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CANON October Daye
CANON POINT Post-The Winter Long

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MOONBLESSING Iris

AGE Thousands of years old (looks 18)
SPECIES Faerie (Firstborn)
GENDER Female
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HEIGHT 5'6
BUILD Medium, unassuming build.
HAIR Dark brown
EYES They change depending on her mood. Brown when she's neutral, black when she's angry. Seaglass green when she's using her magic or upset.
VOICE link
FEATURES She has acne scars and freckles on her face.

PLAYER Chris
TIMEZONE CST
CONTACT Chris#6942, tricksterwind

HUGGING
yes
KISSING
yes
FLIRTING
yes
ROMANCE
yes (f/f only)
SEX
yes
FIGHTING
yes
INJURY
yes
DEATH
yes
MIND-READING
yes
MANIPULATION
hard mode, but yes if you can.
OTHER
All of these things are fine BY ME, but might not be okay by her depending on what it is and why it's happening or when it's happening. Be forewarned she will react violently to some things.

BACKTAGGING
yes
THREADHOPPING
yes
FOURTHWALLING
not her canon, but you can talk about the Faerie Courts all you want, since they'll all be different.
CRAU
I don't think anyone will, but sure??
OFF-LIMITS
Pet cruelty/death
OTHER
Luidaeg is under a geas that means she cannot lie nor refuse a request if her payment can be met.

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The Luidaeg is thousands of years old, but she DOES look around 18 physically, if that bothers you.

Player Information
Player name: Chris
Contact: KawaiiSpinel42 (AIM); quasigina (plurk)
Are you over 18: Yes
Characters in the game already: Rocket | beatupgrass
Proof of Reserve: Here

Character Information
Character Name: The Luidaeg (formerly known as Antigone of Albany)
Canon: October Daye
Canon Point: Post-The Winter Long
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive
History:

Once upon a time, when the world was very young, Oberon created Faerie, a place on the fringes of the mortal world. Back then, the lines between Faerie and the mortal world were thinner and Fae mixed with humans more frequently. Along with his wives Maeve and Titania, he fathered children- his Firstborn- who then fathered and mothered children of their own, who became the different races of Faerie.


The first of these Firstborn was Antigone, daughter of Maeve and Oberon.

Unlike most of her brothers and sisters (particularly the ones of Titania's line), Antigone had no ambitions, no particular desires for power, or any real inclination to please her mother and father. She simply embraced the love of her family and the love of the gift her father gave her- the sea. That was all she needed in the world. She mothered children who would become known as the Roane, and with them and the sea, she lived happily and free.

This, however, displeased her sister Eira Rosynhwyr, the eldest of Titania and Oberon's children, who believed that anything that happy and content couldn't be genuine (or possibly she was jealous). She put iron knives in the hands of mortals and sent them to slaughter the Roane, promising they could have magic if they wore their skins. The Roane were almost entirely wiped out and they became the Selkies. Understandably, Antigone was enraged and while calm and happy, her moods, even then, were likely as tumultuous as the sea.
Fearing retribution, Eira ran to their parents crying that Antigone blamed her for what had happened, but Oberon and Maeve refused her. Her mother, Titania, however, believed her and for wanting to avenge the death of her own children, Antigone was punished. She was bound to never speak lies and to never refuse a favor if the person asking could pay her price. She became the Sea Witch- The Luidaeg- all because of the schemes of Titania and her eldest daughter, and she was unable to do anything about it.

As for the Selkies, the children of the original murderers eventually realized what their parents had done and killed them in their beds and brought the skins back to the Luidaeg, crying for forgiveness. Rather than murder them, the Luidaeg allowed them to keep the skins for an indeterminate amount of time, after which the "bill" comes due and the Selkie line will be finished. This decision came on the heels of the fact that despite hating them, the Selkies were all that remained of her children and because of that, she loved them, as well.

And so the world changed. Oberon, Titania, and Maeve vanished into the ether, leaving their children to sort out things for themselves, mortals became increasingly wary of the Fae and sought to hunt them with iron and fire, and eventually Faerie retreated into itself, casting illusions and hiding its world from mortal eyes. All the while, the Luidaeg became less of what she was and more of what Titania made her- a monster of legend that mothers warn children about, but the person everyone goes to when desperation hits and they're in need of a favor. As the world moved on, The Luidaeg stayed among mortals, hiding herself as best she could, and trying to carve a life for herself that was nothing like the life she started with, all the while cultivating an image that protected her surprisingly fragile heart from further pain.

At some point, she was found and cornered and nearly burned at the stake, but she was saved by a Changeling named Devin, who held her in his debt for many years, a debt she'd be eager to be rid of some time down the line. Debts bother her and she despises owing someone for anything, likely because debts are binding and she's been bound too much for a Firstborn's liking.

Sometime in the seventies, the Luidaeg, on her customary jaunts to Half-Moon Bay to oversee the Selkies getting their skins (a matter of tradition that came with her agreement to let them live), 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. Luidaeg, however, was especially hurt by this betrayal, and it only caused her to retreat further into her own shell, unwilling to let herself get hurt again.

But betrayal is second nature to the Luidaeg, and her family is the worst offender, but love still guides her and when her youngest sister Amandine went off to play Faerie Bride with a human, she found herself unable to resist meeting Amy's Changeling daughter. 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. Luidaeg, however, never regretted her decision, even though it hurt to watch Amandine leave her. October was important and Luidaeg dedicated herself to making sure that little girl grew up to become what she needed to be.

That, however, didn't mean she was going to make it easy on Toby when she did enter back into the girl's life. Having been hurt and betrayed before, the Luidaeg's love and compassion are buried under layers of vague comments and not-exactly-idle threats. She's a monster and she plays the part well and absolutely none of it is a lie. And as such, no love for Amandine's daughter was going to break that carefully cultivated persona she managed in order to keep people from getting close enough to hurt her. If anyone could destroy her, it was probably going to be Amy's child and she most sincerely wasn't going to make it easy on her.

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, a lost road of Faerie.

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. As she can't lie, her words were true, but her temper doesn't negate her ability to change her mind, a matter that became clear when the debt was cleared after October went to the duchy known as Tamed Lightning to solve a series of murder and, in an act of desperation, asked the Luidaeg how to summon the night-haunts (Faerie's version of grim reapers). 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.

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, especially knowing that Toby had a death omen hovering around 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 Samhain, 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, the Luidaeg showing a rarely seen compassionate side that she'd been hiding from Toby.

After Toby found out the truth about her heritage (having not been raised to believe that Amandine was Firstborn and not a Daoine Sidhe as she believed), 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 (a mermaid, essentially) 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.

And so things continued this way- Toby went to the Luidaeg to help her solve any problem that she might have and the Luidaeg aided her as best she could (as she is bound to not reveal too many secrets of Faerie), usually with threats of violence and anything to unnerve Toby and her friends, though, for the most part, the two of them had become akin to family. The Luidaeg guided Toby in her attempt to save a Changeling from opening doors to lost realms of Faerie and helped her overthrow the False Queen of the Mists and restore the rightful ruler. This became the relationship of the two women- Luidaeg acting as mentor, as Toby acting as hero.

And then the Winterrose returned- a former friend of Toby's whose murder first sent Toby to the Luidaeg in the first place. In an attempt to uncover the truth of the situation Toby found herself in, she went to the Luidaeg, who was unable to tell her anything due to the geas that bound her. Unfortunately for her and fortunately for Toby, Toby managed to ask the right question, which gave her a lead and marked the Luidaeg for death. Afraid, the Luidaeg threw Toby out of her apartment and when next she returned, the Changeling found Luidaeg dead. Using her magic to its fullest potential, Toby managed to bring her back to life and the Luidaeg forlornly explained that the geas still held and she couldn't give her more information, but Toby admitted she didn't care about that- she couldn't just let her die. The shock of such a loving act had an effect on the Luidaeg and she gave her one piece of information, "Your mother told you to beware the Lady of the Lake, but to be more afraid of Morgane," revealing that one of the names she used over her lifetime was Viviane, the Lady of the Lake. With this information and the Luidaeg safely tucked away to heal herself, Toby continued on her journey.

The Luidaeg returned, fully healed, after Toby finally uncovered the truth from Simon Torquill, one of her most hated enemies (who ended up being a pawn of the Winterrose and not a bad guy at all) and was badly injured in the process, prompting the Luidaeg to look after her and her boyfriend, Tybalt. Toby was able to suss out the truth about the relationship between the Winterrose- actually Eira Rosenhywr- and the Luidaeg on her own using things she's picked up over the years, because she's a goddamned detective. Happy that Toby was finally on the right track, the Luidaeg accompanied her to take down Eira once and for all.

The Luidaeg couldn't harm the Winterrose, leaving Toby to face her alone with Luidaeg only offering support, but as the Firstborn's hold on Toby grew stronger and she found herself floundering, she managed to find a loophole- The Luidaeg can't harm a child of Titania, but she can aide a child of Oberon and begged for her assistance. The Luidaeg was able to join the fight, if only to defend October.

The two Firstborn became entangled in a deadly battle for October's life, arguing over who had her first and who had more claim to her- no really that's pretty much what happens here. The two of them become locked in a petty game of sisters pulling hair and threatening one another, all while Toby hangs in the balance. When it looked like the Winterrose was winning, Luidaeg managed to get through to Toby the only way she knew how- with blood. Toby managed to break free of the Winterrose's attempted thrall, just in time for her to sic Simon on Tybalt, forcing her to fight against him and leaving the two Firstborn to carry their fight to a forgotten realm of Faerie.

Toby caught up with them after taking care of Tybalt, the two of them caught in a heated debate about the nature of what Faerie has worked for- Luidaeg believing that suffering was unnecessary and the Winterrose's impatience is what caused all the suffering they've endured to begin with. Toby interrupts their fight and Luidaeg begins to sass the Winterrose (a tactic she stole from Toby, herself) in an attempt to distract her from Toby and keep the fight focused on her. Toby, however, wouldn't stand for the Luidaeg dying for her again, and tried to intervene properly. During her intervention, she discovered that Oberon made it so the Winterrose could never harm a member of Amandine's line and that's why she's so determined to control October- she simply can't kill her.

The Winterrose attempted to regain control of the situation, but Toby turned the spell back on her. At that moment, Simon arrived, free of the Winterrose's thrall and attempted to shoot her with a poisoned arrow, but she turned it back on him. Toby, enraged, managed to use the poisoned arrow on the Winterrose and damned the Firstborn to an enchanted sleep. The Luidaeg had to drag her away from the slumbering body of her former friend and most hated enemy.

The Luidaeg will be arriving in Denouement just after that moment.

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 and also she's under a nasty geas), 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 her cross to bear, thanks to the schemes of her sister. This may not always be fair, but it's always true, as she can't lie either (except to her own children and their descendants). Despite not being able to lie, she does have a love for telling the truth in ways that allow people to take her words however they choose to mean them, so she can get around always being honest and still annoy people.

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.

She is particularly susceptible to people descended from Titania, which applies to literally no one in the game right now, but it's no less true.

This will continue to hold true, even in Denouement.

Items on your character at canon point:

(1) flannel shirt (blue and green)
(1) one ripped pair of blue jeans
(1) pair of heavy dock boots
(1) pair of socks
(1) magical key to The Thorn Road, which won't be able to do shit in Den, but she still had it in her pocket.

Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:

ABILITIES/STRENGTHS

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 wreck of an apartment look like a beautiful home (or make a beautiful home look like a wreck- it's not clear which one it actually was...), hide things from view, alter the size of something, or convince people to stay away from a large area. She can also alter memories.

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, they're all under one vague 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.

Random Firstborn Shit As the Sea Witch and the Mother of the Sea, as per her father's word, The Luidaeg's power is primarily derived from the ocean, marshes, and fen. As such, she has a particular affinity for all of these things and is most comfortable near them. She has also been shown to have the ability to speak to Knowes (Faerie homes) and certain animals (like Toby's cats).

WEAKNESSES

The Luidaeg can be harmed or killed by iron and silver used simultaneously, fire, or the power of an equally strong Firstborn (putting this in simple terms- a god or someone pretty much godtier in terms of power could kill her, but it won't be easy if she fights back).

Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:

[The Luidaeg spends most of her existence pissed off, but when the network receives a mass text today, know that she is VERY VERY PISSED OFF.]

If I wanted blood in my hair, I would have committed murder today. This is bullshit. If I'm sorting through dead fish on the lake for a fucking week after this, someone's ass has had it.

[There's a moment where the text seems to finish and then five minutes later, the Luidaeg returns.]

There's a fucking cake in the rain. I'm pretty sure it's Red Velvet, too.

Mom's tits, I hate this place.

Prose Log Sample:

The Sea Witch and The Little Mermaid