Holly Sarah France (character)

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## Holly Sarah France

* Current
* Human
* Debut
* Child

### Nicknames

* Hol
* Hols
* Mum
* Mam
* Mummy
* Ma' (Buck)
* France
* To-Be God Slayer (Bast)
* Gran (Inola)
* Grandma
* Grandmother (Bast)

## Characteristics

### Age

* 32 Guardian Years
* 30 (debut)
* 21 (human years)

## Personal Status

### Relatives

* Tracy France (mother)
* Michael France (father)
* Apollo Sasuke (son in-law)
* Inola Sasuke (granddaughter)
* Inari Sasuke (grandson)
* See all children

## Media

### Debut

Chapter 1

**Holly Sarah France** is the titular main protagonist of the Stardust series. She is the True Guardian of World 8, initially born a human in Leeds, England. Upon being chosen true Guardian by Ecalypse at four years old, she was chased out of her home and left to roam the wilds of England. Maturing into a full grown Guardian, her status as a female True Guardian resulted in her giving birth to 78 fawns over the course of her life. Her and her children all moved to Custos Isle with the help of Ecalypse in 2012, where they would make their home and build their own civilization. She gained a romantic relationship with Spike Goodall, and was gifted a rabbit named Beans not too long before the death of her father. Holly was challenged with every True Guardian's revival, able to suppress their inner turmoil upon being given a new life. All seven previous Guardians eventually collected in Holly's house, living together despite the conflicts that arose.

In series 1, Ecalypse calls Holly on her 30th birthday as a Guardian, insisting on Holly to prepare for Orizon's final confrontation to annihilate her and her World. She's challenged by endless Dark Guardians created by Orizon to test her. Apollo attempts to murder Holly thinking it'll bring his world back, another trick by Orizon. Upon Orizon's true intentions being revealed, she's once again able to save herself. Forgiving Apollo later on, she's continuously faced with the other True Guardians problems. She's challenged by her own children for her forgiveness, getting into a violent argument with Micasa that eventually resolved in equal understanding. Upon Orizon's greatest battle against Holly and her peers, she declares their quality of life unlivable. Bringing herself close to death, Orizon finally agrees to abandon the fight. Defeated in victory, her and her family's lives finally gain peace.

In Series 2: Destiny's Traitor, she's confronted by Bast, who claims that revisiting previous worlds is possible. He declares that by doing so would give them a life-changing advantage against Orizon's inevitable final attempt at total annihilation. After discussing and choosing to trust his word, Holly and the other True Guardians begin journeys to everyone's home-world to discover their own purpose in life. Holly watches as her family ascends into gods.

## Appearance

### Guardian

Holly is average height for a Guardian, with grayish-turquoise eyes and brown hooves. Despite possessing brown fur when turned into a Guardian at four human years old, stress over the years has dulled her fur into a grayish-white. Dull blonde hair roots on her head at an straightened volume reaching down to her ankles; and on the tip of her tail. She is lanky and covered in various scars, primarily from Orizon. During Arrow's fatal attempt to protect Holly, Orizon gives Holly a lasting scar over her right eye which has particularly remained over the years. Due to being born human, Holly possesses the ability to shape-shift between forms at will, as well as partially incorporate human aspects into her guardian body, which she usually does in the form of turning her hooves into clawed “hands” during combat.

During Series 1 she gains a deep cut into her left ear from Apollo following the events of Chapter 21, and two large slashes on her left shoulder from Micasa during Chapter 50.
Between the end of Series 1 and the start of Series 2, she had begun growing a beard which she tied in a small band and was very fond of, prior to it being cut by Diaz Dior during Chapter 122.

### Human

When assuming human form, Holly retains many of her Guardian traits, most notably her scars. Her skin is a very pale white, in a similar shade to her fur. Her hair and eyes are the same colors as her guardian form as well. She also wears glasses, a reflection of her near-sightedness.

## Personality

Holly is a very motherly and selfless guardian (a side effect of birthing 78 fawns), often putting herself in harms way to protect others and putting others needs before her. She becomes frustrated when in a position she can’t help others in. She blames herself for those she feels she’s neglected and is very forgiving of others mistakes, even when those mistakes involve her being harmed.

Despite this, Holly can also be very nihilistic at times, accepting her challenging and unpredictable life for what it is. This helps her to cope, knowing that life is simply beyond her control and that there are many things in life she cannot change.

## Relationships

### Spike Goodall

Spike is Holly’s fiancé, whom she met in Leeds while attending high school. She initially rejected his advances for friendship for fear of being outed as a Guardian, but would come to rely on him when her father’s health began deteriorating. The two would become close friends during this time and even begin a relationship in 2016. A year later, Spike would seek out Ecalypse behind Holly’s back, striking a deal with him to become a guardian himself, a decision she regrets him making. On February 15th 2020, the two officially become engaged, however Holly swore that the two would not become married until she was certain she could secure a life for them.

### Havana De-Vo

In 2018, Havana would be revived and tasked by Orizon to kill Holly. Havana brings her into the DreamVerse and assesses whether or not he would kill her while pretending to help her escape. In a time that felt like months in the DreamVerse, but was only a few hours in reality, Holly and Havana would grow close to one another and share the details of their lives. Havana fell in love with Holly, and attempted to keep her in the DreamVerse so they can stay together. When Holly learns of this, he confesses his love in attempt to keep her to stay. While she doesn’t reciprocate her feelings the exact same way, they leave the DreamVerse when she promises that she would never leave him to live the life he had lived before.

The two have had their intimate moments together and both possess a degree of guilt about it. But despite this, the two have become steadfast friends over the years and often enjoy DDR tournaments together on Fridays.

## History

### Pre-Series

Holly Sarah France was originally born a human in Leeds, England, to parents Tracy and Michael France. She was chosen as True Guardian by Ecalypse at four years old, and transformed into a Guardian. This resulted in her being chased from her home, as her parents mistook her as a creature that ate their daughter. The transformation took a heavy toll on her mind and body, suddenly gaining intelligence far beyond what a human her age should possess. Unlike a regular Guardian, her growth in both aspects was still stunted unnaturally, and she took much longer to grow after this than one normally should. Holly made a living by surviving on stolen food and hiding out in the woodlands, initially she attempts to hunt for sustenance. After wandering across a herd of deer and discovering they saw her as one of their own, she loses the guts to actually kill them. Seeing life from the other side and swearing to never eat meat again, she becomes a lifelong pescatarian from then onward.

In the following year Holly fell pregnant with her first litter of fawns; between 2006-2018 she would go on to birth 78 in total. The extra mouths to feed and people to hide made life especially challenging as the growing pack continued to move through England to evade capture. In 2008, Eclipse, Holly’s first son, split from the group following encouragement from Orizon, claiming her leadership would get them all killed. Now granted a pack of his own consisting of Dark Guardians, Eclipse too attempts to hunt down Holly under the god’s supervision. The fighting ceased in July of 2012 after a fierce battle bringing Eclipse back to his senses. Pleased with their work, the god Ecalypse created Custos Isle, an island in the south Atlantic where the pack could move to finally be free of human threats.

After finally gaining control of her form shifting, Holly returns to her birth family years later as a human only to find her father terminally ill. She agrees to drop everything, against Ecalypse’s wishes, to come back and live with them until the worst should happen. Choosing to partially re-attend school in this period to acquire at least some form of education, Holly soon met Spike Goodall, a fellow student who despite being wary of at first, she would come to start a relationship with in August 2016. This would cause tension between Holly and her son, Arrow, who questioned her devotion to the humans that hunted them after learning about Spike. The years she spent at home were the final downfall for her. After just finding peace in her Guardian lifestyle after so long, her life with new trauma was too much for her to handle, her fur went grey from stress and her lust for living died out. Michael passed away in October of 2017, and soon after, needed to get away. Holly returned to Custos with her newly acquired pet rabbit, Blossom, who her father had given her to keep her company during the times of stress. She still regrets all the time she lost being with her father as she lived her second life, and only wishes she’d have come home sooner.

Not long after returning, she was mysteriously challenged by Damaen Arcanes on a foggy day in January 2018, the True Guardian of World 1 was unexplainably revived. He claimed that Orizon told him that if he killed her, he would grant Damaen his world and Keira Miles back. Damaen's disorientation being brought to an entirely new world allowed Holly to cease the fight. She takes Damaen home with her, rehabilitating him and trying to help him adjust to this new life. At the end of the month, on the 30th, Holly would go through her last involuntary fawn conception and labor. Damaen had come home to find Holly laying in absolute pain on the floor, as the fawn was stuck inside Holly's womb and couldn't be pushed out. Being taken to Custos Medical, Monarch and the other surgeons did the only thing they knew how to. Cutting deeper and deeper into Holly's uterus and body, the fawn was saved, but the procedure had left her body permanently damaged. The fawn, now named Uno, had survived infancy and grown up without anymore complications. Although, Holly had difficulty accepting the irreversible physical trauma her body endured. Despite trying intercourse with Spike multiple times, she was in denial that the physical pain was unbearable and couldn't muster the strength to tell him. After over three stillbirths, Holly begged Monarch to give her a hysterectomy, finally ending the involuntary births.

In September that same year, Holly had just returned from another trip to England and was having a few drinks to take her mind off of her depression in the casino bar at Jackard. Her drink was mysteriously spiked, causing her to fall into deep sleep. She awakens in the DreamVerse's recreation of World 2, and evades the attention of a swarm of agitated Dark Guardians rushing past her. She watches as the group seemingly mauls a pure white Guardian until they are satisfied, watching them leave the body as it lays on the ground, unmoving. Upon approaching the Guardian, Holly discovers with a jarring spook that he is indeed alive. The white Guardian goes on to explain the DreamVerse, until Holly questions what happened to her moments before she passed out. The white Guardian haphazardly introduces himself as a 'dream guide' to Holly, a mirrored version of herself. The two proceeded to spend a lot of time together and got along quite well, creating a bond between the two. He finally approaches Holly, and explains that the truth is he isn't Holly's 'mirrored self', and they are in a dream together for him to test if Holly was worth killing for Orizon. The white Guardian expresses through a stream of tears that he thinks he's falling in love with her, reassuring Holly's question that this is just a dream. Holly suddenly kisses him, and leaps through the bushes into the vast nothingness of the real DreamVerse. She exclaims that she is going to take him home with her, and pulls him out of his literal and mental distress. Holly reconciles the defeated white Guardian, and he finally tells her that his name is Havana.

The second time Havana and Holly had shared such intimacy, Holly asked him to prove that her body was truly broken, that it wasn't just with Spike. Upon attempting intercourse with him, Holly finally accepted the reality of the damage done to her body. Sometime after this and before the series, Spike and Damaen had been made aware, and the situation resolved privately between the four.

On November 20th, 2018, Orizon came for Damaen and Havana for failing to fall through with their plan to kill Holly. Holly hid the two, and fought in their place. Orizon landed a devastating swipe to Holly's face, scarring her right eye deeply. It was then that Arrow had appeared out of the blue, saving Holly from another attack from Orizon. Despite trying to tell him to leave, Arrow stayed, opening himself as sacrifice for Holly to escape. In Arrow's last moments, he tries to tell his mother that he loves her, before being crushed to death in Orizon's jaws. Mortified, Holly escaped with her life.

On March 26th, the next year, another True Guardian, Tommy Karter, was revived and brought to Holly's attention. She eased Tommy into his new life as she did with the previous and following True Guardians all the same. In the following months, on May 19th, she receives a call saying that another True Guardian has appeared. Taking Tommy with her, they meet Apollo Sasuke at a club where he's swooned over by multiple people. Outright refusing to go with the two, Apollo is forced to be dragged out of the club by Tommy all the way back to Holly's house. On a cool, rainy day months later, on August 27th, Micasa had brought Holly alongside him to discover Jasper Balt laying unconscious on the ground. Carrying him back to Holly's house, Holly attempted to warm and dry Jasper from the rain. Towards the end of the year, on November 30th, Holly is confronted by the newly revived Zann Tau Imari, who fights and outspeeds Holly greatly, wanting to fulfill Orizon's false promise of gaining his loved ones back if he killed Holly. With Tommy's interference, Zann is crippled by his own malnutrition and brought to his senses.

The next year, on a rainy night during February in 2020, Holly overhears an argument between Orizon and the last revived True Guardian, King Parker. Watching the situation unfold, she witnesses King refuse to kill Holly for Orizon's selfish gain. In frustration, Orizon attempts to attack King, but is stopped by Holly. Intervening the situation, Holly defended King from Orizon until he lost interest and left. Though cautious of Holly, King eventually accepts Holly's offer to go back to her home alongside her. The two began to bond as the night went on.

Every True Guardian was now housed at Holly's house, becoming a full household with every True Guardian that ever lived. To this day, she says they saved her because their new existence pulled her away from depression.

### Series 1: Means to an End

On Holly’s 30th birthday, Ecalypse explains the next step in her destiny to beating Orizon is to learn stardust control. Mostly ignoring this she attempts to resume her daily life regardless, until Apollo finally snaps and attacks her, scarring her underarm and ripping her ear, in the rush from the fight Holly gets her first sense of embracing the stardust as she uses it to deter Orizon and end the conflict. This reoccurs some time later following a talk with the gods on the roof of Jackard, in which Holly learns Orizon has no intent to kill her, but the others instead, in order to unleash her emotions enough to use stardust, he proves this by threatening Havana, who she promptly defends as such. Holly would go on to eventually reconcile with Apollo, though in doing so losing the trust of her son, Mica, who scars her arm in frustration. She then later finds the full extend of stardust plate summoning during a battle on the roof of the tram, where she uses the power to take down a Dark Guardian. After nearly giving in to the stress of their lives enlightened by Havana’s attack on Damaen, Holly is in the end convinced by Ecalypse to fight Orizon in New Cross the following morning, a battle in which by the end she attempts to take her own life to stop the cycle of pain once and for all, though Orizon proceeds to save her from this, and agrees to leave her be if she promises to find strength in her own way. In the ending chapters of the series Holly seems to possess some more hope for her future for the first time in years, she is reunited with Mica, previously thought to have been killed in the fight, is shown to be attending therapy, and enjoying life alongside the other TG’s.

### Series 2: Destiny's Traitor

On July 15th, 2022, Holly's fun is interrupted by Kinca while at the arcade with Havana and the rest of the group. Kinca's distress over an ominous call from her fawns Inola and Inari compels Holly and the group to rush to Royal Avenue, where the siblings told them to go to. They arrive to discover the Umberbug lodged into the Squeaky Spring Love Hotel, and enter the building. Encountering Bast himself alongside Inola and Inari, Holly listens to Bast's claims.

## Trivia

* Holly is one of only two True Guardians that weren't originally born a Guardian (the other being Apollo).
	+ Additionally, she and Spike are the only two Guardians to be born as humans.
* Holly is one of the only two True Guardians with a middle name. (the other being Zann)
* Holly is the only True Guardian assigned female at birth.
* Holly is nearsighted, but doesn’t wear glasses in her guardian form due to how easy they’d break.
* Her favorite food is garlic pizza bread, a comfort food from her home in England.
	+ She cannot tolerate spicy foods.
* Despite not having a drivers license, Holly still drives a yellow car named KE11Y.
* She enjoys art, convinced she would have been an artist had she remained human.
* She likes sleeping, rain, and the disco where she often has Dance Dance Revolution competitions with Havana.
	+ She dislikes heat, exercise, and public displays of affection.
* Holly has a stuffed shark named Gible, a gift from Spike.