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Ink On Your Soul - Reboot (Members Needed!)

@GoodLuckTuck If this starts to continue out of nowhere though, I'd be willing to jump on the wagon again. Or if this gets a restart with a new group or something, I would consider joining again.

Thank you for letting me be part of this.

The Living Forests

@ihinka Oh wow. I didn't expect of you to do this alone!

The Living Forests

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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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The Living Forests

@ihinka Should we post the beginning of our story in here as well, so nothing is missing or do we start where we left off and leave the beginning hanging around somewhere else lol?

We should discuss in PMs though, I think....

Guild of Dishonor

Alexai had been walking through the streets randomly, checking out people, checking out the market at some point. Only recently she had made her way towards the tavern where she was supposed to meet with Roxy and the team. She was guessing it was for a heist they were planning to do.

She entered through the back entrance, simply because she liked it more when the place was a little crowded. The woman looked around and watched some guys argue about something that she didn't care about for a very short time before she headed down to the basement. With smooth steps she went down the stairs and looked around before having made it halfway down. There were new faces, if she wasn't mistaken. She didn't like it. Alexai wasn't interested in bringing in new members. It was always such a big risk, always meant she would have to deal with yet another person, communicate with yet another human, learning how to team with them.

Alexai gave Annie a big enough smile and went in to hug her. She didn't have issues with showing some affection towards the woman. Why would she? After all Annie was part of their team, she was their heart. The strings that held everything together. Then she nodded towards Roxy real quick as a greeting. Alexai settled for a random spot, a feet or two away from Ahsoka, leaning against a wall and waiting for Roxy to explain why they were having a meeting.

S.Y.C.E.P.: The Adversary {Members Wanted!}

The information speech was weighing hard on Natasha's mind. She tried to process everything that had happened, last night with the whole letter situation as well as earlier with the blonde woman's speech about this institute.

Her wife and her had sat in the kitchen a long time, talking about that letter and then had sat in bed for just as long, continuing their talk. They hadn't really come to any conclusion further than checking out what this was all about. And upon arriving Natasha's nerves had been all over the place. But Jaime had held her hand just like she did now and it had been enough to help.

The speech however had left her with a whole new level of worry and confusion. It didn't take too long and they all were sat into a train. Just as they entered the train, Jaime leaned closer to her to give her a kiss on the temple and Natasha smiled thankfully. Her wife's support had always been the one thing to keep her sane and down to earth, so to speak.

They took a seat at one of the couches-like banks and she held onto Jaime's hand while giving their sleeping daughter a kiss on the head. She used her other hand to stroke over Valentina's head. "Don't worry", she whispered. "Your moms are right here with you." But of course the one-year-old wasn't worried. The brunette woman looked at the other parents as discreetly as she could. She tried to spot signs for anything that suggested that they felt like her, scared, confused, maybe a little paranoid, worried.

Natasha turned to her wife. "My mind is spinning", she whispered quietly. She had used the phrasing to describe the situation of her head making up bad scenarios, not coming to conclusions, being stuck on the ever same thoughts, mostly not bright ones, when she was dealing with depression. Right now her mind was trying to grasp what was going on but failed at it and it made her crazy, scared. She wasn't good at handling situations in which she didn't know what step was next. She couldn't stop the ever same thoughts from spinning in her head until they turned into a big blur.

The train started to move and they were on the go. Natasha looked at the windows to look out at the lands but had to realize that the windows were made out of milk glass. Her mind kept spinning, it felt like there were too many thoughts in her mind at once, and she couldn't figure out a single one.

Dream Daddy (now with Moms!) : Always Accepting Applications

Where are all the people from the interest check? I thought it had some attention?

Existence - Aliens, Cryptids, and myths.

Did everyone leave?

Dear Gamer: Let's Seek Each Other Out

Hi, lovelies. My life is hectic but I expect it to chill out a little within the next week or so. Hopefully I can put together a post then.

I am still here and not letting this go though!! Just need to get my life a little less hectic ^^

Guild of Dishonor

My life is a tad hectic at the moment. I am redoing my bedroom and had to unplug my pc for that, it will probably be plugged in within the next few days again, but I cant be sure just yet. I am hoping the hectic state to calm down within the next week or so.