#especially when she starts getting really paranoid not long from her fatal escape attempt

[onlineviolence]

thinking thinking thinking. yuriel and raphael were in a relationship once but sort of drifted apart, like a mutual agreement of "this doesn't work"

[belladonaofylisse-blog]

anyone interested in interacting with my kids?

i realized that i’ve barely had my kiddos interact with anyone so if you’d be interested with our ocs interacting, please send me a message about it! i would love to see my characters have more friends ( or enemies lol )

and here are some short character bios under the cut so people don’t have to track down their old, outdated ones.

IOLE — 24 years old, Female ( cis ), War Cleric

History: Born in New Plegia, but ran away with her mother to escape her father, Askari’s constant abuse. They lived on the streets of Ylisse for a time until a kindly priest named Issak took them in, offering them a place to stay at the monastery where he worked and lived. Iole was reluctant to trust him at first, but quickly came around to him after he comforted her from a nightmare. Issak eventually married her mother, Nura, but she died a few years later due to a prolonged illness. After her mother’s death, Iole dedicated herself to becoming a high-ranked officer just like her mother was, training every single day. Through helping her step-father with his priestly duties and training everyday, she grew into a strong young woman and enlisted as soon as she finished her training. Once enlisted, she quickly raised up the ranks, even being promoted from a recruit to a soldier only 5 months into her training period. Many rumors began to spread about how she achieved such a thing, some believing she did so through less-than-honorable means. Because of this, she had no friends to speak of. She became the captain of her platoon a year after joining and eventually was promoted to be the 23rd platoon’s lieutenant after the departure of their previous lieutenant. She currently works directly for Maxwell, who she also has a rather obvious crush on.

After Lucien’s death, Iole along with her childhood friend, Eion, and Issak left Ylisse to look for Maxwell. Unknown to her, Askari had found her location and tailed her to Valm. 3 weeks passed until he made his move and cornered Iole. He attempted to kill her with his musket, but Issak took the fatal bullet for her, being shot in the chest. Askari unfortunately escaped and Issak died from his wound. Iole refused to return home, insisting upon staying to help Maxwell and Elene. Though, she is currently at an extreme low-point, being severely depressed and reckless.

Personality: Hard-working. Compassionate. Generous. Friendly and Personable. Motherly towards others. Flirtatious at times. Extremely Protective of her loved ones. Works quickly. Bottles up negative emotions. Tends to put on a smile, even when upset. Puts others before herself. Paranoid of losing those who she cares for. Emotionally Brittle. Merciless on the battlefield. Apathetic and Reclusive as a child.

EION — 21 years old, Male ( trans ), Valkyrie

History: Originally born in Chon’sin to a impoverished young couple, He was left in the care of a monastery in Ylisse by his parents, hoping to give him a better life than they could. Eion preferred to keep to himself, even lashing out at those who attempted to connect with him. Because of this, he became extremely reclusive and often skulked about the monastery. He found himself often watching others from a distance, especially Iole upon her arrival. Eventually, she confronted him and while she was combative towards him at first, they two grew to become rather close as she slowly began to trust others. Along with this, Eion ended up developing feelings for Iole, but was far too scared to act upon them. After she enlisted, he was content with staying at the monastery, but soon came to realize how lonely he was without her around. Iole sending home letters mentioning Maxwell on a frequent basis also seemed to spur him on. Asking Issak to teach him how to wield magic, he became Eion’s mentor. Upon finishing his training, he left the monastery for Ylisstol. After enlisting, he quickly realized that there was little hope that Iole would return his feelings and his feelings soon began to fade. Unfortunately, he developed a crush on Lani soon after.

Currently, Eion is still rather shaken after Issak’s death. His stress and anxiety is only amplified by having to deal with his unrequited feelings for Lani.

Personality: Appears Stoic and Aloof. Really just Shy and Socially Awkward. Abrasive towards others. Dedicated to doing his best. Often overworks himself. Frequently Stressed. Easily embarrassed or flustered. Tries to be as serious as possible. Shows his more relaxed and playful nature once close with others. Hopeless Romantic. Falls in love easily.

VERA — 1,815 years old, Female ( cis ), Manakete

History: The daughter of the former divine dragon, Xane, Vera grew up traveling about the world with her parents. During this long period of happiness, she spent most of her days playing and admiring the cultures of the world, but only from a distance. With tensions raising in Archanea, Xane and Vera’s mother, Aine, grew fearful of what could happen to them or their daughter. As a result, they concealed their manakete heritage from the world and lived away from society. Many years passed, the three living through the ruin of war and the prosperity of peace. Upon finding that her sister had gone missing, Aine tearfully said her goodbyes to her family and began her search, leaving Xane to care for Vera alone. For years after, Vera and her father continued to travel, but soon enough, Vera’s curiosity got the best of her. One day, while sneaking away to venture into the city by herself, she was attacked by a group of bandits. They were ready to steal her away to their camp until Xane came to save his daughter. While he was able to scare them away by successfully transforming into his former dragon form, it took a heavy toll of his body. With his last breaths, he told Vera to find Tiki and keep herself safe. She followed her father’s dying request and began to travel throughout Ylisse to find where Lady Tiki was. Eventually learning of her location from a kind fortuneteller, she set of to Valm to meet her father’s dear friend.

After living with Tiki for a year and a half, Vera decided to leave Mila Tree and search for her mother. She is currently still searching for her, but fears that she may never find her.

Personality: Cheerful. Carefree. Adventurous. Playful. Somewhat Mischievous. Friendly. Childlike. Often has her head in the clouds. Forgetful. Distracted easily. Always smiling. Naturally Curious. No concept of personal space. Quick Learner. Terrified of Bandits.

KODA — 20 years old, Female ( cis ), Dancer

History: Koda keeps her past a secret to many, only sharing that her parents were killed when she was young and she has a twin sister named Kanza. Escaping from their caretakers, she and Kanza were separated during their escape. For a time, Koda wandered about Ylisse, looking for her sister. She soon gave up after 2 long months of searching and eventually found herself in the ports of Ylisse. She decided to travel to Valm in the hopes of possibly starting over. Learning that the Seven Seas was set to return to Valm that night, but with no money to pay for passage, she resorted to using her usual tactics to find her way onto the ship. Seducing a member of the crew and knocking them out once they were in the lower decks, she quickly hide amongst the cargo, but was quickly caught by Batiste. Instinctively, she shakily held a sword to his throat. While his crew was ready to protect their captain, Batiste stopped them, saying that he “liked her.” This caught Koda off-guard, allowing him to easily disarm her. She feared the worst was about to come, but was surprised when Batiste allowed her to stay on the ship until they arrived in Valm. Confused that he didn’t throw her overboard or harm her, she quickly began to find herself often thinking of Batiste and how strange he seemed to be. The crew was kind to her as well, despite her threatening their captain’s life before. Upon arriving in Valm, she was somewhat sad to leave the ship, but was ready to do so. She was shocked when Batiste offered her a place in his crew, which she agreed to without a second thought. Since then, she works for the crew by doing whatever she can to help.

Personality: Comes off as emotionless at first. Slowly warms to people. Timid. Quiet. Somewhat meek. Easily confused or embarrassed. Often lost in her own thoughts. Unintentionally brutal at times. Tends to not think before she speaks. Passionate. Likes to compliment people. Scared of becoming intimate with others. Extremely sensitive to touch.

KANZA — 20 years old, Female ( cis ), Duelist

History: Like Koda, Kanza rarely speaks of her past besides the basics of it. Though, she is much more willing to talk about how it affected her. After getting separated from Koda, she began looking for her sister, but found no leads on where she was. She decided to leave for Valm, hoping that perhaps Koda had gone there as well. Eventually ending up in Rosanne, she tried to find work while looking for her sister, but with little success. Spending a few nights sleeping in the streets, she then met Falcon one night, who offered her a place to stay. She was reluctant to trust him, but was quickly won over by a hot meal and a warm bed to rest in. While she soon began to trust her new caretakers, their habit of sneaking off in the dead of the night made Kanza wonder what they did while they were away from the tavern. Her curiosity got the best of her, eventually following Falcon on one of his missions and finding out about his role in the Beasts. After saving him from a sniper, Falcon agreed to help her impress Lioness enough to get her into the gang. Soon enough, Kanza found a new family with the Beasts, assuming the codename of Dove and becoming their information gatherer.

Personality: Playful. Flirtatious. Loves to compliment people. Hot-headed. Easily Angered or Frustrated. Protective of her loved ones. Extremely defensive. Combative. Overly Emotional. Flustered when complimented. Hates being talked down to or demeaned.

[thehauntinghq-blog]

“My name is SORA KAH, and I’m currently among the living. I am TWENTY-TWO years old, and I’m a LIBRARIAN. But now, I’m able to see beyond the veil and speak to the dead – and no one knows why. People say I look a lot like IM YOONA, but I don’t see it. Currently, I am OPEN.”

+ determined, intelligent, compassionate, resourceful, pragmatic

- closed-off, cynical, paranoid, snarky, callous

BIOGRAPHY

Sora grew up in Charleston with her family, and, for the first seventeen years of her life, led a fairly normal existence. She had few friends, but was very close to the ones she had, and did pretty well in school, especially her literature classes. When her mother was offered a job in Specter, she was sad to leave her hometown behind, but did her best to adjust to her new situation with a smile. Sora’s beauty did not go unnoticed by her new classmates, and she was soon befriended by some of the more popular girls, one of whom invited her to go drinking and dancing at a club just outside of town. Sora, despite knowing she’d have to lie to her parents and sneak out in order to do so, agreed. At the club, she got separated from her new friends, and, feeling stressed out and disoriented, Sora made her way to the bar to order something to drink. There, a man much older than her began to express interest, and didn’t back off when she tried to politely turn him down. Just as she began to fear for her safety, a second man intervened, telling the first man to go away. He then offered Sora a ride home. Sora was hesitant, but after he showed her his police officer ID, she agreed, desperate to get home. However, when the “officer” led her behind the building, and she realized that the first man was waiting for them, Sora realized she’d made a very big mistake. Before she could protest or try to run away, the two men overpowered Sora and knocked her out. She woke up, several hours later, in the back room of a large, abandoned warehouse in the Valley of Dust, tied to a chair. The “officer” was there, and explained to her that she was now the property of a nationwide human trafficking ring, and that from now on, she would do whatever he or his colleagues said. Thus began five years of absolute hell, abuse, and dehumanization, Sora being forced to service any men she was brought to, forbidden to have any contact with the outside world, and even being denied her real name, being renamed “Amata” by the man that kidnapped her. “Amata” soon realized that after she got to be too old to be “interesting” to customers, she would be killed and replaced by another girl, and so, to ensure her own survival, she began to work her way up the ranks, getting in good with one of the underlings working for the ring, and going from “field work” to working behind the scenes, helping transport and discipline new girls, and being allowed to deal with customers over the phone. Although assisting the ring in any capacity turned her stomach, “Amata” grit her teeth and endured it, knowing that, although she was being treated marginally better, she was still a slave, and they wouldn’t hesitate to kill her if she stepped out of line. Finally, after five years, “Amata” saw an opportunity for an escape, and jumped on it, killing the man that kidnapped her, stealing his car, and driving to the nearest police station. There, she told them everything that had happened to her, gave them the location of where the ring was operating out of Specter, and gave them names of people working for the ring. Finally free and reunited with her parents, Sora tried her best to readjust to normal life, finding a job as a librarian after obtaining her GED. She now lives with her two roommates in a crappy apartment building, and is very distant from most people, and hasn’t told her roommates about her experiences. More than anything, Sora just wants to be able to let go of all the awful things she was put through and get her life back.

RELATIONSHIPS

Marcus Delacroix: Sora’s ghost, and the last person she wanted to see ever again. Marcus was the so-called “officer” that she met at the club all those years ago, and, once they arrived in the Valley of Dust, he revealed himself to be “the Warden,” a low-ranking worker on the trafficking ring’s payroll. The Warden’s job was to find new girls for the ring to use, sell them to customers, transport them from place to place, keep them in line when they tried to disobey orders... and dispose of them once they got too old. He then renamed Sora “Amata,” and has only ever called her that. Sora both despised and feared the Warden, but soon realized that if she wanted to stay alive after she got past nineteen or so, she’d need to get on his good side. She started by acting as a mole of sorts for him, letting him know which girls were breaking rules or making escape plans, and then moved on to telling him which clients were trying to rip him off. Finally, the Warden decided he liked “Amata’s” initiative and intelligence, and pulled her out of “field work,” teaching her the ropes of the business. Sora spent most of her time with him after that, staying with him in motel rooms and travelling with him for business. The two got to know each other very well, though he never told her his real name. Sora spent years building the Warden’s trust in her, helping him when he was injured or sick, obeying his orders, and treating him with the respect he never gave her, though he did develop some twisted sense of affection for her. Sometimes, she would see a flicker of humanity in him, but she knew very well that the Warden would never change or consider leaving the ring. Finally, after five years, she and the Warden were staying in a hotel in downtown Specter when he revealed to her that he’d been told by his superiors that he would have to go to California to work with the ring’s connections there, and he wanted to take her with him. She pretended to agree, but in her head, she was panicking, knowing that if she went to California, her chances of getting home would be slim to none. So, she decided to make a bid for freedom. The Warden ordered her to fix him a drink, as he often did, but, in the years gone by, he’d stopped ordering her to drink them first to make sure it wasn’t poisoned. This proved to be a fatal mistake -- Sora poured half a bottle of drain cleaner into his drink, and waited. Once the Warden was dead, she took his car and went to the nearest police station. But now, five months after her escape, Sora’s seeing the Warden again... and he is not happy with her final act of defiance. The two now engage in regular sarcasm contests, as he tries to prevent her from living a normal life, and she tries her best to get him out of her house and back to the afterlife, where he was, presumably, burning in hell. In the fall of the ring, she learned that his name was Marcus Delacroix, but she’s never been able to call him that. Just as he continues to call her “Amata,” to her, Marcus will always be the Warden.

Winter Reynolds: One of Sora’s two roommates. Winter is a broke, bitingly sarcastic former runaway who put out an ad for a new roommate so they could have some help paying the rent. The apartment they share with Sora and one other person is on the bad end of town, but it’s the best they can afford, so they all manage. Winter and Sora don’t speak much, Winter often out of the house working extra shifts at the ice cream parlor, but Sora likes them well enough, and does her best to make sure they’re eating and getting enough sleep. Sora’s not the least bit bothered by Winter’s antisocial personality -- her experiences have more or less soured her on attempting to make new friends. 

Norma Sudha: Sora’s other roommate, a professional phony psychic. Norma is far more sociable and outgoing than Winter, and often butts heads with them. Sora does her best to be nice to her, since Norma’s home more often than Winter, meaning she and Sora are forced to interact far more often. Sora doesn’t really approve of Norma preying on the grieving and naive for her business, but knows better than to say so -- and as long as Norma keeps paying her share of the rent on time, she supposes she can’t complain. Norma, for her part, is genuinely trying to be nice and befriend Sora, despite Sora’s preference for keeping her distance from other people. Sora usually manages to play nice towards Norma, and has even let her practice her “psychic readings” on her from time to time. Sora very nearly burst out laughing when Norma claimed to be able to sense a “dark secret” residing somewhere in Sora. If only she knew.