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The City Of Luce Prima (Supernatural creature RP)

@RoccanIronclad sorry for the double post but if I remember correctly, not everyone is obligated to attend the school right? I remember seeing something about Luce Prima being more of a safe haven city?

Sierra will probably want to take a few classes just because she never has before, but I think full-time school would be too hard an adjustment. Maybe she needs a tutor or something instead of formal classes, lol.

Oh! What's the living situation? Are there apartments and such like normal? Is there a financial aid service for people without the money for rent? Are there dormitories?

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@Bartimaeus That's a shame! Unfortunately, this RP was always designed for dark themes and in my experience, it was always really fun to write through the complex emotional process of having something so shitty happen to you.

If the themes here bug you that much, it might not be the RP for you :/

The City Of Luce Prima (Supernatural creature RP)

@Prosaic Thank you! I'd like that. She needs someone to show her that she doesn't belong at the bottom of every heap.

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@Bartimaeus Trust me, we had a character like that before and it resulted in a very bored writer. Unfortunately it just doesn't work out :/

Plus, it doesn't really make sense in the lore, what with Gems being significantly weaker than drakken, being a generally peaceful people, all that. Plus, it doesn't make any sense for a male Gem to be at the choosing ceremony, seeing as only female gems are Reaped.

It's funny, in the old iterations there was actually a rule that gems couldn't physically overpower drakken no matter what. Of course, there are ways around that, but a seasoned Gem assassin with drakken victims scattered about doesn't seem plausible.

I hate to rain on your parade! Im just speaking from experience. Of course, your desire for a feisty gem can still happen! You could totally make a female Gem who wants to find a way to kill her husband once she's chosen. I just can't guarantee it'll go well XD

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@Emma

@WeepingLiberty @Ellion Correct me if I get any of this wrong. It's your RP, after all.

Going backwards:

A 20 year old Gem who's married would definitely still be eligible for Reaping.

We never ironed out exactly how Reaping works, but I always pictured a situation where at a certain time of year, all Gem girls of 18 or over (with probably an upper age limit of like 30 or something even though being chosen after like, 24 would be a serious anomaly) are required to gather and be picked over by the Drakkan Reapers. They wouldn't give two fucks about which family they came from or whatever, and would probably just take whoever they thought would please the Lords the most (probably limited to a certain number of gems from each village, maybe dependent on population, but still have a certain number they need to bring back in total).

For example, my character Lienna was the only Gem reaped from her village because of the small population, and the fact that girls with the potential to be beautiful were drowned as babies (a fate thought kinder than the potential of Reaping).

I can't imagine the Drakken letting the Gem leaders choose who gets Reaped. They'd probably be suspicious that the gems were offering less-than-ideal girls and would want to choose them by hand.

That said, I don't see the Reapers refusing a volunteer or a girl who was handed over by the other gems, assuming she wasn't ugly or known to be barren or really old or something.

The Reaped gems are then escorted back to Shadow Worth (are we still using Shadow Worth?)/Drakka in carriages, fed, kept safe and roughed up as little as possible on the way. Can't be bringing damaged goods to the choosing ceremony, after all.

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@Amethyst ARRY OH MY GOD

I tried to get ahold of you on discord! I tried to get ahold of you here but your old account was dormant!

Also I PMed darkwolf, don't even trip

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@Emma 18 is the minimum age for gem girls to be Reaped, they can be older but it's uncommon to see them much older than 21 seeing as Drakken want young, pretty things in their child-bearing prime.

I think there's a note on that in the first post.

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Sierra Tikaavik

Sierra Tikaavik

19 | Werewolf

Appearance

Sierra weighs approximately 130lbs and stands at a staggering 5'3. She's solidly built, with a well-muscled body, the result of an active lifestyle. Her features seem somewhat mixed in ethnicity, though clear features such as a wide nose, olive skin, almond-shaped eyes and a short, round face hint at mixed Inuit heritage. Her hair is black and cropped messily short (like this), and her eyes are golden brown.

Sierra sports scars like bumper stickers. The most noticeable is a set of three long, jagged lines which rip from below her right ear, over the corner of her jawbone and down to the crook of her collar bone. She also has a little, jagged wedge missing from her left ear, and lots of little nicks around her throat and ankles. These are more noticeable in her humanoid form, and covered by her thick fur when transformed (although the nicks around her ankles and cut in her ear are visible).

Upon her arrival at Luce Prima, Sierra is a little skinnier than normal, and her hair has grown out to more of a messy bob. When transformed, her coat is shabby and in relatively poor condition.

Wolf Form

Personality

Sierra lived a secluded life with very little exposure to people other than her own kind. As such, some of the intricacies of human and other cultures are lost on her. She can carry on a conversation pretty normally, but when it comes to sensitive or impolite topics, Sierra doesn't really know when to stop. Honestly, it just doesn't occur to her that not everyone may want to hear about the subtle art of breaking a rabbit's neck in graphic detail.

Having lived a very structured life, Sierra always subconsciously searches for her "place" in new relationships. She is very apprehensive of strangers, having been taught not to trust them. While she wants to become more self-sufficient, Sierra is generally more comfortable when someone else is calling the shots. Her life until now had very clear roles, and as such Sierra is very sensitive to authority, and very unlikely to challenge it.

This structure continues on an emotional level. Sierra has a very thick skin and instead of getting angry, she is far more likely to take her lumps and laugh it off with eyes downcast. She'll fight if cornered, but flight is normally her preferred option. To her, "normal" is being the butt of every joke and the outlet of frustration, and as such has trouble asserting herself. However, under the submissive exterior one can see a wild spirit with no mean bone in her body.

History

Sierra was, in fact, raised by wolves. Perhaps even more literally than others of her kind. While many other werewolves live among humans and hide themselves, or try to coexist, Sierra was raised exclusively around other werewolves in a remote village in the expansive forests of northern British Columbia. Her pack consisted of her immediate family (herself and her father) and the families of her uncle and aunt, who each had several children, of which Sierra was the youngest. The parents loathed humans, drawing on stories told to them by their elders of how the humans forced the Children of Dusk into exile. As such, the children never saw the world beyond the many hectares of forest they called theirs, though the adults sparingly (and grudgingly) traded with humans of the nearest towns, selling furs to buy what they couldn't provide for themselves.

Sierra's family pack was very close, however that didn't mean things were all fun all the time. No, her father, aunt and uncle (leaders with their own inner hierarchy) ran a tight ship, with Sierra's father at the helm. Insolence and disobedience was met with swift and painful correction. They didn't arrange themselves into ranks (aside from her father's traditional title of Alpha) but rather, a pecking order formed as the children grew older and stronger - a pecking order with Sierra decidedly at the bottom. Sierra became a lightning rod for the frustrations of her larger, stronger cousins, frequently finding herself at the sharp end of a snap or last in line to eat.

When she was younger, and just gaining her ability to transform, the pecking order bothered her. However, as she grew, she came to realize that her role in the pack was essential; without her, they would turn on each other. Perhaps, she concluded, it was her role in life to absorb the tension and keep the peace.

However, werewolves are not the same as wolves. They still have human wants and needs, no matter how much they deny it. So it would come as no surprise to an outsider that Sierra's position in her family wore on her nonetheless. On the surface, she was content with the strict life she led, with any important decisions made for her. Once she grew out of the obligatory rebellious phase (one she grew out of very quickly) she never even thought to question the authority of her father, uncle or aunt. She even obeyed her cousins, knowing it was best to get along. She really felt content with that. However, deep down, the suppressed human side of her was wilting. Thoughts began to worm her way into her mind: that she belonged at the bottom of the heap because the others were better than her, that she was too stupid to call the shots, too weak to challenge anyone. That this was her place because she wasn't enough to be any more. She thought these feelings were normal and even accepted them, but something continued to knaw at her.

It was a few years before she realized her unhappiness. She couldn't tell what it was; she thought she was happy where she was, that she belonged here. With her family, away from humans. The humans she'd been taught to hate. But she had never felt the hate burn inside her like it did in her father; to her, humans were little more than a folk tale. So when a mysterious letter somehow, impossibly, found its way to her home, she was intrigued. She hid the letter from her father (for she knew he would burn it) and read the thing over at least a hundred times. For weeks she deliberated, until finally her newfound longing to see the world beyond the trees overcame her fear of leaving. Turning away from her pack felt deeply wrong, and many times on her journey she almost turned back. If not for fear of getting caught, she probably would have.

Other
Sierra has a basic level of reading comprehension, but no formal education.

She met a human once, a lost hiker. It was freaky. Of course, the hiker wasn't a big fan of it either.

I've been known to tweak sheets after I post them, but this is the gist.

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@Zahrale

I'm not the conductor but I will say that there's a lot more lore where that came from!

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@Vesuvius00 Yay!



Fourth time's the charm!