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Name: Saoirse (Sur-shah) - meaning freedom
Race: Ultra shiny ElariaxAlkidike mix
Gender: Female
3 Base Traits:
Indomitable - The daughter of two fine warrior aishan's she inherited the indomitable spirit of both mothers. She will fight and she will hold her head high and there ain't nothing you can do to stop it. She will use all her energy fighting until she cannot fight anymore because of exhaustion.

Caring - For those that enter her circle and she is not restrictive on who can as long as they earn and maintain trust. It would be hypocritical of her with her current intersister issues to be judgy. She will help her friends with everything she has.

Crafty/Devious - She is not above pulling dirty tricks on those that displease her. She is quite creative with it too.

Personality: Saoirse is determined to keep her respect in Aisha's eyes as a warrior, as such she will not back down where others would falter, she feels as a hybrid of two trees that she must prove herself. She is curious about Elzira too, the great tree of her mother and from whom she derived her base skin tone. She would love to go see the other tree one day and maybe after seeing Elzira she may visit the other two young trees too. She feels like there is something she can learn from each tree and is eager to discover what these new pieces of her mother tree have given to the world. She likes animals and all things living really, she collects plants and seeds. She loves to lure birds to perch on her to eat seeds if she can manage it. She is not so much a fan of large crowds and does best in medium to small, preferring small groups to socialize in. She is chosey with her friends because putting her trust in the wrong sister with her new presence under the boughs of Aisha. Her Mother's did their best to shield her from any backlash but it could and did lurk out there, she had gotten some teasing about her looks. But she felt like she was beautiful and her friends, the few she had supported and loved her as sisters should and that is all she needed. She will defend them and she will look after herself. One day she would become strong enough to end disagreements potentially before it had even started. Hopefully. But she was determined to live life to the fullest and enjoy all the prosperity Aisha gave her loyal daughters.

Description: Art is premade ^^ (Elaria skin, alk feelers and alk point coloration on hands and feet) gorgeous!
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History: She was born to two aishan's who were both Amazon's who fell in love slowly over years, builing an unbreakable bond through travel and battles with their warrior band until the two became almost inseperable. It was inevitable that babies would eventually come up and they were good with whatever result occured. Though when their bloom developed it looks different than the others. This was a mystery to them and they couldn't do much more than wait expectantly for the bloom to open with their child inside.

The day came and when the flower revealed its bontanic surprise they were all floored to find out that it was an Aishan hybrid. They were quite confused and first. The elarian mama especially had been expecting a baby without any of her visible traits due to the specific tree they were at.

She was the first to scream with elation and gathered her and her love's new daughter into her arms and just held her, fat tears streaming down her face unnoticed. Her wife came over and hugged them both, teeth gritted in a mid-joyful cry into a grimace of pure emotion.

For her part in all of this excitement the new little girl with no clue of the special importance of her birth grabbed a fistful each of both of her mother's hair and started flailing it around watching the strands of different colors sway, then she started giggling amid all the noise.

It was only later when her parents started to worry about the opinion of others having been too wrapped up in the monumental occasion. They had been exceptionally lucky to be one of the first couples that this happened too. But what would it mean for their biracial daughter?

Saoirse had a rare day to do whatever she wanted. She decided to wander the outskirts of the village to look for wildflowers. It was a bright and beautiful day, her Mother's were close by but out of sight, she was finally old enough to kind of be off on her own. Everything looked so shiny and new. She followed a particularly pretty butterfly with red spots on its wings as it threaded through the trees of the boundary woods that separated their village from the raw jungle. She was so focused on the butterfly that she didn't notice the young sister patrol until she was surrounded.
At first she siled thinking that they had come to make friends but sadly she was mistaken. "Don't stray too far half breed," one of them hissed. Saoirse's nostrils flared at the venom that dropped from the perfect lips of the young Alkidike. This was wrong, she hadn't even done anything to them. Why was this girl being so cruel?
Another woman spoke her black eyes blazing, “As small as you are, the jungle would eat you alive,” the woman mimicked the path of a tear down her cheek.
No longer smiling, Saoirse scowled at them. This wasn’t what slightly older sisters should be doing toward a younger one.
For a moment she refused to speak, had she known of their intentions she would never have walked into the middle of this. The butterfly had distracted her. She tried not to look back toward the village to see if you her Mothers were aware of her situation and rushing to her rescue from what was starting to feel like a hunt. They were not so far away, if she could make enough noise then there was a good chance that they would come running for her. She would pick her moment.
When she continued to refuse to talk the crowd got impatient. She was memorizing the faces that were being hostile. Most of the group seemed gung-ho to pick on her. There were two though, who’s hearts simply were not into it, their feet shuffled and they looked like they wanted nothing better than to leave this display of sisterly conflict. She wanted to aske them why they were doing this but asking would ake her look weak and she was pretty sure their issues with her resided in her skin and blood. Neither of which she could change. She also rather liked how she looked. There were a few other hybrids between Aishan and Elarians but so far none of the other blooms had come out looking like her. She wished quite fervently that she was strong enough to kick all of their sorry behinds into next week for considerable lack of character.
“You all are afraid of something new, something strange, but I can assure you there is nothing strange really about me, in fact being a mix of two powerful woman and a proud daughter of Aisha is quite working out for me.” Then she screamed to the canopy.
The girls, seeing two full grown sisters come hurtling out of the village toward their potentially lost daughter, scattered and sprinted off to melt into the trees surrounding the village. Both of her mothers were yelling her name as they approached. They skidded to a stop before her and asked her about a million questions. Eventually when they calmed down she was able to tell them everything that had happened since she had followed that butterfly.
This had been her first disillusionment. Not everyone at hometree felt like she should be a sister among them. More the pity for them because she wasn’t going anywhere, this was her home, Aisha and these two spirited fighters were her Mother’s. She would not let them down by being a coward. So she told her parents everything all while determined to get stronger so that if that ever happened again she could set them straight without having to call her parents for help everytime some one went boo. But she was not prepared yet. That would take training and practice, she would listen a litte better to what her Mother’s would teach her about dealing with other people who didn’t necessarily share your opinion.
Her two Mothers took the whole thing very seriously, she could tell that Akani, (the mother who carried the Elarian blood from the great tree Elzira, whom she had already resolved to go visit one day), was having a harder time with this, knowing that her daughter was struggling specifically because she shared some Elarian looks. She had been delighted to see so much of herself in their daughter. It had been so unexpected but it seemed like some of that joy had been premature. Uzandi who was her mother with Alkidike bloodlines was getting rather angry, her black brows smashed over her eyes in a very dangerous frown. Her sisters had hurt her daughter and her lover, she was not a happy Alk.
Taking a deep breath and suddenly feeling very much older, Saoirse walked forward to where Akani was kneeling and hugged her. “I am more proud to be your daughter now than ever. As you can see they are jealous of our beautiful skin…not that your skin is not beautiful Mama U.” She was trying desperately to make Akani feel better but she could also feel the tears drop onto her shoulder. “Its okay I’ll get stronger and kick their butts one day, you will see Mama.”
Uzandi stood up straight, her face flat and emotionless, all except for the eyes, she turned and strode away, she was very quiet. Saoirse lifted a hand after the mother that was about to reap what had been so rashly sowed by foolish young girls.
Akani pulled Saoirse’s hand down gently, “Let her go, those fools will think twice about it next time, she knows of what unit you spoke of, it is better this way until you can defend yourself, don’t worry, we will always be here for you, and I will help you become the best warrior so you don’t have to worry.”
They went back home and eventually a sweaty and dirty but smiling Uzandi came home. “Oh I got them good, I doubt you will have trouble anymore.” She didn’t elaborate on what she had done or how she had managed it but the next time Saoirse saw the girls they had been cleaning the stables, a much hated job by some of the young warriors. Saoirse had smiled behind a hand where they couldn’t see her do it. They didn’t bother her again for a long time after that. Not that she didn’t have some of the same problems with others occasionally but she was learning how to resolve the conflicts quicker. Her parents had been giving her advice and pointers on strategies to stay out of the sticky grasp of those who would take advantage of her vulnerability as a youngling but her Mother’s were scary enough it drove off most of the cowards before they even tried but she couldn’t be constantly attended at all times unfortunately. But she didn’t feel as bad as she had that first time when the leaves had been ripped away from her eyes and she discovered just how flawed and imperfect her world was under the surface but despite that there was still beauty, there was still good, there was still love and she supposed that most hybrids and some pure bloods also were bullied for one reason or another, she had certainly seen it and she told herself that she would one day be strong enough to help other innocents. If another kind hearted sister had overheard what had been going on that day Saoirse was sure that they would have stepped in much like her Mother’s had but the truth seemed to be as her Mother’s said that there were good and bad people everywhere and they were not confined to a certain people. It apparently had a lot to do with how one was raised and the particular soul they were born with.
Sometimes she went over that original incident in her mind and wondered if she could have done something else to change the outcome but when she asked Undazi about it she said something along the lines of, “Sometimes no matter what we do or how we approach a situation it will turn out the same because the problems rests with others who we cannot easily control, especially those that lash out with hate and fear.”
So it seemed to her that perhaps there really was nothing that she could have done to save herself that day besides what she had done, which she had been told had probably saved her from potentially worse harassment by acting quickly and calling in reinforcements. Akani said that a good warrior always knew when to ask for help and she was proud of her for following her instincts.
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Character Name: Saoirse
Current Location: Chibale
Journal: Saoirse
Growth Point Links:
Solo 1 5
Zanteer Pups! 5
Reflection Solo 5
Physical Description: likes to wear leafy accent items and i love her current shirt
Body Type: getting a little bit of muscle from all that extra training decent sized boobs (c cup ish or d?)

Preferred Artists:Any combination of Kana, Scar, Ely or Tas
WIPs: Up to artists

Dawn in Jauhar was beautiful, the sun filtered through the trees, dappling along the leaves and the camp she had made for herself in the trees. This was her own personal fort and where she came to think. It was peaceful and beautiful. She sighed. It was time to make up the decision on her career path here with Aisha. She was still mildly on the fence she was pretty sure she wanted to be a blacksmith and make something with her hands instead of going to battle as a sister with a specific weapon. Problem was she was darn good at fighting but it had always been more of a defense mechanism than meant to be her career. Whereas with the coals and the forge she would be able to take something like a lump of ore and shape and affirm it into something strong and beautiful and deadly. She could work on so many different weapons this way and sus out their secrets and master all of them so if there was ever a really big battle she would be able to defend her Mothers and the tribe. But she need not always be making war or battles if she devoted her life to creation. Sort of like how Aisha had and had given them their lives and their way of procreating.

This was all very deep thoughts for so darn early in the morning. But it was settled she would go the way of the blacksmith consequences be darned. That was where she was meant to be and that was where she would be. She couldn't wait to learn it all having only been able to watch as a prentice at the local forge. They had already had enough volunteers she had been told. Maybe she would learn somewhere else first.
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Its now or never - Idea of a child Solo
The ringing strike of iron on iron echoed across the glen which Saoirse called home. Something in her mind had been brewing for quite a while. She was a bit of a hermit and what travel she had done hadn’t resulted in too many friends. Romance hadn’t blossomed for her among any of her sisters and she was too chicken to try an Elarian girlfriend knowing that Jauhar decidedly was her home. She shook her head and halted the hammer before it struck the sword she had been working on. A rare item among Aishans who mostly preferred spears but she enjoyed the process of making them and there were always earthlings willing to buy. She had devoted the first part of her life to her craft and it showed up in her workmanship but as she held the hammer still there, held above the sword she realized that there was something glaringly missing in her life and a blossom opened up in her heart at the realization that had been creeping up on her slowly over the last few months, she could do something about this gaping loneliness in her.

She need not have another person to approach Aisha and ask for…ask for a child of her own. Someone who would share her features and like her be a beautiful unique gift to the world. The hammer fell from her fingers, something that would have had her mothers checking on her immediately. She was always precise and controlled, but she turned then and doused the forge…other things called to her mind. She went into the house and dug out an old box that was under her bed. Things that she had played with as a youngling; a soft blanket, a book of fairy tales, aishan dolls and clothing and a small figurine of a radaku. These were the things of her childhood…and she wished to share them with a new life, a blood of her blood, a child of her own.

She threw back her head and gave a fierce war cry that disturbed the birds in the trees. She was overcome with joy and happiness, she had found meaning in the mundane, a star in the darkest of nights, no longer would her days be endless repetitions of themselves. She prepared and pen and paper and wrote down her feelings and ideas and plans to change her house to accommodate a youngling. She also started to plan her request to the attendees of Aisha for she would need their permission to approach Aisha to pray, then of course Aisha herself had to deem her worthy of mixing with Aisha’s magic to create a child.

Her eyes almost crossed as she pictured a small face that shared some of her Elarian accents but lessoned as Aisha would add more alkidike blood from what she had heard of other hybrids who had approached the tree. Those of her kind were still a bit rare but starting to gain a foothold in the forests of Jauhar. She knew of at least three others who had been born around the same time she had and there had been a few more Elarian x Alkidike parents over the years that it had taken her to grow into her own.
Excitedly she told her mothers of her plan and they heartily approved and began preparations of their own in case she was successful in her quest to add to the family lines.

She hadn’t felt this happy or right in years.. how had it taken her so long to realize? Maybe it was the possibility that she might find a romantic relationship but she was tired of looking, tired of hoping. She was strong, with both of her Mother’s help she was sure that she could create a healthy loving home for a new child.

Over the next few days she refined her request in writing as it helped her visialize what she wanted to say to the sister acolytes. And a good request was a great start to this process so she had heard from others who had gone singly to Aisha. Now it was just to get up the gumption to actually do it.
Her palms sweaty she had the stack of papers in her hand. She went over and over what she wanted to get across to them. She held her breath took a deep sigh and said to herself.
“Its now or never.”

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It had been quite some time since the events of praying to Aisha and Saoirse tried very hard to throw herself into her work and not worry about it. This was only possible to a certain extent though, it was hard to find her rythym it was hard to work really. Her regular mindless concentration only worked for so long before she got distracted. She supposed of all the things to be distracted by, this was a pretty big thing.

She sighed and decided to go for a walk, exercise would help calm her she was sure.A brisk wind was blowing and it brough to her the heady smell of tropical flowers and rotting leaf litter. It was the smell of home and brought her great comfort. Her mothers' were there for support, perhaps she would go to them for tea time later, that should cheer her up. She understood that they went through something similar when she was just a bud of Aisha. Surely they would calm her down and tell her how it had gone for them and that this angst was just a natural part of the process.
As she moved she began to feel better and her muscles in her back and legs loosened up. Deep breaths now she was on her way to peace and prosperity.

As she was out and about a runner came sprinting up behind her gasping a bit for breath. Sao turned to see a full blood sister, (not surprising as most were full blood around here), draw herself up with a rather wide grin on her face.
"Can I uh, help you?" Sao asked her.
"Well yes I think so, from the description you must be sister Saoirse am I right or am I right?" The sister asked, practically bouncing from toe to toe.
"Look if you are here to flirt madam you are just a might too late."
"Well never say never and that is kinda sorta why I'm here."
Sao watched the woman take in a deep breath and waited.
"You were successful! I was sent here to let you know that Aisha thought your prayers adequate and with her infinite love and understanding has granted you a blossom!"

"Praise to Aisha!" Sao couldn't help herself she grabbed her fellow Alkidike's hands and danced her in a circle. "Oh thank you thank you! I was out walking because I was just so nervous, I couldn't concentrate on my work and now my mind is at ease!"
It felt like she was suddenly free from all of her stress and all of her worries. Like each breath came easier. On a whim she smooched the girl and raced away to her parents place to tell them the happy news.

Her parents had celebrated with her long into the night and now she was trying to sleep after the most exciting day of her adult life. Now she would not be alone there would be another being besides her beloved parents that shared her blood. She couldn't wait to get this baby home and start reading to her and teaching her all about their home and the lands that lay beyond. Above everything else she knew that this child was special.

The other thing she knew was that parenting would be scary at times but there was no one else out there going to be able to handle her daughter as well as her and no one else able to understand her daughter as well as her. She was aware that this child would be more alkidike than she was herself but perhaps it would make it easier on her at the mother tree. Minds were changing and horizons expanding but well she hoped her daughter had a bit of an easier time than she had, now that she had proved herself it was not as bad and she felt she had earned her place among them with her work and effort, plus the large muscles that discouraged fights by most others. She was here to stay at least for the forseeable future.
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