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π tlv application
It is cold, it is dark
In the big black heart
Of the wood, of the hill
Of our home
TRIGGER WARNING: Morrison-verse is about cannibal witches who commit acts of torture and atrocity in the name of magic powers bestowed to them by an evil entity. Possible themes include incest, xeno, gore, self-harm, torture, people farming, breeding, sado/masochism, rape/dubcon, cannibalism, miscarriage, infanticide, etc. Here is an opt-out.
The surface content is that Qetzi's evil family of witches was killed. Dark squick content is by explicit opt-in only, and with a good relationship of communication between players. Qetzi is aware these topics are unsavory and will rebuff most inquiries. You don't want to know, and she doesn't want to talk about it.
Character Name: Qetzi'ah (Cassia/Qetzi) Morrison
Age: 25
From When?: Her cousin, Haran, kills her after she poisons his latest black veiled bride.
Inmate Justification: TL;DR Her family is biologically Evil. Her family has a pact with some unknowable evil that lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains. CW: CANNIBALISM
Arrival: Oh, she's coming. She has some unfinished business.
Abilities/Powers:
ABILITIES/POWERS
π·οΈ EXISTING LIMITATIONSALONE: Without a coven around them, Morrisons are significantly weaker. They operate on a communal pool of magic energy that the Hill Mother draws the majority of. They are also weaker away from the Hill itself, it is their main amplifier. Consider this an all-around dampener to all the abilities related to her witch background.
WATER: Morrisons are unable to cross natural bodies of water. They are very connected to the earth (filth, dirt) and water disrupts their relationship to their home turf. Already being very far away from the Hill will lessen this discomfort, but it's an instinct in Qetzi'ah. It is much like any other human instinct to fear something that will hurt them (snakes, spiders, etc).
π·οΈ TRUE NAMESDESC: One of a witch's greatest powers is to turn your name against you. Give a witch your name and she has the secret key past your innate defenses. Reading someone's name is not the same as being told it; she must be told it by the person themselves in full. Nicknames and aliases also do not count. π Permissions
Possession of someone's real name determines how Qetzi can act offensively. Without owning someone's name, she has to defeat their defenses with willpower. She is often too conflicted for that.
NERF: Permissions needed, also easy sidesteps to it for narrative control. Even if all of her offensive spells are blocked, this piece can still be applicable in warding, scrying, dispelling.
π·οΈ BLACK MAGICDESC: Spells which allow her to cause deception, terror, and pain. Includes 'witch stuff' like warding, scrying, dispelling. Spells cast without components require physical contact instead, both require a verbal incantation. The witchcraft the family practices is of the Faustian style: Christian rites inverted and anagrammed into profanity. This umbrella also holds more common folk-culture styles of herbs and charms.
HOW IT CASTS: Anyone can cast these types of spells, but for them to actually be powerful you need much more. The Morrison family is more powerful and effective because of their attachment to the Hill and their coven. To cast, you say the right words and you draw the right sigils and you have the right spell components. There is a will power component, where if a witch does not have the target's true full name to bypass their defenses, they can be fended off by someone of greater will power. Most Morrisons have immense will power regardless, but Qetzi's stats are lacking in this regard.
NERF: Getting her hands on some components she would need is extremely difficult isolated on the Barge. This includes very specific herbs, as well as body parts and bodily fluids from various specific creatures. Not all black magic spells are offensive, but most of them are. She could be limited to only warding, scrying, and dispelling.
π·οΈ HEARTSTRINGSDESC: The Morrison family specialty. What this spell does is that it physically tortures the victim, making pathways between the victim's every emotion and the casting witch. The witch who casts this spell then has an awareness of everything the victim feels: this includes the continued pain the victim goes through, as this spell feels as if they have been physically sewn up with barbed wire and rusty nails. The witch on the far side of the heartstrings can yank on the victim's emotions at any time, like a leash. This causes the victim further agony, but the Morrisons see this as a kind of conditioning, and all those who bear the heartstrings have grown to like them, in time. When the strings are let slack, there is a sense of limpness and emptiness, like a doll abandoned, like a wound suddenly reopened. This is not a curse woven lightly, it is reserved for only the most important of victims, as it ties them to the witch them.
This requires possession of a true name.
HOW IT CASTS: Physical and/or psychological abuse wears the victim down until they are susceptible to having their sense of self tied to the witch's. This has been done slowly over years, and it has been done aggressively over weeks. Will power and strength needs to be incredibly low so that they can be ensnared in a net of black magic.
NERF: It can be perceived as dangerous/offensive and taken immediately. If she were to regain it, it could only be cast with consent. There are relationships where one might choose this. They're not positive relationships, but they're out there and something to think about. Qetzi has never cast this spell and may have no interest in it. It would depend on the CR.
I guess of note, her mother Eden used the heartstrings spell to create a servant out of a heartless(!KH) that was brought to her in another game. So, it can be used in unconventional ways when new variables are introduced.
π·οΈ FAE MAGICDESC: Faerie magic centers around illusions; glamours. They can use glamours to beautify themselves, entertain one another, or confuse and incapacitate foes. Tools for trickery and cleverness. Mostly doesn't work against other faeries/other fae-touched. πͺ» Permissions
HOW IT CASTS: The faeries have to give you a spark of their magic in order for you to use it. This is encapsulated in Qetzi's station as fae-kissed. Faerie magic is rooted in songs and rhymes and vibes. Enacting faerie magic for Qetzi is more about resonating with her faerie spark and letting it speak. Resonating for too long with the inhuman spark lowers her sanity. Also of note, she may know what spell she wants to cast... that may not be the spell she casts. The spark decides, in the end.
NERF: These are mainly defensive and status effect spells with a clear cost to her. I assume poison effect is nerfed, but otherwise... Let her be a nuisance and drive herself crazy π€·ββοΈ
π·οΈ LORE & HERBOLOGY She's a witch. She knows witch stuff. Specializes in herbology.
π·οΈ CARDS, BONES, & ENTRAILS And the reading thereof. Higher % of correctness due to her fae kiss, but twice as cryptic in her descriptions, so π€·ββοΈ good luck.
π·οΈ FAE SPEAK Can speak in the faerie tongue, as well as in the faerie parlance. Part of learning fae speak is also learning how to conduct oneself in their court, a court which is the gold standard for manners (in this verse, anyway). Faerie court manners are acceptable in any other supernatural circle. It's very flowery and cryptic. π€·ββοΈ
π·οΈ FAE-KISSED Always smells of flowers. Possesses faerie spark.
π·οΈ WARDING RINGS [ITEM] Faerie tokens, let her do things -- move silently, evade notice, be forgotten (short term memory) -- with ease. It's an amplifier to a thing she can already do, and can do them more reliably than just hoping the faerie spark vibes with her intentions. [ β ]
Inmate Information:
INMATE INFORMATION
CRIMES Her family is biologically evil. While they may each have their own personalities and feelings about this fact, they are tied to something that fills them with an utter possessiveness and greed. They want power, they want knowledge, they want everything they lay their eyes on. They are collectors and hoarders. And what they collect and hoard includes sentient people and creatures. Some of them are more overtly sadistic in this fact, but all of them are aware and complicit in it. In the name of power, they oblige the Hill's call for them to commit atrocity. CW: CANNIBALISMTheir consumption of human flesh is a ritual in its name, that it may bless their House.(This is not mandatory to Qetzi's nutrition. She will just not in a situation where it is not viable. At worst, she will feel a bit crummy and nagged on by her strained connection to the Hill.)
Qetzi has also personally poisoned several of Haran's potential brides CW INFANTICIDEand their potential children, as well as killing a newborn.
QUICK BACKGROUND Qetzi'ah is a witch in her family coven. The Morrison family has a long history stretching back to colonial times. Their outsider matriarch came into contact with the thing that lives in the hills, and made her pact. The family line has continued to rule over their hidden domain in the woods. Qetzi'ah was born into a very prosperous era in her family. For many years, her aunt Adina had been showing off her plans as the new Hill Mother. She arranged many important and powerful connections to families on the outside world. She has their children now and has absorbed their various powers and magicks into her family's pool. With this prosperity in mind, there were a lot of other siblings and cousins to occupy the adults. Qetzi'ah was able to take a step back from many of the family dealings and have a fairly peaceable childhood growing up in the woods. Her 'idyllic' childhood was disrupted when her cousin, Haran, came into his demonic powers. The son of an actual demon, he turned out much more powerful than his witch relatives. And he destroyed them. He spared Qetzi'ah because she did not try to defy him, and she has questioned that decision ever since.
PERSONALITY By default, Qetzi'ah is always a bit sour. Her bitterness is probably justified, but she used to be a pleasant and friendly person before the death of her family. Her time under Haran's rule has also darkened her attitudes. The only time she shows pleasure is the few hours she spends in the faerie glade. As soon as she has left its protective veil, her irritability returns and she is prone to frowning.
Haran has visitors who come to wheedle for power and trinkets. Qetzi treats these vultures with cold suspicion and with a specific brand of warm, cruel, sarcasm. She is not meant to offend them outright, despite not wanting to be bothered with them. She doesn't want to play House steward for her cousin. Even cooking, which was formerly both a pleasure and honor in the House, is done with a grudge for Haran and his guests. She does nothing she once loved with pleasure. Even collecting flowers for the ghosts of her family members has become another chain in her heavy shackles.
Being a bit unpleasant with people is an ingrained habit, and not one she realizes has taken hold in her.
Much of her day-to-day life is merely in attendance. She was raised with some very high expectations for her devotion to her family, to the House, and to the Hill. With her family dead, the House empty, and the Hill the seat of Haran's power... She does not know what she is beholden to.
She is not used to being the only woman in the family. However, she was also raised in a society of powerful women who always rise to the occasion. Morrisons have always been charismatic, manipulative, self-assured, and deceptive. Qetzi is none of these things. Her sisters were. They had serious aspirations to the House, but Qetzi never was ambitious. She's alone now though, and knows she should try to amass resources, servants, power in that Morrison way. She actually has no practice at it whatsoever. She has the vengeful determination that she must not give up, but she also does not know what will free her from her servitude to Haran. So instead, she follows the same routine, day after day. Even her anger and her grief have become routine, a suffocating realization that can lead her to become explosively angry at times.
She has had no company and no friendships for several years now. It is something she both longs for and distrusts. It is something that tempts her to bend her iron resolution to stay devoted to the House and to see her cousin destroyed; one way or another. Running away from all sense of responsibility lurks in the back of her thoughts, tempting her to impetuousness and frivolity. The influence of the dark fae in the woods has not helped temper these impulses. Fae-kissed, her reason is compromised and there are times when she says and does things very much against her will. Sometimes it can be fought off, other times it can't.
Before her transformation into the sour young woman you would meet today, Qetzi was mellow and friendly; the chill sister that you can hang out with and talk about anything. Her joys were the outdoors, flowers, poetry, and time with her sisters. She still loves these things, and still longs for that familiar relationship, but it might take some time to remind her, and to somehow convince her any sort of frivolousness is safe. She is distrustful, and calculating, watching everyone through the narrow lens of power and the revenge she's left behind in her home world.
Qetzi'ah can come off quite deceptively normal at times, but there are influences vying for her devotion on the inside that sometimes surface. Morrison greed, faerie capriciousness, and a well of grief and anger that seems to have no bottom.
Path to Redemption:
PATH TO REDEMPTION
Qetzi is consumed by the past. She is going mad with the faeries because she does not know whether to just let go or wreak some horrible vengenace on Haran, so that she can rebuild the family. She has no conception of herself as her own woman as separate from the family. The faeries have presented an option to her to do something else, but she is so hesitant to leave the path her family has carved out. While her father was a 'regular' human man, she was not raised with him. She cannot imagine a modern life for herself.
She needs to deal with her grief.
In story, she is very deeply and spiritually tied to something evil and on the Barge she could potentially find a way to sever that connection and be free. She would have to accept and want this, which will be a challenge because of her deep love for her sisters. She will lose a connection with them if she severs herself from the Hill.
Her potential paths look something like:π Bad: Going back to the House to kill Haran and become Hill Mother.I would consider the neutral path to be acceptable, if slightly escapist. The allure of the faeries is their unreality and glamour; the faeries also won't be very interested in seeing her inherited viciousness and cruelty curbed. It's something she has already dipped her toes into without committing one way or the other.
π Neutral: Lady of Whispers; kill Haran and take over the surrounding forest, while leaving the House to rot.
π Good: Wardening. Or reuniting with her father and living in the normal world, leaving the Hill behind.
Either way, Qetzi needs to choose. She needs to move forward.
There are challenges for Qetzi in trying to change. She has a foot in two open doors, and both want her commitment:π Morrison Blood - One particular challenge she will face as a Morrison is that they are inclined towards greed and possessiveness. They want in a very abusive and controlling manner.She has some ability to resist, but both have their way with her at times. She needs to pick one, or reject both. She will have to wrangle her preternatural inclinations somehow in order to change with intention.
π Faerie Spark - The faerie magic inside of her doesn't always just sit quietly. It can take over and she can be found dancing and singing to herself, or lashing out with cruel tricks for no reason at all.
World Information:
WORLD INFORMATION
TL;DR: Dark modern-day fantasy with witches and many other supernatural clans and visitors. The Morrison witches have a dark brutalistic touch, as mentioned in trigger warnings.
Filth abounds in the misted Appalachian Hills. There live a solitary people, living secret, solitary lives. Deep in their mountains, dark creatures await. The Morrison line, once the Reynolds line and before that... It has had its claws sunk into the black flesh of the land since the first winters that the settlers set foot there. One dark-haired outsider, smarter than the rest, made a pact with the wet black dirt in exchange for power, and for survival. Lilach feeds the Hill blood and depravity and it protects her. The poor frightened villagers gather around her strength, so as not to be consumed by the frigid winter. CW: CANNIBALISMThey are unable to rebel against her, even as their children disappear in the night, sacrificed and then devoured by their patroness.
She lives. CW: PEOPLE FARMINGShe rules with her darling little pigs rolling and grunting at her feet; sacrificing their children to her.When she needs a successor, she takes one of their men and fills herself up, and so the line goes. An unwavering matriarchal coven blooms from the darkness. Women are most powerful; thus they are loved, feared, and obeyed.
The world outside the Hill continues on at the pace of progress into the modern day, but on the Hill, things remain very much the same. Corrugated metal shacks replace mud huts, the community grows shallow, and a collection of beasts begins to fill the labyrinthine basements beneath the large wooden house where the witch lives. More children are needed to feed them, and the poor, filthy peasants living at the witchβs feet are obliged to provide.
The line of the witches flourishes, roots sinking deep into the Hill for centuries. Qetzi'ah Morrison, and her siblings and cousins, are the sixteenth generation of witches born to the filth.
They come after an active and tumultuous era in their family's life. Adina is Hill Mother and she has grand plans for the expansion of their family. The family's interactions with members of the outside world, their relations, connections, and subsequently children define the world that Qetzi'ah is born in to.
It is a world of magic and horrors within a black coven in the misty hills.
NOTE: I'm going to include a list of names in case you want to know who is being mentioned, but there are a lot of them. Don't try to remember them all, that's my problem (weary). Please make it a running gag that no one can remember which family member she's even talking about.PEOPLE OF NOTE
FAMILY TREE
π Lilach - The first matriarch.
π Momma Reynolds - 13th generation daughter. Mother of Bethlehem.
π (Baby) Bethlehem Morrison nee Reynolds - 14th generation daughter. Mother of Lehi, Adina, Helah, Ram, Eden, and Othniel.
π Tallendi Morrison - (Heartstrings to Bethle) The human boy that Bethle ensnared and made her husband. Father of Lehi, Adina, Helah, Ram, Eden, and Othniel.
FIFTEENTH GENERATION
π Lehi Morrison - The oldest son, husband of Acacia. Father of Ophira, Tomer, and Efraim.
π Adina Morrison - The oldest daughter, mother of Nekoda and Haran. Hill Mother.
π Helah Morrison - The middle daughter. Mother of Tavor.
π Ram Morrison - The middle son, twins with Eden. Father of Sapphira.
π Eden Morrison - The youngest daughter. Twins with Ram. Mother of Sapphira, twins Mattan and Havilah, Qetzi'ah, and Kandake.
π Othniel Morrison - The youngest son, partner to Kelly.
π Acacia Morrison nee Hollern - (Heartstrings to Lehi) Wife of Lehi and mother of Ophira, Tomer, and Efraim.
SIXTEENTH GENERATION
π Nekoda Morrison - Son of Adina and Starling. Father of the hyenas.
π Sapphira Morrison - [Qetzi's] Older sister, daughter of Eden and Ram.
π Kandake Morrison - [Qetzi's] Younger sister, daughter of Eden and Kelly.
π Ophira, Tomer, and Efraim - Children of Lehi and Acacia, quite young when they died.
β Mattan & Havilah Bonheur - Twin sons of Eden and Christopher, they do not live on the Hill. They are Qetzi's older brothers.
β Tavor Morrison - Son of Helah and...
β Haran Morrison - Son of Adina and a demon.
SEVENTEENTH GENERATION
β The Hyenas - Children of Anubis and Nekoda. There are 12 of them. They help Haran enforce his rule and are the primary population of House and Hill. They are such a bastard offshoot branch, but are actually way more likely than Qetzi to continue the clan. Dinah is the primary leader, but Hekate and Aziza have some ideas of their own as well.
OUTSIDERS
β Dante Guerrero de GarcΓa - A very old friend of Tallendi's, like an older brother. Considered as an uncle by Tallendi's children.
β Starling - Nekoda's father, alive but uninvolved and uninterested. A cruel and morally ambiguous hunter of witch hunters alongside his sister, Sparrow.
β Anubis Saint Croix - Nekoda's partner and mother to an entire pack of hyenas. Anubis left the Hill. Her father, the Black Dog, made arrangements for her freedom before he ever allowed her to move onto the Hill. Her mother is one of Satan's human brides.
β Christopher Bonheur - Father of Mattan and Havilah, the twins live with him. All are well, but unable to interfere in what is going on on the Hill due to the effect that evil place has on them. They all practice a very different variety of magic that is colloquially called 'glitter'.
β Kelly Bridge - (Heartstrings to Othniel) Father of Qetzi'ah and Kandake. Close friend of Eden and partner to Othniel. Alive, but is in considerable distress. His heartstrings to Othniel are cut, Eden and Kandake are dead, and he can't reach Qetzi.
INTERLOPERS
β Kaevyn - A faerie that was given to Qetzi'ah as a gift. She befriends him and he advises her on how to navigate her relationship with Haran, while also trying to angle for his freedom.
β Brandon Wardlow - A magus who has been sent by his coven to investigate the Hill and see what power can be taken from it.
History:
HISTORY
Qetzi'ah (Cassia, if you like) Morrison was born late into the expansion of her line. Much of the strife that had once plagued the family was put to rest. Their numbers swelled with the concerted efforts of the witches to thrive. She was a contented girl, with little responsibility within the House. She did not share her elder sister Sapphira's desire to destroy the House, nor did she share her younger sister Kandake's desire to one day rule it. Familial intrigue interested her little, and instead her passions were for magic, gardening, and the outdoors. Rather than obsess over powerful artifacts or creatures, she spent her time wandering the Hill, learning about the depths of the magic which thrived in the mists.
This led to her becoming the only member of the family to befriend the clan of dark fae who inhabit their misty mountains. They taught her magicks beyond what her sisters knew, teaching her to access other means of power beyond the Hill's wealth of filth through their faerie speak. This had benefits, as well as detriments. All magic comes with cost, and fae magic assuredly drains one of humanity. Qetzi's spirit may be less heavy than her kin's, but the faerie airiness is mercurial, and its innocence can be double-edged.
Everything changed when her younger cousin, Haran, inherited his demonic birthright and destroyed her family. The Morrison dynasty crumbled before her eyes as each pillar of its strength was destroyed. Qetzi'ah does not miss all of them, but she mourns her sisters and her mother with grim passivity. She refuses to acknowledge that Haran has damaged her spirit.
Everywhere she goes, she feels haunted by spirits. She can hear the voices of aunts and uncles, grandparents and sisters in the House at night. They call to her for a revenge she is not certain she can provide. She is little more than a mausoleum caretaker now. She spends the days out in the hills trying to lose her sorrow, and returning at dusk with armfuls of flowers to leave scattered throughout the House. She covers over the deep bloodstains in the wood with rotting petals.
The faeries pity the little witch and beckon her to join their ilk, their pretty songs sometimes almost make her question just who she is. But then the House pulsates around her, and the spirits of her dead sisters weep. Paralyzed between duty and freedom, she is not yet decisive as to which road she will take, but surely the fair folk would not object to a taste of the Hill's power in her.
There are others who have heard that the Hill is vulnerable. A magus comes to their doorstep and begins to court those who remain. To Qezti'ah, he brings a faerie as a gift. A light fae named Kaevyn now lives in her bedroom in a jar. He tries to befriend her and give her advice, while always angling for his freedom. She does promise it to him, although she may die first.
The magus, Brandon Wardlow, also courts Haran for access to the Hill and its many artifacts. He also courts several of the hyenas for information and perhaps leverage. Dinah is uninterested, but bitter Aziza and ambitious Hekate give him more of their time. One wants to avenge her mistress, Sapphira. The other simply wishes to be Hill Mother herself.
The intrigue that Qetzi'ah had always ignored has now come to her doorstep, and she does not know what she is going to do.
But she knows that she hates Haran.
One of the gifts that Haran requests from the magus is a suitably dreadful bride that he can have children with for his own line. Brandon complies, and consults with his own coven on what they could provide. Qetzi'ah interferes in these plans by poisoning these various brides on the sly. As Haran becomes wise to her, she spends less and less time around the House and more time in the woods with the faeries where he cannot find her. His brides also become more resilient and horrible.
CW INFANTICIDEWhen one of the brides manages to become pregnant, Qetzi'ah interferes there as well. Even the infants must die.It's no wonder that Haran kills her to stop her meddling. He had only tolerated her for so long because she was his dear, sweet cousin.
He and the hyenas hunt her down and tear her apart.
The Barge has her now.
TLV History:
TLV HISTORY
Qetzi'ah has been aboard the Barge before, but failed to develop much in the way of relationships. In Breaches, she often found herself in roles that emulated her own: the heavy weight of her great family staring at her from distances both great and small. The perpetual reminders drive her crazy and agitate the broken connections that once led to her coven. She has an increase to her outbursts and her bouts of nursery rhymes. Maybe that's why she has a hard time remembering exactly who was and was not here on the boat last time...
She's not sure yet what she will do differently to stop herself from re-entering that rut, but she is aware of it now.
Old Sample Post:
OLD SAMPLE POST
[ She is sitting in the art gazebo, picking apart a piece of fruit with her fingers. ]
There's a story in my family, about when our grandfather was young. He was running from grandmother, and the lady of crows came down to speak with him. Can you imagine? The phantom queen comes down to talk about strife and fate with you when you're just a teenage boy?
[ She smiles sadly to herself, eats her piece of fruit. ]
So, she gives him a warden. One of her crows, and she lets him name it. And this crow comes with him across the land, trying to put as many rivers between himself and my grandmother as he can.
The goddess of war is following his fate, she wants to know if he finds his doom, his death, or his victory.
[ She looks directly into the camera with large, dark eyes. ]
That sound familiar to anyone? Ah... Well, he went back in the end. Sapphira always says that was his doom. Candance always thought it was his victory. And I didn't have much of an opinion.
But now the same question's in my lap and the Admiral is handing out more than crows, isn't he? Suppose I'd best buckle up. But then again, my uncles never made us wear seatbelts in the truck.
New Sample Post:
[ She is smoking in her cabin, one knee up onto her mattress and the other on the floor. She covers her eyes with her other hand, tiredly. ]
If you were going to bring me back, you could have at least let me see daddy first.
[ She sighs wearily, exhaling a big breath of smoke. ]
Do you think he'd be disappointed in me? Get offered a second chance and I can't even make proper good on it. Bloody well sounds like me...
Sample RP:
TDM, Old: https://tlvgreatesthitsdw.dreamwidth.org/118672.html?thread=37742480#cmt37742480
TDM, New: https://tlvgreatesthitsdw.dreamwidth.org/126375.html?thread=43529127#cmt43529127
Special Notes: Here is what I find interesting about Qetzi and this story line: She's a peaceable girl, as far as flesh eating witches go. She was complacent and didn't have any interest in the power struggles of the House. She likes the outdoors and faerie stories. But when Haran decimated her family, she was thrust into vying for the fate of the House. She had never wanted it for herself, but what she couldn't tolerate was Haran having it. She ends up taciturn and vicious as things become more and more entangled. She murders several of her cousin's mostly innocent brides. (I mean, those brides are still monsters, it's fine.) She goes through a journey, going from just the quiet sister who liked to tend the garden, to running a one-woman campaign of guerrilla warfare against her cousin from the mists of the Hill. This would be a good chance for her to reflect on that journey.