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Player Name: Clover E-mail: kajichan@gmail.com Preferred Contact: moepuff @ plurk or dm this journal Timezone: CST Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character Name: Naeva Dos Martos Series: Original Timeline: One Year after her wedding.
Original Character Background: A note to start: Naeva’s setting and background are fairly dark fantasy in nature and genre, but because this app is in public comments, I have tried my best to phrase things delicately.
Additionally, Naeva was an undead shapeshifter with massive magical powers. Obviously, none of this carries over, but I would like to personally request two very silly things: one, that her eyes are reflective and dilate much like a jackal's would, and two, that her vocal cords remain able to properly yip. This is purely for my own amusement.
- Their world: The world which Naeva comes from is the very picture of renaissance high fantasy–a world with very little in the way of modern technology, but with surprising amounts of magitech that would allow a rudimentary understanding of electronic devices. Communicating over large distances is not strange–but doing it in weird glowy boxes really is. The world is magic-rich, and even moreso when it comes to Naeva, as her story sits in the crux of a curse and cold war between two exceedingly magical places.
The first is the Golden Empire, who’s original name has long since lost. During it’s founding, the God-King Hadrianus and his wife, the Witch of the Forge, created a magical Throne which tapped into a leyline of divine power, and thus passed judgment on all who claimed rulership after Hadrianus. The Throne chooses the Empire’s successor, turning their hair gold, and if none of the royal family is worthy, it will select someone who is. However, a Chair’s ideas of what makes a good ruler are not always what makes a good person, and over centuries expansionist rulers have grown the Golden Empire to cover half a continent, to the displeasure of the non-human species who’s lands were taken. This was before the Throne was corrupted by an Emperor’s insanity and eventually fate as an undead fascist (We’ll get to that in the history section).
The other notable location and culture is Schwarzwald, a literal living forest grown as a seal to imprison malice-born monsters at a very well of magic itself. Schwarzwald is a forest so dense the plant and animal life beneath the canopy have developed to be bioluminescent. The magic is so dense within the forest that people who go in human sometimes don’t come back that way, leading us to speak on the Nightkin, Naeva’s own species. The nightkin are a species of shapeshifters, coming in a grand variety of different forms, and are usually nocturnal, but for a few exceptions (Bird nightkin, Skykin, are rare but almost always diurnal). Furthermore, among the Nightkin is a phenomena known as ‘Witches’--a person of any gender who’s magic follows different rules, imposing their will over reality according to the restriction of their domain. The Witch of Truth may speak things into existence, but may never lie herself, whereas the Witch of Justice can sense the sins of others–and may go berserk if nothing is done. Of these, the queens of Schwarzwald have always been Witches, passing a domain over living things from mother to daughter, to help manage the health of the forest itself.
Queens, as well as all others, who disrespect the forest and it’s boundaries, are never seen again.
- Their history (OCs and customizable/silent protagonists): Around a hundred and ten years ago, the Golden Empire and Schwarzwald were at war. The forest itself rejected the Throne’s influence, and the Empire demanded retribution for settlers who died or became Nightkin when they entered the wood. In an effort to bring peace and let the forest exist as a protectorate and soothe the Emperor’s wounded pride, an arranged marriage was proposed between Emperor Florian and the Queen, Lucrezia dos Martos. But Florian refused to meet his bride in person, and sent his best night, and well…
A son was born, and smuggled away with his father. A few years after, twins were born–but Florian discovered the infidelity and in his rage, cursed them to be stillborn. Lucrezia, mad with grief, laid her own, terrible curse upon Florian, turning his beauty into rot. The competing magic cracked and corrupted both the Throne and the Forest, and was made yet worse when Lucrezia did the forbidden–and sacrificed her heart and her people to bring her children back to life.
Naeva was one of those twins. For the next 100 years, Naeva and her brother struggled to contain Lucrezia’s corruption and the cruel experiments their mother committed, never leaving the forest and never meeting their father, who was struggling to keep the Empire from collapsing–or igniting a total war. Over the course of a century, Naeva managed to keep the amount of horrifying monsters released by her mother to a minimum, but eventually, was forced to put Lucrezia out of her suffering.
Upon Lucrezia’s death, Naeva set about trying to solve the curses plaguing both kingdoms, and reached out to the heir of the Empire–if a broken marriage had torn these kingdom apart, then a marriage–for peace, and to cleanse the corruption–was the only solution she could think of. Lucien agreed, and met her in Schwarzwald to begin a pilgrimage to places of magic, racing to repair them before the Throne killed them both attempting to protect itself. After one year, they succeeded, and needed only to repair the throne.
Only to be attacked by the shambling lich remains of Emperor Florian, and locked in a waking dream by the Throne attempting to keep them alive and out of Florian’s hands.
And then when he was defeated, they were ambushed by the founding gods of their kingdoms at the wedding reception.
In all honesty, the birth of Naeva and Lucien’s son six months after the wedding was probably easier than anything else.
Due to the curses, Naeva grew up with rather less knowledge about being a Queen than she should have, but quite a lot of knowledge on how to survive out in the Woods, especially when the Woods are a semi-homicidal sentient hive mind of angry magic trees, but a normal forest will probably also be fine. She also has a strong background in hand-to-hand combat, though this is hopefully much less relevant to a pokemon game unless Arceus has a real bad day. Isolated from most people, Naeva's companions were usually beasts, magical and mundane, and while her ability to speak to animals is gone and likely would not work on pokemon to begin with, she still has a century of experience making friends with just about every creature she's ever met. As it turns out, animals don't much care when you're awkward, and strangely do like it when you knit them cute hats for winter.
Personality: Naeva is a deeply compassionate and empathetic individual, and makes an active effort not to judge others for value systems that differ from her own. Keenly believing that even beings deemed as ‘monsters’ have value to them, Naeva has spent nearly a century, from the day she was old enough to read onward, dedicated to the cause of saving her people. Isolated within the forest, working to save her people, Naeva had very few companions and became intensely lonely. Thus, for those who manage to get close enough to her that she feels secure enough to relax, they find that Naeva seems an entirely different person. Affection, empathetic and extremely optimistic, Naeva is a daydreamer who gets easily excited and even more easily flustered, loyal and invested in friendships to the point of being meddlesome. Her maternal instincts cannot and will not be contained.
Despite this disparity between her public and private personas, Naeva’s actions are motivated deeply by her sense of duty to her crown and love for her people. She feels as though it is her responsibility to undo the terrible doom her mother brought upon both the Black Forest and the people of the empire, and is willing to sacrifice all she calls her own in pursuing that duty. Naeva allows herself no sense of regret or bitterness, not for her abandoned dreams, nor for having to slay her own mother, for she knows she must bear all this for the sake of her people. This stoicism remains a hard rule around those unfamiliar to her, but can and has been cracked, as she is very easily teased and flustered by people she cares about–a fact her husband uses frequently to his advantage.
At her canon point, Naeva still maintains her decorum in public, but with the curse broken and the birth of her son, she is more willing to open up to those around her, and even more likely to reach out to those she thinks are suffering. Naeva went through one hundred years of sorrow and loneliness, and cannot stand for even a second to let someone else suffer alone. However, she still retains her resting bitch face, which does make her intentions a little difficult for people to discern.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: I would like to start as a Breeder! Starter: I would very much like for Naeva to have a Riolu, as she used to be a jackal shapeshifter. Naeva as a person is very much concerned with fairness and justice, and I feel as though a Riolu raised from a breeder (for contests, even if they're not a mechanic in game, she's still putting a bow tie on that pokemon) would be an excellent partner to someone who is largely only going to get into combat on the behalf of others.
Of course, if Riolu is not possible, I would like her to start with Absol. She’d feel a deep spiritual connection to them, and I think a single-evolution start works just fine for a breeder.
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(Quick note to clarify: I might have missed it in the note, but was the request for starting with Riolu approved? I am so sorry to ask if it was made clear, thank you!)
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Naeva Dos Martos | Original Character
Name: Clover
E-mail: kajichan@gmail.com
Preferred Contact: moepuff @ plurk or dm this journal
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character
Name: Naeva Dos Martos
Series: Original
Timeline: One Year after her wedding.
Original Character Background: A note to start: Naeva’s setting and background are fairly dark fantasy in nature and genre, but because this app is in public comments, I have tried my best to phrase things delicately.
Additionally, Naeva was an undead shapeshifter with massive magical powers. Obviously, none of this carries over, but I would like to personally request two very silly things: one, that her eyes are reflective and dilate much like a jackal's would, and two, that her vocal cords remain able to properly yip. This is purely for my own amusement.
- Their world: The world which Naeva comes from is the very picture of renaissance high fantasy–a world with very little in the way of modern technology, but with surprising amounts of magitech that would allow a rudimentary understanding of electronic devices. Communicating over large distances is not strange–but doing it in weird glowy boxes really is. The world is magic-rich, and even moreso when it comes to Naeva, as her story sits in the crux of a curse and cold war between two exceedingly magical places.
The first is the Golden Empire, who’s original name has long since lost. During it’s founding, the God-King Hadrianus and his wife, the Witch of the Forge, created a magical Throne which tapped into a leyline of divine power, and thus passed judgment on all who claimed rulership after Hadrianus. The Throne chooses the Empire’s successor, turning their hair gold, and if none of the royal family is worthy, it will select someone who is. However, a Chair’s ideas of what makes a good ruler are not always what makes a good person, and over centuries expansionist rulers have grown the Golden Empire to cover half a continent, to the displeasure of the non-human species who’s lands were taken. This was before the Throne was corrupted by an Emperor’s insanity and eventually fate as an undead fascist (We’ll get to that in the history section).
The other notable location and culture is Schwarzwald, a literal living forest grown as a seal to imprison malice-born monsters at a very well of magic itself. Schwarzwald is a forest so dense the plant and animal life beneath the canopy have developed to be bioluminescent. The magic is so dense within the forest that people who go in human sometimes don’t come back that way, leading us to speak on the Nightkin, Naeva’s own species. The nightkin are a species of shapeshifters, coming in a grand variety of different forms, and are usually nocturnal, but for a few exceptions (Bird nightkin, Skykin, are rare but almost always diurnal). Furthermore, among the Nightkin is a phenomena known as ‘Witches’--a person of any gender who’s magic follows different rules, imposing their will over reality according to the restriction of their domain. The Witch of Truth may speak things into existence, but may never lie herself, whereas the Witch of Justice can sense the sins of others–and may go berserk if nothing is done. Of these, the queens of Schwarzwald have always been Witches, passing a domain over living things from mother to daughter, to help manage the health of the forest itself.
Queens, as well as all others, who disrespect the forest and it’s boundaries, are never seen again.
- Their history (OCs and customizable/silent protagonists): Around a hundred and ten years ago, the Golden Empire and Schwarzwald were at war. The forest itself rejected the Throne’s influence, and the Empire demanded retribution for settlers who died or became Nightkin when they entered the wood. In an effort to bring peace and let the forest exist as a protectorate and soothe the Emperor’s wounded pride, an arranged marriage was proposed between Emperor Florian and the Queen, Lucrezia dos Martos. But Florian refused to meet his bride in person, and sent his best night, and well…
A son was born, and smuggled away with his father. A few years after, twins were born–but Florian discovered the infidelity and in his rage, cursed them to be stillborn. Lucrezia, mad with grief, laid her own, terrible curse upon Florian, turning his beauty into rot. The competing magic cracked and corrupted both the Throne and the Forest, and was made yet worse when Lucrezia did the forbidden–and sacrificed her heart and her people to bring her children back to life.
Naeva was one of those twins. For the next 100 years, Naeva and her brother struggled to contain Lucrezia’s corruption and the cruel experiments their mother committed, never leaving the forest and never meeting their father, who was struggling to keep the Empire from collapsing–or igniting a total war. Over the course of a century, Naeva managed to keep the amount of horrifying monsters released by her mother to a minimum, but eventually, was forced to put Lucrezia out of her suffering.
Upon Lucrezia’s death, Naeva set about trying to solve the curses plaguing both kingdoms, and reached out to the heir of the Empire–if a broken marriage had torn these kingdom apart, then a marriage–for peace, and to cleanse the corruption–was the only solution she could think of. Lucien agreed, and met her in Schwarzwald to begin a pilgrimage to places of magic, racing to repair them before the Throne killed them both attempting to protect itself. After one year, they succeeded, and needed only to repair the throne.
Only to be attacked by the shambling lich remains of Emperor Florian, and locked in a waking dream by the Throne attempting to keep them alive and out of Florian’s hands.
And then when he was defeated, they were ambushed by the founding gods of their kingdoms at the wedding reception.
In all honesty, the birth of Naeva and Lucien’s son six months after the wedding was probably easier than anything else.
Due to the curses, Naeva grew up with rather less knowledge about being a Queen than she should have, but quite a lot of knowledge on how to survive out in the Woods, especially when the Woods are a semi-homicidal sentient hive mind of angry magic trees, but a normal forest will probably also be fine. She also has a strong background in hand-to-hand combat, though this is hopefully much less relevant to a pokemon game unless Arceus has a real bad day. Isolated from most people, Naeva's companions were usually beasts, magical and mundane, and while her ability to speak to animals is gone and likely would not work on pokemon to begin with, she still has a century of experience making friends with just about every creature she's ever met. As it turns out, animals don't much care when you're awkward, and strangely do like it when you knit them cute hats for winter.
Personality:
Naeva is a deeply compassionate and empathetic individual, and makes an active effort not to judge others for value systems that differ from her own. Keenly believing that even beings deemed as ‘monsters’ have value to them, Naeva has spent nearly a century, from the day she was old enough to read onward, dedicated to the cause of saving her people. Isolated within the forest, working to save her people, Naeva had very few companions and became intensely lonely. Thus, for those who manage to get close enough to her that she feels secure enough to relax, they find that Naeva seems an entirely different person. Affection, empathetic and extremely optimistic, Naeva is a daydreamer who gets easily excited and even more easily flustered, loyal and invested in friendships to the point of being meddlesome. Her maternal instincts cannot and will not be contained.
Despite this disparity between her public and private personas, Naeva’s actions are motivated deeply by her sense of duty to her crown and love for her people. She feels as though it is her responsibility to undo the terrible doom her mother brought upon both the Black Forest and the people of the empire, and is willing to sacrifice all she calls her own in pursuing that duty. Naeva allows herself no sense of regret or bitterness, not for her abandoned dreams, nor for having to slay her own mother, for she knows she must bear all this for the sake of her people. This stoicism remains a hard rule around those unfamiliar to her, but can and has been cracked, as she is very easily teased and flustered by people she cares about–a fact her husband uses frequently to his advantage.
At her canon point, Naeva still maintains her decorum in public, but with the curse broken and the birth of her son, she is more willing to open up to those around her, and even more likely to reach out to those she thinks are suffering. Naeva went through one hundred years of sorrow and loneliness, and cannot stand for even a second to let someone else suffer alone. However, she still retains her resting bitch face, which does make her intentions a little difficult for people to discern.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: I would like to start as a Breeder!
Starter: I would very much like for Naeva to have a Riolu, as she used to be a jackal shapeshifter. Naeva as a person is very much concerned with fairness and justice, and I feel as though a Riolu raised from a breeder (for contests, even if they're not a mechanic in game, she's still putting a bow tie on that pokemon) would be an excellent partner to someone who is largely only going to get into combat on the behalf of others.
Of course, if Riolu is not possible, I would like her to start with Absol. She’d feel a deep spiritual connection to them, and I think a single-evolution start works just fine for a breeder.
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We'd also like to take this moment to inform you of the Eastern Kanto Ferry! For only P2000, you can take a three day, all-inclusive ferry ride from New Bark Town to Pallet Town and begin a new pokémon journey in the Kanto region! Otherwise, feel free to start in Johto!
Thank you! See you in the Pokémon world!
Re: ACCEPTED!
(Quick note to clarify: I might have missed it in the note, but was the request for starting with Riolu approved? I am so sorry to ask if it was made clear, thank you!)
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