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 Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:38 pm
 .name. - .siahndi..guardian. - .exsanguination..companion. - .sundragyn..personality. - .dependant..likes. - ???.dislikes. - ???Quests Quest One The poor, dependant Cardinal hasn't been
around many of his kindred, and has been relying heavily upon Jin for
guidance. Because of that, it's time for the little cardinal to
experience life without the training wheels. Write a journal entry
about every mothers-worst-fear (and in some cases every childs!) and
have Siandhi get lost. Be it in the park, or in a grocery store, the
location is completely up to you. How does Siandhi handle the
situation? Can he make it without Jin, for any length of time, or does
he completely crumple under the pressure of lonliness?
Quest Two Siandhi hasn't seen many of his kindred, and is in
dire need to make a few friends. Because we don't want him to turn
into a complete shut in, expose Siandhi to a few of his kind. The
goal is to make at least one friend, and if it's possible, make at
least one enemy. By enemy though, it doesn't have to be an arch
nemesis. Just introduce him to someone he might not like, or get along
with easily. You can do this either by asking a private PD if you've
someone in mind, or through an open RP via the guild.
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:38 am
 Name: Siahndi Alias: Si Age: Child Gender: Male Hair: Bright red Eyes: Green Complexion: Very pale Likes: Toast Dislikes: Being separated from Jin. Personality: Besides being of a dependant turn, Siahndi is friendly and curious, positively adoring of his new "mother," and with a wide morbid streak.
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:39 am
 Name: Jindree "Jin" Bali-Simn Alias: Jin of the Phoenix Age: 26 Gender: Female Species: Human Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Complexion: Fair Features: Asian Personality: Serious, logical, patient, a religious zealot Skills: Competent with one-handed sword, razor fan, knives, throwing darts. Knows the basics of field medicine. Resistant (or at least trained to ignore) to pain or discomfort. History: Jin was born to the only daughter of the Baron Bali-Simn. The pregnancy was illegitimate, the result of a tryst with an anonymous Eastern soldier that had passed through the area with his army. Jin was loved and coddled by her family, and by the servants who were paid well for their silence, but the fact remained that her presence kept her mother from a proper marriage. In an area where the norm was blond hair and blue eyes, Jin's halfbreed ancestry was very evident. So, at the tender age of four, Jin was given to the Daughters of the Phoenix, a rather extreme religious sect. The Baron himself was not a worshipper of the Phoenix, but they would take his granddaughter off his hands. The Daughters of the Phoenix were a holdover from the times of the religious wars; they were holy warriors, trained to fight and, if necessary, to kill. They have a tendency to wear red, the colour of blood and holy to the Phoenix, and are usually barefoot to show their strength and supposed immunity to pain; they also do not cut their hair. Training is hard; many of the unwanted girl children they took on did not survive to be full Daughters. The Law of the Phoenix is one of extremes. Honour, justice, and compassion for your fellow man are at the heart of it. However, the Daughters of the Phoenix are deemed to be those who enforce the Law, and may take lives in His name, if they feel it necessary. Jin, when she was a new Daughter abroad in the world, was faced with someone who, the Law spoke, should be executed to be judged by the Phoenix. She felt that he had acted with honour, though, spared him, and killed who she felt was properly responsible. When the local authorities, who owed no alliegance to what they felt was Jin's 'heathen god,' discovered this, they banished her. Word came to her Sisters, and she was proclaimed to be a Rogue Sister. Her life now forfeit, Jin was on the run for many years. ...until she happened to find her way to Gaia. Life's like that.
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:40 am
The Now.
Family, Friends, Acquaintances  JinWell, this is myself. Everything about me is said elsewhere. What do I need to add? Jin is awesome and I love her. heart She is pretty and strong and smart and the best person in the whole entire world.
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:42 am
The Past  The cardinal, soon after being delivered into Jin's care. Well, after he'd been patched up a bit.  Siahndi appeared after the cardinal died. Jin was most distressed.
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:43 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:44 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:45 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:11 pm
RP Condensation
Because it would take years to find it all again. Our story, such as it is, begins with Jin. Jin was homeless (or at least living in the woods, a bad thing with the coming winter) and rather lost in this new world of Gaia, and then she wandered into a pet store. Here she discovered Xaxis, a boy, who was also a raven. Birds-who-were-also-people being rather out of her sphere of experience, Jin couldn't help but come to the conclusion that Xaxis was blessed by the Phoenix. She was amazed, and more than a little humbled. Before she could really process this fact, Shanuh offered a deal: a roof over her head in exchange for caring for one of these bird-children. Though a little wary about the whole thing, Jin agreed; after all, if these bird-children were really connected with the Phoenix she worshipped, she could hardly say no. She was led out into the alley, where a hawk delivered a hurt cardinal. A cat had ripped out a lot of the poor bird's feathers, but it was not badly hurt. Jin was quite completely in love.
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:19 pm
The first thing Jin did upon arriving in her new home--a small and sparsely furnished set of rooms, which was the way she liked it--was settle down with the cardinal in her lap and her medical supplies beside her.
The bird was surprisingly docile, giving her only the occassional gentle peck to let her know she had hurt him. It was very different, indeed, to be working on something so small.
A lot of feather loss, definitely... nothing broken, nothing serious. Jin smiled, despite herself.
"Just sit still a minute. I'm almost done."
She smeared a few drops of healing salve over the places where the skin was broken; the cardinal struggled a little.
"Shhh." She stroked its head, and he calmed somewhat. Jin had considered bandaging up the bird, but she had no idea how that would affect feather regrowth. At least the salve wasn't toxic, and it wouldn't matter too much if the bird preened and got some in his stomach.
At last, she set the bird down on the floor in front of her. He stood, inspecting her with a beady eye, and warbled at her.
Jin's smile broadened.
Funny. She'd never really thought of herself as an animal lover.
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:32 am
Jin poured out a plate of bird seed for the cardinal.
She didn't really know a lot about birds, she had realised. She'd had to research. Fortunately, she had managed to find a library.
Seed, insects, bits of fruit.
Insects were going to be difficult... she had yet to figure that out. Didn't birds migrate? Anyway. Fruit and seed were easy.
She pushed the plate towards the cardinal. He hopped towards it, poked at it with his beak, and chirped as though not quite knowing what to do.
"You have to eat," Jin said reasonably. "You cannot get better if you don't eat."
The cardinal still did not eat.
Jin sighed. She put a little bit of seed in the palm of her hand, let the cardinal hop onto her other hand, and brought the two together.
The cardinal warbled questioningly.
"I would have to assume that it tastes good, or it would to you. Please, eat."
He blinked at her, his head tilting from side to side, bent his head, and ate.
"Praise the Phoenix," Jin murmured, quite relieved.
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:38 pm
Well, Christmas had come and gone, and Jin was slightly relieved, because she didn't understand it at all. She had some vague notion that it was a religious thing, but no religious festival in her experience would ever have required so much.... expense.
There were gods who required blood sacrifies (even the Phoenix, in extreme circumstances, accepted deathless blood sacrifices from His followers, and the deaths of the unjust in battle were given to Him), but sacrifices of money?
It was peculiar.
But it was over, and that was what counted.
Jin herself, and the cardinal, seemed to have settled into a quiet routine that circled around the other. However, she had neglected her training in the past few weeks, only able to take a brief moment or two.
Today, that was what she was doing.
With her sword and her fan, Jin was going through a variety of movements; her body was a bit stiff, which irritated her greatly, but she had to keep on the top of her skills.
The cardinal sat nearby and watched, intrigued.
It was perhaps an hour into the session that a small weight suddenly landed on her shoulder; the cardinal gave a sad and rather bored warble into her ear.
"No," Jin shook her head, "you have to let me do this." She plucked the bird off her shoulder, and set him on the windowsill. "Please just sit there."
The cardinal gave itself a shake, and fluttered up to land on her head.
Jin sighed.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:48 am
Jin had opened an eye, late that night, to find the little cardinal nested next to her neck. She thought nothing about it - the bird had been rather "latchy" - and the woman allowed herself to drift back to sleep.
Her dreams revolved around a tall man, wings the colour of blood sprouting from his back. He was clothed in all black, and grey ribbons wrapped around his body effortlessly. She gave chase, but it seemed the man with the wings was always a few steps ahead, just out of ear shot.
She ran, and ran, and ran, chasing him. The further she ran, the smaller the man become upon the horizon - but Jin had to catch him, to stop him from his fate. There was something important she had to tell him, something she needed to say, something required to do.
"Stop~!" She screamed, pushing her body to the limits. "Stop! STOP~!"
The woman sat up with a start, panting from the nightmare. Instantly, the knowledge she had possessed in sleep vanished, becoming littered with holes and confusion. What on earth had that been about.
Sweat dripped from her brow, and she reached a hand up to wipe it away. What sort of message had that been? What sort of -
Wait a minute.
There was something wrong, something off. A little ball of feathers was pushed up against her hip, having rolled from the pillow when she'd jerked awake. It made no noise, no peep, and was as dead as any animal. His little body was already stiff, the heat from his previous life long gone.
Obviously, he'd died just after Jin had fallen into her restless slumber.
Still, besides the dead bird, there was something else off. Something different. Was that. . . snoring?
The softest sounds of sleep could be heard coming from. . . the floor? Leaning over, the woman found herself staring at a little boy with a shock of electric-red hair. His little crimson wings were wrapped loosely around his shoulders, too small to provide much heat. He was very much so asleep, curled up beside her own bed, as if he couldn't stand to be away.
His name? Unknown.
But there was something very familiar about him indeed. The cardinal?
Without a doubt.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:38 pm
Jin did not know what to do. For someone who prided herself upon being calm in any situation, it was doubly distressing when things went off the deep end of reality.
At least she had figured out the link between Xaxis and the cardinal.
Sort of.
Why was the dead body still there? If the boy sleeping next to the bed was the cardinal, why was there a corpse in her bed? And what was she supposed to do with it?
She forced herself to take a deep breath. One step at a time.
He looked cold.
Jin took a blanket, shook it out, and draped it over the boy. She perched cross-legged on the bed, and looked down at him.
It was the cardinal. There was no doubt about that in her mind.
All right. Deal with things as they came. First was the corpse.
Jin stepped over the sleeping boy and padded silently across the room, the dead bird in her hands. After some consideration, she put it into the cold part of the... the... "refrigerator." Which was a strange device but one of the more clever things she'd discovered in this world. Anyway, the colder part was cold enough to freeze things, and if it froze, it wouldn't rot and she could deal with it when things were less crazy.
Okay.
She came back to the low bed, stepped over the boy again, and settled herself on the mattress.
Now what?
She could just let him sleep, for now... there would be time to figure this all out in the morning.
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:18 pm
Siahndi was greatly enjoying this whole idea of toast.
Toast was great. Toast with jam, and peanut butter, and honey, and plain old margarine... all spread, of course, by Jin, who was still too stunned by this new development to protest her sudden demotion to toast-maker.
At last, though, Jin sat down with her own toast, opposite the redheaded boy.
"Siahndi?"
He grinned up at her, and swallowed his toast hurriedly. "Yes?"
"You, er. You like the toast?"
"Lots!"
Jin blinked. It was only toast. "Er. I'm glad that you like it. Are you feeling all right?" It seemed to her that dying and resurrecting unscathed would be a hard thing for a mortal to achieve.
Indeed, it was the type of thing only the Phoenix could do, though Siahndi seemed awfully pale.
"I feel good." Siahndi beamed. "Especially now. Can you make me some more toast? With the peanut butter? Please?"
Jin complied, puzzled.
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