Briar

* Base Form
* Rose
* Sunflower
* Blue Orchid
* Peony
* Cornflower
* Wither

Briar is a fey from the Spring Court, a former messenger who is now exploring the Overworld.

They took up their main residence in a flower forest, but built a second house outside of Moonshine when they sensed the presence of other fey. Unfortunately, it was not as simple as that as Moonshine’s residents are wary of them.

They currently have all three lives.

## Appearance

Briar is a shapeshifter and takes on many forms. The common running theme is that each of their forms tends to be based on a kind of flower. They can also take the form of animals. Their true form is a young woman with curly brown hair to their back, olive skin, freckles, and a white dress. They have two sets of horns, smaller white cow like ones and a set of deer antlers set further back. On their right part of their hair has been braided. Vines crawl around their arms and legs, and they have a golden tassel hanging from their belt. They have a long tail with a tuft at the end and silver fey wings. Their eyes are green and slit like a cats, with sclera that's a darker green than their pupil. No matter their form they keep the tail and wings.

## Personality

### Main Personality

Briar is a rather opportunistic and self centered person. If something isn’t going well for them, they are liable to simply drop it altogether and move on to something new. They do not like being held down by obligations or other people. They have a mischievous streak, enjoying pranking others or pulling tricks on them. They’re not cruel, they don’t like to cause anyone suffering, just find it funny when people are confused. They find great satisfaction with getting away with things, which is easy when it comes to mortals. Deep down they are very lonely, but would never admit this. They don't get why other people don't find their pranks as amusing as they do.

In addition to general fey convolution, Briar also has a general unwillingness to reveal any information about themselves. They revealed some things about themself to the Moonshine gang in order to gain their trust, but in their mind it was a means to an end and had to be done to be left in peace. They would never admit it to anyone, but they are sometimes overcome with paranoia about their past catching up to them. Because their freedom and lack of obligations is their greatest desire, the fact those in charge might be mad about them leaving the Spring Court doesn’t scare them because they think they’d be killed necessarily, but because of the lack of freedom in general. Whether death or imprisonment, they’d still have to surrender that.

Briar doesn’t fully comprehend pain or suffering. They’ve relied on magic as opposed to physical strength their whole life and thus is a bit of a glass canon. Thus they try to avoid suffering whenever possible and get very thrown off when injured. They see death as the worst possible fate because it is the end of their freedom no matter what, but any other fate to them isn’t as bad because hey, at least they aren’t dead, right? Their otherworldliness and encounters with mortals thus far have made them slightly arrogant about confronting the sentient creatures of this world. They convince themselves they don't think much of them, but are secretly very on edge around others when they have armor. They are subconsciously incredibly terrified of being hurt but would never admit it to themselvs

Mobs on the other hand, they have a great dislike and fear of after a skeleton shot them in the wing. They still think of them as pathetic and mindless though, and consider them the greatest threat the overworld has to offer.

They are not completely devoid of care for other people. Even if they resent someone they’re unlikely to cause them any real pain, simply annoyance. If someone went far enough though, they have a bit of a temper.

### Trust Issues

A lot of Briar's apathy and self serving nature is shaped by their time in the Spring Court. There, they had no true friends. Even the person who invited them there, who they'd known since childhood, manipulated them and used them. After such a betrayal, they realized they couldn't really trust anyone else and had to look out for themselves. Many of the toxic ideas floating around them they picked up in order to fit in and rise up in the Court. They retain most of them even after leaving.

## Ideology

Briar finds rules and systems to be annoying, but ultimately necessary. Notably, they think that there should be rules, but don’t want the rules to apply to them. All their life the only rules they really had to follow was that of their own nature, and sometimes their father. But their father encouraged their mischief more often than not, being equally mischievous as well, and was a pretty lax parent. It wasn’t until the Spring Court they had to start watching themselves more often. They understand that things are right and wrong and that if the world was left to its own devices, there are many ill-willed people out there. But in their mind, they’re not like that so it shouldn’t matter what they do. In their mind, a good leader balances the line between having laws to keep the people safe, while not taking away their freedoms.

## History

### Pre HSMP

Briar was born to a fairy in the Feywilds named Oisin (who went by Hawthorne to everyone else but his daughter), with no mother in sight. It wasn’t a terribly big deal though, and Briar grew up as all normal fey did. Their father tended to take them on trips to the human world and showed them how fun messing with humans could be. He also taught them how to play several wind instruments. Briar met another fey girl named Oleander while playing in the swamp one day, called Olly for short. Olly was from a high ranking family in the Spring Court and sought to see how the “lower folk” lived.

The two would grow close, often roughhousing and fighting dirty. Olly would keep coming out to visit Briar, even spending dinners and nights at their house with Hawthorne. As they got older, Olly began to complain more and more about the Spring Court and how miserable they were there. One day, they invited Briar to come with them, saying they’d ensure them a position and status. Briar was wary at first, not wanting to leave home. Their father was also unsure about them going too. They initially turned Olly down, but after the question hung in the air for a while, Olly admitted they felt Briar was their only true friend and that they really wanted them there for support. Briar felt obligated to go now and finally took their offer.

They became a messenger at the Court, but things quickly went awry. On one of their first days a high ranking fey asked someone to play for them and Olly singled out Briar as someone who knew how to play music. They were caught off guard with everyone staring at them and forgot to tune their instrument, leading to great embarrassment. Afterwards they confronted Olly about it but she simply said Briar was overreacting and that it had been reasonable for her to assume Briar could play on the spot.

Briar was also consistently requested as a messenger by Olly so that they could interact more. Olly often complained about her parents, who Briar was now able to meet themselves. They were often reserved and stiff, scolding Olly for slight mistakes. It made Briar more grateful to have Hawthorne, who they missed a lot. They wrote him a lot out of homesickness telling him all their experiences. One day, Olly came to them with one of these letters and told them to stop writing them as this was their place now. Realizing they couldn’t trust Olly anymore, Briar vowed to break away from them and earn their own status in the Court.

They did this through often underhanded means, using their status as a messenger to snoop in people’s letters, learning how to unseal and reseal letters to make it hidden. They would use concoctions to make other messengers sick, and the volunteer to fill in for them when various high ranked people asked for them. Between the volunteering and Olly’s constant requests of them, they were quite busy, boosting their reputation as a hard working person. Slowly they started to be the one being requested more often, and even when a suspicious high ranked fey noted how often their messenger had been sick and suspected Briar after looking into it, they were able to avoid trouble by blackmailing them with dirt they had from their letters.

Briar became well regarded enough to start delivering letters for the Spring Lord himself. Their reputation also meant they could deny requests, of which they started doing to Olly. Olly was infuriated and confronted a smug Briar, who waved them off. Olly kept trying to sabotage Briar, threatening the people who delivered their letters home so they could destroy them and talking badly to their fellow Court members about them, but most of them just saw Olly as unreasonably bitter. Briar reveled in their status and approval, but they knew they’d never truly stand with those born into the Court. They felt a bit empty, not having any true friends. They even felt reminiscent enough to try making up with Olly, who reacted with rage and rejection. She took her revenge to another level, trying to find something deep on Briar to ruin them entirely.

She went back to Briar’s home and found Hawthorne, threatening him until he admitted who Briar’s mother was, one of the four Spring Cardinals, Adeline. Olly told Hawthorne they would no longer be welcome in the Feywilds, and to get out or she would burn down his home herself. To escape this horrible fate, he went and joined the Wild Hunt, who were above the Courts, and never stopped hunting in the sky.

Meanwhile back in the Court, Olly brought this info to Adeline, who began to worry about her reputation if this came out. Olly proposed demoting them, but Adeline went straight to considering killing them. Olly panicked a bit, since they didn’t want Briar dead. They wanted to have control over them again, feeling they had lost their ideal friend. Thus, they ended up going to Briar and spilling the beans about their parentage because Adeline was going to try and kill them. When asking how they learned this, however, Olly admitted what they did to Hawthorne and that he was now gone. Briar began to hyperventilate and told Olly to leave, and that they’d never see them again.

Briar planned to run away after that, knowing they couldn’t stay in the Court and couldn’t go home. They planned to run away in the night, but as they were about to leave, Olly confronted them one last time, saying that they could still make it better, take out Adeline and be together, but Briar wanted none of it. Olly begged though, and kept pleading and ended up grabbing for them, to where Briar attacked them with thorny vines, leaving a slash across their face. Briar ran while Olly was screeching on the ground, knowing they’d solidified that they could never come back.

The first night there, they got shot in the wing by a skeleton and viciously tore it apart with vines. They have not flown much in the Overworld since then.

### Meeting Moonshine

Briar sensed the presence of other fey nearby in a village and decided to settle near it. This village being Moonshine. They were approached by Tealeaf, who was wary but respectful. The two had a fairly civil conversation in which Tealeaf said they hoped to eventually be friends. When L attacked Moonshine they watched the fight tensely. As Tealeaf lost a life during the fight and sustained heavy injuries, they approached him and tried to give him a gift, a wil o wisp in a lantern that would teleport him to the outskirts of the Feywilds if he was ever in mortal danger again. Lowkey was incredibly hostile to them during this exchange, pointing a rocket launcher at them. Feeling slightly miffed, they left after giving Tea the lantern. Later, Star and Lowkey came to interrogate them, with Lowkey mostly staying silent and acting as a bodyguard. Star questioned if they were a spy for the Court and why they didn't step in to help during the fight. Briar was mostly exasperated but answered their questions honestly, telling Star they were essentially banished from the Court as well. The conversation ended awkwardly, and Briar decided to leave for a new home after that. They made a place by the lake in a flower forest with lots of bees.

### The Village

Feeling bored, Briar decided to mess with the Village. They grew vines on and in their houses and messed up their item organization. Hanging around to see the reactions to their prank, they were found by Khizuo, who asked them if they were new and who they were. Briar was very amused by Khizuo's literalness and confusion while talking to them, offhandedly mentioning they were the one who pranked the Village. Khizuo became panicked further when Briar mentioned they'd spied on the Villages meeting. Briar explained that they were just doing it because it was fun and that they hadn't done anything but putting the vines there, which reassured Khizuo a bit, even if they remained on edge. They even told Briar that the Village was open to anyone still.

## Personal Items

Six instruments they made themselves (renamed note blocks in game). They own a flute, a harp, an ocarina, a lyre, a kalimba,

Two gapples they were given by a mysterious person with a kind note. They wonder who gave them these and want to repay them.

## Pets

Nellie the cow

Milk the horse

Duke, Wilson, Jackie, and Louis the chickens

Peony the pink sheep

## Quotes

"Will There Be Sugar There"

"Well It Was Just Kind Of Funny, See"

## Trivia

- Briar speaks in all caps. Somehow.

- They have a love for anything sugary and sweet and will not eat anything else if given the chance. Their diet consists of berries, cake, pumpkin pie, honey, and bread. They find meat heavy and too chewy for them.

- Briar is pansexual

- Their favorite mobs are bees

- They have claustrophobia and taphephobia

- They find building tedious and so all of their builds have some part that is just plants grown in to replace empty space.