Firefly

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Mentions of **violence**, **murder** and **character death**

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*““If I jumped now I would fall. My wings are burned, the price I paid to live. Icarus died flying too close to the sun, will I be the next Icarus?””*
— Firefly

**Firefly** officially joined the AstralSMP on 04/02/2022 during the peace intermission.

He entered alone and has mostly stayed to himself, interacting with very few people. Shortly after, he ran into South, who took him on a small tour of the general spawn area.

## Biography

### Appearance

Fire is deathly pale, his skin an ashy gray colour. He has long dark blueish gray ears, and very fluffy messy white hair. He has antennae like a moth, white like his hair but tipped with the same blue-grey as his ears. He has golden goggles, the lenses tinted in a purple-gold gradient, with a compass rose stamped onto the left side, held together by a leather strap. He wears several layers of clothing (illustrated in reference). His gloves are reminiscent of a steampunk aesthetic, with a golden sun imprinted on both palms, which allow him easy access to his inventory. His eyes are an icy blue, with black sclera. He wears cream leg warmers as stand in shoes, as he doesn’t like how confining shoes or boots feel.

Fire is quite small, thin and wiry from years of living on the run. He’s about 5’2. He has large wings, although he’s unable to fly due to heat damage, leaving him grounded.

Hidden from the world under all his layers, Fire has a permanent scar on his upper torso from being stabbed. The scar goes straight through him, and is visible on both his stomach and his lower back. It’s large and unsightly, as it never healed correctly due to Fire being unaware of proper wound care at the time, and it often gives him trouble. Sometimes rendering him unable to move due to the pain.

## Personality

Fire is a kind but paranoid kid. Given the weight of the world as a young teenager he never got to be a real kid, but still isn’t an adult. He is generally friendly to all but worries himself sick over their “real” intentions, even when they really don’t have any hidden agenda. He is naïve and can be easily swayed to any side with a good argument to avoid conflict. He believes the gods abandoned him and holds a deep resentment to the sun god especially, for taking the night he loved so much away.

He is quiet and reserved, despite his trying, he’s never been able to shake his overly-helpful attitude, raised to a high standard, he was expected to be very well-mannered, and he is, even after years of that expectation being gone.

### Background

Raised as royalty, Fire grew up in a large castle, with people always coming and going. He was brought up well, with very high expectations and standards. He had loving parents, but they were under lots of stress all the time, and they could be unintentionally mean and harsh on Fire. Due to this, he developed quite severe social anxiety, and had a tendency to hide in small spaces when any large event that demanded his presence was being held in the castle.

When he was 14, an angry mob stormed the castle, dragging him and his parents out and burning the place down. Fire witnessed his parents’ execution that night, and has never quite recovered from the moment someone swung a large axe at him, only narrowly missing his head.

He ran from the crowd, covered in blood. After running for most of the night, he eventually ran into a nearby forest, but as the sun began to rise his vision worsened, and he ended up running right off a cliff. Fortunately, the drop was short. He had landed close to the mouth of a cave, and he desperately ran inside and holed himself up for several days, not daring to venture outside, terrified that he’d see the man wielding an axe standing out there.

He did eventually make his way out of the cave, starving and dehydrated. He was able to walk for a bit, just long enough to find a small camp and collapse right in front of whoever had built it, hoping that they would be kind enough to take pity on him and help.

It was almost a week before he woke up fully, he had been in and out of consciousness for several days beforehand. It was night when he finally came to his senses, and he could faintly hear the crackling of a fire nearby. He soon learned that it was a sibling pair named Pin and Allie. Pin was older than both him and Allie at 19 years old. Allie was just barely younger than Fire at 13. They had taken care of him over the last week.

He travelled with them over the next couple years, using a fake name and hiding who he truly was. Terrified they’d kill him if they found out. Scared that any town they travelled through someone would recognize him, and he’d be running for his life once more. He suffered from horrible nightmares for those couple years, he dreamt of being taken away, back to his home city, back to the man with the axe. He would be running away, but the man would always catch up. It was during one such dream that Fire’s worst nightmare became a reality, and he woke up to a sword in his stomach.

All he remembered was jolting awake, eyesight blurry, barely registering Pin towering over him, seeing him speak but being unable to hear any of the words coming out of his mouth. Eventually, the pain hit him like a stack of bricks all at once, and he vaguely registered Pin saying “. . . you lied to us. . .” Before he started crying. By the time he sat up, sword still sticking out of him, the sibling pair was long gone. Still sobbing, he regrettably pulled the sword out of his stomach, and in the moment of clarity that followed directly after, he realized he should not have done that, and promptly passed out.

In the days after, he simply laid there, wondering why he wasn’t dead yet. It was on day three that he finally found the strength to get up again. Shortly after, he discovered that he could no longer fly, the sun had burned holes through his delicate wings. He cried angrily, cursing out the Sun God, yelling at the sky not caring that anyone who might pass by could think him mad. He travelled on his own after that, slowly he decided that speaking just wasn’t worth the effort, and to the world he became mute. He stole to survive for the next few months, he played on being small and unassuming, relied on these traits to not get caught.

Eventually he started noticing that he seemed to have stumbled into a land where the sun never set. He’d heard whispers of a budding new area nearby, one that had reportedly just recently fought in a great battle. This piqued his interest, so over the next week he travelled to this supposed civilization, and decided to stick around once getting there. He mostly stayed away from the people who lived there, finding a large cave decently far away from the general area, he started building his house.

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**April 9th, 2022** - "New Beginnings"

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Fire runs into South at spawn, they exchange the usual pleasantries and Fire mentions how he had his eye on Dawn for awhile before he decided to settle in, despite "settling in" pretty far away from the rest of the SMP. South offers to give Fire a tour of spawn when he mentions he didn't really get a good look at the place when he first arrived. When South shows Fire the portal to Midnight, he asks what that is, having never heard of the place. He shows a special interest in the land where it's never day, South gets a bit worried and asks if they should continue, to which Fire agrees. South then takes him to The Spud Club area, where Fire is inquisitive about the grave he sees when he enters the Clubs' grounds. South tells him that it's technically her grave, and tells him about how she used to be North, but became South when she died. Fire quizzes her briefly about how ghosts work on the SMP, asking if everyone comes back as a ghost, South said for the most part yes. After that they move on, South calls Fire her friend, and Fire worries that she may not be being truthful, but pushes the thought away. The tour continues until they get to Skye's house, in which South tells Fire that he would likely meet Skye at some point, and says she used to be a nice person, before her anger and pride got the better of her. Fire tries to sympathize with her, saying that he's been through something similar and that no one should have to go through that. They eventually find a place to sit and South tells Fire about Streamless, and how she thinks everybody deserves a second chance. Fire tries to agree, and says he hopes she gets the chance to reconnect with him. Fire agrees with South not wanting to be involved in the fighting, and tells her she's always welcome at his house if she ever needs an "out".

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**May 1st, 2022** - "A Friend In Need"

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Upon finally returning to spawn, expecting a continuing argument, Fire instead finds Ink alone and upset about what had happened. He is wary, but knowing that Ink is still just a kid he asks if there’s anything he can do to help. Ink says she thinks it’d just be best if she could hide for now, as she thinks that Jax distrusts her now. Fire offers her to stay with him, as his house is quite far away and hidden from the rest of the SMP. Ink agrees, and they make the long journey back to his house. Once there, Fire mentions that the house is still unfinished, but has a first floor and roof to keep dry, and tells Ink she can put her stuff wherever, in the barrels already built or he could make some chests. They then part ways as Fire goes off to get her more materials to continue work on the house.

## Items

  Pin’s Iron Sword

## Pets

  Sampson
  Maverick

## Trivia

* Despite having one, Fire refuses to kill using an axe. He’ll fight with one, but will only take killing blows with a sword or other object.
* He holds a grudge against the Gods in general, but he loathes the Sun God in particular.
* He developed Haphephobia from watching his parents' execution, and Claustrophobia from hiding in a cave for several days.
* Instead of torches, Fire carries a lantern in his off hand.
* He doesn’t remember when his birthday is, due to his poor grasp on time.
* Fire doesn’t generally wear armour unless absolutely necessary, he’s hot enough in all his layers, he doesn’t need anything heavier.
* He likes keeping “odd” pets.
* He keeps a book of important coordinates, ironically, he often forgets where he’s put it.
* He is unable to fly, due to heat damage from the sun.
* He is easily manipulated, and very naïve at times.
* Fire’s voice is very soft and quiet, barely above a whisper. Even his loudest yelling is barely above a “normal” speaking volume.