Colette Black

Fan Art of Colette by Dan V Rico

## Background

   Colette Black is a young girl who was kidnapped from her village. Colette's father asked The Unexpectables to find her and bring her back home. They eventually discovered that she had been kidnapped by Raunfalt, and after an arduous trek and a life or death fight they managed to bring her home safely.

In the two years since the party first met her, she has grown significantly and is a leader among the village children of Wolf's Den.

Colette drew a picture of The Unexpectables and it was included in a letter from her father sent to The Sweet Dragon. (See below.)

## Personality

Colette is a remarkably resilient and even tempered child, despite undergoing an experience that would have rattled many adults, and showed a great deal of empathy to Raunfalt.

## Relationships

### Payton Black and Caroline Black

Payton and Caroline are Colette's parents. She is undoubtedly the most precious thing in the world to them, evidenced by the circumstances and effects of her kidnapping. Both she and her parents were overjoyed to reunite after the events of the Raunfalt encounter.

### Borky

Borky originally frightened Colette with his morning ritual and overly enthusiastic greetings. At first, she thinks that he's an ogre before she sees him. She steadily grew more comfortable around him after he offered to share the macaroons he originally purchased in her hometown.

### Greckles

The "most beautiful bluebird" she'd ever seen, Colette took an instant liking to Greckles on first meeting him. Greckles helped entertain her with mimicry and stories as they travelled, leaving her with two momentoes when they parted ways. Colette still has his feather and daisy on the table by her bedside.

### Task

Similar to Greckles, Colette was excited to meet Task, mentioning her father read stories to her about a group of kobolds and that Task was the first real kobold she met. Task admitted he was impressed she knew what kobolds were.

### Panic Grimtongue

Colette believes Panic is a 'pretty lady', basing this on the fact Panic has long hair and is beautiful. Panic decided to take this as a compliment rather than challenge the misconception.

### Raunfalt

Despite the circumstances of their meeting, Colette described Raunfalt as being nice to her, at least during certain times. Though the two could not communicate properly due to language barriers, Colette seemed to understand that Raunfalt was remorseful for the events which lead to her kidnapping. Two years later when the Unexpectables returned to Wolf's Den, Colette recognized Raunfalt's blade in Borky's possession. Raunfalt informed Borky to let her touch the sword, presumably so he could speak to her. They communed for about ten minutes, after which Raunfalt told Borky it was reassuring that Colette's memories of her kidnapping were just memories and not ongoing trauma. Raunfalt did make one request of Borky - if he should ever find himself unable to wield Raunfalt, or felt it was the time to lay him down, that his next wielder would be Colette.

## Trivia

* Colette has a flower that, due to certain circumstances, was once a part of Greckles' body. This was a gift from Greckles himself.
* According to Payton, Colette has nearly doubled in height in the previous 6 months.