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[ENROLLMENT] Heidla the Priestess (ACCEPTED)

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Boozver

Dangerous Fairy

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:28 pm


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.The Horseman
Name: Heidla Hamhleypa

Nicknames: Selkie babie, Heidla (can you nickname a priestess, though?)

Gender: Female

Age: -- N/A

Original Clan: Death

Job Role: Priestess

Personality:
Capricious: the world's her toyshop, clansmen around are her puppets. But it should be admitted that as she tries to show she's no child, she tries to bridle her whims. Even more so after the tragedy, as she sees that the whole course of life is changed, and that people are less and less prone to take her seriously and play along her lines, At the moment she acts a bit confused, but her character is supposed to become softer as she gets to know more people. Though a little tinge of capriciousness would still be evident in various situations.

Aggressive with quite sadistic tendencies. Wild little beast, that is in out-of-temple interaction. Quite mean, but is afraid of her superiors, that keeps her quiet mostly all the time. Believes in the 'priestess-super-power', that is, that any priestess is per se a rare gem! Though that is quite childish of her.

Short-tempered: Did-you-just-say-I'm-childish-you-jerk?!
Shows little respect to anyone (unless you are considered her special friend/ useful connection or unless you are supposed working in a team). Moreover, seems to harbor contemt towards almost everyone around; sees her priesthood as both her vocation and a mark that singles her out; so is very proud of it.

Racist: meaning, priestesses are divided hierarchically according to their power; others clan members are dumb animals, humans are crop to be harvested. At first, seemed to be unaware (at least, pretended to be) of the existence of Halloween creatures; but now has to interact with others, and after a few painful moments of being left all alone (which she actually does not like), tries to fit in.

Impetuous and vain. If not approached with flatteries, sits sulkily on her own, definitely bearing a grudge against the world. Seems to be shallow, but that might be just inexperience and lack of real emotions. It also seems she has not understood and accepted the ruin of the Clans.

Immature: Her mentors are hoping she will grow up. They might be right, after the fall of the Clans Islands she is sometimes seen with a puzzled expression; and she has become quieter and less pugnacious.She also tries to interact with others, albeit at the moment quite clumsily.

Serious in her priestess duties: all that said, she is still a priestess, and she takes it seriously. She would sacrifice anything for her duties, and no whims or sulkiness are allowed if her role is concerned. In her ceremonial part, she tries to do it impeccably. That is the only thing where she is demanding to herself. And you can be sure that if you need her priestess's abilities, you can be sure you will be treated with no less professionalism than by any other priestess. As far as her duty is concerned, she would not tolerate any caprice or trick.

Industrious and diligent in studying/ responsible when she takes something up serious
Again, that has nothing to do with her out of temple life. It seems that she is a different person if you see her when studying the lore of the Death clan, so engrossed in it she seemed to be.... Now with so few things left.... - she is still engrossed in her studies, of course, but would the Halloweeners be eager to learn it from her? She is very proud of being a part of the Death Clan with its traditions and history. Whenever she talks about it, her features soften and her eyes gleam.

Never opens up: if taken by surprise, would act her way out. Quite a capable actress, when it comes to hide her misdemeanor.

Loves seals. In her personal mythology, seals embody the fluctuation of memory, she sees them as the keepers of the archive, and as engrossed in history/ traditions of the Death clan as she is, she feels a part of the memory of the lost clans is still kept by the seals. Somewhere. She just has to find it.

Mount Form:
Shimmering grey shadowy creature with no solid form but which reminds you of a giant floating seal (well, horse-like seal); she sits on its back like on a magic carpet

Weapon Form: small silvery sickle (after all, she is a death priestess!)

FEAR ATTACK: Selkie yawn
Cuts the air with her sickle, and the air seems to become thicker and heavier, thus, it lowers the opponent's accuracy (THE MIND)


Physical Description: Short and petite. Pug-nosed. Carries herself with such dignity, as if she was the crown jewel of the temple.
Eye Colour: violent icy light blue, almost white, speckled with grey sparkles when annoyed (and she is consciously annoyed), slightly slanting
Hair Colour/Style: black tresses, she ties them up, but one strand of hair always strays out
Skin Colour: fair, when angered, can become pallid
Clothing Style/Colours: heavily layered and invariably dark-grey and black; tied dramatically at the neck to drape in soft folds down the torso; piled dresses in a panoply of monotones; quite awqward and at the same time proud, as due for a priestess
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:14 pm


I have a few crits for you!

1) Her FEAR is very questionable as it steps into the range of Godmoding how it effects the other character. Take a look at our FEAR Mechanics guide and see what sort of effect that is rolled out would fit sort of what you were liking to do with her FEAR and tweek the description around that. <3

2) In terms of an RP setting, how would your character actually interact with other people? It sounds like she'd only want to spend time with other priestesses ( Medea, plus up to 2 more who will be coming out + Aisa who used to be one, I believe), and would have had some difficulty having a Guardian in her role. I'm mostly asking because it sounds like you'd have a hard time finding a way to set up RP for her to interact with other people and I'd hate for you to feel like you couldn't go anywhere with her because you made a recluse that other characters might not want to be around.

Like if a group were to form in an ORP, how would she approach it and do you feel like someone would approach her for too long given the traits you've written out?

3) How is she going to react to the new hierarchy in the Clan Reserve where she's no longer 'on top' with just Preistesses, but rather also has the Sages, Nobles, and Chieftains of the other clans? How would she react to someone of authority (the Heirs/Protectors) trying to put her in her place given that her personality doesn't sound like she'd be trying to help much with the rebuilding of the clans?

demon_pachabel

Beloved Werewolf


kuropeco

Dramatic Marshmallow

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:20 pm


Hey, Boozver! Congrats on your win! C:

Just a few things to note -

Her personality seems a bit...extreme, in terms of anger, violence, and disregard of pretty much everyone that isn't her. This is an RP-centric shop, and characters have to have some sort of way of interacting with others, and with the very severe personality she has, I'm not sure how well she would be able to do that. I also don't really see any positive traits to this personality - they're pretty much all negative. She's capricious, aggressive, sadistic, disrespectful, short-tempered, angry, racist, vain, impetuous, immature, and closed off, according to what you've written, and this is going to make roleplaying with others extremely difficult. The best thing to do here is to try and find a nice balance between the more negative aspects of her personality and the positive ones, and see if you can level out how she is. Try and round her out so that she's still your character, but someone able to integrate into this RP world so that you're able to RP with others - and this doesn't necessarily need to be done right off the bat and can be developed through RP, but it's at least something to think about!

Regarding her FEAR, this isn't really kosher, since you're controlling what the other character is doing. Maybe she could swing the sickle out and send a wave of thick air towards her opponent, making the air really thin around them? Not sure, but just something to consider!

Overall, nice start, you seem to have a really defined idea of how you want her to be! Just a few things to think about. C:


TL;DR > WHAT PACH SAID
PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:40 pm


demon_pachabel
I have a few crits for you!


Thank you! I will rewrite the fear, yes, now I see it looks too powerful - I never meant it to be, though, so I'll change it immediately.

I also have a question for developing the character: I wanted to show how she changes from being a little bitchy creature and get to know the world (taken that she is young she didn't know much about other Clans/Halloweeners; besides, the priestesses are supposed to be quite a closed society?) - so if I soften her character a bit and add the description how she's starting to change and tries to approach people as her world is changed, do you think it would be OK?

Thank you!

Boozver

Dangerous Fairy


Boozver

Dangerous Fairy

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:43 pm


kuromeez
Hey, Boozver! Congrats on your win! C:

Just a few things to note -



Thank you!

In her defence - she's young and inexperienced; she hasn't seen much (younger priestesses don't get much opportunities to know the world); she got used to thinking they are on the top of the world; now that the world is changed, she is going to change, too! I just thought it might be interesting to show how a bad pampered girl can evolve while having to interact - but of course, I will soften her character!

Thank you for fear advice - that was the hardest part for me, and I really didn't want it to be that powerful, guess, just haven't thought it through properly. Will change asap.
PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:51 pm


Boozver


I think developing how the change in scenery/environment is going to throw her off her previous game a bit and allow you to give her more growth will let you keep her previous stuff while giving you a direction to take her in. <3

demon_pachabel

Beloved Werewolf


revenant aria

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:32 pm


I'm a little concerned as to how her personality fits a priestess of the death clan! From the meta interactions, the priestesses take the role very seriously (regardless of whether they are so or not, once the lost clan takes place anymore) so hierarchy and procedures are incredibly important to them, built on respect for the death clan's traditions. It's one thing if she has a personality that leans towards since comments or demeaning ones but it just doesnt seem characteristic for her to "be mean to her superiors," as her only superiors from before are Medea, Aisa and death himself. I see that she's scared of medea but does that mean, she's insubordinate to death and aisa? O_O~

I'll also need zoo clarification on this but I believe, you're not given the role of a priestess, and more so, you work into it. So it seems odd to me, for her to be "granted that position" for her powers, as death isn't exactly a power-based clan! That's more of a war/famine/conquest thing, as the priestesses were there to protect order before. (THIS IS ALL FROM A PLAYER PERSPECTIVE, none of this is cemented but it's the impressions that I've gotten as a player!)

Her sulking personality and superior attitude towards "lower members" is really cute and I can definitely see that spin working though! biggrin

SORRY I AM JUST LISTING WHAT SEEMS ODD ;;;; not really .. suggestions :<
PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:08 am


Random Artist
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Yeah, I'm working on her now smile Just had no time to rewrite properly, but I will definitely soften her traits
Also, thank you for pointing me out about superiors - I should have included Aisa and Death into her fright list, but it seemed so obvious to me ICLY that I forgot to state it for other players! smile

I got the impression that they are born priestess from this:

Quote:
They are born with stronger capabilities, or these abilities manifest in them over time: the ability to harvest Fear, the ability to learn the traditions and arts of their clan, and the ability to invoke trance: the art of illusion and realm creation. There is one Head Priestess that watches over the order


but again, i will soften it!

Thank you very much!

Boozver

Dangerous Fairy


revenant aria

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:54 pm


YEAAAAAH biggrin thank you for taking the crits so nicely *u* I look forward to seeing them in action <33 she's one of the most gorgeous priestesses biggrin
PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2012 9:27 pm


WHOOP sorry! I just noticed that you were still working on rewriting her.

Please repost her in the enrollment thread when you're ready for enrollment! Thanks! C:

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Eight

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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2012 11:44 am


I have a quick question. Priestesses did have that closed in lifestyle, yes, and you've mentioned she didn't know much about other Halloweeners.

She seems to have a...seal/selkie fetish? But she's a horseman? Horsemen were pretty much extremely xenophobic before becoming the Lost Clan, and they pretty much had all of their focus on..more important things than Can't Hug Every Seal. Can you explain the reasoning behind her loving seals so much her mount would be a 'floating horse-like seal'? XD It just seems so..random to me unless it has an actual reasonable explanation, you know?
PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2012 7:27 pm


Thank you everyone! Sorry, end of term took me completely by surprise smile - I had no time to do anything with the character; but in two days I will have my last presentation, and then will join smile

thank you for all the notes and crits!

Boozver

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PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2012 11:27 pm


Boozver


Halloween Immigration Form

  • Name: Heidla Hamhleypa
  • Gender: Female
  • Race: Horseman
  • Former Clan: Death
  • Job: Priestess
  • Status: Citizenship Granted


Welcome to Halloweentown! You are cleared to enter the Lost Clans Sanctuary.

When mounted please refrain from having your mount perform belly-flops in the local pool, as there is a 50-50 chance that the water would go through your mount and you would be the one bellyflopping. In addition, the local pool will not cover your dry cleaning bill.
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