[Open] Faith's Plots (Updated 5/10)

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Hello everyone! Happy to be back!

I'm still testing my legs here so I would love love any input on plot ideas because I'm sort of shooting in the dark and somewhat unclear about world mechanics! I've been plotting with the same characters for oh.... 10 or so years now in another shop almost exclusively, so its been a while since I've branched out into a new world ;D.

Disclaimer:
I'm currently in an accelerated Masters program until this December, which keeps me studying from sunup to well... the next sunup some days. There are lulls, and I am hopeful this summer will be one of them, but because of this, I unfortunately cannot guarantee that I'll be able to post on a regular basis. I would suggest not initiating any pivotal character development plots on finishing an rp with me in 'X' amount of time. If I can get my muse running, I can usually get a few posts out a week, but that tends to be my fastest pace even at the least busy of times. I don't mind gentle pokes though, I'll always try to be upfront and check in when I'm busy so you know I still plan to come back, and I am happy to keep you updated on when I should be able to post again smile

I know its a pain, but truly the best way to get ahold of me and get a response is to pm me, I know its slow, and people tend to dislike it, but it is body memory for me to log into gaia every day at least once to check and see if I have notifications, so it is the only way I can promise I will see your message in a timely fashion and respond. Similarly, I am only open for in guild rps until this program is over, because I actually need to be able to just post and then drift away and then come back when my muse hits and post again, sorry!

I do have discord and the tendaji slack (same username), but I am Horrible at chat rooms. Horrible. I am so sorry in advance, but I seem to have missed out on developing the ability to sit and keep an eye on a chat, thank you for those of you who put up with my chat room oddities, but if you are willing to be patient with me and are prepared for me to randomly poof, feel free to message!

Thank you for stopping in and I look forward to plotting with you <3

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[Faithofthefallen]

Stage: Archer
Current Location: Oba
Gender/Pronouns: Female/She/Her
Orientation: Unknown
Relationship Status: Single

Personality: On the surface, Prala is quiet, distant, and rather shy. She doesn't trust easily and finds herself unfamiliar with how to conduct herself around people. She's an observer and learns her social skills by mimicking those around her at times. She hasn't had to consider others in her decision making throughout her life thus far, so she can be stubborn and temperamental when she doesn't get her way. She doesn't really comprehend that she's behaving badly or understand that people are treating her differently because of her attitude. Prala harbors a deep distrust bordering on hostility towards people in general and Obans in particular from her personal experiences that she is having to learn to set aside. She relaxes around wildlife and nature and feels much more at home and comfortable living a simple life away from the hustle and bustle of other people. She is more inclined to flee or try to intimidate strangers than greet them and try to make friends (Which doesn't work very well because she's short and not at all menacing...) but she's trying to overcome this, her greetings are often strangely forced as she fights between instinct and training. She's quite curious and loves learning, she forgets to be shy when she's interested in something. She has a kind heart and a loyal spirit behind her walls, she just hates feeling vulnerable. Perhaps as she grows stronger she will feel more comfortable relaxing her guard ;D?

History: Prala led a very controlled and sheltered childhood dominated by a well meaning but arrogant father. There was no love lost between her parents After his passing she returned to Juahar with her mother. Oban's invaded shortly after their arrival to Neud and killed her mother. Prala was injured trying to escape and captured. After healing, she was able to make her escape and flee into the uninhabited depths of Juahar. There she abided for many years until she grew bored of a stagnant existence and finally gathered the courage to leave the jungle. She is currently devoted to the task of learning to defend herself, she's chosen to pursue archery because it was the weapon that saved her during the attack. ]

Plots:
-Prala has just escaped her betrothed through a feat of acrobatics but was gravely injured in the process. She is going to need to see a healer, or at least someone who can help patch her up.
-Prala is going to accidentally enter Oba while aiming for Matori, she has a history. During the war, she was held captive by Obans and her mother was murdered. While she has realized on some level that the soldiers she encountered in her past are not representative of the entire group, she still has a knee jerk defensive reaction. I'd love to explore that prejudice and hopefully help her move beyond the last of it.
-SUPER open to others' plot ideas!!  

[Faithofthefallen]

Stage: Healer (Scholar track)
Current Location: Pajore, Yael
Sex/Gender: Male/Man
Orientation: Bisexual
Relationship Status: Single
Base traits: Patient, Protective, Gullible
Personality:

Persevering, Patient, Loyal, Thoughtful, Reserved
Brooding, Haunted, Superstitious, Anxious, Inhibited

History:
Rain was born to a middle class merchant family. He had a relatively normal childhood up until his mother passed away during the birth of his younger sister. It was unsurprising to the rest of the village, his mother was not a robust woman, she had had much difficulty during Rainier's birth and the village healer had advised against having any more children. His parents did not listen, rather than blaming his own actions, Rainier's father turned the blame on his youngest child. Rainier's father was not a strong man, his mental health deteriorated after his wife's death. The combination of guilt, the stress of raising two children on his own, and his own paranoia, led him to develop an almost phobic aversion to his own child. He began drinking, then gambling, he lost his business, he lost much of what he owned. The rest of the village began to turn from him. He saw the misfortune brought on by his own actions as more evidence of Raisa's bad luck. As a young child, Rainier was fooled into believing his father that Raisa had somehow been hexed or haunted, although he did not turn from Raisa as his father chose to. Rather he felt that his baby sister needed protection, she was too little to perform the small rituals and charms to protect herself, so he would do them for her. He'd place good luck charms around her as she slept and he stayed with her to try to protect her from any misfortune that may seek her out. Their relationship has been incredibly close. As time went by and his father's paranoid behavior became more obvious, Rainier began to see his father for what he really was, he put two and two together and finally came to understand that the only danger to Raisa was from his own father, a broken man.

Rainier began his apprenticeship at 14, but with his father to deflect and Raisa to look after, he was at best a distracted student. He was so caught up in his home life it seemed selfish to try to focus on his training and leave Raisa to deal with their father alone. On top of that he had no idea what direction he wanted to take his studies, his future was placed on the back burner.

By the time Rainier had turned 18, he had had more than enough of his father, who had finally become cruel in his guilt and despair. Rainier fully understood that his mother's death had broken something fundamental in his father and that he was now a twisted shadow of his formal self. In a drunken rage one night, when Rainier was out of town on a small job, his father cast Raisa from the house and demanded that she never blacken his doorstep again. Rainier returned to find his father passed out and his sister gone, stricken, he immediately began to look for her. Finding her at an orphanage, he ended up technically adopting her and they left for Pajore to start a new life away from the painful memories of their childhood.

Now, Rainier finally has the time and energy to focus on his studies and has picked up where he left of, albeit much older than your average prentice. He secretly harbors the fear that it is already too late for him and he has wasted his potential, he feels self conscious that others his age are much more advanced in their training, but he is driven to make up for lost time and set a good example for Raisa.

Plots:
(Currently in Oba, will eventually be heading towards Juahar)

+ Different types of healing
(Burns, lacerations, breaks, illnesses, various weapon wounds)

+ Someone to teach him to use the elemental aspects of his magic

+ A fitness trainer/Workout buddy
Rain is a string bean and disastrous with any sort of weapon. I need a hard a** to push him to get in shape and take care of his body in other ways. I could see him doing something like yoga, tai chi, things of that nature.

+ He needs battles (I have never done one of these before, so I will need coaching xD)

 

[Faithofthefallen]

Name: Shavas
Stage: Prentice (Assassin track)
Current Location: Jatine, Oba
Sex/Gender: Female/Woman
Orientation: Unknown
Relationship Status: Single
3 Base Traits: Proud, Vivacious, Tempestuous

Personality:
Shavas is a very vivacious 14 year old. Animated and lively, her energy tends to draw and hold people's attention, not always for the best reasons, she tends to cause an uproar among her family's acquaintances. She smiles often and has a wild sort of innocence about her, in that she often acts without regard for the consequences but without any ill intent, because she hasn't experienced very many negative consequences that have had a lasting impact in her young life thus far. She is the sort of girl who can easily recruit followers with her wicked sense of humor and contagious laugh. She is very physical person in the expression of her emotions, for better and for worse. When she's happy she wants to hug everyone, she kisses people on the cheek, squeezes their hands. basically charming those around her, especially those who don't know her overly well.Those who have know that she is a spitfire when riled, prone to throwing a punch or a drink at someone. This causes plenty of drama and irritation among her peers and elders, she has a bit of a reputation because of it, but because there have never been any particularly dire repercussions for her actions up to this point, she sees no problem with her behavior and continues with it, much to the irritation of her peers and chagrin of her father and siblings.

Shavas is a warrior minded young lady with a taste for the finer things in life. She loves extravagant parties and food. She is very meticulous on managing her appearance, enjoying draping herself in fine clothing and jewelry when not decked out in her gear and elaborately styling her hair. She prefers loose flowing robes and gowns, because she is often wearing her gear (and weapons when she has them) underneath to be ready should she need them. When mussed, she will retire immediately to primp herself back into perfection. Most of this is the brittle pride of youth, she absolutely preens when someone makes a positive comment on her appearance and turns into a defensive hissy cat at any slight. This makes it quite difficult for her to get any meaningful feedback or to grow particularly close to anyone outside of her family, as once they realize she cannot take criticism, they begin to walk on eggshells around her, fearing and yet morbidly hoping for an explosion of temper fueled spectacle from the notorious young lady.


History:
Shavas is the youngest of three children of a lesser noble house in Oba. While not extremely wealthy, they have enough to live in relative luxury. She was born near the end of the great war between Oba and the rest of Tendaji and thus has little memory of the events that transpired. Her mother passed away a few years ago from a wasting illness, her father is an ex warrior who fought in the Oban war. Shavas' Brother is the eldest sibling, and heir. Shavas' sister is gearing to be married in a month or so and will be moving out of their family home to live with her husband's family soon. Shavas has never been a particularly obedient child, much to her family's frustration. She basically does what she wants first and accepts the consequences after, for example, blackening the eye of the son of a neighboring noble house who had been spreading falsehoods about her family to some of their peers.

Her father was present during the surrender at the end of the war, he was an officer, but had no choice in the decision to surrender. He was forced to follow orders despite his reluctance, some of the other influential families choose to see it as a sign of weakness and a source for gossip. This has been a sore point and has cultivated much bitterness towards outsiders, and while he does not outright preach these things to his children, his opinion has always been clear and accepted as accurate. Her father was raised in a time when the Matori were slaves and thus he sees them as such still, Shavas is not quite as old fashioned as he, the Matori have been free since her first memories, but she still unconsciously sees them as less than the Obans. She wouldn't say that about herself, but she has prejudices and stereotypes about the Matori as being more servile that shape her interactions with them, she holds no hate in her heart for them, it is born of ignorance and being raised in a system that encourages that pattern of thinking.

While Shavas mourns her mother's passing in her own way, she did not have the typical mother-daughter relationship with her. There was detached affection and a sense of duty, but her mother was not overly involved in the day to day aspects of raising her children, they had servants and teachers to do that. She basically supervised and guided their upbringing, with others doing the dirty work. When she passed, much of that work had been accomplished and while the household went into official mourning, not much changed beneath the surface. Shavas' sister simply stepped into the role of organizing their family's social obligations as practice for her upcoming marriage. Shavas' family would have her step into the role once her sister leaves, but she has little to no interest and is not shy about sharing the fact.

As the youngest of three, Shavas has a fierce independent streak. She already had an elder sister and an elder brother, so she was technically 'the spare,' and her upbringing was much more relaxed and less structured than her siblings. It was so not much an overt attitude her family directed at her, as simply a natural evolution in parenting style. Her parents had wanted to get everything perfect when raising her brother and closely monitored his schooling and training, they were more relaxed with her sister, and Shavas even more so. There was never this huge emphasis of her needing to find her proper place as a young girl and she was often left to her own devices, which suited her nicely. Her elder siblings follow their duty to their family, they are quite a bit older than Shavas and secure in themselves and what they want, they see Shavas as charming, but naive, but they also assume that her wildness and stubborn streak will fade as she matures.

Shavas' family's finances are unstable, and her father seeks to arrange a suitable marriage for Shavas' future, to hopefully offset some of that financial burden. While Shavas is fiercely loyal to her family, she is loyal to her own desires first and she has told anyone who will listen that she will happily resort to cavorting about the marketplace naked and embarrassing their family for years to come rather than be sold like a prized animal. She is going to be a warrior, and has no desire for a husband (right now). It is a constant point of contention between Shavas and her elders. Her relationship with her father and brother is loving, if somewhat strained, he often tries to steer her down the 'right' path, and she usually laughs him off, despite this, she looks up to her brother a great deal. He has always been kind to her and has always treated her with respect. Her relationship with her sister is quite distant, they were never particularly close, and while Shavas won't tolerate anyone talking badly about her, she finds her tiresome and boring, they don't share many of the same interests and they've always been at very different developmental stages, so they tend to just leave each other alone. Shavas loved her mother and had a distant sort of admiration for her, but they were quite different in temperament. Her mother was very quiet and serene and found Shavas' rambunctious nature quite distressing most of the time. They never grew close, but this has never been particularly bothersome to Shavas. Thats just the way things have been in her life and she accepts that as her version of normal.
 

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