PLAYER NAME: Zephyr Cinya
QUOTE: Where shall I put the third rose?
FREE USE: Art/Fic – Yes

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NAME: Clearsky

~Previous Name: n/a

SOULNAME: Frousen

~Known by: The Seer, Parents

AGE: 231

BIRTHMONTH: Raindrum

BIRTHYEAR: 7323 RoS

GENDER: Female

FAMILY:
~Parents: Lavender (mother, House Harmony, deceased), Oak (father, House Harmony, deceased)

~Siblings: Sunrise (older brother, House Harmony, deceased)

~Children: None

~Other: open

LOVEMATE: No one regular

SOUL BROTHER/SISTER: None

FRIENDS: Sweetdream, open!

EYES: Average sized, almond shaped. A deep, pure oak-brown, with the average amount of lashes.

HAIR: Chestnut brown which falls straight to her ears, then breaks into slow waves until it ends at her shoulder blades.

FACIAL FEATURES: Oval face, average straight nose, rather full lips.

VOICE: A low but teasing tone, mid-alto.

TATTOOS/BIRTHMARKS/SCARS:

HEIGHT/BUILD: Standing tall at 5’10”, without much in the way of trained muscle. Slender but not too feminine, rather broad shoulders.

LIKES: Working with her hands, losing herself in the moment, dances, drinking, wines, swimming and most physical activity, compliments, dressing well, moisturizers,

DISLIKES: Disappointing her superiors, people who pry into her background and her business, messy-dirty people,

PERSONALITY: Clearsky is, on the surface, faithful to her namesake, being open and honest. She’s witty and clever, and moderately booksmart although she doesn’t like to show that off much.

Clearsky takes socializing to an epic level, and will flit around the entire room at parties.
She’s keenly aware of how people perceive her, and works to manipulate those opinions by acting out as much as she can. To avoid pressing questions about her, she makes herself open and inviting, and so social that most people think they know all there is to know about her. While she doesn’t like being underestimated, she doesn’t mind being considered predictable, even if it’s only predictable at being outlandish.

She often pokes elegant, well-meaning fun at the extravagance of her own House, since she is so deeply mired in those same extravagances herself. Her talent for mimicking the walk, gestures, and verbal mannerisms of her fellow Harmonies has made her a success at inner-House parties. She hardly ever shows off that particular talent outside the House Harmony walls, since she knows some people take offense to her house and would misconstrue her teasing, meant as flattery, as a shared animosity.

Over the years, she’s become on-again-off-again close to Sweetdream. She knows the other woman plays favorites with her friends, and when it’s Clearsky’s turn she welcomes the attention, and when it’s not her turn she bides her time. They are similar in that aspect, and in how they like to talk so much that their own private thoughts don’t catch up with them.

What is actually going on with her visions of Sunrise, and what Clearsky things is going on, are completely different. Clearsky has no conscious idea of when or why Sunrise visits her, but in fact her mind is doing it to herself in response to the deep remorse and blame she never recovered from. The brain, always seeking to protect itself, uses these manifestations to work out her conflict of emotions, even though it still causes her great distress.

FEARS: Seeing Sunrise (a fear that’s met far too often), thunder and lightning, having children (outside of Recognition; she can’t deal with her own problems, how on earth would she raise a child?), never Recognizing (even though it would mean having children) or having a soul-sibling, someone finding out how “empty” she (thinks she) is.

OUT LOOK ON LIFE: Life brings its own downs, it’s our business to make the ups.

SEES SELF AS: Far more secretive than anyone would think

IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER: Clearsky is almost overwhelmingly social, and always on the go, and is an expert at hiding what’s really going on in her life.

HOUSE/POSITION: House Harmony / Harmony

MAGIC:
~Sending (Below-average)
~Song Shaping (Average)
~Deep-sense (blocked, unknown and never used)

REGULAR CLOTHING: Clearsky loves to dress sharply and extravagantly, like all Harmonies, but her personal style tends more toward boyish clothes. She has long-tailed coats with high collars, cut snugly at the waist and flaring out below; a cotton button-down shirt with the first and second buttons undone, with a folded collar, long sleeves ending in cuffs with long sleeves and ornate cuffs; linen pants; riding boots.

CELEBRATION CLOTHING: One or two outfits of great extravagance and extreme detail, mostly made of silks and other fine fabrics. A fine shirt under a richly embroidered waistcoat, under a rich velvet Victorian coat with long sleeves, pearls, and lace everywhere. She also has a cravat [necktie] which she ties in an intricate knot. Colors are usually bright, but the clean lines of her outfit keep it from being too garish.

JEWELRY: Two holes high on her right ear, one high on her left ear – for her parents and brother.

WEAPONS/ITEMS: Longbow and arrow quiver; small silver knife, mostly used as a letter opener. Ornate carved box full of gifts and letters from admirers past and present.

MAGICAL WEAPON:
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ARMOR: None, although she likes looking at the more fanciful designs.

SPECIAL POSSESSIONS: Her very large collection of clothing,

SKILLS: Dancing, speaking publically, mimicry (elves), charades, hosting, holding her wine, finding things, avoiding delicate or unsavory subjects, flirting, getting people to do favors for her, sprinting, archery, piano playing, charming people, speed reading

HISTORY:

Clearsky was born two decades after her brother Sunrise. She was as ‘pure’ a House Harmony member as could be, since both parents and her brother were also of that house. They were a happy and tightly-knit bunch, but although Clearsky loved her parents, she absolutely doted on her brother. Sunrise was a hero in her eyes; he could do no wrong, and was a magnificent young man. When their parents died in a tragic but not unheard of accident involving humans and lizardmen, Clearsky clung to her brother all the more, seeing him as caretaker and protector. She was a happy child and independent, but Sunrise was her anchor, her safety, her harbor. She turned to him with all her childish problems, and he would talk her through them to a logical conclusion.

Only, sometime after their parents died, Sunrise started to go a little… odd. When pressed to recall when this first started, Clearsky would realize that she couldn’t say exactly. It was a slow transition. Sunrise would occasionally say something that didn’t make sense, or just stare at the open sky for hours and hours. It was one day during a walk home together, when Sunrise accidently toppled over a cat scurrying by, that Clearsky realized he was going blind. Pressing him for information for why this was happening, he said, “The sun is calling to me,” and no more. It took a few more days for the adolescent Clearsky to realize that Sunrise was intentionally blinding himself by staring into the midday sun.

Nothing she said could stop him, and her will wasn’t strong enough to attempt a major intervention against him. She ended up helping him, guiding him along, hoping that somehow he’d let the healers work on him, or just stop this strange and frightening practice.

As if in return for her faithful abetting, Sunrise spent more time with his sister, often taking her out through the countryside. He knew the paths from memory, and not by sight, and would have her guide him along paths which took them to open meadows. There, they would sit together, talking, Clearsky looking at Sunrise and Sunrise looking wide-eyed at the sky above. His eyes grew paler, grew more useless, and Clearsky was frightened.
The time for Clearsky’s soul name search was particularly trying on her. It took days, and when she finally emerged with her soulname, she was famished and still weak from the drugs and lack of food. A strong storm was crashing over the whole of Descantia, and when she stumbled up to her room, she found that Sunrise had run off into the fields after the lightning. She ran after him, afraid for his life and not thinking that she’d better stop and ask for help. When she reached him, he was standing in the middle of the field, soaking wet, his arms spread wide, face turned up toward the stormy heavens, shouting “The light! I can still see the light!” Just before she reached him, a bolt of lightning struck her beloved brother, and for an instant she saw him encased in light. When the scouts sent to look for the missing pair finally found them after the storm, Clearsky was curled up tight, crying loudly, with her electrocuted brother laying on his back on the ground near her, face still angled up toward the clear night sky.
That night and for years afterward, the other members of House Harmony said the girl suffered for terrible nightmares. But they were mistaken. Clearsky slept well, or as well as someone could be when they were plagued with guilt and remorse and loneliness, but was often wakened by a voice near her ear. When she sat up and rubbed her eyes, she could plainly see Sunrise standing at the foot of her bed, staring at her, speaking to her, still encased in the fatal lightning. It was then that she screamed, and screamed, and screamed, and all the comforting words of the Harmonies could do nothing to quiet her down. Surely, they thought, the dreams must have been terrible, to make the young girl sit rigid on her bed and stare into thin air with such a look of terror on her face. And Sunrise insisted on speaking to her. He spoke her soulname to her – how he had gotten it, she had no idea – but it shocked her deeply. She panicked and her mind lashed out for a way to protect itself. She became convinced that her brother had stolen it from her in the moments before his death, and her mind formed a block between her soul name and her conscious mind, preventing her from finding it again. While she suffered under the recurrent visions of her brother, she convinced herself that he was calling her ‘Frozen’ instead of her real soulname, which was strange enough.

Ever since her brother’s death, she’s been seeing him periodically throughout her life. These cases (at least once a year, often more) are traumatic and emotionally-wrought, despite how much time has passed. She knows that they can occur without warning, aside from vague signs that can be easily overlooked, but still tries her best to be alone if she thinks enough time has passed for him to come again. Sunrise insists on speaking to her when he comes, and the two have argued often, most reducing Clearsky to tears. He seems to instantly undermine any defenses she might have attempted to build against him.

She grew up with the belief that she no longer had a soulname, but never mentioned it to anyone and simply learned to avoid all mention of the topic. But as she grew older, she saw her friends starting getting entangled in serious relationships, and Clearsky realized the only safe way to avoid the subject of her ‘stolen’ soulname was to avoid lifemating and soul-siblings altogether. Taking perhaps the most extreme approach to this way of life, Clearsky became something of a rapscallion, being flirty and witty and social but quite unwilling to so much as lovemate with anyone. She is incredibly up front about this, saying it’s just “how she is,” and doesn’t try to deceive anyone. Clearsky doesn’t care about her reputation as a bit of a rapscallion, a flirt, and a vagabond, mostly because she’s too busy dealing with her own private issues. The only one she’s become moderately close with is Sweetdream, as the chatter of the two women help to drown out what’s going on inside each of their lives.
Despite this, Clearsky has tried her best to live a normal, productive life. She finds release and temporary freedom from her troubles in socializing, which Harmonies are best at and which helps explain why she was placed in such a house. Her ‘private problems’ have also kept her back from advancing very far in the ranks of House Harmony, but it’s a fact of life she’s come to deal with. If she were meant for high office, she would not be terrorized semi-annually by her brother, or so she thinks. Where she is, working as House Keeper, is quite enough for her, and gives her another hobby outside of socializing that she can spend her attentions and energy on.