Life was pretty good for you. Classes were going great, you had a scholarship lined up, mom and dad just got you a new car, and hey, that person you'd been crushing on in your physics class was finally returning your attention. The stars were lining up!
Then things got bad. And weird.
Maybe you were on the way to a party with your friends when something grabbed you from behind, quick and quiet, and for whatever reason your buddies just kept walking as you screamed and were dragged into the brush.
Maybe you were one the way out of work when your new car refused to start, and the shadows closed in all around you like the bars of a cage.
Maybe you came home from school to find your mother and father frozen at the table, their breakfasts from that morning just the way you left them, and an odd, androgynous creature in medieval armor sitting on your sofa, a cold and cruel smile on its face as it hypnotically offers you a bite of a purple apple. And how could you resist that charming voice...
And so they dragged you off into the Wood- becoming a thrall of the Spring Queen, a plaything in her court. The Bright Lady was a force both beautiful and terrible to behold. With one breath she praises all beauty and passionate love. With another, she took glee in torturing that which she found ugly, brutish, or dull. And as the days in the Wood crept by your time and experience has left you changed in ways that you would never think possible.
You cannot tell a lie, but you have learned to lie by omission.
Cold Iron burns you, but as a born human it is not lethal to you.
Perhaps most importantly, your feasts are nourished by the emotions of mortals. Passionate fruits, chilled love roots, goblin-berries grown from hate- and a thousand other delights made not with water and soil, but emotion.
Emotion is drying up, however. The mortals now seem to live off of pills that deaden their emotions and leave the banquets of the Spring Queen looking more and more sparse...
With your transformation into a Fey servant complete, you find yourself the Thrall of a new minor Court in the city of LA: The Court of Spring Eternal, based out of a club of the same name. The Spring Queen's Lordling, Railey Flowers, oversees the club.
His mandate, and yours, is simple.
Create a new feeding ground in this "City of Angels" that the Spring Court can live off of, and let nothing- not the plots of Autumn or the warriors of Summer, or the meddling of mortals- stop you.
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Name (Required)What was your character's human name (if they remember it). If they have taken a new name since becoming one of the Fair Folk, what is it?
Gender / OrientationWhat gender and/or sexual orientation does your character identify as?
Description (Required)Written description and / or image.
Personality (Required)TitleWas your character given a title by the Spring Queen? ("the Black," "the Fair," "the Cruel," etc.) What did they do to earn the title? How do Fairies from other courts react upon hearing they are in the same room as you?
Profession (Required)What is your character's position in the mortal club Spring Eternal? Waitress, bartender, bouncer, DJ, singer, or something else?
What is their position at Court? Choose from below:
- Knight - A warrior and enforcer of the Court.
- Changeling - A human plaything, kept as a pet and easily able to pass as human without glamour.
- Siren - A songstress or artist that cultivates the dreams of mortals for harvesting.
- Dryad - A nature magic expert.
- Other (Subject to Approval)
Powers (Optional)/ Weapons (Required)Aside from the glamour that protects the Fair Folk and their subjects from the eyes of mortals, does your character possess any unique powers (subject to GM approval) learned from their time at the Spring Queen's Court?
When intrigue gives way to violence, what weapons or powers do they use to defend themselves?
Bio (Required)A brief biography of your character's human life and their time at the Queen's court.
OtherAny other relevant information.
Nemesis / Conflict (Required)Does your character have a nemesis in another of the courts (brutal Summer, secretive Autumn, or cruel Winter)? Or does your character have a unique conflict that you can bring to the story? I will use these prompts and nemeses to keep pushing the story forward.
Tryout (Required)Write a one to three paragraph response to the story prompt below. Improvisation is encouraged and what I'm looking for- making up characters and events to flesh out your character's history, especially.
The dance floor of Spring Eternal is full, the music loud, and the line outside the door stretches round the block. The air is thick with emotions and pixies fly through the dancing lights trying to stoke the powerful feelings the mortals bring. The Lord of the club, Railey Flowers, stands in his VIP booth to the side of the bar surrounded by courtiers he directs to keep things orderly. While doing your job, you're bumped into by a human man who clearly doesn't belong- he isn't dressed for clubbing at all. What's more, you feel the hard metal of a gun beneath his jacket and can feel the wicked enchantments of a rival Court radiating off of him...
