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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:11 pm
 - under construction -
Toad doesn't have art yet because I'm astonishingly lazy, but he should make an appearance soon!
Other characters I play: (c) Elias & Halflight, (n) Feste
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:12 pm
Appearance
Bird is short, scrawny, and only identifiable as a young woman and not a preadolescent boy by her manner of dress, which is even then frequently eccentric. Her dark hair is unfashionably short and sticks up like the tufty down of a baby sparrow. Though she is not and will never be attractive, there is still something arrestingly fey about her face, despite -- or perhaps because of -- her unusually broad mouth and enormous, wide-set brown eyes.
Personality
Bird is cheerful, optimistic, uneducated, foul-mouthed, and unswervingly well-meaning, though she tends to distribute kindnesses via methods so bizarre that they often go unrecognized. She is ferociously compassionate and has a difficult time functioning if she has no one to take care of (even if recipients of that care are likely to find her ministrations inexplicable at best, irritating at worst). Magnetically drawn to the dysfunctional, she possesses few normal relationships.
Her personality exhibits a weird conflict between the blunt practicality of a girl who's grown up in the slums of Palisade and someone who is unable to relinquish the belief that everyone, deep inside, is inherently good. She sees the best in people even when they repeatedly prove otherwise, and this, unfortunately, even taking into account her streetwise sensibilities, makes her very easy to take advantage of. It is therefore surprising that she is not exploited more frequently -- perhaps because her open, unconditional faith in others makes her difficult to betray.
Or perhaps because, according to general opinion, she's definitely a little bit crazy. Even those who believe in the Old Ways have to admit that her expression of hedgecraft is... unconventional. It is not uncommon for her to trek all the way to the Wardwood (no small feat for someone of her means) only to deposit a jar full of squirming tadpoles or a rusty key at the edge of the forest as an offering. She has more than once claimed that she can speak to pigeons, and her "familiar" (many question this), a large, fat toad whose name changes daily, seems to contribute absolutely nothing to her work.
"Familiar"
Bird has claimed to possess a toad familiar since childhood, but few people, if any, have seen it until recently (she explains it's been on an extended sabbatical). It is enormously large and fat for a toad but otherwise quite ordinary in appearance, with the same rough brown warty skin and golden, slot-pupilled eyes that one might expect from any garden variety amphibian. Its name changes often, sometimes notably even in mid-sentence, which Bird does not seem to notice doing. Its most recent appellation was Alphonso.
History
Surprisingly little is known about Bird's past despite how talkative she is; this may indicate that her history is a touchy subject. It is clear, however, that she has spent much of her life in Palisade and has never received any kind of education. She is nearly completely illiterate -- she can scrawl her first name and recognize a few words, but that's about it -- and has markedly outlandish takes on most formal subjects. Her only known relative is a deceased elder brother named John, whose grave in a small plot outside Oldcastle is quite recognizable, as it is completely covered by a wild growth of sunflowers. Bird refuses to implicate herself, but she is clearly the culprit.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:13 pm
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