Serenity Sapphire

Official image of Serenity, drawn by @grace.pptx on Instagram

Serenity Sapphire is a Player Character from Arc 9 played by Jess.

## Description

Serenity is a Harengon, and a Gunslinger Fighter. Her fur is kind of dingy, and her gun, which is about the same size as her, was a gift from her father when she told him that she wanted to go out to become a criminal, and written on it is the name "Borple", which she assumes is a word in Draconic. It is one of the only guns in the universe, a very new invention, and few people know what it is or does; even Serenity herself does not entirely understand it.

Despite her rich background, which she is pretty open about, she is also a punk and really wants to be cool. Additionally, she is a bit messy: growing up she was expected to be neat, and now that she is free to be more chaotic, she embraces that. She does not wear shoes.

She is canonically trans and still relatively early in her transition, meaning that sometimes, for example when she is surprised, her voice falls from her cute femme voice, which she tries to reach, down to her normal voice.

Even though she herself does not smoke, she carries an "emergency cigarette" for Art, which he can ask her for when he is stressed. When he tries to stop smoking, she refuses to give it to him.

Her magic item are the Gloves of "Yeah that's what I thought".

## Backstory

Serenity's parents are originally from the Feywild, but she herself has never been and never wanted to know things about this plane.

Serenity is the daughter of a famous private detective and grows up as a rich kid. Still, she wants to be cool, so she asks her father for permission to become a criminal, and he allows it as long as she doesn't get killed. To assure this, because she is not a very good fighter, he gives her a gun that he got from an old murder case he solved. She wants to be a detective as well, just like her father. Their relationship is not ideal, though, and Serenity has the feeling that her father sees her as the person she used to be, his son, and not herself, and her siblings see her as the person she could be.

She joins the Arc 9 crime family around the year 145 AE, so two years before Arc 9. They are the first people who truly and only see her as herself. She trusts them implicitly, and shares a room with Julian, who she would be a bad influence for, if he wasn't already past his formative years and technically older than her. Her father turns a blind eye towards her criminal business and does his best to not get involved with it. When the party gets into a fight, Serenity often gets into the thick of the battle and falls unconscious pretty soon. She kind of admires Art.

While Serenity does not actively want to keep her background a secret, it happens nonetheless. She assumes that they make the connection to her father, because he is a super famous detective and shares her surname, and when they don't, she feels like it is too late for her to tell them. Additionally, she enjoys to be seen as herself.

## Character Arc

When the crime family is teleported into the Feywild, Serenity is fascinated by this plane that her parents lived in, and now wants to find out more.

In Lacewing's house, she accidentally trades away the word "grass" for a miniature broadsword. From that point on, she can no longer think of or use that word, even though she still understands the concept of grass. Later, she willingly and after a short amount of consideration trades away her shadow for the lantern, because she thinks having no shadow is pretty cool. The process of giving it away is pretty painful, though, and has actual effects for her: her shadow is a tether to the physical world around her, and without it, she has disadvantage on all Death Saves. As they are walking, she can feel something tug at the soles of her feet and at her spine.

In the tree house, Serenity admits to the group that she does not need the money from the crimes they do, since she comes from a rich family. She is just there because she likes them, and enjoys spending time with them. At first, Julian is offended by this, which Serenity misinterprets as him being angry at her for suggesting that Lee could cure his curse with his powers once he has all his limbs back, without consulting Julian about this first. During their shared watch, she apologises for that, because she knows what it feels like to have other people make assumptions about oneself. When he tells her the true reason he is upset with her for, which is that he feels like she sees the only life he ever knew as a vacation, she explains that she does not. She understands the danger of crime and does not enjoy it, but the party are the first people that see her as herself.

After clearing up this tension, Julian proposes that they should run away and find Lee's legs on their own to prove themselves. Serenity does not think it's a good idea, but joins in anyways, so that Julian does not go alone. She purposefully leaves some traces around and later leads Riot towards them when they use a *Sending* spell to ask. However, when they realise that the legs are right below the mountain on which Render awaits them with Lee's arm, it is Julian who stops and holds Serenity back from continuing towards such a dangerous place, and they wait for the others to catch up with them again. Serenity fears Juniper's anger, but nonetheless seeks the conversation with her to put in a good word for Julian.

In the battle against Render, she claims that she would be willing to die for the people in the Feywild, if absolutely necessary. She is also the one who starts firing at the cord holding Lee's arm in place, and ultimately manages to make it snap, so that the arm can be reattached.

After the battle, Lee grants each member of the party a wish. Serenity did not expect that, and does not really have a wish prepared. She wanted the crime family to stay together forever, but understands that this is not her decision to make, and that people move on, so instead she follows Art's lead and wishes for a cool cowboy hat, as well as a matching jacket. Her hat is black with a gold trim, like Art's, and her jacket is black with golden fringe. When Julian wishes to become the sun in the Feywild together with Lee, she is sad that he leaves and won't be able to visit her, but also happy for him, and asks him to at least send her some messages.

Back in Qto, she is the only member of the party that stays for longer than a few days more. Art plans to go into ranching, starting out with his seven donkeys, and she is willing to help with that.

## Trivia

* Serenity's gun is the first gun canonised in the Unprepared Casters universe.
* She does not like it when her fur gets wet and actively avoids circumstances in which that is a given danger.
* As a Harengon, her appearance is closer to a hare than to a rabbit, which is important to her.