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• Character Information •
Name: Aliya Marie Haskell (Aly Haskell for community tags) / “ember” (the wolf’s nickname for her) / the Flame (her Otherside title)
Canon: OC
Canon Point: After she's carved the bone knife and is accidentally about to make the worst decision of her entire life and of everyone else's entire life because she thinks she knows everything and is actually just a dumb teenager; April 2017, her Junior Year From Hell™
Age: 17
Type of Character: Transfer
Reference: Aly grew up normal. Well. Sort of. She’d been stalked by wolves all her life, metaphorically - wolf-related things had always been around her more than the average (calendars and the like), and she’d been crazy about wolves from a young age. When she was in her early teens, she started having the occasional dream about a white wolf with ram’s horns, and she was always deeply sad when it broke; eventually the dreams faded from her mind.
She began to have other dreams - dreams of a chase through a forest of birches, of running from something unknown, and eventually of jumping over a river...but before she could clear the river, the same wolf knocked her out of the air into the water and told her that it wasn’t yet time.
Though the time came soon; when Aly started at her new school, she ended up stumbling into another foreign exchange student and the pair of them ended up jointly stumbling into the local magic users. The three other magic users helped them come into their own power and introduced them to the Otherside…
...and life for Aly hasn’t been the same since. But she wouldn’t have it any other way.
Aly's Otherside travel buddies are as follows:
Until a fox appeared.
The white fox resolved into a brilliant humanoid shape, stating that the Queen had no claim to Soren; she laughed and relented, saying that she didn't want him anyway. Faerie food is sweet, but they're good at sour grapes. The being led them out of the court to safety, and Soren mistook them for the Archangel Gabriel before vanishing awake. The being panicked for a moment before revealing themselves as the Pale Princeps, before everyone else woke up.
Aly decided to go find the Princeps and express appreciation, and went with the wolf to offer them a sword. They accepted the sword with the promise of future aid, should it be needed. And it was soon needed - while Aly and her friends were in school, they were drawn out of their bodies to the Otherside, because the Queen had sent faerie assassins after them. This was the source of Aly's recurring dream of running through birches. They found a clearing, stood and fought, and they thought they'd defeated all of the assassins.
That is, until one they thought they'd drowned went behind Aly and sliced her head clean off.
In the Waking, Aly had a fit and passed out in the middle of her trig test; she needed to be helped to the nurse's office and sent home early. When she next fell asleep properly, she found herself back on the Otherside, propped up against a tree, with the wolf and the Princeps leaning over her. This was when people first started calling her Flame, and when she first started acting more like a wildfire - angrier, more destructive, readier to fight. The wolf said that the Queen would send no more assassins - her failure had caused her to lose enough face, and since she'd killed one of he land spirit's own, the forest itself would destroy any faeries that tried to invade.
The crew prepared for Samhain, when the Veil was going to thin enough for the faeries to invade. They trained both on the Otherside and in the Waking, and Aly was the only one who couldn't reliably use her fire. It turned out that she could only summon it in the Waking when she was angry, which worked just fine, because nothing would make her angrier than a faerie invasion.
Come Samhain, Soren was their faerie radar, trying to find the site of the breach, and the wolf crossed the Veil to join them, feeling guilty for his failure to protect Aly during the first and second encounters with the faeries. The faeries could only cross the veil during the period between nautical twilight and full night, one hour. The gang tried to stall out the faeries, but they were soon surrounded by archers. All seemed lost...until the wolf tackled the Queen, pinning her to the ground beneath her war stag and saying he'd rip out her throat if they fired. If she wanted to return with a scrap of honor, she'd leave. She thought he was bluffing until he clamped his jaws around her throat.
The faeries vanquished with a severe loss of face, the Queen returned through the portal with a warning - they hadn't seen the last of her.
That was enough for everyone for a few months. The Princeps came to visit for winter break because their father lived in the area, so they got to meet anyone face-to-face. They all hit it off instantly, and while they were reluctant to talk shop, as it were, it gave Aly a chance to pick their brain about certain things. The Princeps - Florence - was a split soul, wandering both worlds since birth, so they were an expert on all things Otherside. The wolf had been pretty coy about true names, so Aly wanted to follow up on that. She wanted to make the Queen pay. And maybe that was the Flame in her, but nobody was going to threaten her friends again.
Nobody.
Personality: Aly has a sort of dual personality. In the Waking world, she’s a bright and happy high school student who’s always willing to help out her friends. She has a bit of a temper, but it rarely comes out. She’s always curious and willing to learn, and drowns herself in books. She can be stubborn when in pursuit of a goal, and throws herself wholeheartedly into whatever she tries to do. She’s always been incredibly safety-conscious and tries to think of multiple contingency plans, both for Waking and Otherside events. She’s cautious, almost to the point of distraction, and tries to mediate as much as she can, even when she’s angry. Mostly she’s able to bite her tongue when she’s upset. This Aly is very fearful of drowning and even more fearful of fire, and hates that she can access her pyrokinesis in the Waking when the Veil is thin.
On the Otherside, her temper is far more pronounced and her tongue is sharper, partially due to her status as the Flame, and partially due to the fact that she has less of a brain-to-mouth filter. It’s almost like there’s a constant hot coal of rage in her chest, even before she was killed (the first time) and her title was unlocked with her Flame abilities. Her mouth has gotten her into trouble before, and is far more of a liability than an asset. She rushes headlong into situations without thinking when she’s angry, and has to be talked into reason by people who are more logical than she is. (And occasionally sat on.) She is somehow even more stubborn and willful than her Waking self. This Aly is fearful of drowning, because hey, fire, water, not fun. This is especially annoying because the best way to get anywhere from the wolf’s forest is by jumping into a deep natural pool. Both versions of Aly are prone to making stupid jokes and puns, and their deepest fear is that something awful will happen to their friends, either on the Waking or the Otherside, and she's petrified that if it does, it'll be her fault.
The version of Aly in Khu Ioduan will be a melding of both personalities, but skew towards her Otherside self. She’s stubborn, angry, unwilling to listen to reason unless someone basically sits on her and makes her, distrustful, makes awful puns, constantly puts her foot in her mouth, yells a lot about dumb stuff, will not hesitate to telekinetically set someone on fire a little for annoying her, maybe is sometimes a little good at making plans, can be kindhearted, but mostly is a suspicious jerk. Since she has more aspects of her Otherside self than her Waking self, she’s not afraid of fire but is incredibly terrified of drowning. (Someone push her off of Tu Vishan. It’ll be funny.)
Aly knows she's stubborn, but she prefers to think of it as being firm rather than a character flaw. She's always been that way. As a kid, her favorite word was "no!". She's a little ashamed in the Waking of her rash Flame behavior, but it seems perfectly reasonable at the time. As the Flame, she follows the gospel of "talk shit, get hit". She's trying to balance these two parts of her personality, and not doing especially well. The more time she spends on the Otherside, the more Flamey she gets in the Waking; snappish, hot-tempered, even a little bloody-minded. This scares her, because she doesn't really like that person, and much prefers who she thinks she really is in the Waking - quiet, bookish, low-key. But the wolf had said something about true selves becoming more and more apparent when the Veil is thin, and he'd looked directly at her when he'd said it. There's always been that anger deep inside her, that rage at things she wants to fix but can't, but it had been inchoate, and thus covered up by her new, nice, cheerful personality, because that was an easier person to be. She stopped getting in fights in middle school when she moved again (expat life), because it was too tiring to be that way all the time, and she just wanted to be someone quiet and nice, and she genuinely believes that she is.
That's why she hates fighting. She doesn't want to be that person again, and she certainly doesn't want to be that person to that degree. Black eyes, fine. Bludgeoning people with maces, oh God why. The Flame is fine if they deserve it. Waking Aly loses sleep over it, but there's that little part in her - that flaming part - that's totally fine with it.
She wants to believe that there's good in people, and that the world - both of them - is not a terrible place. But what she's experienced so far is testing that, even despite the wonders she's experienced on the Otherside. Regardless, she tries not to give in to cynicism, even when things are dire. She just watches the world with a weather eye. No matter how beautiful things seem, they can always be a trap - and that's true for both the Waking and the Otherside.
She tries to ignore the pyrokinesis, but when the wolf finds out she's ignoring it, he gives her all kinds of hell. So she trains, grudgingly, on her back patio, so she has no danger of setting fire to anything. She's scared of fire because she is fire, and now that she knows that she's desperately trying to deny it and ignore it. But it's her soul. She can't ignore what she fundamentally is. That's why she's always been scared of deep water, because it could snuff her out; that's why she's always been scared of fire, because she doesn't want to acknowledge what she is.
Everyone's title is what they are in some way; Annie is almost a trickster god in human form, Kath is a quintessential wanderer and explorer, Rebecca has been doing weapons training her whole life (with the SCA), Soren can See things other people can't...and Aly is Fire. Warm and light and dangerous and destructive and cleansing and purifying. She will destroy to create anew.
Appearance: Aly’s PB is Naomi Scott, particularly her appearance in Terra Nova.
Abilities:
Suitability: Aly's used to getting yanked around between worlds (unfortunately for her). After screaming at the sky for about twenty minutes, she'll grudgingly accept that she's back on Konryu. She's an angry teenager with the power to set things on fire and turn into a canid. Everyone's gonna love her, as long as she's not too horrible to everyone else. (She won't be. She knows how to be polite, especially around people she doesn't know.)
Inventory:
x1 set of clothing - shirt, pants, jacket, cloak
x1 set of boiled leather armor over the clothing (except the cloak, that would be silly)
x1 belt pouch
x1 journal and ballpoint pen
x1 one-handed flanged mace - copper with iron core (faeries watch out!)
x1 labradorite pendant which can serve as a short-charge magic battery to get one or two last shots off in the rare event that she's completely used up her energy, and, more generally, allows her to briefly see other magic (for 30 seconds to a minute at a time) around her when she’s touching it. When it’s depleted, it has to recharge for an hour or two with her own energy by being on her.
x1 small bottle containing earth and one leaf from the wolf’s forest, and a tuft of his fur. There is a tag attached in Aly’s handwriting that reads “In case of emergency, break glass”, because she just can’t help herself.
x1 mostly-finished knife carved out of an antler tine
Talent Preferences:
1. Restoration (because she destroys all the things, so why not heal the things?)
2. Alteration
3. Illusion
Canon: OC
Canon Point: After she's carved the bone knife and is accidentally about to make the worst decision of her entire life and of everyone else's entire life because she thinks she knows everything and is actually just a dumb teenager; April 2017, her Junior Year From Hell™
Age: 17
Type of Character: Transfer
Reference: Aly grew up normal. Well. Sort of. She’d been stalked by wolves all her life, metaphorically - wolf-related things had always been around her more than the average (calendars and the like), and she’d been crazy about wolves from a young age. When she was in her early teens, she started having the occasional dream about a white wolf with ram’s horns, and she was always deeply sad when it broke; eventually the dreams faded from her mind.
She began to have other dreams - dreams of a chase through a forest of birches, of running from something unknown, and eventually of jumping over a river...but before she could clear the river, the same wolf knocked her out of the air into the water and told her that it wasn’t yet time.
Though the time came soon; when Aly started at her new school, she ended up stumbling into another foreign exchange student and the pair of them ended up jointly stumbling into the local magic users. The three other magic users helped them come into their own power and introduced them to the Otherside…
...and life for Aly hasn’t been the same since. But she wouldn’t have it any other way.
Aly's Otherside travel buddies are as follows:
- Kath: Self-appointed leader of their little group. Known as "Walker".
- Annie: Kath's best friend. Total nerd. Otherside outfit is like a Final Fantasy character. Known as "the Mischief".
- Rebecca: A slightly later addition to the group, but one of the original members with Kath and Annie. Fences in the Waking, which is how she's so good with a sword. Known as "the Warrior".
- Soren: French exchange student and Aly's expats-gotta-stick-together buddy. Timid, because he's been able to see disturbances in the Veil his entire life and not known what they were. Occasionally makes creepy prophecies. Known as "the Seer".
- Florence: American living in Japan - about the same age as Aly's group. Had been of assistance on the Otherside but not met in person until winter break 2016. Soren's some-kind-of-romantic-nonbinary-friend...? Connected to Soren by the silver-and-gold line. Known as "the Princeps".
Until a fox appeared.
The white fox resolved into a brilliant humanoid shape, stating that the Queen had no claim to Soren; she laughed and relented, saying that she didn't want him anyway. Faerie food is sweet, but they're good at sour grapes. The being led them out of the court to safety, and Soren mistook them for the Archangel Gabriel before vanishing awake. The being panicked for a moment before revealing themselves as the Pale Princeps, before everyone else woke up.
Aly decided to go find the Princeps and express appreciation, and went with the wolf to offer them a sword. They accepted the sword with the promise of future aid, should it be needed. And it was soon needed - while Aly and her friends were in school, they were drawn out of their bodies to the Otherside, because the Queen had sent faerie assassins after them. This was the source of Aly's recurring dream of running through birches. They found a clearing, stood and fought, and they thought they'd defeated all of the assassins.
That is, until one they thought they'd drowned went behind Aly and sliced her head clean off.
In the Waking, Aly had a fit and passed out in the middle of her trig test; she needed to be helped to the nurse's office and sent home early. When she next fell asleep properly, she found herself back on the Otherside, propped up against a tree, with the wolf and the Princeps leaning over her. This was when people first started calling her Flame, and when she first started acting more like a wildfire - angrier, more destructive, readier to fight. The wolf said that the Queen would send no more assassins - her failure had caused her to lose enough face, and since she'd killed one of he land spirit's own, the forest itself would destroy any faeries that tried to invade.
The crew prepared for Samhain, when the Veil was going to thin enough for the faeries to invade. They trained both on the Otherside and in the Waking, and Aly was the only one who couldn't reliably use her fire. It turned out that she could only summon it in the Waking when she was angry, which worked just fine, because nothing would make her angrier than a faerie invasion.
Come Samhain, Soren was their faerie radar, trying to find the site of the breach, and the wolf crossed the Veil to join them, feeling guilty for his failure to protect Aly during the first and second encounters with the faeries. The faeries could only cross the veil during the period between nautical twilight and full night, one hour. The gang tried to stall out the faeries, but they were soon surrounded by archers. All seemed lost...until the wolf tackled the Queen, pinning her to the ground beneath her war stag and saying he'd rip out her throat if they fired. If she wanted to return with a scrap of honor, she'd leave. She thought he was bluffing until he clamped his jaws around her throat.
The faeries vanquished with a severe loss of face, the Queen returned through the portal with a warning - they hadn't seen the last of her.
That was enough for everyone for a few months. The Princeps came to visit for winter break because their father lived in the area, so they got to meet anyone face-to-face. They all hit it off instantly, and while they were reluctant to talk shop, as it were, it gave Aly a chance to pick their brain about certain things. The Princeps - Florence - was a split soul, wandering both worlds since birth, so they were an expert on all things Otherside. The wolf had been pretty coy about true names, so Aly wanted to follow up on that. She wanted to make the Queen pay. And maybe that was the Flame in her, but nobody was going to threaten her friends again.
Nobody.
Personality: Aly has a sort of dual personality. In the Waking world, she’s a bright and happy high school student who’s always willing to help out her friends. She has a bit of a temper, but it rarely comes out. She’s always curious and willing to learn, and drowns herself in books. She can be stubborn when in pursuit of a goal, and throws herself wholeheartedly into whatever she tries to do. She’s always been incredibly safety-conscious and tries to think of multiple contingency plans, both for Waking and Otherside events. She’s cautious, almost to the point of distraction, and tries to mediate as much as she can, even when she’s angry. Mostly she’s able to bite her tongue when she’s upset. This Aly is very fearful of drowning and even more fearful of fire, and hates that she can access her pyrokinesis in the Waking when the Veil is thin.
On the Otherside, her temper is far more pronounced and her tongue is sharper, partially due to her status as the Flame, and partially due to the fact that she has less of a brain-to-mouth filter. It’s almost like there’s a constant hot coal of rage in her chest, even before she was killed (the first time) and her title was unlocked with her Flame abilities. Her mouth has gotten her into trouble before, and is far more of a liability than an asset. She rushes headlong into situations without thinking when she’s angry, and has to be talked into reason by people who are more logical than she is. (And occasionally sat on.) She is somehow even more stubborn and willful than her Waking self. This Aly is fearful of drowning, because hey, fire, water, not fun. This is especially annoying because the best way to get anywhere from the wolf’s forest is by jumping into a deep natural pool. Both versions of Aly are prone to making stupid jokes and puns, and their deepest fear is that something awful will happen to their friends, either on the Waking or the Otherside, and she's petrified that if it does, it'll be her fault.
The version of Aly in Khu Ioduan will be a melding of both personalities, but skew towards her Otherside self. She’s stubborn, angry, unwilling to listen to reason unless someone basically sits on her and makes her, distrustful, makes awful puns, constantly puts her foot in her mouth, yells a lot about dumb stuff, will not hesitate to telekinetically set someone on fire a little for annoying her, maybe is sometimes a little good at making plans, can be kindhearted, but mostly is a suspicious jerk. Since she has more aspects of her Otherside self than her Waking self, she’s not afraid of fire but is incredibly terrified of drowning. (Someone push her off of Tu Vishan. It’ll be funny.)
Aly knows she's stubborn, but she prefers to think of it as being firm rather than a character flaw. She's always been that way. As a kid, her favorite word was "no!". She's a little ashamed in the Waking of her rash Flame behavior, but it seems perfectly reasonable at the time. As the Flame, she follows the gospel of "talk shit, get hit". She's trying to balance these two parts of her personality, and not doing especially well. The more time she spends on the Otherside, the more Flamey she gets in the Waking; snappish, hot-tempered, even a little bloody-minded. This scares her, because she doesn't really like that person, and much prefers who she thinks she really is in the Waking - quiet, bookish, low-key. But the wolf had said something about true selves becoming more and more apparent when the Veil is thin, and he'd looked directly at her when he'd said it. There's always been that anger deep inside her, that rage at things she wants to fix but can't, but it had been inchoate, and thus covered up by her new, nice, cheerful personality, because that was an easier person to be. She stopped getting in fights in middle school when she moved again (expat life), because it was too tiring to be that way all the time, and she just wanted to be someone quiet and nice, and she genuinely believes that she is.
That's why she hates fighting. She doesn't want to be that person again, and she certainly doesn't want to be that person to that degree. Black eyes, fine. Bludgeoning people with maces, oh God why. The Flame is fine if they deserve it. Waking Aly loses sleep over it, but there's that little part in her - that flaming part - that's totally fine with it.
She wants to believe that there's good in people, and that the world - both of them - is not a terrible place. But what she's experienced so far is testing that, even despite the wonders she's experienced on the Otherside. Regardless, she tries not to give in to cynicism, even when things are dire. She just watches the world with a weather eye. No matter how beautiful things seem, they can always be a trap - and that's true for both the Waking and the Otherside.
She tries to ignore the pyrokinesis, but when the wolf finds out she's ignoring it, he gives her all kinds of hell. So she trains, grudgingly, on her back patio, so she has no danger of setting fire to anything. She's scared of fire because she is fire, and now that she knows that she's desperately trying to deny it and ignore it. But it's her soul. She can't ignore what she fundamentally is. That's why she's always been scared of deep water, because it could snuff her out; that's why she's always been scared of fire, because she doesn't want to acknowledge what she is.
Everyone's title is what they are in some way; Annie is almost a trickster god in human form, Kath is a quintessential wanderer and explorer, Rebecca has been doing weapons training her whole life (with the SCA), Soren can See things other people can't...and Aly is Fire. Warm and light and dangerous and destructive and cleansing and purifying. She will destroy to create anew.
Appearance: Aly’s PB is Naomi Scott, particularly her appearance in Terra Nova.
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Abilities:
- Pew Pew Pew!: As would be expected from someone titled Flame, Aly sets things on fire, and she sure does do it well. She conjures it into her hands, and it’s not the normal appearance of fire, but is deep crimson throughout, and burns whatever it’s set upon to her mental specifications - e.g. it could only burn someone’s pants briefly to startle them (because she is a bit vindictive), or it could burn them until nothing but ashes remain. So...don’t piss her off? :V Another thing she can do is fire up the head of her mace for a super-flame-whack whammy attack.
She can also wreath herself in the same crimson flames, but not for too long. It's not as effortless as doing the Super Mario Fireballs. ...honestly, it's more for dramatic effect than anything. Or making anyone who's grabbed hold of her let go. - Hit ‘em with my hittin’ stick: Aly conjured up her mace from the Otherside, but you can’t conjure up skill. She’s been training with it for seven months real-time, which is considerably longer on the Otherside, so she has the equivalent of a couple years’ worth of weapons training under her belt. Or hanging on it, as it were. (Her mace's name is Dr. Bonkers. It'll cure what ails ya. Because being alive is a long-term status condition, so it can take care of that for you AND simultaneously cauterize the wound.)
She’s also learning how to use a bow, but her aim with it is still less than impressive. She does tend to miss consistently, though. - Woof: Aly can, for brief periods (up to two hours on a good day), transform into a very red maned wolf with the horns of a goitered gazelle. This does not happen often, because it takes a lot of energy and it's a very new ability, but she's trying to be a good apprentice to her wolf-sensei. Maned wolves are tall, but in this form, she is a complete fragile speedster. She avoids fighting like this because she prefers power over speed, but sometimes you gotta make a quick getaway.
The transformation ain't pretty, either.
Suitability: Aly's used to getting yanked around between worlds (unfortunately for her). After screaming at the sky for about twenty minutes, she'll grudgingly accept that she's back on Konryu. She's an angry teenager with the power to set things on fire and turn into a canid. Everyone's gonna love her, as long as she's not too horrible to everyone else. (She won't be. She knows how to be polite, especially around people she doesn't know.)
Inventory:
x1 set of clothing - shirt, pants, jacket, cloak
x1 set of boiled leather armor over the clothing (except the cloak, that would be silly)
x1 belt pouch
x1 journal and ballpoint pen
x1 one-handed flanged mace - copper with iron core (faeries watch out!)
x1 labradorite pendant which can serve as a short-charge magic battery to get one or two last shots off in the rare event that she's completely used up her energy, and, more generally, allows her to briefly see other magic (for 30 seconds to a minute at a time) around her when she’s touching it. When it’s depleted, it has to recharge for an hour or two with her own energy by being on her.
x1 small bottle containing earth and one leaf from the wolf’s forest, and a tuft of his fur. There is a tag attached in Aly’s handwriting that reads “In case of emergency, break glass”, because she just can’t help herself.
x1 mostly-finished knife carved out of an antler tine
Talent Preferences:
1. Restoration (because she destroys all the things, so why not heal the things?)
2. Alteration
3. Illusion