[attr="class","sylphie"]12. What is the magical makeup of your character's family? Are they all starcallers? Was your character born to human parents?

Giselle, Sylphie’s mother, was a woman born with a weak constitution and often fell ill; but she was freewheeling and forthright, and hailed from a long line of powerful starcallers — rich, noble, far too austere. Her leaving surprised no one; in fact, perhaps her family was happy to be free of such a ‘burden’. She has subsequently been blotted out from the family’s records and deemed a failure.

( "But it’s all right," she murmurs to a wide-eyed four-year-old Sylphie one evening, lovingly threading stardust through her hair. "The house you’re raised in isn’t always the same thing as a home. It took leaving what I knew growing up to find that my true home was here—with you, with Papa."

Sylphie learns from her father, just a month after her mother passes away, that she’d always laughed a little louder when the wind picked up—in hopes the sound of her joy would be carried back to shore, to the ears of those who told her she’d never go anywhere. )

On the other hand, August Reuenthal—Sylphie’s father—gentle and soft-spoken, was born completely ordinary, not a trace of magic to his name. However, it never seemed to bothered him, for he was happy with what he had: the people he’d found, the place he’d made for himself. Magic, he says, probably wouldn’t have changed much—and he knew better than to want what he couldn’t have.

There was nothing to envy about his family, really. They’ve lived quietly, like all generations before them, never making waves—

—or so they would have you believe.

What they don’t—or perhaps the better word is can’t—tell you is that their origins are rooted in the far-flung past, traced back to an age that extends beyond the memory of any living person today, yesterday, a century ago. That theirs was a bloodline once known for magic embodying the greatest forces of nature—

...and that their ancestors have worked tirelessly to erase themselves and their mistakes from the annals of history, leaving only a changed name and a warning: do not seek that which slumbers beneath the valley of regrets.

( There is precious little Sylphie knows of her own family, and that which she does is only through the cryptic verse her father’s grandmother had once recited to him:

“We fled our homeland, abandoned our cradle. We’ve forgotten its stories, but we know how it feels. I believe what I’ve heard whispered in legend:

“The sound of the world is the sound of breathing is the sound of the ocean, which you listen to without speaking or singing or breathing. A moment passes, two moments pass, until dozens and hundreds of years pass in silence.

“Even in shallow dreams, you feel its eyes bore into yours, yearning to slowly crawl in through old wounds reopened. But before you can awaken, it pulls you into its embrace, and you sink into its blood and shadow and sun—soundless, eyeless, lifeless—as tranquil as a shining star.” )

And now, here’s the takeaway: Sylphie possesses every drop of the insatiable curiosity her mother once had, and armed with it, even the Reuenthal family curse will not be enough to deter her in her quest for answers, in spite of all her ancestors it has claimed.

09. What does your character think of their coven?

Aiden sees his coven as a means to an end that he will not come back from. Though, due to certain events with milo tremerie he is slowly starting to see the idealized version of Cerberus that it could be.

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02. Why did your character give their familiar that particular name?[break][break]

arcturus asterious-yeong hasn't given his familiar a name yet. this is because arcturus asterious-yeong is still not entirely convinced the snake is not a hallucination brought upon by the grief of losing his wife. [break][break]

( sometimes, he finds himself contemplating names. star-related names, of course. calliope, cassiopeia, eridanus, vela, mariska, etc. he thinks the snake is feminine-identifying. don't ask him how he knows - he can't exactly tell you either, and is quite uncomfortable at the fact that he still knows. )[break][break]

( other times, he finds himself thinking of the snake as an extension of the magic his wife had left him. would it not be right, then, to name the snake after her? reena, from carina, like a starbirth from the dust of a dead star. )[break][break]

05. What kind of arguments does your character have with their familiar?[break][break]

unsurprisingly, their primary argument is of whether or not the snake is actually real or not. turus can get quite invested in the debate until he realises that he may or may not be arguing with a figment of his imagination, or a psychic break. he then becomes too disturbed to respond.

[attr="class","jae"]09. Jae originally joined Pegasus since it was the easiest coven to join at the time, with minimal paperwork and the presumption that they valued freedom above all. He hadn't intended to rise up the ranks, but somehow he'd gotten up to sentinel.

Since then, Jae's found taht he's made lots of friends, way more than he'd ever had in his life. The coven's mission resonates deeply with him, too. To help and heal, to make the right choice always, even if it it's a little unconventional. Without Pegasus, Jae would surely be living a completely different life.