Character Sketches As Seen By Julian
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kasihyaViolet is a little scary, Julian will concede that. He first becomes aware of just how scary when she falls asleep in the common room, on one of the stone benches, and starts manifesting ectoplasm. Not just your standard glowing trails of light that he’s come to expect from someone like Eña (not that he spends very much time watching Eña sleep, he’s definitely not that creepy), but full-on creatures. She is surrounded by a wraithlike creature, all protruding bones and too many batlike wings, curled up in the same position as her like the loose skin of a snake. The creature is difficult to look at; whenever Julian tries, he starts to get a headache.
Then Evangeline drops a pan in the kitchen, and Violet wakes up with a start. Julian, who has been sitting on the bench across from her, starts violently as well; for the ectoplasmic creature doesn’t vanish immediately upon her waking, but follows her motions like a vast second skin with extra limbs, sitting up with its ghostly skeletal tail flailing for balance a good ten seconds after her eyes are opened. When she catches him staring, heart beating so fast he fears he will faint, a guilty look crosses her face. Julian swears he feels her magic make a tugging-in motion, like pulling a cloak tighter about herself; a moment later, the ectoplasm horror shrinks and warps under her skin. The result is that for an instant, she manifests as occupying two simultaneous bodies: one, the small, familiar human, and the other, that … thing. Then the moment has passed, and Violet is just a girl with a blanket over her shoulders and a blank expression.
‘Sorry about that,’ she says. ‘I was really tired.’ And then she stands up and climbs down the tunnel to Kephri’s room for reasons best known to herself.
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Evangeline is also scary, he realizes the first time that she calmly takes the rodent that Kephri caught, snaps its neck, and guts it without flinching. This from the same girl who freaked out not an hour prior because she had snagged a nail.
‘It’s the end of the world, and you are worrying over your nails!’ he had berated her. ‘There is no nail polish left in this world, so get used to it.’
Her expression had hardened, and she clenched her jaw as she walked from the room. ‘I’m going hunting with Kephri,’ she said when she reappeared twenty minutes later.
And now she is in the kitchen, cooking the strange animal she had killed. Her hands were washed clean and she had changed her clothing again, but when Julian comes in to check on dinner, she turns around with murder in her eyes. ‘I could do the same to you,’ she says. ‘I’d have to use both hands, but your neck is pretty skinny, and I’d have no problem getting your boyfriend out of the way long enough to do the deed.’ She waves her manicured nails at him and flips her attention back to the meat sizzling on the stovetop.
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Violet and Kephri would make a good duo. They're the least human of the lot, followed closely by Chatma and Alanna, who are at polar opposites of the 'abnormal' spectrum. Especially since Violet is a few years older in this one, and has grown into herself since the thing with Blade. Although right now she seems to be trying to become Blade, which is possibly extremely unhealthy and indicative of things being wrong with her in different ways than when she was thirteen.
Then Evangeline drops a pan in the kitchen, and Violet wakes up with a start. Julian, who has been sitting on the bench across from her, starts violently as well; for the ectoplasmic creature doesn’t vanish immediately upon her waking, but follows her motions like a vast second skin with extra limbs, sitting up with its ghostly skeletal tail flailing for balance a good ten seconds after her eyes are opened. When she catches him staring, heart beating so fast he fears he will faint, a guilty look crosses her face. Julian swears he feels her magic make a tugging-in motion, like pulling a cloak tighter about herself; a moment later, the ectoplasm horror shrinks and warps under her skin. The result is that for an instant, she manifests as occupying two simultaneous bodies: one, the small, familiar human, and the other, that … thing. Then the moment has passed, and Violet is just a girl with a blanket over her shoulders and a blank expression.
‘Sorry about that,’ she says. ‘I was really tired.’ And then she stands up and climbs down the tunnel to Kephri’s room for reasons best known to herself.
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Evangeline is also scary, he realizes the first time that she calmly takes the rodent that Kephri caught, snaps its neck, and guts it without flinching. This from the same girl who freaked out not an hour prior because she had snagged a nail.
‘It’s the end of the world, and you are worrying over your nails!’ he had berated her. ‘There is no nail polish left in this world, so get used to it.’
Her expression had hardened, and she clenched her jaw as she walked from the room. ‘I’m going hunting with Kephri,’ she said when she reappeared twenty minutes later.
And now she is in the kitchen, cooking the strange animal she had killed. Her hands were washed clean and she had changed her clothing again, but when Julian comes in to check on dinner, she turns around with murder in her eyes. ‘I could do the same to you,’ she says. ‘I’d have to use both hands, but your neck is pretty skinny, and I’d have no problem getting your boyfriend out of the way long enough to do the deed.’ She waves her manicured nails at him and flips her attention back to the meat sizzling on the stovetop.
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Violet and Kephri would make a good duo. They're the least human of the lot, followed closely by Chatma and Alanna, who are at polar opposites of the 'abnormal' spectrum. Especially since Violet is a few years older in this one, and has grown into herself since the thing with Blade. Although right now she seems to be trying to become Blade, which is possibly extremely unhealthy and indicative of things being wrong with her in different ways than when she was thirteen.
