#also while Cierclant is roughly Franco-germanic

[revenancy]

Who is nevi? What inspired you to write them?

thanks for the ask!!

cw on this for mention of injury and death →

Nevi -- Vanessa Wyse -- is one of the main characters in Six Dead Princes. She's the only child of the Sorcerer Wyse, and at the present time in-text, she's 24 and has been Roslin's keeper since she was 16. She came up with the nickname "Nevi" when she was 4 because her mother instilled in her an apprehension towards letting anyone know her real name. (In other, simpler reasons, she just wanted to know something that Roslin wasn't allowed to know.)

She's a dilettante dabbling in sciences. Roslin has been her guinea pig for countless experiments, mostly in the fields of chemistry, biology, and what can loosely be described as medicine. He's her Ship of Theseus -- she's removed nearly every vital organ from his body at least once. The spell that binds him to the Sorcerer Wyse also keeps him alive, regenerating each of them and begging the question -- is he still himself? Was he ever himself?

She has a cruel fascination with the human body, but fundamentally, she's a coward. If Roslin was allowed to fight back -- if she didn't have total control over him -- she would never dare do any of this. She would think about it, but she wouldn't indulge herself for fear of retribution; now, her mother may be annoyed with her, but technically Roslin is property of the sorcerer, and so is Nevi's rightful inheritance, for her to keep or break as she pleases.

I don't know if anything directly inspired her character -- I mean, there are parts of me in there, as well as parts of other people I know and love -- but the way the characters for SDP came to be was, in order, Roslin → Nevi → Emra. So everything about Nevi's early character is informed by Roslin's, effectively molding her abuse in the shape of his trauma. I'm actually so excited to write the rest of this bc of her.

thanks again ♥