Post by Aedre on Mar 31, 2013 21:16:09 GMT -5
Warn your warmth to turn away,
Here it's December,
Everyday.
Here it's December,
Everyday.
Name: Aedre Viviana M'arella
Nickname(s): Goes by Aedre, pronounced AY-dreh
Played by: Archer
Age: 252
Date of Birth: December 31st
Sexuality: Bisexual
Blood: Water Elemental x Sanguine Vampire
Loyalty: Herself first, the King of Thieves second, and the Daemon Lord a distant third.
Status/Occupation: Publicly, owns a fine jewellery shop in the City and crafts her own pieces, specialising in gemstones found primarily or exclusively in the far North. Aedre is also a well-known fence among members of the City of Thieves and will buy a large variety of stolen goods, for which she charges a blood tax.
Abilities:
Water Affinity
Immunity to Cold: Aedre is immune to cold temperatures up to -10C. Anything below this may be uncomfortable but is never fatal.
Press your lips to the sculptures,
And surely you'll stay...
For of sugar and ice,
I am made. I am made
And surely you'll stay...
For of sugar and ice,
I am made. I am made
Appearance:
Long white-blue hair; Aedre wears her hair, the most obvious sign of her Elemental bloodline, long and often loosely plaited. White is the dominant colour but subtle hints of light ice blue can be seen, especially in certain lights where they reflect almost like ice would.
Expressive grey-blue eyes; the colour of gathering storm clouds at dusk.
Pale complexion; extremely pale in fact, only a shade warmer than her hair, and never seen with even the hint of a blush.
Full dark red lips; adding to a classic, easy, unaffected beauty that is more relaxed than the dramatic striking beauty of most Daemons.
A heart-shaped face; which, taken with her expressive eyes, full lips and the fact that she looks young even for a Daemon, perpetually frozen at seventeen or eighteen if one had to guess, gives Aedre a misleading appearance of innocence that is rare for a Daemon. This is likely all due to her Sanguine blood; her colouring comes from her Water Elemental genetics, but the rest from her Vampiric mother.
Slim, petite frame; Aedre would be described as willowy if she wasn't considered short at 5'2. She's very slim and has a petite figure, although she can be surprisingly athletic when she needs to be and is very flexible.
Fangs and claws; these are about as subtle as is possible for a Daemon. When retracted her fangs look like slightly sharpened canines and her claws like unusually pointed, bone-white fingernails. When extended her nails lengthen to just an inch and her fangs to just below her lower lip.
Expensive attire; since she's wealthy by anyone's standards and reasonably vain, Aedre enjoys elegant, costly clothing. She favours long chiffon dresses in light hues, particularly blues, silvers and white and wears her own jewellery with it, platinum and diamonds being among her favourites.
She exhales vanilla lace,
I barely dreamt her, yesterday.
I barely dreamt her, yesterday.
Personality:
Proud
It's not an uncommon trait for Daemons, and Aedre is no different. She has a streak of vanity, coveting the expensive, the beautiful, and the rare. Aedre is wealthy and being so is important to her. She is also sensitive to insults and vengeful when angered.
Intelligent
Sharp, quick-witted and streetwise, this trait combined with her desire for wealth led Aedre down the path of her second, more secretive occupation of fence. Aedre runs her jewellery shop alone, too, and has a good head for figures as well as being a voracious reader. She can also be very judgmental of others.
Sadistic
It's a bit of a gamble, what kind of Sanguine you're going to get when you run across one. Aedre absolutely takes after her now-deceased mother and has a pronounced sadistic streak. She doesn't keep blood slaves because she doesn't want to be responsible for anyone else, but she is merciless when she feeds and has little to no empathy for others. Her innocent, youthful appearance is misleading for this reason.
Cold
Detached, aloof and coolly appraising, Aedre is rarely moved to fits of temper or passion. She is very self-controlled, even by Daemon standards, and is guarded with her friendship. Once she is loyal to someone she can be warmer towards them, but only ever in private and by many people's standards, always remains independent and distant.
Manipulative
Aedre will do what she needs to in order to ensure her own success. Whether this relates to her shop, the buying and selling of stolen goods, or her need for blood she is ruthless and manipulative. She will use her looks, her wealth, her position or anything else that works including intimidation, threats and torture.
She wanted love,
I taste of blood.
She bit my lip, and drank my warmth,
From years before, from years before.
History:
I taste of blood.
She bit my lip, and drank my warmth,
From years before, from years before.
History:
Her father was a Water Elemental with a particular love of the deep, cold pools in the Daemon Tunnels and her mother a Sanguine Vampire who kept a ever-renewing chain of blood slaves that became an omnipresent part of her childhood. They named their only child Aedre, daughter of the river, since she had her father's colouring. Being a half-breed didn't complicate things too much for the pretty, white-haired child, though she learned early on that she needed both blood and water to survive.
Aedre's mother was never content to stay in the Tunnels for long so Aedre spent most of her childhood in the City of Thieves and Spirit, much better places for a Sanguine to hunt. She learned to feed herself before too long and found that an "innocent" child could find victims without too much trouble. Eventually they simply stopped seeing her father when they returned to the Tunnels and Aedre never missed him since she'd never known him well.
Her mother died sometime around Aedre's twenties, disappearing one night to feed and never returning to the tavern they were staying in. By this time the Vampire Elemental half breed was becoming more independent anyway, spending a lot of time entertaining herself though she didn't have any assets or coin of her own. Once her stay at the tavern ran out Aedre, who had been born with a magical tolerance to cold, set out for the far North in search of items to sell. She drank from cold pools and travellers on her way and, in the frozen wastelands of the far North which most couldn't survive in, she found diamonds and moonstone, obsidian and platinum ore, garnet and emerald and alexandrite to take back to the cities.
It took some thirty years of selling and saving but eventually Aedre saved enough to buy a small shop on the high street of the Human City. Daemon vendors were tolerated only if they provided something no Human shopkeeper was providing but fortunately Aedre specialised in high-quality, beautiful jewellery which she made herself with the help of a local Crafter. This proved popular enough with the nobility to secure her place, however taxes to the City and King of Thieves proved to be exorbitant so Aedre took up a second occupation, buying and selling select stolen goods. She proved a popular fence due to her location and ability to buy expensive items, even though she imposed a blood tax on anyone who sold to her.
Aedre now spends most of her time in the City, although she travels to Spirit occasionally to sell there when she has extra stock. She also makes occasional trips to the North still as she is known for the extremely high quality 'ice diamonds' she sets in her jewellery. She is independent, self-sufficient and driven to continue expanding her wealth - but since business is good there have been no problems on that front.
Love Like Winter.
Love Like Winter.
Winter.
Roleplay Sample:
Love Like Winter.
Winter.
Roleplay Sample:
The wind was biting, so cold it could kill, but the pale-haired Daemon seemed unfazed as she picked her way through the snow drifts. Her feet were bare and she wore a thin gossamer dress of pale blue that, on close inspection, proved to be completely see through. She should have frozen to death hours ago but she looked completely unconcerned as her magic protected her from frostbite and hypothermia; the wind was a little chilly, but nothing unbearable for her.
Here, in the far North of Litharia, the ground was frozen and covered in snow year round. Conditions were harsh and even at the height of summer the cold prevented most people from living up here. There were no trees, no shelter, and the wind that howled across the snowdrifts had teeth of ice. For this reason it was unexploited and the best quality diamonds Aedre had ever found all came from here. Marketed as 'ice diamonds', despite being no different to any others except in location, the quality and clarity was appealing to the Human nobility - and to her. And they were easy to find, pried from the surface of the rock with a pickaxe and her claws.
A small leather pouch around her neck already clinked with her finds - not just diamonds, although there were plenty of those - but other precious and semi-precious gems too. Aedre never sold raw materials so all that she found were destined to undergo the attentions of her Crafter, a man who could cut and polish gemstones with his magic, before she would set them into unique jewellery pieces beloved by the wealthy. One or two more days up here should do it and she'd have enough for six months or more, depending on business. Focused and methodical the Daemon picked her way over the ice, a lonely pale figure like a phantom in the swirling snow, but as at home here as she'd ever been anywhere else.