Calynea "Cal"

* Face Claim
* Art
* Nomad
* Distrusting
* Formal
* Keepers
* Keepers Injured

### Unique Features

Long pointed ears, wears white paint as circles under her eyes and a stripe from her bottom lip and down her lip.

## Relationships

### Friends

Ashton? Al? Pryo, Jamie, Spectre, Nini, and Tevel

## OOC Information

### Discord Username

bella\_\_\_#5310

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> *And yet I look at the night sky and envy the stars*
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> *For they don't have to shine by themselves"*
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She is humanoid with tan skin and long pointed ears, wears white paint as three small circles under her eyes and a stripe from her bottom lip and down her lip. She favors wearing the colors purple, grey, and blue.

Also Cal's playlist and its breakdown document (which still needs to be updated)

## Early Life

She was born on Chorus and unlike the rest of her family’s pitch black hair, born with silvery white hair and matching eyes.. They always told her that her that seem like stardust had coated her. Even her wings looked dipped in the silver with only the top of them a darker grey.

She grew up on ~~Terrian~~ Aberrant as her family was nomadic after the collapse of society and tended to follow the seasons. In her teens she had gained a major injure to her wings and was left stranded in the snowy mountains. It took years to recover from free falling from such a height. 1

In the early years of her travels she had gained a friend that traveled with her. They traveled under moonlight, staying away from the small settlements that were starting to pop up. One night Cal was left waiting, staring into the shadows for them to have left her. She waited till the sky turned blue with the sun before she accepted that it might be better to travel alone. Some nights when she sits on the highest branch of her tree staring at the moon she imagines them by her side.

She spent near a century alone, afraid to grow any attachments with those she occasionally met but she reached a breaking point. She needed others in her life again so she came to a more populated part of aberrant that she had been avoiding. Scared but ready to start a new chapter to her life.

## Pre-Bloodbowl

She was slowly gaining friends as she settled into her new home, just northwest slightly of the abandoned town of Storms Landing and south of Shades Stump.

One day there was a voice broadcasted that she could hear. It was coming from a gem? She didn't fully understand at the time besides this gem could speak and it gave off these effects like blindness or levitation. She didn't get to experiment or anything with it before it was stolen by Styx and Cal didn't have a chance to talk to him about the gem before the second bloodbowl started.

## Cambire v Talbot

Cal initially was fairly neutral in the beginning. Her curiosity for the gem, then Talbot led her to seek answers from whichever side would give her more information. She had seen the effects the gem could give off first hand such as levitation, blindness, etc and wanted to know the extent of the effects and what it all meant. At first Talbot was the only one giving actually answers but then the keepers started for form which she grew more friendships out of. Even when she witnessed Tevel's death she was still neutral, trusting neither Cambire or Talbot fully. It was when she slowly saw titan become more abused  and the limited interactions with them in the prison that whatever she could possibly learn wouldn't be truly worth it. She isn't a fighter but she can't standby as  kids are getting dragged into this war. She would rather die trying to protect someone, even a stranger, than just watching from the sidelines.

During battle she became severely injured, barely able to stand when the cease fire was called. During Judge discussion with Aldrake, calling Cambire and Al out to be liars and pointing out even Ashton knew the truth which is why he didn't join his friends on the battlefield, Cal started to think she had chosen the wrong side... Unsure of what to believe and betrayed by those she was starting to consider like family she began to regret ever siding with the Keepers. With the battle over and peace now settling in she couldn't stand to look Al in the face and unsteadily flew off to her tree to treat her wounds and take in what she had learned. No one has seen her since the day of the battle.

## As one chapter ends, another begins

A lore post from the discord server to wrap up Cal's story arc for the time being. It felt fitting to add it here.

CW: violence, death or dying.

> *Her legs crunched underneath her as she stumbled. The packed dirt path to her home barely cushioning the clumsy landing. She lets out a shuddered breath as the cold salty air hits her lungs and wounds.  Cal strains as she wraps bloody wings around herself, what remains of her chain mail armor barely hanging on, chiming with every slow, measured movement. Her axe slips from her hand with a thud. Her shoulder rests against the worn wood of her door frame. Her mind doing the same train on thoughts on loop as it did her entire flight back to her tree.*
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> *\*We lost? Was it worth the bloodshed? Should I have even trusted Al or Cambire? My friends-\**
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> *Her hand slid out from underneath her wing to grab the door handle. The door slowly creaked open right has her fingertips brushed the metal, pulling Cal out of her thoughts. She locked the door behind her, she must've.*
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> *“Well, well those are quite some injuries, little songbird. I wonder who did such… artwork on you. Maybe they would be worth my time.” A tall woman with rotting green hair and gaunt skin strode into frame, her arm held the door open from the inside. Cal heel hitting the handle of her axe sending her on her back into the dirt, knocking the air out of her lungs. The smirk on the woman’s face triggered her adrenaline to spike again. The pale yellow eyes almost glowing with hunger from under the shadow her dirty and torn hat casted on the stranger’s face.*
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> *“W-who are you? Wha-at do you want?” Cal stutters her usual attempt at keeping her wits fried from the battle against Talbot. She tried to uselessly put distance between them. The woman boot stomped on Cal’s already bloody wing with a sickening snap. Between heartbeats Cal felt a wave of numbness rush over her whole body followed blinding hot pain chasing after it. Cal lifted her head to spit in the stranger's face when she feels a blade get pressed against her throat. She felt wet warm spread down her shoulder. All other pain nonexistent as she felt the boot grind what was left of the bone to dust under it.*
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> *The woman clicked her tongue before bending down. “Shh, where do you think you are going Calynea?” With her free hand she wiped a tear off Cal’s cheek smearing some blood. She hushed her again as Cal struggled to take a full breath, her whole body shaking as she can’t hold back the tears from the fire raging through her from her wing. “I hope you don’t mind me moving in while you were gone, I mean you wont need it any longer so of course you don't mind. I tried to make you a deal but you flew off in such a hurry. I hope it was worth it.”*
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> *“Please! Oh gods please don't do this.” Cal pleaded in vain. Her throat was feeling tight, she could barely breath now. She clawed desperately at the woman’s hand using the last of her energy to attempt to fight one last time. The woman reached back and picked up Calynea's axe. The woman sighed and removed the blade from her throat as she stood. The stranger was studying Cal’s face when their eyes lock. She saw them say something but couldn’t hear anything over her own heartbeat pounding in her ears.*
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> *“NO!” The word rushed out before the rest of the words could rip their way out as the head of her own axe found its new home at the base of her neck. Her eyes rolled back and the world faded away to the cold darkness.*
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1 Unknown to Cal, but falling through the clouds from such a height had killed her. She had assumed she was just lucky and got knocked out from the impact. Being so young when the aberration event happened had changed her in ways she would never fully explore or understand.