Firnriel's journal is brightly-colored and thin compared to most, but it's just right for a little girl. The binding is glued and the cover is cardboard-backed with a swirls-and-stars design on a purple background. Inside, the top half of each page is blank, encouraging the young mind's artistic side. The bottom half is lined in a fashion common for first-time writers: solid black lines alternate with dashes of light blue.
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:31 pm
28 July 2020 - powers approved! 15 May 2020 - content added 08 May 2020 - dusting of journal, completed & added banners 29 April 2016 - adding some more strengths & weaknesses 24 April 2016 - journal set up (finally!) 14 March 2016 - art drop (Broken_Illumination) 03 March 2016 - bribe accepted
Firnriel was found 14 March 2016. It is unknown how old she was at the time. She was a toddler, however. She does not seem in a hurry to move on to the next level. Perhaps Cullo will be able to bring her to his level.
She once had a family that she no longer remembers. The tragedy is written all over her deadpan face. She was safe, once. She was loved, once. She was happy, once.
When Sanctuary re-opened Hísime brought everyone to a home on campus. It was comfortable and safe. Firnriel liked to sleep by the fire where she felt especially warm and snug. But now, where will the family go? Will they settle down, or does Hísime have other plans?
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...it's... like... talking about myself...hn... *cringe* ._.
Name: Firnriel Nickname(s) : Firn Gender: Female Pronouns: She/her/hers Stage: Toddlers Race: Hybrid (Fallen/Ghost) Item: Love Letter Birthday: 14 March 2016 Height: Short and scrawny for her age Sexual Orientation: Bisexual Relationship Style: Unknown Virtues: - Of personality: Modest, gentle - Of race: Strong conscience Vices: - Of personality: Impotent, fearful - Of race: Disconnected Likes: Chocolate Dislikes: o-oh... Guardian: - Hísime, Human-Elf hybrid. Not a Meta. Name means November in Quenya. Parents: Unknown Child(ren) : N/A Post Color: Teal (#008080)
Background: Very little is known about Firnriel and her history. She was discovered by Hísime in Hinale Village wandering the streets alone. She was dirty and underfed. It was apparent that she was traumatized by something but getting her to speak was hard enough. Hísime named her Firnriel, "dead crown" in Quenya and took her to Sanctuary so she could have her own family. But that was much later, and it was too late for that, anyway...
Hísime's home was Belosh, a town with laws that protected everyone, even metas and hybrids. For the first time in what seemed like a long time, Firnriel was someplace safe. She began to relax her defenses and get to know her family. Cullo was quiet but kind, and Hísime, she was difficult to appease. All of Firnriel's timidity seemed to annoy the half-elf. So life was a little unsettled, but Firnriel could make it her home.
What does Firnriel remember about her life before? Precious little. She had parents, but she could not remember them. No faces, no hair, no smiles, words. She could remember feeling safe for a while, but something violent happened to her parents. Something that would have them send her away on her own. Something that they would not return from. When she tries to remember she gets a headache for her trouble.
The love letter came soon after Hísime found Firnriel. Hísime did not want to give her that letter, but it fell from her pocket and the meta child picked it up. Nobody but Hísime and Firnriel know what that letter said. The words are written on Firnriel's soul. Hísime's gentleness ended when that letter disappeared. Firnriel does not know why. She thinks the letter is very beautiful and fills her heart with a warm emotion she does not understand.
Current Location: Her home is in Sanctuary. While it was closed she had lived in Belosh with Hísime, Cullo, and Hendugaul.
Current Status: Hiding within herself.
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:32 pm
A color code system will be implemented to hopefully give an idea of how each meta feels for other people. Each name will have a color, when available.
[[• Red • Orange • Gold • Green • Blue • Purple • HotPink •]] [[• Hate • Disgust • Apathy • Neutral • Like • Friend • Love •]]
Keep in mind that strong positive and negative feelings may feel similarly, especially when young, so the color indicates what they think they feel. It may get rather complicated over time.
Hisime ]] She hates me.but don't tell her I know... Cullo ]] I like him. Hendugaul ]] He hates me. It makes me hate me too. fallen parent ]] Don't know. ghost parent ]] Don't know.
why ]] can't I just wander off...
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Hisime, half-elf parent who's never shown her the compassion and patience that she needs to flourish. Instead she sees a strict, angry person who always wants more than what Firnriel can give her.
Cullo, faery elder brother and fellow meta who shows her compassion or at least the patience she needs to open up to someone. He takes the time to explain things to her in a way she will understand and she appreciates everything he has to give her.
Hendugaul feral-elf younger brother and fellow meta. He always looks like he will say something kind until he actually opens his mouth. Then with a flash of anger he spits out a retort that leaves her teary-eyed. What does she do to deserve so much hate? It must be her fault, right?
As traditions go, theirs is not a poor household. It really is rich with culture, even if it is upheld by the rules of a thief. They even have (probably stolen) artifacts decorating the walls.
Hísime tries to expose them to her elven heritage, which she idolizes while she hates her human heritage. She ignores human holidays and makes all the kids celebrate elven ones, even if they are not elven themselves.
She encourages them to find out about their heritage as well. She will send them to the library if they don't know. So a mix of Fae, Feral, Fallen, and Ghost traditions pepper their everyday life.
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:32 pm
{Attributes}
Attractive }} Angelic racial } naturally pleasing to the eye: adorable when small, beautiful when grown.
Charismatic }} Angelic racial } voice is pleasing to hear: speech and mannerisms naturally endearing.
Ink Stain}} Item-centric } beginning with extremities, skin grows darker with age, as if stained with ink.
Transparency }} Ghost racial } normally some part of her remains transparent, especially extremities.
{Lite Power Profile}
Power 1
{Paper Cut} {Element} Wood {Relation to Item} Love letters are made with paper. {Active or Passive} Active {Description of Power} Paper is given more strength and a sharp edge to use as a weapon. Example of weapons: Paper fan, Sword, Throwing stars. {Growth} } } Child: Can make origami better than the other kids. Can make that origami move and cut. } } Teen: Many layers of paper can be used to fortify origami and weapons. } } Adult: Paper characters (people, animals) take on a life of their own and follow orders. } } Elder: Water and fire are not a problem. {Weapon} Yes {Limits} } } Weak against water. Everything flops over, useless (but not ruined). } } Weak against fire. The whole thing goes up in smoke (ruined). {Charges} } } Child: 2 Charges } } Teen: 3 Charges } } Adult: 4 Charges } } Elder: 6 Charges
{Sub power 1} Hidden Letter {Active or Passive} Active {Description of Power} Paper is folded into a pocket for hiding things, creating a hidden dimension {Limits} } } The pocket's opening. If the object doesn't fit inside the opening, the object cannot be stored. Not limited by the pocket's size, just the opening. } } Can only be used once in battle, in the first turn.
{Sub power 2} Emotional {Active or Passive} Active {Description of Power} Affects the target with strong emotion. {Limits} } } Anger: The target attacks their allies. } } Sadness: The target attacks themselves. } } Fear: The target is too afraid to attack. } } Confusion: The target may attack at random, including allies, self, and enemies. } } Can only be used once in battle, in the first turn.
Power 2
{The Pen is Mightier} {Element} Water {Relation to Item} Pen is used to write the letter. {Active or Passive} Active {Description of Power} Summons a giant fountain pen that can be wielded as a halberd type weapon, or thrown like a javelin. {Weapon} Yes {Limits} } } In battle, thrown area is limited to the battle area. {Charges} } } Toddler: 2 } } Child: 3 } } Adult: 4 } } Elder: 6
{Sub power 1} Ink Explosion {Active or Passive} Active {Description of Power} Throws a ball of ink that explodes in the target's face, blinding them. {Weapon} Yes {Limits} } } Can only be used once in battle, in the first turn. } } In battle, limited to the battle area. } } Outside of battle, must be within eyesight. {Charges} } } 1 only.
{Sub power 2} Unknown {Active or Passive} {Limits} } } Limit
{Sub power 3} Unknown {Active or Passive} {Limits} } } Limit
Power 3
{Ink Favor} {Element} Healing {Relation to Item} Love letters are written with ink. {Active or Passive} Active {Description of Power} Absorbing ink will heal her. {Growth} } } Child: Can heal a scratch } } Teen: Can heal a gouge } } Adult: Can heal serious wound } } Elder: Can heal from life-threatening wound. {Weapon} No {Limits} } } When outside of battle, can only heal once per day } } Can only heal herself. } } Can only bring in a max of two healing skill into battle, even if the character may have more. {Charges} } } 1 Charge (cannot be recharged, does not change with age)
{Sub power 1} Ink Balm {Active or Passive} Active {Description of Power} A Cleanse/Dispel. Calms emotions and temporary ailments. Examples: Confusion, Sleep, Temporary Max Hp, Temporary lowered HP, etc. {Limits} } } Limit 1 charge per battle, in the first round. } } Highest roll wins.(Soulbound weapons exempted)
{Sub power 2} Ink Remembers {Active or Passive} Active {Description of Power} Love letters sometimes bring back the memory of the one who wrote it. Conjures lovers passed (summons spirits). {Limits} } } Summon is limited to one round. } } Summon is limited to spirits who are conjurable. Needs permission for PC spirits. } } Can only be used once in battle, in the first turn. {Charges} } } 1 only in one day, regardless of how many battles.
{Sub power 3} Pulp Mould {Active or Passive} Passive Description of Power} Paper is difficult to destroy completely in water: if her body is destroyed, the pieces may be remade in water. {Limits} } } Her spirit must be in the vicinity, otherwise it's just a soulless doll. } } She needs to be placed into water for it to work.
{Buffs}
Buff 1
Note } } Firnriel uses a pen to write on her hand or wrist. {Limits} } } Can be placed on almost any skill during battle. } } Lasts until end of battle on chosen skill } } Can not stack with another permanent buff. } } Does not take an attack or defense slot to activate. } } Can not be written on someone else. {Values} } } Child: +1 } } Teen: +1 } } Adult:+2 } } Elder:+3
{Special Race Powers}
Racial Power 1
Summon Dark Artifact } } Summons a special dark artifact that boosts the power level of a single power once per day. {Limits} } } Can use once per day. {Values} Child: +1 Teen: +1 Adult:+2 Elder:+3
Racial Power 2
Phasing } } Ghost racial } Ghost Metas are able to allow objects, people, and other things to pass through them. Younger ones have a hard time controlling this ability. {Limits} } } Must focus to be able to phase through objects or to allow objects to pass through. } } The power never lasts more than 2 minutes, no matter how old the Ghost is. } } Can be hit before phasing if roll was lost. } } Cannot attack while phased. } } Semi-visible during battle. } } Cannot teleport out of battle. {Charges} } } Child: 2 } } Teen: 3 } } Adult: 4 } } Elder: 6
Racial Power 3
Wonderland Syndrome } } Fallen racial } Can change center of gravity and walk on any surface. {Limits} } } Must focus to be able to phase through objects or to allow objects to pass through. } } The power never lasts more than 2 minutes, no matter how old the Ghost is. {Charges} } } Child: 2 } } Teen: 3 } } Adult: 4 } } Elder: 6
{Resistances}
Blunt Force } } A love letter is an expression of love. It can take a beating and keep going. {Limits} } } +5 against blunt force damage Future resistances: One True Love } } Resistant to seduction/temptation powers {Limits} } } +5 against seduction/temptation powers Eternal Love } } Resistant to time based powers (restricted) {Limits} } } +5 against time based powers Break-up Letter } } Resistant to love based/emotion changing powers{Limits} } } +5 against love based/emotion changing powers
{Weaknesses}
Weakness 1
{Emotion} She bottles everything up, becomes especially prone to depression as a teen. Also prone to morbidity, anger, etc. {Limits} } } -5 defense against psychic attack
Weakness 2
{Fire} Like the paper her Love Letter was composed upon, she is especially prone to fire attacks {Limits} } } -5 defense against fire based attack.
Weakness 3
{Osmosis} Like paper, her skin wicks up liquids. (this could be a strength in the right circumstance) {Limits} } } -5 defense against water based attack
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:32 pm
Once Written, Never Sent. Her item was never intended for her. Less than a gift, Hisime seemed to want to take it back from her. It was as if Hisime didn't want her, either. How could such a woman write these tender words?
Her First Gift Was Not From Her Mother. Cullo escorted Firn and Hen to a store with many themed aisles. It was here that he asked her to choose her gift. It was bright and cheerful, the way she wished to feel.
A Gift That Builds Memories. One day Cullo sat down with her and opened a large book. It looked like a journal, but much bigger. Inside were thick pages covered in pockets. Whenever the page was turned, there was a sticky, crumpled cellophane sound. On the first page was a photograph that brought tears to her dead-black eyes.
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:33 pm
Firnriel lives with her parent Hisime, elder brother Cullo, and younger brother Hendugaul. Their tiny home has two small bedrooms, a bathroom, storage "room," and a large common room. The latter combines the kitchen and living/dining room into one open space. The house is always warm, heat fueled by a wood stove.
Firnriel generally sleeps on a small and soiled, uncomfortable cot in front of the stove. During the day, it is always shoved off to one side, or in the corner folded up. Sleeping in front of the fireplace is nice, but Hisime and Cullo each have their own room with a window.
This complaint has lead to talk of Firnriel sharing the tiny storage room with Hendugaul until they're older. Hen often disappears for extended periods, leaving Firn with a room to herself, in a sense. But sometimes, if Firn has nightmares, she crawls into bed with Cullo, who strokes her hair until she falls back to sleep.
Hisime has mentioned that once Hen is a little older, he will stay with Cullo, leaving Firn truly alone again. Why can't she stay with Cullo? Why can't Hendugaul have the cot?
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:33 pm
*1* - considering "Knights in White Satin," by The Moody Blues. Yay? Nay?
*2* - "Old Yuanxian," Tendre est la Mort (Tender is Death), by Demetori. - original song: 古きユアンシェン (Furuki no Yuanshen lit. "Old Yuanxian" ) from Touhou Shinreibyou (Divine Spirit Mausoleum) ~Ten Desires, by ZUN - music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhzKxnG4ewY - notes: Yuan Xian was a devout disciple of Confucius who, after the death of Confucius, chose to live a life of poverty, immersed in the way of Tao. Seiga Kaku is based off of him, a missionary of Tao; she can also phase through walls and animate the dead.
*3* - "HEY JUDE" in a MINOR KEY - Tyler Ward & KHS COVER by Kurt Hugo Schneider - original song: "Hey Jude," by The Beatles - lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beatles/heyjude.html - music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Pu0sdmBsM - notes: Minor scale makes it sound like a funeral procession, similar to how her abuse twists the hope in Firn's life into something else.
Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better
Hey Jude, don't be afraid You were made to go out and get her The minute you let her under your skin Then you begin to make it better
And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain Don't carry the world upon your shoulders For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool By making his world a little colder Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
Hey Jude, don't let me down You have found her, now go and get her Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better
So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin You're waiting for someone to perform with And don't you know that it's just you, hey Jude, you'll do The movement you need is on your shoulder Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah yeah
Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her under your skin Then you'll begin to make it Better better better better better better, oh
Nah nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah, hey Jude
"Stray Whisper Taker," Voice Blinded Color, by Cytokine - Lyrics by Cytokine, translated by kafkafuura - Original song, "Alice Maestra," from Touhou Genjoukyou (FantasyLand)~ Lotus Land Story, by ZUN - Notes: from Firn's point of view, this deceptively bouncy song can refer to her life in general, her relationship with her parent, and/or even how she sees her parent's view of the lover in the Love Note...
I should have wished it in secret, now one should have realized But I can’t go back now, I’ve already come so far
What should I believe in? Who should I believe in? The landscape just keeps racing by, too fast to grab hold of
It cuts away, inverting, precise.. this panorama It stays that way, this way, without ever fading
How far will my heart Grow used to such cruelty? Facing the mirror it reflects a straying song
Has my heart grown this Accustomed to cruelty? I wish for the world I’ve lost sight of, “again, one day…”
I don’t need anything And yet I’m so sad I didn’t know the way that one day, that straying song
When I looked for kindness Somewhere in words Things begin to grate; so I was wrong, again…?
I just keep gathering things I don’t want I didn’t wish for this! It’s like waking up to a nightmare
When the end comes as I sleep
Even if it’s so far away, that’s alright Even if it’s so far away, I’d rather it be
I knew my wishes wouldn’t come true That there would be nothing in those eyes
How far will my heart Grow used to such cruelty? That one day I heard laughing, that straying song
How far will my heart Grow used to such cruelty? I wish for my crumbling world, “again, one day…”
Knowing nothing I was happy.. I didn’t know the way, but threw away that straying song
When I looked for truth Somewhere within my heart Things begin to grate; so I was wrong, again…?
Roleplay ]] 4, each of six posts - one - two - three - four Journal ]] 6, first-person entries - one - two - three - four - five - six Art ]] 1 month
Roleplay ]] 6, each of six posts - one - two - three - four - five - six Journal ]] 10, first-person entries - one - two - three - four - five - six - seven - eight - nine - ten Art ]] 1 month
Roleplay ]] 8, each of six posts - one - two - three - four - five - six - seven - eight Journal ]] 10, first-person entries - one - two - three - four - five - six - seven - eight - nine - ten Quest ]] 1 elder quest complete Art ]] 2 months
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Credits
Fonts
- Acki Preschool by Anke-Art (Anke Arnold), 2007 - Chopin Script, Dieter Steffmann, 2000 - Kunstler Script, 1995, Hans Bohn, 1995; based on font Polonaise.
Images
Official Art: Broken_Illumination Journal: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/childrens-journal-studio-kids-jk/1127999347 Love Letter: https://wallpaperaccess.com/love-letter
