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 Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 2:00 pm
This is the journal of ii-nkwell, for Saiobael.
Please do not post without permission. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx→ o1. Table of Contentsxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx→ o2. Saiobaelxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx→ o3. Ability & Historyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx→ o4. Logs & Growthxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx→ o5. Relationshipsxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx→ o6. Gallery & Soundtrackxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx→ o7. Credits
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 2:04 pm
ESSENTIALS
Name: Saiobael
Nickname: Saia, Bael (bell)
Age: 24
Social Class: Peasant/Indentured Servant
Occupation: Brothel Servant/Occupant ( Frostwood Manor )
APPEARANCE
<---- coming soon
PERSONALITY
Demure -
Unlike her firey mistress, Saia is the picture of grace and soft-spoken feminimity. From a young age she's lived on the kindness of others, a servant in one noble or artisan's home or another. Minor household tasks she accomplishes with ease, but anything that requires a keen eye she's hopeless to assist. She makes up for this by having absorbed all the lady-like behavior of the nobility whose houses and kitchens she served in, making herself useful though her keen hearing instead. Often as a child she grew up listening at night for guests at the door, as she could hear them before they reached the first step. Her fumbling about was even overlooked, for she learned by feel and sound the instruments in each nobility's home, absorbing new instruments as she bounced from household to household until Cyphir bought her.
Charmed by the blind girl that could play music, she was primarily used to entertain guests at parties as she grew older in each household. This afforded her opportunity to listen to and pick up the light steps and kind mannerisms of the coquettish upper-class females in order to seem less out of place.
Her first lessons in this were taught to her by the kindly old head servant of the very first noble household she lived at. The old woman had found her in a back alley as a newborn, left to freeze and die the moment her peasant parents realized her eyes were not a clear amber, but dull and unfocused with blindness. When the old servant woman died when she was 7, she began the process of being passed from home to home.
Churchmouse -
Saia is quiet a vast majority of the time. Being a servant, she was taught from a young age that because of her disability she had to rely on the kindness of others, and therefore should not speak unless directly ordered to do so. Even her time at the brothel has not broken her of the habit, and she only greets guests in the simplest capacity if Cyphir herself is not there to send patrons to the girls to choose their picks for the evening.
For an 'undesirable' with an eyesight disability, she surprisingly speaks loudest with her eyes and facial expressions, as well as hand gestures. If she does not have to speak, she simply won't, as her disability has brought her up with a terrible shyness that brings people to the point of frustration at times and is a major cause of why she was thrown from house to house before landing in the brothel.
It isn't that she has no intelligence or capacity to speak, she simply chooses not to and observes the world through touch and sound.
Self-Depreciating -
When given a compliment, Saiobael will make no comment on it, and will in fact usually make an action to deny said compliment. That is, if she doesn't completely ignore it. Many a time she will sluff off the compliments of patrons as the blathering of drunks come in for their nightly romp and will simply fetch one of the girls or the mistress. Even her ability to count, a rare talent for a peasant with no real education, she will discount as necessity to simply learn the 'steps' of the house so she does not appear completely invalid and can walk the hallways without assistance.
When she plays music in the brothel, she holes up in the top loft, away from others, so that they might hear her play but not know the cause. In her own mind's eye, she is a withering flower, already dead and worthless and those that show her kindness and care, such as the brothel mistress, should be worshiped for taking pity on such a useless creature. In short, she has absolutely no confidence to speak of at all.
She has gone as far as never giving herself, nor accepting, a last name as her original 'owners' never bothered to.
Co-Dependency -
Co-dependent by nature and design, Saiobael gets physically anxious when someone she knows or is highly familiar and trusting of is not in her vicinity. New places disorient and frighten her, and she will simply not leave the brothel unless Cyphir leaves with her. She knows each girl of the brothel by perfume alone, and while she does not trust them in the way she trusts their mistress she feels less anxious with them.
When Cy has to leave for long periods of time, she had minature panic attacks in which she will tear pieces of cloth or paper in her lap to calm herself. Once she trusts you, she's at ease, but will latch onto those few that she accepts into her tiny world and be loathe to let go. The behavior is a skittish side-effect of constantly being passed around, no one servant in any of her previous households wanting to bear the burden of her care for long periods of time. Her time at the brothel has been the longest stay she has had in one home. She desperately clings to this stability and strength.
Loving -
All the negatives of her personality aside, she IS more compassionate and understanding of the problems and influences of others and is more likely to forgive a situation than condemn. This trait has served her badly coupled with her demanor in the past, as more than one son of a noble or noble himself in any home she worked at has taken advantage of her. But all the while, she cannot blame them, for she would not have been sold to the whorehouse if an angry wife had not found out about her husbands trysts with the servant girl who would tell no one.
She tries not to dwell on things like that, and instead opens her arms to those that sound as if they are truly hurting, despite how uncomfortable conversation or new interaction may be for her. She tries to take after her idol Cyphir, whom she worships and loves above all others, and be just confident enough to console (even if silently) any stray creature or peasant that comes to their door looking for food or shelter for the night.
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 2:05 pm
ABILITIES
Nimble Fingers -
With nothing else to do while cleaning, one day a much younger Saia accidentally plucked a harp string in the house of a noble. From that point on, the humms and vibrations of music have fascinated her, and she picks up instruments based off of feel easily. Harps and strings are her beloved friends and through perseverance she has learned a few stray cords of the piano though she cannot properly see the keys. The slick surface of the keys confuses her, and she is still currently learning their placement to please Cyphir and solidify her place in the brothel.
She also occasionally sings very lonely, but calming songs that ghost through Frostwood from the loft occasionally if she plays during 'working hours'. It is the only time most, with the exception of Cyphir and few others, ever hear her voice, and never when she is in sight.
Numbers -
A rare talent for any peasant, when she was a child she was taught how to properly count and add and subtract coins, stones, and items. She was predominantly taught this by the lady of her first household so she could 'count' the steps of the house and appear less encumbered to visiting guests. She is trusted with counting coin and collecting payments from patrons and reciting each patron's running tab to Cyphir at the end of the evening for records keeping. Though she finds counting steps useful, she still occasionally runs one hand against the wall, and is never seen walking in the middle of a hallway, always off to one side.
Keen Hearing -
Saia's sense of hearing is exceptionally heightened. Obviously, because of her disability this is so, but she tends to hear quite a bit of gossip and news simply by being silent and looking like a kicked dog in the corner all the times. She reports this back to whomever her superior is at the time, whether it be the head servant of a household in the past, or Cyphir herself in the present.
She also has the uncanny talent of being able to open the door for guests to the brothel as soon as they hit the first step if she happens to be in one of the rooms closest the door. When Saia is on greeting duty, she's quite diligent, and has gotten over most of her anxiety with it as many of the patrons are frequent regulars and she's grown accustomed to their voices and smell. In some cases, she knows exactly which girl they ask for on a regular basis before they need to ask based solely on recognition.
Hobbies
Music -
While she has a talent for it, talent isn't always enough if there is no love for the craft. Because she's predisposed to not speaking, Saia feels more comfortable expression herself with music, quickening the tempo when her passions or interest are heightened, and drawing out long sombre notes when she's lonely or apprehensive. Often, when she can and with those used to responding to her in fits of silence, she will have a small lap harp that she'll pluck to denote her responses.
{flat harp on left}
Herbs -
Identifying by smell, and by cautiously counting out ingredients, Saia has developed an interest in simple herbal remedies. Often when one of the girls is sick, or has contracted a nasty....malady....that makes conducting business difficult, Saia will whip up an herbal remedy to help the healing quicken. She is by no means a doctor and cannot help with wounds that require stitching or intensive care, but muscle pains, common illnesses, and brothel-specific ailments she's gone out of her way to learn. In truth, she's quite happy when surrounded by the different scents and spices and happily accepts any stray herbal gifts the girls of the brothel or Cyphir bring to fill her cabinet.
People 'watching' -
Saia can't people watch in the most basic sense of the word, but when she ventures out into town in Cyphir's shadow, she highly enjoys listening and taking in the sounds of people. How they act, their demeanor's, tones of voices, the weight of their footsteps, laughs. She intently listens to them all, happy to learn about others no matter their opinion on an undesireable such as herself.
HISTORY
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 2:06 pm
→ PRPs___۞o1: ---- ___۞o2: ----- → ORPs→ SOLO→ METAS------------------------------------------------------------------------ → HUMAN→ + set up your journal [✔] → TOUCHED→ + 9 interactive rps [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] → + 1 interactive rp exposed to Blackwood [ ] → TOUCHED 2.0→ + 12 interactive threads [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] → + 8 interactive threads w/ use of magic [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 2:17 pm
→ RELATIONSHIPS
___۞saia → cyphir:: saia's mistress, and her living god. she cherishes the woman above all other things.
___۞saia → solveig putzer:: unknown
___۞saia → nuala colghain:: unknown
___۞saia → liam erikson:: unknown
___۞saia → jakob larkson:: a sweet young boy that occasionally stays at the brothel. Saia treats him kindly like any of the girls within the brothel, and feeds, clothes, and rests him as needed.
___۞saia → elisabet locke:: unknown
___۞saia → thomas locke:: unknown
___۞saia → eirost gwynn:: unknown
___۞saia → rosalie costigan:: unknown
___۞saia → ulrich krupke:: unknown
___۞saia → julian wethe:: unknown
___۞saia → lytka gottschalk:: unknown
___۞saia → tristan feathergun:: unknown
___۞saia → kodi feathergun:: unknown
___۞saia → kieran faolain:: unknown
___۞saia → greta bauer:: unknown
___۞saia → josselyn jacobi:: unknown
___۞saia → kita bloodmyth:: unknown
___۞saia → nikolaus silverthroat:: unknown
___۞saia → ayle danforth:: unknown
___۞saia → audrey proudmoore:: unknown
___۞saia → zachariah bantock:: unknown
___۞saia → ever ambrodiel:: unknown
___۞saia → ------:: unknown
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 2:18 pm
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 2:19 pm
Llywdbeinn concept/shop belongs to and be blue & endejester
shop art belongs to and be blue & endejester
saiobael belongs to ii-nkwell
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