Not a Nano 16: Alias Bluebell
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Sticking deliberately with the Bouquet so I can get them all sorted for completing the Gold outline, but still picking their names randomly from a very small box.
Continuing to challenge myself, with the hardest head pose to draw evar. I've possibly been staring at it too long, but I think it came out well :D
NAME Iis, alias 'Bluebell'
WHO IS THIS PERSON One of the current Bouquet, the Kazinian empress' personal assassination squad. Bluebell is the Haysyd connection.
GENDER Female
AGE 28
BRIEF BIO Iis was born with nothing. Her mother was a traveller of sorts (or so Iis suspects) who left Iis at the door of a healing house when she was about three years old, then disappeared back off travelling. Iis remembers nothing of her, and the healers knew nothing about her, since the village was small enough that everyone knew everyone. Iis was pretty much raised by the village. She had no family Colours of her own, and in being everyone's child, she was nobody's. Whatever life she was meant for, she knew it wasn't this one.
One day as a teenager, Iis was taken to the capital of Kazin, Assiraz. Instantly she knew she was bound for this life, the life of the big city where everyone painted their faces, draped themselves in expensive fabrics and preened like peacocks. Rather than be impressed by the city, her guardians at the time were disdainful of them, rolling their eyes and saying how none of these people had ever known an honest day's work.
So Iis ran away. She found it tough at first, stealing not just food but expensive fabrics and jewellery and makeup. She learned how to priss herself up and look like she fitted in, but she knew stealing wasn't going to cut it. She wanted to live in the almost palatial villas around the rich places in Assiraz, and she couldn't steal one of those. Iis, however, knew nothing about what she needed for an honest, high-paying job. So she looked around at the dishonest ones. She tried prostitution for a few weeks at one of Assiraz's brothels. From the first day, one of the brothel's regulars took her as his favourite. He was one of Shizaaqa's army officers, and hence very powerful. Iis tried working on getting him to take her home so she could live in his villa, but he~ wasn't that sort of client. He liked to hit people, especially prostitutes. After a couple of weeks of this, of curling up in her room terrified of the sounds of his footsteps, Iis stabbed him in the neck. It was easy for her, just removing the most evil person in her life, just like that.
So Iis turned assassin. It was a while before she was caught and brought in front of Shizaaqa. Shizaaqa offered her the standard death-or-money deal, and with sparkling eyes, Iis took the money and along with it, the codename of Bluebell. She was unfortunately shipped off to Haysyd, one of Kazin's outlying, backwater provinces, but she nevertheless made the best of it. She took up residence in the most expensive property bar the Haysyd palace and lived it up as best she could. Every year, she asked Shizaaqa for a transfer to somewhere more salubrious, but no matter how well she applied herself, how perfectly she carried out her kills--nobody in Haysyd ever suspected they even had an assassin, let alone that it was the eccentric rich girl--the promotion never came. Then along came the events of Tarnish, and Bluebell jumped at the chance to head back to Assiraz and prove herself.
CHARACTER Bluebell is better than you. She disdains everyone around her, especially in country bumpkin Haysyd, and her greatest dream in life is to be surrounded by her people, the rich people who dress in silks and peacock feathers. She's incredibly vain, and never even leaves her bedroom without first making herself up. Money is everything to this girl. If you haven't got it, you're nothing to her.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Bluebell's favourite colour is purple, purely because it's the most expensive colour to have dyed. She made up her Colours based on this, clearly.
Bluebell makes every kill different, and tries to make them look as natural or accidental as possible. So far it's worked; nobody in Haysyd has the faintest idea that there's an assassin in their city.
Continuing to challenge myself, with the hardest head pose to draw evar. I've possibly been staring at it too long, but I think it came out well :D
NAME Iis, alias 'Bluebell'
WHO IS THIS PERSON One of the current Bouquet, the Kazinian empress' personal assassination squad. Bluebell is the Haysyd connection.
GENDER Female
AGE 28
BRIEF BIO Iis was born with nothing. Her mother was a traveller of sorts (or so Iis suspects) who left Iis at the door of a healing house when she was about three years old, then disappeared back off travelling. Iis remembers nothing of her, and the healers knew nothing about her, since the village was small enough that everyone knew everyone. Iis was pretty much raised by the village. She had no family Colours of her own, and in being everyone's child, she was nobody's. Whatever life she was meant for, she knew it wasn't this one.
One day as a teenager, Iis was taken to the capital of Kazin, Assiraz. Instantly she knew she was bound for this life, the life of the big city where everyone painted their faces, draped themselves in expensive fabrics and preened like peacocks. Rather than be impressed by the city, her guardians at the time were disdainful of them, rolling their eyes and saying how none of these people had ever known an honest day's work.
So Iis ran away. She found it tough at first, stealing not just food but expensive fabrics and jewellery and makeup. She learned how to priss herself up and look like she fitted in, but she knew stealing wasn't going to cut it. She wanted to live in the almost palatial villas around the rich places in Assiraz, and she couldn't steal one of those. Iis, however, knew nothing about what she needed for an honest, high-paying job. So she looked around at the dishonest ones. She tried prostitution for a few weeks at one of Assiraz's brothels. From the first day, one of the brothel's regulars took her as his favourite. He was one of Shizaaqa's army officers, and hence very powerful. Iis tried working on getting him to take her home so she could live in his villa, but he~ wasn't that sort of client. He liked to hit people, especially prostitutes. After a couple of weeks of this, of curling up in her room terrified of the sounds of his footsteps, Iis stabbed him in the neck. It was easy for her, just removing the most evil person in her life, just like that.
So Iis turned assassin. It was a while before she was caught and brought in front of Shizaaqa. Shizaaqa offered her the standard death-or-money deal, and with sparkling eyes, Iis took the money and along with it, the codename of Bluebell. She was unfortunately shipped off to Haysyd, one of Kazin's outlying, backwater provinces, but she nevertheless made the best of it. She took up residence in the most expensive property bar the Haysyd palace and lived it up as best she could. Every year, she asked Shizaaqa for a transfer to somewhere more salubrious, but no matter how well she applied herself, how perfectly she carried out her kills--nobody in Haysyd ever suspected they even had an assassin, let alone that it was the eccentric rich girl--the promotion never came. Then along came the events of Tarnish, and Bluebell jumped at the chance to head back to Assiraz and prove herself.
CHARACTER Bluebell is better than you. She disdains everyone around her, especially in country bumpkin Haysyd, and her greatest dream in life is to be surrounded by her people, the rich people who dress in silks and peacock feathers. She's incredibly vain, and never even leaves her bedroom without first making herself up. Money is everything to this girl. If you haven't got it, you're nothing to her.
POINTS OF INTEREST