Name: Fortuna Nickname(s): N/A at the moment
Age (Appearance Wise): Appears to be in her early twenties.
Age (Actual): 3 years
Personality:
The apparent
Whimsical:
Fortuna is whimsical in her own way. It is often her thoughts that take on a whimsical aspect. In fact one of her favorite things is people watching, she will sit there patiently for hours making up stories for the book children that walk by… even if they aren’t their real stories. Outwardly while she thinks up these things she is often doing something with her hands, whether scribbling, drawing or braiding fine threads together, she is almost always doing something with her hands in tune to her thoughts. She is often smiling as she thinks up these clever little stories, and if someone were to ask her what she was smiling about (unless they are close friends of course) her most likely response would be that she just finds today to be a lovely day.
Intuitive:
Fortuna has ‘feelings’ that often reflect the people around her. This is mostly reserved for people whom she has a strong bond to, but if there is someone that enters the shop in high emotional distress Fortuna will pick up on it. She does not always act upon her feelings however, often too shy and too respectful of someone’s personal space to pry.
Clever:
Fortuna has a natural ability to quickly grasp a situation. She is mentally alert as well as skillful at a great many things, primarily those that involve the arts. Fortuna is capable of dealing with a broad range of people because of her ability to grasp how to speak with them.
Patient:
The key to being a capable book doctor is patience, the ability to sit still for hours on end working on one specific thing. She becomes determined to accomplish something, but by no means hurries through and leaves things half completed. Fortuna can focus on tasks for hours, whether it be reading or painting a detailed portrait. When confronted with someone that is overly impatient she often completes their work for them and says not a word about it.
The subconscious
Forlorn:
For no apparent reason Fortuna finds herself feeling a deep sense of desolateness, she feels empty and alone in a world that doesn’t quite make sense to her. She feels as though she is imposing on the town by just being there, though no one has ever given her cause to think that. Fortuna feels as though she is ill fortune personified and feels forlorn of hope. However no one knows this about her, she often keeps it buried deep inside and only takes it out into the light to look at when she is completely alone.
Insecure:
Fortuna is subject to her fear that she is unwanted in the town. She is not self-confident though she does her best to appear so, and often finds herself feeling very anxious around new people. Consciously she shrugs it off as nerves, but subconsciously she is wondering whether or not they actually like her or if they are just being kind to talk to her.
Serendipitous:
If someone told Fortuna a sense of serendipity follows her around, she would not believe them. She personifies the saying “without rain there are no rainbows”. If something goes wrong around her Fortuna blames herself, however if that thing happens for a reason she often turns a blind eye to it. It is just like her book Romeo and Juliet; Romeo and Juliet die at the end but it is seen as a necessary sacrifice to end the blood feud between the two families. Fortuna is the luck that brought about these circumstances, though she cannot see through the darkness of ill tidings to the light of what becomes of them.
Thoughts on the Forest:
A star-crossed love affair that would only result in pain in one or both parties, a beautiful place that would only result in death. Fortuna does not find its solitude as frightening rather she finds it wonderfully intriguing, but she still respects the rules of the city and does not venture forth. The forest reminds her of, well, her.
Thoughts of Book Children:
All are unique, their stories all wondrous things to behold. Yet somehow Fortuna feels as though she is an outcast and that there is no possible way she will ever be nearly as interesting as the others. She greets all as friends, when she finds the courage to be bold.
Thoughts on City People:
Sometimes, she finds herself thinking on a particularly dark day that she is more like a city person than an actual book child. She loves their oddity and usefulness. Secretly she wishes she could better identify with them. Fortuna is more like to be comfortable surrounded by city people than to be surrounded by book children.
Physical Appearance:
A gorgeous premade take a gander to the right <3
Hobbies:
Reading the books in her and her city person’s quaint shop, illuminating manuscripts and taking care of the books.
Birthday:
Sep. 24
Favorite Things:
Illuminating manuscripts, learning book children’s stories, talking to city people, restoring old books, clockwork animals, the soft eerie glow the forest gives at night, and wandering the highest arches and bridges of the city.
Hated Things:
Decaying books, water damage, and the way glue gets stuck in your hair if you fall asleep on a book binding covered in it…
Story:
At first … there was nothing, but as she slowly awoke she found herself in a bright shining world, where paper trees gave off a beautiful hue and whispered soft tales into her ear. It was cold in this place, a blanket of frost coating the forest floor where she now sat staring into the distance, a distant gaze penetrating the darkness that was the sky.
What happened from there she cannot recall. All that Fortuna can remember was waking up in a strange tower, a contraption of gears next to her bed and a strange city person sitting across from her. He was writing she saw, on an old desk much splattered with ink. It was covered in various tools and things that obviously were meant for books. As more of her senses came back to her, the reality that she was laying on someone else’s couch in their home overwhelmed her.
Fortuna immediately got to her feet and fell into a deep curtsy. “I am sorry that I have intruded on your humble home. If there is anything that I can do to be of service to you I am much obliged.”
The City person gave her a once over and merely smiled his wolfish smile. “You can help me doctor the books.”
And from then on a bond was formed between them, one formed on a common goal, to help keep the books from falling apart.
Favorite type of Ending:
And through all the sorrow, a light shined through, illuminating the path to freedom…
Fortuna loves stories with strong morals attached so the ending of the story must reflect those morals.
Favorite Illustration:
Arthur Rackham’s [Pandora’s Box- Hope]
Favorite song:
Arcade fire: [My body is a cage]
Dreams:
Fortuna dreams of an adventure, full meaning and good fortune.
