Lady Daphne Magnolia

### Aliases

Lady Magnolia, Lady M, Daph, Maggie, Headmistress Magnolia, Madame Butterfly, Fairy Godmother

### Weapons

Lady Magnolia despises violence and bloodshed, but if necessary, she’ll use her unique butterfly shift talent to defend herself and others. She is also a surprisingly skilled fencer. She will also likely try diplomacy, negotiation, and deescalation in hopes of avoiding a fight.

### Mount

None, as she can simply fly place to place herself in a swarm of blue butterflies.

## Appearance

Lady Magnolia is an elegant, elderly woman with silver hair usually pulled up into a tight, elegant bun. She has bright, electric-blue eyes that twinkle kindly, and pale skin deepened with wrinkles thanks to her old age, with smile lines around her eyes and mouth. A pair of silver spectacles are almost always perched on her nose.

She usually wears high-collared, elegant teacher’s gowns that are decorated with a pattern of butterflies, in different shades of blue, sometimes green or silver. Her signature look, though, is a high-collared, electric-blue teacher’s gown decorated with a pattern of butterflies. She always has a glittering blue diamond brooch pinned at her neck, sometimes with pearl drops in her ears. For footwear, she favours blue-glass heels.

Usually, she has clouds of blue butterflies flitting in every every direction around her, perching on her dress or hair, magically vanishing both into the butterfly pattern on her dress and out of the butterfly pattern on her dress to go flutter through the school hallways.

She had a kind, grandmotherly feel to her. There is a warmth in her eyes and her face that make you feel as though you are exactly where you belong, that you are commanding her full attention, that you are important.

Lady Magnolia’s butterfly shift is unique because instead of turning into a singular blue butterfly, she turns into a whole swarm of bright, brilliant blue butterflies. She can also turn into smaller swarms of butterflies while retaining her human form, hence all the butterflies fluttering through the hallways of the school and keeping an eye on her students and faculty. Through her butterflies, she can see and hear and feel and smell and taste from far away.

Through her butterflies, she had the ability to hear the present. She can hear words, wishes, secrets. She knows what people seek, what they desire, what they would give their lives for. She can change the course of anyone’s story and end it the way she wishes, for better or for worse. Thankfully, she strives to change her students’ lives for the better.

## Personality

Lady Magnolia has dedicated her life to her students. She’s served the school for longer than almost anyone can remember, and even if she’s gravely ill or mortally wounded, she’ll still come to protect her students, both current and former. In fact, if anyone asks for help or protection or advice, she’ll come regardless of her own state.

She’s a strong believer in second chances, forgiveness, and mercy. Better than anyone, she knows how people can make mistakes and be led astray. She is slow to anger and quick to forgive. Lady Magnolia is a gentle yet firm leader, treating her students with respect, fairness, and patience. While she is empathetic and compassionate, she’s also a bit strict and isn’t afraid to lay down the law or call someone out for rudeness or disrespect or malicious behaviour.

Lady Magnolia is very wise, full of knowledge, and an excellent teacher. She believes that everyone has right to education, to learn and grow and expand their minds. She is also a staunch believer in allowing people to forge their own destiny and write their own story, and allow them to make mistakes, and fail, and  learn from them.

Even after a student graduates, she still considers them a student and still cares for them and their families just as deeply as she does for her current students. She was won the deep love and respect of her students and staff, as well as their trust. She’ll do her best to help them and guide them, no matter what stage of life they’re in. She’s also acknowledged that she is continually learning, and can even learn a thing or two from her own students.

Lady Magnolia is fiercely protective of the weak and innocent, and deeply loyal to those who’ve earned her love and loyalty. She’s bit of a workaholic, and sometimes pushes herself too hard. She has high standards, for both others and herself. She refuses to ever give up on someone or declare them a lost cause, and always believes that redemption for someone is possible.

An excellent keeper of secrets, Lady Magnolia is highly trustworthy. She’s pious, though well aware the gods themselves have plenty of faults.

Kind, determined, and warm, Lady Magnolia is truly the world’s grandmother.

Workaholic, bit of a perfectionist, has a hard time admitting she needs help or needs a break, has a hard time letting go of people, guilt, blames herself if a student goes down a dark path or she can’t save someone, terrified of failing to protect those she loves or letting them down, can be a bit overly strict at times, her standards can be too high to meet sometimes (both for herself and others), can be too willing to forgive or trust or give a second chance, even to her own detriment. When she gets highly stressed, she becomes a bit disorganized and frazzled and her patience becomes much, much shorter, becoming a bit snappish. Too hard on herself.

## History

Other: Her best friend is Lady Leonora Lorcan, though very few people know this. Her unique butterfly shapeshift ability comes from her divine heritage, as she’s a descendant of Queen Rosilabeth Magnolia, daughter of Amadrya, butterflies being one of her sacred animals. She also has cultivated a legendary reputation as a “Fairy Godmother,” despite not being a faerie, for her tendencies to try and grant wishes, show up in people’s darkest hour when they’re most in need and help them, and generally help people towards better, brighter futures and find their Happily Ever Afters. That, and she’s been named as godmother to many, many people.