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FULL NAME
Qetzi'ah Morrison
BIRTH DATE
Libra βοΈ
10/09/2038ish
10/09/2038ish
AGE
BIRTHPLACE
Earth
Blue Ridge Mountains
Blue Ridge Mountains
ALIAS
Cassie, Cassia
The Golden Rain Tree
The Golden Rain Tree
PRONOUNS
She/Her
LANGUAGE
English
Fae Speak
Fae Speak
OCCUPATION
Witch
APPEARANCE
When she wears the faerie glamor, she is unnaturally beautiful. She smells of wildflowers. Without her glamor, she is still beautiful, but that beauty is disquieting and threatening.
HEIGHT
5'6"
HAIR
She has dark brown hair, and a lot of it. She often has decorative braids and trinkets in her hair.
BUILD
Sporty
EYES
Dark
PERSONALITY
In a word, Qetzi'ah is mercurial. Her mood is dysphoric. She is racked with grief, anger, trauma, and a profound inner conflict over who or what she is. She isn't even certain about what she wants to be. So her moods go all over the place.
Sometimes, it's more than just her mood, and the person you're interacting with blacked out and is being puppeted by the forces that lay claim to her. The Hill is hungry and demanding. The faerie spark longs for whimsy and mischief. Qetzi has minimal control over it once it starts.
Somewhere, deep down, Qetzi is a basically chaotic good person who just wants to love her friends and family. She would maybe also cut a bitch on their behalf. Caring but dysfunctional and dysregulated. Worse still: she is dangerous to herself and others.
Sometimes, it's more than just her mood, and the person you're interacting with blacked out and is being puppeted by the forces that lay claim to her. The Hill is hungry and demanding. The faerie spark longs for whimsy and mischief. Qetzi has minimal control over it once it starts.
Somewhere, deep down, Qetzi is a basically chaotic good person who just wants to love her friends and family. She would maybe also cut a bitch on their behalf. Caring but dysfunctional and dysregulated. Worse still: she is dangerous to herself and others.
BACKGROUND
[SOME] FAMILY
π Sapphira, eldest sister; π
π Mattan & Havilah, older twin brothers;
π Kandake, youngest sister; π
π Eden, mother; π
π Kelly, father;
π Haran, cousin;
π Mattan & Havilah, older twin brothers;
π Kandake, youngest sister; π
π Eden, mother; π
π Kelly, father;
π Haran, cousin;
It is not just Satan they have committed themselves to with their dark magic. They also commune with some unknowable darkness known only as the Hill. It's dark droning voice asks for offerings most foul. The more inhuman, cruel, and taboo the act, the more powerful the witches may become. The witches are cannibals, torturers, and deviants. And it has been so for hundreds of years.
Qetzi'ah was born into this, and her personal ethics were never a matter of concern. You do as family does. She had her chores and tried to do them with pride, but the rest of the time she roamed the forests surrounding the House. She let her mind and feet wander away from the life she inherited. She did not daydream about fighting back or escaping, although her sisters did. She encouraged them to do what she felt she couldn't.
But then a terrible tragedy befell their house.
One of her cousins was a spoiled half-demon named Haran. Auntie was very proud of the powerful traits a half-demon boy would have. However, she miscalculated her spawn's familial loyalty. When he came into his powers as a teenager, he single-handedly raised a coup against his mother's control over the family and slaughtered anyone who tried to defy him.
Qetzi did not defy him. Maybe out of shock, maybe out of a misguided hope to stab him in the back later. Regardless, she ended up the sole surviving witch inside the House. She dealt with Haran day in and day out while living in what had become her family's mausoleum. She found him intolerable and snuck off to walk in the forest whenever she could.
Her faerie friends kissed her, imparted some of their spark on her, and invited her to run away to them. They would hide her in the mists. It is a tempting offer, but revenge still lingers in Qetzi's mind. Revenge's influence only grows on her and she is less and less careful in the ways that she insults and thwarts Haran's desires.
The two cousins eventually reach a crescendo in their spiteful game. Haran has his dear sweet cousin torn apart by the hyenas.
And the Barge has her now.
Her first stint on the Barge was mostly filled with strange ravings and mischief. The perpetual disruptions of the Barge made it difficult to get her footing and every breach seemed to throw her back into life with her family only to rip it away again. She struggled to connect with people this way.
The Admiral lost her for a little while before finding her again.
Her second stint on the Barge began in much the same manner. However, a very upsetting conversation on the network with her father drove her into enough crisis that the unpaired inmates warden stepped in. John Doe was able to request some respite from the nightly hauntings of her dead family. Sleeping easier certainly helped to stabilize her a bit.
A bit. A tad. Just enough to make some new friends that she can be a danger to.
ABILITIES
TRUE NAMES
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.
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.
BLACK MAGIC
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.
HEARTSTRINGS
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.
This requires possession of a true name.
FAERIE SPARK
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
MISC
π Every member of her family has a thing that they collect/hoard. Qetzi'ah collects pinned butterflies and moths.
π Learned faerie speak hanging out with the dark faeries on the mountain.
π Her name in faerie speak is The Golden Rain Tree
π Loves cooking, hiking, gardening, and telling tall tales.
π Learned faerie speak hanging out with the dark faeries on the mountain.
π Her name in faerie speak is The Golden Rain Tree
π Loves cooking, hiking, gardening, and telling tall tales.
AESTHETIC
OOC
NAME
Bee
CONTACT
itsabee @ discord
PB
Alex Sandor
TIMEZONE
EST