[hider=Lynette] [b]Name:[/b] Lynette [b]Alias:[/b] Catarina Santos [b]Age:[/b] 27 [b]Apparent Age:[/b] 20 [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Birthplace:[/b] Sintra Mountains [b]Religious Affiliation:[/b] Roman Catholic [b]Secular Affiliation:[/b] Merchantry, Sintran Native, Former member of Faerie Vevila’s Troupe [b]Level of education:[/b] Literate, multiple languages, general commerce [b]Social status:[/b] Plebeian [b][b]Occupation:[/b][/b] Merchant [b]Appearance:[/b] When in her role as Catarina, Lynette’s illusion quite matches her own body as far as physique. She stands at 5’8’’ with a semi-muscular build. Constant work has toned her body and made it hard, though her lightly tanned skin is surprisingly soft. The features of her face are largely European—an angular, soft jaw, relatively thin lips and cheeks, and a soft, round nose. She sports shoulder blade-length hair that is a chocolate brown in color with comparatively bright blue eyes. Her fingers are long and thin, quite deft from frequent practice in writing. The aesthetic differences of her actual body are relatively minor. Her actual hair color is strawberry blond and her real eye color is peridot—a mix of green and gold colors. [b]Personality:[/b] Capricious, childish, and curious, Catarina has always been a terror to her ‘parents.’ Even for a member of the working class, she is ill-mannered for a woman, speaking her mind as she sees fit and sneaking into places she’s not supposed to be. Hers is an almost willful sort of ignorance—she knows the rules of society, yet pretends not to know better when caught in the act. Her looks and her charms (and occasionally a well-placed bribe) are her bread and butter in staying out of real trouble. She also happens to love gossip and spreads it as often as she hears it. Her creativity largely rests in wordplay and storytelling—she seems to most to be privy to an invisible world. [b]Skill set:[/b] Commerce, Fae Magic, Housekeeping [b]Languages:[/b] Portuguese (native tongue), Spanish (fluent), and Elvish [b]Bio:[/b] How faeries come to be is something of a debate, even among fae creatures. Unlike humans, they are ‘born’ in a myriad of ways. In Lynette’s case, she doesn’t remember a time when she was a babe. Her earliest memories consist of Vevila, a faerie she served since before she could properly speak. Vevila claims to have removed her soul from a dying babe and given her material form, but time has shown Lynette that the pompous fairy lacks any such potent magic. Even so, Vevila and her entourage taught Lynette everything she knows about faerie magic and the world as faeries understand it. The trouble was that Lynette found life as a slave quite lacking. She did not understand poverty as humans do, but felt that the best secrets of magic were kept to Vevila herself, who rarely lifted a finger to do anything. Lynette was not content with the small praise she received for conjuring up feywine and changing the color of leaves according to her lady’s wishes and yet, she could imagine no other life for herself. As far as she understood, her life as a fae servant was just her natural place. That was, until she met a young human girl. She had only a vague understanding of what a human was (clompy, ignorant things) and thus found the child to be very strange. The creature, she learned, was in the throes of running away from home after some argument with her father. As she went on about her circumstances in nearby Sintra, Lynette found the girl’s circumstances more and more extraordinary. Who could care about an irritable parent when she slept on a bed of straw and ate pastry-like food for breakfast? Thus, Lynette came up with a marvelous bargain. She offered to trade places with the girl, telling her of Vevila’s faerie magic and her own life in the woods. Lynette was careful to glaze over her actual circumstances, but when the deal was struck, Vevila could do nothing to break the contract. Since that time, Lynette has not seen hide nor hair of the original Catarina Santos since. Lynette left her life in the mountains, using her fae glamour to take on the appearance of the girl. The girl’s parents, Sabela and Macario Santos found her rebellious personality so close to their original daughter’s that they suspected nothing. If anything, they were pleased by Lynette’s desire to pacify them. Mundane chores were a new curiosity to her, religious sermons a whole new world of understanding. She ‘grew up’ helping Sabela cure meats, mend clothes, and clean the house. As it turned out, Sabela was also prone to balancing their shop’s books when Macario closed for the day. When he went away to accompany wares across the Mediterranean, she assisted her mother in up keeping the shop on top of everything else the woman had to do. [b]Parents:[/b] -Sabela Santos -Macario Santos [i][b]Notes: A Dissertation on the Nature of Fae Magic and those Specific Ones Possessed[/b][/i] [b]Faerie Magic:[/b] Fae magic is intrinsically known by all creatures who can be called fae creatures. This can be manifest in a brownie’s mending abilities, though their magic is so weak even their fae glamour is prone to fizzle under intense mortal gaze. The strongest of the fae have presences so powerful they can influence the seasons immediately about them. Between these extremities, all manner of fae exist, each drawing upon their intrinsic magical energy to produce magical effects. [b]Fae Glamour:[/b] An aura of magic natural as breathing. It can render Lynette invisible to mortals, and should she choose, she can mold the aura to appear as something else to mortals. This is best used on creatures of similar size and physique to her, as it is merely an illusion. Were she to take a larger form with the aura, a person’s hand would pass through the unoccupied air and cause the illusion to shimmer, immediately declaring the image as false. Her voice also remains the same. [b]Weaving:[/b] Fae creatures are able to weave essences into material objects, creating effects that can be permanent or temporary. Goblins, for example, are capable of weaving light into seeds or leaves to give them the appearance of coin or money. Hours after trade, these items revert to their normal appearance, revealing them as seeds and leaves. Similarly, Lynette can weave essences into objects to produce spectacular effects. [i]Water Weaving—[/i]Lynette can weave essences into no more than a pint of water. These essences can be the flavors of various fruits, the vitality of the fruits themselves, or even bark or bone or anything essence can be drawn from. The splay of colors reflecting off of class can be woven to form different colors with which to change the liquid at will. [i]Blood Weaving—[/i]The more potent of Lynette’s Weaving abilities, she can weave her blood into inanimate objects. What this does is impart a secondary consciousness of hers onto the object, allowing it to move and obey mental commands. The restrictions are as such: [i]Iron-[/i]For obvious reasons, her blood cannot be woven into iron. Additionally, any iron that touches any item she Weaves will immediately disperse into its formerly separated essences. If it happens to be blood woven, the blood will crumble and the item will become just as inert as it was before. [i]Distance-[/i]A blood woven object that moves further away than roughly ten feet from Lynette becomes dormant. The connection of blood is relatively weak, and thus cannot be separated from her by large distances. [i]Consciousness-[/i]While blood woven objects to not gain any level of consciousness or intelligence, they are capable of acting only as she is. For instance, a pen instructed to balance out the expenses written on a page would perform exactly as she would do it. It would not be able to write a language she doesn’t know or impersonate handwriting she doesn’t have. Her capabilities are reflected in each Weaving, and therefore, the affected objects cannot perform physical feats she is incapable of (like fencing) or do tasks she doesn’t know how to do (like playing an instrument proficiently). [b]Size Shaping:[/b] In a manner similar to Weaving, Lynette can reshape the size of her body and other objects. This applies largely to herself and most clothing, and she can adjust her size anywhere from being a full-sized woman to a six-inch tall creature. This applies to her clothing as well. The catch is that she can’t cause a small object that was small to begin with to become larger—the process is too complex for her current magic [b]Nature Control:[/b] Lynette has a minor influence over natural plants. She can cause mature plants to grow fruit or seeds to grow into sprouts. Similarly, she can cause leaves to age. Were she to attempt to cause a whole garden to produce, it would naturally exhaust her to the point of fainting. [/hider]