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𐦍 OOC Information

Name: Kit
Contact: skeletone
Age: Thirtysomething
Other Characters: none currently!
Invitation: mod!
Permissions: linko

𐦍 IC Information

Character Name: Island Chaptal
Age: 27
Canon: Spotless (a novel series by Camilla Monk)
Canon Point: Between book 4.5 and book 5
Character History: A summary of the life of Island Chaptal, which is a chock full o'spoilers writeup of pre-canon and her entire series history to date, kept as short as possible. This is a canon character with no wiki or other external information.
Canon Abilities: Nothing magical! She's a polymath polyglot but it's all entirely mundane Wunderkind Stuff.
Inventory: A typical outfit (T-shirt and Betabrand pants with six pockets, bra, underwear, socks, a pair of brown Doc Martens, a racoon hoodie with a tail). Her wallet with ID, a MetroCard and four photos (one of her mother, one of Simon Halder, one of March November, and one of Ilan and Kalahari Menachem).

𐦍 Personality

If your character could ask for one wish, and it's going to be magically granted without any consequence, what will it be and why?
Island would like her biological parents alive again, please. Yes, both of them: she expects them to come in a pre-set package like they sometimes did in life. It's not because she loves them or needs them in her life, she's gotten on plenty for lots of time without them. She does want them to know what she's done and where she's been ... but more importantly they have so many questions to answer and things to account for. The number of unsolved mysteries and confusing puzzles to get to important information is far beyond what even a puzzle lover like Island wants to put up with. Apparently, both parents were in fact incredible supervillains, but Léa's morals were far closer to Island's and also never managed to entirely get Dries to stop being whack? Is someone going to explain ANY of this to her face? Because while they were alive, NEITHER DID A VERY GOOD JOB. Yes, that's right, Island deems you both worthy of ALLCAPS KEYSMASH treatment.

What song would a siren sing to your character to lure them closer? Why?
It's a tossup between the song that is most strongly associated with her memories of her mother—Lamtiedie damtiedie, a South African lullabye—or the song that she most intensely adores from a craft perspective—that being Spencer Krug's We Got Broken Eyes. Either of these have that sort of musical deep memory response that feels like a zappy kick to the lumbar spine: it makes her whole body go PING! all at once and has a strong emotional response that lures the listener right to it. These are the songs that you hear at concerts and cry even though you're extremely not sad, Island would relay it as, and these two are at the top of her list. Neither have significance lyrically, but they have significance musically: as an association with a memory, and as an association with personality and artistic interest.

If there's one person your character would follow to another realm, who would it be and why? If there's no one, state that and explain why.
The cleanliness-obsessed goober of an assassin who may just be her soulmate, March November. The guy saved her life twice, took her on a ridiculous epic Odyssey road trip of solving mysteries related to her mother's death, the time she almost died and March had to save her life (turns out these were all the same event!) and then after Island and her colleagues at HE Tech had to call him in to help them reclaim errant code and March as a result got all five of them fired, he ... gave them jobs, letting Island become his (legitimate) security company's (legitimate) CTO.

That, and they also fell in love throughout all that chaos, but he saved her life way before that was relevant, they were just kids. Really, though, Island has learned that March would do just about anything and risk just about anything for her, and so she has become equally confident that she'd follow him in any direction he suggested going whether or not he actually wanted her to trail off after him. They can and do function independently from each other, and have gone months with little to no communication, so it's not an issue of codependency—but it is a choice to be pretty closely intertwined when it's possible.

What is your character's most outstanding personality trait, and why?
Her problem-solving skills, or maybe it's just her intensely witty genre-savviness? Isl;and has a tendency to call things as they are—but when things are absurd, consider life as if it were a novel, film or song (depending on the context) and sort of weaponize that as 'what would the characters do next.' Depending on the comparison media type, she will then either do that or do the exact opposite of what the characters would do (sometimes you really don't want to emulate those people!). And even when not doing those things, particularly, she's on the ball as an 'unorthodox thinker' problem solver more often than would be expected of her. The surprise isn't that Island always seems to have an answer, so much as that Island is so often correct.

𐦍 Fae Court

• Spring


• Autumn


• Dawn

Ability: Do you want your character to gain the ability of their court? (Delete the other two options.)
3) Yes, but they either have no ability of their own, or they refuse to trade theirs away; they will buy their court's ability on credit.

𐦍 RP Samples

A log start.