Twister Dameia

Art done by Silvi

Twister is Nomos's partner back in Targrave, who he calls on their Sending Stones every night. They've got a heart set on adventure and a lot of big dreams, and they express admiration of Nomos just as much as they express their love for him. Despite how limited they feel, they've started to show a lot of ambition towards pursuing those dreams, even beginning to train in swordfighting. However, their day-to-day life and some of their inner world is still shrouded in mystery, due to Nomos and Twister's incredibly fast courting and the distance between them.

## Description

### Appearance

Twister is a medium height tiefling with curly and fluffy white hair. They have antelope-like horns that spiral upwards from their forehead, maintaining the color of their skin as opposed to the more keratin-heavy appearance of some tieflings. Their skin is a shade of sky blue, and their eyes are a shade of near lavender purple. After escaping a warlock pact with Caecina, Twister is left with three long scars along the right side of their neck, resembling gills.

### Personality

Twister is bubbly and outgoing, known for their bright laughter and smiles. They are a playful, trickster type, and channel their abundance of energy into dance. They are very curious, and have a long-standing dream of becoming an adventurer--or at least, to leave Targrave. They are very naturally trusting and sometimes outright described as gullible. If all their friends jumped off a bridge, they'd absolutely follow them right over.

Their gullible nature has backfired; after unwittingly taking a deal with Caecina due to their own eagerness and misjudgements, they've become slightly less bubbly and talkative. They have a lot of stuff to work through, and in the meantime, they've become more physical contact-centric, and have reined in their love for adventure.

## Biography

### Background

Twister has not shared many specifics about their home life and background. They do not know their father, and have a strained relationship with their mother. Despite the fact that their mother still lives in Targrave, Twister avoids interacting with her at all costs. They have lived in Targrave their entire life, and this stationary life caused them to seek out adventure, the first step of which was to move out of their childhood home and into a cottage alongside Journey, Daera, and Helli. To contribute to the group, they work part-time at a spice vendor in the marketplace.

## Relationships

**Nomos Afsolis:**

Nomos is Twister's partner. Their relationship bloomed quickly after they met--perhaps a little too quickly. Both Nomos and Twister are inexperienced in long-term relationships (though Twister has attempted relationships several times before) and their partnership is still marked by its naïve and exploratory nature. Twister has a deep need to be on the same skill level as Nomos in adventuring, and seems to go out of their way to learn skills such as sword-fighting to impress Nomos and become "good enough" to adventure with him. They are very devoted to the relationship, and are very excited to call Nomos on their pair of Sending Stones every night. Despite their attachment and devotion, neither Nomos nor Twister has shared much of their home life with each other.

**Journey:**

Journey shares a room with Twister, and is very protective of them. Out of the housemates, Twister is closest with Journey, and spends much of their free time with her. Slowly, Journey has been getting them more involved in the Raven's Court, even bringing them to participate in a riot at least once. Twister frequently attends Journey's concerts, and the two are so close that Journey has previously invited Twister to join the relationship between her, Daera, and Helli, though Twister declined.

**Daera:**

Daera is the second of Twister's housemates, though he doesn't directly share a room with them. Daera is a calming presence in Twister's life, and they are relatively close, as Twister trusts him as a confidant.

**Helli:**

Helli is the third of Twister's housemates, and Daera's roommate. Twister is the least close to Helli out of the three members of the house's polycule, and not much of their relationship has been described in canon.

**Caecina, the Shallow Traitor:**

Twister began her relationship with Caecina while she used the alias "Asiri," a persona the deity would end up consistently using in her manipulation of Twister. They haven't elaborated on exactly how they entered their brief warlock pact, but mentioned that it was not entirely deliberate, or possibly made while not entirely lucid. Caecina promised Twister money to pay off their debts, and the power and skill to impress Nomos and adventure on his level--the first confirmed interactions between "Asiri" and Twister that Nomos heard about were "Asiri" teaching Twister how to swordfight. However, over time, Caecina began demanding more and more out of Twister, most often by encouraging them to indulge their unhealthier coping mechanisms, nearly forcing them to cut out the people in their life they cared most about, and later attempting to force them to attack others in the name of their pact. One of Caecina's primary strategies was to sow doubt in Twister's mind about their relationship with Nomos, especially by trying to convince them that Nomos would, at best, be incredibly upset with them, or at worst, kill them if he discovered their warlock pact. Eventually, there was a violent altercation between them on the road back from a trip to Abdor that ended in Twister breaking from her control and struggling back to Targrave. Their interactions have left Twister further disallusioned with religion, doubting their sense of reality, and struggling to recover emotionally from the toll. Caecina seemed reluctant to let Twister's pact go, though it's unclear why she is particularly attached to their pact specifically.

## Trivia

* Twister's hair was originally straight and tied back in a ponytail. However, over time, as more fanart was made of Twister, their hair got bigger and curlier, until it was finally re-canonized as fluffy, curly, and loose.