Luna Abernova

Twenty Two

Winter, Day Three

Female

General Store Owner

Harsh, Honest, Impatient, Sardonic, and Serious.

Winter

Gray

Whiskey

The short list of what Luna genuinely enjoys is quite small due to the fact that she dislikes most things. But things she values include a silent room, cooking, a good novel, and a glass of wine or whiskey. She also doesn’t mind hobbies that doesn’t involve others such as a solitary stroll through the woods, watching an old film, managing her wares, and cleaning. Luna will tolerate and participate in a public event or conversation if she think she has to but it in no way means she likes such things and she will coyly remind people of this fact if they attempt to pursue her.

Luna actively dislikes most things – the world, the village she’s stuck in, corporations, nosy people, happy people, people in general, people who want things, and really anything that isn’t a good book and drink. While one might think this isn’t appropriate for someone who runs a general store, Luna doesn’t exactly have much for competition so people who want to buy something from out of town sort of have to go through her and she forced to put up with their incessant demands.

Luna doesn’t doubt that a stupid village like Root River is also a cursed village. In fact, given some of the occurrences over the years she definitely believes the universe has a hilarious obsession with Root River. However, despite not doubting the existence of such forces of nature, she really doesn’t care. For her to care about magic would mean she would have to care about the universe or life, really. If the Rot ends up overtaking the village then the sooner the better as far as she is concerned.

Luna is the only child of Joseph and Jenilee Abernova, whom died in a fatal car accident some years ago in the nearest city.

Upon their untimely deaths Luna was given to her grandfather, Isaac Abernova, whom continued to operate the family-owned general store in Root River. When Luna was sixteen-years-old Luna began to need to care for her grandfather and man the general store, which has only recently come into her ownership. Her grandfather’s funeral was two years ago.

The Abernova family pet, a flat-coated retriever named “Clutch” was adopted when Luna was ten years old making him currently a dog of twelve years.

Luna’s General Store sits on the second spot on the regional map, as it has been since the village was co-founded by one of her distant relatives. Not that she cares her family helped start the village she’s trapped in or anything. The general store is accompanied by a two-bedroom apartment on the second floor, of which Luna and her Grandfather shared up to his death. There's also a connected storehouse.

Luna Abernova was raised solely by her grandfather not long after she was born. She doesn’t remember her parents, let alone what happened to them, nor does she really care all that much about learning about it. As far as she perceives it, her grandfather is the only family she has ever had and that’s fine.

Over the years, this sentiment has not changed and although Luna has inherited the local general store following her grandfather’s death, she has come to the realization that she’s not really going anywhere; though the corporate offer to buy the general store was certainty enticing if not for the fact that she hated the slimy, suit-and-tie salesman way more than she felt discontent with the village she had grown up in. That’s without even factoring in the mere fact that selling the general store to BigCo would be a betrayal to the memory of her grandfather and Luna has no intention of sullying the one good thing she feels about the general store and by proxy, the village.

Oliver Reed

Ollie, Father Reed, Father Oliver

24 years old

Fall, 13

Male

The "official" priest of Root River.

Spring. He's a poetic soul that enjoys "rebirth".

Green.

Bouillabaisse.

Either rabbits or horses. They're about equally tied. He rather likes owls too.

Oliver is usually active from 8 am to 11 PM. He spends his mornings in various places throughout Root River, but he prefers to visit the local red bridge in hopes of seeing the Harvest Goddess. Much of his later morning and afternoon hours seem to be dedicated to visiting the various businesses of Root River save for the feasting hall which is saved for the evening. His Sundays are entirely spent in the small, makeshift chapel on his homestead. There are breaks in his schedule where he spends time caring for his rabbit, horse, and visiting residents as well.

Money, jewelry, sewing, cooking, seafood, any raw crop, gold, diamonds, tulips, spicy food, irony, reading, poetry.

Baking, alcohol, snow, sweets, silence, remaining idle for too long, ignorance, fishing, cats.

On the surface, Oliver is a devout believer and follower in the teachings of the Harvest Goddess. He preaches her teachings, appears to hold belief in the Harvest Sprites, and actively warns against falling victim to The Rot. He is generally considered to be Root River's guiding knowledge on spiritual affairs thanks to his role as the town's priest. In spite of that, however, he is very much a non-believer in his own mind and has become jaded towards the Harvest Goddess throughout the years. He still, however, continues to spread her message and hopes to help others through it.

Oliver is the youngest of six and the son of two farmers. He rarely speaks of his family and does not appear to be close with any of them. They are not native to Root River and are said to live "far away". His parents, Anna and Curtis Reed, occasionally send letters with unknown contents. He has four older sisters and two older brothers. Little are known about them save for their names: Charlotte, Emily, Cheryl, Charity, Jack, and Henry.

His best friends consist of a Flemish Giant rabbit and a Shire horse. Their names are Cinnamon and Storm, respectively. Cinnamon is light brown to tan in appearance while Storm is mostly black save for the lower half of his legs and his snout.

Oliver resides on lot six which is considered to be one of the outskirts of Root River. He lives alone and has very little furniture in his humble abode. Save for Sundays, his home life is mostly quiet and he can be rarely seen at home. Public appearances aside, staying at home for too long usually causes him to feel restless and anxious. He has a small stable for his horse and usually conducts sermons from a makeshift chapel that is around the size of a barn on Sundays.

Oliver had a hectic and unpleasant upbringing. This was thanks to the poverty, depression, and frequent famines that slowly whittled away his faith in the Harvest Goddess. Many hungry days led him onto a path of helping others in whatever way that he could. He had moved to Root River four years prior to the Roleplay and this has since allowed him to experience a fresh start in life. He has since dedicated his time to helping the locals in whatever means possible and chasing rumors in hopes of catching a glimpse of the Harvest Goddess for himself. Perhaps that would be enough to restore his faith in her.