Crystal

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Seeming Elemental Snowskin
Court Winter Court ••••
Freehold Dreams of Wyrd and Memory
Player Erica Martinez

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Crystal in the Hedge
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Crystal in the Hedge


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Ice Traps my Lovely Winter to the Ground (Overview)

Real Name: Alana Smythe

Age: Appears late twenties, early thirties

Concept: Lost in the Storm

Entitlements and/or Groups: Winter's Web

Physical description:

Relevant Mechanics:

Character Livejournal: http://crystalsnowskin.livejournal.com/

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Mirrored Reflections of Frozen Glass (Character Information)

December 24th, 1958

Alana's dress tore as she ran out of the Cathedral. Mascara stained her cheeks as the tears seemed to never end. She did not know where she was running, but knew she had to escape the heartache and embarressment of what she had just been through.

She had been planning this day her entire life. Most women dreamed of their wedding day. Her betrothed and she had dated for a year, and then been engaged for another year. Everything was perfect. She was living her dream. She was so happy.

Mrs. Alana Price. She loved the sound that her married name rang as she said it. She had picked the perfect wedding dress. Carl had given her her the perfect ring. And everyone she had invited had showed, from close relatives to distant acquaintances. They had even chosen their first child's baby names.

It was lightly snowing on Christmas eve, leaving a blanket of freshly renewed powder on top of the few inches which had accumulated. It was going to be a lovely winter wedding.

But everything did not go perfectly. Not at all. Carl never showed to the wedding. Alana was standing there waiting for him when she received the news. She had moved out to the altar, in the event that he had car trouble or she received news something had happened to him. But when the preacher leaned over and told her that he couldn't go through with it, it was more than she could bear.

She tore her veil from her perfect hair, and ran out into the winter storm.

In some ways, she is still running.

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Shards of Past

Basic Timeline and Background:

-"The storm picked up, but I did not notice until it was too late. Trapped in a forest that seemed to move when I would, plunging me further and further down the path into the heart of the forest. The wind was bitter cold, as though the artic itself made manifest. That is when he appeared. His voice was like crystal, chiming within my ears, "Come, come with me. You will always be beautiful and no one will ever leave you again." Dignity and beauty. He offered these things to me. And, to his credit, no untruth crossed his silver lips. When the contract was signed, smeared with the tears of my heartbreak, so did he make me forever beautiful, a sculpture of ice."

  • 1992 - Released

-Truth be known, I had no concept of time, as we know it. I did not feel as we know it. I was ambivelent to my captor, neither in love nor hate. I was frozen with the sadness in my heart eternal from my love lost, and the satisfaction just as long lasting at my new state of being. Forever, I was beautiful. Forever, I was admired and never left. He would come at a moment to admire myself and another, and then leave. In the intermittant, I remember whispers and whispers. Listening to others within his court. Such naughty whispers. Overthrowing...harming...flagrant desires and passions consumed. Oh the whispers were delectable. Then, without a notice, I felt a strong arm pick me up and sling me over his shoulder as though I was a prize to be won. It was only in the Hedge the truth was revealed to me - this ogre, Maverick, had freed me from a suspended state. I am ambivelent to my freedom as I was to my capture. For now, my sorrow is thawed as was the ice that consumed me, and emotes from my very soul to others. However, in that sorrow is power. And in that power, is beauty.

-Lost and empty. So cold. I could never get warm, again. I could not bear to go back where it all started, though I found my feet moving that direction. I don't remember why. Darkness perhaps. The trees that tear, and wind that bites. New York seemed to catch my eye with its lights. Why do I shiver? Am I cold or afraid? I don't know, I don't know.

  • 1996 - Changed from Autumn Court to Winter Court

- Deaden from within. That is the only way. To be free, I must escape. Within the Autumn Court, I found trappings in fear. Within the Winter's cold, I am free. Back into the storm, I run!

  • 1998 - Moved to Kansas City, MO
  • 2001 - Moved Stillwater, OK
  • October 20th, 2007 - Attended Gathering and Hunt on the way to Austin

-The sorrow of the hunted was immeasurable. He was a spurned love of the one who called the hunt. A shame that the one who killed the hunt caused us all to fall to a trap. Had it not been for a few good heads, the rest of ours would have been returned to fae.

  • October 27th, 2007 - Moved to Austin, TX

-What bold and brazen fools lie here! But it is not a complete loss. The Autumn King has set up a seasonal court, which means Winter is soon upon us. Even as the Autumn Court lay out his hand over the land to turn it into a coppery weave, so the winter wind does blow, and make him quake in anticipation. I do like the Autumn Court king, enough to fashion his crown with Jefferson. It seem only fitting that it lay upon his brow like a caesar of bronze. I have requested Christmas as theme for freehold, in spirit of fertility, to embrace all seasons. Christmas....that brings back a memory upon my thought, a sadness that chills me still. What was it about Christmas that makes me yearn to hide within it? I forget...I forget....but the Winter wind will blow my sorrow across the land when Autumn Harvest of fear is at its end.

Current Activities:

-Whispers and whispers.

Merit Details:

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Motley

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It Packs Into a Ball Before It Rolls Down a Mountain (Allies)

  • Maverick JW McGraw "Ambivelent to my captor, but to the one who rescued me, I am quite fond."
  • Alexander Delapore - "Do I feel fear, or tremble in anticipation? I don't know...I don't know. Too many secrets. Sorrow, I thought I missed you. In dreams, that is where we hide together."
  • Dr Somnus
  • Edward Hawk - "My Knight of intense and overwhelming remorse. Delicious and humbling. I know he will protect me if the bark does bite."
  • Althea Sexton - "Lady of Water, Cascaded down a mountain's snowbanks into Waterfall. How I love her well, so long as the water never does freeze - my Oasis of strength and comfort."
  • Jayde - "Whispers and whispers, kindred spirits whisper so that none can hear."
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Fear the Voice of Shrill Terror As It Freezes Your Heart! (Enemies)

  • Vestigere - After a night of torture and terror, Crystal avoids him like the plague. Despite having been Autumn Court previously, she considers Vestigere purely evil and with no benefit to the Changelings, except to harm them or give them back to the fae. She does not talk about him, except within her dreams to her former mentor, Alexander Delapore
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Is It Possible to Find Solace From the Storm? (Lovers)

  • Mac Malcontent - former lover. "Seasons change, and summer's luster does lose warmth. Though, I remember enflamed tongues and steamy nights to stave the winter's cold..."
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Who Put the Kettle On? (Character Inspirations)

  • Snow White in Snow White, old fairy tale/fable
  • Jadis, the White Witch from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • Tootles, Hook
  • Lady of the Lake, Merlin TV series
  • River, Firefly TV series
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Hark! I Hear A Winter Nightingale (Soundtrack)

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Echoes (Quotes from Crystal)

"W-w-why do you want to g-g-go in there?" - prior to a group going into the Hedge.

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Avalanches (Quotes from Others)

  • "Everytime she runs into the night, she kills herself again and again. The winter of her ambition is more comfortable to her than a burdensome harvest, no matter how bountiful in the end. When she mourns others, she is really mourning herself." - Alexander Delapore
  • "Don't ask me about Crystal. No, I mean it." - Mac Malcontent
  • "Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Scream and you will be released." - Vestigere the Usurper
  • "She was just standing there, purdier than a two bit... uhrm, well, she was damned purdy. I couldn't leave her there, good thing she's a wee bit of a gal!" -Maverick J.W. McGraw
  • "A curiosity who came to me during the Hunt at the Great Gather of 2007. A lovely creature who speaks in riddles and has obviously known tragedy. And somehow she ended up where I first emerged. Perhaps our meeting was no coincidence..." - Jayde
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It Twists the Bark Inside the Heart, For Better Or Worse (Rumors)

  • You have no idea what you've unleashed on this world by letting her return to Earth. She's almost as bad as that damnable bogeyman.
  • If you consume ice from her, you steal a piece of her soul.
    • Yes, but if she kills you, she gets it back, dumbass.
  • Everytime someone finds a way to melt her, she falls in love. If she permanently melts, she completes a contract with a mysterious, fifth season devoted to that emotion.
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