Name: Keionx Rutace [Keionx= anagram and mutation of Quixote, Rutace=genus of orange]
Blood colour: #cb3e20, Orange
Gender: Female
Symbol: Double Triangle
Personality:
Keionx considers herself a hero. She will go where the meek dare not tread, and fight what others would flee from. She will rescue fellow trolls and even animals in need and set out on heroic quests. She holds honor to be one of the highest virtues a troll can have, and has a very personal code of conduct that guides her through her life:
Be polite to all Help those in need Treat others with respect Do the right thing
This code is the core of her being. It is what drives her and it is what she clings to when things go wrong. It is all she feels she really has, and it is what stands between her and maddening despair.
Keionx is a strange troll. Though she has been trained since wigglerhood to violence and usually uses some form of it to solve her problems, she is also extremely altruistic. Mad by troll standards, she does good deeds, expecting nothing in return, not even appreciation.
Though she is no longer the innocent delusional fantasy 'hero' she thought she was in her wigglerhood – her straightforward world was shattered completely by the truth that nearly every person she had ever trusted (including her own lusus) had lied to her and had been on the opposite side of the conflict all along – she is also no longer confused.
Ever since the battle in the caverns of the Pheonix Initiative, she has determined that that it's all right that the world is not be the beautiful, fun filled, adventure place where good and evil were easily determined and fought for. It's all right – Keionx now understands that this revelation does not truly change who she is.
Keionx is very resistant to having the opinions of others forced upon her. Despite having role models and close family and many friends amidst the Rebels, Keionx knows that her ideologies do not entirely match up with the Initiatives', nor does she agree with what they do. She also knows she doesn't have to. She makes her own decisions about what she believes in and what she chooses to do about it, and as long as she believes that what she is doing is the Right Thing (capitals intended), she doesn't care what it opposes.
As such, though she finds herself now on the side of the Initiative, Keionx is not fighting for it. What she is fighting for is the hope that it's members have for their nearly impossible cause. Hope, to her, is a beautiful and inspiring emotion, and their hope is worth devoting her will towards fighting for – or even dying for.
Not that she plans on dying anytime soon. Keionx is a hero, not a martyr... not by choice, anyway. Keionx will lay down her life, and would martyr herself if that was the only option and the right thing to do, but she is not suicidal – even at a young age, she was taught the value of retreating, and the wisdom of running when out of her league. However, if given a choice, she will stand and fight. Others may run, and she will protect them, but she will not be the first to flee, and she will not stand down when others need her... at least not without trying valiantly to aid them.
Keionx holds herself to a high standard of honor and valor. She will stand against even that which she knows she should run from, if it buys others time. She refuses to be cowardly and can be hard on herself in low moments. However, her standards apply only to herself. She does not judge others based on her morals. She knows what is right and wrong, and she is confident that others likely know the same. She has learned, through a turmultuous teenagehood, that right and wrong are very personal concepts, and that different people have different interpretations of it. If her right and their right conflict, so be it – she will oppose them, but at the same time she will respect that their beliefs are not hers.
She also does not judge by blood color, but not for reasons of equality. Although Keionx is fully cognizant of it as a thing that exists, and even approves of it as promoting order in their society, she barely registers it when talking to people. In addition, despite being aware of her distinctly orange shade of blood, she apparently does not completely comprehend that the hardships she sees around her are a direct result of the hemospectrum, nor does she seem to understand her own place in it. Although blood color can affect her interactions with other trolls, it is simply is not a quality at the forefront of her mind. Often, she is briefly surprised or taken aback when someone reminds her that she is a 'lowblood'. Fortunately, she is generally polite enough to everyone, regardless of blood rank, that her lack of appreciation for the hemospectrum goes unnoticed.
Although generally a tolerant troll, there are certain types of people whos's opinion of right and wrong she cannot accept; Keionx does not like thieves and swindlers - people who choose to live parasitically off of other people, either by their nimble fingers or their silver tongues. She also does not like those who are extremely selfish or unnecessarily vicious.
To all others, she is willing to open her mind and listen to what they have to say. However, quite stubbornly, Keionx's mind is a hard thing to change. Once its been made up, it's been made, and there is little that anyone can do about it. Keionx, in turn, does not actively try to turn others to her path – if others choose the same path as her, she will not hinder them, but she wants people to do as their own will directs them, and not otherwise.
Strengths:
Brave
Keionx knows what fear is, and she feels it as strong as any troll would. However, she chooses to face it head on. She is willing to walk ahead, right into the most dangerous and terrible places of Alternia, head held high and her sword at the ready. It is rare for Keionx to run from anything... or, at least, for her to be the first to leave.
Stalwart
Keionx is stubborn, but not to a fault. She stands up for her beliefs and for her friends, even when the tides of change or fate are against them and overwhelming. Her opinions about herself and the world are hard-won and consequently very solid, and it takes a lot to change her mind or break a trust.
Cordial
Keionx holds herself to too high a standard to be crass or rude. In fact, Keionx is very polite, even when others are rude in turn. She is not afraid to speak her mind, but she will do so carefully, politely, and logically. When stressed, she relies on this trait to support her, occasionally slipping into a very old-timey and overly proper accent.
Flaws:
Kind of Dense
Keionx is not the smart twin, and she knows it. Though she has mostly grown out of her “oblivious insanity” phase, where she was convinced she was a storybook hero, she still doesn't get things. She is creative enough to find solutions, and she isn't cripplingly stupid either. Some things just seem to go right over her pointy little horns.
Altruistic
Keionx was trained to be a hero since her trials, and she honestly can't help it. Like an addict needs a fix, she needs to help others – no troll in need will remain unaided on her watch. When she can't help someone, she feels awful, and she would never willingly leave a fellow troll behind, friend or foe. This need to do good, without necessarily getting any good in return, is her driving force. It is her motive for existing, the thing that keeps her going when all seems lost, and her only real hope for the darkened world she lives in. Obviously, it is easily exploitable, but Keionx does not care. In fact, she almost welcomes it...
Egotistical
Keionx has a big personality. She was trained to be THE hero, and has retained a sense that she is the protagonist of her story. Although she's not unpleasant about it, definitely not self-centered, and certainly won't wave her sense of a higher purpose in anybody's face, she still will not quite listen to others when they speak. She also considers herself to be, typically, in the right... which isn't always the “right” of rebels or royalists. It is, in the end, her right that matters.
Keionx lived most of her life on Busthind Mountain, alone and completely unaware of her wiggling beginnings (aside from her trials). She made a few friends and a few foes, got into FLARPing at a young age, and gradually explored her mountain home with Beastdad.
She never even knew she had a twin.
On one of her frequent walks with Beastdad, the first that took her as far as the shoreline, she heard a scream and, being the sort of troll she was, she had to investigate and see if there was someone she could rescue.
She galloped over, her lance, (which was her weapon of choice before she switched to the sword) in her hand to find that she was too late. Only a puddle of disturbingly orange blood was left. Or so she thought. Disappointed at having nothing to fight heroically, she was about to move on when Beastdad snuffled at something in the bushes. An orphaned troll, and therefore an oppurtunity to play at being heroic.
Being slow on the uptake and not particularly observant, it took her a while to realize that the orphaned troll was her twin, especially considering the rarity of twins.
With Beastdad's encouragement, she offered to take her twin, Zariah, home with her.
Why not? It felt good, it felt heroic, and Beastdad wanted to bring him home anyway.
Such behavior was typical of young Keionx. Even during times of war, when she fought against the Rebels to take over Old Hemisect city, she was still the hero. The world was still divided into right and wrong, good and evil, heroes and villains.
Until Aendal.
During the battle in the cavern, reality came crashing down as her friends and role models, Odette Cygnet and then Mileiu Aojiro, put their lives on the line to protect Keionx in the absence of her lusus. The fight shook her up, and despite having helped to slay the villain and save the night, Keionx felt that something was wrong.
It fulminated when she learned the real reason why her Lusus was not with her – he had accompanied her brother with the Rebels, and both had been captured. She learned this after those very same role models, and the rest of their illuminated group, brought him back, showing themselves to be Rebels as well.
Keionx was heartbroken and stunned, and things were never the same after that. She went home with her lusus but hardly spoke to him, instead trying to focus on remodeling her hive. She knew she needed to talk to someone, and a certain name popped into her mind: Ephias Sagine, her friend from the war.
Only... when she went to visit him, her plans to talk to him and figure things out (or at least feel better) were thwarted when her arch nemesis, Etsali Azeban, showed up and revealed herself to be Ephias' friend.
This was too much for Keionx. Deprived of moirailship, she left on an adventure, refusing to talk to her Lusus or her friends for a very long time. What was there, she wondered, to say? She didn't know. She didn't know anything. Dully, she explored. Dully, she did heroics. Dully, she existed.
Bloodfest rolled around, and she joined in the festivities, performing as an athlete as best she could. She won some, she lost some, but she gained something more valuable: a return. She was able to reconcile with her friends and her lusus, and figure out a few things for herself.
Still, though her life was starting to settle, her teenagerhood was still confusing and difficult. Uncertain, she made the decision to visit the rebel hideout with her brother and see if she could figure out why the Scouts and her twin had chosen that cause. She went, in the hopes that she would discover her own path. And, in a sense, she did... but not before everything went to hell first.
Chaos reigned as the rebels fled from Kursha, the traitor. Keionx did not understand the history behind her neighbor's aggression, but she knew that her friends were being hurt, and she had to fight, even if she didn't know what she stood for.
Except, as things began to spiral into hopelessness, the leader of the rebels stood above the rest and urged them forward. Byakko's speech – and Stryke's assistance – rekindled the dwindling fire of Keionx's conviction, and restored her sense of self.
With renewed purpose, she fought with the rebels, and helped to protect the Mother Grub as she was carted through a mysterious and murky swamp. For several nights, she continued on, though she was badly injured. Finally, she fought against the daywalkers of the swamp and nearly fell in battle. It was through sheer willpower, and the help of Miache, that she made it to the abandoned village in the swamp and the salvation of Rebel companions.
Like the beast the initiative was named for, Keionx feels reborn, restored from the ashes of her innocence and resplendent in potential. She refuses to let herself be so shaken ever again.
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:11 pm
Quadrants:
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Heroes:
Vremea EveraiA very nice, elegant, Keionx looks up to her a lot. Despite learning that she was a rebel all along, Keionx trusts her and wishes she could be like Vremea in many ways. Additionally, Keionx is comfortable expressing her repressed 'girly' side around her.
Odette Cygnet Vremea's Moirail and Keionx's dear friend. She is kind, generous, and was willing to protect and comfort Keionx in her times of need. Keionx wants to do the same for her and for others, and would like nothing more than to be like Odette when she gets older: beautiful, kind, and heroic.
Stryke NrvmorStryke, though Keionx hasn't known him long, has quickly found his way into her heart. She knows that he does not easily trust others – that much is clear – but she feels honored that he has shown her what he has, and she is very willing to give him her wholehearted trust in exchange. She will show him that she can be trusted with anything he wishes to entrust to her. She will show him that there is hope, even in hell.
Alexin FlynntKeionx credits this bigendered troll with her most truly heroic and original deed – bringing water to drought-striken Chittentown. They have, in every circumstance, stood by her and even ran to her side in the caverns when they found themselves at odds. Keionx hopes for further adventures, and to help them ease into the life that they are trying to choose.
Byakko MawiyaThe rebel leader was inspiring, her words salvaging Keionx's hope from it's ruins. Keionx respects her highly, but other than the fact that her blood is a weird color and she's a brave and fierce soul, Keionx knows nothing about her or what she represents. She hopes to get to know her better.
Cerpin SugallKeionx's student. She is very proud of him and his progress, and considers him both a vital ally and a dear friend.!
Villains:
Kursha VidariKeionx grew up with him right next door, and now he is a monster. A villain. A traitor, if the agonized conversations she's hearing are true – a once rebel turned against his former compatriots. Keionx has nothing personal against him, not really – he did not, after all, betray her. But, if she has to put him down, so be it – she will protect the hope of this cause. Though, if both somehow make it through, she wants to have a talk with him. Possibly involving blood.
Etsali Azeban - Thief -They have come a long way from when they first met. Etsali is a capable thief but more pressing is her ability to get under Keionx's skin with only a smile. The very mention of her name sends Keionx into a passionate rage and, though thievery is against everything Keionx feels she stands for, she was driven to steal to 'prove something' to Etsali. Her feelings are undefinable, but Keionx can't keep herself away... and won't lose the mask the thief gave her. Especially, she will never forget that she was the one that won them the capture the flag game, even though the scoreboard says otherwise... And yet, even Keionx will admit that, though she is a hateful thief, Etsali is not malicious and has limits. Even Keionx can respect that... though she will always suspect her for most things.
Chiara MotekuFirst met in the swamp, Keionx was proud of her brother for attacking her. After seeing her at the Harvest Festival, Keionx has suspicions about the bluebloods motives and malice. Keionx now suspects that she and her brother may be involved somehow. With Chiara's motives and her brother's percieved innocence, she mainly wants to smash this b***h into the ground a few times...
Side Characters:
Miache Gahiji During the flight of the Pheonix Initiative, Keionx met him in battle and he comported himself well. Later, he defected to the initiative. Keionx trusts him, but at the same time, he also throws her off. A lot. Keionx isn't always sure what to make of him. But she does look forward to seeing him and, moreover, to having a rematch against him... it would be nice to punch him in the smug face at least once. These are, she thinks, possibly black feelings.
Ephias SagineAfter working with him in Old Hemisect and speaking to him in Chittentown, Keionx has a lot of respect, appreciation, and love for this redblood. She values his advice and, in return, hopes to give him the hope he clearly lacks. She wishes they could be more than just friends, but out of respect for his wishes and for his relationship with Etsali, she holds back. A lot.
Athene BrammaA friend of Vremea's bearing an unusual letter, which led to adventure. She seems to be very serious.
Milieu AojiroA mute troll that comforted Keionx when the world fell apart a little and who protected her during the whole Aendal affair. Surprisingly ferocious, yet kind, Keionx looks up to Milieu and has a great deal of respect for her. She hasn't seen her lately... what happened to her?
Azrael MortisA Worthy laser tag opponent...
Malice RagoonLaser tag proprietor. Good choice of booth!
Dictys GlauciA highblood that Keionx met at Captain Puchen's speech. Keionx remembers that ey were very enthusiatic. Ey seem to want to go into space, as evidenced by their Bloodfest booth... Keionx wonders how ey are doing...
Wallas ZiegelA nice troll with a very cute gerbil. It's been a long time since she's seen him, though...
Voscil TorgnyA nice yellowblood that Keionx met before. She's not a bad troll, but otherwise Kei doesn't really have an opinion on her.
Lutrin WeesilTHIS IS A FANTASTIC TROLL! Who set up a FANTASTIC obstacle course and who has a FANTASTIC attitude about life. That she appears to be affiliated with Etsali is no matter - this troll is clearly potential hero material!
Reemus GrrouKeionx thinks he seems nice enough...
Cerise Koekje - Confectioner -A redblood who occasionally sells spice-spiked items and usually apparently bakes. Just because Keionx dislikes her personally doesn't mean that she doesn't also really like the spice and the sugar she provides...
Amonee BrycerA pleasant jadeblood who ran the modeling booth and who also subbed for Nucleo at some points. He's sweet, but he wasn't very good at running the Nightly Grind...
Nucleo GlatteThe proprietor of a Busthind Coffeeshop called the Nightly Grind that Keionx visits at times. He seems to be a great guy, and if he's selling soups too, he's probably going to see a lot more of her business...
Akkira KagomeA little blind swampling that Keionx likes. A little mouthy sometimes, but she's cute...
Alifax Bunsen Keionx doesn't know him or care particularly about him...
Vrykol Aakaas (NPC)A mysterious shopkeeper who is, apparently, a rainbow drinker and sells immortality. Sometimes Keionx wonders whether she'll ever take Vrykol up on her offer...
Frossa FyrsteA Purpleblood who was, also, too eager to kill and very much not in the serious mood of the shop. Keionx might have an accent, but she was dead serious. This troll just wanted things dead, apparently. Well fine.
Afryse Shukum A looter Keionx met in Chittentown. She thinks he is a cocky b*****d. Other than that... Nothing much more.
Vitula PicatoA helpful troll who seemed a bit confused, but that was fine! Keionx found him helpful.
Skaeys FallinA very scared kid who peeps...
Tamiya AigumaApparently a friend/not friend of Odettes?
Leeroi FuroreA child who she gave mooncakes to at the festival. Or, rather, to his bizarre lusus.
Cebass LusitaA seadweller that Keionx fought against in the Capture the Flag meet during Bloodfest...
Other:
Zariah Rutace:Keionx's twin. He lied to her about the rebels, but she forgives him for that, and now she has joined him on their side. She is becoming painfully aware that he can handle things himself... and also that, all this time, he has harbored strong feelings of resentment towards her. It hurts a lot. She still cares about him, but at the present moment, she is not talking to him.
Regina MarianKeionx fought against the queen at the capture the flag event in Bloodfest, and honestly? She kind of liked her. There was something pure about the way they scuffled in the arena, and Keionx would like to, maybe, have another bout with her. Not to actually hurt her! Keionx may be a rebel, but she has nothing against the queen! She just wants to try another fight against her, for fun and training... Even if that is looking less and less possible now.
Lusus: Beastdad
Beastdad – a rare, orange blooded variety of musclebeast, has a big job. With an unheard of two trolls to take care of, he has attempted to nobly rise to the occasion and give double parenting a damn good try. That he has not done the best job thus far is not a problem – he tries, and he learns, and he does the best he can. He at least has enough love – and bear hugs – for both of his charges, and he distributes them both freely.
Beastdad is adventurous, with the typical nobility and pride of his species. He holds these traits; Pride, nobility, and also the physical strength that musclebeasts are known for, very highly, as well as honor. If he was not parenting a troll, he would be out having grand adventures himself.
It was he has encouraged Keionx in her many heroic exploits and freely provided her with musclebeast milk. He cooked hearty meals (from things they scrounge on Busthind) to promote muscle growth and strength. Despite being a loving lusus, he was also very hard on Keionx. He gave her plentiful 'power food' and a great deal of personal attention, but he also kept her to a strict exercise regimen and constant rugged adventuring, which was both gruelling and exhausting. He pushed her hard with very little breaks- the world is harsh, and, on Alternia, a hero had to be able to weather the worst of it.
Formerly, he and Keionx were particularly close. But once she started adventuring on her own, his focus turned to Zariah. Beastdad is aware that Zariah is not as strong as his Keionx and he clearly isn't warrior hero material, so the lusus felt he needed extra encouragement. Thus, beastdad got involved in his Rebellious activities, and was willing to get captured for the cause.
When Keionx found out, this caused a rift between her, her lusus, and her brother, a rift that – though it has been amended somewhat, has not yet; and may not ever; fully heal. Keionx is still somewhat distant from her lusus emotionally, and Beastdad does not understand this, nor does he understand why. It is a source of great confusion for him, and when she is available, he treats her as if nothing has happened.
Note: Beastdad raised his twins primarily on stories not of some mythical troll ancestor or hero, but of his (and Zariah's lusus') own ancestor, the musclebeast known as Chiron. This musclebeast trotted across Alternia, doing many great deeds and accomplishing many labors, protecting the world against countless threats and challenges. The legends and folktales about this musclebeast are many and varied and sometimes contradictory, but Beastdad has always stressed the importance of Chiron's heroic ways to his children and has himself tried to live by that example.
Keionx's weapon is a one-handed sword, supplemented by the use of a shield in the other arm. She trained with this initially because it was a very heroic and knightly combination, and later found she could appreciate the balance between offense and defense it afforded.
Her first shield was lost underground against the undead plant-weilding troll Aendal, but she has since carved herself a new wooden shield, and has further reinforced it with metal.
Her sword was forged in her new smithy, adjoining the salle. It is a keen-edged steel blade that she hopes to upgrade to carbon steel, with her symbol inscribed at the base of the blade.
Hive: *To be Renovated* When Keionx was a wiggler, her hive was a mess of training traps and weighted doors, as well as a cluttered trophy room – also her respiteblock – and a disorganized weight and training room. Her brother's area of the hive was small but sane, with few traps, weights, and mess, something that Keionx took to heart when she returned from the Chittentown drought.
Most of her collection of trophies have been sold or thrown away, and the entire hive has been cleaned and renovated. Gone are the heavy, weighted doors, falling floors, and the treadmill entry. Gone is the endless clutter and insane proportions.
Though still built out of the stone of Busthind and a part of the natural cave system in the mountains, it is now respectably furnished, with decent – if inexpensive – carpets in a warm umber color and evenly placed trophies and sconces on the walls.
Keionx still shares her respiteblock with her trophy room, and this is where she keeps things that are very personal to her, objects that remind her of her friends and, now, of who she is or, rather, is trying to be. She has sold off some of the trophies and so it is cramped, but not cluttered, and now completely ajoins a separate bath, sink, and shower area, without a stretch of hallway to separate them. She keeps some secret things in her room, including a chest containing private trophies, trinkets, small writings of her anguished thoughts, and small drawings to replace items or trinkets that were lost, but still hold a place in her memory.
The library is painstakingly organized and refurbished and, though modest, houses a variety of books from well read old fables and stories, to newer tales of adventure, to FLARP books, to some of Zariah's own writings. Of course, it is only a matter of time before the library becomes a chaotic mess, but for the time being order has held.
What dominates the hive, however, is its now well-appointed Salle, complete with fighting equipment, dummies, hologram training devices, and medical kits. Though cushioned with artificial leather, it is clear that Keionx takes her training even more seriously than before, and is willing to risk injury to do so.
There is a lot of new wood supporting her hive and a lot of thought put into the organization and clearing of it all. Keionx tried to make her hive suitable for her new friends, and as a base of operations to return to when she tires of her adventures. Still, she doesn't entirely feel at home here... Time will tell what she does about it.
Stuff:
Medals/commemorative stuff
WACKY participation Royalist badge: Keionx fought with the royals to capture the lusus carrying the WACKY device, and though her team did not win, she was given a consolation prize, at the very least to mark her as loyal...
Orange 2014 Bloodfest Medal: Zariah brought home gold, and all Keionx got was the general team prize... yay!
OHC Reclaimation Royalist Badge: A junior member of the Alternian Military! Keionx and her team worked their little butts off in the 'reconstruction project'. Woot! Go team!
Orange Flower Pin: Bought from Vrykol's underground shop during the Chittentown Drought, to remind her of her strengths and her failings in the battle that ensued. Mostly failings. And loss of innocence.
Flower Medal: A more official pseudomilitary medal commemorating Keionx's participation in the fight against Aendal and the battle to rescue Chittentown from its drought. It is a bittersweet emblem.
Smiling Swamp Parent Tooth: A reminder that, even in the darkest times, even when things are going sour all around you, some things can still be solved by brute force.
Keepsakes
The Handle of an old, carved wooden shield: All Keionx has left of her first shield. Carved lovingly by Beastdad, it was mostly burned and lost in the fight against Aendal and his plants during the Chittentown Drought.
Military-Grade sword: Keionx forged this in her hive out of materials bought while abroad after the Chittentown Drought. A hero, after all, must have a good sword otherwise they will fall.
Treasures Reinforced Shield - Adept Defense B Artifact
Adept Artifact (Offense B) - strength bracelet with her symbol on it in the style of the bracelet of strength from Ocarina of Time
Adept Artifact (Offense B) - 2d6 Deal double damage on this attack, 1 ongoing damage for all turns after. The ongoing damage from these stack. 2/2
Adept Trinket, Offense A: 2/3 Charges, 1d6+1 auto hit on this attack, also removing from max hp count, 3x per battle. Expert Trinket, Agility B: 3/3 charges, 2d6 hits with +1 to accuracy to each on next attack, 3/3 uses per charge Adept Trinket Defense A : 3/3 Charges, 3 damage taken, 4x per battle. ---[/size][/quote]
Power Levelup:
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:20 pm
In progress:
X - Story Time (Keionx and Akkira) X - BATTLE: Just Loitering Here Heroically (Keionx vs Sinter) X BATTLE: Laser Hero ANNIHILATION (Keionx vs Azrael) X BATTLE: From Zero (Keionx and Tevini) X BATT:Guard (Keionx and Cerpin)
Abandoned X - Semi-ORP Orangeblood Victory, Bloodfest 2014 X - All That Racket! (Keionx, Zariah, Kursha) X - Can I play With your Gerbil 0w0 (Keionx and Wallas) X - LOC: The Well (Notablessmile X - Down Home with the Rutaces (Keionx and Zariah) X - Meta Inspired PRP: Family Reunion (Scouts) X - Traveller Returning (Keionx and Alexin) X - See the Forest for the Trees (Keionx and Athene) X - Bonding over Blades pt 2 (Keionx and Milieu) X - Red + Orange = Awesome! (???) X - The Nightly Grind 1 (Nucleo ORP) X - BATTLE: A good knight for a fight (Keionx and Zeffer)
Complete: XX -Pantry of Doom (Keionx and Zariah) X - Quietly Searching for a new Adventure (Vremea and Keionx) XX Event, Bloodfest 2014 XX - Event: Egg Hunt (Notables: Kursha Vidari, Etsali Azeban) XX Event, WACKY Weather (Royalist) (Notables: Wallas Ziegel, Miache Gahiji) XX - Going A-heroin' (Keionx and Lunear) XX Meta ORP: The Mandatory Choice (Notables: Dictys Glauci) XX Meta ORP: Coastal Base (Notables: Etsali Azeban, Ephias Sagine) XX Meta Team: Glorious Dragonbeasts (Notables: Ephias Sagine, Vitula Picato, Alexin Flynnt) XX Meta/Battle: The Captains Warpath XX - Anniversary Dance (Notables: Vremea Everai) XX Loot Loot Looting (Meta Inspired PRP, Keionx and Afryse) XX -META: Emergency in Chittentown XX -META: Emergency in Chittentown (Location: Fluid Redistribution Plant, Pt 1: Inside) (Notables: Skaeys Fallin, Alexin Flynnt, Voscil Torgny) XX -META: Emergency in Chittentown (Location: Fluid Redistribution Plant, Pt 2: Getting Kicked Out) (Alexin Flynnt, Ephias Sagine) XX -Running Dry (Keionx and Athene, Meta-inspired PRP) XX Running Water (Meta-Inspired PRP, Alexin and Keionx) XX - Been Caught Stealing (Meta-inspired PRP) (Etsali and Keionx) XX - Meta: A strange and Unexpected shop (Notables: Vremea Everai, Odette Cygnet, Milieu Aojiro, Athene Bramma, Alifax Bunsen, Cerise Koekje, Frossa Fyrste, Vrykol Aakaas) XX META: Whimsical Underground Adventure 2000 - Aendal Battle! (Notables: Odette Cygnet, Tamiya Aiguma, Millieu Aojiro, Vremea Everai, others) XX META ORP: The Hero's Parade (Notables: Milieu Aojiro, Vremea Everai, Ephias Sagine)(GROWTH) XX - Strong Saving (Keionx, Zariah, Vremea) XX Violence, Dragons, and Escape Routes (Keionx and Etsali) XX BATTLE: Who is the Better Hero? (Keionx vs Etsali) XX - The Ruins of Taluma (Keionx and Stryke) XXX EVENT: Bloodfest (Notables: Etsali Azeban, Odette Cygnet, Vremea Everai, Dictys Glauci) X - BATTLE: Bonding over Blades (Keionx vs Milieu) XX - BATTLE: Piney Fresh (Keionx vs Athene) XX - Meta Inspired PRP: From the Dragon's Mouth (Stryke and Keionx) XX -META: Pheonix Initiative HQ (Notables: Miache Gahiji, Stryke Nrvmor) XX - Meta Inspired Battle: Raiders of the Lost Arc (Scouts vs GATORMA) XX - META: The Dark Swamp (Notables: Miache Gahiji, Zariah Rutace, Chiara Moteku) XX - META Battle - Typical hero-swamp interaction (Keionx and Miache vs ZOMBIES) X - META: An Abandoned Village XX - Alone At Last (Keionx and Miache) X - ORP: The Cinderglow Festival (Miache, Reemus, Zariah, Voscil, Various Rebels) X - I'll Make a Troll Out of You (Cerpin and Keionx) XX - The Harvest Moon Jubilee (Notables: Chiara Moteku, Ephias Sagine, Leeroi Furore) XXX - Bloodfest 2016 X - Bloodfest 2016 Boardwalk (Miache Gahiji) X - BATTLE: Settle into the Metal (Keionx vs Miache) XX - BATT: Tough Love (Keionx vs Zariah) X BATTLE: Damp Dojo (Keionx and Cerpin) XX - Bloodfest 2017 X BATTLE: Color Me! (Keionx vs Caiden) X BATTLE: Misunderstanding By Moonlight (Keionx and Rastin) X - The Phoenix's Summons X - Milk and Tea (Rastin) X - The Sardonic Disapproval of the Empress (Team TCTN) (Nictor, Chiara, Zeylla) X The Spiteful Vexation of the Empress (Team Rocket: Sarcel, Keionx, Nictor, Buffel) X – The Scathing Greed of the Empress (Team Nurturers Success: Keionx, Chiara, Vremea, Eilidh) X - The Cutting Bitterness of the Empress (What are we doing?: Rastin, Keionx, Static) X – The Scathing Vexation of the Empress (Cosmos: Keionx, Ephias, Trusci, Aerona) X – On edge (Keionx and Rastin) FIN X - Personnel Deck (Cavalry: Eridia, Luxara, Keionx) X - Growth RP: Heroic Paperwork X -- Bloodfest 2018 (Luxara, Nanogg, Byakko, Wander)
Keionx brought home the copper (in Xionek's name) for her fireworks displays.
- Starlight Talent: Keionx bought EVERYTHING Cygnet Perfumes: In Flight and Passion Signed Headshot Cygnet Brand Lipstick: Embrace Your Shade Odette Cygnet Performance T-Shirt Schrad: The Musical Official Costume Eyepatch Schrad: The Musical Official Actual Switchblade
... It's purple ... Its red and green. Actually, it's very nice.
A tasty pick-me-up smoothie!
Energy drinks. Not healthy, but handy.
Beef Jerky - very good for a body.
This was embarrassing
A destructive shirt - it might come in handy!
PONY PLUSH Keionx thinks it's fantastic.
Bloodfest 2016
Attending as Xionek Heronn, heroic and anonymous agender orangeblood, Keionx was able to participate in bloodfest unimpeded by being a rebel.
Team Orange took Silver this sweep, a fine accomplishment! Keionx herself contributed a trophie in Ice Sculpting! Not as good as last sweep, but eh... can't win them all. She'll do better next time.
Keionx happily frequented the booth of a Busthind shop, called the Nightly Grind, staffed by Nucleo Glatte. She picked up some of his truly delicious soups... well... actually she picked up all of them. They were fantastic!
The Redblood, Cerise, had her HAHAHAHA BURN stall again this year, and Keionx thourghly enjoyed having her mouth on fire. She even wanted more! She took a few portables away from the booth.... they did not last long, though.
And finally, Keionx found this adorable bobblehead of one of the swamplings... isn't it cuuuute?!
Harvest Jubilee
Keionx had fun in the Harvest Jubilee!
She wrestled a snoutbeast and got a plushie - she was in her element... mud and fighting!
Some mooncakes
And for her noble service at the community pot... She got a bowl!
IT WAS GREAT!
Keionx plot thread sketch - Teen (Draconicfeline)
Swamp Meta
Keionx may have found her path in life and also lost any and all hope of ever going home, but she also now has a bitchin new shield!!!
Bloodfest 2015!!!
Keionx's participation in Team Orange (whose sash is below)
Netted her: The Gold in Gerbil Bowling (Gerbowling)
And the copper in the epic Capture the Flag fight.
She also participated in the booths and got:
FIDUSPAWN
A Pen and Compact won from her hero's.. heroes..es... stall... Is there something special about them? Hard to say!
And finally, as if lady luck just loved her, she managed to win not just one but TWO big prizes. Two.
Heart Moon! The Moon Scout of love! Protecting all the world and lighting the darkness with her pure heart!!!
Club Moon! The Moon Scout of reconciliation! Making sure everybody is thinking clearly!
And... a cupcake.
ITS AMAZING (TY QUITE)
Cute little Sprite!!! Thank you Quite Uneventful.
Official Teen Art: Maybe her innocence isn't lost entirely?
Chittentown Drought Meta: Keionx followed her sense of adventure... right into hell. And she survived.
Rainbow drinkers are definitely a fact, but Keionx feels the book is far from useless...
Military Grade sword - For a knight unable to protect herself is a pretty poor knight.
Keionx the Hero - By Draconicfeline
Alt Art: Keionx in her dance costume! What a stunning young Knight!
OHC Takeover meta. Keionx was loyal to the queen, as a good knight should be, and came home with some medals of honor!
Keionx knew that as she proudly displayed her team's new medal in her trophy room, right next to her twin's far more prestigious one.
She was still proud. Sure she hadn't distinguished herself in a particularly knightly way, but she'd had fun, and her twin had taken a rather nice win home with him.
She was very proud of her twin, as well as herself. She was glad to have a twin.
In one of her rare lucid moments, earlier on, she had realized that he was a twin, and thus an abnormality. She'd been suddenly afraid - fro him and for herself - that two trolls of the same color and symbol under one lusus would be grounds for culling.
She herself did not want to get culled, and she had to protect Zariah and so did not want him to be culled either.
So she did the one stupendously intellectual thing she and Zariah had in common - She'd read.
She'd been relieved to learn that, like powers, twindom was considered an acceptable abberrance. Unlike powers, the trolls would not be treated any differently than their blood color demanded. They were not required to do anything for or to each other, though romance of any sort between them was considered as close to incest as you could get for a troll. Or a form of narcissism - since they were the same symbol after all.
Despite Zari being her 'princess', Kei had felt uncomfortable at the thought of entering any sort of thing with her twin (along with her tender age) so she figured that wasn't something to be concerned about.
She had returned to her hive, relieved, and the moment of lucidity ended. She never told Zari what she had worried about, or even that she worried at all.
And right now, she was so proud of her twin... and she loved him.
Keionx rested with her group, far from her home. It was a shame that the resistance had gotten the beast, not her own group, but she still felt she had done well. They had beaten the beast valiantly, and that someone else had taken the prize... well, that was Alternia. Keionx was fine. Not angry at all.
Not... Angry... At... All...
All right, she was angry, but she had to keep it in check. She had to/wanted to escort the pleasant redblood back to his hive. For gerbil-unrelated purposes.
Okay, it was totally gerbil related. She wanted to see his gerbil. Maybe make a friend/minion.
She also wanted to find something she could take home and tell her twin about. Poor princess Zari. She'd left him at home with beastdad, and he had to be pining away for her.
Little did she know that Zari and beastdad had left the hive, and that it had been Zariah and his team that had taken down the Lusus. Little did she know that her and her princess were in cross purposes.
After the incident with the egg eater, Beastdad had ordered Keionx home for further training. She'd protested – they'd won, hadn't they? But it was to no avail. Beastdad insisted that she had run from a fight, and that no wiggler of his would ever flee from a fight. Unless they were Zariah, of course, but that was unspoken. Zari couldn't fight.
As she rode back to Busthind on Beastdad's back, Keionx was despondent. She didn't feel that she had run, or that she was a coward, and she hated that Beastdad thought her so. She knew she would have to work hard to make him and his huge bulk happy, and that training would be harder than ever.
And she'd have to handle it.
So, when they returned home and Beastdad made her run 15 laps around the dangerous mountain before he would let her inside, she accepted it without complaint. When he added 15 more laps for good measure, she still did not complain. She stayed quiet through the countless pushups and sit ups and, after, having to run through the entrance gauntlet to their home while her muscles screamed in strained exhaustion.
When she returned to her respiteblock, she quickly sank into sleep, unable to summon the energy to be miserable.
Keionx was excited. Sure, she'd been a heroic adventurer from the moment she could walk, but those had all been local, small scale heroics. Defeating monsters, protecting her fellow troll, rescuing lusii from trees... This would be the first time she would be a hero for the planet. This would be the start of her knightly, heroic career.
The Blueblooded general's speech had fired up her pumbiscuits and galvanized her neural zappers and she was ready to start the rebuilding of Old Hemisect. Sure, it was just rebuilding, not saving high ranking officials from evil villains or destroying world-rampant monsters or anything like that, but it was still noble and good. The city had been devastated by earthquakes, and trolls were hiveless or in damaged hives...
She'd be helping them, and that was the right thing to do... She knew it. She was so ready.
Keionx had been training hard ever since Beastdad had given her the weights. While she didn't have her usual carefully planned diet to boost her, she did not do poorly at the Loyalist camp. The food was sub-par but she ate a lot of it, and earned her keep by lifting things. Lots of things.
While she wasn't the best at lifting said things, she was good enough to help out others, and that was enough for Keionx. It wouldn't be enough for Beastdad, she knew, but he had trusted her with his mission on her own, so she felt confident that she was doing her best.
She was meeting people too – like Ephias, the nice, if not particularly strong, redblood. But that worked out fine! He did the intellect-work well, and she did the carrying stuff. That was what she did. That was, easily, her role in the world. After all, preventing softer trolls from being brained by heavy construction materials was heroic, right?
Right.
Allowing the orangeblooded theif to live uninjured as they worked towards a common goal was also heroic. Keionx still wanted to bash her face in, to be honest, but for Alternia and Old Hemisect's sake, she decided to let it lie. For now. And the orangeblood didn't steal anything under Keionx's watch – at least not anything belonging to the Loyalists – so that was fine.
Keionx's first wartime mission was a grand old time. When reconstruction turned to war, she was perfectly happy to transition with it.
Building things, destroying enemies, this was what she was good at. While going against her fellow trolls didn't feel entirely right, they did attack and so she would defend her comrades. That was what she would do.
Ephias, in particular, needed protection. His strengths were in his mind, not his body, and so Keionx lent herself to the task of keeping him safe and sound in the base. Every night, she looked forward to checking in with him on the radio. His voice, while not particularly friendly, was there and it reassured her for some reason. She didn't think much about how they were worried about each other. They'd only just met, and yet they were... friends? Perhaps? She wouldn't mind if they were.
Their unit – well named as it was – was made up of Ephias, herself, and two others: a troll that wanted much the same as she and a troll that was helpful enough.
But they stayed in the base most of the time. It was mainly her and Ephias, bringing the law to the Rebels and securing victory for the Loyalists...
”Dad, truly, I will beith fine!” said Keionx as she and Beastdad clopped back towards the base – slowly, to not be caught in the blasts.
Beastdad was not sure. On her own? In a war zone? In a place where they were bombing? No, the musclebeast was not sure at all. This mission had been supposed to be a reconstruction, a heroic, valiant restoration of a grand old city. Not a war. Keionx wasn't ready for a war. They were going home.
”But Dad...” Keionx whined, ”Er...” she caught her momentary slip up, ”I must, uh, assist! With the continuance of mine efforts!”
No. It was too dangerous. He would not allow it.
”There is still so much good to be done, dad! Thou believest in me, right?” Keionx looked at her lusus pleadingly.
Of course he did. But what good was there? The queen had just killed many fellow trolls. Innocents. Beastdad did not like that. And he'd heard that she was casting others from their homes. He didn't like that either. No. They were going home.
”No.” said Keionx, hopping from her Lusus's back, ”There is still good I can doeth. I cannot leave this unfinished. I doth not believe that her majesty's actions wert unjustified or unnecessary, but tis my duty to fix what harms that they might hath done.” she said, ”I will aid the hiveless and the hopeless, for tis what thy taught me.”
Beastdad frowned. But it was not right, what had happened here.
”Then I must make it right!” she said, defiantly.
Beastdad squinted. His charge was not usually so defiant. A slow smile began to creep over his face. Was the young redblood troll with the sheep lusus staying, he wondered.
”Ephias remains, and I must protect him.”
Aha. Beastdad smirked. Well if that was Keionx's reason, he wasn't going to protest anymore. He had to go home to Zariah, but he'd leave her her sword, and she was to return home as soon as she was able for further training.
”Thank you daddy!” she said, hugging him, ”I promise...” she slipped again, ”thou hath my promise that thou wilst not regret this!”
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