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Kyrrha, the little ghost

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Name
Kyrrha

Age
12

Gender
Female

Species
Human

Ethnicity
Connlaothian

Height/Weight
4'/100

Occupation
Seer, part time ghost

Residence
Originally, the ashes of a fortress-home set into the base of a mountain in Connlaoth. More recently, she's wandering the world with her newfound "family", the Shaw brothers.



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Physical Description
Kyrrha is small, far smaller than someone her age should be, though that is more to do with health than anything else. She is pale in skin color, save for a small spattering of freckles against her cheekbones. Her hair is kept long, very nearly to her ankles by this point, and she usually pins it off her face with flowers that grow in what used to be her home's garden.

She is often seen wearing clothing far too big for her, and she has modified what was once clearly a man's set of clothing to fit her and give it a more feminine shape.

Her eyes are large and pale grey, and upon closer inspection, one can see that the areas over her pupils almost seem fogged over, part of a condition rendering her (effectively) blind to natural light ranges.

Personality
She is quiet, and nervous of people, and will usually hide in the ruins of her home rather than face anyone who would bother to visit. But if she is questioned, she rarely leaves information out, or lies. Still, that's not to say she won't question whether or not the other person actually wants to know what she has to say. More often than not, she spends her time staring off into a point in space, as if she sees something else there that others don't.

Magic/Abilities
Since birth, Kyrrha was able to see the spirits of the dead and the soon-to-be-dead. Other living souls she can only see a vague whisp of, like smoke in the dark. The closer someone gets to the point of their death, the clearer they become to her, until they are fully formed and detailed. This type of sight is in black and white, so she can't differentiate colors, but it does give her a way to spook out a potential threat if need be.

That being said, she can only see the dead, not hear or physically interact with them. With the friendlier spirits, she's developed a sort of sign language, and can sometimes get information she might otherwise not be privy to in that manner.

Her sight she now considers normal, and is as ambivalent about it as one might be about their own sight. When she was smaller, however, it was like a waking nightmare, especially when the nearby village's dead came a knocking.

Relationships
Mother-- deceased, hung as a witch-sympathizer in the village square
Father-- missing, assumed deceased, potentially executed as a dangerous mage.


History

Years ago, there was a little village set just at the base of one of Connlaoth's mountains, and this was not one of the more tolerant sorts. The villagers lived in fear of magic, to where if one was found out as being a mage, they were not allowed to directly interact with "normal" people and had to keep separate. As such, there was often two of everything, though the quality was heavily disparate between the two.

One could feasibly hide this, if they were careful, and that is exactly what Kyrrha's father did. He wasn't a native to the town, and preferred to keep a smaller single fortress set away from the main village. However, he frequented the town proper, and was generally liked by most, or at least didn't step on many feet.

He eventually married Kyrrha's mother, a sister of the church, a fierce paladin and witch-hunter when necessary, and the pair lived happily enough. Kyrrha was born and raised there, but around her eighth birthday, her father was found out. When the villagers came to accuse him, her mother attempted to defend him, unaware of just what her husband had been up to right under her nose. This didn't stop her from being hanged for breaking the local laws.

Kyrrha, during this time, hid away in the fortress, deep into the cellar and deeper still, down to where her father never let her go before and where she could make out hundreds of the dead at the bottom of the stairs. Unable to hunt her down, and fearing being tainted by the place, the fortress was set on fire, assumingly burning Kyrrha down with it.

She's unaware of what happened to her father, and assumes the worst, and for the longest time even hoped for it. Developing the sign language with the friendlier spirits gave her a much clearer view of just what he had been up to, and she lives in terror of the idea that his ghost might one day come for her, or worse, his living self might.

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