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Name: Chris
Age: 26
Contact: KawaiiSpinel42 (AIM); quasigina (plurk)
Characters Already in Teleios: Mr. Gold, Juliet Burke, Nico Minoru
Reserve: BAM

Character Basics:

Character Name: Antigone of Albany, but known as The Luidaeg
Journal: lastquestion
Age: Old. Very, very old.
Fandom: October Daye
Canon Point: End of One Salt Sea
Debt:

Class A: 500 years (betrayal, murder- roughly estimated)
Class B: 1000 years (assault, breaking and entering, fraud- roughly estimated)
Class C: 1000 years and eight months(aiding and abetting, attempted murder, child endangerment, cruel and unusual punishment, giving up on a friend, lying, property damage, threatening death, traumatizing your loved ones, torture, using abilities to mess with people- multiples of each and, AGAIN, roughly estimated)

• Breaking the Ride of a Firstborn.
• Being obscure for the sake of it.

GRAND TOTAL: 2500 years and eight months (ROUGHLY. ESTIMATED.)

Canon Character Section:

History: The Luidaeg is, understandably, very shirty about her past. As one of the oldest living Firstborn, she's been around since Faerie's creation and has seen just about everything there is to see about its rise and slow decline since Oberon and Titania vanished into the ether- she just isn't permitted to speak much about it. As such, not a whole lot is known about the intimate details of her past. At one point her sisters attempted to murder their brother Blind Michael, and at some point she wrote the records book that Toby found in the library, but everything else is a mixed bag of anecdotes that can't really be placed on a timeline. She's lived a long life and most of her family are dead or missing now.

The most important thing is that, eventually, she withdrew from Faerie almost completely, appearing only when sought out or as part of whatever customs she still adhered to. This withdrawal was due, mostly, to the slaughter of her children- The Roane- by the humans who would one day become the Selkies. After that, she became a fairy tale villain, a creature to haunt your children with when they wouldn't behave. The Luidaeg resigned herself to that fate, because it suited her desire to be left alone. Unfortunately, monsters are often hunted and the Luidaeg found herself in the debt of a changeling named Devin, who saved her from being burned at the sake and would hold her to that debt for sixty years.

Sometime in the seventies, the Luidaeg on her customary jaunts to Half-Moon Bay to oversee the Selkies getting their skins, she met a selkie girl named Lizzy who had been passed over for her own skin enough times to be despaired by it. Seeing a kindred spirit in Lizzy, Luidaeg (going by the name Annie) found herself falling for her and the two began a relationship that ended when Lizzy was finally granted her own skin in the early nineties. Luidaeg warned her that if she accepted the skin then they could no longer be together, and Lizzy ended up choosing her family over her lover, leaving Luidaeg betrayed. Lizzy learned the truth of the Roane from her mother and when she became head of the clan, she learned the truth about her lover, as well. A matter that left the two women completely embittered but capable of sustaining a professional relationship.

If that ordeal wasn't bad enough, Luidaeg found more betrayal- this time in the form of her younger sister Amandine, who had to go and play Faerie Bride.

As Amandine had no line to speak of until her changeling daughter October, the Luidaeg had to meet her. She waited seven years and met the child on a playground where after touching her hand, she discovered that Amandine was using her powers to turn October mortal and protect her from the inevitability of the Changeling's Choice. Angered that Amandine was killing her own child slowly, Luidaeg tipped off Sylvester Torquill and sent him to October and Amandine. October chose Faerie and Amandine returned to the Summerlands, but not before expressing her hurt and rage at her meddling older sister.

And so things began to change in Luidaeg's world, starting small and working their way up. Amandine vanished, October lived a highly complicated life, and Luidaeg didn't enter back into it until the day Devin approached her to clear that debt she owed him- save October from iron poisoning, because he still had need of her. She accepted the offer, needing to be free of Devin's debt, and October eventually tracked her down via Luna Torquill to ask some Important Questions about the case she was on. The deal was simple- Four honest answers in exchange for one honest answer and a key to the summer roads.

Unfortunately, once October got to the last question, she decided to save it, keeping Luidaeg in her debt.... Which, understandably, pissed her off, and she vowed to kill Toby when that last question was asked.

That debt was cleared when October went to Tamed Lightning and, in an act of desperation, asked the Luidaeg how to summon the night-haunts. Luidaeg provided the ritual and also passed on the knowledge that nothing could save October from her fate now. Luckily for October, she and the Luidaeg had managed a decent rapport between then and now and when October showed up on her doorstep to see the end out, she got nothing more than a laugh and a game of chess. What's a few violent threats between friends, right?

October came to the Luidaeg again when children began to go missing across San Francisco due to Blind Michael's Ride. Reluctantly, and through the promise of a "blank check" favor, she provided Toby with the means to free the children by turning her into a child and giving her an enchanted candle. She escaped with all the children, save one, and was forced to return with the Luidaeg's (again reluctant- because Toby was running headlong into death and that didn't sit well with her) help. Unfortunately, this time, Toby was caught by Blind Michael and held by him while he attempted to break her and make him his new bride. During his Ride, Luidaeg and Toby's friends performed a ritual to break Blind Michael's Ride and free Toby, but that didn't end the nightmare. Toby had to go in one last time to kill Blind Michael once for all and the Luidaeg put her on the road once more, knowing that she'd either be sending Toby to her death or sending her to kill her brother. Toby succeeded and at the end of it, the two Fae comforted one another.

After Toby found out the truth about her heritage, she went to the Luidaeg for clarity, who explained to her (after saying that Toby could only ask three questions "because that's how the rules work") what Amandine was trying to accomplish by lying to her daughter all these years. Toby finally understood the truth of her origins and got an explanation for the Luidaeg's uneasy love for her, and left knowing something was deeply wrong with her aunt, though she couldn't say why.

What was wrong with the Luidaeg became clear when the Lorden boys- the princes of the Undersea- were kidnapped by Rayseline Torquill, a matter that would spark a war between the Kingdom of the Mists and the Undersea if not dealt with. The Luidaeg called on Toby to assist, because she was limited in her ability to fix the problem as she couldn't fight against Titania's children and wouldn't fight against Maeve's and had no interest in choosing a side in the war- besides Toby owed her a debt. She gave Toby a potion that turned her into a merrow and sent her to negotiate with Duchess Lorden and figure out who might have taken the boys. As the mystery became clear, the Luidaeg stepped up to throw her lot in with the group going to apprehend Rasyel, but was forced to stay out of the fighting when Raysel spoke an Oath that kept her, as a daughter of Maeve, from lashing out against a daughter of Titania. At the end of it all, they prevented the war, but Toby ended up losing her daughter to the human world completely and her lover- a Selkie- to an untimely end. After a suitable mourning period, Luidaeg took Toby to Half-Moon Bay to return the skins of the Selkies slain in the fight, where she explained her bitter history to her niece and also met with Liz, her old lover, telling her that in a year the bill the Selkies owe her for slaying the Roane years ago would finally come due.

She'll be arriving in Teleios after her conversation with Toby on the beach.

Personality:
"What do you take me for?"
"The sea witch."
".... Fair enough."
The Luidaeg is a product of the stories that Faerie has told about her- people expect her to be as wild and unpredictable as the sea, so that's precisely what she is. Unstable, emotional, angry, and allegedly unforgiving, The Luidaeg moves through emotions with little regard to the comfort of those around her. One day she might be threatening to gut you, but the next she'll be over it. She makes threats, but rarely follows up on them- if she had intentions to hurt you, she'd do it and there'd be no posturing about it, but there's nothing to be lost from a little fear, now is there? Rather than try to convince Faerie she's not a monster, she hams it up with gusto.

In fact, she bases a lot of everything she does on appearances. October frequently makes the comment that Luidaeg loves 'special effects' which extends to everything she does, down to the fact that she casts illusions over her home to give the appearance of a disgusting sty (which one could argue makes people less likely to stick around for very long) to her frequent shapeshifting to shock and traumatize people (nothing says intimidation like a mouthful of shark teeth). It's all part of the act, which is simultaneously an act and not one- Firstborn are complicated. Luidaeg is precisely what she is with no fronting involved, but there's more to her than that. The fact that she's so abrasive, unpleasant, and often downright nasty makes people less inclined to get to know her.

Underneath her vulgar shock tactics and vicious demeanor, Luidaeg is a very old soul. She's seen Faerie in its prime and watched it fall and wither and fade into obscurity. She knows the old ways and is bound not to speak of the past in its entirety. She speaks in riddles and obscurities both because she's bound to not reveal all the secrets of Faerie by her own tongue and because that's simply how Firstborn are meant to be. For being aggressively nontraditional in her attitude, she has never stopped being what she really is- a daughter of Maeve and Oberon- and there's a lot of that you can't shake from her. As such, it can be extremely difficult to get a straight answer out of her (there are rules), especially not without payment. Everything comes at a price with her and it's not so much about her being greedy or cruel as it is custom. The idea of debts get under her skin and she loathes being in someone else's debt, so nothing is free, regardless of who asks. Plus it's always nice to be able to call in a favor every now and again. This may not always seem fair, in the grand scheme of things, but Faerie rarely is and no one knows that more than she does, and what may not be fair is always true. The Luidaeg doesn't lie except to her own children... or the abominations that happened because her children were murdered. That too.

She prefers to stay uninvolved, only entering the scene herself if she believes it will disrupt the status quo or if she feels she has no other choice in the matter. Usually, she'll remain out of conflict until someone makes it her problem, and, even then, she'll work behind the scenes before she'll consider making an actual appearance. For the most part, she actually can't affect things on a grand scale, because she's bound by her rules, so staying out of matters is as much her not being able to as it is her not wanting to, though she'll mostly say it's the latter.

"I don't look for gratitude and I don't get it. If you're here, you want something. What is it?"
Being what she is, the Luidaeg doesn't have many friends or close compatriots. People fear or respect her, but no one knows her. She doesn't let her guard down around people who know who and what she is often, and the only time you start seeing glimpses of the kind, loving person she is deep, deep down is when you aren't aware of what she is or if you've established that what she is matter little to you. She has a decent rapport with the humans in the area she lives in and blends in with them seamlessly and to most of the Selkies, she's just "Cousin Annie." The minute you know who she is, the walls come up and she goes back to being abrasive, because no one wants to befriend the sea witch, as a general rule, and she pretends to be perfectly fine with that, when she is actually unbearably lonely. But that's the price you pay for getting to be left alone- people are more reluctant to hunt monsters that are nearly impossible to kill and would happily kill you where you stand. The lost and the lonely are the ones that people think are easy pickings and fuck that noise. She doesn't need that shit.

Until October, that was mainly Luidaeg's life- she had fleeting fancies of normalcy, always crushed into oblivion by betrayal or the truth coming out, or simply based on heaps upon heaps of lies, so nothing deeper could ever develop. October, as she does, smashed that with a hammer. Even knowing that Luidaeg had designs on killing her one day, Toby continued to entertain her desperate vies for attention and the two began a decent friendship. Even after the debts between them were released, the Luidaeg never made a move to actually kill her, despite her threats- she'd found a friend in October (and by extension, some of Toby's friends were also growing fond of her on her own merits). More importantly, she had found family, since October was the daughter of her estranged baby sister. Regardless of what she'll say to her face, Toby is the most important person to her. She worries over her, warns her, bends the rules as much as she possibly can for her (though that doesn't mean she gets anything for free most days), all while chastising her, threatening her, abusing her, and otherwise being a right bitch in her general direction. Loving the Luidaeg is easier than you might think- being loved by her is harder.

"I love the Selkies because they are my family. I hate them because they killed my family. Everything is a contradiction."
It's easy to understand the Luidaeg's complicated views on love when you realize and accept that love and hate occur simultaneously within her heart. The people she loves most are the people she also hates the most, either because they've betrayed her or because she suspects they might one day. She hated her brother Blind Michael enough to try to kill him, but she mourned his passing and showed an intense amount of regret at the idea of sending October to kill him. She threatens to murder the people she loves most and they believe every word of it, because she believes every word of it. Everything about her is tempered in equal parts love and hate, because she's been betrayed enough times to know that she can't have love without it eventually leading to hatred.

She exists in a perpetual state of contradictions, because she can thrive there- after all, her life's never been anything but. If you live long enough, then you can see the way one thing will nearly always become the opposite and its simply saner to anticipate it. You don't really get hurt that way, and she's been hurt more than enough times than she cares to discuss.

"I am a descendant of Titania, and I deny you the right to stand against me, or to aid those who would. Do you hear and honor my words?"
"....yes. I hear and honor your words."
The Luidaeg is never out of her depth or out of her element, because she doesn't get involved in anything she isn't prepared to handle. Unfortunately, power like hers still comes with a price- she can be bound, she can be forced to stand down, and, as previously mentioned, she sometimes simply can't interfere unless someone is a direct threat to her or those under her protection. In Teleios, she won't be bound by those rules, but not having access to her power will put her in a vengeful snit towards the agents, because she's being forced to adapt to their rules and their games and she hasn't had the opportunity to figure them all out yet. She'll be violent and vindictive (and sometimes demanding) towards them, all while trying to understand their rules so that if and when she lashes out against them, she won't be breaking any rules in doing it. That could end badly and that's not a mess she wants to clean up, regardless of how frustrated she's going to be with this situation.

Powers/Abilities:

Shapeshifting: Unlike most denizens of Faerie who rely on glamours to hide their Fae nature, Luidaeg is powerful enough that she simply shapeshifts, keeping her hidden even from other Fae. This not only extends to keeping her looking human, but can also make her look more grotesque or predatory- turning her teeth into shark's teeth or her fingers into claws, etc. She can also alter her vocal chords to produce perfect imitations of other people.

Illusions and Mind-Affecting Spells: Luidaeg can cast powerful glamours that can make a spotless home look like a wreck, hide things from view, alter the size of something, or convince people to stay away from a large area. She can also alter memories. I'm putting these all under the same heading, because they are, fundamentally, the same type of spell.

Other spells: With the right ingredients, the Luidaeg can do almost anything with her magic from making tracking spells to turning someone into a merrow to altering a person's age. As these spells require access to the right ingredients and are thus limited in how much she might have access to at any given time, I'm putting them under one heading.

Preternatural Senses and Healing: The Luidaeg seems to have a sharp sense of smell and taste- she was capable of identifying a Fae by their blood before Toby managed it. She has also shown signs of being aware of everything going on in Faerie- she seemed to know what was going on in Fremont before October even got there, but was either bound by the rules not to explain it or chose not to. As a Firstborn, she's also nigh indestructible, for the most part, and can heal herself and others- including minor iron poisoning.

Appearance: The Luidaeg in human form looks to be in her late teens to early twenties and has oily black hair usually done up in a ponytail with a piece of electrical tape. She has brown eyes (though sometimes they turn the color of seaglass when her illusions slip), acne scars and freckles, and a peeling tan, and wears stained overralls and flannel shirts most days.

No one knows what she really looks like outside of her illusions. To the selkies who know her as the sea witch, she appears as a sharp-featured sea hag with hair like knives and scaly skin. In Blind Michael's realm, she appears as a woman with black hair falling down in waves and pure white eyes.

Her PB is Gemma Arterton.

Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

Toby and the Luidaeg do a stakeout.

Prose Sample:

The young woman in the corner of the temple has the same look about her that teenagers on family vacations get. Given the way she's dressed, however, she looks more like a surly teen who was forced to attend some fancy dinner party and if she could light everyone in this room on fire with her brain, rest assured it would be done.

But the coldness in her brown eyes remains normal. In fact, everything about her is so painfully normal that she might as well have blended in with the wallpaper. The Luidaeg is not an illusionist- she's a shapeshifter. And when the shifted form is all she has of course it's as real as anything. Painfully so. To the point where no one can see the ancient storms that churn behind her eyes or know that when she's this angry, you're in the path of a hurricane just by standing here.

Except you're not, because she can't do anything.

Deities revered by Children of Eve and Adam can't take a Firstborn's magic- she's a god just as they are, only more real, because she's something that's meant to be tangible and not just a fairy story cooked up by humans who refused to believe in Faerie anymore. Something is very, very wrong here and nothing in her memory that she can recall knows a place called Teleios. It's not of Faerie, but it's not of the mortal world either. It's new and old, but she can't put her finger on the how or why.

She cracks her knuckles and narrows her eyes at the front of the room, fixing on Michael with a look of such utter disdain that had she not been bound by something stronger than her rules, she would have ripped her apart where she stood. Her rules have been broken. There's nothing keeping the Luidaeg from being a force of nature save one piddly fact.

She can't do anything.

The rules have changed.

"And I bet you know exactly what you've done," she hisses under her breath, eyes still on Michael.