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 Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:58 pm
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The House of Obscuvos
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Prophet of Obscuvos
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:41 am
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PROFILE | TEXTS | GIFTS&COMPANIONS | RELATIONSHIPS | ETC.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:44 am
[ portrait goes here crie ]
✠ ＭＡＩＤＥＮ ＮＡＭＥ: Lidia Hawke ✠
✠ ＭＡＲＩＴＡＬ ＮＡＭＥ: Lady Lidia Locke ✠
✠ ＡＧＥ&ＺＯＤＩＡＣ: 28 / Virgo ✠
✠ ＧＥＮＤＥＲ: Female (Heterosexual/Borderline Asexual) ✠
✠ ＲＥＧＩＯＮ: Born in Shyregoed, resides in Auvinus ✠
✠ ＡＬＬＩＡＮＣＥ: The House of Obscuvos (Prophet) ✠
✠ ＥＳＴＡＴＥ: Locke Castle ✠
✠ ＥＹＥＳ: Turquoise/Aqua ✠
✠ ＨＡＩＲ: Black ✠
✠ ＢＵＩＬＤ: 5"7 / Composed ✠
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Lidia Hawke is a tumultuous-looking female with long, choppy, waist-length, black hair and a set of upset, aqua eyes. Her skin tans easily, but because she’s usually well-covered, she’s relatively pale. She’s very thin-lipped, and her movements are endearingly described as “elegantly jerky” (think theatrical). Lidia usually wears whatever her husband thinks looks lovely on her, but prefers her Obscuvian garb for its mobility. Her bird mask is in the form of a hawk’s. (Basically she looks like this, but more frowny.)► i. theme song - ＢＬＡＣＫＢＩＲＤ ＣＬＡＷ ＡＮＤ ＲＡＶＥＮ ＷＩＮＧ - woman king ＰＥＲＳＯＮＡＬＩＴＹ
At first glance, Lidia Hawke is physically sharp-looking, and her looks don’t stray far from her personality. Lidia has always physically lived in the details, but it’s the details, to her, that are important. She uses them to make assumptions of people and won’t correct her beliefs if she’s wrong, for despite that she lives up to her maiden name in being analytical and keen, she’s far from being worldly nor witty. Her attitude can be explained through her upbringing. Lidia was raised as a secondary, wallflower daughter, and thus, she lacked much of the erudite attention that was focused upon her dollish, younger sister. This isn’t to say that she was denied an education, but that she didn’t like the one she was given. To her family’s chagrin, she made up for her educational hypocrisy with ambition. Her life as a child was centered around destroying her sister’s, who was given more focus because the latter was a more accepting student, more socially amiable, more faerie-like, and more suitable to wed. While Lilian Hawke had the tutors’ and servants’ hands to guide her, her elder sister, ultimately, relied on her own abilities. To Lidia, the world is competition, and as she matured into a young woman, the form of competition simply changed. She cares about winning for the same reason that she cares about details; they’re all that matter, and they’re all that produce good results.
Winning, however, has always been a herculean task for Lidia, which makes it all the more rewarding for her. It’s not because she’s inherently stupid nor incompetent, but because she often overthinks things and is highly idealistic about her grounded concepts. This only motivates her to better understand whatever she’s dealing with, and therefore, activates her hellish diligence. Lidia uses competition, specifically, as a device to learn. She is her own tutor, and she doesn’t trust the lessons of others unless she’s lived them or, at least, attempted to. She tries to take all matters into her own hands unless it’s more reasonable to distribute them among others; she gradually learned the latter after years spent in Obscuvian membership.
Contrary to her complexion, Lidia is actually the opposite of standoffish (behind her Obscuvian mask, at least), because she finds every person to be a lesson, an opportunity, and a “working miracle” in Panymium society. Living people are survivors of the Black Death, and survivors should be given experiences in life, namely, the Obscuvian one. Giving people knowledge benefits Lidia, since she understands how it feels to be uninformed, so teaching people about how Obscuvos saved her (from her family life and Panymium society in general) makes her feel pleasant. Interestingly enough, Lidia doesn’t see the Obscuvians as radical entities that are “separate” from Panymium’s norm. Lidia thinks that the idea of Panymium’s factional division is foolish and that there really are only three sections of society: those who fight, those who pray, and those who work. This line of reasoning also explains why she’s content with her marriage to the knight, Sir Locke, despite factional differences. She admires the Imperial Guard's faith (which she compares to that of the Obscuvian followers’), commends the mentality of the Council, but scorns the the Fellowship for traditionalism.
It may seem odd that a woman that had been married twice believes that she’s a dominant figure, but marriage has never colored the Hawke girl any different. Living under the control of others is unimportant to Lidia so long as she’s comfortable and capable in subtext, (which is why she believes that she’s a perfect follower for Obscuvos). She’s retains a business-like relationship with her husbands, and doesn’t easily feel oppression. She reflects this attitude in how she treats House members and Panymians alike. If someone is a baker, she will treat them like a baker. If someone is an Acolyte, she will expect them to play their role as an Acolyte. Whether she’s a kind or harsh woman varies on the interpretations of others and less so on herself. Kindness and cruelty are things that she grew out of during her teen years, and she’s learned that being responsive in favorable ways are much more effective in getting desirable results, and morals are simply just the gray area, especially in plagued society. This makes her an accessible figure to Obscuvian extremists despite that she herself isn’t one (unless extreme measures produce good results, in which, she might change her mind). Frankly, Lidia’s mindset isn’t so much as “the ends justify the means” but that “the ends agree with the means”.For example, she disagrees with the extremists’ killings and murders unless they were enacted with politically favorable intentions. To Lidia, it’s crucial for Obscuvos’s actions to be universally, correctly interpreted:, the judgement of a deity, and not the judgement of insane heretics.► ii. theme song - ＴＨＥ ＤＡＲＫ ＨＡＷＫＥ - the forest ＯＰＩＮＩＯＮ ＯＮ ＰＬＡＧＵＥＳ
While Lidia is disinterested in being partnered with Plagues, she’s infatuated with learning about them. She finds them morbidly fascinating, but she normally prefers not to work with them because she can do most menial tasks herself. She’s an advocate of Plagueology, and possesses her own, work-in-progress field guide that she works on during her free time. The truth is, Lidia shares the mindset of a scientist but the drive of a cultist. If she meets a Grimm, she’ll want to understand the mentality of his or her Plague. From what she knows, plagues and humans do not share the same ideologies, but they can be affected by each other, which she’s observed as a good political device in affecting Obscuvian Grimms as well as converting Grimms into the House.ＨＩＳＴＯＲＹ
Lidia Hawke was born on 19th, September 1384 to Sarah Hawke and Gilbert Hawke, whom quickly discovered that she was difficult. As a child, she disliked many things, and naturally, many people disliked her. Things naturally didn’t make sense to Lidia in the sense that they weren’t easy for her. The lifestyle of an only daughter was as difficult as it was demanding, and rules were too clearly defined. Sarah and Gilbert were tradesmen, and applied policy to parenting. Lidia was expected to follow Panymisian, the family religion, but abhorred it because her parents dogmatically applied it to justify her inobedience. She was raised to pursue the family trading business, but found it extremely uninspiring to her tastes. Lidia felt that the business process was as tedious as it was unrewarding, since her family never expanded in profits. Business was generally all Sarah and Gilbert focused on aside from their daughter’s upbringing. Because the majority their trades resulted in failure, Lidia had little confidence in how they were raising her. This was a gradual distrust, and it started when she began to apply her reading skills to their business documents. While she didn’t completely understand the rules and policies of business, the ten-year-old Lidia was keen enough to correlate the dwindling numbers to a declining in her quality of life. Furniture started to disappear overnight, and her dinners became less varied. Life as a traditional Hawke, to Lidia, was far from a good show, especially when tutors were added to the tale. A good show, to Lidia, would be something that would deliver immediate, solid results, and tutelage was the direct opposite of this. She didn’t like the idea of someone else being responsible for her learning, and thusly, sought it out on her own. She read the same books as her sister, only through her own lips in different, falsetto voices. For the majority of her childhood, her sister was her main object of intrigue, for Lilian Hawke was in many ways, the polar opposite of Lidia Hawke.
Ironically, Lilian Hawke was born not as a rival but as a partner for Lidia. The younger Hawke was meant to be the mediator between Lidia and their parents, but her complexion and personality made this difficult. Lilian inherited Sarah’s silky, blonde hair, and her father’s handsome dimples. She laughed when things were funny, and cried when they were not. She was more socially relatable than her elder sister, and more welcoming towards her parents’ efforts. She became the target of Lidia’s scorn and malignant deeds, and realized that the feeling was rather mutual. From petty pranks to social disasters, Lilian endured and returned it all. The two Hawkes were birds of prey on different footing, and when Lidia turned seventeen, her parents decided that it was in the family’s best interest for her to be married off (to someone who preferably isn’t picky).
The ironic marriage of Wilbur Fastings and Lidia Hawke was the talk of Shyregoed upon its inception. Lidia, at first, was disgusted at the idea of becoming a tutor’s wife, but changed her mind when she discovered more of his background. Wilbur Fastings was three years older than her, and won her hand by offering more than her dowry required because he genuinely liked her personality. Freckled, good-natured, and pious, he was most of what Lidia disliked, but introduced to her something that she took a liking to quickly. The House of Obscuvos was as fascinating as it was unpopular to the Hawkes, making it highly relatable to Lidia’s personal makeup. She wasn’t used to being accepted by so many people at once, and more so by a deity. For her entire life, she was heckled in the name of Ada and Panya, and for once, she was a “Sister” of a deity’s followers, and not a “Child”. Lidia was an active Obscuvian, much to the Hawkes’ chagrin; when they had her wedded, they were unaware that Fastings, was, in actuality, an Obscuvian. Lidia took advantage of her parents’ distaste in her religious beliefs and used it as a permanent division between the Hawkes and herself. The more Lidia fell apart with her parents, the deeper she fell in love with her husband, who she grew to respect for his diligence and goodwill. Additionally, her infatuation with Obscuvian missions weren’t entirely rooted in religious zeal, but the ability to accomplish. As a Hawke, she had no motivation to be a social butterfly, but this wasn’t so in the cult. Competent and diligent, she was a gift to the House. She became more comfortable in the mixed, Obscuvian society, and it was here that Lidia cultivated her own ideas in addition to absorbing new ones.
Lidia began to develop the idea of the three sections of society (those who fight, those who pray, and those who work) during her first few Obscuvian years. Meeting people above and below her social class were novelty for her, since she’d only been exposed to Panymium’s middle class for the majority of her childhood. Being taken seriously in the House at a young age was truly what ushered Lidia into adulthood while sharpening her ambition to ascend ranks. Again, the opportunity to compete presented itself, and Lidia wanted nothing more than to achieve, but she didn’t quite know what changes she should cause in a society she found herself comfortable in. People who had known the Hawke girl before her marriage to Fastings were doubly surprised, and taken aback on how nicely she could smile when her ambitions were sharpened, for Lidia didn’t aim to learn more for her own self but also for her faction. Competition became a necessity to create change.
Eventually, there were things that Lidia did not approve of within the cult, and Wilbur’s death ignited the fire. Lidia was acquainted with Obscuvian extremism the week before her eighteenth birthday. She had always been conscious that the cult contained an extremist population, but she never experienced how effective they could be. She witnessed her first, extremist initiation in which a Shyregodian youth, Peter Arrows, was instructed to murder a peasant girl to become an Obscuvian. Lidia had been appalled then, and urged her husband, an Acolyte, to request a different type of initiation method. Wilbur made the mistake of being public with his wife’s wishes, and ended up being the changed, murder target. The decision was mostly Wilbur’s own fault through poor wording choice (“Sirs, if I may request a better slaughter for young Arrows?”) but Lidia knew that it was more so because of ideology. The other Acolytes saw no problem with Wilbur’s murder, and assured Lidia that her husband would simply be reborn. His death, to them, was honorary for young Peter, for his entry dagger slit the heart of a fellow Brother instead of the usual peasant. His death, to Lidia, however, was a serious loss in a husband, vindicator, and friend.
It was no secret that Wilbur’s request derived from Lidia. She was promoted to her husband’s position because of his death, and instead of falling deeper into Obscuvian ideals, she began to question them. While Obscuvos was her beloved god and her freedom, she didn’t feel as if his goodwill was being represented by the loudest of the cultists, particularly, those in power. Extremism largely represents Obscuvianism, and it is the main reason as to why the other factions generally avoided collaborating with the cult. Lidia realized that her position as an Acolyte was ineffective in shifting the House’s political tides, but those of higher ranking could. Extremism itself took root at the top, and Lidia began traveling throughout Panymium at the age of twenty to meet her Obscuvian executives and to better understand them. The political uneasiness that the cult emitted is the root of Lidia’s religious quest. How the Obscuvians perceived death in their religion was really only an aspect of what she felt was wrong, and it truly is the religion’s misrepresentation that worried her.
Lidia was unsure if this misrepresentation was the strongest in Shyregoed, or if it was as rampant as those outside her faction said it was, and therefore needed more information. She presented her quest to the House as a “commitment to the illumination of inter-region Obscuvianism” and was promoted to Priesthood for her efforts. She was further promoted into Bishophood after she consolidated her research into a text. Lidia Hawke’s guide neatly organized and described each Obscuvian sect pertaining to its particular region, and the habits and cultures of those who practiced them. The Obscuvians promoted Lidia because they interpreted her dedication as religious zeal, and found that she was a popular, unofficial consultant within the cult. In addition to her Obscuvian guide, her texts on representing Obscuvos as he should be presented drew the attention of many curious Followers, and her fascination with everyone simply made her more accessible.
Lidia didn’t realize how gradual her success had become until she befriended Lucien Arelgren, a dandy Follower, during her first year as a Priest. While many of her acquaintances had admitted their unease with the cult, never before had anyone so boldly addressed it like Arelgren. She was all the more surprised that he came to someone who had all the more authority to condemn him as a potential heretic, but was inspired by his reasons. Lucien, like most Obscuvians, had heard of Wilbur’s murder, and assured Lidia that he supported his dissent. His own son was the murder target of Peter Arrows, and he believed that the boy had only become comfortable with killing because his own religion helped him cope with it. What alarmed Lidia more was that Peter was not the only Obscuvian that was given a mission to murder, and Lucien’s experience frightened her more. Yet, he offered a solution that she didn’t entirely take, but definitely evolved.
He convinced her to become an honorary Butterfly Crow, but Lidia strictly told him that she was only joining as a temporary member to explore its function. She liked its deterrent cause, but disliked how it operated in the shadows and the dangers of being exploited. Therefore, at the age of twenty-five, Lidia politely resigned after two years of Butterfly Crowism, and began to design a more audible movement. During this time, Lucien continued to support her, and she presented herself to the Panymese as a sociable woman. Gaining the trust of common society was what Lidia felt that the cult was largely lacking, and she discovered that Panymium saw her first as Lidia Hawke before they saw her as an Obscuvian Priest. As a grown woman, she was confident in her wisdom, and she offered insights and her ideologies at parties. She used what Wilbur had left for her to spend on what society found to be delightful, and spent the next three years in expensive dresses to fit in more with the crowd she aimed to affect.
Her marriage to Sir Gabriel Locke was a product of her success in society and evidence of her admiration of the Guard. He was understanding of her Obscuvian faith, but conscious that she didn’t represent its perceived evil. Lidia felt safer in matrimony to a knight, and became bolder about her ideas within the cult. She is, in an ironic sense, an extremist on perceiving Obscuvos as a god of goodwill, but is nonetheless a debatable topic within the cult. Her zeal made it clear that she didn’t fit a heretic’s profile (to other cultists), but her ambitions are completely radical. The decline in membership, to Lidia, is a fault of Obscuvian character. It’s crucial, to her, that the Panymese saw Obscuvians as fellow Panyemese before they saw them as unreasonable cultists. She encourages the House to create alliances, especially with the Council. Funding in exchange for Plagueology studies, to Lidia, is a first step in convincing Panymium that Obscuvians are a diligent, rational peoples that can be reasoned with.► iii. theme song - ＴＨＥ ＰＲＥＤＡＴＯＲＹ ＰＥＮＷＯＭＡＮ - horse and i
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:44 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:44 am
 ＴＨＥ ＶＥＩＮＳ ＯＦ ＯＢＳＣＵＶＯＳLidia's acclaim roots largely in part to her publication, The Veins of Obscuvos. The text was inspired by the popular perception of Obscuvianism as an evil, extremist religion. Lidia was unsure if this misrepresentation was the strongest in Shyregoed, or if it was as rampant as those outside her faction said it was, and therefore needed more information. She presented her quest to the House as a “commitment to the illumination of inter-region Obscuvianism” and was promoted to Priesthood for her efforts. She was further promoted into Bishophood after she consolidated her research into a text. Lidia Hawke’s guide neatly organized and described each Obscuvian sect pertaining to its particular region, and the habits and cultures of those who practiced them. The Obscuvians promoted Lidia because they interpreted her dedication as religious zeal, and found that she was a popular, unofficial consultant within the cult.ＴＨＥ ＯＢＳＣＵＶＩＴＥ ＰＡＰＥＲＳ
In addition to her Obscuvian guide, her texts on representing the Obscuvos as he should be presented drew the attention of many curious Followers, and her fascination with everyone simply made her more accessible. These representative writings are collectively associated as the The Obscuvite Papers.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:45 am
  "I spare none of my being from Obscuvos's plans." | house +"They will not seek us; the feelings are mutual. Waldgrave's death is heavy on both parties." | fellowship -"Between the two of us, possibilities rise.| council +"Blind faith is the vessel of direction." | imperial guard +ＤＯＲＩＡＮ ＡＲＥＬＧＲＥＮ ＆ ＬＥＴＴＩＥ●●●●●● ✠ ●●●●●●unwritten feelings; extant.unwritten feelings; extant.ＳＡＧＥ ＥＳＴＲＡＴＵＳ ＆ ＳＬＯＡＮＥ●●●●●● ✠ ●●●●●●unwritten feelings; extant.unwritten feelings; extant.ＤＲＡＧＯＭＩＲ ＭＥＳＨＫＥ ＆ ＣＨＡＹＥＬＥ●●●●●● ✠ ●●●●●●unwritten feelings; extant.unwritten feelings; extant.ＤＲＵＳＴＡＮ ＣＡＲＭＯＤＹ ＆ ＣＹＢＥＬＥ●●●●●● ✠ ●●●●●●unwritten feelings; extant.unwritten feelings; extant.ＦＥＬＩＣＩＴＹ ＷＩＣＫＥＳ ＆ ＣＬＡＵＤＩＡ●●●●●● ✠ ●●●●●●unwritten feelings; extant.unwritten feelings; extant.ＡＲＴＥＭＩＳ ＫＡＬＥＮＤＳ ＆ ＶＡＤＥ●●●●●● ✠ ●●●●●●unwritten feelings; extant.unwritten feelings; extant.ＭＩＬＤＲＥＤ ＧＲＥＥＮＢＥＬＬ●●●●●● ✠ ●●●●●●unwritten feelings; extant.unwritten feelings; extant.ＢＡＳＩＬ ＤＡＲＬＩＮＧ●●●●●● ✠ ●●●●●●unwritten feelings; extant.unwritten feelings; extant.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:45 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:45 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:45 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:45 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:46 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:03 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:03 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:03 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:03 am
 The Plague Doctor © zanaroo & staff
Lettie's Official Art © zanaroo
Collected Art © respective artists
Dorian & Lettie © pistolsys
Coding & Graphics © pistolsys
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