Aoife of Daracháit

*This article pertains to Aoife of Daracháit*

## Background

### Personality and Appearance

A healer by nature but warrior by wish. She is loving and kind, while trying to not appear so, and has a sensitivity that her faerie counterparts do not. She is controlled by her desire to be like the others, but ultimately her human instics are not that easily overcome. Cunning and intellegient, but ridden by guilt, she tries to depress all the things that make her *her*, namely her soft nature, her creativity and tenderness. She can be judgemental and lazy, and has a severe detachment from her own self. She is a nationalist, humnaitarian and firm believer in Gealach.

She seeks power and love, having had very little of both in her life.

She has brown, long hair and deep blue eyes that shine with violet specks in sunlight. Her personal style tend to be pastels, but she adopts the bold colours of her Kingdom. She carries her hair in a middle part, often plaited into intricate hairstyles, in order for her round ears to be hidden.

### History

The story pertaining to Aoife's origins are murky at best, but she and most of the faeries she meet, believe she is a changeling (LINK). As she was taken, or switched, as a baby, she does not know any other life than that of Speír. She grows up in a home where her mother, Treasa, keeps a clinic that Aoife helps out in. At first she keeps to cleaning, but later on her mother gives her permission to learn the trade, despite previous hesitation.

Throughout early childhood, Aoife is mostly welcomed into the society, but when she is five, the family is shunned from the village. This changes the dynamic of her relationship with her mother and father, Niall, as well as the family dynamic as a whole. After five, her father begins being cruel both to Aoife as well as her mother, much to Aoife's confusion. These years are filled with turmoil, which Aoife respects her mother for enduring. After the parents part ways, Aoife stays with her mother, not knowing what happens to her father.

Before her mother's death, Aoife saves the life of the daughter of the Protector in the region she lives in, and is granted a cottage as well as a profession as healer to the Protector.

### Family and Relationships

##### Mother

Aoife's relationship to her mother is one of deep respect and love, but also distance. Throughout her life her mother always seemed to take inaction against injustices, and meets much the same type of end. Aoife understands why, but is still resentful against the abuse she and her mother had to suffer, because of her mother's unwillingness to speak up for them. The relationship was defined by a sense of "holding back" which Aoife attributes to her different sensibilies as a human, and her mother's lack of knowledge about the differences between humans and faeries. In reality this is for a much more sinister reason...

##### Father

Before the age of five, Aoife adored her father. After she learned to fear him, though she still rebelled against him from time to time, eager to relieve her and her mother from the misery they found themselves in. He rarely spoke to her, other than to command and scold, and Aoife mostly remembers all the glamouring and hurt she endured when she thinks of him. And still she feels a need to please him - especially in hiding her humanity, which her father taught her equaled danger and discrimination.

##### Marigold

Her oldest friend, Marigold knew her mother before her. One of the few people to know and accept Aoife's humanity. They have a complex relationship wherein they share carnal pleasures, but feel a disonance in the nature of the relationship. Aoife finds her to be suffocating and condescending at times, but also very loving. They meet every two years or so, up until Marigold's death.

##### Eiran

The first time Aoife meets Eiran, she thinks him arrogant. She hold this position until she realises what he symbolises and what she might gain by befriending him. Friendship turns to something else, and soon enough Eiran and Aoife are intertwined in a lovestory too complicated to express in the few word allowed here.

##### Faolan and Saorlaith

Both Faolan and Saorlaith extend politeness and friendship to Aoife, a gesture she doesn't take lightheartedly. She cherishes and idolises them heavily, making the friendships unbalanced and unrealistic. She takes their values and symbols and make them part of her and her identity, and heed their word carefully, eager to please.

##### Niamh

From the first meeting, Aoife despises Niamh's high-and-mighty attitude, thinking her cruel and removed. This continues, Aoife desperately not wanting to see Niamh for more than what she symbolises. Of course there is the manner of revenge Aoife wants to exert upon Niamh, as Niamh killed her mother as well as her friend Saorlaith.

##### Aisling

Aisling is the first faerie Aoife meets after she wakes up from her comatose state following the Laoch. She clothes her and helps her naviagate not only the ship, but her mind as well. Aoife rekognises the empathetic nature of Fiadh, and do not quite understand why a faerie acts like that, but revels in the break from the normal ruthlessness of the fae. These tendencies does however mean, that Aoife percieves Fiadh as somewhat beneath the other faeries of the High Command (LINK) and that she is easily manipulated.

### Skills and Professions

##### Healing

Known far and wide as a proficient healer, Aoife sees patients from all over Glas. Her skills are honed by pratice and patience, but lack in some of the most basic of senses.

##### Warring

Less proficient with a sword, than with a scalpel, Aoife often falls behind and flat in her warring. Her mentalilies and sensibilites are not war either, suffering under the pressure and immense amount of death she endures.

### Faith and Nationality

Aoife follows the Faith of Gealach and identifies as a Glassian.