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NOTE: THIS IS A YOUNGLING! <3
Nyah is Tahigwa's adoptive sister and is only about two or three years old.


Name: Nyah (Meaning: "Purpose")
Race: Alkidike
Gender: Female
3 Base Traits:

Jittery
(Nervous or unable to relax)



Slow



Focused


Class: Blade -> Warrior -> Sacred Heart (Bow)

Personality:


Description:

Sketch

Clothing: No clothes on a Youngling! >D
Accessories:
A simple gold headband made out of tree bark and gold dye.
I hate to use an existing character as an example, but please make the headband look similar to Kayin's. <3
History:

In late winter, upon Isle Ekene, a dew drop covered lotus bloomed and produced a tiny, wide eyed Youngling. She was frail and cried like no other before her, at least that's what her parents remarked. They carried her off from the Isle, cooing and soothing, and gave her a name suitable to such a sweet, emotive child. "Nyah", meaning "Purpose."

Her name spoke volumes to her mothers, Najala and Ezirae, they had been pining for her for many years. She was their purpose, their reason for being. Nyah was swaddled in love, bathed in love, and given affections beyond what many would call the call of duty, but neither woman could bear to see their child hiccup or cry. This was not their nature, they wanted her to grow up strong, beautiful, but also filled with kindness and empathy. Their baby girl would be a lovely example for what love could produce, if used in the proper amount.

Then, the village of Andile, where the three had settled upon, woke one day to find that something wasn't right. Najala, Ezirae, and Nyah hadn't come out of their dwelling for weeks, even months, and no one had bother to check on them. One Alkidike, Luljeta who was very close with both women, took it upon herself to enter the home in search of why they may have gone missing. Upon entering the dwelling, the scent of rotting flesh filled the room, and Najala and Ezirae's bodies were the source of it. Neither woman was seriously injured, there seemed to be no reason for them to have passed in their sleep, they were both so young and healthy. What could have caused them to pass so suddenly?

All attention was turned to their daughter, Nyah, who was barely more than two years of age. She was found tucked between her mothers, despite the awful smell, and would only leave if Luljeta promised to stay by her side. She recognized Luljeta, she felt safe with her, and soon took to calling her "Mami" when around her. For Luljeta, the loss of her best friends was gutting and left her feeling weak, but the sounds of both her daughters, Tahigwa and now Nyah, kept her from falling into a deep depression. However, towards the end of summer, Luljeta fell ill and was quarantined. The elders were convinced that a disease had taken Najala and Ezirae from their daughter, and Luljeta had contracted it while visiting the home where they lay rotting away. Luljeta's girls were taken from their home and given to her direct sister, Arjeta, to be cared for there.

The third move, from Luljeta's safety to Arjeta's strict rule, took more of a visible toll on Tahigwa than it could be seen on Nyah. Tahigwa spent most of the first days running away from her aunt or hiding in the forests, while Nyah was left alone with her "cousin", Mirjeta. Eventually, Tahigwa came to somewhat of a term with the situation and agreed to live with her aunt, for her baby sister's sake. Nyah was overjoyed to have an older sister and felt that Tahigwa was exactly the same as Luljeta. Safe, warm, and brave.

As always, I'll start with the appearance and work to the personality.

Her hair and headband are fine, but her markings are a little all over the place and not very likely on an Alkidike. Alkidike markings take on abstract shapes for the most part and usually have some sort of pattern, like mostly dots, mostly stripes, organic shapes, hard shapes, not really a combination of all of the above. I can run with the suns appearing on herself, but they would be more abstracted like Tahigwa's was. So they could maybe be suns, but mostly just look like some sort of array of markings.

Personality and History:

She's paranoid almost always and delusional most of the time, is there ever a time when she's just happy and carefree like a three year old should be? Toddlers really haven't developed the cognative ability to feel mistrusting of the world, though delusional at her age could really just be overactive imagination? Perhaps she develops the paranoia later in life when she's more mentally capable of feeling it?

What causes her to see these burnt people? Why burnt people? Why something so strange and out of the ordinary that she wouldn't even know what it looked like (burnt bodies)?

If her mothers both died of an illness and Luljeta seems to have contracted it also just from being in the house for that brief amount of time, why hasn't Nyah caught it? She was with her mothers for extended amounts of time while they were still alive and dead.

How did Nyah survive for weeks or months without coming out of the house?

Why is it that moving from Luljeta's to Arjeta's care had more of an effect on Tahigwa rather than Nyah when Nyah is paranoid of the world? Wouldn't she have started seeing some sort of delusional version of Arjeta or been unreasonably afraid of her or something?

Alright, most of that sounds pretty alright, and having shadows look menacing is a good enough explanation for her "burnt people" thing.

I do have a couple more questions about this disease though. If Nyah was with her mothers for so long and Luljeta caught it also, why wouldn't the others want to quarantine Nyah to make sure that the disease doesn't spread? Wouldn't they want to make sure that more people don't start falling ill?

While she's on hold, I thought I would let you know that I've decided that this girl I drew as a possible concept for Nessie, will be used as a ref for Nyah's Prentice stage. <3 This

> I don't think I plan on getting Nyah until Tahigwa is closer to her third stage.
> Nyah might be bumped up to Prentice like Ogbonna was, because I like the idea of her running around Jauhar and causing issues as a young Prentice rather than a Youngling.
> Also, her personality will be altered when I have more time. :3