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Jun. 9th, 2014 08:49 pmCHARACTER INFO.
✖ Character Name: Renart
✖ Genre: Real-life fairy tales.
✖ Character Appearance: Here and here.
✖ Character Age: 844+, appears early twenties.
✖ World Setting: Fairy Tale world info. Originally written by Dolly (plays![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lettdown) and c+ped from Rapunzel's app with her permission. I can rewrite it in my own words if necessary! All the info is exactly the same though since they are from the same world and year.
What is a Fairy Tale?:
Typically it's considered a kind of folklore tale with a moral or maxim at it's core and for the most part that's correct! But there's a difference between a fairy tale and a Fairy Tale: fairy tales are the stories we all were familiar with as children. A Fairy Tale is the physical embodiment of that tale brought to life by the belief people have and hold in it. Beowulf, Goldilocks, Rumpelstiltskin? All real! But not entirely recognizable if looked at through the tales offered in books because in this version of Earth all Tales were based off of a real person and the events in their life.
In order for a Fairy Tale to be born their story must be created, told, and passed along until it's spread far and wide enough that it's believed in. Once this happens the Fairy Tale is born in a form which best represents who they were before they were a Fairy Tale, i.e. the person their story is about. Puss in Boots may or may not still be a cat, The Fish Footman from Alice may or may not be a giant talking fish in Victorian clothing! It varies from Tale to Tale.
Not just any story can become a Fairy Tale though. For example Gods, Goddesses, and divine beings will never become Tales because anything ethereal can't be made into a physical form. Thor, Zeus, God, etc are no-goes. In general fact cannot become fiction--historical figures cannot become a Fairy Tale unless their story is rewritten into fiction like Shakespeare's King Henry IV Part I; although Hal is based off of the real Henry IV details of his story have been changed so that it is no longer entirely a historical account. What changes a person's story from a story to a Fairy Tale is the misconstrued facts and the presence of the impossible. Usually magic.
Magic & Modern Fairy Tales:
Magic also exists on that note! While it was once strong and prevalent all over the world in the more archaic understanding, as civilization has progressed and technology and critical thinking become a large part of society magic's presence and potency had greatly decreased. Magic is powered by the belief that it's real and can affect things, and with modernity shining a more skeptical light down upon its existence it's become weak to the point where most Witches (what few still exist) are significantly less powerful than they once were.
With this increased skepticism and the change of literary genres from fables and maxims to pure fiction, the appearance of Fairy Tales has become almost non-existent. The youngest Tales are about 103 years old. No new ones have been created since (since Fairy Tales do not sexually reproduce).
Oral Tales & Stories:
All Fairy Tales, from the moment they're created, have conditional immortality. When they're first brought to life it is generally the result of a story told orally for years on end. At this time the Tale is completely immortal: they cannot be killed through any means and can survive indefinitely. Sounds pretty sweet right? Unfortunately because they're told through oral tradition these Tales can also be Forgotten, which erases their existence entirely. So they exist with the constant knowledge that they can disappear at any time.
Being Forgotten is a real threat for most Tales because every Fairy Tale passively causes anyone who looks at them to forget them. It's not instantaneous but the moment a Tale leaves a human's presence that person begins to forget the specifics of who they are: face, features, the sound of their voice, etc. Even if one happens to be neighbours with a Tale and sees them daily, should they move away those people would completely forget them in a matter of weeks.
When a Fairy Tale's adventure is written out it creates a Story. A Story is a pure-white book with the Tale's name written at at top, and contained within it is everything that makes them up. Thoughts, feelings, memories, you name it. Having a Story means that a Tale can never be Forgotten and thus can live forever...but there is a trade off. Having a Story guarantees that they can never cease to exist, but it takes away their inability to be killed. If their Story is destroyed the Fairy Tale will die (but not be Forgotten. i.e. if Alice from Wonderland had her Story destroyed she would die, but the various books published of her would still remain and ordinary humans would still know the story).
Stories can also be tampered with. If a Story is opened and new information put in it overwrites what was kept in there previously and "rewrites" who the Tale is. If someone wrote "Beast no longer has a temper" in his Story then his personality would change to fit the new description in his book.
It is considered taboo to write in a Tales' book and completely out of the ordinary for a Tale to change anything in their own. This is because changing anything in a book changes who the Tale is fundamentally; it is very rare and very, very strange for a Tale to make any sort of changes.
Fairy Tale Society:
Because they can't forget one another and are all generally immortal, most Fairy Tales form tight-knit communities within the cities they live in. They do this both for safety and for comfort's sake, since who better to be friends with than someone who's going to live as long as you are?? Plus since most Tales are well over two hundred years old most of their differences have been settled so there's little conflict among them. Some people still rub shoulders and it's not completely picturesque, but that's why most Fairy Tale communities have a council to watch over things called a "Chessboard."
Each member of the Chessboard has a designated position, and each position has a duty or area of expertise. And the ranks of the Chessboard are named after, you guessed it! Chess pieces. King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook, Pawn. The King and Queen deal with the administrative aspect, the Bishop with PR and human-Tale relations, Knights are basically like the Fairy Tale police (but not really), Rooks do all the bookkeeping, and Pawns are the go-betweens for Fairy Tales and business with the Chessboard.
The largest Fairy Tale community, Match District, is located in England and is looked after by the King, Alice of Wonderland. This is where Rapunzel lives. It is also the location of Scheherazade and Aesop's library, the one place on earth were the Story of a Fairy Tale can supposedly be made safe and secure. Basically no one gets past them. Ever. Except once possibly. It's under investigation.
Other residents of Match District include Jack (Jack and the Beanstalk), Gilgamesh and Enkidu (the Epic of Gilgamesh), Grimhilde (Snow White), "Toad" (The Frog Prince), Wendy & Peter (Peter and Wendy), The Sea-Witch (The Little Mermaid), Chauntecleer (Canterbury Tales), Grendel (Beowulf), and Buttercup (Buttercup). Obviously there are a lot more but this is just to paint a general picture.
All Tales have more or less adapted to the modern age and live in Human society like normal even if they tend to keep to themselves. All Fairy Tales live under a universal set of rules:
Three Golden Rules:
1) Humans are not to know about the existence of Fairy Tales
2) One Fairy Tale is never to write in another's Story
3) Fairy Tales must not interfere with the human world at large
Fairy Tales and Whatever the heck they are:
Gender, age, species, ALL OF THAT means zip zero and nada to all Fairy Tales, because half of them aren't "normal" by human standards to begin with. Puss in Boots, Chauntecleer & Pertelote, The Doorknob, March Hare, etc etc. Beast from Beauty and the Beast! Anyone and everyone can be matched up or appear however they wish in Fairy Tale society and a couple like Snow White and Gingerbread Man wouldn't be seen as odd at all.
For Tales it's not about what they look or appear to be, and entirely about Who They Are as a person. One's True Love could be a talking piece of silverware and no one would bat an eye. A Prince could be female and a Princess could be male and it'd be normal. Everyone is just as abstract as everyone else so why sweat the details that everyday humans do?? Nonsense.
Some of Renart's cr:
Beowulf: Platonic bestie.
Clever Else: Just about the only person immune to Renart's power, Silver Tongue. Like to hang out with her at the pub when she and Beowulf are in Matchstick.
Gilgamesh: This douche. Their first meeting involved Renart getting run through with his sword.
Enkidu: Gil's lover and partner. Renart is :unsure: about him forever.
Rapunzel: The most honest person ever. Also naive to a fault.
Ferdinand (The Sorcerer's Apprentice): The most moochable. Sleeps in his bed sometimes.
Chauntecleer: A tasty snack.
"Toad": Too slimy to eat.
Ysengrin: From the same Story! Still likes to mess with him.
✖ Character History: Original characters are required to have their whole history written out.
-started life as a male fox
-mostly monogamous with a vixen
-lived just outside a small village
-took advantage of this, harassing the village and going after chickens, crops and livestock
-became renowned in the village for being a dangerous pest, extremely intelligent, unable to be caught
-lives for 6 years
-caught by villages, beaten to death and skinned
-some years prior to 1170 the Renart cycle started up, and Renart came into being as an oral fairy tale.
-wakes up outside the village as a fairy tale
-she proceeds to spend more of her life running from and evading humans. Because of her appearance humans took her to be some kind of werewolf or canine monster and therefore their opinions of her ranged from 'pest' to 'dangerous as hell'.
-met Beowulf when he heard about her through the grapevine. He thought she was some grand, legendary wolf beast and when he showed up to slay her was sorely disappointed. This is the first time she uses her ability - unhappy with a life of running from humans she convinces him to let her tag along on his monster hunts.
-travels around with Beowulf, learning to fight and developing her ability Silver Tongue.
-got her Story after Beowulf.
-gains enough confidence to stop travelling with Beowulf briefly, to take over a town
-gets run out by the inquisition, meets back up with Beowulf
-after hearing of all of Beowulf's manly epic stories of defeating monsters made her envious as her life had been spent being hunted, and made her want to be a fierce warrior
-she starts using her ability to spread the lie that she's the strongest warrior ever
-Gilgamesh hears about this, finds her, runs her through with his sword and spits in her face
-from then on she becomes far more standoffish and cautious, not using her ability often
-mostly sticks with Beowulf
✖ Character Personality: This section should give us a solid view of who your character is and what they're like. As with the setting, this section may be as long or as short as you want to make it.
viewpoints from a fox
-first life affected her world views
-jaded, realist, cynical
-survivalist
-very protective of children
-cunning and clever
-knows her mind and body need to be at their strongest
-fox instincts
-doesn't rush into fights, can be skittish and cautious
-good at escaping and avoiding detection
-can fight if necessary, fairly good at it, using her smaller body and natural agility to her advantage
-uneasy around other predatory animals, things that would set animals off
-aloof and holds people at arm's length
-comes across as very relaxed and easygoing
-tendency to make sarcastic jokes
-doesn't have a high opinion of herself
-due to gil pwning her so easily, human opinion of foxes, renart from the folktales being a total dick
-gil encounter humbled her and tempered her desire to use her ability to achieve greatness
-used to be tempted to use her powers to manipulate people and get ahead in life without working for it
-beowulf influenced her heavily
-made her want to be the kind of person he is - idealistic, strong, and compassionate
-tries to be a better person, though she doesn't really believe she can be
-does not let people know she wants to change because of above
-hangs out with beowulf a lot, he is her best friend
-spends time with Clever Else, who isn't affected by her power (no temptation to manipulate her)
-tries not to use her power recklessly after gil
-despite having originally been male she doesn't identify as a man; gender isn't something she thinks too much about but she's quite comfortable being a woman
✖ Character Powers & Skills:
Powers
Conditional Immortality: Like all Fairy Tales, Renart has been gifted with conditional immortality. This means she can suffer catastrophic injuries and she won't die, she will simply heal. As an extreme example she can be decapitated and both his head and body will still be alive. They will act independently until reunited, and they can be reattached without any outside healing. She cannot contract any diseases. She is susceptible to venom and poison, and depending on the amount she's ingested her body with either purge it or adapt to it. She can suffocate and starve but again, her body will adapt until she requires neither food nor air (however, until her body adapts she still goes through the associated pains as if she does need food or air). She is not immune to pain, so she will feel the full brunt of any injury even though it won't kill her. She does bleed and her heart will stop if she loses too much of it, but again her blood will regenerate and eventually her heart will start back up. The only way to permanently kill her is to destroy her Story.
Forget: In her world Fairy Tales have the unfortunate ability to be forgotten. This means that unless constant interaction is kept up humans who have met Fairy Tales will gradually forget them. This doesn't kick in until that interaction ceases - while a human is interacting with a Fairy Tale they'll come across as a living thing (i.e. they can be seen, heard, smelled etc). Once a Fairy Tale has left, however, they will fade from the human's mind. Length of time the interaction has occurred affects how quickly the fading happens - if they've spoken on a daily basis distinct features fade first and it will take longer for the human to forget the Fairy Tale than if they had only met once.
Silver Tongue: Renart's special ability. This allows her to control, manipulate and deceive people via her speech. She can give people commands (i.e. eat a specific food, give her something, fall asleep, commit a robbery) as well as influence their opinions and senses (i.e. convince them a lie is the truth, convince them that she doesn't have a tail). It is limited to speaking and hearing, so audio and video messages will be affected but text won't. Her ability will kick in if she speaks uninterrupted for a long time (such as when giving a speech or reading aloud), and the longer she speaks the more powerful her ability becomes. If a person is deaf or unable to hear her for some reason they will not be affected. A person with a strong will may have an easier time resisting, but aside from deafness/inability to hear the only way to have full immunity is through specific supernatural or magical means (i.e. Clever Else has a specific ability that renders her immune to all deception magics and abilities).
Fairy Tale Body: Putting this under powers though it's more biology than anything. Enhanced speed and strength, greater than that of a human. Extremely agile. Having the body of a Fairy Tale means that technically she doesn't need anything external to survive and can adapt to toxic environments. That's no food, no water, no air, extreme heat and cold, etc. This isn't anything special to Renart and applies to every single FT that has ever existed. Her body can get used to these things though (and to speak needs to pass air through her vocal chords). How do these two aspects reconcile with each other? If Renart has gotten used to eating and then goes through a period where she eats nothing at all she will start to starve until her body adjusts. Then that starvation and any negative side effects will end. Same goes for water and air - she'll go through a period of dehydration and suffocation until her body adjusts, then be perfectly fine.
Regeneration can be a bit picky. Normally it works just as you think it would - injuries heal over time. If a limb is cut off it needs to be reattached, but it can be without any stitches. If said limb is burned the FT's body will heal and regrow a new limb.
Her body comes in handy when it comes to her diet. Despite her body looking mostly human Renart has continued with her fox diet. Her Fairy Tale body has adjusted to this, and it means being able to digest raw meat (including stuff like raw chicken) and bones.
Fox Hearing: As Renart's ears are that of a fox's her hearing is just as sensitive. Red foxes have a range of up to 160 feet and can perceive up to 65,000Hz of sound (for comparison, humans can hear up to 22,000Hz). They can perceive low frequency sounds through walls, snow and underground.
Skills
Fighting: Renart is a very skilled fighter. Some of this comes naturally, having a body that is stronger and faster than a normal human's, and due to retaining her fox instincts. Some of this is learned over hundreds of years, from having traveled with Beowulf, one of the strongest Fairy Tale fighters. She learned to hone her natural talents, and he taught her how to fight with weapons. She is competent with short swords and blunt objects, and very good with knives. When fighting she makes use of her quick speed, dexterity and agility, and like all red foxes is a damn good leaper.
Languages: Renart is fluent (reading and writing) in English, French, Latin, Dutch and German.
Hunting: Renart is a skilled hunter and tracker.
✖ Personal Item or Weapon: One navaja knife given to her by Beowulf. More pictures here and here.
✖ Character Inventory:
✖ Character Name: Renart
✖ Genre: Real-life fairy tales.
✖ Character Appearance: Here and here.
✖ Character Age: 844+, appears early twenties.
✖ World Setting: Fairy Tale world info. Originally written by Dolly (plays
lettdown) and c+ped from Rapunzel's app with her permission. I can rewrite it in my own words if necessary! All the info is exactly the same though since they are from the same world and year.What is a Fairy Tale?:
Typically it's considered a kind of folklore tale with a moral or maxim at it's core and for the most part that's correct! But there's a difference between a fairy tale and a Fairy Tale: fairy tales are the stories we all were familiar with as children. A Fairy Tale is the physical embodiment of that tale brought to life by the belief people have and hold in it. Beowulf, Goldilocks, Rumpelstiltskin? All real! But not entirely recognizable if looked at through the tales offered in books because in this version of Earth all Tales were based off of a real person and the events in their life.
In order for a Fairy Tale to be born their story must be created, told, and passed along until it's spread far and wide enough that it's believed in. Once this happens the Fairy Tale is born in a form which best represents who they were before they were a Fairy Tale, i.e. the person their story is about. Puss in Boots may or may not still be a cat, The Fish Footman from Alice may or may not be a giant talking fish in Victorian clothing! It varies from Tale to Tale.
Not just any story can become a Fairy Tale though. For example Gods, Goddesses, and divine beings will never become Tales because anything ethereal can't be made into a physical form. Thor, Zeus, God, etc are no-goes. In general fact cannot become fiction--historical figures cannot become a Fairy Tale unless their story is rewritten into fiction like Shakespeare's King Henry IV Part I; although Hal is based off of the real Henry IV details of his story have been changed so that it is no longer entirely a historical account. What changes a person's story from a story to a Fairy Tale is the misconstrued facts and the presence of the impossible. Usually magic.
Magic & Modern Fairy Tales:
Magic also exists on that note! While it was once strong and prevalent all over the world in the more archaic understanding, as civilization has progressed and technology and critical thinking become a large part of society magic's presence and potency had greatly decreased. Magic is powered by the belief that it's real and can affect things, and with modernity shining a more skeptical light down upon its existence it's become weak to the point where most Witches (what few still exist) are significantly less powerful than they once were.
With this increased skepticism and the change of literary genres from fables and maxims to pure fiction, the appearance of Fairy Tales has become almost non-existent. The youngest Tales are about 103 years old. No new ones have been created since (since Fairy Tales do not sexually reproduce).
Oral Tales & Stories:
All Fairy Tales, from the moment they're created, have conditional immortality. When they're first brought to life it is generally the result of a story told orally for years on end. At this time the Tale is completely immortal: they cannot be killed through any means and can survive indefinitely. Sounds pretty sweet right? Unfortunately because they're told through oral tradition these Tales can also be Forgotten, which erases their existence entirely. So they exist with the constant knowledge that they can disappear at any time.
Being Forgotten is a real threat for most Tales because every Fairy Tale passively causes anyone who looks at them to forget them. It's not instantaneous but the moment a Tale leaves a human's presence that person begins to forget the specifics of who they are: face, features, the sound of their voice, etc. Even if one happens to be neighbours with a Tale and sees them daily, should they move away those people would completely forget them in a matter of weeks.
When a Fairy Tale's adventure is written out it creates a Story. A Story is a pure-white book with the Tale's name written at at top, and contained within it is everything that makes them up. Thoughts, feelings, memories, you name it. Having a Story means that a Tale can never be Forgotten and thus can live forever...but there is a trade off. Having a Story guarantees that they can never cease to exist, but it takes away their inability to be killed. If their Story is destroyed the Fairy Tale will die (but not be Forgotten. i.e. if Alice from Wonderland had her Story destroyed she would die, but the various books published of her would still remain and ordinary humans would still know the story).
Stories can also be tampered with. If a Story is opened and new information put in it overwrites what was kept in there previously and "rewrites" who the Tale is. If someone wrote "Beast no longer has a temper" in his Story then his personality would change to fit the new description in his book.
It is considered taboo to write in a Tales' book and completely out of the ordinary for a Tale to change anything in their own. This is because changing anything in a book changes who the Tale is fundamentally; it is very rare and very, very strange for a Tale to make any sort of changes.
Fairy Tale Society:
Because they can't forget one another and are all generally immortal, most Fairy Tales form tight-knit communities within the cities they live in. They do this both for safety and for comfort's sake, since who better to be friends with than someone who's going to live as long as you are?? Plus since most Tales are well over two hundred years old most of their differences have been settled so there's little conflict among them. Some people still rub shoulders and it's not completely picturesque, but that's why most Fairy Tale communities have a council to watch over things called a "Chessboard."
Each member of the Chessboard has a designated position, and each position has a duty or area of expertise. And the ranks of the Chessboard are named after, you guessed it! Chess pieces. King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook, Pawn. The King and Queen deal with the administrative aspect, the Bishop with PR and human-Tale relations, Knights are basically like the Fairy Tale police (but not really), Rooks do all the bookkeeping, and Pawns are the go-betweens for Fairy Tales and business with the Chessboard.
The largest Fairy Tale community, Match District, is located in England and is looked after by the King, Alice of Wonderland. This is where Rapunzel lives. It is also the location of Scheherazade and Aesop's library, the one place on earth were the Story of a Fairy Tale can supposedly be made safe and secure. Basically no one gets past them. Ever. Except once possibly. It's under investigation.
Other residents of Match District include Jack (Jack and the Beanstalk), Gilgamesh and Enkidu (the Epic of Gilgamesh), Grimhilde (Snow White), "Toad" (The Frog Prince), Wendy & Peter (Peter and Wendy), The Sea-Witch (The Little Mermaid), Chauntecleer (Canterbury Tales), Grendel (Beowulf), and Buttercup (Buttercup). Obviously there are a lot more but this is just to paint a general picture.
All Tales have more or less adapted to the modern age and live in Human society like normal even if they tend to keep to themselves. All Fairy Tales live under a universal set of rules:
Three Golden Rules:
1) Humans are not to know about the existence of Fairy Tales
2) One Fairy Tale is never to write in another's Story
3) Fairy Tales must not interfere with the human world at large
Fairy Tales and Whatever the heck they are:
Gender, age, species, ALL OF THAT means zip zero and nada to all Fairy Tales, because half of them aren't "normal" by human standards to begin with. Puss in Boots, Chauntecleer & Pertelote, The Doorknob, March Hare, etc etc. Beast from Beauty and the Beast! Anyone and everyone can be matched up or appear however they wish in Fairy Tale society and a couple like Snow White and Gingerbread Man wouldn't be seen as odd at all.
For Tales it's not about what they look or appear to be, and entirely about Who They Are as a person. One's True Love could be a talking piece of silverware and no one would bat an eye. A Prince could be female and a Princess could be male and it'd be normal. Everyone is just as abstract as everyone else so why sweat the details that everyday humans do?? Nonsense.
Some of Renart's cr:
Beowulf: Platonic bestie.
Clever Else: Just about the only person immune to Renart's power, Silver Tongue. Like to hang out with her at the pub when she and Beowulf are in Matchstick.
Gilgamesh: This douche. Their first meeting involved Renart getting run through with his sword.
Enkidu: Gil's lover and partner. Renart is :unsure: about him forever.
Rapunzel: The most honest person ever. Also naive to a fault.
Ferdinand (The Sorcerer's Apprentice): The most moochable. Sleeps in his bed sometimes.
Chauntecleer: A tasty snack.
"Toad": Too slimy to eat.
Ysengrin: From the same Story! Still likes to mess with him.
✖ Character History: Original characters are required to have their whole history written out.
-started life as a male fox
-mostly monogamous with a vixen
-lived just outside a small village
-took advantage of this, harassing the village and going after chickens, crops and livestock
-became renowned in the village for being a dangerous pest, extremely intelligent, unable to be caught
-lives for 6 years
-caught by villages, beaten to death and skinned
-some years prior to 1170 the Renart cycle started up, and Renart came into being as an oral fairy tale.
-wakes up outside the village as a fairy tale
-she proceeds to spend more of her life running from and evading humans. Because of her appearance humans took her to be some kind of werewolf or canine monster and therefore their opinions of her ranged from 'pest' to 'dangerous as hell'.
-met Beowulf when he heard about her through the grapevine. He thought she was some grand, legendary wolf beast and when he showed up to slay her was sorely disappointed. This is the first time she uses her ability - unhappy with a life of running from humans she convinces him to let her tag along on his monster hunts.
-travels around with Beowulf, learning to fight and developing her ability Silver Tongue.
-got her Story after Beowulf.
-gains enough confidence to stop travelling with Beowulf briefly, to take over a town
-gets run out by the inquisition, meets back up with Beowulf
-after hearing of all of Beowulf's manly epic stories of defeating monsters made her envious as her life had been spent being hunted, and made her want to be a fierce warrior
-she starts using her ability to spread the lie that she's the strongest warrior ever
-Gilgamesh hears about this, finds her, runs her through with his sword and spits in her face
-from then on she becomes far more standoffish and cautious, not using her ability often
-mostly sticks with Beowulf
✖ Character Personality: This section should give us a solid view of who your character is and what they're like. As with the setting, this section may be as long or as short as you want to make it.
viewpoints from a fox
-first life affected her world views
-jaded, realist, cynical
-survivalist
-very protective of children
-cunning and clever
-knows her mind and body need to be at their strongest
-fox instincts
-doesn't rush into fights, can be skittish and cautious
-good at escaping and avoiding detection
-can fight if necessary, fairly good at it, using her smaller body and natural agility to her advantage
-uneasy around other predatory animals, things that would set animals off
-aloof and holds people at arm's length
-comes across as very relaxed and easygoing
-tendency to make sarcastic jokes
-doesn't have a high opinion of herself
-due to gil pwning her so easily, human opinion of foxes, renart from the folktales being a total dick
-gil encounter humbled her and tempered her desire to use her ability to achieve greatness
-used to be tempted to use her powers to manipulate people and get ahead in life without working for it
-beowulf influenced her heavily
-made her want to be the kind of person he is - idealistic, strong, and compassionate
-tries to be a better person, though she doesn't really believe she can be
-does not let people know she wants to change because of above
-hangs out with beowulf a lot, he is her best friend
-spends time with Clever Else, who isn't affected by her power (no temptation to manipulate her)
-tries not to use her power recklessly after gil
-despite having originally been male she doesn't identify as a man; gender isn't something she thinks too much about but she's quite comfortable being a woman
✖ Character Powers & Skills:
Powers
Conditional Immortality: Like all Fairy Tales, Renart has been gifted with conditional immortality. This means she can suffer catastrophic injuries and she won't die, she will simply heal. As an extreme example she can be decapitated and both his head and body will still be alive. They will act independently until reunited, and they can be reattached without any outside healing. She cannot contract any diseases. She is susceptible to venom and poison, and depending on the amount she's ingested her body with either purge it or adapt to it. She can suffocate and starve but again, her body will adapt until she requires neither food nor air (however, until her body adapts she still goes through the associated pains as if she does need food or air). She is not immune to pain, so she will feel the full brunt of any injury even though it won't kill her. She does bleed and her heart will stop if she loses too much of it, but again her blood will regenerate and eventually her heart will start back up. The only way to permanently kill her is to destroy her Story.
Forget: In her world Fairy Tales have the unfortunate ability to be forgotten. This means that unless constant interaction is kept up humans who have met Fairy Tales will gradually forget them. This doesn't kick in until that interaction ceases - while a human is interacting with a Fairy Tale they'll come across as a living thing (i.e. they can be seen, heard, smelled etc). Once a Fairy Tale has left, however, they will fade from the human's mind. Length of time the interaction has occurred affects how quickly the fading happens - if they've spoken on a daily basis distinct features fade first and it will take longer for the human to forget the Fairy Tale than if they had only met once.
Silver Tongue: Renart's special ability. This allows her to control, manipulate and deceive people via her speech. She can give people commands (i.e. eat a specific food, give her something, fall asleep, commit a robbery) as well as influence their opinions and senses (i.e. convince them a lie is the truth, convince them that she doesn't have a tail). It is limited to speaking and hearing, so audio and video messages will be affected but text won't. Her ability will kick in if she speaks uninterrupted for a long time (such as when giving a speech or reading aloud), and the longer she speaks the more powerful her ability becomes. If a person is deaf or unable to hear her for some reason they will not be affected. A person with a strong will may have an easier time resisting, but aside from deafness/inability to hear the only way to have full immunity is through specific supernatural or magical means (i.e. Clever Else has a specific ability that renders her immune to all deception magics and abilities).
Fairy Tale Body: Putting this under powers though it's more biology than anything. Enhanced speed and strength, greater than that of a human. Extremely agile. Having the body of a Fairy Tale means that technically she doesn't need anything external to survive and can adapt to toxic environments. That's no food, no water, no air, extreme heat and cold, etc. This isn't anything special to Renart and applies to every single FT that has ever existed. Her body can get used to these things though (and to speak needs to pass air through her vocal chords). How do these two aspects reconcile with each other? If Renart has gotten used to eating and then goes through a period where she eats nothing at all she will start to starve until her body adjusts. Then that starvation and any negative side effects will end. Same goes for water and air - she'll go through a period of dehydration and suffocation until her body adjusts, then be perfectly fine.
Regeneration can be a bit picky. Normally it works just as you think it would - injuries heal over time. If a limb is cut off it needs to be reattached, but it can be without any stitches. If said limb is burned the FT's body will heal and regrow a new limb.
Her body comes in handy when it comes to her diet. Despite her body looking mostly human Renart has continued with her fox diet. Her Fairy Tale body has adjusted to this, and it means being able to digest raw meat (including stuff like raw chicken) and bones.
Fox Hearing: As Renart's ears are that of a fox's her hearing is just as sensitive. Red foxes have a range of up to 160 feet and can perceive up to 65,000Hz of sound (for comparison, humans can hear up to 22,000Hz). They can perceive low frequency sounds through walls, snow and underground.
Skills
Fighting: Renart is a very skilled fighter. Some of this comes naturally, having a body that is stronger and faster than a normal human's, and due to retaining her fox instincts. Some of this is learned over hundreds of years, from having traveled with Beowulf, one of the strongest Fairy Tale fighters. She learned to hone her natural talents, and he taught her how to fight with weapons. She is competent with short swords and blunt objects, and very good with knives. When fighting she makes use of her quick speed, dexterity and agility, and like all red foxes is a damn good leaper.
Languages: Renart is fluent (reading and writing) in English, French, Latin, Dutch and German.
Hunting: Renart is a skilled hunter and tracker.
✖ Personal Item or Weapon: One navaja knife given to her by Beowulf. More pictures here and here.
✖ Character Inventory:
This outfit, including underwear and scarf
(no subject)
Jun. 9th, 2014 02:06 pm-prior to being a fairy tale, was a regular (male) fox who was well known to a small french village for harassing their livestock (mainly their chickens) and being a rather wily escape artist. Eventually those humans caught up with him and killed and skinned him.
-some years prior to 1170 the Reynard cycle started up, and Reynard came into being as an oral fairy tale.
-she proceeded to spend more of her life running from and evading humans. Because of her appearance humans took her to be some kind of werewolf or canine monster and therefore their opinions of her ranged from 'pest' to 'dangerous as hell'.
-met Beowulf when he heard about her through the grapevine. He thought she was some grand, legendary wolf beast and when he showed up to slay her was sorely disappointed. This is the first time she uses her ability - unhappy with a life of running from humans she convinces him to let her tag along on his monster hunts.
-travels around with Beowulf, learning to fight and developing her ability Silver Tongue.
-got her Story after Beowulf.
-after hearing of all of Beowulf's manly epic stories of defeating monsters made her envious as her life had been spent being hunted, and made her want to be a fierce warrior
-she starts using her ability to spread the lie that she's the strongest warrior ever
-Gilgamesh hears about this, finds her, runs her through with his sword and spits in her face
-from then on she becomes far more standoffish, not using her ability often
-mostly sticks with Beowulf
personality:
-comes across at first glance as aloof and standoffish
-acts very calm and deadpan, cynical, blunt (doesn't hesitate to tell Beowulf when he's being dumb)
-inwardly a lot more idealistic? Wishes she could be a great heroic warrior who does noble deeds likes Beowulf
-very conscious of getting overconfident, since that's what got her injured with Gil
-guarded, doesn't let people in - keeps them at an arm's distance
-very aware of how foxes are seen by humans (poorly) and the poor reputation of Reynard
-not actively working to change this, though she actively works against falling into a behaviour that promotes that poor view
-a little jaded and bitter towards humans for this
-has morals, mostly because of Beowulf
-some years prior to 1170 the Reynard cycle started up, and Reynard came into being as an oral fairy tale.
-she proceeded to spend more of her life running from and evading humans. Because of her appearance humans took her to be some kind of werewolf or canine monster and therefore their opinions of her ranged from 'pest' to 'dangerous as hell'.
-met Beowulf when he heard about her through the grapevine. He thought she was some grand, legendary wolf beast and when he showed up to slay her was sorely disappointed. This is the first time she uses her ability - unhappy with a life of running from humans she convinces him to let her tag along on his monster hunts.
-travels around with Beowulf, learning to fight and developing her ability Silver Tongue.
-got her Story after Beowulf.
-after hearing of all of Beowulf's manly epic stories of defeating monsters made her envious as her life had been spent being hunted, and made her want to be a fierce warrior
-she starts using her ability to spread the lie that she's the strongest warrior ever
-Gilgamesh hears about this, finds her, runs her through with his sword and spits in her face
-from then on she becomes far more standoffish, not using her ability often
-mostly sticks with Beowulf
personality:
-comes across at first glance as aloof and standoffish
-acts very calm and deadpan, cynical, blunt (doesn't hesitate to tell Beowulf when he's being dumb)
-inwardly a lot more idealistic? Wishes she could be a great heroic warrior who does noble deeds likes Beowulf
-very conscious of getting overconfident, since that's what got her injured with Gil
-guarded, doesn't let people in - keeps them at an arm's distance
-very aware of how foxes are seen by humans (poorly) and the poor reputation of Reynard
-not actively working to change this, though she actively works against falling into a behaviour that promotes that poor view
-a little jaded and bitter towards humans for this
-has morals, mostly because of Beowulf
(no subject)
Jun. 9th, 2014 08:31 amSilver tongue: The ability to plant subconscious suggestions or ideas in a person's mind, or convince them to believe a falsehood no matter how unrealistic. The subject does not need to remember the conversation for the power to persist and cannot disobey. Power will persist until Reynard calls it off. Complex commands are harder to pull off than simple ones, and the more gullible the person the easier it is for the power to take hold.
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