Blogathon - Entry 38
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Cheating a tiny bit, but hey, content!
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shadesong's world, Shayara has a forum where you can create your own characters. This is my character, Alyssa ni Narsan.
Name: Alyssa ni Narsan
Age: 24
Birthday: September 17
Height: 5'0
Build: Average
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark brown, cut short.
Other distinguishing features: Reading glasses hanging from a rather dorky-looking chain. Frequently seen wearing scrubs.
Occupation: Alyssa would like you to know that, despite being a dental assistant, she's not here to cause you great pain with a shining smile on her face. Really, she's not. Hey, someone has to take care of people's teeth, even in a place as magical as Shayara.
In her free time: Alyssa reads like books are going out of style, pretty much everything she can get her hands on, but especially history and fantasy. In the winter, she's a regular at Tyka's, curled up with a book and a chai, only half-aware of the world. In the summer, she shifts to the beach. She's a good swimmer, but she's sure she'd love the sea even if she wasn't.
Rumors of her having been seen swimming in the nude have been denied juuuust a touch too vehemently in the past.
Personality: Alyssa can come off as reticent and shy on first impression, but she stands by her friends and her convictions. Sometimes, she worries she's too average, too normal. Too unremarkable to ever do anything that really matters with her life. Mostly, though, she believes life's too short to spend angsting, so she just plows on as best she can.
History: Alyssa has grown up in Shayara, she spent the summer after her high school graduation traveling the United States, but the pull of her city is far too strong for her to ever call anywhere else home. Her childhood was pleasant, if a touch odd for a Dasaroi. Alyssa’s mother, Hannah had lived as a human till she was in her early thirties, and her Jewish upbringing had stuck with her. She wanted her daughter to have this upbringing as well, so Alyssa was raised equally on stories of Shayara’s Gods and weekly family Seders. Culturally enlightening? Yes. Religiously confusing? Also yes.
It took Alyssa’s powers a while to manifest and she’ll never be one of Narsan’s strongest, but she’s contacted the dead before and finds it strangely reassuring. The down side of her House’s heritage didn’t hit her until the Purges, when a Tamrani woman was killed close enough for Alyssa to feel her die. Further away, and she would have been able to block it out. Still further, and she might not have felt it that keenly at all, but the proximity combined with terror made short work of her shields. Alyssa tried contacting the woman afterward, to apologize for not being able to help her, but she must have already moved on to her next life and Alyssa was unable to find her.
Of her own past lives, Alyssa remembers quite a few, though the most vivid are not necessarily the most recent. Before Alyssa, she was an American senator’s daughter…an Italian painter in the 1920s… Neither of them had found their way back home. Neither had the lady from Heiian-era Japan or the Indian Untouchable from 200 AD, but she can recall the details of their lives much more easily. Come to think of it… not many of Alyssa’s past lives had made it back to Shayara – though some have, of course. She’s just glad this one has.
And hey, she gets a brief mention in canon, which makes me all kinds of chuffed.
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Cheating a tiny bit, but hey, content!
shadesong's world, Shayara has a forum where you can create your own characters. This is my character, Alyssa ni Narsan. Name: Alyssa ni Narsan
Age: 24
Birthday: September 17
Height: 5'0
Build: Average
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark brown, cut short.
Other distinguishing features: Reading glasses hanging from a rather dorky-looking chain. Frequently seen wearing scrubs.
Occupation: Alyssa would like you to know that, despite being a dental assistant, she's not here to cause you great pain with a shining smile on her face. Really, she's not. Hey, someone has to take care of people's teeth, even in a place as magical as Shayara.
In her free time: Alyssa reads like books are going out of style, pretty much everything she can get her hands on, but especially history and fantasy. In the winter, she's a regular at Tyka's, curled up with a book and a chai, only half-aware of the world. In the summer, she shifts to the beach. She's a good swimmer, but she's sure she'd love the sea even if she wasn't.
Rumors of her having been seen swimming in the nude have been denied juuuust a touch too vehemently in the past.
Personality: Alyssa can come off as reticent and shy on first impression, but she stands by her friends and her convictions. Sometimes, she worries she's too average, too normal. Too unremarkable to ever do anything that really matters with her life. Mostly, though, she believes life's too short to spend angsting, so she just plows on as best she can.
History: Alyssa has grown up in Shayara, she spent the summer after her high school graduation traveling the United States, but the pull of her city is far too strong for her to ever call anywhere else home. Her childhood was pleasant, if a touch odd for a Dasaroi. Alyssa’s mother, Hannah had lived as a human till she was in her early thirties, and her Jewish upbringing had stuck with her. She wanted her daughter to have this upbringing as well, so Alyssa was raised equally on stories of Shayara’s Gods and weekly family Seders. Culturally enlightening? Yes. Religiously confusing? Also yes.
It took Alyssa’s powers a while to manifest and she’ll never be one of Narsan’s strongest, but she’s contacted the dead before and finds it strangely reassuring. The down side of her House’s heritage didn’t hit her until the Purges, when a Tamrani woman was killed close enough for Alyssa to feel her die. Further away, and she would have been able to block it out. Still further, and she might not have felt it that keenly at all, but the proximity combined with terror made short work of her shields. Alyssa tried contacting the woman afterward, to apologize for not being able to help her, but she must have already moved on to her next life and Alyssa was unable to find her.
Of her own past lives, Alyssa remembers quite a few, though the most vivid are not necessarily the most recent. Before Alyssa, she was an American senator’s daughter…an Italian painter in the 1920s… Neither of them had found their way back home. Neither had the lady from Heiian-era Japan or the Indian Untouchable from 200 AD, but she can recall the details of their lives much more easily. Come to think of it… not many of Alyssa’s past lives had made it back to Shayara – though some have, of course. She’s just glad this one has.
And hey, she gets a brief mention in canon, which makes me all kinds of chuffed.
