Post by crxunch* ; on Jan 14, 2010 17:21:02 GMT -5
Character: Chastity
Faction: Virtue
Gender: Female
Age: 14 years old, but due to her height, she looks about 17.
Element: Energy
Summon:
Faction: Virtue
Gender: Female
Age: 14 years old, but due to her height, she looks about 17.
Element: Energy
Summon:
Chastity's summon is a pure white ermine, an animal who has long been a symbol of chastity. Kia'arit is a small but ferocious fighter who would protect Chastity from anything. Kia'arit's name is difficult to pronounce for anyone but Chastity, who seems to be the sole being with the correct cadence to her voice. This adds to the bond that Chastity and Kia'arit share. Kia'arit refuses to leave Chastity's side, ever. However, he dislikes to be seen so he keeps to the shadows until Chastity needs his company or his help. Chastity and Kia'arit seldom argue due to the strong, quiet manner of the ermine, and the patient, innocent manner of the virtue. The two are inseparable, but the distance that Kia'arit keeps can let Chastity build her confidence as a solitary being.Power:
Kia'arit is stoic, but kind-hearted. He will fight when necessary, but never kill without reason.
Chastity can slow and, with much concentration, stop the progression of time to provide time to think and time to react. She finds that this power is very useful in combat, and useful when she would like to sit and mull over things that require her full attention. Chastity sometimes finds this power frustrating, because the concentration it takes to fully stop time takes several minutes to sum up. The degree of slowness is based on the concentration that Chastity devotes to the power.Weapon:
Chastity is familiar with a number of weapons, but most often she uses twin sai. Chastity's sai were made particularly sharp, and are contained in two self-sharpening scabbards.Appearance:
The zai themselves are polished mirror-bright. The blade is precise and flashes almost purple in direct sunlight. The handles of Chastity's zai are cherrywood and are polished until the wood gleams. While Chastity could choose to hold the handles alone, navy blue cloth wrist-straps are attached to the handles so that when she slides her wrist through the loop and grasps the handle, the sword can lie flat against the underside of her forearm.
Chastity's twin sai are as graceful and concealable as her.
Height: 5'10"History:
Weight: 115 lbs.
Skin colour: Somewhere between ivory and olive
Eye colour: Soulful brown, as a vat of chocolate
Hair colour: Almost-black, hanging down in a curtain of shining ebony
Markings: A tattoo of a two thin triangle under her right eye (black), and a thin scar running from just above the left eyebrow where it meets the nose, curving around the eye and ending nearly touching the earlobe.
Clothing: Chastity dresses modestly, in a loose long-sleeved blouse and slim-fitting black slacks.
Born into a poor family as Christine, she came from a small village in the south of England where you grew up fast or were left behind. Christine's father was a drunkard who beat her and her sisters. Christine's mother did nothing, as she sold her pottery in neighbouring towns to bring in what little money she could. When she was 10 Christine completed the required journey to a sort of Mecca for her religion. Christine travelled from her home miles and miles to a place where the snow was a blanket, much different from her seemingly constant-summer home. She travelled to where the Sacred Place was.Behaviour:
The Sacred Place itself, in a town called Mahaia, became her sanctuary. She sat for days and days pondering the "great thoughts" as her Elders called them. The Summer Tree, which the snow avoided, was the place she rested her head, as she had no friends or family in the Sacred Place. She realized that the winter snow was more comfortable than her broken home had ever been, and stayed in Mahaia.
From here, she met a man and instantly fell.
But this man was not who he seemed. He was actually the leader of a ring of notorious thieves who would not be suppressed by law or by Christine's pleading. Zion was his name, and he was too proud to quit his "business" for his love. A quick temper, Zion was the one who gave Christine the scar she carried into her existence as a virtue. The scar was on the surface and emotional. In a fit of rage, Zion slashed Christine with a kitchen knife.
Zion's thieves, a band called the Mount Glory Thieves, stole from far and wide. Zion led them, and was an excellent fighter. Prior to knowing the truth, Christine thought Zion was a travelling merchant. The pair lived comfortably, and Christine was happy, but she always had a slight suspicion of something not quite right.
One day as Zion came home, Christine noticed a belt in his burlap bag of "wares" he had not crafted, and she had never seen before. When she confronted him about this, he brushed off the accusation. Christine turned to Mahaia's Elders and they told her the truth.
The day Christine died, she was at the Summer Tree. Her scar was freshly healed, and shone as a thin pink line in the quasi-summertime sun. She was thinking about the day she would die- fourteen was so young, she thought. She was pondering how she would like to pass on when Zion, finally understanding the implications of what she knew, crept behind her and ended her life with three swift stabs. She died with little suffering and never knew who it was that had stabbed her.
She was never one for violence or impure acts, so she was gifted with the virtue of Chastity.
Chastity is friendly, but shy. Never overly violent, she lets Kia'arit do the preliminary checks over potential friends. Her closest friend is a good judge of character and relays any important information. Only when Kia'arit has given his approval will Chastity open herself. She is an honest but frightfully private and modest person.Other:
Chastity blends well into the background and does not go noticed, except for her height.Journal:
