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☼☾ ( JESSICA PARKER KENNEDY , 34/754 , SHE/HER , CISWOMAN, LEANAN SIDHE, OUTLIER ) - have you seen ADRIANA LAVEAU?  they’ve been living in afon vale for THREE HUNDRED YEARS and they really think they’re safe. people say that they’re NURTURING but i heard they’re VENGEFUL. you can usually find them working as a OWNER at EARTHA. they’ve tried hard to keep THEIR DAUGHTER’S REAL IDENTITY buried but the truth always comes out. a few things that remind me of them are … smoky kohl smudged eyes, lingering scent of cedar and cinnamon, smattering of azure flecks running down her spine. 

basics

full name : flordiana deluca adriana laveau

name meaning: from hadria, valley

nickname / alias: addy

gender / pronouns: she/her

sexuality: pansexual

age, birthday + star sign: 34/754, 13th jan, capricorn

place of birth: hadria ( now adria ), italy

accent : altered depending on who she speaks to

occupation: owner of eartha

associated locations: glyndŵr cove

song:

appearance

faceclaim: jessica parker kennedy

height: 5″3

eyecolor: purple

haircolor: raven hair

build: slim/curvy

tattoos / scars / key features: purple eyes

personality

positive traits: nurturing, merciful, loyal

negative traits: vengeful, relentless, reticent

relationships

parents : maria deluca ( mother, deceased ), asmodeus ( father )

siblings : countless

children : none

pets : klok ( raven )

other

species: leanan sidhe

characters she’s inspired by:

history

born 13th Jan 1269, yeah you heard that she’s an old lady but don’t you dare say that to her. respect your elders by telling them they don’t look a day over 400 ok

her father, asmodeus is a pretty big deal in hell. he came above ground in italy, basically fathered a literal village and was p much planning on building his own leanan sidhe army ?? anyway, baby flordiana (as she was then known) was raised fully aware of her abilities bc her pops trained her and her large collective of half siblings to be ruthless, badass monsters

their ‘family’ was kept pretty under wraps, asmodeus wanted to keep his kids a secret until they were powerful enough to actually inflict serious damage on humanity

so flordiana spent the first 100 years ish of her life, in constant competition with her siblings to be the wORST leanan sidhe ever a.k.a. the best. they did a lot of brutalising. she has done some serious torturing fucked up shit ok ?? but all to win daddy’s approval am i right

like she watched her human mom die pretty quick bc it was the 1200s i mean she was old if she made it to 30 so she needed ?? her dad ?? to love her ?? even though he was a crazy powerful prince of hell ??

but then they fuCKED UP. ok so the leanan sidhe squad went big, figured they had the stones to take over a literal city in italy....but daddy was wrONG AND HIS ARMY WASN’T GOOD ENOUGh. most of her siblings straight up were killed by human hunters and other species working with them. flordiana couldnOT KEEP FIGHTING because she did not want to die. basically in being raised like this ?? she and her siblings had no sense of loyalty or family ?? so she felt zero guilt about abandoning them. just major shame abt disappointing her demon pops.

she escaped and fled italy; and landed in france. there she renamed herself adriana and lived as a human in order to lay low. but tragedy struck when she fell in love with a human ( or so she thought ). this woman was the first person she had ever cared about, first person she had ever truly loved and they were married in secret. but her wife began to get sick and it became clear that she would not survive. the wife told her that when she passed, she wanted to be buried at sea and adriana honoured that wish. however, her wife did not die - and was not mortal. her sickness was from being deprived of water, and the wife was in fact a nixie. when her wife emerged from the water, some decades later, as neither knew the other was immortal she believed adriana to be dead.

after this point, she was pretty much grief stricken and thought fuck this and bounced around the world, travelling everywhere. along the way she picked up several other people that she views as her adoptive children.

around 300 years ago, she relocated to afon vale and having just missed the war, instead became part of rebuilding the small town. she put down roots, found more people that needed her, and created a home for herself.

twenty five years ago a small human faction within afon vale tried to disband the peace treaty and ended up hunting and killing a leanan sidhe ( adriana’s sibling ) that they believed manipulated them. the regulators put these humans to trial and they were sentenced to death by the species council. one of the humans was pregnant at the time and though they carried the child to term, the infant died due to the stress of the birth. the parents were executed and the town believes that this was the end of the dispute. however, in reality, the infant was resuscitated and did not die. knowing that the child would be a point of contention for the species within town, and would not be safe, adriana initially raised the baby in secret. once the child was a few years old, they became part of the community and adriana convinced everyone that she had adopted them from outside of town. they know that they are adopted but do not know the full story of their birth. they have also only recently started experiencing visions/auditory premonitions but neither they or adriana know currently that they are bean sidhe.

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☼☾ ( ELLA PURNELL , 400 / 27 , SHE/HER , CISFEMALE , NIXIE , PRINCESS ) - have you seen GUINEVERE CEFNFOR?  they’ve been living in afon vale for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS and they really think they’re safe. people say that they’re RESOURCEFUL but i heard they’re IMPULSIVE. you can usually find them working as a GROUNDSKEEPER at THE DUCK POND. they’ve tried hard to keep SHE HAD A SECRET ROMANCE WITH A HUMAN TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO  buried but the truth always comes out. a few things that remind me of them are … muddy boots , pockets always filled with shells , mist rolling over the water , freckles littering tanned shoulders .

born sometime four hundred years ago guinevere is the eldest of the nixie queens daughters , with that she feels there's a lot of weight on her shoulders and she's sure more than one person from the court looking at her with a magnifying glass to fail in some shape or form . she's always tried to be a good daughter and she'd like to say she's done a good job . with all her mother represents in the nixie court guinevere has always preferred her father over her .

three hundred years ago guinevere wouldn't even dare to go anywhere close to land at the off chance of running across a human , something changed as she grew older and restless . she took a venture closer and found a boy ferociously scribbling in a book , he'd be there day after day and finally she took a chance and approached him . it didn't take long before the pair with smitten with one another , she liked hearing him talk and she liked avoiding all his questions about her and where she's from .

things took a more serious turn and when he proposed the two run away together she disappeared . guinevere would still watch him from afar until one day he stopped going to where they would be . she lost a piece of herself with their interactions in her life but she doesn't regret any of it .

guinevere hates hates hattteeesss when people use her full name , she prefers gwen over anything . she doesn't like being underestimated or coddled and as time has passed she seemingly grown to care less and less what members of the court think of her .

she prefers afon vale over the nixie courts she's started feeling is really stuffy . guinevere will still always do what is necessary for her people and anything her mother asks of her .

she loves music and work at the duckpond , guinevere can be found most days there with headphones in .

guinevere and the word shy are strangers she tries to make a friend out of almost everyone , she's hardly ever since without a smile on her face .

credit to llillards for the graphic template !!

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☼☾ ( AYCA AYSIN TURAN , 27 , SHE/HER , CIS WOMAN , CAILLEACH ) - have you seen SAFIYE DEMIRCI?  they’ve been living in afon vale for ALL HER LIFE and they really think they’re safe. people say that they’re ARTISTIC but i heard they’re UNPREDICTABLE. you can usually find them working as a/an FASHION DESIGNER at SELF-EMPLOYED (CREATES LOOKS OUT OF A SMALL SPACE BENEATH HER APARTMENT). they’ve tried hard to keep WHILE THEY WERE AWAY AT DESIGN SCHOOL THEY USED A FORBIDDEN SOUND TO GET AHEAD buried but the truth always comes out. a few things that remind me of them are … silk fabrics hung across cedar dowels near an open window; beautiful patterns drawn on every blank surface; the smell of coffee and cinnamon; a smile that disarms and promises mischief; the sky before dawn when it’s golden and shades of pink, blue, and orange. 

basics.

name: safiye demirci

age: 27

gender: cis female

species: cailleach

sexuality: demisexual / demiromantic

occupation: fashion designer

hometown: afon vale

ethnicity: caucasian (turkish)

languages: english, turkish, french, italian

physical.

height: 5'6"

build: lithely curvy

hair: dark brown, left long and flowing around her shoulders, often perfectly managed

eyes: stormy-blue, almond-shaped

tattoos: a cross on her collarbone.

piercings: twice on each earlobe

personal style: fashionable but comfortable; wears a lot of her own designs and tends towards softer colors and fabrics. when she needs to dress up she goes to the nines and creates a whole new look every time and, if asked, will try to replicate (to a degree) said outfit for clients who want to visit the space she sells out of beneath her apartment. understated gold jewelry and subtle makeup is usually a go-to, focusing mostly on her eyes.

psychological.

positive: artistic, creative, upbeat

negative: unpredictable, distractable, flighty

MBTI: enfp

enneagram: the enthusiast

temperament: sanguine

family.

father: tbd demirci (open on main)

mother: tbd demirci (open on main)

siblings: beren dimirci (youngest sister), tbd demirci (triplet with saf), tbd demirci (triplet with saf)

headcanons.

her use of forbidden sounds wasn't out of lack of talent but lack of confidence. she is actually a very good designers and could have probably succeeded without, which somehow makes it worse.

she has an aversion to the smell of fresh cut grass, it gives her a headache.

she's close to her siblings and will generally always pick up the phone if they call. it isn't that they don't fight but she's pretty attached to them.

she once dressed an entire ensemble for a local play and was one of the most raved about points of the night.

her designs, while never featured on a big stage, have been getting traction as of late and looking to break out. why she's still in afon vale when she wants to be a famous fashion designer is anyone's guess.

she's had two serious relationships, one with a woman and one with a man, the woman having been most recently and the roughest of her break ups.

she's looking for love in all the wrong places.

biography bits.

safiye is the eldest of the triplets, being born a full minute before the other two. she is the eldest of the demirci children by that merit but no one is counting.

safiye pursued art through most of school, tending to get better grades within creative aspects than academic ones, though she did fairly well in math.

safiye had never left afon vale until she decided to go to college, but has since then visited several places like france and turkey.

she graduated from design school with offers from several firms but decided to go her own route and return to her home in afon vale.

tbd

connections.

best friend

friends, misc.

potential love interests, slow burn, will they / won't they fun (bonus if taboo)

her two exes

people who buy her designs

childhood friends / those who know the demirci legacy

someone from design school who knows about what happened an will leverage it over her

[hcax]

☼☾ ( maia reficco , 21 , she/her , ciswoman , cailleach, cordoba family youngest daughter ) - have you seen Josephine Cordoba?  they’ve been living in afon vale for 21 years and they really think they’re safe. people say that they’re loyal but i heard they’re cunning. you can usually find them working as a florist at smillow flower shop. they’ve tried hard to keep that they used necro calling and puppeting before and still does buried but the truth always comes out. a few things that remind me of them are ... freshly made coffee, a brand new sweater feeling warm yet itchy, having a picnic with friends in a spring afternoon, going to the beach in a calm winter day just to watch the dark sea.

basics

full name: Josephine Cordoba.

nickname/alias: Joss.

gender: Female.

sexuality: Bisexual with no preferences.

age, birthday and star sign: 21, July 13th, Cancer.

occupation: Florist.

song: to be added.

appearance

faceclaim: Maia Reficco.

height: 5'3.

eyecolor: Brown.

haircolor: Dark brown.

tattoos/scars/key features: faded cordoba family mark.

personality

positive traits: Friendly, loyal and thoughtful.

negative traits: Cunning, indecisive and resentful.

other

species: cailleach

pets: june (cat)

background

as a kid, Josephine always felt left out and as if she didn't have a place anywhere. her best friends were her siblings and maybe she had one or two friends at school. she spent the majority of her time at recess with her brothers or with her teachers in the classroom chatting and "helping out". The comfort her teachers gave her later on made her want to become a teacher herself to offer that comfort to other's.

when she reached the age of 10, she made a friend that died of unknown causes a few years later when they were about 13. when Josephine turned 15 she felt lonely enough to decide to use necro calling and try reaching out to her friend. Josephine's mother found out and they had a big argument that led to their relationship being even more estranged than it already was.

that same year Joss started to have part times jobs, the main one being tutoring lessons and the other being bartending at a cafe near her house. when she turned 18 she started working at the flower shop her deceased best friends parent's owned, while also majoring in education.

Joss has had used puppeting before. one night coming back home from work a guy tried to rob her and it just kicked in as an instinct to puppet him away, which worked.

after those couple's experiences using so-called banned spells, she stopped being so afraid of using them and has used them or considered doing so way more constantly. never doing so in front of her mother or family in general though.

even though Joss and her mother weren't close, her mother always looked out for her in her own way and also made Joss this huge standard to fulfill regarding her abilities and education.

currently Joss is in her last year of college and lives in a cozy apartment with her best friend and roomate.

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☼☾ ( AVAN JOGIA , 27 , HE/THEY , GENDERFLUID, BEAN SIDHE ) - have you seen NAVEEN KHATRI?  they’ve been living in afon vale for THEIR WHOLE LIFE and they really think they’re safe. people say that they’re CHARISMATIC but i heard they’re NON-COMMITTAL. you can usually find them working as a/an OWNER at NAAN OF YOUR BUSINESS. they’ve tried hard to keep THE FACT THAT THEY PREDICTED THEIR BROTHER’S DEATH buried but the truth always comes out. a few things that remind me of them are … flour dusting their hands and clothes, a blend of rock punk & metal on full blast in his headphones, a different body in his bed each week, the refusal to conform to the boxes they ought to fit in.

triggers: death, car accident, substance misuse

born and raised in afon vale, naveen was a relatively happy kid. the khatri parents - while both coming from bean sidhe families - decided to raise their children as human as possible. naveen and his older brother akash were heavily involved in the local community, going to the afon vale schools. akash was the sporty, outgoing leader and naveen the quiet creative that idolised his superstar big bro.

as inherited bean sidhe, naveen had some affinity to his abilities but as he had been raised human, his parents had never tried to teach him anything so what he could do was very minimal.

as a teen, naveen went through a wave of typical rebellion - making friends with the wrong people and getting into trouble. as the quieter, artsy type in the shadow of his older brother he became a bit of an outcast and the boys grew apart.

one night when he was 16, naveen had a prediction. it wasn't clear, just an overwhelming sense of dread and certainty that something awful was about to happen. that his brother was going to die. he buried it, ignoring the feeling and doubting his abilities. the consequence ?? later that night while driving home from rugby practise, his brother got into a car accident and died. naveen, as a fellow passenger, was put into a coma. when he finally awoke, his world was changed.

the loss of his brother broke naveen and the guilt of knowing he might've prevented it is something he has never been able to shake. he became even more withdrawn, burying himself in alcohol and drugs, and falling into bed with anyone that would have him.

falling apart and totally disconnected from his family and friends, it was his aunt that finally got through to him. stepping in and showing him a new path - to learn to use his bean sidhe abilities. she showed him how to connect to his predictions, how to listen and understand, and how to use his scream. finally, when she believed he was ready, she taught him how to commune with the dead. and naveen was able to speak with his brother again.

repairing what was fractured within himself, naveen learned to find joy in life again. he found fun in creativity and has started to try and become closer to his parents again. his mother has taught him old family recipes and their bond has become founded in food and tradition which naveen now recreates ( with some modern twists ) in the street food truck he owns.

though he has dialled down on the drug and alcohol use, he's not tee-total and definitely still dabbles in both. he's also not good at romantic relationships and still prefers to keep people at arms length.

naveen is pansexual and has recently begun being comfortable exploring his genderfluidity. while he for the most part still uses he/him pronouns, he is starting to use 'they' and explore aspects of typical 'femininity' publicly.

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☼☾ ( SHELLEY HENNIG , 32 , SHE/HER , CISWOMAN, FOX PÚCA ) - have you seen LORELAI ‘RORY’ FELL?  they’ve been living in afon vale for FOUR YEARS and they really think they’re safe. people say that they’re ENDURING but i heard they’re IMPULSIVE. you can usually find them working as a BARTENDER at KINGS & QUEENS. they’ve tried hard to keep FLEEING THEIR EX-BOYFRIEND buried but the truth always comes out. a few things that remind me of them are … the bittersweet burn of tequila down the throat, fingers stained black with ink, the scent of engine oil lingering on her skin. 

triggers: death, murder, abuse

born and raised new yorker, rory grew up to a single mother in brooklyn. her dad had died when she was seven years old, just after her brother was born. 

while their mother was human, both she and her brother were púca thanks to the gene inherited by their father.

without the guiding hand of their púca father, rory and her brother were taught little about their species and were raised as essentially human children. she grew to fear the animal side of herself and avoided changing as much as possible. though she was a warm, friendly, great kid - she was scared she’d hurt people so she kept her distance. instead, her little brother was her everything. she practically raised him as their mom had to work a lot to take care of them. 

about eight years ago, rory learned about a fox collective in new york. knowing little about her kind, she didn't understand that the way the collective functioned was not how they were supposed to - instead of the true way of the collective, this group was overseen by a leader and he saw the world in a darker way. he believed that humans were beneath them, not to be protected. and though rory did not agree, she had fallen in love with another member of the collective and he was a devout follower.

nick, her then boyfriend, taught her all the fun of being púca - he showed her that being the animal was a whole other life. but he was also hot tempered, violent, and obsessive. he wanted rory to be his at all times. feeling suffocated and scared of who the boy she loved had become, she aligned herself with some local hunters and gave them intel on how to take down the collective.

believing nick had been killed, rory thought that her family was safe - that she had escaped him. but instead he had fled the fight and stayed out of new york to keep off the hunters radar.

over the years her ex-boyfriend became obsessed with her, believing that the only reason she’d left him was because of her family holding her back. one day when rory came home from work, she found her mother dead and her brother dying. she interrupted her ex in the act and managed to save her brother but he was badly injured.

rory and her brother ran from new york, wanting to put as many miles between them and nick as possible. around 4 years ago, they came to afon vale and have settled here since.

for the most part, she is a friendly, charming, fun girl. her experiences with nick did damage her for romantic relationships and trusting púca but her friendship with aoife overcame part of that. she is generally pretty open to most people and tries not to see the worst in them.

[inwhvspers]

☼☾ ( MADCHEN AMICK, 45 / 26 , SHE/THEY, DEMI FEMALE, SIKA DEER PÚCA ) - have you seen AOIFE VAUGHN?  they’ve been living in afon vale for 45 YEARS and they really think they’re safe. people say that they’re ERUDITE but i heard they’re DISMISSIVE. you can usually find them working as a/an BARTENDER at THE ROYAL OAK. they’ve tried hard to keep KILLED THEIR MOTHER buried but the truth always comes out. a few things that remind me of them are … soft freckles across her nose; the scent of fur trees in her hair; fairy lights in apartment windows; faded lip prints on mirrors; a smile that can melt hearts.

basics.

name: aoife vaughn

age: 26 (45)

gender: demi female

species: puca (sika deer)

sexuality: demisexual / demiromantic

occupation: bartender, the royal oak

hometown: afon vale

ethnicity: caucasian

languages: english, gaelic, french

physical.

height: 5'5"

build: lithe

hair: light brown; long, wavy/curly hair for most of the time unless she chooses to straighten it. wild and free, like her spirit.

eyes: hazel, doe-eyed

tattoos: small deer marking on her left hip, a rook on her right wrist.

piercings: twice on each earlobe, helix, rook

personal style: a lot of muted colors and soft fabrics, often choosing comfort over style and function over form. gravitates towards softer greens, reds, blues, and 'smokier' colors. has been known to dye parts of her hair temporarily but always ends up back with the light brown. can often be seen with her deer horns when wandering the forest. always a smattering of freckles across the bridge of her nose that get a second layer of 'whiter' freckles when she's in partial deer form.

psychological.

positive: erudite, free-spirited, creative

negative: dismissive, secretive, touchy, absent minded

MBTI: istj

enneagram: the investigator

temperament: choleric

family.

father: calum vaugn (alive, estranged) , npc

mother: catrione vaugn (deceased) , npc 

brother: (alive), open

aunt: (alive), open

headcanons.

her name is pronounced like 'eva' but with a softer v leaning more towards an f.

often slips into partial deer form if left alone to her own devices and especially if she's wandering the woods. full deer form is more likely in the woods, obviously.

one of her antlers/horns is tinged at the tip a bit more reddish but it's barely perceptible most of the time.

she has a pet rabbit named thumper.

she makes videos for tiktok sometimes with specific filters... yes, she tries to look like a deer. it's fine.

she and rory have known each other a while, probably since school but didn't really get into the best friend/ride or die zone until a bit later, but now they're inseparable and she'll easily fight someone for her.

she has an allergy to grapes.

she practices reading tarot and will sometimes do that for bar patrons; she also designed her own deck and it's extremely personal to her (she is a decent artist, at least)

she has absolute shit luck in most things. she's the one who always bangs her toes into furniture or cracks brand new phone screens almost immediately.

aoife sees a therapist of sorts but makes sure it's v quiet and sort of out of the way so no one sees her do it. she's already weird enough, she thinks (hopefully I can write her getting over this stigma because ew)

cw: abuse (child through young adult; physical and mental), abandonment, murder, death of a parent.

biography.

aoife's father left when she was young and she's resented him ever since.

her mother was taking care of her but very much not in a safe way and aoife suffered a lot under her.

she was kept from the outside world a lot in the beginning, her mother having lost the thread of reality and deciding they should live in a cabin off in the woods somewhere.

as she grew, the abuse turned more physical and at some points she was forced to be in deer form for days at a time and took lashings if she wandered too far from home.

aoife was a teenager when she'd finally had enough and lashed out. she hadn't meant for it to end how it did, with her mother impaled on her deer horns, but that is how it went.

it took a while for her to wash the blood off of her horns in half-form and to burn the body, but she did. Her mother's bones are somewhere in the woods near the cabin she used to call home, now abandoned.

aoife moved into the city proper at 17 and found her father's sister, being taken in and taken care of. She never told her aunt how it happened, but said her mother had died and her father had run off long ago and the woman was kind and looked after her. She could tell aoife had been abused and was gentle with her, which was new for aoife.

school was a revelation. she wasn't illiterate or anything as before her mother had lost the plot she'd taught her to read and gave her lessons... they just became less pleasant as time went on. the socialization however was so new and freeing and she immediately fell into all the worst, wrong crowds and got into trouble a lot.

her aunt was worried but let it go because honestly, the girl had been through a lot. when aoife hit 20 though she started to put the law to hand. she knew eventually aoife was leave her but for now she had to try and keep her safe.

aoife mellowed, still very much leaning towards the idea of bad decisions. this leads to one night stands and pushing away the 'right ones' for fear of something bad happening.

she now lives on her own, but calls her aunt every now and again to check in because she's the one she thinks of as her mother even after only a handful of years.

she's intelligent and could have still pivoted into some kind of degree if she'd wanted, but she chose to just stay where she was and take a job bartending.

she has her regulars that she's quite fond of and always offers a smile and a crinkle of her freckled nose for them when they come in.

connections.

best friend taken by rory!

friends, misc.

rival

potential love interests, slow burn

exes, misc.

favored bar patrons

other puca

someone who knows about her mom but is keeping it to themselves.

[hypnctics]

☼☾ ( AJ COOK , 45 / AROUND 1300 , SHE/HER , CISFEMALE , NIXIE, QUEEN ) - have you seen CERIDWEN FFLUR CEFNFOR?  they’ve been living in afon vale for OVER 1000 YEARS and they really think they’re safe. people say that they’re DECISIVE but i heard they’re EVASIVE. you can usually find them working as a NIXIE QUEEN at AFON VALE NIXIE COURT. they’ve tried hard to keep THEIR DESIRE TO CLAIM OWNERSHIP OF AFON VALE buried but the truth always comes out. a few things that remind me of them are … crystallised salt speckled through golden hair, a smile reserved for victory, benevolence that cannot be mistaken for tolerance, a hunger for a life unlived.

basics

full name : ceridwen fflur cefnfor

name meaning: poetry / song, white / fair, flower, ocean

nickname / alias: your majesty ( to her subjects ), ceri ( to her first consort )

gender / pronouns: she/her

sexuality: pansexual

age, birthday + star sign: 45/around 1300, 17th august + leo

place of birth: afon vale, wales

accent : south welsh

occupation: queen

associated locations: glydŵr cove

song: you should see me in a crown by billie eilish

appearance

faceclaim: aj cook

height: 5"9

eyecolor: pale blue

haircolor: golden blonde

build: willowy

tattoos / scars / key features: royal sigil at the base of her neck acquired when she became queen

personality

positive traits: decisive, resilient, diplomatic

negative traits: evasive, calculating, reticent

relationships

parents : queen catrin alys cefnfor ( mother, deceased ), alwyn bowen ( father )

siblings : angharad cefnfor ( younger sister ), bethan cefnfor ( younger sister ), ffion cefnfor ( younger sister ), heledd ( younger sister ), carwyn ( younger brother ), gruffudd ( younger brother ), owain ( younger brother ), steffan ( younger brother )

children : guinevere cefnfor ( eldest daughter ), middle cefnfor ( middle daughter ), arwen cefnfor ( youngest daughter )

pets : rhyfelwr ( fin whale )

other

species: nixie

characters she’s inspired by:

history

born a princess to the royal nixie court over 1300 years ago, ceridwen remembers very little of her childhood and what she does remember she represses. her mother queen catrin was a cold and cruel woman that ruled her kingdom without mercy. ceridwen was one of countless heirs her mother sired but as the first born, she bore the brunt of her mother's expectations. she had to be perfect, be the ideal, and was groomed to be a ruler from the day she was born.

her mother, the former queen, met a grisly end when ceridwen was only 300. assassinated under the instruction of a foreign court as revenge for failing to marry off her eldest to their own heir. inheriting the throne and the rivalry, ceridwen was quick to put an end to the problem by drawing in the support of other courts. where her mother had been an easy enemy, ceridwen was optimistic and diplomatic.

ceridwen promised herself from an early age that she would not rule like her mother had. that she would love her people, and show them warmth and kindness. but time is long, waters cold, and a naive heart is easily hardened - more and more ceridwen finds herself mirroring the monster she wished to avoid becoming.

as queen, it was a responsibility of hers to continue the family line should something befall her. as such she felt a vast pressure to have children but did not want to have countless, unloved heirs like her mother did. but ceridwen did not have an easy time getting pregnant, much to her buried grief she lost several children to miscarriage and stillbirth. her three successful children are the only thing she professes to love; though she reserves her affections for behind closed doors.

she has never married and doesn't believe romantic love is logical. her three consorts were chosen for their strong bloodlines, loyalty to the crown, and expectation to produce heirs. while she cares, in her own way, about each of her consorts - she has a different dynamic with each of them. her first consort is the only one she truly loves, though she would deny it. and if the choice was demanded of her, she would always put her kingdom first and he knows that.

the decision to emerge from the underwater court and position themselves in afon vale was hers and it is the first step in a long game she has been playing. for the moment, ceridwen is ascertaining which species can be trusted and which are worthy of allegiance. but she does aspire to one day claim afon vale for the cefnfor monarchy.

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☼☾ ( DAVID CASTANEDA , 32 , HE/HIM , CISMALE , LEANAN SIDHE ) - have you seen MILO CORTEZ?  they’ve been living in afon vale for TWO YEARS and they really think they’re safe. people say that they’re LOYAL but i heard they’re ALOOF. you can usually find them working as SECURITY at KINGS&QUEENS. they’ve tried hard to keep HE HATES WHAT HE IS AND WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO BE NORMAL buried but the truth always comes out. a few things that remind me of them are … the taste of liquor and something sweet on your lips , light fingers tracing circles on your arm, dusty artificial flowers for a forgetful person , worn out thrift store books littering a nightstand .

tw : child abandonment !

the story starts in a town in mexico he doesn't care to name . milo along with his twin mila were the product of what sometimes happens when a human meets a demon . there was never any warmth from the pairs mother maybe an attempt once or twice , but nothing ever seemed genuine . it wasn't that much of a surprise to find out she just wasn't there anymore for the siblings .

to say his father is a touchy subject would be an understatement . the young leanan sidhe can't stand him . he's a cause for upset and though he can't understand mila's need for approval from their father he's easy to temper at all his sisters attempt being discarded . at this point he just tries to find any excuse to hate his demon parent . his father is also a big part he doesn't like himself and what he has to do to survive .

while mila had their way of supporting the pair milo made sure they were safe every step of the way and did everything he could think to do to help contribute . at some point they found the amalgam , they're some of the only other people he actually trusts . even then there's still a timidness to it as if he's almost anticipating some great betrayal that'll probably never happen . it's almost an always ready to take flight when there's any hint at a fight .

he's not overly forthcoming with his emotions and he can be somewhat and annoying protective of the people he's close to which is a list that can probably be counted on both hands . not known for being overfriendly but also not a complete asshole , he just tends to be there until he needs to make himself known . he has his moments of cracking a joke but don't think to much on that . he worries a lot and overthinks a great deal of things .

he's comfortable with where mila and himself are but still a little wary of potentially stepping on toes of some of the others in afon vale .

you'd be pressed to try and get any information on the past him and his sister share other than ' mexico ' . very lowkey ( or highkey ) dimitri from vampire academy vibes .

being vulnerable ( coughcough ) with others is something that doesn't come easily to him ( blame it on the nature of his kind ) and might actually kind of scare him .

he'd call himself a collector of books he's borderline hoarded for himself before he calls himself an avid reader , a lot of books are began but lost or forgotten somewhere in his living space .

credit to llillards for the graphic template !!