Why is it, after all this time, I still hope for peace instead of violence? That woman said it best, how can i be so naive?
Because I very nearly met the end of a blade, and it wasnt my fault. I was hoping for peace that day too and it ended with a death. even With her blood on my hands I know i was not fully to blame
and i know this man was evil i could see it written all over his stupid little face and in his aura he had no remorse I know he was sincerely scared of us all but he wasn’t apologetic, not enough to change. But even despite that, he wasn’t armed. His goons had fled. He was no threat.
I fear so often that maybe we’re NOT in the right, not all the time. How are we any different from that man, from Garlemald, from nemesis, if we’re willing to put a man to the sword with little justice except our own? why do they think that just because we have such power that we have liberty to exercise it whenever we feel? I was scared tonight - everyone seemed ready to murder this man. for what reason?? he loaned money to one of ours and demanded payment back? and when HE decided payment wasn’t enough, now we execute him? Uldah has laws for his kind. it’s not complete anarchy there
I hoped he’d want to live. he made his choice, and i will not lose sleep tonight over the fact that he was cut down AFTER he tried attacking. But I fear I will lose sleep knowing I am sleeping so close to people i consider my family because i keep seeing this side of them that is no different than the people i tried to entreat for peace before.
they took control of my mind and had me try to kill Lyta for them. and I very nearly succeeded.
what will this “family” do to me when i oppose them again?
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I will do my best...I can promise that?
Wicked white, even after five turns this thing is still here. Guess it’s only been a moon, proper, here, though. But I was gone for so much longer...time passed me by and no one is the wiser. I couldn’t be alone. I’d been alone for five bloody years with that maddening pixie and now that I was home...I thought I could belong again. After tonight I don’t belong anywhere again. He didn’t love me, and I couldn’t just stop. Now his...fiancé is angry with me again, Suzume won’t speak or look at me again (I don’t think she even knows what is happening, just that her Khala hates me). And Mercer... I didn’t know he saw me. I didn’t know it was killing him. He kept opening up to me. Kept making me feel safe. That’s why I loved him. It’s why I wanted to be with him. I don’t. Not now. Not anymore. I’m not part of that family. And I don’t want to be in the Tower family as long as... I will not take the oath. I thought I would. I was ready to, before Sasari returned. I don’t want to be in this family anymore. Hells...I want to go back to Eo Aenc now. At least I had fun in Il Mheg No more. I just want to be done.
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“So if we don’t find a way out of this…we go back to our homes, yeah?”
The Commander shook her head. “No, I don’t think that’s how it works.” She looked around the small cavern, then turned to look at the dark tree in the center. “This dimension will just continue to shrink until it completely collapses in itself.”
“And if we’re inside, we just…disappear.” Anafenza stated this as a matter of fact, to which the Commander nodded in confirmation. She swallowed the lump in her throat. “Ok…how do we get out then?”
The woman shook her head. “Maybe it’s as easy as just finding a portal of some sort…somewhere that connects directly to our dimensions. Otherwise? I…really don’t know.”
Stormy was standing closer to the tree. She reached out to it, fascinated by the clouds of dark fog roiling off of it. “What is this?” She turned to the other women, then looked at Ana. “You said you recognized it? It represented your soul?”
Anafenza nodded. “I…have seen it before in dreams, yes. I had taken to interpreting it as my life force, my soul. The vines…are the curse I bear, choking out my life, taking control.”
They gathered around it, looking at the massive trunk that reached to the top of the cavern, branches spreading outward just before hitting the ceiling. “How poetic,” the Commander commented, pulling her scanning device out again. She waved it around the tree, frowning. “I…am not picking up anything except…an energy that my tricorder can’t identify. I can successfully scan the rocks in the cavern and the two of you but this…it’s as if it’s not even there.” She snapped the device shut again before reaching a hand out to feel the tree. Stormy did likewise, though Ana stayed away from it, as scared as she was of it. “It’s cold,” the woman commented, feeling the solid surface of the tree beneath her hand.
Stormy pulled away and turned again to Anafenza, crossing her arms over her chest. “Something still isn’t adding up.”
The other women looked at her curiously, waiting for her to continue.
She motioned to the Commander. “Both of us are ‘Jessica St. Peter.’ We look nearly the same, we have nearly similar histories, abilities, quirks, personalities. But why are we all here? If this pocket dimension was formed because we all have something in common, then why, specifically, are you here, Anafenza?”
Anafenza winced, and shied away from the girl’s withering gaze. “I…I don’t know. I knew a woman who called herself Jessika at one point…Jessika Saphir. Her real name was Jessielle though, I think.”
The other two Jessicas looked at one another and nodded. “It’s a start.” Stormy turned back and pressed more. “Why did she use a false name, do you know? Were you close to her?”
Anafenza bit her lip and shook her head. “I…don’t know all the details. I know her family had been accused of…heretical activities in her home city of Ishgard, and they fled to avoid being killed. Her house – Vingesang – doesn’t even exist anymore because of it.”
“Vingesang?” The Commander looked puzzled. “That’s…an odd name.”
“Familiar sounding, yeah,” Stormy commented. “French?”
“It sounds like it, yeah,” the other woman confirmed with a nod.
Anafenza just shrugged. “It is an Ishgardian Elezen name.”
“Another race on your world?”
Anafenza nodded. “Tall, long-limbed, pointy ears. Very regal.”
Stormy smirked, before looking at the Commander again. “My French is not that great; my JD has been trying to teach me but, sadly, I haven’t picked up too much. Do you know what it means?”
The Commander shook her head, but instead pulled out her tricorder, tapping a few buttons, and then repeated the word, “Vingesang.” She held out the device’s screen for Stormy and Ana to see. “Vine of Blood…Bloodvine?”
Stormy recoiled, her eyes wide, and stared at Anafenza. “You have got to be kidding me…Bloodvine?!”
For as surprised as Stormy was, Ana was equally confused. “You…know this word?”
Stormy nodded slowly. “It was…the name of the boarding school my…my girlfriends went to, in the Isles. The Bloodvine Academy.”
The Commander laughed, smiling bright. “There’s one connection, then. Bloodvine, and this other Jessika. But that doesn’t explain why you’re here, Anafenza. Were you two lovers?”
Anafenza shook her head. “No…I hardly knew her. I…I mean…” She fidgeted, fretting over telling these women the real reason why a third Jessika wasn’t here with them. “It wasn’t my fault! My mind was taken over, I couldn’t stop myself!”
The Commander nodded slowly, her eyes showing she was putting the dots together. Stormy, however was having a harder time. “What did you do, Ana?”
“I killed her,” Anafenza admitted flatly, and she winced to see Stormy pull away from her, eyes wide, electricity dancing across her fists. “I was trying to kill someone else and…Jessika was in my way. And I killed her for it. This was…years ago.” Ana wiped her eyes, feeling more tears come out of shame.
Stormy looked to the Commander, then back to Anafenza. “Are you here to kill us too, then?”
“Jessiy!” The Commander chastised her, moving towards Anafenza. “She’s just as confused as we are about all this…And she was being brainwashed to do it.” Still she looked to the auri girl with a slight hesitation. “You’re free now, right?”
Ana nodded, and the older woman moved closer to embrace her. “Alright…so another connection, albeit tenuous. But even then, you shouldn’t be here with us. But you have to be the key to this; what else are you not telling us, Ana?”
Stormy took a deep, calming breath. “Why is she the key?”
The Commander motioned with a nod of her head to the tree in the center of the cavern. “I don’t recognize that, do you? She did; it’s tied to her. There is something that binds all three of us together, and it’s obviously not just our names or histories. This third Jessica had a connection to us through ‘Bloodvine,’ what else could there be I wonder? Anafenza has to be the key to this.” She ran her hands softly through the auri’s hair, comforting and soothing. “And I think, if we can begin to understand how we all fit together, we can understand how to leave this place before we die here together.”
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★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ — strength
★★★★★★★☆☆☆ — offense
★★★★★★★★☆☆ — defense
★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ — speed
★★★★★★★★★☆ — durability
★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ — accuracy
★★★★★★★★★☆ — agility
★★★★★★★★★★ — stamina
★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ — teamwork
★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ — stealth
★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ — close combat
★★★★★★★★★★ — bladed weapons ( swords, dagger/s )
★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ — blunt weapons ( club/s, staff/s )
★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ — ranged weapons ( archery, gun/s )
★★★★★★★★☆☆ — superpowers / abilities
★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ — traps/setups
★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ — medic
– ––– OVERVIEW ––– –
Anafenza relies on an innate ability to shield herself and her allies from harm, as well as a wellspring of aether to summon a large blade to do battle with. With five turns of practice tapping into this potential, she claims she has a better grasp and control over her powers, but in truth she’s aware that she’s barely scratching the surface of the curse she now bears. Still, her powers are strongest when she is under duress emotionally, tapping into the extra power this affords her to strengthen her resolve and defensive magicks. While she had originally been training with a short sword and shield, since the events that resulted in her being cursed she’s found it difficult to wield them with any degree of comfort or practice, an oddity considering her natural ability to master nearly any skill or task she is presented with (owed to her Echo).
ANY LASTING INJURIES FROM COMBAT? —
Anafenza bears a vine-like pattern of scales that winds up the left side of her body. When her curse becomes more active, or when she fully taps into her powers, she will complain that the mark burns her. After years of use, the pattern now stretches from her neckline, down her side, and down to her left knee; it’s also begun to branch out more, as if the scales threaten to wrap around her entire body now. Despite recognizing this, she continues to use the abilities she’s gained, hoping to still protect her friends.
– ––– FIGHTING STYLE ––– –BOLD WHAT APPLIES.
commander / duelist / honorable / dishonorable / would have others do their fighting / stealthy / long-ranged / melee / technological / sorcery / superhuman abilities / has fought in an illegal tourney / a lover of fighting / a hater of fighting / cowardly / reckless / strategic / uses underhanded tricks / renowned for their skill / trained / untrained / keeps skills secret / won a battle / lost a battle / ruthless / merciful
– ––– TRAITS ––– –
╳ flaws
moody | short-tempered | emotionally unstable | whiny | controlling | conceited | possessive | paranoid | liar | impatient | cowardly | bitter | selfish | power-hungry | greedy | lazy | judgmental | forgetful | impulsive | spiteful | stubborn | sadistic | petty | unlucky
♔ strengths
honest | trustworthy | thoughtful | caring | brave | patient | selfless | ambitious | tolerant | lucky | intelligent | confident | focused | humble | generous | merciful | observant | wise | clever | charming | cheerful | optimistic | decisive | adaptive | calm | loyal
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A person they know/ran into.
A pet peeve.
Something they hate but everyone loves.
Something they love but everyone hates.
An ex RP partner.
An ex friend.
A current friend.
An RP experience.
A real life experience.
An out of context rant.
A character they hate.
A character they love.
A public experience.
An ex hobby.
A past relationship.
Their hopes & dreams.
A food they hate.
A food they love.
A bothersome brand of anything.
Senders choice.