#and survived due to his quick wits and ability to play the lyre

[cubbihue]

If leisure fairies are human sized, what does that mean for cupid?

Cupid is an odd exception to the Leisure Fairies since... he's not a true fairy! Cupid is a human-turned-Fairy, just like Timmy Turner! The best way to know who is a real Fairy or not? Check the eyes.

Although Cupid has the same level of magical prowess as the average Leisure Fairy, his growth was stunted given his previous human soul. Not that this matters since he's now the Representative of the Leisure Court, as well as the rep for the smaller Holidays Faction.

He hails from a darker era of Fairyworld's history, from before the 4 courts and the Fairy Wars. Cupid recalls a time when fairies would eat human children. Aside from a few from his court, no Living Being knows of Cupid's past.

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[evilpenguinrika]

Laurel Lyre Moodboard (a Candela Obscura character)

I finally finished creating the mood board for my character that I will be playing with my friends! If you wanna learn more, her bio is under the cut! It's a bit brief since I don't want to make it too long, but the more important beats are included!

Name: Laurel Lyre (born 楊小麗 / Siu Lai "Lorelei" Yeung) Age: 29 (born in 1883) Occupation: Performer - Magician/Illusionist Role: Face - Sweet Talk Specialty: Magician - The Prestige (change appearance)

Catalyst: Laurel joined Candela Obscura at 18 after witnessing her mentor shatter into glass fractals after touching a crystal pearl necklace.

Personality:

Laurel is showy and lives for the spotlight. She loves to perform tricks and wows the audience with her impeccable showmanship and sleight of hand. She's cunning, quick-witted, gregarious, confident, and assertive. But that’s Laurel--that’s her stage persona.

Lorelei is completely different. Lorelei is closed off, reserved, untrusting of others, and builds walls around her. She's self-serving and will do whatever it takes to survive, even if it means pulling others down.

She also has a bit of a saviour complex due to her past with her mother.

Background:

Lorelei grew up with a single mother, Shuyi (雪儀 Syut Yi) and lived in one of the speakeasies at the Red Lamp. Lorelei was like a daughter to the other workers and other girls at the speakeasy and always loved the atmosphere there.

One of the ladies--Caroline Salazar, would look after Lorelei when her mother was preoccupied. Auntie Caroline would teach the girl sleight-of-hand magic tricks to pass the time. But aside from learning illusory magic, Lorelei had real magick as well, though she never got a chance to fully utilize her inherent magickal abilities because her mother instinctually told Lorelei that magick was bad and to never use it again.

Growing up, Lorelei's mom had these grand delusions and unrealistic fantasies about their futures. She had instilled these ideals in Lorelei, and unfortunately, even instilled a saviour complex in the young girl. Lorelei was always told that she was going to save them, that once Lorelei's father saw her, he would immediately know she was his and would bring the two of them back with him to become a family.

Lorelei was eleven when she found her mother's dead body from a drug overdose.

Auntie Caroline adopted Lorelei soon after, but the transition was rough on the girl because she saw all the other Aunties as nothing but mean bullies who failed to save her mom. This also caused Lorelei to believe that she failed to save her mother. After all, her mother had told Lorelei she was going to save them both--that she was going to bring her father to them. But that was no longer going to happen because her mother was dead and Lorelei failed her.

Lorelei became more closed off and jaded to the rest of the world, always believing in the worst. Her idealized version of her mother slowly cracked away the longer she experienced the cruelty of reality, realizing that her mother's delusions of grandeur were nothing but childish fantasies that she never grew out of.

She got dragged into a few shady dealings and business after her mentor, Anna Margaret Moore saw potential in Lorelei. They did a few petty crimes, mostly stealing and reselling. But it wasn't until Anna Margaret saw Lorelei use magick for the first time did the older woman decided to use Lorelei even further. They were after a particular artifact of interest when they encountered members of the Red Hand. Lorelei used her magick to protect the two but accidentally incapacitated one of the Red Hand members. Anna Margaret ordered Lorelei to kill them but the teen refused as she never killed anyone before. Anna Margaret finished the job instead and found the artifact, a crystal pearl necklace. But when the woman touched it, she began to shatter like fragile glass and essentially died.

Not knowing what to do, Lorelei ran away.