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Aw, oh well. Thanks anyway.
Any more room?
I put something down. I feel like it really sucks. It's there, though.
A figure in a woolen cloak walked the path of the forest, her dark feet bare and near silent. Achieng was happy. A woman had just had the healthy birth of their second child. A healthy girl. Achieng had visited once the birth was done, to bless the child in the name of the Warm Goddess. It was a duty and a pleasure to welcome new little lives into the world. It had been her mother's job, and her grandmother's job, and one day, with her own daughters, perhaps it would be theirs too.

The forest seemed strangely busy today. Tugging back her hood, Achieng revealed her face. It was soft and pleasant, and tattooed with the symbols of a Goddess dedicate. Within the season, she'd become a full priestess, and the two marks on her cheeks would be joined by a third on her forehead.
Honestly it's embarrassing, but I'm intimidated. My creativity is like a dried up sponge. I see my character walking in my head, but it's in complete emptiness. I'm completely stuck, and I hate it when my first post is a lousy collection of sentences.
I did my bit, I've got nothing for Achi to do..
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Wow, thanks for the assist! I'm gonna make her a priestess of some kind, definitely.
Trying to find a role for Kassy in the early early past that wouldn't make her like... evil-sounding. Or maybe I'm thinking incorrectly. I mean, mother goddess worship would have been still quite active in the Bronze Age, right?
Appearance:

Name: Kassandra Keigwan

Age: 24

Role: Priest

Skills: High emotional IQ, is excellent at reading people, gaining trust, and telling when someone is lying. Is excellent with children, has a very large amount of patience. Also makes really good cookies. She also has a very beautiful singing voice.

Magic/supernatural abilities: Kassy can cast all manner of illusions, from sight and sound, tactile, and a limited amount of taste and scent illusions.
- Kassy has intermittent visions of the future. When the visions come upon her, her mind is transported there. Her body is almost completely immobile, anywhere from ten seconds to a minute.
-Kassy can also control people's minds. How easily they can be commanded is dependent on the will of the person. Kassy's powers would fail against another old soul like hers. She also can't control anyone under the age of 6. Kassy is loathe to use this power on anyone, and it is a last resort.

Equipment: A solid wooden staff, a large earthen jug full of crystal clear water, ashes from a clean sacrificial fire, incense.

Personality: On the outside, Kassy is quiet and almost meek. Truthfully, she is a gentle soul, but at the core of her lies steel. She hates to see anything she considers 'bullying' and will stand up for people when they're hurt. She loves to make others happy, but is slowly learning that she doesn't have to sacfrifice herself to do that.

Kassy rarely loses her cool, but when she does, it seems to unbottle deep pain that has been festering for years.

Biography: Kassy's mother was a world-renowned medium, one who could speak to the 'other side'. Her parents traveled the world with little Kassy in tow, going from one place to another to further her mother's work. Some people believed whole-heartedly, while others were quite skeptical. They got attention wherever they went, but not all of it was positive attention. Kassy in particular felt quite alienated- she was born with her white hair, and odd-colored eyes. In some places, people were sure that her mother had consorted with some 'unholy force' to concieve such a child.

When Kassy was eight, Kassy's mother died during a showing, in the middle of contacting a spirit. Her father was distraught, and after months of grieving decided he couldn't care for his child anymore. He put her under the care of her mother's sister, Kassy's aunt Krista. He promised to return for her when he felt better.

Kassy hasn't seen her father since.

Her aunt Kristy hated her sister Kaia for what she was, and thought her sister nothing more than attention-seeking fraud. As a result of this hatred, she treated her niece like dirt: ruining her confidence at every turn, making sure no one in town would see her as normal, missing no opportunity to call her a freak, or wrong, or devil-child.
I'm puzzled. Are both the past self and the current self supposed to be in a non-modern era?
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