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Aya, Stable Girl

Started by DragonSong, September 05, 2016, 01:04:59 PM

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Name Aya (EH-ya) Almarin
Age 22
Gender Female
Species Nephilim
Ethnicity Adelan, mostly
Height 5'4"
Orientation Heterosexual
Occupation Stable hand, groom, trainer
Residence Ketra



Credit: my awkward sketchbook

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Physical Description
Round faced with an upturned, elfish nose and large, violet almond eyes, Aya is the picture of impish mischeif (not an entirely inaccurate impression). Her thick, dark hair is often kept in two braids in an effort to keep it out of the way. Not really tall or short, she is built on the curvy side, with a healthy amount of meat on her bones.

Which doesn't mean she's not muscled. Years of working on and around horses has given her a steely strength that is often belied by her rather feminine frame. She is almost never seen out of casual working shirts, breeches, and boots. The only ornamentation she ever wears is a slim silver ring, thin filaments molded to form dozens of interlocking links and ornate knots- a gift from a father she never met.

Personality
Aya is dedicated and hard working, most of the time, but every once in a while she has bouts of impishness, playing harmless tricks or spontaneously deciding to consistently irritate a friend for a day. She really just can't help herself.

Her fun-loving nature hides a surprisingly philosophical side though; Aya is a very intelligent girl. Despite never receiving a formal education, she mostly taught herself to read and write (mostly to make herself invaluable at the stable where she works), and can hold high-minded conversations with the best of them.

Magic/Abilities
As far as she knows, Aya is simply a fairly ordinary if incredibly capable stable hand, albeit with a penchant for beastspeaking that is most effective when geared toward equine creatures.

Nephilim powers TBD!!

NOTE: Though not typically one for jewelry, she does wear a ring on her right hand: a relatively small amethyst stone set in a gold band molded into a pattern of overlapping feathers. It was a gift from her mother the night before her eighteenth birthday, and Loretta requested that she always wear it--odd, but it's not hurting anything, so she does.

This ring is actually an incredibly powerful magical artifact, enchanted so that it can suppress Aya's nephilim abilities, which were meant to manifest when she turned eighteen. So far, it has worked well; but angelic powers are difficult to contain, as Loretta well knows, and so an enchantment that if pitted against mortal magics would last a good two decades is already nearing the end of its wear as it comes up on five years.

Relationships
Her mother, Loretta, her maternal uncle Erryn, their dragons Vitala (he/they) and Kimiko (she/her), and the people she works with and for at the stable.

History
Aya's story really starts before she was born, when her mother- then a young, impetuous woman just entering into the Adelan military- met an injured man on a border patrol mission. She helped revive him and they soon became infatuated with each other; her for his mystique and kind, violet eyes, him for her ferocity and the spark of life that he could see permeating every molecule of her.

They began courting, Loretta and her "wounded dove", as Erryn teasingly referred to the man. He preferred the name Samuel, and for nearly a year he lived with the woman who had saved his life and her brother, slowly starting to fit himself into the society of Ketra as a healer and mediocre shaman.

A little over a year after they met, Loretta discovered she was pregnant. Samuel seemed both overjoyed and terrified at the same time, and when she told him he disappeared for three days without a word. When he returned- after she'd given him a sound verbal lashing for giving her such a scare- he told both Erryn and Loretta that he had a confession: Samuel was an angel, created in the service of a god of war.

For centuries he'd served his master without question, until he'd finally been given an order he just couldn't complete. His rebellion saw him cast down from grace, his power diminished on the mortal plane, but not gone entirely.

But the child Loretta carried was forbidden, a continuation of a damned bloodline. In order to protect the baby, Samuel had to leave, to make sure that no other of his kind would ever find his family. There was a long, long fight about that, but eventually a heartbroken Loretta agreed and bid him goodbye.

Several months later Aya was born, a happy, lively, but otherwise unextraordinary child. She grew up expecting to join the military, like her mother and uncle, but at the age of fourteen discovered she had a different passion: horses.

Her beastspeaking gift was strongest with these creatures, and she found work at a rather...unique stable that caters to more exotic forms of equine animal, including unicorns, hippocampi, and winged horses, to name a few.`

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