Name: Serenity
Text Color: #809edb
Race: Constellation
Abilities: She can manipulate the light into medium to large illusions (tiny to slightly bigger than herself), that are semi-real. They can be touched and if she concentrates can seem real, but become transparent or dissipate altogether if she loses her focus. She can create an illusion if she can't see it directly, but it is distorted, semi-transparent, and untouchable. All of her magic is defensive, preferring to stun or distract an enemy while she gets away. Due to her wings, she can float a short ways if she needs to. However, she very much prefers not to float higher than knee-height, due to the embarrassment of flying above someone in a skirt.
Personality:
Serenity tried very hard to make those around her happy, occasionally at the expense of herself. Her royal upbringing makes for what some see as overly-formal manners of behavior and speech, and she considers rude behavior a serious offense. Though her time traveling has given her more patience in dealing with the ways of others, she still holds on to her own manners as a way to remember her home.
History: (unabridged)
Serenity is the second-born princess of a small kingdom in a valley of the Moon. Without the duties of an heir to tie her to her kingdom, she was left in peace much of her days. One day, she felt the pull of a candle on the Earth, and felt the need of the man on the other side. Though she was not first in line for the throne, her family still forbid her to leave the kingdom and arranged a marriage for her with a Kirin prince from a nearby kingdom. Though she didn't love him, it distracted her long enough so that when she finally looked up for the candle's light she had felt so strongly, it was gone.
Her prince left to tend to his own kingdom, and now with a heavy heart, Serenity left her kingdom. She wandered far beyond any knowledge of her kingdom and one day, when she saw the light of another candle, she leapt into it, hoping the many faces of earth could replace the one she never got a chance to know. However, when she made it to earth, she was alone once again, and now continues her wanderings, hoping that by bringing peace and love to others she can keep at bay the pain in her own heart.
Serenity's interactions
The Calling of Jareth ~ One-Shot
Encounter with Amiel ~ Concluded
Fatyol To Inn ~ Left
Second Meeting of Yysida ~ Concluded
Second Encounter with Amiel ~ Concluded
Meeting of Siryn ~ Concluded
I wish I could follow you to the shores of freedom. ~ Concluded
One Step at a Time ~ In Progress
Crystalizing Connections ~ In Progress
Serenity's History
In the shadow of a valley of the Moon, a small kingdom was nestled, surrounded by meadows and sparse forests. Few traders and travelers passed along the dusty roads, and the kingdom kept its peace in solitude. The slope of the valley left the kingdom in perpetual twilight save for a few precious hours at midday where the sun moved over its summit. The royal family clothed themselves in the whites and blues of the moon they made their home on, and decorated themselves and their halls with the golden of the precious sun. In a line of peaceful rulers, we see now a king who has lost his queen to a quiet disease of the heart, holding his two younger daughters as they look forlornly out over their kingdom.
The youngest of these two girls was Serenity, a child of long limbs, silver hair, and a wistful heart. A golden crescent moon traced her forehead, the mark of the second in line for the throne. Unlike her sister, who had the silver crescent of the firstborn, and thusly the duties of being the heiress to the throne, Serenity had the time to sit in the meadows and watch the stars move in their perpetual dance across the sky. And so passed her days in quiet and solitude, only the grass and the sky for company.
One night, however, one particular twinkle caught her eye. It pulled to her heart and she realized in that moment that she was lonely. There was another heart on the other end of that twinkle, flickering like a distant flame, and it was male, and it was calling to her. For the first time, Serenity, the youngest daughter of the king, a princess who would never rule, and perpetual maiden of the kingdom, felt what it was like to be wanted. The thought filled her heart, and she sent him her love and devotion on the moonbeams every night. Wishing to be together was not enough, however, and she knew she needed to descend to be with him. Warnings from her family fell on deaf ears, and it was only the physical intervention of her father that prevented her from casting her soul into the sky towards the ever-present Earth.
A betrothal quickly followed, to a rambunctious prince from a kingdom in the mountains. Serenity disliked him for his antics, but he doted on her in his own arrogant, immature ways. She knew her father would never truly force her to marry, but the distraction was a success. When next she found herself in her meadow alone, her prince having gone back to his mountains, the spark was gone. Perhaps her Earthen lover had given up, or another had followed the candle's light to it's source. Lying in her field, Serenity turned to her side and cried into the grass, not for the loss of a lover, but the loss of something she worried she would not feel again.
Her mountain prince did not return, duties in his own kingdom keeping him tied there. With neither a title nor a love to tie her to her home, she set out to travel and fill her mind with the faces of her people, and eventually the faces of those far from her kingdom, hoping that one day the many faces of the moon would replace the one she would never know from Earth. She wandered the second moon for what seemed ages, far from even knowledge of her kingdom, swallowing her pain, swallowing the memory of her loss. She met many who approached her with the finest intentions, and many who had somewhat less honorable intentions, but she never again felt the spark she once had. She learned to meet their compliments with gratitude and friendship, but not much else.
One lonely, cold night, she looked up into the stars, and felt it once again. Not the longing, not the want, but the pull of a particular twinkle. It had been far too long to hope her first love was still even alive, but something desperately lonely inside her called out to the tiny flame, and Serenity felt herself ascend into the starlight and space between the worlds. When she opened her eyes, she was alone again. The one who laid out the candle had not returned, and Serenity waited a day, watching other candles being lain and others like herself being retrieved. She left the Shrine of Candles at the end of the second day, and so began to wander, much the same as she had done on the Moon.
Her inner unhappiness brought a desire to calm the suffering of others, and soon her anguish was buried so deep that none knew the regal twilif who sought the peace of others had once hurt so terribly. Her travels through the spirit villages of the Earth brought her a small measure of recognition, and eventually, her visage ascended to the sky to form the constellation Serenity.
