verbena
Verbena Gaelan
female・homosexual・20 years old China Anne McClain Beauty in the Light by Hollow Coves runs the Boticario, the only mortal place in the Desert self proclaimed best friend of Quetzalxochitl breeding slots・2/3 NB #3250 |
design by Kyo [NB #2209]
[growth by Schnuffel Bunny] [s] shine, [s] teeth, [c] hair, [c] tail, [c] long fur, [uc] ears, [uc] pupils, [r] halo, [r] colored blood hex codes・ #F1C097, #7C5842, #3A1D17, #211111, #976D55, #50312F, #754C38, #CE8948 familiar・Centella, male common peacock |
lift up your head, break down the walls
don't stop pushing til they fall
Verbena is an interesting shopkeeper because she is at all angles a contrast. She functions as the moral compass of the group; encourages Quetzalxochitl to help guide lost people home, helps wear down Coyotl's insurmountable walls, gives Eltaninn a quiet place to speak about his past and his desire to go home but his reluctance to leave them behind. Despite her persistent softness she is at turns unavailable to them, standoffish and distant, liable to walk the Desert for a day with Centella on her shoulder and his flashy feathers pressed to the line of her back. She loves Centella dearly - the quickest way to befriend Verbena is to win over her familiar. She would follow Centella to the ends of the earth without hesitation. He helps mellow out her magic to the point where the other three infrequently see her perform magic at all, even low level stuff. She is usually genuinely cheerful, happy to see her friends and always glad for the excuse to do something together; but sometimes it seems as if she's somewhere else and distracted by it. She has never spoken about her past or where she comes from and for the most part the other three have respected this reticence. Verbena would never willingly speak of it but thinks about her previous life quite often.
Verbena was born and raised in the Valisian Plane, in Acriens. The old king Diomedes conscripted her for the civil war when she was only barely seven because he could see the use in her magic; she specializes in electrical abilities and her magic smells like ozone. She was given to an adult handler and led to believe that the attacks she manifested on their enemies were not hurting people but only putting them to sleep. When she understood that her electric pulses were stopping their hearts she ran away. She went willingly into the Desert when the gods opened a door for her, and she's been there ever since. It's been about 10 years now; when Verbena is on edge she begins to leak magic and the whole room will smell like an thunderstorm. She is very sweet and innocent looking with her large brown eyes but she has a way of looking at people like she's seeing right through them. It's like she knows people straight down to their marrow in a single second; some people find it comforting, others terrifying. This is how she knew Coyotl was worth the effort; how badly Eltaninn missed his family; how mercy crouched in Quetzalxochitl's heart but had never been stirred before. Verbena has always been like this.
Verbena was born and raised in the Valisian Plane, in Acriens. The old king Diomedes conscripted her for the civil war when she was only barely seven because he could see the use in her magic; she specializes in electrical abilities and her magic smells like ozone. She was given to an adult handler and led to believe that the attacks she manifested on their enemies were not hurting people but only putting them to sleep. When she understood that her electric pulses were stopping their hearts she ran away. She went willingly into the Desert when the gods opened a door for her, and she's been there ever since. It's been about 10 years now; when Verbena is on edge she begins to leak magic and the whole room will smell like an thunderstorm. She is very sweet and innocent looking with her large brown eyes but she has a way of looking at people like she's seeing right through them. It's like she knows people straight down to their marrow in a single second; some people find it comforting, others terrifying. This is how she knew Coyotl was worth the effort; how badly Eltaninn missed his family; how mercy crouched in Quetzalxochitl's heart but had never been stirred before. Verbena has always been like this.
at first the sun might hurt your eyes
but soon you'll see the beauty in the light
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