Character 100-ish 036: Haela
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yrae
One of my oldest yrae characters, despite having virtually nothing written about her.
Token emo character, because you had to have one back in the early noughties.
NAME Haela
WHO IS THIS PERSON Finder of the second yrae feather about 500 years ago. Yeah I changed the timelines around.
GENDER Female
AGE Dead; died age 37
BRIEF BIO Haela was born in Ni-Yana where she had a pretty ordinary childhood doing, idk, whatever they did in Ni-Yana 500 years ago. It was when she was sixteen that an yrae appeared to her on the outskirts of the city. It settled on a rock in front of her, flicked its tail in offering, and she was able to pull off the feather at its tip. The yrae dissolved into sparkly white light and Haela suddenly had magic. At the time, Yan's story was strongly interpreted to mean that magic was evil. It corrupted power and people. When her wings first grew, everything in Haela's body hurt. She was scared of it, but didn't know how to destroy it.
So she ran away. She took her yrae feather and flew off to try and find somewhere to get rid of it. She stood on waterfalls and at the edge of volcanoes, but she couldn't do it. The more she used the feather to grow her wings or do anything else, the more it hurt. Finally, after ten years, she gave up and instead decided to live in the desert, where she could at least keep herself and her feather away from people. A desert group found her and, while she tried to warn them about the feather, they decided to take her in. They didn't believe the yrae feather in itself was evil, only that it was magic. Haela still vowed never to use it again, hoping that its pain would lessen over time.
While she was living with new new family in the desert, she fell in love with one of the tribe, Kulo. He was a strong desert hunter, and was one who gave Haela reason to live, a better release from the yrae feather than flying. The two of them had two children, but the yrae feather's pain only grew worse, so that she was even in pain when she wasn't using it. Ten years later, Kulo was bitten by a thrai. Haela tried to save him with her yrae feather, but all she ended up doing was prolonging his agony. When he finally died, Haela blamed herself for having had the feather for all that time but still not knowing how to use it. So once again, she ran away, this time to learn all she could about it, maybe even to kill the pain on her own. Unfortunately, that's when Yan found her and stole her feather. Alone in the desert, Haela didn't make it out alive.
CHARACTER Haela allowed her life to be ruled by the yrae feather. She saw its pain as just another side of its evil and was both scared and hopelessly attached to it. She was timid and always took a back seat, allowing those around her to make decisions. She felt burdened by the yrae feather, hating it and the isolation it gave her, but at the same time couldn't bear to lose it.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Haela's wings form by having her arms lengthen and grow feathers, turning into wings like an yrae's. As we've said, though, bloody canes when she does it.
Her yrae marking is a dark ribbon down her spine like the long tail feather of an yrae.
Haela was created for a creative writing assignment at school, which I believe had the prompt of 'loss' or something similar. That therefore probably makes her older than Nol. GASP.
Token emo character, because you had to have one back in the early noughties.
NAME Haela
WHO IS THIS PERSON Finder of the second yrae feather about 500 years ago. Yeah I changed the timelines around.
GENDER Female
AGE Dead; died age 37
BRIEF BIO Haela was born in Ni-Yana where she had a pretty ordinary childhood doing, idk, whatever they did in Ni-Yana 500 years ago. It was when she was sixteen that an yrae appeared to her on the outskirts of the city. It settled on a rock in front of her, flicked its tail in offering, and she was able to pull off the feather at its tip. The yrae dissolved into sparkly white light and Haela suddenly had magic. At the time, Yan's story was strongly interpreted to mean that magic was evil. It corrupted power and people. When her wings first grew, everything in Haela's body hurt. She was scared of it, but didn't know how to destroy it.
So she ran away. She took her yrae feather and flew off to try and find somewhere to get rid of it. She stood on waterfalls and at the edge of volcanoes, but she couldn't do it. The more she used the feather to grow her wings or do anything else, the more it hurt. Finally, after ten years, she gave up and instead decided to live in the desert, where she could at least keep herself and her feather away from people. A desert group found her and, while she tried to warn them about the feather, they decided to take her in. They didn't believe the yrae feather in itself was evil, only that it was magic. Haela still vowed never to use it again, hoping that its pain would lessen over time.
While she was living with new new family in the desert, she fell in love with one of the tribe, Kulo. He was a strong desert hunter, and was one who gave Haela reason to live, a better release from the yrae feather than flying. The two of them had two children, but the yrae feather's pain only grew worse, so that she was even in pain when she wasn't using it. Ten years later, Kulo was bitten by a thrai. Haela tried to save him with her yrae feather, but all she ended up doing was prolonging his agony. When he finally died, Haela blamed herself for having had the feather for all that time but still not knowing how to use it. So once again, she ran away, this time to learn all she could about it, maybe even to kill the pain on her own. Unfortunately, that's when Yan found her and stole her feather. Alone in the desert, Haela didn't make it out alive.
CHARACTER Haela allowed her life to be ruled by the yrae feather. She saw its pain as just another side of its evil and was both scared and hopelessly attached to it. She was timid and always took a back seat, allowing those around her to make decisions. She felt burdened by the yrae feather, hating it and the isolation it gave her, but at the same time couldn't bear to lose it.
POINTS OF INTEREST
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