[CHAR] The Living Forests

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Kosara Nikolov

Name: Kosara Nikolov

Age: Appears in her mid-30s, in actuality at least 2000

Gender: Female

Appearance/Looks:

Sara stands tall at 5'10 with fit and athletic build. Throughout her long life she's had many looks about her, almost all of them keeping close to the legend of the Samovilas of Slavic lore. Tall, beautiful women with long dark hair, living in the woods, protecting the trees and woodland beasts. Lately though Sara's become bored with that image. She now sports a short, almost boyish cut, that compliments perfectly her high cheekbones and strong facial features. It's not the orthodox pretty female look, but it is quite striking and gives Kosara an almost edgy atmosphere about her. Her dark blue eyes only serve to bolster that image with their piercing night sky mysteriousness.

Sara's adopted other modern day image and body modifiers. Namely she's fond of tattoos and has experimented with piercings on her body of which she's kept those on her ears and other two below the neckline. She has a tattoo of the three of life on the inside of her left wrist and a Chinese dragon ouroboros around her left ankle. She also has a whole back tattoo that bares a deep personal significance to her.

When Kosara's true form's unleashed it doesn't differ much from the image she lets normal people see, except for her wings. No one's ever seen her in her true form.

Species: Vila/Samovila

Sexual Preference: Prefers women

Personality: Sara is solitary by nature, but she's not antisocial. She prefers the company of selected people and will act polite and friendly with strangers. She is very loyal to those who have won her trust and affections. Having lived as long as she's had she is a very good judge of character and won't allow simply anyone into her inner circle.

Kosara is often quiet and pensive and when in the woods would appear as if she's listening to it whispering to her. The trees, the animals, the critters. She possesses a quiet unobtrusive wisdom she loves to share with her friends whenever they are willing to listen. Sara is a very good story teller and is quite charming when she spins her stories for her audiences. She can be a bit reserved though in the beginning of a relationship. Be it of a friendly nature or romantic.

Likes:

- The woods
- Singing and dancing
- Cooking
- Origami
- Swimming

Dislikes:

- Inconsiderate people
- Clothes shopping
- Too long finger-nails on women
- Sea food /fish is okay, but anything else, no!/
- House music

Bio: Vilas are solitary creatures by nature and Sara's no different. Since time immemorial the Vilas were tasked with protecting the woods they've been born of. As well as all creatures and critters that inhabit them. A Vila would stick to her part of the woods and won't interact with anyone for long stretches of time. They were of the woods and the woods were all they needed. But times began changing little by little. People forgot nature was a part of them and they a part of her. They started building their artificial dwellings, which grew and grew, and the forests became less and less. The Vilas went on a rampage, killing hikers, park rangers, tourists, anyone and everyone who dared enter their territories. But eventually they lost and became almost extinct. At least those who could not adapt.

Sara was not one of those. She knew that if she wanted to survive, she would have to swim with the flow, not against it. So she shackled her rage and bided her time, defending her territory as best she could without resorting to senseless murder, but she came to loath humans with passion. Before that black hatred could take root however she met an exceptional human. A young wilderness specialist who won her trust and stole her heart. But she was just human and despite the happy life the two of them had, it all ended too quick for Sara. Immortal as she was a single human's lifespan was a drop in the ocean for her. She mourned the death of her human lover and moved on.

She knew now not all humans were vile. Some even deserved her trust and love.

Occupation: Wilderness guide

Country of Origin: Present day Bulgaria

Feelings about meeting their soul mate: She knows love is a precious thing, even if, for someone like her, it could be fleeting. She's always been drawn to the concept of sole-mates, but fears she is bound to live out her immortal life watching them grow old in front of her eyes and die. Sometimes in her most vulnerable moments she will pray to the universe to grant her mortality so that she could live out the rest of her years with her one true mate.

Soul mate: Aaliyah Maeremah Laerorn

Other: Although tasked with protecting the woods and the woodland beasts and critters, Sara is well aware all of them are a part of a cycle. She hunts for her own food as any forest predator would and buys vegetables only from trusted produce farmers. Sara also loves her teas. Admittedly, her taste for tea is not the most mainstream, but she's likes what she likes.

[Benzaiten]

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_{"There is no thing that is better or worse, worth more or less, than the other. We are all the same."}

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Name

Aaliyah Maeremah Laerorn
(A-lee-ah Mer-ih-ma Leh-rorn)

(Meaning each: Ascender | Free | Tree Song)
(Meaning all: The free Ascender of the Tree Song)

Many people on earth have considered her name too hard to pronounce and had called her Liyah (Lee-ah).
Her surname often gets mispronounced as La-horn.

Age

617 years (of which she spent 400 years on earth)
Appears in her early-to-mid-twenties, currently telling everyone she is 24.

Gender

Female

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_{"There's demons haunting me inside that you can't see."}

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Description

Aaliyah is 161cm tall and weights 62kg. Her boobs measure of a 32B in bra size. She has natural brown hair, that goes down in waves a tad further than the middle of her back. She has freckles over her nose and cheeks, that will show forcefully when she gets the warm sun onto her skin a couple of days. Her eyes are of a brown tone. Aaliyah has a cleft chin, which people like to call 'butt chin' or 'booty chin', that she didn't like for a long time but has come to terms with. She likes to walk around natural, not so much make-up and comfortable clothes, but doesn't mind glamming up every now and then. She has several tattoos on her body. She also has a huge smile, which people have made fun of, but she will not stop smiling because of that.

Species

Dilloth
(Meaning: Silent Flower)

Sexuality

Lesbian

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Personality

Aaliyah is a calm person, who can sit and listen to you for hours. She doesn't erupt very often or easily. She tries to solve everything with words and kindness. Her heart gets heavy whenever she witnesses pain, hurting, prejudices, hate or unfairness. The woman doesn't understand cruelness or being divided by simple things like religion, skin color or sexuality. Before coming down to earth she hadn't known a word for 'sexuality', they just called it love, hadn't known that religion and skin color was a reason to hate for some people. She loves nature, animals and children and is protective of them. Liyah almost got a heart attack the first time she visited a zoo and had to leave after five minutes. Caged animals, no matter why, are hurting her heart and she doesn't understand why it would be necessary.

In her free time being outdoors in the nature where no cars drive, no houses can be seen, no loud city noises can be heard, is her favorite thing to do. Right next to writing songs and singing. She likes to have fun dancing and exploring the world, climbing, jumping, swimming. She loves to ride her bike and prefers it over cars or buses or trains. It feels more natural to her and she likes the wind in her hair.

She loves learning new things and is always very enthusiastic about it. Testing out new sweet treats is one of her favorite things. She loves movies, though she is always shitting her pants during any kind of horror movie (even if it's really not scary!).

Aaliyah is easily hurt, because she still hasn't quiet understood that sometimes people don't mean what they say. So she takes a lot of things to heart even if she shouldn't. But she has been working on that for a long while now and it's slowly getting better.

Liya benefits from several abilities that are common for her species.
(See 'Abilities of her race' in the CS)

The Dilloth can't tell untruthful things. Therefor Liya can't lie.

Fun

Likes

- Trying out new sweet treats
- Nature (all of it)
- Singing
- Writing
- Swimming
- Climbing (preferably on trees, but anything will do)
- Kind people

Dislikes

- Violence
- Earth politics
- Caging animals
- Being a queen. She feels like she is the worst queen there has been.

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Backstory

Liyah was born on a planet called Astraea and she was the princess of the Dilloth - the race that inhabited the planet. She grew up in the forest along the other ten or so children. She spent 200 years on that planet, played in the crowns on the trees and lived within wonderful wooden places in their forest. On her 200th birthday, Aaliyah got crowned as queen. And suddenly she was in charge of Astrea, a very small planet, nothing compared to earth. But it was home. Until an evil outcome forced the whole species to flee. Not all of them made it.

While the common people slept, the royalty as well as some advicers and healers kept awake on the ship they had fled the burning planet with, heading towards the next best planet to live on. The species that seemed most like them, most to accept their ways and to welcome them was the human race on Earth. It took only 17 years for the Dilloth to arrive on Earth, year 1600.

But the force had followed them and when they had landed and exited the ship something happened. The Dilloth have the ability to turn into trees and they use to do that whenever danger tags along, to hide in plain sight. When they did it this time, they froze in their state. All of the Dilloth at once had been trapped into their tree form - except for one. The young queen met eyes-to-eyes once again with the force that had killed her planet and over half of her people back home. And what they wanted, she couldn't give them. So they left all of her people frozen in their tree form on a planet of people that considered trees a source, something they could kill to use the wood. The queen - all alone with no parents to guide her, no one to talk to, no advicers, no healer by her side - was lost. Of course she tried to find a way, she tried to find the cure - that she knew existed somewhere in the possession of the great evil that had done this -, but after having been everywhere and having found not one clue, she didn't know how to proceed further. All her ideas failed. All her people were trapped for eternity.

And the princess soon too learned, that not only had the great evil trapped the Dilloth in their tree form, but had stopped all Dilloth from growing. The trees didn't grow, after fifty, hundred, two hundred years they still stood at the same size - and so did she. Aaliyah hadn't aged ever since that day, she was doomed to forever be in the position of the queen that got half of her people killed on the first day since coronation and got the other half stuck forever 17 years later in a world that would only gladly kill them one by one.

These days, Aaliyah still feels terrible about it, still hopes for an answer, a solution, but has barely any hope. She had given up. She had started to live like a human as best as she could.

_{(There's a full, fleshed out story to why and how all this happened, but I didn't wanna write even more in the CS to bore you all.)}

Abilities of her race

The Dilloth have something within their blood, their DNA they call Eredh (translated that means 'Seed'). The Eredh is something that is a part of them like smelling or hearing. They get born with it and some have a stronger Eredh than others. And the Eredh gives them some abilities.

Eredh is a natural thing that once existed in all of nature's creatures; plants and animals alike. Animals and plants do not have a strong Eredh, they can not 'use' it in the way the Dilloth can. But every Eredh can feel when there's something around with Eredh, how strong their Eredh is. And so it comes that all the animals can feel when a Dilloth is near them and they happen to not be afraid of them, to not be aggressive towards them. They respect them. Though they do not listen to them or do things they want. They simply feel that those people mean no harm due to the Eredh within their veins. On the other side of the coin the Dilloth feel pain whenever Eredh around them is destroyed, therefor they would cause themselves physical harm by harming an animal or by killing a tree. It's a two way street. On a sadder note, not all animals still have Eredh though. Animals in the wilderness are more likely to still have their Eredh than animals that are living among humans or in captivity.

The Eredh that runs through their body gives the Dilloth the ability to interact and behave in the environment differently than any other species. They can walk within nature - and only nature! - without making a single sound. They can climb like it's their destiny, are fast on their feet and have quicker reactions than most other species. The Dilloth learn to use daggers and bow and arrows, but they don't hunt with them. They use them in a different way. They have a natural good aim and many train this ability to perfection. So did Aaliyah. (Due to these abilities the Dilloth could be trained to be amazing warriors, if only they would consider to harm anything. But it never even occurred to them that their abilities could be used for military reasons.)

Eredh is also within water. Underwater the Dilloth can see and breathe. This is because the Eredh in the sea will naturally give them the things they need to survive down in the deep. Like plants underwater. The Eredh in the water needs to have time to adjust to her body though, so the 'survival abilities' for underwater will only kick in after around 30 seconds of being completely underneath it. If she gets out of the water before the thirty seconds, it will not work. If water gets pushed over her head, she will not be able to connect to it's Eredh. However if her head gets forced down into water, after thirty seconds she will be able to breathe within it. She can't connect to the Eredh when she is unconscious. She has to be awake for it.

The Eredh forces the Dilloth to always speak the truth, they can be silent if they wish or tell half the truth. But no untruthful word will ever leave their lips. They're unable of doing so. They learn to use their words wisely. By not lying but using words that will set a different kind of thought into the head of someone, they still can prevent themselves from having to spill a truth they don't wanna share. A woken mind will notice their way of words though and not be fooled.

Eredh is able to heal. This process is something the Dilloth have to train hard for, for a long time before it will work at all. Some very few are even able to resurrect someone. Healing someone is a tiring process that considers a lot of attention and strength as well as life. By healing someone, the Eredh will go over in their body and quicken up the healing process. But it comes with a price. Not only will one feel weak, dizzy and maybe even faint, but they will be giving away a part of their lifespan. Every healing process, as little as it might be, costs them a little bit of their own life. The bigger the wound, the bigger the price. So resurrecting someone can cost the Dilloth hundreds of years of life and even cause them to die immediately. The Dilloth respect death and do not make use of their power to resurrect (not that many can anyway). They also prefer to let wounds heal naturally, using natural salves and bandages.

Sex and all that

Sexuality is a word the Dilloth do not know and Aaliyah only learned it when she started to live her life on earth. The Dilloth do not consider themselves straight, gay, bisexual or whatever weird words Liyah had heard. They call it love. Simple as that. So she didn't understand why the human race needed different words for the same thing and even felt hate towards some love. It confused her and angered her.

Having a child is a completely different thing for the Dilloth. A child will only ever be born when two people have physical contact during the deepest emotional connection. Physical contact can be anything, from touching a cheek to holding hands to having sex. The deepest emotional connection is more than love, it's two souls physically connecting. It's a special bond, a moment full of vulnerability and weakness and pure emotions for each other. During the deepest emotional connection a child will only be received when the Eredh within one person feels so very pulled towards the Eredh of the other person that a spark of it will leave the body to go over into the one of the partner. That kind of connection is rare. Any couple can get children, the sexual organ is not needed to reproduce. The men of the Dilloth also can receive and carry out children, though they always have to use a risky C-section for the birth of their child. So it can always be that a same sex couple will have a child or that a man will be pregnant with the child of his wife.

Due to the very deep connection to be existent when receiving, children are always born into a loving family. Children are something very precious, because the connection and the ability of the Eredh to split a part of it and jump over into the partner's Eredh is a rare and very beautiful thing. Children are always happily welcomed and are always a blessing. And they're always single children. In the whole history of the Dilloth there were only a very few siblings. For the Eredh to split once and do the incredible task of producing another Eredh, a little child, another little light is a miracle, a wonderful thing. But for it to happen twice is completely out of the norm. There has been siblings, but they're so extremely rare that one would never even consider that they could have two children.

Occupation

None.

She barely keeps above water with her 'amateur performances' at different small locations.




Her performance - two songs she wrote for her folk

Country of Origin

Astraea
(not existent anymore)

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Feelings About Meeting Soul Mate

She hasn't given it much thought or attention.
It just never seemed like a reality to her.
Scared to be a disappointment to her.

Soul Mate

Kosara Nikolov

Misc

Most songs she writes that sound like heartbreak songs are actually meant for her people and herself,
which she felt she has disappointed in the biggest way.
She will drink any tea you offer her. But she actually has a guilty pleasure for cappuccino and coffee.
She can not drive.
She's a virgin.

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