"You will regret what you did to me. You will lament you ever met me."
Meaning of (name): 1. A passionate expression of grief or sorrow.
2. A song, piece of music, or poem expressing sorrow.
3. An expression of regret or disappointment; a complaint.
4.Mourn (a person's loss or death)
Aliases: Lydia, The Hanging Tree,
Friends:
Enemies:
Likes: Graveyards, "The Song", Flowers, Humming
Dislikes: Her forgotten past (and when it comes back)
Date Found: 01/15/2012
Found: Gifted
Date of Maxing: August 1, 2013
Temper: Macabre
Breed: Mutant
Breed Appearance: Tree-Back
Height: 16.2 Hands
Personality:
Prone to fits of melancholy and depression, Lament is plagued by memory loss. Her memories come to her like puzzle pieces and often merge into dreams she's had. Typically determined to learn the the truth behind her shattered memories, she becomes erratic and bitter when she finds what she was looking for.
Fractured. Broken. Bitter. Terrified of the memories that are flooding back, she wonders often if she is insane. Is any of this true? How can it be? How can it not?
Backstory:
The Legend of the Hanging Tree: A Tale of Lament
There are stories and then there are legends, Lament's tale falls somewhere between them. There have been many stories told of her, and no one, not even herself can say which are true.
However, a stallion named Horus, helped a mare by the name of Grauen Kerze to search for some famed book.
But when Grauen found the book, she found they would not open for her but only Horus.
Horus never told her the truth of the books.
According to him, not only Grauen Kerze, but Lament and many other's stories are written within the pages of the books. Some are under other names, but a careful eye can pick out the details.
How much of that is true, and how much of that is part of his manipulating and sinister character of Horus cannot be said. However, he has taken it upon himself to enlist favours from others, and send them out with the tales in the hopes of drawing the characters ( or more aptly victims) to him. For what is a storyteller without stories or characters?
It is he who enlisted Tethys in a promise to help with her deteriorating eyesight to tell the story of Lydia and Lance.
Here in part lies the tale, he has enlisted her to spread.
Lydia was young and impressionable when she met Lance—the dark, charming brother of her best friend, Velia. It wasn’t long before the young pair was seeking more and more time alone. They were both daydreaming of a “happily ever after”.
Lance came home, to where Velia and Lydia would be waiting for him. He knew something was wrong as soon as he came upon the place. The usually warm light of their home was dimmed, and as he called out his voice echoed blankly against the wall.
The horror met his eyes when he stepped him, the fresh smell of blood made him wretch. Lydia was bloody and unconscious, but Velia…his only living family, the most tender one he’d ever known was dead. She had been murdered.
Over the next few weeks, Lance, already interested in the darker arts, prepared his sister’s body for re-entry into this world so that she could rejoin them. Lydia healed though she was darker and more sullen—tortured. She would never be the same.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man they say murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the
hanging tree.Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man they say murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the
It was over these weeks that they devised their plan of vengeance against three stallions that had attacked Lydia and murdered Velia.
On the darkest of nights, All Hallow’s Eve, Lance and Lydia crept through the dark—stealing into the homes of the three stallions and releasing their cursed souls from the homes of their body in bloody and cruel ways. The sounds of the stallions screams were just dying out when Lance and Lydia made it home.
The cave walls reflecting the soft candlelight, as Lydia went outside to gather more wood. Lance began the ceremony, calling forth his sister from death to rejoin the living. Her lid twitched, just as they invaded his cave.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where the dead man called out for his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the
hanging tree.Coming to the tree
Where the dead man called out for his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the
There had been witnesses who had seen Lance making his way back to the cave, and they had come to take him. It did not matter that he had done this of vengeance for his sister. Lydia came running as she heard the scuffle, but Lance yelled for her to flee.
That night they hung him.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run so we’d both be free.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the
hanging tree.Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run so we’d both be free.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the
Lydia sobbed long into the night. She did not know the way of the dark arts, so there was no way she could bring either Lance or Velia back. She was destined to a life without them. The thought was simply unbearable. She would find her freedom with him then.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.
Coming to the tree
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.
Going back to their abandoned home, she picked up the wilted bouquet for the wedding they had never been able to have. Placing the veil over her hair, she made her way slowly back to him like the sound of a funeral march.
***
It was in the dawn that they discovered Lydia hanging beside Lance.
It is said that some how they made their way back to this world. They are neither alive nor truly dead. Their names forgotten as they wander looking for each other for eternity—known only by the names Voodoo and Lament.
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Lament has long forgotten her name. Barely alive with a rope around her neck, she was found by Hades. She has no recollection of her past except faint remembrances of a song long since faded away.
Her memory is scattered, she cannot remember what is true and what is dream. Her memories of meeting Hades have melded into memories and dreams of his son Westrion, who is in his likeness.
For the first time in years, she has decided to truly try to learn the past or forget it forever with Westrion's help. It was on this journey, that they fell in love.
August 1, 2013
Stats
exclaim Stats and bonus stats have been added for the month of July! exclaim
If you see any errors, would like to know why you did not receive stats, or have any stat related questions please PM Nisshou H.
As you all are probably aware by now we set and met a goal of getting 500 soquili RPed for starts in July. Well I'm here to tell you that we actually made it to 561 soquili. (Which is partially why I'm so tired right now.) So well done!
It should come as no surprise to anyone that such a lofty target would end up with more than a few faces maxed out. So let's have a round of applause for Sheria, Farsiris, Paramekia, Bailey, Musso Koroni, Amira, Yseult, Araycaria, Johanna Mason, Lament, Chane, Mahdi, Hinote, Kadira Nym, Kreyate, Nyamuragira, Gaston, Sunset's Coda, Guinevere and Raven!
Also (at the request of the owner) Tefla's Echo's Song maxed out a couple years ago (before I took over) and was not included in the post of maxed out soquili. So a very belated congratulations to Echo's Song!
Bonus stat questions for August are also open.
If you see any errors, would like to know why you did not receive stats, or have any stat related questions please PM Nisshou H.
As you all are probably aware by now we set and met a goal of getting 500 soquili RPed for starts in July. Well I'm here to tell you that we actually made it to 561 soquili. (Which is partially why I'm so tired right now.) So well done!
It should come as no surprise to anyone that such a lofty target would end up with more than a few faces maxed out. So let's have a round of applause for Sheria, Farsiris, Paramekia, Bailey, Musso Koroni, Amira, Yseult, Araycaria, Johanna Mason, Lament, Chane, Mahdi, Hinote, Kadira Nym, Kreyate, Nyamuragira, Gaston, Sunset's Coda, Guinevere and Raven!
Also (at the request of the owner) Tefla's Echo's Song maxed out a couple years ago (before I took over) and was not included in the post of maxed out soquili. So a very belated congratulations to Echo's Song!
Bonus stat questions for August are also open.
