Rewrite

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## Appearance

Rewrite is extremely slender especially when one considers her height, lean muscle being the only type beneath her grey flesh. Shoulder length pink hair frames her face matching her pink eyes, bangs hiding the scars where horns once emerged. While she's been hornless for years, pointed ears, patches of black scales, a long prehensile tail, and slightly raptor like feet still clearly signal her as part fiend. The girls typical style is designed to hide her inhuman features tending to long sleeves beneath hooded cloaks and long thick furry flat boots, in spite of the fact wearing so much makes her uncomfortable.

## Personality

Isolated from humanoid communication expect for her father it's fair to say that this tiefling has less developed social skills than most with anything that isn't an animal. While she's been given the teachings of an hero it's easy for her good heart to be drown beneath her lack of understanding in the world. Though even worse is the fact that due to the interactions she's had being so one dimensional towards loving or despising her, this girl has no idea the true amount of deviance and cunning that can exist in the world. Quiet easily once gets past her solitary nature, she could become the mark for someone less than savory because she doesn't know not to trust people who seem to have good intentions. For her, the world is fairly one dimensional. Thus as of current she doesn't seem to have as much of a personality as others.

## Connections

Mother - Since this Succubus abandoned the twins her hornless daughter has no positive feelings towards the fiend. Rewrite does however wish to speak to her mother at least once since it's an empty hole in her life. This woman is one of the few holes of anger within the Teifling as she blames her trouble fitting in on her mothers actions instead of the village.

Birth Place Villagers - At one time she was incredibly angry at the villagers around her, but eventually as time passed this faded to a sadness rooted in her desire to be accepted.

Atlas - Raised by the old hero, Rewrite often tried to model her behavior with humans by the way he treated them. Having to leave him to die on his own is something she regrets, but death is part of natures cycle much as life is and she understands his wish to ensure she long outlives him.

Fortune - Having grew up alongside her twin their relationship is incredibly fond but not as codependent as what most twins possess. They love each other very much, but due to picking up their classes at a young age the duo didn't spent as much time relying on each other. However, Rewrite very much regrets and worries over Fortune now that she's aware of her twins illness, though she hasn't chosen a course of action, yet.

Atlas & Fortune Animal Companions - Growing up the Stag and Owl were very good playmates to Rewrite when neither father nor sister were available. While she is fond of them, Rewrite doesn't miss them quiet as much as she does their companions.

Mercy - Serving as Rewrites Druid companion they are incredibly faithful to each other even to a fault due to their history. Mercy is very aware that she wouldn't have survived her brush with the other predator as a hatchling without her Druid and Rewrite is aware she'd have never found her calling without her Companion.

## Backstory

Everyone has heard the tale of heroic adventures who fall off the 'just' path in one way or another. However, few stories are told about the cause of people's opinions on their hero turning sour, the one blamed. Rewrite was born one of these silenced entities.

A developing village found itself in dire states fighting to grow against monsters and other hostility attacking it, easily one could claim the place should have never survived. However, an adventuring ranger named Atlas was looking for a place to settle down and when he did the man became the hero that the village was so desperate for. Due to his years of adventuring he was beyond capable of protecting his new home and did so diligently for years as he built up a tavern attached to his house.

However, time always works against a hero and Atlas was aging no longer quiet capable of all the feats he'd pulled off in his youth when a succubus who led a small band of other fiendish creatures threatened the town. Rather the cruel sort the devilish leader of the group offered him one alternative to save the village after she defeated him in battle. Atlas had no choice, he submitted to her wish in order to ensure the safety of his home and true to her word the Succubus left with her minions afterwards. If that had been the end of it than he could have recovered from the blow to his reputation. However, nine months later the succubus returned to the village in the night to place an unpredicted side effect of her wish on his doorstep in a wicker basket covered by a blanket. The crying that awoke Atlas that fateful night was from a pair of twin teiflings who were going to need some really good Fortune to Rewrite the struggles he knew would come their way from the first glance at them, so he named them such.

The twins were never 'bad' children, just like most young creatures they were simply curious and joyed about the world. However, the village was far from delighted about Atlas keeping the fiend's offspring in spite of them also being his, particularly Rewrite who apart from having some scales scattering her body was a carbon copy of her mother. While the village tolerated Fortune to an extent whenever their father's back turned the other twin was treated with as much cruelty as they could muster without leaving a mark unless it was another child. Sadly, this treatment never ceased in the village, Atlas could do little about it especially when it was another villagers child causing damage, all he could do was teach Rewrite to not respond with the same violence she was greeted with. While it broke her fathers heart to allow such harshness to repeatedly be done to his daughter? He knew that if Rewrite harmed anyone the village would no longer consider his status as their 'hero' enough to keep her around and at her young age she would die on her own.

Once the twins were around eight Atlas offered to train them as Rangers to which Fortune accepted while Rewrite spent more time in the village trying to convince other's of her good heart. Sadly, no one would be convinced and instead a particularly hateful villager told her the truth about why she'd never be accepted by them. Learning of her heritage and the intentions her mother had to destroy the village she grew up in? She couldn't take it anymore between the rejection and the implication she'd never be able to fit in anywhere due to her inhuman heritage she returned to the house and found a knife using it in an attempt to rid herself of inhuman appendages. Luckily she passed out shortly after carving her second horn from her head right around when her family returned. That was the sole day that Atlas responded to the village with anger because the healer was bordering on rejecting treating the young girl, threatening things he likely didn't remember saying afterwards if they let her die.

After that Atlas became horribly protective of the hornless tiefling, never allowing her to remain alone again unless he was sure she'd been locked away from anything that she could use to cause herself harm. However, he still had to train Fortune as a Ranger and this led to bringing the distraught girl into the forest with them numerous times.

Bloody mass of feathers cowered amongst the roots of a large tree, while the idea seems morbid this was one of the best events of young Rewrites life as this is when her 'fate' to seemingly go down a dark path swayed. The creature in the roots was a hatchling Deinonychus who had been separated from its pack when some other small predator injured it's forearm. In spite of the growing darkness and strife inside of her due to her inability to be accepted by others, the young girls heart was still good. Rewrite spent hours that day earning the hatchlings trust enough to take it home with her so she could get father's help with both patching it up and tracking down its family to return it to them. Once the creature was recovered, Rewrite watched the small predator look back at her once before running off with its family.

After that incident Atlas had no problem getting his daughter to come into the forest, but instead of paying attention to ranger training she would just stare blankly off into the woodland. Quickly the hornless girl started vanishing during training the time it took to find her starting to take longer and longer. Outside of her families knowledge each time she vanished Rewrite had another experience that convinced her that Nature accepted her in a way that others never could, detaching her from 'civilization' and pushed her towards the path of a Druid.

A year passed with Atlas and Fortune unaware of how much Rewrite was progressing towards finding her own class in the world convinced she was drowning in herself. While the self loathing she possessed never went away? It was replaced with her devotion to nature and when a freak storm drove them uncomfortably deep into the forest her family would learn this. In spite of his years living near the village Atlas had never ventured towards the part of the woods they found themselves lost in as it was typically protected. The old hero was stunned when his daughter led them back to the village as if every bit of the unmarked land she led them through was memorized to her. Atlas asked Rewrite how she'd known the way home and when she mentioned having been to that part of the woods numerous times before, he realized that he had to stop trying to keep her so close. Being no fool he was well aware the forest already recognized his daughter as a budding druid and his attempts to teach her were only slowing her down.

Quickly after she was allowed to venture the woods entirely on her own the young girl fully blossomed into a Druid upon reuniting with the Deinonychus she'd saved back at the start of her journey. Once the female raptor became her Animal Companion the girls journey towards becoming a Druid was complete and the two started any journey they could through their native woodland with Atlas letting them use the house as a home base.

During those days Rewrite forgot about the lack of acceptance from humanity, each day was blissfully spent with her companion Mercy before they returned home. Sadly, those days came to a close when she turned seventeen, father calling her into his bedroom to inform her that he was terminally ill. Atlas was well aware that when he passed if she was there the villagers would chase Rewrite away, possibly try to end her perhaps even torch the forest to achieve it if she fled there. Breaking his own heart the man told his daughter to leave for her own journey, perhaps try to give 'humanity' another shot elsewhere, find a new home where she'd be safe for the rest of her long life.

Since that day Rewrite and Mercy have been traveling across the world seeking a new home while sending letters back and forth with Father allowing her to be painfully aware of her sister coming down with an illness causing her to behave like a dragon.