Faye Rudikoff

Faye is tall for an eight-year-old, standing at four-foot-six-inches tall with long, curly, white-blonde hair. She has heterochromia - one of her eyes is pale blue and the other is a warm brown color, and she has a dusting of freckles across her chubby cheeks and button nose. She tends to wear sneakers, shorts or jeans, and t-shirts that her parents don't mind her getting dirty, or loose sweaters on cooler days: clothes that are easy for her to move around in, essentially.

## Personality

Faye is, above all else, and optimist. She doesn't let hard times get her down, and from an outside perspective it seems like nothing can effect her: which, to a point is partially true. She really doesn't care all that much about what's going on in anyone else's lives (though, she *does* fell for them, she just can't really sympathize), preferring not to let that kind of thing get her down when she could be spending her time on something else instead. That isn't to say that she doesn't care, but she's got other, more fun things to do. Like leaving the area that all those *feelings* are happening in - feelings are gross. In general, she knows next to nothing about what other people are feeling, and she isn't even that in-tune with her own emotions. She tends to feel uncomfortable whenever someone else is wearing their heart on their sleeve, or if someone just starts crying or talking to her about what's going on in their lives without any prompting then that's even worse. She prefers just going out and having fun playing her games as if nothing bad could ever happen to her or those around her, and even if something bad *does* ever happen, it's not like it won't blow over eventually, right? Really, she tends to just default to being peppy and happy when it comes to anything and everything, because what's the point in feeling anything else? While she isn't very perceptive when it comes to emotions, she is very attentive to her surroundings, and generally tends to be aware of things being off before most others unless she's distracted by something else. Most people she's close to would say that she's an energetic or at least enthusiastic girl; she's a morning person and tends to be the first one in her family to wake up, she has trouble sitting still, and she's also constantly volunteering herself for various jobs (because, well, what *else* is she gonna do during the day?). If it's something that she's assigned to do, then she'll do it - she's perfectly willing to help out the people around her in just about every aspect, even though she tends to think about it as something to keep her from being bored. She's a bubbly person that's seemingly repressing the urge to bounce around at all times, and she's always raring to go - though she does often have a question at the tip of her tongue that she'll ask along the way. Faye has a deep love of swimming, enjoying the feeling of water on her skin and in her hair, and even enjoys just getting to splash around in puddles after a heavy rainfall. At the same time, however, she tends to burn through all her energy quite quickly, and she spends quite a bit of time napping or resting, and she'll eat a bit more than most other kids her age just to keep on moving. At heat, she's a romantic, and she daydreams about settling down with someone in the far future. The *energy*this gal has. The goddamn energy.

## Dæmon

Cassiopeia "Cassie". Unsettled. Female.

She takes on a multitude of forms - lynx, ospreys, border collie, Siberian husky, finches, and macaws, and if she's around a lake then she loves to be any kind of fish, as long as she gets to swim.

Cassie's appearance can depend greatly on her mood. If she's particularly happy, then she'll be something bright-feathered, like some type of macaw or a finch. If she just feels like flying or is extremely excited, then she'll be an osprey. If she's having a lot of fun, then she'll be a border collie or a husky. If she's tired, then she'll be a lynx.

Cassie is just as social, excitable, and bubbly as her human. Voice of reason? Conscience? Nah, not in this house, man - she's just here to have fun. She, however, tends to have a better handle on emotions than Faye does, and whenever she struggles to deal with people having a hard time Cassie can't help but to feel bad for them and wish they'd gone to someone else. Mostly, though, her concerns are about keeping from being bored and, ideally, constantly having fun, as long as they're following the rules and not getting hurt as they do so.

## History

Faye's parents were immigrants from Kamchatka, and when they first moved and settled into Zakera in the Republic of Heaven when she was a baby, they were poor and struggled to fend for all three of them. She has distant memories of living life like that before she started going to school, but mostly remembers that her parents kept her happy and she never actually went hungry, and they have a far better life now than they did then, so she doesn't dwell on it. Unbeknownst to her, her parents had had to start from scratch when they moved, one working during the day and the other working nights while the other watched her until they managed to get a more stable living.