~~The world is Ioron, (think of a Lord of the Rings-ish world, but with many more major races and magick-users) The main portion is in the forests of Avolaram, the most magick/scholar oriented of the twelve kingdom of Avaria (Avaria is the most magickal part of the world, covering one-fourth of Ioron itself. (Ioron=Earth) (If you didn't understand any of this, don't worry, it's helpful but not necessary <3) ~
~Several higher ups are mentioned in this, think of them as Greek Gods/Goddesses if you need an idea. Viernon could be compared to Apollo, and Javath and Sorleyna could be compared to Hades and Persephone..(if you understand none of these allusions..just shhh..move ahead~
~Pre-story~
Ralleyr is a nymph and the grandson of Javath and Sorelyna, the God and Goddess of the Lower Realm. (Underworld, Land of the Dead, ect..) He has been sent to the surface to live since the Lower Realm held no appeal for him and the world above would help greatly in his learning. Unlike most nymphs, he is neither vain, nor scatter-brained. He is rather intelligent in fact, though it mars his beauty none as he is reknowned for being one of the most beautiful nymphs of all, despite being a rarity, a male nymph. When he was twelve years old, he met X. (This is your character, give him a name) X was fifteen, an orphan with only his three years older brother to call family. Dallex (X's brother), had recently married a Fae woman named Liruna, causing X to feel neglected (though this was far from true, as Dallex more or less raised X his whole life and he loves his little brother dearly). He runs and gets in trouble with a bandit group, who steals his money and his horse, stabbing him in the process.
Ralleyr chances by and sees the bleeding boy, who at first tells him to go even through his pain. He recognizes the lovely boy to be a nymph by hisscant clothing and unearthly beauty..and the traditional flowers woven into his hair. X had heard only bad things about the nymphs, and feared superstitiously that he would take his soul or drag him to the water and drown him. The boy merely rolled his eyes, called him stupid, and then proceeded to heal him. In moments, X's wounds were completely gone..his mortal wound vanished.
The boy collapsed from the effort and magick it took on his young body, and surprised..X took him back to the little cottage he'd found and claimed a day prior. He gave him water to drink and some fruit, eventually nursing the boy back to health after he'd slept for a good few hours. That was the start of a lifelong friendship, he owed him his life..surely nymphs were not all bad. The boy, Ralleyr she eventually told him, was kind and intelligent, if a bit naive..and he decided he loved him immediately, and though it took a few years for them to admit it to each other, Ralleyr loved him as well.
Six years have passed since then, and they'd lived together in X's cottage with Ralleyr occasionally sleeping with the other nymphs..nymphs hate being cooped up, so it was a small miracle he slept in the cottage at all. X and Ralleyr were as close as any pair could be. Ralleyr was now eighteen, X was now twenty-one, and two years earlier they'd confessed their love and he been sharing affections ever since. But it wasn't until Ralleyr's nearing eighteen that they finally decided to be together. X was somewhat reluctant, he was an orphan after all, and he was a demi-god..but he insisted, swearing his love to X and even telling him the way to bind a nymph. Taking a plucked flower and wrapping a piece of the nymph's hair around it would bind them to whatever place it was set at. (For instance, setting the thing at a door would stop a nymph from being able to leave a building, or using their powers..and enough could stop a nymph from moving altogether.)
Through his eighteeth year, things started to change as night after night, Ralleyr chose to sleep away from the cottage, much to X's confusion and hurt. But during the day, Ralleyr was as affection and near as ever. He wasn't sure what to make of it and decided he'd tell him when he was ready. But that time never came. Viernon is the God of the Sun and Sensuality, when he spots Ralleyr, he decides instantly that he must have him. But he politely turns him down each time. He doesn't understand why a mere nymph would turn down a God, until he spies on him with X. He was laughing and happy, face flushed with joy and he realized then that he was in love..with some lower being.
Jealousy came over him and he tried again to get Ralleyr for his own..but he refused. Angry, he threatened X, swearing that he would kill X and get Ralleyr for his own. Horrified, Ralleyr runs to find X and begins telling him what he can. A man was coming for him, one that wanted him affections, but he couldn't tell that he was a God because to do so would be to break taboo..he was bound by the laws of the forest and they forbade revealing another magickal creature or being unless it would protect the forest. He could not tell X that Viernon was a God, and so X was confident he could beat the other.
Ralleyr begs him not to try, not to go..and so he pretends that he has agreed, deciding he has no choice but to bind Ralleyr to their cottage. He ushers him in, taking a piece of his hair and shutting the door, quickly plucking a flower and wrapping the hair around it as he set it outside of the door. Inside, Ralleyr screamed to be let out, begging X, begging 'his love' not to go. But of course, he went anyway, out of love and male pride.
Viernon has a trick in mind though, and as X searches for him, he takes the form of Ralleyr and appears before X. X is confused as to how 'he' got out, and Viernon, disguised as Ralleyr, tells X that that is just a lie..one he said to fool him into thinking he trusted him, that in truth..he just wanted X as a toy, nothing more. And then Viernon steps forward, kissing X. The kiss felt nothing like the true Ralleyr's, but X is too numb and astonished to notice..even as he begins to tingle. Viernon smirked as the spell took effect and X began to transform. His human flesh hardened into wood, even as his hair became leaves and flowers. X's body grew and elongated, and became a large tree. Unable to move, unable to speak, he could only watch as the one he thought was Ralleyr continued smirking and said coldly, "There now, you didn't have much use as a man..so why not be a tree?" With that, he walked away and left X to his fate.
Viernon went to the cottage and captured Ralleyr..and another. The reason Ralleyr had been sneaking away night after night..his daughter, Breyarae, daughter of Ralleyr and a nymphan woman who'd gotten Ralleyr drunk enough that he actually bedded her. He'd kept the daughter with Dallex, who'd agreed to keep it only because he cared about Ralleyr, and X most of all, and understood her reasons for keeping Brey secret from X..not that it mattered now, Viernon took then both to his castle, promising that X was alive but would be killed alongside Brey if Ralleyr tried to escape..forced to agree, he was made to become Viernon's lover.
Four years passed, and one night a drunken Viernon claimed two things. That he'd killed X after all, and that Brey would be his next mistress. Ralleyr was determined that his daughter never share his fate and ran with Breyarae that night. Viernon came from his stupor, angry and upset as he drunkenly chased him alongside some of his warriors, who were monstrous creations of mud and clay. Just before being reached by the monsters, he calls on her magick, which had been hindered by Viernon's oppressive castle and transported his daughter..though the magick fluked and Ralleyr wasn't sure where his beloved daughter had been sent.
The monsters chased after him and he was inevitably drawn into the forest, running through a meadow and being backed into a corner against a mountain side. He falls back against a tree just as one of the monsters cuts him, Ralleyr's blood hitting the tree. There's a shifting noise and she closes his eyes as one of the monsters prepares a killing strike..and then..nothing? When Ralleyr opens his eyes, his expression becomes one of horror as a man-like being turns around, covered in the blood of the monsters he just saved Ralleyr from. His body is made entirely of wood, with hair made of thick leaves and dark flowers. Where eyes should be are only hollow sockets, though X can see perfectly, almost better than before in fact. And what he sees is Ralleyr, the lovely boy now a beautiful man..
~This is where the story begins, I'll make the first post from Ralleyr opening his eyes and seeing the 'monster'. He'll recognize X because around his neck with be a necklace of silver woven like two intertwining vines with a tigers eye stone bound at the end, something he made for X himself that X had always treasured. ~
For the past four years, the events of the night when 'Ralleyr' bound him as a tree played over and over in his mind, alongside all of the good memories with the real Ralleyr. He loves him dearly, but now..he's bitter and angry, feeling betrayed and thinking that Ralleyr only used him. He's plotted in his mind what he'd do if..when, he got free. The top of his list was to find Ralleyr and make him pay for the four years he spent immobile, a lonely, hollow tree..but also..to take back his lover. He knows Viernon is real, X simply assumes he's a lover of Ralleyr's, and the reason he kept sneaking off at night.
Ralleyr will run forward and hug him, they'll have a moment where even X is too caught up to push him away and cannot help but return the hug..and then he'll carry on with his plan, certain it's just a trick on Ralleyr's part. He'll kiss him using a new trick he learned while listening to the trees, it's the way that forest folk get married. X sucks a bit of Ralleyr's soul, (what he doesn't know is that only those in love can do this) and gives a bit to him, exchanging a piece of each other. Blood would have worked as well, but as a tree-man, he has no blood to speak of. Ralleyr and X are now bound to each other, the equivalent of married.. He realizes what X has done and starts to protest, though not for the reason X thinks, and X should tell Ralleyr coldly something about 'he made him this way, he loved him before right? So he could love him now, a monster just like Ralleyr wanted."
Ralleyr will try to reason with the other, about the past too (he hadn't known that Viernon turned X into a tree) and he'll use their new bond to silence him. The bond gives more power to whoever initiated it. Bond powers include(but are not limited to): Telepathic communication, sharing emotions or experiences at will, knowing where the other is at all times if they want, and for the one who initiates the bond, X in this case, he can control certain things. For instance, he can stop her from speaking on the subject of that night or what he did, (which is what he should do) "call on the bond...yada yada..you are not allowed to speak of that night or what you did, I don't want to hear excuses..yada yada" This will help the story if she can't immediately protest or tell the truth.
~The story will involve: re-falling in love, finding Breyarae, stopping Viernon, restoring X's true form-this isn't all that can or will happen, just a guideline~
~Ralleyr is mine and X is yours except in flashbacks, otherwise feel free to do anything with any character or just stick to X~
Rules:
1. No cybering, this will have physical scenes but they needn't be graphic.
2. Please be as literate as possible, at least five sentences a post and nothing like "x superman dawes went to the movies and dawes said hey i like movies and superman laughed cause superman is awesome"
3. X is either a seke leaning towards seme or full seme, NO UKE. NOOOO! *hisses* (If you don't know what that means..just ignore rule number 3)
4. Have fun!
Profiles: Yours:
Name:
Age: 26 years
Race: (Can be any race- and,or a demi-god. For example, mother can be a fairy, father can be a god kind of thing)
Personality: (one-word traits, and must be a seke leaning towards seme or full seme. And it would be nice if he had a temper <3)
Biography: Previously Stated. Feel free to add anything, and keep in mind that he adores his older brother and sister-in-law, (who found him eventually and restored the relationship).
Abilities: Treeman: Grow/shrink to any size at will, can speak to any plants/animals, control any plants (ex: can make vines come up from the ground and grab things) needs to intake water just like a human.
Appearance: (You can include a picture of his foresty form, though it'll proly be hard to find one..and his normal form of course)
Profiles: Mine:
Name: Ralleyr Vallynsoram(Heart of Fire in Elven) (Ruh-leer-uh)
Age: 23 years
Race: Nymph
Personality: Nymphan Side: Flirtatious, curious, sensual, easily amused, fascinated by magick, can be lulled to sleep easily with music. (the flute or lyre particularly)
Truly: Kind, tempermental, protective, affectionate, intelligent, sly, wry, imaginative.
Biography: A grandson to Jarvath and Sorelyna, his mother is Sorelyna's daughter, his father a Forest Guardian. (Hades + Persephone= God and Goddess of the Underworld) He was sent to the above world since by nature, he couldn't stand the dark Underworld and longed for the sun. The forest and other nymphs took charge of him, along with some of the Gods/Goddesses. He carries the blood of the Lower World in him, which combats his nymphan side, making him one of the intelligent nymphs. (Many nymphs are carefree, ditzy creatures.) When thirteen, he met X, who was fifteen, after saving his life and earning a lifelong friend.
Abilities: Speaking to animals/trees, growing things, enchanting things, as a Guardian's son, can use any spell to punish a human, including changing a human into something else, as Underworld grandson, can move between the land of the dead and the living and has some power over spirits.
Appearance:
Name: Breyarae (Bree-uh-ray)
Age: 7 years.
Race: Nymph and (?)
Personality: Sweet, charming, mischevious, loving, curious, intelligent for her age, soothing, day-dreamy, fierce.
Biography: Daughter of Raleyra and X, born when her mother was eighteen and hidden at the home of her Uncle Dallex, older brother of X. For a year, Raleyra secretly visited her at night and when she was taken by the God Viernen (pretend that's a God), Breyarae was taken too. They escaped together, though Raleyra isn't sure where Breyarae ended up after the struggle. She used her powers to transport her daughter at the last minute..but the other could be anywhere.
Abilities: Besides talking to animals/trees, it's unknown what her powers are.
Appearance:
