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[color=00a651][b]Name:[/b][/color] Juniper Thunderbee
[color=00a651][b]Age:[/b][/color] Teen
[color=00a651][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Female

[color=00a651][b]Magic: [/b][/color]As an earth-aligned fairy, Juniper is able to manipulate plant life and make plants grow, including those with harmful or helpful properties. 

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Juniper is of normal height but is quite lithe, giving her an air of fragility. She has a light skin tone and cascading oak-brown hair which curls lightly and would trail quite a ways down her back if she left it be. She can spend hours playing it into different braids and buns, or experimenting with wearing different flowers in it. Flowers and small vines often trail across her pointed ears, neck, wrists, arms, and hair. She can summon or dispel them at will and have just become a normal part of her everyday fashion. Juniper normally wears plain, solid-coloured dresses and allows the flowers to do the part of accentuating her looks. 

Typical of fairies, she has soft features and expressive eyes which both feature a gradient of green to purple from right to left. Her wings are mostly bright green, but fade to a sky blue as they come closer to her back. 

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Personality:[/b][/color] Juniper has a gentle and sweet disposition, rarely getting into disagreements and quick to offer help. She is especially empathetic to animals, and would probably help an animal in need ahead of another fairy. Animals tend to be drawn to her calm nature (and tendency to bring treats) and many creatures of all shapes and sizes are familiar with her in the Luminous Forest.

Juniper has a tendency to narrate what she's doing or verbally describe objects around her, which might seem like an odd quirk before learning that her father is blind. She would never purposefully talk over anybody, though. That would be difficult anyways given her soft speaking voice. She is easily dominated in conversation by more extroverted types, but is happy to sit and listen.

Her obsession with her appearance means she prefers not to fly too fast, as not to mess up her hair or dislodge any flowers. She can also be dramatic and immature about things such as not wanting to go out in the rain, or landing in trees instead of on the dirty ground.  

[color=00a651][b]History:[/b][/color] Juniper was born in Lumina to the Thunderbee family. Her mother, Dalila, was an earth fairy just like her. Her father, Surge, was a rare electric variant. In her earliest memories, they spent their days playing among the glowing mushrooms and snuggling together at night. Her childhood memories slowly became of just her and her mother, overlapped with heated arguments between her mother and father when they thought she wasn't listening. It became normal - dad left, and then he came back, sometimes with little souvenirs for her from the lands he visited. She would brag to the other fairy children that her father was a great explorer, a brave hero who ventured far away to bring her and her mom back cool trinkets. 

Her point of view changed abruptly when her father returned one day permanently blinded on an adventure. She worried desperately about him when he left again, but tried not to let her mother see that she was upset. She didn't want to give her more reasons to yell at Dad.

Juniper began spending more time outside on her own after that. She had always been fascinated with the plantlife and creatures that dwelled within it, but now she realized she couldn't take her eyesight for granted. What if one day she couldn't see them anymore? She wanted to experience it all and commit it to memory. She made quick friends with many a magical beetle or rodent, and even some of the larger creatures became used to her presence - helped by the cookies that Dalila was so talented at baking. When her father returned from his travels, Juniper told her everything she'd experienced in as much detail as she could. She wanted him to "see" it, too.

Juniper became very familiar with the forest at a young age and would venture progressively deeper into it. She learned which path to take, helped by the creatures she came across. She stayed out longer and longer playing by herself, despite her mom making it clear that she had a strict curfew. One day it began raining when she was deep in the forest, and she decided to wait out the weather instead of fly home and get soaked. The rain didn't let up, and Juniper ended up falling asleep in a tree burrow, snuggled with a large feysquirrel. 

She awoke much later to find sunlight peeking through the tree hole. She flew home in a panic, knowing her mother would be wondering where she was. There were fairies bustling around everywhere when she arrived back to Lumina, and all of them surrounded Juniper when they spotted her and began crying. They'd thought she was dead - the whole town was out searching - and her mother...

Her mother had gone looking for her last night and not returned. When Juniper insisted she would go find her, they broke the truth - that she had already been found, but she'd been found dead. Perhaps a toxic plant had gotten her, or a bite from one of the feysnakes - the cause wasn't obvious. She looked so peaceful when Juniper approached to say goodbye for one last time.

Juniper refused to leave the house for weeks and fell into a depression. Her father wasn't home, so neighbours would check on her and make sure she was eating. She blamed herself for her mother's death - part of her still does to this day. When her father finally returned home, Juniper collapsed in his arms and sobbed.

Both of their lives abruptly changed, but they had to move forward, together. Surge stopped adventuring to look after her, but in a way, Juniper began looking after him, too. She took over cooking after Surge's first several attempts ended with him feeding her trail mix for dinner. She'd picked up some level of knowledge from watching and listening to Dalila cook. She also became accustomed to narrating her surroundings or people she came across for her dad. Sure, Dad set the rules and paid the bills, but they slowly became a team. For years she would beg him to recount his stories of grandeur before she fell asleep, and then she would dream about exploring herself one day.

Perhaps that day isn't too far off...

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