Lost Butterfly Maiden
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"sit in the chair and be good now";
Name: Cynis Falen Sarien/Lost Butterfly Maiden
Caste: Daybreak
Concept: little child lost
Motivation: To make everything stop hurting for him
Intimacies: Cynis Falen Lianna,Cathak Gaius Gan Ning, Lingering Smoke, Froggy, belief that no one will ever want or love him if they knew about his past, belief that it was his fault and that he deserved all the abuse that he got, belief that he is weak and worthless and that he does not deserve to be loved or cared for, the innocent and helpless
Anima banner: shimmering black and shadow-silver wings that spread from his shoulders
Attributes:
Str: 2
Dex: 5
Sta: 2
Cha: 2
Man: 2
App: 5
Per: 2
Int: 5
Wits: 4
Caste Skills: Investigation 3, Occult 4 (Necromancy +1), Lore 3, Craft 2 (Craft: Air and Craft: Water), Medicine 1
Favored Skills: Melee 3, Awareness 5, War 5 (Tactics +3), Performance 4, Dodge 5
Other Skills: Linguistics 3 (Native: High Realm, Low Realm, Riverspeak, Old Realm), Martial Arts 1, Resistance 3, Archery 1, Ride 1, Presence 1, Socialize 3, Athletics 3
Virtues:
Compassion: 5
Conviction: 1
Temperance: 1
Valor: 4
Virtue Flaw: Heart of Tears
Limit: 5/10
Willpower: 4/5
Essence: 3
Personal: 14
Peripheral: 25 (25/37, 12 motes committed)
Backgrounds:
Whispers 3
Artifact 3
Underworld Manse 3
Necromancy 1
Familiar 5
Merits:
Tactical Instincts
Enchanting Feature
Flaws:
Nightmares
Derangement: Melancholia
Derangement: Delusions
Enemy: 3
Addiction: alcohol
Addiction: sex
Vice: Conviction
Vice: Valor (-2)
JB: 9
DDV: 8
PDV: 5
MDV: 4
MPV: 3
Soak:
9B/10L/7A
Hardness:
3L/3B
Charms:
Awareness: 2nd Awareness Excellency
Resistance: Ox-Body Technique x 1
War: 2nd War Excellency, Mob-Dispersing Rebuke
Dodge: 3rd Dodge Excellency, Flitting Shadow Form, Uncanny Impulse Evasion
Melee: 2nd Melee Excellency
Performance: Second Performance Excellency
Occult: Shadowlands Circle Necromancy
Necromancy: Iron Countermagic, Shattered Void Mirror, Dusk Eyes, Gentle Call of Lethe, Midnight Shadow Sun
Attack:
Daylight Falls, soulsteel reaper daiklave:
Speed 4 Accuracy 14 Damage: +6L Defense 9 Rate: 3, drains per essence in motes per hit
mortal staff
Speed 6 Acc 10 Damage +9B Defense 10 Rate 2 Tags 2-handed, Reach
can't make them go away
Backgrounds
Whispers ***- Sarien is fairly well attuned to the emotions and memories of the dead and the Underworld.
Artifact ***'
- Soulsteel chain shirt (*, attune 2)
- Daylight Falls, soulsteel reaper daiklave. (**, attune 5)
- soulsteel hearthstone bracers (**, attune 4)
- moonsilver wedding ring (*, attune 1). This was the wedding ring of his last incarnation: Sarien came across it by chance, it was shiny and pretty and felt right, so he picked it up and wears it.
Underworld Manse ***'
The House of Sanguine Pleasure (Water/Blood): Once the most prominent brothel in Underworld Sijan. It produces the Hearthstone of Gender-Transformation
Necromancy *'-Sarien has been somewhat schooled on the basics of necromancy: he has learned a bit in a short span of time.
Familiar *****- Unknown to Sarien, Froggy, his plushfrog, is slowly awakening into a little god of great power, thanks to the symbolism that the young Abyssal has imbued into him.
Merits/Flaws:
Tactical Instincts: Sarien has been blessed with the ability to look at a tactical situation, be it hypothetical problem, historical event, Gateway game, or battle, and is able to read the ebb and flow of the situation in moments.
Enchanting Feature: While Sarien is a stunningly beautiful person, flawless and exquisite, his eyes stand out. Big and wide and an unusual, striking shade of green, framed by long, long lashes, they are lovely and sad and haunting.
Nightmares: For the last fourteen years, Sarien has suffered often-crippling bouts of nightmares: however, ever since his Exaltation, Sarien has begun dreaming of others' suffering, attuned as he is to memory, and only rarely of his own.
Derangement: Melancholia: Sarien has changeable mood swings, and he tends mostly towards being sad and melancholy. He is especially prone to crippling bouts of depression, during which he does not have the will to do anything.
Derangement: Delusions: Sarien's mind wanders down secret halls and corridors where no one goes, and he sees and hears things others don't. Some of his more common delusions are talking to plants like they are people, and talking to his frog plush.
Enemy 3: While Cynis Falen Jalide definitely does not wish Sarien dead, for he treasures him in his own sick way, Jalide has destroyed Sarien's life, sanity, and made him dance on his twisted puppet strings for fourteen years. He regards Sarien as his little pet, his doll, his toy, and if he ever gains word of where Sarien's current whereabouts are, he will be sure to try to take him back.
Addiction: alcohol: To try to take the edge off his pain, Sarien has turned to heavy drinking, to dull the memory, and "make everything floaty and pretty~"
Addiction: sex: Sarien behaves in a promiscuous manner, despite his deeply hidden dislike of sex, for several reasons: to try to make himself forget, because he thinks he's not good for anything else, because he's not used to anything else, because he is compulsively submissive. He can no sooner go without sex then he can go without air.
Vice: Conviction: When confronted by his brother, or within the same area as him, Sarien automatically fails any and all Conviction rolls.
Vice: Valor 2: Once again, regarding Cynis Falen Jalide: When confronted by his brother, or within the same area as him, all of Sarien's Valor rolls are at a -2 penalty.
there castles are burning in my heart;
Total XP: 46
Unspent: 11
Spent: 35
Bought: Enchanting Feature (eyes) Merit, Uncanny Impulse Evasion, 2nd Awareness, Familiar 5
my image under her thumb;
Cynis Falen Jalide- Air Aspect sorcerer of a little over half a century in age, Sarien's most hated sibling, subject of his nightmares, and pretty much THE biggest influence on him. Sadistic, cruel, manipulative, obsessive, possessive and just all around a horrible person, Jalide has basically made his younger brother dance on his puppet strings for almost two decades. Rape, manipulation, threats, and carefully applied psychological torture are just a few of the tools he's used against Sarien over the years: and as bad as it's been, it's only going to get worse. Currently, he is the satrap of Thorns.
Jalide is a little over six and a half feet tall, handsome yet cruel-looking, with long (somewhat past his shoulders) white hair and green eyes, very obviously an Air Aspect of impeccable breeding, physically imposing and powerful in build, with a rich, confident baritone voice, carrying himself with perfect, unshakeable confidence. His main resemblance to Sarien comes in the startling color of his eyes: otherwise, the two siblings don't resemble one another. He dresses finely, in dark colors, tasteful and elegant.
Cynis Falen Lianna-One of Sarien's younger siblings, a recently Exalted Wood Aspect of about fourteen, who is now being groomed to attend the Heptagram, she is the only one of his immediate family who Sarien actually likes-in fact, he is quite protective of her, and while he is willing to let bad things happen to him, for being used to it, he will react violently should he find out anyone has harmed her, or tried to harm her. Soft-spoken, kind, sweet, yet strong-willed, Lianna has strangely been not afraid of her publicly unstable older brother, and Sarien has never learned why.
Lianna is a slim, willowy girl with blond hair and green eyes, white roses growing entwined in her long hair, fairly pretty, a Wood Aspect of impeccable breeding, of slender yet wiry build: while she hasn't reached her full growth yet, she promises to be quite tall once she's done growing. She smiles and laughs frequently, sings often-she is a masterful singer-who dresses in white and pink (especially pink) very often.
Cathak Gaius Gan Ning-best/only friend, lover, and unfortunately apparently quite deceased, Gan Ning was two years older then Sarien, who was one of the few people who cared about him-in fact, loved him. Gan Ning's death, which happened a relatively short time ago, shattered Sarien and from which he has never recovered. However, things may not be just as they appear...
with a message from my heart;
- Sarien still somehow possesses his copy of The Thousand Correct Actions of the Upright Soldier
- He is easily distracted by shiny/pretty/unique things
- You can hear the tildes when he talks
- In battle, he will usually fight with a mortal staff: he will not draw Daylight Falls unless absolutely necessary
- He has a cute little frog plush with button eyes that he calls "Froggy".
callin' everybody else's girl;
Bearer of Myrrh-Touched Blessings: He has pretty feathers~He's nice~I just wish he didn't stop me from drowning~
Lingering Smoke: Um. He isn't a bad person~He's nice~And sex with him feels almost okay~
Cathak Gaius Gan Ning: I loved him~I still do~And he's alive~But he's dead~and everything is empty without him~
Kiwi:
Alek:
and in the shadow she crawls;
she's been everybody else's girl/maybe one day she'll be her own/everybody else's girl/maybe one day she'll be her own
