Halle

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"Enigma is one's greatest weapon."
AGE 		48DY // 38.5HY
TRIBES 		SeaWing
GENDER 		Non-Binary
PRONOUNS 		Ae/Aer
ORIENTATION		Lesbian
CAREER 		Queen
SIGN 		Aquarius
==Exordium==
Blythe's entry for Historical Ruler Character Contest
Halle is a historical SeaWing sovereign who ruled 2212 years prior to the events of The Dragonet Prophecy (5012 AS). Ae is recorded as an important historical figure for the defense measures ae took against the SkyWings' and MudWings’ attacks and for devising the Aquatic language. Ae was also known for showing history that a Queendom could survive independently. Ae was known as the 'Eternal Sea Sovereign' after death.
==Delineate==
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Halle’s body is described to be slender, elegant and streamlined, allowing aer to swim better than aer peers. Halle was known to have a soft smile on aer face all the time as well as a deep, understanding look in aer 'motherly' large, deep, and round eyes which were a light sky blue. Aer horns fade from thistle to white towards the edges. Halle was defined as having a well-built body, derived from the intense physical training ae was given growing up.
Halle has a body color the shade of thistle accented by uranian blue undertones and gills a shade of pink known as fairy tale. Aer bio-luminescent scales look and glow a beautiful carnation pink. Ae is also noted to have carnation scales underneath aer eye, fading from a thistle. Aer frill is a uranian blue that fades to fairy tale.
Halle wore a circlet of pearls and gold earrings. In aer middle ages (two years after Amphitrite's birth), Halle wore a shell necklace. Ae is tall and has a larger body compared to other members of the Royal SeaWing family. Ae was not a big fan of garish and gaudy ornaments and would not rather wear them. Ae opted to wear a cricket of pearls instead of the royal SeaWing crown as ae felt like ae was not good enough for it.
Growing up, Halle was primarily focused on building aer body, wanting to ‘become masculine’ and escape the taunts of aer sister, Oceanic. As ae grew up, ae let her body become more feminine, while still keeping aer toned body, however, not to the extent as it was when ae was young. As said above, ae was also never a fan of the ornaments ae was forced to wear. Aer body was rather bare, only distinguished as a member of the SeaWing royal family through aer iridescent and odd coloring.
==Ethos==
Halle was rather kind and compassionate and believed in giving people a chance first. Ae was rather emphatic and believed in building relationships with people and devoted a lot of time to this.
However, ae still got her things done and was organized. Ae always planned her things ahead and mentally carried an agenda around. Ae knew what was to be done and what was done at all the deadlines for them.
Growing up, Halle tended to follow things that were considered masculine, identifying with them before reverting to aer original self with aer own hobbies when private.
Ae would go around picking fights and may once be seen as rather a bully, inflicting aer own pain upon others in order to hide in aer own way. Of course, ae regretted this side of aerself once ae grew up and were more mature.
Halle developed a more ‘think before you act’ personality after ascending to the throne, realizing that aer reckless actions and grief for aer mother were what caused aer to challenge aer sibling and therefore put aerself into a situation ae was never prepared for.
Once rising upon the throne, ae started to think rather strategically, especially after the beginning of the SkyWing attacks. Ae would begin to think more outside the box, following rules diverted from what was standard according to SeaWing customs.
After Akoya’s death, ae was noted to be rather distant especially - especially towards Amphitrite, whom Halle had spent a lot of time with. Ae suffered from depression from this moment onwards.
==Memoir==
The SeaWing queen's advisors were worried for a long time, for Queen Mirage had no mate and she was becoming older as each day passed by. They had spent the past ten years urging the queen to pick her king but never did so. When they had given up all hope, they discovered that the Queen had her own clutch which she kept safe within her quarters. And soon, in the fall of 2800 AS, her dragonets had hatched. All of her three dragonets, except for one, were female.
Seashell was the middle dragonet out of the three dragonets - the oldest being his sister, Oceanic, and the youngest being his other sister, Manta. Manta was the timid one, always quiet and contemplating. Being the oldest sister, Oceanic acted regal and haughty, as she thought her age caused her to deserve the SeaWing throne after their mother, Mirage. This arrogance also caused her to be rather condescending towards Seashell, showing him scorn for his high-pitched and soft voice. Manta being the youngest, was forced to watch her older sister act in this way towards her brother and was helpless. In his growing years, Seashell's only companion was Akoya, the dragonet of a SeaWing guard.
When he was 5 years old, Seashell decided to accept his feminine side. Consulting Akoya, the two came to a name each: Akoya's choice of 'Alessia' and Seashell's choice of 'Hali'. The two ended up fighting over it and Seashell ended up chasing her off after speaking quite harshly towards her. Feeling sorry about his behavior, Seashell apologized to Akoya and decided to choose the name Halle because it had a similar meaning to Alessia yet sounded like the name Hali. Wanting to accept aer feminine side but still keep aer male self, Halle decided to identify aerself as a non-binary individual with the pronouns 'ae/aer'.
Halle kept to aerself until ae was seven years old, known to the public as Seashell the SeaWing prince but as Halle to aerself and Akoya. Finally, at an outburst of rage against one of Oceanic's ridiculing sessions, Halle announced that ae was no longer a male and identified aerself as a non-binary individual. Ae also clarified that ae now went by Halle. While Manta was happy for aer and Mirage was unfazed and supportive, Oceanic was the most affected by this, throwing large fits of tantrums over the fact that she thought this wasn’t fair. Halle didn’t mind though, much to Oceanic’s disappointment.
When the princesses and Halle were 19, Halle spent aer nights contemplating aer relationship with Akoya. Ae knew there were some sort of hidden feelings within aer, but ae was scared about accepting aer myriad of feelings. What if Akoya didn’t accept aer?
Halle’s feelings kept aer distant from Akoya for several moons. Only when Akoya questioned this sudden change of behavior did Halle decide to accept aer feelings for Akoya.
Halle sent Akoya a letter, asking her to meet aer up on the shore.
They met up, under the bright moon. Halle asked her out, confessing aer true feelings to Akoya with the hope that she would return them. Much to aer surprise, Akoya accepted, admitting that she had had feelings for aer for a long time as well.
Queen Mirage was disapproving of this. Whoever heard of a royal mating a guard’s daughter? What would the public think?
Halle faced a lot of whiplash from aer decision. And of course, Oceanic took advantage of it. Halle spent moons facing verbal abuse against aer decision.
Halle, Oceanic, and Manta continued with their lives. However, no one knew of Oceanic’s conspiracy.
When the dragons were twenty-one, Oceanic challenged her mother to the throne. Manta begged their mother to resist and not take up the offer, knowing that their mother was old and not as strong as she was before. Mirage would not listen, however. Thus, on the fateful day, the two gathered to fight each other on the shore. Mirage put up a long fight, knowing if her daughter won, the queendom would have fallen. It didn’t last for long, for Mirage collapsed, weak and defeated. She begged Oceanic for her last few moments to be with her two daughters watching the peaceful shore. Oceanic refused, cruelly bringing her claws down on her mother’s throat.
Halle heard about the story from Manta when ae returned from the MudWing queendom after taking a diplomatic trip on behalf of Mirage’s ambition to connect their tribes. Halle was already enraged. Within the one moon of her reign, Oceanic had had the entire government put to death and established a cruel and tyrannical dictatorship based upon an unfair societal hierarchies. The killing of Mirage was the last straw for aer.
With the aid of Manta, Halle decided to challenge aer sister for the SeaWing throne.
This sudden challenge threw Oceanic off her guard. Being the oldest - and after defeating their mother - Oceanic expected that no one would dare to challenge her. She also knew that Halle was several times more stronger and experienced in combat than her, being given the military training that the princes were mandatorily given. Oceanic tried to bribe Halle into withdrawing the challenge but to no avail.
And therefore, on the same shore, they gathered. The shore where Queen Mirage had died at the hands of her daughter.
Halle and Oceanic put up a vicious fight, but of course, Halle emerged victorious. Aer sister begged aer to not kill her. Halle wasn't as cruel as aer sister, and therefore, allowed her to forfeit the challenge under the condition that she would be exiled for an indefinite period of time. Oceanic agreed.
And so, the SeaWing crown was handed over to Halle as Oceanic fled to another queendom in Pyrrhia.
Halle restored the SeaWing government, bringing back the system of advisors. Ae assigned the role of chief advisor to aer sister - Manta - considering her the most loyal.
Halle would soon realize that this wasn’t true.
Halle faced many problems with aer ascension to the SeaWing throne. Many people opposed this. Most of the SeaWings who had a high position in society were being benefited by Oceanic’s rule, Halle thus ending these benefits. Ae had to face several protests against aer, protests that demanded that Oceanic become the Queen once again.
With the SeaWing throne now in aer hands, Halle wanted to establish a peaceful kingdom that would grow economically. Halle and Manta organized a campaign to gain the trust of the SeaWings, trying to prove that ae were suitable to lead them. Ae strengthened the military and improved the education and healthcare system within the queendom. Ae improved the life situations of poor people and assigned jobs to the unemployed.
It soon dawned upon aer that there were still an excess of unemployed SeaWings. Ae sent an ambassador to the SkyWing Queen at the time - Queen Avian. The ambassador and the Queen arranged a meeting on behalf of Halle and the two eventually met up. Halle proposed a project that would include the setting up of SeaWing fishing villages by the shore. The idea was that this would improve the employment situation for SeaWings while benefiting the SkyWings. They would receive 20% of the income the fishing village brought them from trading. Queen Avian thought this was a good idea and therefore agreed to the plan, thus forming an alliance.
The fishing village increased the employment situation and the economy of the SeaWings generously and the queendom looked up to Halle, accepting aer as their sovereign.
It was at this time that the SeaWing government decided to have Halle wedded to a SeaWing named Tide. Halle protested as much as could but to no avail. Heartbroken, ae explained aer situation to Akoya. Upon Akoya’s suggestion, Halle approached Tide, begging her to draw back from this marriage. However, Tide didn’t care, all she wanted was the status she would receive. Realizing ae had no choice, Halle was forced to marry Tide. However, this wouldn't mean that Halle and Akoya would stop loving each other.
After the marriage, Tide seemed to rise to power, forcing her own opinions without giving Halle a chance to get aer own say. Halle decided to try and brush it off, but it got quite out of hand. At this point, Halle knew ae should step in. This was aer queendom and aer was in charge here. Ae had seen this coming, that was why ae had had Tide sign a contract saying that all decisions were to be made by Halle while Tide did receive a chance to issue her opinion. Knowing that she had fallen into aer trap, Tide retreated and she ordered Halle around less.
However, Tide still couldn't be tied down. She was rather fickle and Halle caught wind of her many relationships with guards. Halle couldn't care less however, it wasn't like this affected aer. Tide could do whatever she wanted as long as she didn't get it aer way. Plus, ae had Akoya and Akoya had aer.
A few years had passed by and all seemed well, Akoya and Halle had a clutch of eggs, giving birth to two dragonets: Amphitrite and Rockpool - of which - Amphitrite would become the next SeaWing queen.
All was well until - out of the blue - the MudWings started having small skirmishes by the SeaWing fishing villages. Halle assigned guards to the place, trying to overlook this.
However, this further led to more violence, this time more aggravated.
The more security measures the tribe took against the MudWings, the more violent they became.
Halle first decided to resort to a diplomatic solution. Ae visited the MudWing Queen at the time - Queen Sienna - for an answer as to why she wasn't controlling her subjects. Sienna was quick to reply, snapping back at Halle with the words 'We are going to war with you for trespassing.' Halle reasoned that aer fishing villages were situated on the shore - territory that wasn’t owned by anyone - and by the Sky Queendom’s borders. However, after a failed reasoning, ae left dejectedly, preparing for war.
Halle asked the SkyWing Queen, Avian, for assistance as they were allied. Much to their disappointment in this urgent situation. Their request for assistance was turned down and the alliance withdrew, leaving Halle and aer tribe to fend for themselves.
After countless nights of thought, Halle came to realize that the measures ae took were all basic SeaWing tactics, knowledge unknown to MudWings or any other tribe. They weren’t supposed to be easily overcome. Halle had to think outside the box, it was aer only solution.
Ae put together a few new military tactics, simple but effective. These tactics would be delivered with the assisted use of the sign language SeaWings used to communicate underwater.
The MudWings quickly lost to the SeaWing tactics and retreated permanently, thus ending the MudWing-SeaWing battle.
However, this was only one of the two wars Halle would see in aer lifetime.
Seeing the SeaWings fishing villages prosper once again, Queen Avian and an ambassador met up with Halle on the shore. The SkyWing Queen asked for the SeaWings alliance, claiming that they would be able to ‘repair’ their once fruitful relationship. Halle turned down the offer. When asked by Manta as to why ae did so, ae replied: ‘If someone is not with you at your worst, they don’t deserve to be with you at your best.’ However, this refusal angered Queen Avian. This led to the declaration of the SkyWing-SeaWing war. 
The SkyWing-SeaWing war had three phases.
The first phase consisted of uncoordinated and randomized attacks that originated from Quee Avian’s quick hot-headed thinking. This period was very short and the SeaWing kingdom easily crushed their forces. This caused the SkyWings to retreat.
When the SkyWings returned to battle they had the assistance of the MudWings. Queen Sienna and Queen Avian had met up during this short ’time-out’ and joined forces. Queen Sienna chanced upon this opportunity as one she could satisfy her wounded ego. And all Queen Avian cared about was the fact that she had now outnumbered the SeaWing army.
The second phase had now started. 
Knowing that aer old tactics had worked out well, Halle decided to use them, with the hope that they would be victorious this time as well.
It wasn’t long before the MudWings and the SeaWings were able to decipher these signals easily. A bit too easily that it was uneasy. Halle concluded that there must have been someone who was helping them, someone who knew these secrets. Assuming it was aer exiled sister, Oceanic, aer hatred for aer older sibling grew.
Halle called the SeaWings to retreat and the fishing villages were left abandoned.
This provoked Halle to come up with what modern Pyrrhia knows as ‘Aquatic’. Ae decided to use bioluminescent scales as a new way of communicating and therefore combined it with the then-present sign language. Ae spent a year coming up with patterns of flashing and simple gestures to put together the new language.
Ae knew that it would take quite some time for aer citizens to learn the new language, ae had already spent a year, ae needed more time. However, ae told aerself it would be worth it, that in the end, they would win over the MudWings and the SkyWings.
Over the span of two years, everyone had fully comprehended and grown accustomed to Aquatic.
Halle hadn’t spent this doing anything either. Ae had the military forces learn at a faster pace than the others. They had all learned Aquatic within a year and a half utmost. Halle then spent the rest of the year training these forces new strategic advances in offense and defense corresponding to the new language ae had developed.
By the beginning of the third year, it was time.
Halle had aer fishing villages on the shore reinhabited once again. Seeing this, the villages received a MudWing and a SkyWing ambassador, demanding that they leave the fishing villages or else they would be throwing themselves into war. Halle didn’t care, as knew ae was standing up for what was right for aer citizens. The fishing villages started receiving foreseeable attacks from the two queendoms. Ae wasn’t unprepared this time. Halle’s forces and new tactics had the MudWings and the SkyWings left dumbfounded. A large and fierce war that lasted half a year raged, ending up with the MudWing and SkyWing forces wounded and their inventory exhausted. The MudWings and the SkyWings eventually gave up, retreating to their queendoms.
The SkyWing-SeaWing war was finally over.
Halle’s next five years were peaceful. Ae had improved the SeaWing’s economy and military structure greatly and they were a respected and well-famed tribe. Halle’s fishing villages attracted merchants from all over Pyrrhia and the fishing village grew into a marketplace where not only fish was sold, but pearls, SeaWing delicacies, and other kinds of goods were traded for. Merchants from other tribes also set up their little shops here, provided that they paid a small tax to the SeaWings.
It also so happened that Oceanic returned to the Sea Queendom.
Halle was bothered by this and wanted aer sister to leave, but ae decided to listen to her first.
Oceanic burst out, spilling a well of feelings. She explained that she was the one who assisted the MudWings and the SkyWings. However, she cried that it was because she had no choice, she had been seduced by a MudWing Prince and had fallen into his trap. He had threatened to kill her if she did not remain obedient to him. Realizing this, she tried to escape several times, but could not.
Halle felt a twinge of sadness, but ae had to stay strong, for ae didn't know if Oceanic was lying or not. Ae questioned her further, asking her what she was doing here now. Oceanic replied that she had run away. Halle knew this wasn’t the entire story, so ae questioned her further. That’s when Oceanic finally spat out the truth. Oceanic and the MudWing Prince had had a dragonet together - a timid and blind daughter. She had run away as the Prince had repeatedly tried to kill Delta off as she was blind.
Halle knew she had a conflict with aer sister, but aer couldn’t turn down aer niece at the time she needed help the most. So ae let Oceanic stay.
Delta and Amphitrite became good friends and Halle enjoyed the time ae spent with aer niece.
Then came the ‘Goblet Plot’.
Akoya had died after drinking a goblet that contained poison. What Halle didn’t know and what Halle would never know was that Akoya was an animus. She had enchanted Halle’s goblet (which originally contained the poison) to have its contents switched with the contents of her goblet.
This plunged Halle into a spiral of depression and grief, becoming distant. In aer impulsive grief and rash anger, ae sentenced Oceanic to death for ‘tyranny’.
Oceanic was innocent.
But Halle wouldn’t know that till aer death.
Halle spent the rest of aer days under the ‘care’ of Manta. Confiding in aer ‘loyal’ sister.
Ae grew weaker by the day.
Slowly, ae became confined to aer bed. Aer advisors lost all hope of aer ever getting back on aer talons.
Maybe ae would have.
If ae hadn’t been killed by Manta.
Aer most caring sister tried to poison aer again.
And this time she succeeded.
Halle took aer last breaths in aer bed, with Manta by aer side.
Slowly unraveling her plot.
The plot that Halle couldn’t stop.
==Surfeit==
===Ancestry===
*Mirage - Mother
*Unknown Father
*Tide - Consort
*Amphitrite - Daughter
*Rockpool - Son
*Albatross - Great-Grandson
*Sapphire - Great-Granddaughter
*Lagoon - Great-Grandson
===Might===
*Standard SeaWing powers.
===Artillery===
*Claws, teeth, and stealth.
==Acquaintances==
===Mirage===
Halle’s mother. Ae and aer mother had a distant but good relationship. When ae was a little dragonet she spent a lot of time with her dragonets. Aer mother was the most accepting and defended aer in front of aer court after we had taken up aer current name and gender. Ae was rather devastated when Mirage died.
===Oceanic===
Halle’s older sister. Halle and aer sister had a rocky relationship till Oceanic’s death was ordered. Ae deeply regretted aer decision on aer deathbed, hoping that they could have a better relationship in their next life - that is if there was something like that.
===Manta===
Halle’s younger sister. Known as the 'Four Moons Queen' after Amphitrite challenged her to the throne and defeated her, that is, after Manta usurped the throne following Halle's death. Halle always had a good opinion about her and she was aer most trusted advisor. That was until Halle knew of her true nature.
===Tide===
Halle’s legal mate. Their views always contradicted each other and Tide had only agreed to the marriage so she could gain power over the SeaWing throne. Halle ended up putting a talon down to this. Rather fickle and these two had rather separate lives outside of public.
===Akoya===
The love of aer life. Halle’s childhood best friend and later aer unannounced mate. Akoya held all of Halle’s secrets and Halle held all of Akoya’s. She died after consuming the goblet filled with poison which was originally intended for Halle. Akoya’s death traumatized Halle greatly and caused ae to descend into a constant situation of grief for her.
===Amphitrite===
Halle’s daughter and successor to the throne. Halle and aer daughter had a deep connection. Halle always kept Amphitrite under her aer wing and taught her aerself. Halle always tried aer best to be a good parental figure to Amphitrite, hoping that ae could be just like aer mother.
===Delta===
Halle’s niece and Oceanic’s hybrid MudWing-SeaWing daughter. Halle had a sort of motherly affection towards her, just like ae did with Amphitrite. Their relationship fell apart after Halle ordered the death of Oceanic.
==Minutiae==
*Halle was invented on the basis that there must be an origin to the Aquatic language.
*Before Halle came up with Aquatic, the SeaWings used sign language underwater.
*Halle’s shell necklace was presented to her by her daughter, Amphitrite.
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