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[center][h1]Miss Charlene “Cherry” Zinaida[/h1][color=crimson][sub]You’d love to know who I came from. Whose little princess was I, before?[/sub][/color][/center][indent][indent][indent][indent][hr][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][h2][i]You are not insane.[/i][/h2][/center]
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[center][color=gray][i]"Can you call this place a home?"[/i][/color]
[sub][color=crimson]Can anyone?[/color][/sub][/center]
[center][img] https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/6570410c-1a7d-423a-8420-5bdd40db4cdf.png [/img]
[color=crimson][sub]Why can’t you meet my eyes?[/sub][/color][/center]
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[indent][indent][indent][indent][h3]TAYGETE CITIZENSHIP CARD[/h3][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[indent][indent][indent][indent][table][row][cell]ID SERIAL[/cell][cell]BIRTH[/cell][cell]RESIDENCE[/cell][cell]PROFESSION[/cell][/row][row][cell]R7037300[/cell][cell]F, Age 23 (Feb 28)[/cell][cell]Herse[/cell][cell]Unemployed[/cell][/row][/table][hr][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[indent][indent][indent][indent][h3]PERSONALITY[/h3]
Cherry has often been called, and very much is… intense. She’s not easy to talk to. She always seems on edge. In an average conversation there’s a pervasive sense that something very bad must have happened to make her what she is.
What goes on in her head is a mystery. What she shares is often malformed. She will insult people she likes and those she doesn’t. She will, in fevered and angry and sometimes incoherent tones, speak and act against every system of the world.
Politically, you would call her an anarchist. Neurologically, perhaps a psychotic. Philosophically, she owns a well-worn hard copy of Industrial Society and Its Future, and socially, she has declined to have any conversation with you about who she is.[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[indent][indent][indent][indent][h3]BACKGROUND[/h3]
[color=crimson]I was born here. In Taygete. Do you really want to know more? Does my past really matter?[/color]
Cherry is extremely cagey about her past. To what extent it’s a defensive measure and to what extent she simply doesn’t care to share is hard to say.

[color=crimson]My family liked to pretend that they mattered. The world thought the same. Still does. But you’ve never heard of the Arbor family, have you?[/color]
Her parents ranked high in the corporate nobility. They didn’t want her. She decided she didn’t want them either. The surname she gives to those who ask is a fabrication. If there is an Arbor family, they aren’t corporate.

[color=crimson]Then and now, I’m no one’s little princess.[/color]
She caught herself, briefly, on the way to the bottom of the class ladder, and owned an apartment in Arche funded by a profession no one remembers. She was not diligent. She was not polite. She hit her boss for something that he did to deserve worse. Now she lives in Herse, and has had to get good at hitting people.

[color=crimson]I live for what I know, what I can say, and what I can change. No one likes to look me in the eye, but they’ll hear me. They don’t have to want to.[/color]
To most on the Shoegazer forums, “Fruitstem” is an open-and-shut basket case. Her goals are rather higher and more dangerous than nonparticipation, and her manifestos tend to drown out perfectly good threads. Her street art, from closed and raised fists to unrecognizable abstract scenes, is unremarkable for Herse, apart from its consistent bloody shade of red, and its seemingly oblivious encroachment into all different territories.

[color=crimson]You don't want to know me as badly as you think.[/color]
She has accumulated three pending friend requests in her inbox from among the few who’ve understood her. Only the last is less than a month old. Likewise, she never returns to see whether her artwork has been cleaned up or overwritten with a threat.

[color=crimson]The me you want is not real.[/color]
People might ask when she got “like this.” A question with several answers: she was like this when she was born. She was like this when her parents abandoned her. She was like this when the professional world disposed of her for giving the wrong man, if anything, mercy.
She was like this after her X-Factor manifested and showed her how untenably full of lies her world really was.[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[indent][indent][indent][indent][h3]X-FACTOR[/h3]
[color=crimson]My dreams are real.[/color]
[color=salmon]Cherry straddles some unseen line between this world and another. She sees [url= https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/3b33750e-7c3d-48e9-85fb-9a92fa1bca10.jpg]vis[/url][url= https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/cda478fe-ee12-4259-b010-7690f808eaf1.jpg]ions[/url]. She hears [url=https://youtu.be/O7YAHQQQkcQ]voi[/url][url=https://youtu.be/AZagzBoNmPE]ces[/url]. One day, they began to tell the truth.

Cherry’s perceptions and intuitions are augmented by another layer of consciousness (whether strictly hers or actually a form of possession, you’d have to ask someone else) that catches fleeting sensations and realizations that she would otherwise miss, and echoes them as audiovisual hallucinations.
[b]In practice, she has something like super senses – in reality, she is superbly [i]aware.[/i][/b]

If a liar’s eyebrow rises just slightly, and the movement reaches her eye, she may consciously dismiss the movement, but at the same time she won’t miss the lie – she may see his nose grow, or an unseen voice may lean over her shoulder and whisper what he must really mean. If her ear catches the indistinct shadow of a breath from a closet, others might fail to notice the sound, while she may perceive a monster hiding behind the closed door.
These phenomena are often symbolic or unclear, and must sprout from what Cherry consciously or unconsciously knows and senses. She may not know what your hand really is, but it’s still best not to challenge her in poker or try to play her for a fool.[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[@Vermicelli] lots of superficial changes starting after the citizenship card, complete reworks where you indicated... and the links should work
glad it didn't get bounced for raw edge because i cannot compromise there