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༉‧₊˚. tyene sand.
cogworks; after finally graduating.
tyene grabbed the champagne from sua’s hands.
“to me, and to the fact that i finally graduated.”
adéla laughed. “took you long enough.”
༉‧₊˚. an yujia.
an: [noun - chinese] peace.
yu: [noun - chinese] rain.
jia: [adjective - chinese] good, beautiful.sixteen
december five
asterath
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
i was once told to never let nobody treat me any less than i deserve.
and i’ll stick to it.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
i love deadlines.
i love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
[text text text]
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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.
two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity.
and i'm not sure about the universe.
༉‧₊˚. 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.
lies are comforting.
truth is painful.
[text text text]
༉‧₊˚. park sua devoe.
her apartment; meeting yujia for the first time.
sua bent down until she was the same height as the nervous child who was chewing her own fingernails.
“hi! i’m sua.”
“suey, are you good at telling stories?” the little girl said in such a cute voice sua’s heart instantly melted.
“just so-so. i’m good at making bread though.”
“yay! i love bread.”
“me too.”
༉‧₊˚. asher (grim) grimcroft.
asher: [name - hebrew] happy or blessed.
grimcroft: [name - unknown] an ancient noble family of lux.twenty-three
december twenty-five
asterath
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
secrets are power.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
some things in life are better left unsaid, i think.
grim is quiet, secretive and gorgeously lethal. if she had a choice, she would only wear black - the colour of her soul (figuratively, don’t worry). it takes a while and a couple of wars for her to open up to you, but once she does and those curtains of mystery are pulled back, secrets and emotions come flooding in. grim has spent her entire life hiding from people, and she still does so. ‘trust’ is a word barely understood by grim, and the only person she trusts is cleo. sometimes can come across as quite forthcoming and flirtatious, but that is when she is spinning lies, and she often omits crucial information too. if grim talks to you, you should be on alert. she rarely talks to anyone except to glean information out of them, though you will find that grim as a great sense of humour and is very able to keep a conversation going - that is, when she wants. she knows lots about various people in both the sister cities that are probably unaware of her existence and is the type of person to trade in secrets. grim has a store in the potion night market where she trades in secrets - a secret of her customer for whatever answer they want grim to reveal to them. business is booming, though you always have to be careful when dealing with grim.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
when you spend so long trapped in darkness,
you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
family.
mother: ella grimcroft †
father: unknown
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): n/a
friends.
- cleo rey [@aelin]
enemies.
none.yet
significant other.
none.yet
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
once upon a time, there was a girl that loved freedom very much…
༉‧₊˚. magic.
enchantment - level v:
suggestion (make someone do something by sheer will), zone of truth (make someone tell the truth)
evocation - level v:
mastering elements (summoning giant storms, making an explosion), elemental endurance (fire resistance, longer underwater breathing)
grim is extremely talented in shadow manipulation.
illusion - level iv:
invisibility (depending on how long and how many entities are under the spell; you are still a physical entity)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
blades:
blades are second nature to grim. like cleo, they have become extensions of her arms and she relies on them for everything - even though she is so powerful.
༉‧₊˚. history.
there was something addicting about power.
the type of medicine that you can’t have too much of until it turns sickly sweet.
and tears you apart from the inside.
grim was born with grimcroft blood in her veins - though she had no idea what that meant until a couple of years ago. her mother, ella, was a feisty woman and came back pregnant from a night in a bar one day, and out came grim. grim grew up with her mother, a spider, until she was seven, but in reality, the arachniads were the ones who truly raised her. ella grimcroft was losing herself to her drinks gradually and had no time to care for grim, therefore grim grew up under supervision of powerful spiders and trained her evocation and illusion skills from a very young age.
eventually, when grim was seven, her mother finally succumbed to alcohol and excessive lots of it took her life. grim barely mourned. she hadn’t really known her mother at all, though her mother’s death had, weirdly, triggered something in grim’s magic. her evocation magic took a rarer form - shadow manipulation - and she became much more skilled in enchantment too. focusing on training her magic, grim used her shadows and invisibility to blend into her surroundings and learn about others. because of these skills, the arachniads used grim as a spy, and she learnt secrets big enough to shake asterath to the ground.
as well as being a valuable asset to the spiders, she was also a valuable asset to her school. grim was one of the top of her class in cogworks despite her quiet, untrusting and secretive nature and everyone at cogworks knew to keep her at arm’s length. except cleo. it was always cleo. one of the most powerful and one that had no magic. cleo got around with no magic and grim with nothing but magic, and she admired cleo’s ability to not be entirely dependant on her magic as she had none - unlike grim, who would be nowhere without those shadows that trailed her everywhere.
upon graduation, with the help of cleo, grim opened up a stall at the potion night market - one that traded in secrets. her shadows could pick up on secrets and eavesdrop and no one would ever be able to notice or guess. people would come to grim’s store and share a secret with her and in return they could ask grim anything and she would respond if she knew the answer which she almost always did. soon, word of the secrets stall spread and business boomed and grim exchanged secrets for knowledge, something she had always been good at.
༉‧₊˚. isla rey.
isla: [name - scottish] derived from a scottish island.
rey: [name - latin, spanish, french] king.twenty
june thirty
asterath
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
there are many things in life we can’t control.
so live your life to its fullest, and that is the best thing you can do.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
what is life without happiness? without laughter?
isla is a sweet, social butterfly. life is good, everything is good and will be good! she’s smart, brave and kind, making her popular, and her beauty makes everything about her even more surreal. her parents call her ‘perfect’, and honestly, with the amount of talent she has for quite literally everything, isla isn’t too shocked, but the constant shadow of her sister cleo is there. isla is incredibly sweet and caring, but she can be fierce and protective too when you hit a sensitive topic - especially if the topic is ‘cleo’. she is brave, willing to stand up for what she believes is right and highly logical so she always knows what ‘right’ is. isla is incredibly well-loved and doesn’t let anything get to her and destroy her angel aura.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
why would some people choose destruction over joy?
family.
mother: celeste rey
father: azul rey
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): cleo rey [@aelin]
friends.
- elliot delacroix [@bella]
- antonio stormvale [@bella]
- emmaline leclaire [@bella]
enemies.
none.yet
significant other.
antonio stormvale [@bella].
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
the world offers much to those willing to take it.
after all, you only live once.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
transmutation - level iv:
fabricate (creating a new prosthetic or object from thin air)
isla likes using her transmutation skills as plant manipulation.
abjuration - level iii:
dispel magic (depending on level of magic already in place), banishment (moving someone or something away, teleporting others)
enchantment - level ii:
animal friendship (make an animal more friendly or put them at ease by mere suggestion, especially in aggressive encounters)
conjuration - level i:
telekinesis
isla can also create plants out of thin air with her conjuration skills too.
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
blades:
isla has always deemed her magic enough and she never was as talented as cleo in fighting but she needed to at least learn how to wield one weapon, so she chose blades, and is pretty talented in them.
༉‧₊˚. history.
kindness is the number one policy.
isla rey came into the world with a smile on her face, and has barely stopped smiling since. growing up as the youngest, she was spoiled and doted upon but never for one second did she take it for granted. from a young age, she saw the difference in how her parents treated her compared to her elder sister cleo, and decided that it was unfair. isla has always had a soft spot for her sister and will protect her against all the odds, even if cleo won’t acknowledge isla’s existence, and she has done so from a young age.
upon joining cogworks, isla’s natural charisma and intellect earned her a lot of friends and she never had her sister’s difficulty in finding her place at cogworks. among those friends was emmaline leclaire - a noble. cleo had told her to be wary of nobles - it wasn’t a surprise seeing as cleo’s year had alianna calico and caledonia hayden - but emmaline was sweet and friendly, and isla adored her despite her sister’s words. emmaline then introduced her to two boys, elliot delacroix and antonio stormvale, and there. isla’s friendship group was formed, and she was the only asterath and non-noble among them. cleo disapproved, naturally, but for once isla stood up to cleo and said that she was happy, and that was all that mattered.
isla was incredibly close to cleo and her sister would confide everything in her, until… she didn’t? isla knew why, though she had never meant to hurt cleo. she was definitely a pacifist but cleo took it all too personally. whatever the gods had robbed from cleo upon birth, they had gifted isla. immense power. with her newfound power, isla worked hard to harness and hone it and she soon became the top of her class in just about every subject, and she was incredibly well loved within the school.
cleo, on the other hand, had just been informed that she was powerless. isla was heartbroken for her sister and tried to comfort her, but in a rage cleo destroyed isla’s favourite glass sculpture and feeling betrayed, isla had left cleo to her own devices. she witnessed a visible change in her sister and her parents didn’t help. she tried to talk to them about it, saying that they were hurting cleo instead of helping her, but they didn’t care, claiming that isla was their special daughter and they were incredibly proud of her. and isla hated it all. she hated to be the person her parents were comparing cleo to; she hated to be the person that couldn’t help when her sister needed her the most; she hated that she couldn’t explain to cleo and that her parents refused to acknowledge their other daughter. it broke isla in so many ways, but at least she still had her friends.
cleo stopped talking to isla, and as much as isla tried, it was all in vain. it hurt to know that nothing could be done, and that she was there, basking in her power whilst cleo suffered because she had none. it was quite frankly wrong, but eventually isla learnt to accept that she would never get her sister back as she had been before.
isla poured all of her energy and effort into her studies and remained as popular as ever, using her magic for positive and caring uses, though each time she used it she still felt a pang of guilt, as if she was stealing cleo’s rightful magic and using it when her sister could not. thankfully, her friends helped her and isla finally learnt to get around without cleo. she became much more independent and graduated cogworks top of her class.
two years later, isla hasn’t talked to cleo in so long that she often forgets about her, though never truly. she constantly worries about how cleo is doing and whether she has truly found where she belongs now. isla herself hangs out with her friends a lot and when she isn’t with one of them, she is training to become an asterath councillor and she is hoping to run for councillor when one of the current ones step down.
༉‧₊˚. cleo rey.
cleo: [name - greek] glory.
rey: [name - latin, spanish, french] king.twenty-three
november eleven
asterath
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
i may have been born powerless.
but that does not mean that i am defenceless.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
power is an illusion.
you can very much live without it.
cleo has always had a jealous streak. being the powerless sister, she was always pushed aside by her parents and cleo has learnt that she doesn’t need her family’s approval to do anything. she’s always carved her own path, and if her family disapprove, so what? they disapproved of cleo when she was born without magic, so it wasn’t any new emotion they felt towards her. cleo is independent, and prefers to completely distance herself from her ‘perfect’ sister isla and her toxic family. part of cleo still wishes she could be like her sister, but she has long known that she would always be the outcast, the family disappointment. and she has lived with it. cleo always puts her own interest first when it used to be family interest (for example, if you asked her to pick between two sides of war, she would choose ‘the winning side’), and can come across as cold and harsh. she has an icy glare that she isn’t afraid to use on anyone, and is incredibly determined.
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
do not underestimate someone just because they are different.
that would be the greatest mistake of your life.
family.
mother: celeste rey
father: azul rey
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): isla rey [@aelin]
friends.
- asher grimcroft [@aelin]
enemies.
none.yet
significant other.
none.yet
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
you shouldn’t be afraid of someone who wields a lot of power.
the real person you should be afraid of is someone who never gives up.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
none. cleo was born powerless and has remained without a drop of magic in her blood for her entire life.
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
blades:
because she has no magic, cleo was determined to not be vulnerable and she began to train herself when others trained their abilities. as far as she was concerned, she was a weapon. over time, blades became extensions of cleo’s arms and soon she wouldn’t leave her house without one somewhere on her. still, she knew if she ever had to face the possibility of power vs powerless, she would still lose, but cleo would not be going down without a fight for sure.
pistol:
cleo knows that guns and pistols are dangerous, but a good shot could be the difference between life and death for someone like her, so she learnt how to aim perfectly.
bow & arrow:
she adores archery. archery is definitely, 100% cleo’s thing though she does it more for fun than for actual self-defence. it’s been a couple of years since cleo shot less than an eight.
༉‧₊˚. history.
it’s not the doing that counts.
it’s the trying.
and trust me, i’ve tried my entire life.
cleo rey was born to two normal citizens of asterath. they weren’t part of a gang, and had a relatively undisturbed life considering they lived in, well, asterath. cleo’s little sister, isla, came along three years after cleo and for a while, they all just lived happily and there was no cause for a negative relationship between any of them.
until the day isla turned eight. cleo had not manifested any powers yet and her parents merely dismissed it as her ‘being slow to develop magic’ which was fine with cleo, but isla was three years younger than her, and on her eighth birthday had grown a flower in her hand. cleo remained powerless. throughout the year, isla’s magic grew and grew and without even honing her abilities, she was more powerful than her parents. cleo, on the other hand, still had nothing. her parents soon began to lose faith in cleo, referring to her as ‘the powerless sister’.
cleo soon grew jealous of her sister. isla was pretty, popular and powerful and cleo wished that for just one day, she and her sister could switch roles. she started to distance herself from her family, focusing on ways to make her parents proud of her though no matter what she did, it was never enough, especially not compared to ‘perfect isla’. and cleo was sick of it all. like thoroughly, thoroughly sick of it all.
at thirteen, the cogworks teachers officially confirmed that cleo had been born without magic, and even though cleo had suspected it, it still proved to be a big deal and struck her way harder than she had thought possible. maybe, just maybe, a small part of her had still been hoping that there was just a chance that she’d develop magic eventually, but facing the harsh reality proved harder than cleo had thought. her parents were distraught and doted on her younger sister isla even more and essentially pushed cleo out of the family. isla had still wanted to maintain a positive relationship with her sister, because that was her nature, but in an angry fit cleo broke isla’s favourite glass sculpture and that was that. enraged, cleo took to the training room.
every night, she worked herself to breaking point. she returned home with aching joints and bruises all over, and isla even bothered enough to make a show of pity and worry, though cleo never bought it. she worked out the rage inside her, unleashing it in the form of beads of sweat as she became tougher and tougher each day. she told herself that she could never have magic, but she would never go down without a fight and that she may not be fearless, but she could start to fear less, and that goal started with her not being afraid of not being enough, because she was enough for herself and that was all that mattered.
during her time in the training room, there was always another girl there. soon, they began to train together, and then their friendship bloomed shortly after. the girl was called grim, an orphan of asterath, and cleo’s first true friend. grim and cleo soon became inseparable and cleo would soon find herself spending more time with grim than with her family. not as if they needed her anyway. they had isla - perfect isla with her magic and kindness and angel-like aura that cleo had never had, and now wished to never have. cleo had carved her own path without her family, and she sure as hell didn’t need them now.
upon graduation, cleo was finally free of her toxic family. she and grim rented their own apartment and cleo went to the night riders and became a scorpion. she knew that grim was a spider, but the arachniads were not for her. the night riders were chill, and cleo felt no pressure by them to do anything, but it felt nice to know that she had a second family waiting for her - her first being grim. by joining a gang, she hadn’t been wanting to wreak havoc in asterath, but to have another family - other people she could trust and be herself with around and not be judged for who she was.
cleo never told her family about any of it all. she refused to ever speak to her parents who had done nothing except shun her, and when isla had asked to remain in contact with cleo (because of course her sweet, perfect sister would) she had made the decision to cut off any ties with her sister too, completely abandoning them and leaving.
༉‧₊˚. isla rey.
cogworks; isla’s first day.
the boy sat down next to her, a glint of mischief in his eyes that she immediately fell in love with. “hi, i’m antonio.” he made to shake her hand and isla took it, unable to resist the smile that came over her despite cleo’s warning against nobles in her mind.
“hi, i’m isla!”
༉‧₊˚. cleo rey.
cogworks; finding out she has no magic.
cleo opened her hands again, but no flame appeared. cleo closed her eyes again, but no illusion appeared. cleo put her hands on her injured arm, but no skin stitched together. this was it, and she knew it. she was powerless.
back to work... 😴
now then, where do i start when im on fricking mobile?? hmm
if you have any letters to do, that would prob be easiest
gotcha 😄
UPCOMING TASKS:
~ finish adding hyperlinks & relationships for every character (in progress (finally))
~ make elissa & daphne & alaia jade & yujia & grim
~finish lala’s log post
~reply to lucien + lala (finished)
~reply to rosalind + khaos
~reply to adéla + sapphira (letter)
~reply to finnari (faerie)
~reply to lala + draven (letter)
~reply to rami + kai + arabelle (faerie - waiting on bella)
~reply to e-w dinner (waiting on isabella)
~reply to lala + athena (letter)
~reply to lala + lucien (letter)
~reply to juliette + clarissa
~make yara
~ reply to arya + tris
~ reply to sapphira + lala + lucien (waiting on me)
~ reply to alianna + alisa
~ reply to adéla + maverick
~ reply to isla + antonio
~ reply to juliette + lacey
~ reply to eadric + elara
~start elissa?
~start lala’s new log post?
~ self-rp some asterath characters?
~ self-rp another interaction between juliette + lala?
~ self-rp rostova sisters?
shortened to do list
EW DINNER
REPLY TO RPS…brainstorm and create kim yara (kim ya ra, it is arabic but can be korean 😭)
kim yara:
- fc; vc: jihyo
- blacklight
- mother was the blacklight shield but fell in love with a snake and they were both killed in an accident
- sister narin is a snake
- 23-25
- friends with bella’s snake as kids, but now they're enemies
- straight
- running for councillor
- since parents dead, adopted by wealthy asterath family without kids
༉‧₊˚. kim yara.
kim: [noun - korean] gold.
yara: [name - arabic (and many other origins)] small butterfly.twenty-five
february one
asterath
༉‧₊˚. appearance.
i broke into a million pieces, and i can't go back—
but now i’m seeing all the beauty in the broken glass.
yara loves experimenting with different clothing styles and aesthetics, and most importantly her hair colour! purple is her favourite, but pink is quite often, and also her natural black.
༉‧₊˚. personality.
why did i cover up the colours stuck inside my head?
i should've let the jagged edges meet the light instead.
yara is a very secretive and talented person. she excels in many things - both academic and not - but the thing she is best at is lying, and that is to everyone, her family included. she is also kind and lively when around her friends, and determined to get what she wants and justice for the dead - so determined to the point of self-isolation and pushing herself to exhaustion if necessary. she comes across as ambitious, hard-working and generally sports a positive attitude, but underneath her composed exterior lies a vulnerable girl struggling with her identity and familial problems. yara doesn’t give in easily and is very responsible and charismatic, making her quite popular. she often feels conflict for her love of her sister narin - a snake - and her job, a blacklight, but unlike her mother, yara is prepared to handle everything carefully. for her, the safety of the people of asterath is the most important, and getting rid of horrible people such as lorenzo rostov a top priority. yara can be extremely selfless at times, often putting other people’s needs in front of her own, and she volunteers at an orphanage too, to show children like her that they are loved and mean something to someone, which was what kept her and narin going in those years before they were adopted. she has also found herself in music, and being a talented singer, often sings in her spare time, and works part-time for a record store. music is yara’s release, where she can finally be at peace with the world around her, which isn’t often. (side note, she refuses to go in cars, like ever. #ptsd)
༉‧₊˚. relationships.
so we were cowards, so we were liars;
so we're not heroes, we're still survivors.
family.
mother: jeon chaeyoung †
father: kim jungwon †
adoptive mother: peony strohhut
adoptive father: galant strohhut
brother(s): n/a
sister(s): kim narin
friends.
adéla lafortézá [@aelin].
enemies.
lee seojun [@bella].
significant other.
to be: lee seojun [@bella].
༉‧₊˚. magic and weapons.
no more hiding.
i’ll be shining like i’m born to be.
༉‧₊˚. magic.
abjuration - level v:
physical shield around a portion of the city, invulnerability (protecting an entity or multiple entities from any harm)
illusion - level v:
silence (removing others’ abilities to cast spells and making them unable to speak)
༉‧₊˚. weapons.
sword:
a crucial weapon for self-protection, and yara doesn’t feel safe without one. she just needs one all the time, full stop.
pistol:
if yara needed to step in in any occasion or carry out a mission, a pistol was her go to. it was less painful and more quicker and neater than a sword, and more merciful, and yara was all for mercy. no brutal deaths from her hand, especially not the way her parents died.
༉‧₊˚. history.
heels, nails, blade, mascara: fit check for my napalm era.
need to beat my face, make it cute and savage—
mirror, mirror on my phone, who's the baddest? (us, hello?)
yara’s mother was a blacklight, like yara herself, but chaeyoung had been the blacklight sword for club serpentine, and it was never a good thing when the blacklight sword was one of the most beautiful women in asterath. jungwon, a powerful snake, was instantly smitten with chaeyoung, and soon enough his charm won over chaeyoung’s heart, and narin and yara were soon born, much to their parents’ delight. however, a family with one parent as a blacklight and the other as a snake would never survive the city of asterath, and chaeyoung had known as much when she had agreed to marry jungwon.
eventually, the blacklights found out who chaeyoung’s husband was, and all he had ever done for serpentine - which was a lot, seeing as he was a powerful snake, or at least he was before he met chaeyoung. they felt betrayed by chaeyoung, and told her to either kill her husband or his best friend - lorenzo rostov (i had to include the rostovas some way or another okay :p) - to prove her loyalty to the blacklights but she refused. yara, who was five at the time, understood little, but knew that her family was in danger.
and then it happened. chaeyoung and jungwon were taking narin and yara away - out of the sister cities to live in peace - when their car was blown up from underneath. jungwon had confided the plan in his best friend lorenzo rostov, only to be betrayed utterly by him. initially, lorenzo’s plan had been to just kill chaeyoung, but he hadn’t timed the bomb correctly, and both parents had been hit and killed instantly. yara was traumatised and absolutely terrified. sitting in the back, she was relatively fine, but narin, who had survived at least, had shattered her foot into a hundred pieces and broken nearly all the bones in her legs.
after suffering the loss of their parents, yara, five, and narin, eight, were left to fend for themselves. narin, despite being injured and having to practically live in hospital, joined club serpentine, mostly running errands such as delivering messages and keeping track of missions and eventually her work got to keeping profiles of snakes and their known enemies - all admin, as narin couldn’t really walk. it kept them alive, and protected them both, but cogworks changed everything. as narin dived deeper and deeper in serpentine circles, yara drew herself further and further away. when yara was ten and narin thirteen, they were adopted by a wealthy asterath family without kids, and they supported narin’s gang affiliation, but most importantly, they could support narin in her injury.
however, in those years before she was adopted, yara had been the target of many gang members due to her parents, and narin even more. the sisters had narrowly escaped death many times (hello, alessia rostova) and yara was sick of it (and obviously traumatised, girlie is five-ten). after hearing about these stories, the blacklights reached out to yara - who had previously not known about them - and told her about their plight, and yara was delighted to hear that there were others who shared her opinions on the gangs, and was eager to join, even if it meant that she was on opposite sides as narin. thankfully, the blacklights were not public, and the leaders let yara be an exception to their rule of no affiliation with any gang members.
at cogworks, yara met her two best friends - who also happened to share the same views on gangs as she did - and convinced them to join the blacklights too, and they started a band together due to their joint love for music. she was also friends with seojun lee, but after he joined the snakes, she cut off all ties with him (naturally). she didn’t just feel betrayed, but because it was part of her job. having narin was more than most blacklights were allowed, even if narin remained oblivious to the fact that yara was a blacklight.
now at twenty-five, not much has changed, except that yara now also works at a record shop (she needed a cover and plausible story to tell her sister). she feels bad having to lie to narin every time, but it is for both of their goods, and it’s not like yara has much choice. despite her strained relationship with her sister, if she had to choose between blacklight and snake, she would choose blacklight and follow her mother’s path every time.
༉‧₊˚. kim yara.
asterath; after the car crash.
“narin?” she called nervously.
“here,” her sister replied weakly, blood coating one of her legs entirely.
“mama? papa?” no response. “mama? papa?” she tried again. the shards of glass in chaeyoung’s pretty face was the last thing that yara saw before the deafening silence swallowed her whole.
