"Don't bother me."
• Name :: Aine (pronounced Eye-nn).
• Nickname(s) :: N/A.
• Birthday :: Unknown.
• Age :: Two hundred.
• Gender :: Female.
• Sexuality :: Aromantic, though she ends up returning Vertl's feelings for her. She is romantically platonic with him and their relationship does not go passed caring stares, hand holding, or embracing.
• Species :: Aine is known as an edeeram. Despite resembling a cross between a ram and a deer (especially in her animal form) and the species' name being a portmanteau of the two, an edeeram is related to neither. In actually, an edeeram is a race all on their own. Physically, in both of their forms, an edeeram has ram-like horns that curve outward from their head, deer-like ears that protrude from where normal human ears would be, and a lion-like tail. They typically have warm to dark skin complexions and hair colors. Peachy skin tones and lighter hair colors are extremely rare. When babies with such coloration were born, they were seen as omens and killed immediately. Edeerems can thrive for a number of years (up to four hundred) and it remains a mystery what allows them to remain so long-lived. Aine's bestial form is a rare anomaly for her to take, but can be transformed into under serious or dire circumstances. As described before, it has the same attributes as her human form, but different than other animals because it is a six-legged deer.
• Physical Description :: As the above states, Aine looks like your typical edeeram. Her skin is a dark chestnut brown free of blemishes. Her locks, which are cut short to her shoulder, flips out messily at the ends and is colored a dark shade of brown. A single, thick strand always hangs next to her nose. Unlike other edeerams whose horns curve to the shape of the skull, Aine's horns arc outward in an S-shape. Her eyes are a bright yellow with a vertical pupil. It's rare for her to smile and Aine typically wears an arrogant expression. On the back of her neck where it meets the shoulder is an incantation circle that serves as a sign that she is a guard to the sovereign of Yon. It is due to this magical insignia that Aine must remain chaste and cannot betray the title she has dedicated herself to.
• Fashion :: Despite Aine's frumpy appearance and desire for more loose clothing, she was forced to wear a more "court-friendly" outfit that still suited her first ruler's perverse tastes. Her royal attire was a a white tunic with a high slit that revealed her navel. It was embroidered in swirls of a pale grey. She wore stylistic shorts of the same material and white, cuffed boots bearing rubies off of chains. A larger ruby brooch hung from the dip of her collar. On the pirate ship, Aine thrashed this outfit and favored something more suitable to her tastes. Despite belonging to the captain, the collared white shirt, dark pants, and heavy boots were more to her liking.
• Family :: N/A.
• Likes :: Cold breezes, coral, full moons, being by herself, working, peaches, humming to herself, organizing messes.
• Dislikes :: When her hands get cold, rotting fish, when people try to make conversation with her (especially when she isn't interested), ants, fungi, alcohol, being sick, nepotism.
• Personality :: Aine has not wasted the years she has lived. Since choosing to become the protector of a monarch (despite this role being called "adviser"), she undertook the harsh training required of one to prove herself. Due to this, the edeeram can hold her own against a horde of men before tiring. Her physical strength is overwhelming, even by edeeram standards, so it is best not to cross her ever. While the edeeram has been known to use this strength to reprimand and punish members of Errowen's crew, she mostly uses it to defend and coach teamwork into them (though this is by threatening them to work together, not by brash words of bravery and brotherly love).
Many have related Aine to a mother hen. When the young woman comes to care about someone, she will nitpick and peck at them for small things -- especially if the choice or action will bring dire consequences to that person. The edeeram throws her entire concern onto an individual and nurtures them with her soul because it is the only way she knows how to care for someone. Her arrogance is to blame for this; she thinks others can't take care of themselves unless she is there to lend a hand. Yet, despite coming off as an annoyance because of this trait, her squabbles with others is just a sign she cares and is comfortable with another person. Around them, she can spread her wings and have her feathers ruffled.
Aine's almost constant taciturn appearance isn't just for show. She prefers keeping to herself for fear of losing someone she cares about. To remedy this, Aine has come to the decision that she should not care for anyone at all, despite this clashing with her motherly instincts. Members of Errowen's crew jokingly say that thinning her lips is her form of smiling. Appearing hard to approach and, at times, almost disgusted with others has earnestly kept others at bay, but few have weaseled their way into her life and her heart. And, while she does dote on these individuals, she never stops mentally reminding herself that she should come first. However, there are times when she does wittingly forget.
Whenever Aine is frustrated, she has a tendency of putting a pair of scissors to her hair and cutting it. It's a reflexive action to help rid herself of cognitive dissonance; as if symbolically cutting away her frustrations would relieve her of mental stress. It is what explains her hair's messy and asymmetrical appearance. Her hair used to be much, much longer before she met Asarda. Yet, as the ruler began getting on her nerves one way or another, her locks began to gradually shorten over the years until, anymore, and the edeeram would be bald. With Asarda deceased, Aine's hair has began to grow out. Unfortunately, her frustrations with dealing with Errowen's crew keeps it cropped to her neck.
Though Aine can take a bestial form, she rarely takes the chance to do so. That is because her six-legged deer form is considered an abomination in both her own society and an outside one. That is because as the years have gone on, there has been a lengthy divide between humans and animals that causes the former to have a severe sense of superiority towards those who are animal human or can take a human form. Due to this stigma, the edeeram refuses to morph into her sexaped for that, in actuality, is her true form. Under moments where a threat cannot be fought back, Aine will be forced to transform, but due to the limitations of having exerted enough magic to keep a human form, she is incapable of going back unless assisted by the means of a runic circle that matches the one on the base of her neck.
• Background :: Not much is known of Aine before she became an adviser to the kingdom of Yon. And, because of how taciturn she is, she is likely to never reveal anything about her life before she did. Following kingdom customs as an adviser, it was her duty to choose the queen or king of Yon and pledge her loyalty to them. Every year, a festival would be held and thousands of people would greet the edeeram at the palace to have a shot at claiming the dusty throne of the kingdom. For ten years, Aine turned down several hands presented to her. The "spark" that helped her pick hit her after the eleventh year. The woman's name was Asarda and she was a fisherwoman from a kingdom over. She went to the festival upon persuasion from her sister, Aethis, never knowing she'd become Yon's ruler. When she slipped the official signet ring onto her presented hand and kissed the seal, both astonishment and glee spread over the people of the festival. The days following this moment, Asarda was swiftly put into office as her only family and their belongings were brought to Yon. For fifteen years, Asarda ruled the kingdom with a great hand.
Aine and Asarda had a tumultuous relationship following her rise as queen of the country. Despite ruling her kingdom greatly and passionately, Asarda was also a bit of a pervert and heavily attracted to Aine. Despite playfully flirting with the edeeram, her adviser never gave in to her advances. Much to her chagrin, it actually annoyed Aine, and she had to remind Asarda time and time again that she put her duties first and, "have no interest in matters of the heart or flesh." Asarda still had her way with the edeeram even with the rejection, making her wear a revealing court outfit that bared her midriff. As an adviser, she could not deny any of the monarch's wishes, and reluctantly wore the clothes as commanded.
During Asarda's last year as a ruler, a great fire ravaged the kingdom of Yon. There is no knowledge as to how the city went up in flames (though there is some speculation it was natural because of the warm weather), but it left great damage in its wake. Asarda perished from smoke inhalation attempting to save Aine and, with the loss of the ruler and a great amount of the kingdom's inhabitants, Aine took up the mantle of watching the throne after it miraculously survived the fire with only a few scorch marks. However, because of the bad state Yon was in, the remaining people packed up their things and sought out other places to call home. Eventually, Yon became barren with only Aine and Vertl its residents. When Vertl was encouraged by his friend to take a better position as a court healer in a kingdom via her recommendation, he reluctantly did. With him gone, Aine finally saw it fit to carry out her plan. Instead of waiting for a ruler to come to her (which seemed unlikely considering Yon's position), she would venture the world and seek out one herself.
Her first two weeks outside the kingdom led to trouble. Abroad a ship known as the Wind & Wine, Aine was kidnapped and to be kept for sexual services for the pirates' crew. Yet, the men never knew of Aine's strength and she overhauled her captors and managed an escape only to be caught again by the captain of the ship, an elderly man called Errowen. Coming to a consensus when the man was impressed by her abilities, she agreed to become a dutiful member of his crew in exchange he spare her life. For a number of years, Aine proved herself out on the sea, and worked her way up to becoming a trusted member of Errowen's crew. While rumor said she was one of them because she exchanged sexual services with the old crook, in actuality, Errowen had grown to trust her. Despite her life on the seas, Aine has been using her travels on the Wind & Wine to seek out a new ruler. When she felt the "spark" again, the edeeram had no qualms with leaving the ship to return to Yon.
Aine spent twelve years with the crew. Yet, no matter where the ship docked, Aine could not find anyone fit to be Yon's ruler. During that time, Errowen eventually sired a son via a prostitute he had fallen in love with. Named Tarora, Aine, like with most of her relationships, did not get along with the boy. She constantly referred to him as "child" and never by name, causing the boy to think she was mocking him. One day while on the sea, the Wind & Wine was ransacked by another pirate ship. The opposing crew attacked in the dead of night when Errowen's men were unaware, causing most to fall to the enemy's sword. When a pirate tried to kill Errowen's boy, the captain held him off and begged Aine to flee and protect him. Aine agreed despite Tarora's protests and, as they two made their getaway, Aine was mortally wounded by a sword from behind. With Tarora in her arms, the two fell to the depths below and survived by washing up on a beach.
When Tarora came to, he sought out Aine, but could not find her. It was only when he came upon a six-legged beast did he study it closely and realize it was Aine. Unbeknownst to him, the wound the edeeram had received caused her to instinctively take her bestial form to escape whatever danger was nearby. Yet, because she did not have the strength or magic ability to transform back into a human, she was stuck in it until she could find an incantation circle that matched the one on her neck. There was only one she could return to being human: returning to Yon and accessing the incantation circle used for coronations there. So the two began a long journey back to the ravaged kingdom despite not knowing where they were.
• Trivia :: Aine may not sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Yon. She dutifully sits next to it and keeps an eye on it until she finds the next ruler.
• Nickname(s) :: N/A.
• Birthday :: Unknown.
• Age :: Two hundred.
• Gender :: Female.
• Sexuality :: Aromantic, though she ends up returning Vertl's feelings for her. She is romantically platonic with him and their relationship does not go passed caring stares, hand holding, or embracing.
• Species :: Aine is known as an edeeram. Despite resembling a cross between a ram and a deer (especially in her animal form) and the species' name being a portmanteau of the two, an edeeram is related to neither. In actually, an edeeram is a race all on their own. Physically, in both of their forms, an edeeram has ram-like horns that curve outward from their head, deer-like ears that protrude from where normal human ears would be, and a lion-like tail. They typically have warm to dark skin complexions and hair colors. Peachy skin tones and lighter hair colors are extremely rare. When babies with such coloration were born, they were seen as omens and killed immediately. Edeerems can thrive for a number of years (up to four hundred) and it remains a mystery what allows them to remain so long-lived. Aine's bestial form is a rare anomaly for her to take, but can be transformed into under serious or dire circumstances. As described before, it has the same attributes as her human form, but different than other animals because it is a six-legged deer.
• Physical Description :: As the above states, Aine looks like your typical edeeram. Her skin is a dark chestnut brown free of blemishes. Her locks, which are cut short to her shoulder, flips out messily at the ends and is colored a dark shade of brown. A single, thick strand always hangs next to her nose. Unlike other edeerams whose horns curve to the shape of the skull, Aine's horns arc outward in an S-shape. Her eyes are a bright yellow with a vertical pupil. It's rare for her to smile and Aine typically wears an arrogant expression. On the back of her neck where it meets the shoulder is an incantation circle that serves as a sign that she is a guard to the sovereign of Yon. It is due to this magical insignia that Aine must remain chaste and cannot betray the title she has dedicated herself to.
• Fashion :: Despite Aine's frumpy appearance and desire for more loose clothing, she was forced to wear a more "court-friendly" outfit that still suited her first ruler's perverse tastes. Her royal attire was a a white tunic with a high slit that revealed her navel. It was embroidered in swirls of a pale grey. She wore stylistic shorts of the same material and white, cuffed boots bearing rubies off of chains. A larger ruby brooch hung from the dip of her collar. On the pirate ship, Aine thrashed this outfit and favored something more suitable to her tastes. Despite belonging to the captain, the collared white shirt, dark pants, and heavy boots were more to her liking.
• Family :: N/A.
• Likes :: Cold breezes, coral, full moons, being by herself, working, peaches, humming to herself, organizing messes.
• Dislikes :: When her hands get cold, rotting fish, when people try to make conversation with her (especially when she isn't interested), ants, fungi, alcohol, being sick, nepotism.
• Personality :: Aine has not wasted the years she has lived. Since choosing to become the protector of a monarch (despite this role being called "adviser"), she undertook the harsh training required of one to prove herself. Due to this, the edeeram can hold her own against a horde of men before tiring. Her physical strength is overwhelming, even by edeeram standards, so it is best not to cross her ever. While the edeeram has been known to use this strength to reprimand and punish members of Errowen's crew, she mostly uses it to defend and coach teamwork into them (though this is by threatening them to work together, not by brash words of bravery and brotherly love).
Many have related Aine to a mother hen. When the young woman comes to care about someone, she will nitpick and peck at them for small things -- especially if the choice or action will bring dire consequences to that person. The edeeram throws her entire concern onto an individual and nurtures them with her soul because it is the only way she knows how to care for someone. Her arrogance is to blame for this; she thinks others can't take care of themselves unless she is there to lend a hand. Yet, despite coming off as an annoyance because of this trait, her squabbles with others is just a sign she cares and is comfortable with another person. Around them, she can spread her wings and have her feathers ruffled.
Aine's almost constant taciturn appearance isn't just for show. She prefers keeping to herself for fear of losing someone she cares about. To remedy this, Aine has come to the decision that she should not care for anyone at all, despite this clashing with her motherly instincts. Members of Errowen's crew jokingly say that thinning her lips is her form of smiling. Appearing hard to approach and, at times, almost disgusted with others has earnestly kept others at bay, but few have weaseled their way into her life and her heart. And, while she does dote on these individuals, she never stops mentally reminding herself that she should come first. However, there are times when she does wittingly forget.
Whenever Aine is frustrated, she has a tendency of putting a pair of scissors to her hair and cutting it. It's a reflexive action to help rid herself of cognitive dissonance; as if symbolically cutting away her frustrations would relieve her of mental stress. It is what explains her hair's messy and asymmetrical appearance. Her hair used to be much, much longer before she met Asarda. Yet, as the ruler began getting on her nerves one way or another, her locks began to gradually shorten over the years until, anymore, and the edeeram would be bald. With Asarda deceased, Aine's hair has began to grow out. Unfortunately, her frustrations with dealing with Errowen's crew keeps it cropped to her neck.
Though Aine can take a bestial form, she rarely takes the chance to do so. That is because her six-legged deer form is considered an abomination in both her own society and an outside one. That is because as the years have gone on, there has been a lengthy divide between humans and animals that causes the former to have a severe sense of superiority towards those who are animal human or can take a human form. Due to this stigma, the edeeram refuses to morph into her sexaped for that, in actuality, is her true form. Under moments where a threat cannot be fought back, Aine will be forced to transform, but due to the limitations of having exerted enough magic to keep a human form, she is incapable of going back unless assisted by the means of a runic circle that matches the one on the base of her neck.
• Background :: Not much is known of Aine before she became an adviser to the kingdom of Yon. And, because of how taciturn she is, she is likely to never reveal anything about her life before she did. Following kingdom customs as an adviser, it was her duty to choose the queen or king of Yon and pledge her loyalty to them. Every year, a festival would be held and thousands of people would greet the edeeram at the palace to have a shot at claiming the dusty throne of the kingdom. For ten years, Aine turned down several hands presented to her. The "spark" that helped her pick hit her after the eleventh year. The woman's name was Asarda and she was a fisherwoman from a kingdom over. She went to the festival upon persuasion from her sister, Aethis, never knowing she'd become Yon's ruler. When she slipped the official signet ring onto her presented hand and kissed the seal, both astonishment and glee spread over the people of the festival. The days following this moment, Asarda was swiftly put into office as her only family and their belongings were brought to Yon. For fifteen years, Asarda ruled the kingdom with a great hand.
Aine and Asarda had a tumultuous relationship following her rise as queen of the country. Despite ruling her kingdom greatly and passionately, Asarda was also a bit of a pervert and heavily attracted to Aine. Despite playfully flirting with the edeeram, her adviser never gave in to her advances. Much to her chagrin, it actually annoyed Aine, and she had to remind Asarda time and time again that she put her duties first and, "have no interest in matters of the heart or flesh." Asarda still had her way with the edeeram even with the rejection, making her wear a revealing court outfit that bared her midriff. As an adviser, she could not deny any of the monarch's wishes, and reluctantly wore the clothes as commanded.
During Asarda's last year as a ruler, a great fire ravaged the kingdom of Yon. There is no knowledge as to how the city went up in flames (though there is some speculation it was natural because of the warm weather), but it left great damage in its wake. Asarda perished from smoke inhalation attempting to save Aine and, with the loss of the ruler and a great amount of the kingdom's inhabitants, Aine took up the mantle of watching the throne after it miraculously survived the fire with only a few scorch marks. However, because of the bad state Yon was in, the remaining people packed up their things and sought out other places to call home. Eventually, Yon became barren with only Aine and Vertl its residents. When Vertl was encouraged by his friend to take a better position as a court healer in a kingdom via her recommendation, he reluctantly did. With him gone, Aine finally saw it fit to carry out her plan. Instead of waiting for a ruler to come to her (which seemed unlikely considering Yon's position), she would venture the world and seek out one herself.
Her first two weeks outside the kingdom led to trouble. Abroad a ship known as the Wind & Wine, Aine was kidnapped and to be kept for sexual services for the pirates' crew. Yet, the men never knew of Aine's strength and she overhauled her captors and managed an escape only to be caught again by the captain of the ship, an elderly man called Errowen. Coming to a consensus when the man was impressed by her abilities, she agreed to become a dutiful member of his crew in exchange he spare her life. For a number of years, Aine proved herself out on the sea, and worked her way up to becoming a trusted member of Errowen's crew. While rumor said she was one of them because she exchanged sexual services with the old crook, in actuality, Errowen had grown to trust her. Despite her life on the seas, Aine has been using her travels on the Wind & Wine to seek out a new ruler. When she felt the "spark" again, the edeeram had no qualms with leaving the ship to return to Yon.
Aine spent twelve years with the crew. Yet, no matter where the ship docked, Aine could not find anyone fit to be Yon's ruler. During that time, Errowen eventually sired a son via a prostitute he had fallen in love with. Named Tarora, Aine, like with most of her relationships, did not get along with the boy. She constantly referred to him as "child" and never by name, causing the boy to think she was mocking him. One day while on the sea, the Wind & Wine was ransacked by another pirate ship. The opposing crew attacked in the dead of night when Errowen's men were unaware, causing most to fall to the enemy's sword. When a pirate tried to kill Errowen's boy, the captain held him off and begged Aine to flee and protect him. Aine agreed despite Tarora's protests and, as they two made their getaway, Aine was mortally wounded by a sword from behind. With Tarora in her arms, the two fell to the depths below and survived by washing up on a beach.
When Tarora came to, he sought out Aine, but could not find her. It was only when he came upon a six-legged beast did he study it closely and realize it was Aine. Unbeknownst to him, the wound the edeeram had received caused her to instinctively take her bestial form to escape whatever danger was nearby. Yet, because she did not have the strength or magic ability to transform back into a human, she was stuck in it until she could find an incantation circle that matched the one on her neck. There was only one she could return to being human: returning to Yon and accessing the incantation circle used for coronations there. So the two began a long journey back to the ravaged kingdom despite not knowing where they were.
• Trivia :: Aine may not sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Yon. She dutifully sits next to it and keeps an eye on it until she finds the next ruler.