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Seeming Fairest Bright One Court Spring Court • Freehold Shattered Glass Player Julia Starr Alias(es): Cecelia Michaela Faraday, Clearly Faraday Real Name: c Faraday Location: Houston, TX Age: 33 Seeming: Fairest Kith: Bright One Court: Spring Concept: Lady in White, looking for reality again Physical description: Mask - c's most notable feature is her long pale blond hair. She nearly always wears torn and ragtag cast offs, ragged remnants pinned together strangely. A particular favorite of hers is a ratty old Army jacket. She is pretty, but with a slightly distant feeling always clinging to her and her looks are nearly ruined by her strange and messy attire. Mien - Her fae mien in a subtle thing. Lights begin to twinkle from the folds of her clothing, the fabric catches and reflects the light in strange ways. While still pretty, something about her seems alien and almost off-putting. Her blond hair becomes pure white and her skin looses nearly all color. Her strangely disconnected air makes her seem somehow removed from the flow of reality, although her gaze often has an uncomfortable note of obsession when she shows an interest in someone or something. Relevant Mechanics: Striking Looks 2, Fame 1 (Houston Modern Artist), Spring Mantle 1 (Faint scent of a fresh breeze just after a spring rain with a hint of ozone after a lightning strike)

Contents 1 History 2 Known History 3 Associations & Associates 4 Character Inspirations 5 Rumors 6 Quotes

History

c was born a very normal girl in 1950, raised sheltered in a good home, with a good family. When she was 17 she fell in love. It was painfully naive, little more than an infatuation with a boy at school. But when a letter told her to meet him at midnight by the oak tree, it was not a human man who waited there for her. Her girl's naive love proved far too enticing an object of ruin for one of the Gentry.

He took her and played his games with her for many, many years. He used her and shattered her illusions about love time and time again, throwing her into overwhelming dramas of passion only to tear her apart. But as the Gentry will, he began to bore with her and the games changed.

What she remembers most clearly is how he would steal away her mind and her body, leaving her a wandering ghost, searching for something she could never quite remember. In the end, when he would put back her mind again for a few brief hours, she could feel the parts worn smooth --- the parts where something was missing.

The realm he called home was always night, lit by flashes of lightning, and his home filled with grotesque candelabra that twisted to every corner of the rooms. She can still recall near the end, staring into those candle flames wishing for as much substance as they had, thinking in the strangely sideways way that was the only way left to her, that perhaps finally those dancing points of fire had become more real than she was.

Back to the real world...

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What drew c back was a longing for reality. She still can't quite clearly remember what brought her into the Hedge one day. She remembers following a beam of sunlight, a thing she hadn't seen in many years. The pain of the Thorns was cruel, but she felt only joy, for the pain was real and she had a body with which to feel it.

The other side of the Hedge was hard and she had trouble with mental illness after returning to reality. She was not able to fit back into society and spent five years after her return homeless. It was only through the help of other Lost that she was able to pull her life together and eventually become a trained electrician.

And now, everything is fine.

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...this scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin...

As a little leftover from Faerie, c has an obsession with light, especially artificial light, but it almost doesn't matter. She is fascinated by it: from sunlight, to headlights on cars, to fireflies. Related is her love of physics. Even though she never even finished high school, she loves to read about the subject and spends much time and effort pouring through physics books many times over in an attempt to understand them. A devoted fan of SF, especially from the 1950s and 1960s, she can often be seen with a ratty paperback by Asimov or an ancient issue of Astounding.

She has a passion for experiences and hungers for new ones. Anything to feel more real. Yet true to her Seeming, she can never really feel empathy for those around her. Perhaps something was smoothed away those many times her mind was taken in and out, but when she's done with a project (be it a new book or a new lover) she's finished and tosses it aside with barely a thought. It's not done in cruelty, but rather simple thoughtlessness. But sometimes it occurs to her that maybe there should be more...

Known History

Basic Timeline:

• Born 1950.
• Kidnapped 1967 at age 17.
• Returned to reality in 2000, having aged approximately 8 years.
  
• Homeless, wandered the country, 2000-2005
• Pulled things together and began a life in Houston, 2005-2007

Current Activities: She works as an electrician in Houston. In her spare time she creates circuits as art, stringing together wires and switches. She has a minor reputation for her work.

Associations & Associates

• c has been known to party with the members of the The Morning.
• Nathan Glass used to be interesting.
• Jax has been a good friend since 2003. He's always up for sharing a drink when they run into each other.
• Pyotr Koud Hart is just a friend
• Cosmo did an excellent job of eliminating her Fetch
• Nathaniel Fellows is not someone she gets along with and the feeling is mutual
• Shane Darkpool is the best goddamn good time in the South!
• Vermin taught her how to survive
• Whisper has decided c Faraday is worth keeping safe.
• Race Ardent gave her a lift once and maybe some perspective
• Erised and his teahouse are things she remembers fondly
• Don Juan turned on the charm when she met him in Dallas

Character Inspirations

• "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police
  
• Ann Reynolds from A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
  
• The art of Edward Gorey
  
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Rumors

• She's Queen of the Spring Court in Houston.

Quotes

Quotes by c or about c.

• "Sparks is a good kid, she lost a lot of herself as we all did... we can't really blame her for being a bit out of touch with the ins and outs of what it means to be human. All that matters is that she's trying to bring a little light to the world as best she can. A lesson for us all I think." -- Horace "Race" Ardent

• "It is said that no good deed goes unpunished. They were right." -- Nathaniel Fellows

• "All that glitters is not gold." -- Nathan Glass

• "Faraday's got spunk, and a bloody deep gut sometimes." -- Jax

• "I met C in Cleveland, of all fucking places, and I have no fucking clue why I started talking to some strange chick that looked like she'd rolled around in white Christmas lights and buried her nose in some book about robots and space travel. Still, the next thing I know, we're high-fiving over both belonging to the Spring Court and agreeing that we should be living in a world with robot slaves, moon trips, and some goddamn flying cars. It just goes to show you that there's a little bit of fuckin' awesome hiding in everyone...provided you're a Spring Courtier or an Ogre, of course." - Dzxoxian Brokehorn