Catherine's Characters' Journal

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Using this space to post ideas & backstories for characters, that just sometime come to mind ~

Aurelia / Lauren​

The first twenty years of her life has been like taken out of a fairytale. A beautiful young Princess, a firstborn, the most beautiful woman in the Kingdom, or so the King would say and none would dare to question that. Just enough color on her cheeks, hair just dark enough, and eyes, filled with curiosity and kindness. Everything was supposed to be perfect.


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The crows followed their Lady. The Queen, that ruled on her own, with the kind but crude touch. Nobody remembered the gentle young lady she once was. The tragedy that touched the Kingdom, that made her the only member of the royal family alive, changed her. She wasn’t just a Queen, but she was a force that one didn’t want to anger.


A Queen, a leader, a general.


The crows were to mark, what she has done. Her hair, as black as the night, and the skin as pale as snow. The crows marked, the unnatural strength within her, one that was bought with the blood of an innocent. Paying that price still haunted her. She stopped wearing frilly colorful dresses and wore black, only black.

 

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Kyrill

Fireflies are appreciated by many and considered nothing more than a little bug making the night seem even more beautiful than it already is. Nobody watches the fireflies and where they go, and where they gather. The light helps them to guide others, and find others, and when they do, they will be gone.

It's always deep in the forest, in the spot than many mortals would consider sacred. Not just because through many trees, bushes and rather blocked passages you can find a clearing so perfect, and so beautiful it shouldn't be possible it existed; but also because of a little stream going through it, or a lake, and plenty of tree stumps that when the time comes become chairs for the sweet little bugs. Always five minutes past midnight.

Kyrill was no other but another dancer in this dance of light and magic. But even though most of her kind would stay away from humans, for her, they always were so intriguing. They knew nothing, and some were cruel enough to trap her kind, but she preferred to look at those who don't; those who dance with them, those admire and appreciate them from afar. Without trapping, without claiming another being for themselves.

She wondered, what would a human do, if they saw a bunch of fireflies in this hidden clearing, dancing in unision five minutes past midnight.

 

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Scarlet was abandoned right when she was born and found by the oldest Prince when he was still a child. Queen had no mercy to send the child away and took her in, hoping for Scarlet to become a friend and personal maid of her daughter, that would be just a year older than the abandoned baby.

Years had passed by, and Scarlet stood by Princess, and the two became the greatest of friends. The girl has also learned the ways of being a maid, even if her position was different than that of a royal maid. Still, she lived a happy, calm life. She stood in the shadows, and helped the Princess became fit for her role, shared laughs and cries, supported her when Queen has passed away...

But the happy days cannot last forever. Once Scarlet reached her 20th birthday, and Princess was about to be married off, the King felt too lonely, and decided the Princess' maid was a perfect companion for him.