Post by Kat on Jul 9, 2010 13:16:47 GMT -8
Name: Mo'na (Morgana)
Age: Eighteen (+ 1 from original age), Summer
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual, but quite experimental. (And currently in a relationship with a girl.)
Rank: Candidate, Magician’s Assistant
Location: Either Sayaie or Chydyn, or in transit between them.
Personality:
Morgana is a performer. She lives her life as if she is always on stage, because for most of her life, Morgana was exactly that. She has been trained to be a brilliant manipulator, to force her environment and the people in her environment to act in the way that best suits her needs. She is a brilliant liar, because her whole livelihood is based upon her ability to sell the improbable, and untrue, to other people. Sometimes, she hides her manipulations, as they are less effective when they are obvious, but most of the time, Morgana does nothing to hide her theatrical nature. She is dramatic, and she always speaks with a blatant over confidence with her loud, projected voice. Even the way she carries herself exudes a sort of performance air, with her body held in perfect, straight carriage, despite her impoverished development.
While Morgana does manipulate often, she rarely does so in a malicious or mean manner. She does it innately, sometimes without knowing she is doing it and without thinking about the way her manipulations could damage another person. And in that way, Morgana is slightly selfish. She cannot see other people beyond herself, and in a childish, naïve manner, she thinks of the world as revolving around only her. She cannot understand other people’s intentions well, because she cannot understand their thoughts or their thought process. Other people are just a sphere that Morgana cannot enter. She understands the world on her own terms, and she does not understand it on the terms of other people.
Despite her inability to place herself into the positions of other people, Morgana can read people extraordinarily well. She has been trained to read facial cues of other people, to understand which facial motions are positive or negative, and she uses this skill to tell fortunes, speaking along a path when she sees a positive reaction to a comment, and backing away when she hits upon a negative reaction. Emotions are easy to decipher for Morgana. She might not be able to understand what triggers the emotions, but Morgana can recognize them, because she knows the formula for reading them.
Morgana’s biggest, and most obvious, flaw is her pride. She is quite aware of her talent and skill, and she believes that she is abnormal in her abilities. She is wickedly smart, a fact she knows, and she often believes that other people are not as intelligent as she is. Of course, she has not been properly educated, but she can connect ideas at an astounding rate. She is not quite vain, but she does spend a lot of time on her appearance, as her appearance is central to her livelihood. She is especially fond of her hair, which she obsesses over often.
The girl is also quite impulsive and stupidly brave. She enters situations with too much belief in her skill and little sense of danger.She enters situations without any thought, and she is cocky and courageous to the point that she often endangers herself. She feels that if she does not live her life because she is scared of dying, then she has not lived at all. She has little qualms about what she says, or how she is perceived, partially because she does not evaluate risks well, and partially because she does not even anticipate risks enough. She has a problem getting into fights, because she starts quite a few, solely because she sees no point in avoiding them. In a way, Morgana feels invincible; dying is—so far away from her mind.
Appearance:
Morgana is pretty enough to act as the assistant to the act of the magician who employs her. She is not stunning, but when dressed in a costume and decorated with make-up, her curvy, little body makes up for the unconventional features of her face. Morgana is a small woman, although she sports a moderate bust and wide hips, standing only five feet and an inch when she stands at her full height. But despite her petite physique, Morgana possesses a commanding and formidable presence. She is loud, but more so, she is a showman, a performer, and she carries herself as if she is always on stage.
Her facial features are the most unconventional aspect of her appearance. Her lips stand out from her face, incredibly large and exaggerated, and not just because they are plump, but because they are wide. Even though she is young, permanent laugh lines surround the corners of Morgana’s lips, and they bounce when Morgana talks. Those large lips also frame a set of large teeth, with a gap in the middle which is exposed when she smiles or when she talks. Her eyes, luckily, are also large. They are not large enough to balance out the size of her lips, but they are wide enough to expose a wide and intelligent gaze. Her eyes are a soft gray color, sometimes blue, but mostly almost colorless and charcoal.
Thick, blonde hair frames her dynamic, caricature of a face, falling in soft waves down her back. Morgana loves her hair; it is thick, beautiful, and well maintained. When she is performing, Morgana’s hair is always down, but she often pins it back when she is not performing, in order to keep it neat and clean. She tends to use a bun to secure her hair, and sometimes even engages the use of a cover, usually of a thick and dramatic fabric to match her theatrical wardrobe.
While Morgana does sometimes dress her appearance down, especially if she is engaging in manual labor or building, in ill fitting pants and shirts, she tends to use pieces of her costumes to add interest in her appearance. She loves the luxury of her costumes, of costumes in general, and the drama of them. Constantly wearing elaborately decorated corsets or ornately ornamented blouses and tops, Morgana certainly reuses parts of her old performance wardrobe. She often takes pieces from the outfits of Marvelous Morgana, and alters them into wearable articles of clothing. Because of the color scheme of the act of Zephyrus is of rich, jewel tones, Morgana is almost always seen in deep blues, vivid crimsons, or emerald shades. And the fabric she uses always has the markings of stars, clouds, and other images of weather. Her face is almost always stained with the remnants of her old makeup, because it is difficult to scrub off. Her eyelashes are almost always slightly clumpy and black, and her lips are practically permanently stained red.
Family:
Zephyrus, 37, Father
Helena, 33, Mother
Oswald, 56, Grandfather
Pets:
Hamlet – Raven – Male
Simourv Name: Vestiyph
Simourv Color: Green (457E25)
Simourv Age: 0 years.
Personality:
obsessed with cloth and clothing, quick to bond, loud
[pending]
Appearance:
[pending]
Parentage:
Gray Eceph x Black Alianph
History:
Despite the fact that Itnala was not the most profitable location for a traveling performer, one Zephyrus the Magician, a man of fuzzy morality and a lack of scruples, spent a full year of his life there, solely because he could not afford to pay to attach himself onto a party leaving the city. Sayaie was a much better city for a man of his talents, as the larger city seemed to have a better patronage of the performance arts, especially arts as sensationalistic as his own craft, and so, for the large part of that year, Zephyrus was utterly bored performing the same simplistic tricks he had previously prepared which lead him into a path of unfortunate trouble. For the most part, his trouble consisted of harassing some of the fishermen and racking up a sizable gambling dept; despite his ability to lie, he lacked the luck to become proficient at cards, besides one beautiful and young exception, one Helena, the daughter of a fisherman and a weaver, with very beautiful, long blonde hair. At first, Zephyrus thought his courtship was futile, as the girl was much desired by the local boys, and a full four years younger than the twenty-year-old man, but she became rather smitten with the over-the-top advances of the interesting looking Sayaie-native with the silver tongue and a sizable knowledge of sonnets and love poems. Although Zephyrus knew that the girl might cause him trouble, she was attractive and he was bored, and eventually they slept together even though she was technically saving herself for marriage. The sex was rather mediocre, and Zephyrus decided they never need to talk again, and he turned his attention to less innocent, caste females.
Unfortunately, their brief, but intimate liaison, left the sixteen-year-old girl pregnant, which meant that Zephyrus had to claim some fault for the difficult outcome. He would have left the child fatherless, as he planned to flee Itnala as soon as he could secure the funds to do so, but nine months after he slept with little Helena, she went into labor, as did most women, and Morgana was produced much to the shame and horror of Helena’s proper family. In an attempt to rid his family of shame, Helena’s father, Oswald, an large and scary looking man with a scar from a large fishhook splitting his face in half, went out to find Zephyrus to offer the magician a deal. Oswald promised to pay off Zephyrus’s debts and to set up a way for the magician to leave Itnala if Zephyrus left with the child and never returned to the fishing villiage. Because he was desperate to pay off his debts, Zephyrus accepted the other man’s offer, and so once Morgana was weaned, she was thrust into Zephyrus’s arms and shipped off to Sayaie by means of a hunting party traveling between the two cities.
Morgana’s knowledge of her own conception is quite limited. Zephyrus still tells his daughter, as he has since she was young, that she was produced as an after effect of one of his spells, and is thus motherless. While the five-year-old Morgana accepted the explanation, as she aged, she learned about the falseness of her father’s craft and realized that the man was just unwilling to explain her origins. Still, she has pieced together enough to surmise that she is probably from Itnala, as her father refuses to travel to that particular city, and that she was probably a mistake, as her father is not the kind to want an intentional child. But Morgana was raised by her father, living his nomadic life and learning his craft. She eventually became a great asset to the man, as she was skilled and smart, and the novelty of her youth provided Zephyrus with yet another way to differentiate his act from the performances of other entertainers. Zephyrus, before he produced Morgana, had spent very little time around children, and so he treated his daughter with an unfortunate amount of equality. She was never a child for him, but rather a prop set or a gimmick, until she later became a useful assistant to his act. He went out of his way to train his daughter in magic, until she was quite skilled. The pair managed to produce enough money to continue to purchase the necessary parts of their acts, but rarely had any extra cash. Morgana spent many nights hungry and without shelter beyond the large walls of Sayaie or the tree-top protection of Chydyn. They wore their costumes, even, for lack of anything better to wear.
Morgana never had a stable home. She never knew where she was from, although she has her assumptions, and the pair spent half their time between Chydyn and Sayaie, moving between n the cities when they could manage to weasel their way onto the backs of hunting parties or other guarded trips. Sometimes they would pay for passage, but other times, they would talk their way into parties, playing up their skills so that they sounded useful or begging until they were accepted. Between the costs of supplies and the cost of Zephyrus’s gambling problems, the father and daughter rarely could afford to pay for transportation, which left them spending long periods of time trapped in one of the two cities. Morgana learned to love Sayaie, and strongly dislike Chydyn, which she considers sleepy and uninteresting. They always made more money in Sayaie, anyway, and could usually find a friend of Zephyrus with whom to stay.
Now seventeen, Morgana feels she is old enough to branch out, to really explore Pohono in a more deep manner. She secretly wants to hunt down her mother, or at least to visit the mysterious Itnala to pacify her curiosity. The girl has aspirations of starting her own act, as a female magician, and feels that she does have the skills to branch out on her own, but her affection for her father leaves her conflicted and confused. She feels that she needs to stay around for him, because as he ages, he becomes more and more dependent on her company. She feels obligated to remain at Zephyrus’s side, but Morgana dreams of living on her own. She has the skills, at least, to be a magician, and she has the knowledge to live on her own. She just needs the chance.
