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featherknives) wrote2020-01-12 02:54 pm
ITN Info Sheet
AGE: 26 (over hundred in Vastayan)
DOB: 6th of March
GENDER: Female
SPECIES: Lhotlan Vastayan
ACTIVE: Yes
DETAILS
HEIGHT: 5’3 / 165cm
BUILD: Lean, good hips and thighs
HAIR: Purple
EYES: Yellow
FEATURES: Tall feather ears, nose piercing, marks under her eyes, feather cloak/wings
ATTIRE: Leather dress and leggings, armguards and cowl, all in purple
INVENTORY: Invisibility potion
WEAPONS: Feather Knives
VOICE: Melodicaly deep
BACKGROUND
PERSONALITY
ATTITUDE: Neutral; generally unpleasant towards humans
QUIRKS: She fiddles with her hair a lot
LIKES: Feathers, purple, alcohol, chocolate, waterfalls, nature, magic
DISLIKES: humans, traitors and backstabbers, did I mention humans?, cold, shapeshifting
VIRTUES: Sharp, witty, resolute, smart
VICES: quick tongue- quicker feathers, judgemental towards humans, violent when angry, forgives hard
HOBBIES: sharpening feathers, that counts right?
ABILITIES
WEAPONS: Knives
STRENGTH: 5/10
DEXTERITY: 9/10
CONSTITUTION: 6/10
INTELLIGENCE: 9/10
WISDOM: 7/10
CHARISMA: 7/10
PERMISSIONS
THREADHOPPING: ✔
FOURTHWALLING: ✘
ROMANCE: ❔
MINDREADING: ✔
MANIPULATION: ❔
INJURY: ✔
FIGHTING: ✔
KILLING: ✘
PREFERENCES
PSLS: Yes
AU TYPES: Any AU
CONTENT TYPE: All
DO NOT WANT: Romance with cheating
SHIPPING: Yes
MAIN PAIRINGS: Rakan, Sett, any other Vastayan from League, crosscanon
TAG STYLE: [ brackets ] and prose
TAG SPEED: I am from EU. Tags can wary from 1 a day to several to boomeranging, depending on aviability
GAME
ARRIVAL: July
RESIDENCE: Village
OCCUPATION: Scout, defender
INVENTORY: Invsisibility potion, feathers
CHANGES: She shapeshifted her cloak back into her wings
RELATIONSHIP: No one, may have a crush
APPLICATION: In The Night
CREDITS
HISTORY
Deadly and precise, Xayah is a vastayan revolutionary waging a personal war to save her people. She uses her speed, guile, and razor-sharp feather blades to cut down anyone who stands in her way. Xayah fights alongside her partner and lover, Rakan, to protect their dwindling tribe, and restore their race to her vision of its former glory.
As a child, Xayah loved listening to her father sing the ancient folk-hymns about vastayan heroes. The haunting melodies transported her to a long-forgotten time when the spirit realm danced freely throughout the physical world. But, with every new generation, humans encroached further into the Lhotlan tribelands, disrupting the raw, chaotic essence of Ionia for their own purposes. Unwilling to stand by and watch her kind fade, Xayah ignored the decrees of her people and set out to reason with the humans.
She ventured into villages beyond her secluded tribal home, and learned how little she knew of the outside world. A group of poverty-stricken villagers mobbed her, some of them trying to steal her feathers as priceless trophies. Others were fearful of her strange appearance and summoned the authorities, forcing her to defend herself. Xayah’s attackers were soon taught the dangers of getting in her way, as she skewered them with her lethal quills.
Dismayed, she returned to her home, only to discover that her tribe, including her father, was missing without a trace. An ancient vastayan temple had been tainted by unnatural shadow magic, disrupting its connection to the spirit realm. Xayah destroyed the temple in order to dispel the corruption. Almost instantly, magic flowed back into the surrounding lands. It was a beautiful sight, but her tribe was still nowhere to be found.
After years spent flitting in and out of the most fortified strongholds and leaving a trail of bodies in her wake, she became known as “The Violet Raven.” She lived alone, focused only on the next mission, and the next step toward freedom for her kind.
But then she met another vastayan who would change her life forever. As she entered the remote mountain town of Vlonqo in search of a stolen vastayan artifact, she was struck by the strange sight of a braying crowd of excitable humans. Onstage before them stood a preening, flamboyant performer, a veritable golden peacock, who sang old vastayan songs for his captivated audience. As he finished his show with a dazzling array of cheap tricks—as Xayah saw them—the crowd erupted and chanted his name: “Rakan.” He took a theatrical bow. She dismissed him as a buffoon.
Xayah willed herself to ignore the entertainer and completed her mission. She made her escape, which she had to admit had become far easier thanks to the buffoon’s distraction of Vlonqo’s inhabitants.
Despite vowing never to see this “Rakan” again, she couldn’t seem to get him off her mind. It was a strange and complicated feeling; there was a lightness to his spirit that she found aggravatingly alluring.
As she left town, Xayah was preoccupied with these strange thoughts, leaving her momentarily distracted to an ambush from a group of mercenaries. She had been expecting a fight, so she was glad to get her feathers bloody. A good brawl seemed the perfect antidote for useless diversions and unwanted feelings.
That was when Rakan made his grand entrance.
Xayah insisted she didn’t need the swaggering vastayan’s help. Rakan insisted he didn’t care—he just didn’t want to miss the party. Through the course of the fight, Rakan proved an unorthodox, but surprisingly dauntless and effective, ally. He leapt and pirouetted through the attackers who couldn’t take their eyes off him, providing Xayah ample time to strike them down with devastating accuracy.
In spite of her protestations, Rakan continued to follow Xayah. Over time, she grew to welcome his company and—though she was initially loath to admit it—the world didn’t feel so broken and lonely. They became inseparable, with her passion for the vastayan cause infecting the showboating battle-dancer. She has adapted to his free-spirited ways, utilizing the chaos Rakan creates as perfectly timed distractions. Together, they fight to release Ionia’s abundant flow of magic so that the vastaya might thrive once again.
PERSONALITY
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on where you look at it), Xayah's biggest weakness is still alive and breathing. Or so she hopes. Rakan was her love, her mate, her companion and he was (and still is in a way) her biggest weakness. Despite her dedication to the cause, and despite all the denials, she would drop the mission she is on, just to make sure he is alright. Of course, in most cases, it was Rakan that looked after her and guarded her back. Without him here, after the mourning period, she might grow cold and distant, walling herself off from the others. It worked well for her before she met Rakan, so it will work again, right?
She is easily prone to getting angry, her temper impossibly short. She has a soft spot for wildlife, plants, and animals, for magic and freedom, and whenever those things are endangered in some capacity, her real side shows up. The Violet Raven doesn't hold back from pulling out her quills- she shoots to kill and she doesn't have any remorse about it. She tries not to let her anger leave her blindsided, but sometimes it's easier said than done. Things that she comes to love and respect, she protects with her life.
The long, bad history with humans makes her cynical more often than not. If someone has a bad start with her, she may become aloof and thoughtless towards them, not really caring about their wellbeing and can be resentful for very long periods of time. She is very hard to please and can become very nitpicky when her plans don't play out accordingly.
Out of the two (Rakan and herself), Xayah was the focused, intelligent one. She is good at planning and tactics; she always has a second plan up her sleeve if the first one goes wrong. And, since she works with Rakan, she always made sure she had third, fourth and fifth plan up there just in case. She is a very hardworking person and doesn't like things to be handed to her just because she flutters her lashes and has pretty feathers. She doesn't like being underestimated and enjoys proving everyone wrong when they do just that.
Xayah speaks fluent sarcasm sometimes and is always up for a good joke. Sure, she'll roll her eyes and pretend to be annoyed, but she isn't really if you can read the cue of her tilted lips and sarcastic retort. When in an exceptionally good mood, she is free-spirited and laughs easily, pokes fun at others and lets them poke fun at her. She is not an extrovert, however, and likes her alone time, but if she considers you a friend of hers, then you may bother her at any time.
If you respect her, she will return the respect. If you respect freedom and her view on things, she will respect you even more. She doesn't get attached easily to others so, if she considers you a friend, you better mark the calendar, because that's not a simple title of 'friend'.
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