Angelika

* Mien
* Mask

## Background

Born the biological son of a Swedish couple - her father a lawyer, and her mother a doctor - and later having transitioned and undergone full legal and medical gender re-assignment to become a woman, Angelika comes from a slightly chaotic and hands-off upper-middle-class family and life-style.

Having ran away from home in an act of spite following an argument, Angelika found herself wandering and seeking solace in an old abandoned industrial area. Upon finding several impeccable examples of graffiti street-art surpassing that of mundane spray-paint and tagging, she was eventually drawn to a beautifully illustrated doorway. Upon touching it, she inadvertently reached inside and made first contact with the Fae Realm - mere moments before her hand was grabbed and she was, despite her best resistance, pulled inside Arcadia all-together.

## Durance

Being pulled into Arcadia unintentionally by Evangeline Berkeley, Angelika's initial assumption of what was happening remained that of a really good - or really bad - trip, and not the existence of the magical surrealism she'd been longing for her whole life. This quickly changed however, followed their jaunt to the temple, and meeting of the True Fae Ryalto the Creator. Being intimidated into following his whim, as opposed to contracted or bribed, Angelika (as well as Evangeline) were irrevocably changed by Ryalto's hand - her back split wide-open by a crude woodworking chisel, and in her moment of unfathomable and indescribable agony, her very essence torn out of her being and molded into the amalgamation of precious jewels, metals and artistry she now is.

Her time following the change was mostly spent in panicked confusion, trying to come to terms with what happened, and establish some communication with her fellow Changelings, all the while having to act as one of the two final centerpieces of Ryalto's exhibit. Being forced to put on a display and be the art herself, rather than fulfilling her dream of creating wondrous art filled with her a bitterness fueled by her indignant fury over what Ryalto had done to her. Having to tolerate sexual harassment at the hands of one particular visiting dignitary only further enabled this anger.

Having found out the fate of Neafin's friends, former exhibits themselves, and seeing a chance to escape, she - along with the rest of the to-be Motley - escaped Ryalto's slice of Arcadia shortly before their third planned exhibit.

During the course of her stay in Arcadia, she documented several personal details of her own identity and person, having quickly come to realise she was losing memories and forgetting details of her own life. This note-taking was the only means with which she could recover her own surname, after losing it to the Hedge's biting thorns, upon their escape.

## Appearance

### Mien

Angelika is a very tall, but ultimately also thin changeling - underweight for her size, but the Fae sculpting of her body leaves her looking lithe and slender in a way not entirely human, thin in a way that looks like she might crumble if she weren't supernatural. She posses a youthful look that places her at around 20 years old. Her skin is pale and reminiscent of an opal, by itself pale enough to reflect light quite brightly, a fact which is accentuated by its bright reflection of gentle swirling aurora-borealis patterns and dazzling prismatic lights, when struck directly by a strong light source. Her hair is a rich gold - in the colour, in the way it shifts from brightness under the right lighting - but it also looks and feels like genuine, oddly flexible and resilient gold.

Her eyes have an oddly crystalline look to them, upon close inspection - like a pair of gemstones. Cyan blue, to her, strikingly bright, but the color is malleable to the interests of whomever observes her. Devoid of iris or pupil, tracking her gaze can sometimes be tricky or unnerving. Her fingernails are very literally made of pearl.

Her blood is colourless, looking like sparkling crystalline water filled with flecks of diamond - and tasting notably of champagne if ingested. Potential intoxication is yet to be established.

### Mask

Angelika looks like a normal, albeit extremely attractive 20-ish year-old woman. She has blonde long hair, piercingly bright blue coloured eyes, and a notably pale skin-tone - though as with her belonging to the Romancer kith, minute changes and details of her appearance, such as facial structure, eye colour and makeup, does adapt to that of the observer's ideal, meaning practically no-one see her as she truly is. Her appearance is additionally eerily perfect, smooth and flawless, the kind of symmetry that could be expected from the works of a fussy perfectionist, which might be notable to an eagle-eyed observer.

## Personality

A caring but sensitive and tortured soul, Angelika has dealt with several substance-related problems in her past, coping with depression, a general malaise of the coldness of reality and her changing life in the face of undergoing transitional sex-change treatment, therapy and HRT. Enamored with art depicting the bizzare and fantastical, particularly the Surrealist art movement, she was initially both as amazed as she was terrified upon the gradual realization that magic is very much real. This reaction however, was swiftly beaten down on realizing that the fantastical world of the Fae is in many ways as cruel as that of the real one - and in others, far more so. She tries to maintain a positive outlook and a cheery demeanor, particularly in believing until recently that she was the oldest member of the Motley, but there are cracks in her facade showing.

Prone to anxiety in the face of the genuine unknown, despite her art fascinations, she has until recently taken a very cautious approach to any action, but is starting to ease up and adopt a more laissez-faire approach to the situation the Motley is in - if only beause of the ceaseless caution wearing her down. Likewise, as time marches on, she has not been growing into her own or moving on from the hand she has been dealt, instead ruminating and dwelling on everything she has lost and what comparatively little she has gained. Struggling in the face of depression, she tries to push these problems aside through the combined distractions of drinking, trying to one-up her own newly-improved artistic talents, and the latest escapades the Motley faces.

## Abilities and Powers

### Contracts

- Reflections: ●●○○○

- Hearth: ●●○○○

- Forge: ●●○○○

- Thorns and Brambles: ●○○○○

### Merits

- Hollow: ●●●○○

- Striking Looks: ●●

- Taste: ●

- Area of Expertise (Painting): ●

- Interdisciplinary Specialist (Painting): ●

- Professional (Artist): ●●●●○

- Workshop (Art atelier): ●○○○○

- Resources: ●○○○○

- Brownie’s Boon: ●

- Harvest (Love): ●●○○○

- Court Goodwill (Autumn): ●○○○○

- Court Goodwill (Winter): ●●○○○

## Relationships

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## Possessions

* Donated (and purchased clothing) clothing
* Backpack, adorned with multiple pins
* Small funds (Swedish currency)
* Black Umbrella (19th Century)
* Silver-tipped fountain pen + Ink
* Painting Tools (Atelier workshop, airbrush tools)
* Play manuscript; Pygmalion (by George Bernard Shaw)
* Slip of Paper (*"Mein lieber schatz")*
* Brass Letter Opener
* Fur collar mantle (white fox/mink)
* Vintage coins (x2 1837 dimes, x1 1776 dollar)
* Map of Berlin (19th Century)
* x3 Tickets, Berliner Zoo (19th Century)
* Multiple paintings and painting supplies
* Glass Bottle of Sol
* Ivy-wrought whip?
* Framed picture of drawing of Eva
* Custom-made fountain pen

AngelikaAngelika's Mask - though facial details vary from observer to observer.Approximation of Angelika's Mien - her actual skintone being paler, more reflective and with gemstone eyes