fun too!
at least, most of the time.
[text text text]
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
is it just me, or do i always feel so insecure inside?
family.
mother: eliana leclaire †
father: edmur leclaire †
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): elara calico [@aelin], lysa leclaire [@aelin], lyanna leclaire [npc] †
friends.
none.yet
enemies.
elara calico [@aelin]
significant other.
kind of eadric calico [@elizabeth].
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
sometimes, i wish to be what others are, or to live a seemingly perfect life.
but nothing is perfect, least of all life.
all i can do is live mine to its best. that is perfection.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
transmutation - level iv:
fabricate (creating a new prosthetic or object from thin air)
conjuration - level iv:
create food/water, create an automaton/machine from magic
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
knife:
being a militia medic, lysa has always deemed it necessary to carry a blade around here 24/7, in case of any accidents or emergencies and her own life was at risk.
pistol:
she also carries around a pistol in case she has to lend it to anyone or use in a dire situation - and her aim is very accurate (she’s a machine lol) making it a more reliable weapon for her to use.
༉‧₊˚. history.
when things aren't easy, i will make them easy.
people ask, why do i do things with such ease?
it’s because i’ve made it look easy.
[text text text]
༉‧₊˚. alaia jade stormvale.
alaia: [name - basque] joyful, happy.
jade: [noun - british] a precious gemstone of a soft, bright green.
stormvale: [name - unknown] a storm.seventeen
july one
voxthain
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
you have to be dedicated in life to truly achieve something.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
the story so far:
in the beginning the universe was created.
this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
alaia jade, simply known as alaia, is a quiet, calm and composed girl. she is always - sometimes quite annoyingly - level-headed, and can come across as an angel. being quiet, she dedicates more of her time to work/learning than talking, making her an extremely dedicated and determined person. however, alaia jade can come across as stubborn and she really, really loves getting her way and will get incredibly furious if she doesn’t. when she speaks she’s the type of person you kind of have to listen to, but when she’s quiet, she’ll just follow along with whatever her twin azuela coral is doing. she is loving and sweet, and cares about lots of things, and only ever has the intention to do good, but she never forgets anything and holds grudges.
when with azuela coral and others she trusts such as her family, alaia jade changes - she becomes a lot more wild and free and surprisingly funny, but only if there aren’t very many people around. she becomes a lot more reserved if there are lots of people around as she finds them too noisy and simply too much, even if she trusts them all. she definitely has social anxiety, and being an introvert, tends to avoid social interaction as much as possible.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
in three words i can sum up everything i’ve learned about life:
it goes on.
family.
mother: eliana leclaire †
father: edmur leclaire †
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): elara calico [@aelin], lysa leclaire [@aelin], lyanna leclaire [npc] †
friends.
none.yet
enemies.
elara calico [@aelin]
significant other.
kind of eadric calico [@elizabeth].
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
women and cats will do as they please.
and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
transmutation - level iv:
fabricate (creating a new prosthetic or object from thin air)
conjuration - level iv:
create food/water, create an automaton/machine from magic
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
knife:
being a militia medic, lysa has always deemed it necessary to carry a blade around here 24/7, in case of any accidents or emergencies and her own life was at risk.
pistol:
she also carries around a pistol in case she has to lend it to anyone or use in a dire situation - and her aim is very accurate (she’s a machine lol) making it a more reliable weapon for her to use.
༉‧₊˚. history.
you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
[text text text]
༉‧₊˚. tyene sand.
tyene: [name - unknown] a name in game of thrones.
sand: [noun - british] do i really have to describe this?twenty-seven
june twenty-three
asterath
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
you think it's okay to degrade someone just because they're true to themselves?
༉‧₊˚. personality.
life isn’t easy.
life isn’t fair.
so stop lying to yourself and thinking it is.
tyene is wild and carefree, not caring about anything in the world. she doesn’t put effort into things she doesn’t want to which led to her repeating two years at cogworks due to being ‘simply unbothered’ but she is actually pretty smart. she is a natural esfp, and nearly always had overdue homework as a student and pressed as close to deadlines as physically possible. tyene is very dramatic and very outspoken and is kind to everyone unless she absolutely despises them - which is rare, but severe. she can be quite mean sometimes but mostly likes insulting people playfully and loves cracking jokes and making people - including herself - laugh. she is incredibly musical, dramatic and into the performing arts in general.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
i’m not stupid, and i’m not lazy.
i’m merely unbothered.
family.
adoptive-mother: suzuki miyaki [npc]
adoptive-father: georg amadeus [npc]
adoptive-brother(s): kurt waters [npc], felix hill [npc]
adoptive-sister(s): n/a
friends.
- adéla lafortézá [@aelin]
- park sua devoe [@aelin]
enemies.
none.yet
significant other.
none.yet
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
i am a massive believer in luck and fate.
some things are just meant to be, others not!
༉‧₊˚. magic.
evocation - level iii:
branches of elements (using elemental-based powers such as rock, ice, plants)
conjuration - level iii:
teleporting (harder the further the distance)
illusion - level iii:
disguise self (difficulty depending on the length of time and complexity of the disguise)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
fists & kicks:
tyene loves playfully punching and kicking people - it can get really annoying sometimes. she used to do taekwondo but couldn’t be bothered enough to continue so just resorts to kicking people pathetically now (mostly under tables).
knife:
do not trust tyene with a knife. well, any weapon at all. in fact, it’s better she stay away from them entirely. that’s all i’m going to say. it never goes down well.
༉‧₊˚. history.
the truly beauty of life is embracing yourself - who you truly are at heart.
i can show you all of my impurities, but i love them all equally.
because they are a part of me.
tyene’s mother is a travel writer and visits places around lux (mostly sticking to their continent - faerûn) and when she was younger she would see orphans on the streets and pick them up and take them home as she was unable to have her own biological children. kurt, tyene’s eldest brother, was found four years before tyene next to the sea - hence his surname ‘waters’ - and felix was found two years later in the mountainside (surname ‘hill’). suzuki was travelling to the desert when she came across starving, poor, abandoned tyene and took her in, naming her ‘tyene sand’, sand for the desert.
tyene grew up happy and bubbly. each year in their family, they would celebrate the siblings’ birthdays according to the date they were found, and tyene has always seen her birthday as an incredibly lucky day, and it was this belief that later led to her being superstitious and believing in fate. she often had fights with her two elder brothers and they had a playful relationship but tyene has always seen them as ‘simply annoying’. being a natural performer, she grew up acting, dancing and singing, and soon developed a real passion for these things.
when she joined cogworks, tyene focused purely on music and the rest of the performing arts, ditching literally every other subject. she became very popular and she was always optimistic and enthusiastic in everything but p.e, actual academic lessons and p.s.h.e. being in the same year as raidan myrr, she became good friends with him and helped form his band with athena delacroix too (tyene sings, plays the violin and the piano and would play the drums when megan was dancing and would also occasionally join in the dancing). however, tyene was ‘simply too unbothered’ to turn up to actual exams in order to graduate cogworks, only taking the performing arts exams, and she was forced to repeat a year.
the next year, she did the same thing. again. and was forced to repeat another year. this time, she was now in the same year as adéla lafortézá, the smartest girl in her year, and park sua devoe, the hardest-working girl in her year, and they became instantaneous friends. with the help of adéla and sua, tyene finally decided to actually turn up for exams and absolutely aced them without revising much, surprising pretty much everyone.
after finally graduating, tyene joined club serpentine, unaware of adéla’s anti-gang stance. when adéla confronted her about it, tyene immediately felt extremely guilty but she loved life in serpentine. she was called ‘the sand snake’ not just because of her last name, but also the fact that she was born in a desert. however, tyene soon grew bored of just being in serpentine as she grew bored of everything and applied for the sister cities symphony orchestra and choir and easily got into both. alongside the band, she used her new jobs as an excuse to not really be part of serpentine anymore, but she was still officially a snake as she didn’t want to let it go. adéla and sua believe that tyene isn’t a snake anymore, but she is, she just didn’t want to tell them as she knew adéla would be forced to cut off any ties with her, and that was the last thing she wanted.
༉‧₊˚. lysa leclaire.
thorne hospital; after her cyborg operation.
“how are you feeling?”
“fine. normal,” lysa replied, albeit a bit coldly. however, an orange light flashed in the corner of her eye. “what was that?”
“a lie detector,” the nurse said, smiling.
