(Maya's dear friend from the adoption thread)
Name: Dyakida
Race: Alkidike
Gender: Female
Base Traits:
Loyal: She is loyal to her family group (her close sisters and the elder that they live with), her tribe, and her friends. She would do anything for them, would risk life and limb and sanity for them. She will try the things others say she cant do and go the extra mile... for her dear family.
Serene: Dyakida is very calm and centered. Even through the misery she is subjected to by her scornful family, even when others would be hot and bothered, she remains as calm as the surface of a lake. Even when she is upset, she runs noticably cooler than her other sisters.
Sly: Before her accident, she would often think up clever ways to beat her sisters at games... not because she wanted to actually win the games, but because it helped them grow and learn. Though the competitive edge of this has subsided with her sight, she still uses her head to solve her problems, and still goads on her sisters to greater hights of alkidikedom.
Class: Artisan: Spearcrafter or Weapon crafter, hopefully she will be making the sort of high-quality weapons that a Sacred Heart would use.
Personality:
Dyakida is a calm person. Her strength always came from within, and she was a user of meditative techniques, practicing them since she was young.
Though blinded by an accident, she is still meditative and calm. She trains with a quarterstaff, though more for the meditative aspect of the routine than for fighting, since her blindness hinders her.
Though her blindness and resulting choice of a noncombat occupation makes her scorned by her own kin, she faces it with serene calmness and Conviction: she knows that what she is doing will help the tribe, even if they do not think so. Weapons are the soul of a warrior, and she wishes to make them. How can she not be helping the tribe if she makes their souls strong and beautiful?
But even this mentally strong girl has her moments of weakness, when she cries to herself, wondering why they wont understand that she IS valuable to her tribe, and that there is more to strength than the body.
She often, in these moments of despair, wonders what she had done to earn the stroke of bad luck that blinded her.
Eventually, she gets her frustration back under the calm surface of her mind, often with meditation or breathing techniques.
But that doesn't mean it goes away.
Nonetheless, she dearly loves her tribe, and moreso those who share her tree. She would do anything for them, and sees it as her goal to inspire them to become great members of the tribe. She feels that she owes this to them and to the tribe because of her blindness and inability to fight as a warrior of the Alkidikes.
Description:
Eyes: either closed or a milky grey or white.
Pattern:
Similar to how it is set up on this dragon, except less dense. The face thing is a must though...Hair: Worn as a braid.
Clothing:
Simple, pale cloth. Worn like a Sari.
Accessories:
~ a satchel for gathering supplies for her craft. It is large enough to handle large sticks of wood and sharp stone, metal, or chitin, but also able to handle the more subtle ingredients of a fine alkidike spear: herbs and oils for the ungents that make it receptive to magic, threads and beads for decoration... and her carving knife for the intricate patterns that make each unique.
~ the braid is held by a large beadlike hair ornament that is a deep amber in color.
History:
Dyakida has known Maya for a long time, since they were younglings under Mother Aisha's shade.
She was of the group of prentices that went to Jahuar to find a tree to live in, and one of the few who stood by Maya when Maya insisted that the tree they had found was too small, trying to mediate in the fight that ensued.
She was also one of the few that left with Maya to find a bigger tree, their current home.
Along the way there, this small group encountered a large insect that took offense to their presence and attacked.
In the ensuing battle, Dyakida took an attack meant for one of her other sisters- a spitting attack of toxins that hit her in the face and eyes. Using her innate mental fortitude to continue on despite through the initial sting, she held it off until Maya and one of the other sisters could finish it.
She washed her face off in the nearest stream and thought it over.
However, in the days that followed, her eyes began to hurt more and more and her vision began to worsen. By the time they had reached the tree, she could barely see and was almost dizzy from the pain.
Resting did little, but the pain did die after a time... but her sight died with it.
After the initial shock of realizing her blindness, and after a period of confused, frustrated, despair where she considered herself useless, Dyakida found her salvation in her sense of touch... and what she could do with her hands.
She realized that repairing items- something she could still do- gave her a sense of peace and calm. This made her wonder if creating them could do the same. This hope led her to start practicing artisanal skills with only her sense of touch to guide her.
She has been working diligently ever since, towards a goal where her tribe accepts her as a useful member, despite her damage. A lofty, perhaps impossible goal. But something.
Plans:
As she can get around with her sense of touch, and creating weapons does mean she has to interact with other alkidikes, much of her character will be being treated like s**t and trying to earn back their respect and love.
Also, she would be willing to talk to Earthlings, too. So long as I can RP her blindness effectively, it will be fine. I will find a way.
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