The Girl

The Girl (sometimes shortened to just "Girl") was one of the ghosts that was spawned from the soul fragments that were unknowingly sealed away along with her gender curse by Alistair Huntington. Her true name and full back story remain unknown. It is only explained that she was a young girl in the colonial era who was also a sorcerer. She died of hypothermia one bad winter and after her death Alistair found her grave and removed the Gender Curse she had inherited from her corpse. However, since she had unresolved issues in life, likely stemming from having to have lived in the wrong body, a few lingering fragments of her soul remained in limbo and were taken along with the gender curse and sealed in the Fox's vault. When the Vault was breached and released the red water that would become the T1-G1 Virus and flowed to Cinder Isle, the Girl's spirit was released. Due to her fragmented soul, she was not entirely aware of her surroundings or current state and instead wandered the woodlands of the island still thinking she was just a girl playing in the forest. She was the first ghost encountered by Shane Gardinier and tried to play with him using her ability to conjure a large spectral horse she called Mrs. Sparkles. She was later believed to have been "killed" by the creature known as The Abomination but in reality, she had been dragged down to the moon pool cave at the bottom of the Red Lake. She remained their frightened for months until Zoey, Natalie, and Sandra came to explore the source of the virus and found her in the cave. They helped her return to the surface and put her in the care of the other ghosts known as The Nurse and The Harlequin. She remained in their care until Alistair had regained enough strength to open a portal to the afterlife. With her spirit now at peace the Girl entered the portal and was at last able to rest and be reunited with her family in the nether world. 
== Design/Appearance ==
The Girl is depicted as a young child around the age of 10-12 dressed in a pilgrim dress and white bonnet. She has pale white skin and black markings around her eyes which is later explained to be the result of her death from extreme cold. As a ghost she is semitransparent and is only able to appear in dark areas or at night. She has long dark hair and is very skinny with dark eyes. 
== History ==
The exact origin story of the Girl is not specified due to her fragmented soul leaving her with only minor memories of her life. What is known and implied is that she had been born in early colonial times and lived as a pilgrim or early settler who was also an Obsidian Blood Sorcerer. However, due to her inheriting the Gender Curse she had been born as a boy. During one very bad winter she died of the cold which resulted in the pale white appearance she bares. At some point after her death her grave was visited by Alistair Huntington who saw fit to remove her Gender Curse even after death as he had prioritized curing sorcerers who had inherited it. Unknown to Alistair however, fragments of the Girls soul had not fully moved on to the afterlife due to her having some unfinished business or lack of closure in life. This conflict was likely related to her curse, and she felt never getting to live as the girl she truly way held her back and kept portions of her soul on the mortal plain. Alistair sealed her curse away in his vault with the many other he already collected but unknowingly had also sealed the lingering portions of the Girls soul there as well. 
Centuries later an earthquake breached the curse vault and opened up a long fault line tunnel that led to the nearby island of Cinder Isle. When the decaying curse fluid leaked into a lake on the island it also released the Girl's soul fragments enough for her to manifest as a ghost. Once on the island the Girl was not entirely aware of where, when, or what she was and acted as if she was simply playing in the woods. One night she encountered Shane Gardinier who was riding his bike through the woods on his way home and tried to get him to play with her. Shane was frightened however and refused. The Girl used her conjuration ability to create a large spectral horse she called Mrs. Sparkles and get her to chase Shane through the woods but did not follow him beyond the tree line. 
Months later the Girl had been playing too close to the Red Lake and was captured and reportedly eaten by the creature known as the Abomination who lived there. The other ghosts who witnessed this assumed she had been "killed" however in reality she had been dragged to the bottom and was now stuck in the cave at the bottom. Eventually she was found by Zoey, Natalie, and Sandra when they came to investigate the origins of the virus. In exchange for their promise to take her back to the surface with them the Girl helped them by conjuring Mrs. Sparkles again for them to ride through the cave much faster. When the three succeeded in their mission and returned they brough the Girl back to the surface with them and while she was still not fully aware of herself and her surroundings, yet she was clear headed enough to be taken in and cared for by two other ghosts known as The Nurse and The Harlequin. 
The two "older" ghosts took her in and cared for her for a few months and she visited Gavin and Zoey along with them while they were trying to piece together the cluster of crystals they recovered from the cave. She was then sent to be tucked into bed and left Zoey and Gavin to have their own fun that night. 
Eventually the crystals turned out to be Alistair Huntington and when he had been reconstructed enough to open a door to the afterlife, the Girl joined a few other ghosts to go through it and at last be laid to rest after saying goodbye to her new friends. She then passed on to the next world at peace and hopefully reunited with her family there. 
== Traits/Personality ==
The Girl died at a very young age and thus she is very immature and timid. While at first, she is somewhat mischievous and simply wants to play and have fun with anyone she encounters, after she is consumed and brought down below the lake by the Abomination, she is very frightened. After being rescued she is much more cautious and respects the rules laid out by Harlequin and Nurse who take her in. By the time she is at last laid to rest she is much more self-aware and is happy that she got to meet all the other ghosts and the people on Cinder Isle bidding them farewell as she enters the afterlife eager to see her family again. 
== Relationships ==
====== The Quad ======
The Girl was the first ghost encountered by a member of the quad when she met Shane in the woods a few weeks after the initial outbreak of the virus. She frightened him off with her conjuring power and he ran away much to her annoyance. She is encountered again at the bottom of the Red Lake when the three girls find her crying after having been trapped there for so long. Sandra comforts her, and they all agree to rescue her after they finish exploring the cave. When she returns to the surface, she is grateful to the group for helping her and after being taken in by some of the other ghosts becomes friends with the rest of them as well occasionally visiting them in the weeks leading up to her finally being laid to rest. 
====== The Nurse & The Harlequin ======
The other ghosts known as the Nurse and The Harlequin effectively adopt the Girl while they are all still stuck on the island after she is rescued from the Red Lake. While the two are not a real couple at this time they are the two most clear headed and responsible of the ghosts and agree to watch and care for the Girl until they can find a way to let them all rest and move onto the afterlife. When the solution is found Harlequin joins the Girl in going through the portal, but the Nurse stays behind to help finish repairing Alistair and tie up loose ends as she bids both of them farewell. 
== Abilities/Powers ==
The Girl seemed to be indicative of the Obsidian bloodline of sorcery and thus as a ghost she only had the ability to conjure a large spectral black horse whom she named Mrs. Sparkles. She mainly did this only to have someone to play with and treated her like a kind of solid imaginary friend since she was not technically real. She later used this ability to let Zoey, Natalie, and Sandra ride Sparkles through the long fault line cave to reach Alistair's curse vault within hours instead of days. 
== Gallery ==
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== Trivia ==
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== See also ==
Category:Females
Category:Cinder Isle characters