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Name: Shana
Age: older than 18!
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Character Information
Name: Sir October Daye of the Kingdom in the Mists, once of the Fiefdom of Home, Knight of Lost Words, sworn to Sylvester Torquill of Shadowed Hills, daughter of Amandine of Faerie and Jonathan Daye of the mortal world, Hero of the Realm
Series: October Daye
Appearance: book cover!
Age: sixty-something, though she looks mid-thirties. Fae aging!
Canon Point: End of Unkindest Tide
Canon History: The wiki is actually pretty thorough and I’m amazed??
Personality: It took a long time for Toby to come around to thinking of herself as a hero. After all, she’s just a changeling, half-Fae half-mortal, with a crazy mother and a bad past. She’s stolen, lied, fought, done other things she’s not proud of, and that’s just when she was a kid. People look up to heroes. Heroes can let people down. But Toby has a nasty habit of playing the hero whether she wants to or not.
Toby is clever, resourceful, and a pretty damn powerful blood magic user, even though she’s a changeling. She’s highly independent and has trouble letting people help her at first. By her canon point she’s getting more used to having a team and relying on others to help her, but she still has a tendency to take on every burden she can and consider it her personal responsibility to stop whether or not there’s any truth to it. That’s the whole hero thing. She’s stubborn an determined far past where it would be healthy for her to stop. She hates the sight of her own blood, but that’s never stopped her from spilling a lot of it, both because it’s often what needs to be done for a spell and because she has a tendency to get into fights that don’t go her way.
Toby has a lot of attitude, even against people who are far more powerful than her in situations where they’re likely to hurt her badly. She’s used to being outmatched. But sarcasm and disrespect are as useful to her as her knives in stalling for time and keeping herself alive to fight a little longer. It’s also pretty genuine. She has a lot of attitude that she’s not very good at keeping in. She’ll follow protocol as well as she can with her superiors, but she’s got a temper and a tendency to not hold back when she perceives things as unfair, even when it’s with someone as powerful as the queen.
She also appreciates this attitude in others. Her squire, Quentin, started out as a snobby courtier like all the others. But after exposure to her, he starts talking back more often. He also stops seeing changelings as lesser and is more respectful in that regard, so it’s a good trade-off. But she appreciates the lack of court stiffness. Except when she fears it’ll get him killed.
Getting one of the young people who follow her around hurt is one of the things she fears most. Toby is a mother herself to a young girl, Gillian, who grew up without her when Toby spent 14 years transformed into a fish. Toby loved her daughter so much, but as neither her fiancé, Cliff, or her daughter knew about her fae nature, they thought she’d run away and abandoned them. Losing them crushed her, and when she returned from being a fish, she turned her back on all of Faerie for a while. At times, she’s still tempted to try this approach, and she fears losing her human side, especially after her mother changed the balance in her blood. Too many fae are completely indifferent to the fates of changelings and humans, and she doesn’t ever want to be like that.
But she’s very aware of her fae side too, and even though she dislikes a lot about Faerie, she is a part of that culture and she follows the rules. She loves and respects her liege, Duke Sylvester, who she’s sworn to as a knight. She never says “thank you” when she can avoid it because it implies a debt, and the fae take their debts seriously. She strictly adheres to the rules about keeping a human disguise on at all times because she’s afraid of what would happen if humans found out about fae. Her appearance isn’t so inhuman. Her ears are pointed and her face is more angular than is usual for a human, but she could pass. She never will, though, because she knows how badly that could go.
She’s pretty paranoid, though she’d say she’s earned it. When they really are out to get you, is it really paranoia? Ever since finding someone hiding in the backseat of her car, she always checks before she gets in. She never goes unarmed if she can help it—one iron and one silver knife before the balance of her blood shifted, and just a silver knife and sometimes a sword now. She’s good at spotting illusions and even people hiding under Don’t-Look-Here spells due to a long history of dealing with them. She may have a tendency to act paranoid, but it’s usually called for.
She also has a tendency of making very dangerous friends. After surviving long past when she was supposed to die any number of time, she became best friends and roommates with her Fetch, a doppelganger that had been sent to herald her demise and bring her on to the afterlife. She’s also got a passing acquaintanceship with the Night Haunts, who take fae bodies when they die and replace them with mortal replicas. She’s summoned them twice at this point. Her most dangerous ally would be the Luidaeg, an ancient sea witch and a direct child of Maeve and Oberon. The Luidaeg is the nightmare parents tell their children to watch out for, and she and Toby have a tendency to hang out and eat donuts together. She is engaged to the King of Cats, Tybalt, and their relationship has always been… strange. She’s always found him attractive, but thought he hated her for a very long time, even after they started regularly working together. His heir, Raj, is her honorary squire. Toby’s close connection to Tybalt and Raj hasn’t always made her popular with the rest of the Cait Sidhe that Tybalt rules, but she has proved a valuable ally. She’s also friends with the new queen, Arden, and her squire Quentin is the son of the High King and Queen. Her mother Amandine is one of the Fae firstborn, a daughter of Oberon himself. Though Toby herself is very powerful and holds her own amongst her politically and magically powerful friends, she still doesn’t consider herself as such. She thinks of herself as a changeling who doesn’t fully belong in the world of faerie and even after everything, doesn’t fully get how she’s worked her way into its upper tiers. Even after being declared a Hero of the Realm by Queen Arden, it doesn’t fit with her view of herself. But no matter how unequipped she sometimes feels, she always steps forward to defend her friends and her city from threats that arise. She’s a hero, whether she likes it or not, and that’s what heroes do.
Abilities: Toby is a changeling, which means she’s half-fae, half human. She’s Dochas Sidhe, a species of fae that to her knowledge, encompasses only herself and her mother. As such she is especially skilled in blood magic. She can ride the memories contained in blood by tasting it or use her own blood or the blood of others in spells. She can also sense the balance of another fae's blood (basically, what fae they are) and recognize the specific unique of their magic. She can also recognize the make-up of a spell and tell who cast it and, in some cases, break it. Magic, like blood, is hers to manipulate.
The full power and constraints of blood magic aren’t clear even to her. On an extreme level, she's used it to change other fae into different species. This isn't without limits. She can't create what isn't there, so she either messes with the balance of mixed-blood beings (changelings like herself, or fae with different parents) or on one very recent occasion, bonded selkies to their skins. She's also brought back the dead mostly by aggressively bleeding on them and being very stubborn about not losing people. None of these are common occurrences for her, and they all take too much out of her to be considered common uses.
Though she’s not immortal, she can expect to live for centuries in the unlikely event that she’s not otherwise killed. Of course, there's evidence she has died, or been very close to it and gotten better, so her tendency to throw herself into every danger she can find might not be as stupid as it seems. She can heal from pretty much any injury.
She can also do basic illusions, namely the one that makes her look human and then some that can make people casually not notice her. She can set wards that mostly just tell her if someone's been in. All her powers get stronger when she drinks blood, either her own or someone else's, and if she does drink someone else's blood she can access their powers and use them herself.
Iron hurts her a lot, limiting her magic and making her sick. Silver’s unpleasant too, but not to the same degree. She also is not affected by caffeine, which is the biggest downside to her powers.
Inventory: A cellphone that can function in the Summerlands, a silver dagger, a leather jacket, clothes that are only slightly bloodstained.
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Name: Shana
Age: older than 18!
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I'm just gonna throw a CW: BLOOD for this entire app before we get started.
Character Information
Name: Sir October Daye of the Kingdom in the Mists, once of the Fiefdom of Home, Knight of Lost Words, sworn to Sylvester Torquill of Shadowed Hills, daughter of Amandine of Faerie and Jonathan Daye of the mortal world, Hero of the Realm
Series: October Daye
Appearance: book cover!
Age: sixty-something, though she looks mid-thirties. Fae aging!
Canon Point: End of Unkindest Tide
Canon History: The wiki is actually pretty thorough and I’m amazed??
Personality: It took a long time for Toby to come around to thinking of herself as a hero. After all, she’s just a changeling, half-Fae half-mortal, with a crazy mother and a bad past. She’s stolen, lied, fought, done other things she’s not proud of, and that’s just when she was a kid. People look up to heroes. Heroes can let people down. But Toby has a nasty habit of playing the hero whether she wants to or not.
Toby is clever, resourceful, and a pretty damn powerful blood magic user, even though she’s a changeling. She’s highly independent and has trouble letting people help her at first. By her canon point she’s getting more used to having a team and relying on others to help her, but she still has a tendency to take on every burden she can and consider it her personal responsibility to stop whether or not there’s any truth to it. That’s the whole hero thing. She’s stubborn an determined far past where it would be healthy for her to stop. She hates the sight of her own blood, but that’s never stopped her from spilling a lot of it, both because it’s often what needs to be done for a spell and because she has a tendency to get into fights that don’t go her way.
Toby has a lot of attitude, even against people who are far more powerful than her in situations where they’re likely to hurt her badly. She’s used to being outmatched. But sarcasm and disrespect are as useful to her as her knives in stalling for time and keeping herself alive to fight a little longer. It’s also pretty genuine. She has a lot of attitude that she’s not very good at keeping in. She’ll follow protocol as well as she can with her superiors, but she’s got a temper and a tendency to not hold back when she perceives things as unfair, even when it’s with someone as powerful as the queen.
She also appreciates this attitude in others. Her squire, Quentin, started out as a snobby courtier like all the others. But after exposure to her, he starts talking back more often. He also stops seeing changelings as lesser and is more respectful in that regard, so it’s a good trade-off. But she appreciates the lack of court stiffness. Except when she fears it’ll get him killed.
Getting one of the young people who follow her around hurt is one of the things she fears most. Toby is a mother herself to a young girl, Gillian, who grew up without her when Toby spent 14 years transformed into a fish. Toby loved her daughter so much, but as neither her fiancé, Cliff, or her daughter knew about her fae nature, they thought she’d run away and abandoned them. Losing them crushed her, and when she returned from being a fish, she turned her back on all of Faerie for a while. At times, she’s still tempted to try this approach, and she fears losing her human side, especially after her mother changed the balance in her blood. Too many fae are completely indifferent to the fates of changelings and humans, and she doesn’t ever want to be like that.
But she’s very aware of her fae side too, and even though she dislikes a lot about Faerie, she is a part of that culture and she follows the rules. She loves and respects her liege, Duke Sylvester, who she’s sworn to as a knight. She never says “thank you” when she can avoid it because it implies a debt, and the fae take their debts seriously. She strictly adheres to the rules about keeping a human disguise on at all times because she’s afraid of what would happen if humans found out about fae. Her appearance isn’t so inhuman. Her ears are pointed and her face is more angular than is usual for a human, but she could pass. She never will, though, because she knows how badly that could go.
She’s pretty paranoid, though she’d say she’s earned it. When they really are out to get you, is it really paranoia? Ever since finding someone hiding in the backseat of her car, she always checks before she gets in. She never goes unarmed if she can help it—one iron and one silver knife before the balance of her blood shifted, and just a silver knife and sometimes a sword now. She’s good at spotting illusions and even people hiding under Don’t-Look-Here spells due to a long history of dealing with them. She may have a tendency to act paranoid, but it’s usually called for.
She also has a tendency of making very dangerous friends. After surviving long past when she was supposed to die any number of time, she became best friends and roommates with her Fetch, a doppelganger that had been sent to herald her demise and bring her on to the afterlife. She’s also got a passing acquaintanceship with the Night Haunts, who take fae bodies when they die and replace them with mortal replicas. She’s summoned them twice at this point. Her most dangerous ally would be the Luidaeg, an ancient sea witch and a direct child of Maeve and Oberon. The Luidaeg is the nightmare parents tell their children to watch out for, and she and Toby have a tendency to hang out and eat donuts together. She is engaged to the King of Cats, Tybalt, and their relationship has always been… strange. She’s always found him attractive, but thought he hated her for a very long time, even after they started regularly working together. His heir, Raj, is her honorary squire. Toby’s close connection to Tybalt and Raj hasn’t always made her popular with the rest of the Cait Sidhe that Tybalt rules, but she has proved a valuable ally. She’s also friends with the new queen, Arden, and her squire Quentin is the son of the High King and Queen. Her mother Amandine is one of the Fae firstborn, a daughter of Oberon himself. Though Toby herself is very powerful and holds her own amongst her politically and magically powerful friends, she still doesn’t consider herself as such. She thinks of herself as a changeling who doesn’t fully belong in the world of faerie and even after everything, doesn’t fully get how she’s worked her way into its upper tiers. Even after being declared a Hero of the Realm by Queen Arden, it doesn’t fit with her view of herself. But no matter how unequipped she sometimes feels, she always steps forward to defend her friends and her city from threats that arise. She’s a hero, whether she likes it or not, and that’s what heroes do.
Abilities: Toby is a changeling, which means she’s half-fae, half human. She’s Dochas Sidhe, a species of fae that to her knowledge, encompasses only herself and her mother. As such she is especially skilled in blood magic. She can ride the memories contained in blood by tasting it or use her own blood or the blood of others in spells. She can also sense the balance of another fae's blood (basically, what fae they are) and recognize the specific unique of their magic. She can also recognize the make-up of a spell and tell who cast it and, in some cases, break it. Magic, like blood, is hers to manipulate.
The full power and constraints of blood magic aren’t clear even to her. On an extreme level, she's used it to change other fae into different species. This isn't without limits. She can't create what isn't there, so she either messes with the balance of mixed-blood beings (changelings like herself, or fae with different parents) or on one very recent occasion, bonded selkies to their skins. She's also brought back the dead mostly by aggressively bleeding on them and being very stubborn about not losing people. None of these are common occurrences for her, and they all take too much out of her to be considered common uses.
Though she’s not immortal, she can expect to live for centuries in the unlikely event that she’s not otherwise killed. Of course, there's evidence she has died, or been very close to it and gotten better, so her tendency to throw herself into every danger she can find might not be as stupid as it seems. She can heal from pretty much any injury.
She can also do basic illusions, namely the one that makes her look human and then some that can make people casually not notice her. She can set wards that mostly just tell her if someone's been in. All her powers get stronger when she drinks blood, either her own or someone else's, and if she does drink someone else's blood she can access their powers and use them herself.
Iron hurts her a lot, limiting her magic and making her sick. Silver’s unpleasant too, but not to the same degree. She also is not affected by caffeine, which is the biggest downside to her powers.
Inventory: A cellphone that can function in the Summerlands, a silver dagger, a leather jacket, clothes that are only slightly bloodstained.
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