Rime

Rime is a member of the High Winter Court. Her family is in charge of designing the snowflakes that fall during winter; however, Rime's strengths lie in other directions and she finds the pressure of coming up with brand new designs every time unbearable - often reusing old designs and getting into trouble. Her parents view her as a disappointment and have recently sent her to live at Fryst's house to be steered in the right direction.

Because of the pressure of her parents and her position, Rime is easily intimidated by High Court folk of all courts. Her reaction to being scared is to be overly nice to (read: flirt with) those intimidating her until they leave her alone. This rarely, if ever, works.

## History

Rime is an only child to two Winter Court nobles who are in charge of snowflake design. They put great emphasis on aesthetic, elegance, grace, and artistry, all things that Rime seems to have inherited none of. Growing up, her parents put great pressure on her to follow in their footsteps and constantly accused her of not trying hard enough or staying focused when she failed to live up to their expectations. Early in life, her first instinct when things got scary or unpleasant was to run away; her parents beat it into her head that running was unacceptable, so she developed a habit of being (what she considered to be) overly kind until the situation became less stressful. And her "kindness" has the unfortunate side effect of coming across as overt flirting.

As she aged and it became apparent that her lack of abilities was not simply due to her being a late bloomer, her frustrated parents sent her to go live in Fryst's house to be shown what true discipline looks like. This backfired a little as instead of learning discipline from Fryst, she ended up bonding with Talvi and skipping off from their duties, taking to either entering the human world and having snowball fights with kids or wandering into the woods.

One night, their woods wanderings brought them to the strange, dark door of Ragna. Though her demeanor was strange, she was hospitable to them and they returned often, until Talvi's kidnapping. It feels strange to try to go alone, so she visits less often these days.

## Abilities

Rime is physically able to create snowflakes - however, the designing and actual execution of them seems mostly beyond her abilities.

## Relationships

### Talvi

Rime's cousin, and the only family member she has who's not disappointed in her. They used to shirk off duties together until he got kidnapped. Now Rime is trying without much success to help him remember who he was.

### Fryst

Rime's much older cousin, who was tasked with teaching her how to be a proper high court winter fae. (She's got her hands full.) Rime is terrified of disappointing her - and just terrified of her in general. She's aware of what Fryst is capable of.

### Ragna

A cryptic fae Rime and Talvi met in the woods. Rime's fear of her is different than most - she treats Ragna with a certain wary reverence and respect after misinterpreting one of her strange utterances as a prophecy that came true. She is also convinced Ragna is lonely and is constantly trying to do nice things for her without stepping on her cryptic toes. These are rarely, if ever, things Ragna actually needs...but it's the thought that counts, right?

### Thalia

Thalia was once responsible for babysitting Rime. They lost touch when Rime became old enough to look after herself, but they reconnected once Rime began living at Fryst's. Rime has very strong feelings for Thalia but has had trouble expressing it. Because Thalia is familiar, and also not high court, Rime isn't scared of her and thus talks to her like a normal person, which unfortunately doesn't lend credibility to her feelings. Mostly her nature, disposition, and work ethic just seem to put Thalia off.

### Cillian

At a cross-court function, Cillian mistook her "kill em with kindness" gambit and assumed Rime was heavily flirting with him. It wasn't until they spent a night together that Rime acknowledged Cillian wasn't "actually that scary." They are friends now, and often spend nights together. Rime is under the impression that this is a normal facet of their friendship and doesn't see how it could cause anyone any problems.

## Trivia

* Rime is extremely tone deaf. It's one of the few things she's ashamed of.
* Some of the other things Rime is bad at that she's not necessarily ashamed of: knitting, reading a room, talking to people, her job
* Rime is responsible for the late spring snowstorms that sometimes happen. It's definitely entirely because snowflake design is hard and not at all because she slacks off.
* Has a fondness for chocolate.
* A golden retriever in fae form.

## Original Meme

Often caught reusing snowflake designs. The shame!