Sylvalia Vylaris

Princess Sylvalia Auriæla Vylaris

**Princess Sylvalia Auriæla Vylaris** is a 21-year-old 4th-year student at Lavender Moon Arts in the house Moonlit. Her colour image is white. Her icon is a treble clef tiara. She is in the subunit Silver Moon X within Urania's Mirror alongside Bunni Jane and Scarlett Storm.

## Backstory

Princess Sylvalia Auriæla Vylaris was born in Evigstrone, Vylaria, a mysterious Scandinavian country known to speak both Vylarian and English. She was born to Queen Lurielle and King Greldnar and grew up shielded within the borders of the castle with only music as her closest friend.

She was due to be born under the watch of the Warrior God Vredeirk. However, her birth ended up arriving late, and she was instead born under the watch of the Silver Unicorn Goddess Sylhjørn. While initially born with her father's black hair and blue/grey eyes and believed to be a prince, they began to change into silver and purple over her first year of life. Sharing the same physical traits as Sylhjørn herself, rumours began to emerge of her being the reincarnation of the goddess. Outcries quickly countered these rumours that Sylhjørn would never choose to reincarnate inside the body of someone they thought was not a woman.

Treated as and seen as a prince, she had continuous dreams throughout her childhood about being a beautiful princess, like her suitors. She watched as other girls got to wear the most beautiful and extravagant ball gowns while she was stuck in light trousers and waistcoats and became strangely jealous of the other women she saw at balls.

Having access to the Queen's chambers and discovering her mother's childhood clothes, one-day 10-year-old Sylvalia decided to try as many on as she possibly could, continuing her "cross-dressing" hobby in secret. Only her maid, Emmeline, knew about it.

Sylvalia's female wardrobe grew exponentially as her interest in rococo style fashion and Japanese fashion skyrocketed, even going as far as having secret photoshoots booked. However, this became harder as the more her body changed with the years, the more she grew distressed and worried, knowing that she would never have the female body she desired. She discussed this feeling with her maid, who said it was almost like she was born with the spirit of women inside her body instead of a man. This prompted Sylvalia to search about this on the internet and discovered a page about being transgender.

As Sylvalia's voice drops and she starts becoming more and more masculine, her parents began talking about her role as 'the next King of Vylaria' and 'Duke of Vredreikens', Sylvalia became more and more distressed about the future, until one day, she could not take it anymore and come out as transgender on the spot.

Sylvalia's parents responded with nothing short of forced smiles, awkward silence and a change of subject every time Sylvalia brought it up again, refusing hair cuts and waistcoats. The king and Queen frostily regarded this as a phase Sylvalia was going through, even despite Sylvalia's disruptions. They repeatedly reminded her to recognise just how much they were in the public eye and keep her 'cross dressing' hobby behind closed doors.

Two years pass and Sylvalia is still being dead-named and called 'Prince' by her parents. Sylvalia sent them videos from other countries about being transgender. The king eventually sat down with Sylvalia to say that she could not ascend to the throne if she were not a man, according to Vylarian law and tradition. Moreover, Sylvalia being an only child, she must be prepared for the ramifications. Go back to being [deadname], Duke of Vredreikens or renounce her claim to the throne. Sylvalia chose the latter, despite the look of disappointment from the entire country.

Months later, her parents announced that they were with child, later confirmed to be the next male heir to the Vylarian throne, and there is a public holiday to celebrate it. The press worldwide was obsessed with her and her unborn brother's story, whom her parents decided to name the same as her deadname. Now pubically herself, Sylvalia was faced with many fake smiles at her subsequent charity event appearances. She soon found her parents accidentally telling the wrong day or time for events or all manner of excuses to keep her out of public view. Sylvalia got the message. She shut herself in her quarters, feeling like she should be crying, but she could not remember how. Her only release was writing her feelings into music on her piano.

Maid Emmeline's heart broke for Sylvalia, especially with all the more heart-wrenching songs she wrote. Maid Emmeline suggested to Sylvalia that she start afresh in England in her cousin's school, Lavender Moon Private School, where she knows that Sylvalia will be looked after and gendered correctly and finding uses for her talent in music. The only problem is that it could be hazardous to run away behind her parents back and abandon the royal family. Sylvalia agreed very quickly to it, and the two arranged a private jet to England that night. The escape was troublesome, with the royal guard in pursuit, and was not unnoticed by the media, but they managed to board the jet just in time. Seeing the news cameramen and photographers aiming their lenses at the plane, Sylvalia knew she would never be able to go back after this media disgrace.

Sylvalia began a quiet, reserved education at Lavender Moon High, staying out of the limelight while she waited for her new private hormone replacement therapy to work its magic. She had very little luck in making friends but at least managed to find one formal tea party companion in Florent. While her school years primarily lived in the shadows, in the summer before entering her 4th year, she underwent facial feminisation surgery and gained a newfound confidence.

For almost four years now, Sylvalia has not set foot in Vylaria again.

## Personality

Sylvalia appears very elegant and untouchable. Despite the negative press in the past, she remains to stand up tall and smile with confidence. She is known to be subtly flirtatious, gliding past everyone she finds attractive, not afraid to glance into their eyes so casually, letting her 'natural' Vylarian beauty do the work (the surgery helps, though). However, from years of being an only child and being very closed off, she's known to be unintentionally cold, formal, and highly distant when it comes to a conversation. This prevents her from having any friends other than Florian, who is just as formal as her and unphased. Even around Urania's Mirror at first, she maintained her formalities and distance.

Sylvalia has admitted in the past that she has difficulties opening up to people and letting them in to see who she is inside, which is the complete opposite of how she likes to present herself. However, as she learns and grows with Urania's Mirror, she is revealed to be silly, clumsy and excitable with a goofy sense of humour. She and Bunni become surprising friends when they realise they have a similar problem with how they mask.

Spending time with Rikku and the others reveals the cracks in her armour, showing her true repressed self as a goofy and silly princess.

## Arcs

Very slowly opening up to Urania's Mirror

Learning how normal non-formal friendship works

Receiving a letter from her parents inviting her back to Vylaria to make amends, an invitation she eventually accepts. But starts to realise she misses Urania's Mirror more than she admits.

## Physical Description

21-year-old Sylvalia has beautiful incredibly long white hair reaching her knees, slim yet striking purple eyes, and small silvery straight eyebrows. Her skin is as fair as snow, standing at around 6 feet tall, with elegant stature.

Besides mainly wearing the summer uniform with dark purple tights, her typical wardrobe consists of fabulous vintage ballgowns and Lolita fashion which she stores in a large wardrobe in town.

## Etymology

* The name Sylvalia is derived from the Vylarian word for "silver", and is also similar to the Latin name "Sylvania", meaning "from the forest".
* The name Auriæla is derived from the word 'aurora', and iæla, the Vylarian word for 'song'. The Auriæla is a song sung in Vylaria to greet the moonlight aurora that occurs once a year during the Færlys Festival
* The name Vylaris is a family named passed down through the royal family, meaning "Of Vylaria".

## School classes

* Classical music
* Modern Music
* Instrumental (piano)
* Singing & composition

## Clubs and Hobbies

Sylvalia was originally part of the creative writing club before joining Urania's Mirror and doing band practice full time. She continues to be an active member of the Tea Party club however, meeting once a week to discuss the weather and drink tea.

Her hobbies include composing music, playing piano, buying new dresses, discussing Lolita fashion online, and reading fantasy novels.

Sylvalia enjoys playing video games with Peppa, Yumi and Robyn on the weekends after band practice and actively keeps score of how many times she's won battles on her own to rub it in their face. She used to only play single player fantasy JRPGs, which she regards as historical fiction games, but spends more time on multiplayer games these days. Sylvalia also secretly likes having her hand drawn on by Rikku. Despite outwardly complaining, she considers it her "tattoo for the week" until it rubs off.

## Trivia

* She is played by Sarina Aria Elysia (@princess\_sarina\_elysia)
* She owns over 50 dresses, which she keeps in her own personal wardrobe in a hired storage unit in town.
* Sylvalia has perfect pitch, but her self doubt leads her to second guess and get the note wrong
* She has very strong pro-queer views but doesn't quite know how to express them in a polite way that doesn't conflict with her image.
* Sylvalia never used social media prior to joining Urania's Mirror. Emails were the closest that she got.
* Sylvalia loves head-pats and cuddles more than anyone, but will never ever admit it.
* Sylvalia believes her white hair and purple eyes come from being descended from the silver unicorn, as all the royal family of Vylaria supposedly are.
* All official records of the royal family state her blood type to be 'unicorn' so no one knows her true biological blood type
* Sylvalia does not fully realise that most people outside of Vylaria do not believe that dragons exist.
* Sylvalia is gay. Incredibly gay. Cute girls are the biggest threat to her ability to maintain her public image, but she just about contains herself until out of sight
* Sylvalia receives piles of confession letters every week, but always gets nervous to follow up on them as she's not adept at being honest with her feelings. Additionally, the possibility that any of them could potentially be from a boy revolts her.
* If a boy asks her out in person she will politely excuse herself to the toilets to try and stop herself from throwing up.
* She is the president of the Tea Party Club with her friend, classmate, and rival band member Florian.
* Everyone believes that she and Florian dated. In truth Florian asked her to a dance as a friend, and Sylvalia misunderstood his intentions and threw up on him. Things have been awkward between them since.
* A large portion of the school believes her to be a new transfer student this academic year due to how dramatically she has changed both physically and confidence-wise, as initially she went out of her way to not be noticed before surgery and before the hormones worked their magic.