Ooc: Background Plotting
Oct. 15th, 2014 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neriumoleanderIf anyone is interested in having a character connected to this...
It's long been established that Nerium comes from a line of powerful dark witches. Related to infamous evil queens and wicked witches etc. But each has their own set of specialized powers. Nerium's grandmother, who raised her, was particularly cruel. A fan of curses and hexes with little disregard for who she placed them upon. Nerium's mother was something different. Her powers were almost siren-like, in that she specialized in seduction. Love spells, bewitchment, luring men and stealing their souls. In my mind she loved the attention and adored the suitors. But men do not fit into the Grimhilde way.
Anyway, when Nerium was 6 years old, her mother died. More specifically, she drowned off the coast, during a perfectly clear day. No witnesses, her body was found washed up against a rocky cliff the next morning. And while even the most powerful witches can die of natural causes, there has always been suspicion of foul play. Of course, the SCPD closed the case almost immediately, practically cheering that a Grimhilde was gone, and Nerium's grandmother was never able to prove anything. It certainly shifted her farther to the side of vindictive cruelty and hatred for anything outside the Grimhilde way (such as swimming at sea like a siren), and left Nerium highly isolated and under that much more scrutiny by her now only family member caregiver. I imagine growing up, most of Nerium's first attempts at magic were to bring her mother back from the dead and never succeeded beyond sad ghostly traces that she would soon banish.
That being said, is anyone interested in establishing a connection in the backstory here? Was your character involved in Nerium's mother's death, or maybe a member of your character's family was? Perhaps they were involved in the investigation, or knew a victim of her seductive ways?
The more I expand upon Nerium's character, the more I want to establish deeper ties. She's so much fun to play, but really isolated - so any additional connection would be awesome :)
Any takers/thoughts/ideas?
It's long been established that Nerium comes from a line of powerful dark witches. Related to infamous evil queens and wicked witches etc. But each has their own set of specialized powers. Nerium's grandmother, who raised her, was particularly cruel. A fan of curses and hexes with little disregard for who she placed them upon. Nerium's mother was something different. Her powers were almost siren-like, in that she specialized in seduction. Love spells, bewitchment, luring men and stealing their souls. In my mind she loved the attention and adored the suitors. But men do not fit into the Grimhilde way.
Anyway, when Nerium was 6 years old, her mother died. More specifically, she drowned off the coast, during a perfectly clear day. No witnesses, her body was found washed up against a rocky cliff the next morning. And while even the most powerful witches can die of natural causes, there has always been suspicion of foul play. Of course, the SCPD closed the case almost immediately, practically cheering that a Grimhilde was gone, and Nerium's grandmother was never able to prove anything. It certainly shifted her farther to the side of vindictive cruelty and hatred for anything outside the Grimhilde way (such as swimming at sea like a siren), and left Nerium highly isolated and under that much more scrutiny by her now only family member caregiver. I imagine growing up, most of Nerium's first attempts at magic were to bring her mother back from the dead and never succeeded beyond sad ghostly traces that she would soon banish.
That being said, is anyone interested in establishing a connection in the backstory here? Was your character involved in Nerium's mother's death, or maybe a member of your character's family was? Perhaps they were involved in the investigation, or knew a victim of her seductive ways?
The more I expand upon Nerium's character, the more I want to establish deeper ties. She's so much fun to play, but really isolated - so any additional connection would be awesome :)
Any takers/thoughts/ideas?
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Date: 2014-10-15 02:13 pm (UTC)Maybe Luke's dad could be a scorned love victim to make things even worse? I want to help, but have to come up with something.
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Date: 2014-10-16 01:56 pm (UTC)Residual spellwork helping fuel his Nerium interest?
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Date: 2014-10-16 02:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-10-16 09:29 pm (UTC)He'd have been 11 years old, so I can imagine despite his dislike of the witch/human tension, he's always felt a little sorry for Nerium losing her mother like that. Especially when he got older and his own parents died.
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Date: 2014-10-16 02:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-16 01:57 pm (UTC)I imagine Clint was involved in the investigation, at the very least. And in my mind, Siren(s) were involved in the death, so even if Robert wasn't maybe he knows something.
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Date: 2014-10-18 10:34 pm (UTC)Hmmm, maybe Robert saw/found something back then, he just never knew the importance of it?