Tindle

Name:Astral Deva
Character Name: Tindle Lorelai VanMora
Alias/Nickname:Tie
Race: Human
True Age: 19
Apparent Age: N/A
Sex: Female
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 lbs
Hair Color/Style: Golden Brown thick locks that are cut choppily and hang to about her shoulders. She parts her hair on the left side, with no bangs.
Eyes: Hazel- Warm honey color with a splay of brilliant green circling the pupil.
Marks/Scars/Tattoos: Minor childhood scars, a black tribal tattoo type mark above her right breast where Shade healed her wound. She also has some light scarring around her wrists, from metal shackles.
Physical Appearance: Tindle is by far no elegant delicate female. Her body is muscular, though not bulky, and well toned, giving her a very athletic and lean look. Built for strength and endurance Tindle is in every aspect physically fit. Her skin has a light tanned look to it, though this is her natural skin tone, which giving her flesh a warm healthy glow. Her breasts are not overtly large, about average sized. Her face is heart shaped, with an average sized straight nose, oval shaped hazel colored eyes with thick lashes and average shaped lips.
Occupation/Class: Gladiator - Demon Hunter in Training (Per her class Tindle can gain a boost in strength, but only when she is extremely angry. During this she does lose some control over her mindset.)

.:Secondary Information:.

Philosophy:
Magic Schools: N/A
Carried Possessions: Small money pouch, back pack, extra clothing, general travel needs.
Clothing and Armor: Tindle tends to wear simple loose clothing, preferable cotton tunics and blouses. Her pants are not too loose and not too snug, that are held up with a simple leather belt and tucked into her boots. Her boots are soft deep red leather that comes up to her knees. She'll often wear a dark colored cloak in colder weather. When fully geared in her armor she wears a pair of dark red leather gloves and a men’s style silver colored breastplate with a gold hawk in flight etched on the front. With this she wears a belt with small hip guards, bracers, pauldrons, ankle and knee guards, all of the same make as her breastplate. Under the breastplate she wears a dark red leather vest.
Weapons: A long sword which was purchased for her by Xeno in Ise. It is a well crafted sword, with a long double edged blade, claw like cross guard and a claw like pummel. The pummel has a slot for magite, but since Tindle doesn’t use magite Xeno placed his blue gem stone, that came from his ruined dagger, in it instead. The stone is an alchemy item, and gives the sword’s user a very slight boost to their mental focus.

.:Personal Information:.

Likes: Good food, nice music, a warm bed, good friends, laughing, stories, helping others, training, Xeno.
Dislikes: Cruel people, orcs, vampires, undead, overbearing people, arrogance, liars, Khahadi.
Merits: Compassionate, courageous, strong, magnetic persona, quick study, honest, determined, ambidextrous.
Flaws: Naive, soft-hearted, erratic, self-critical, complex (family), bold, blunt, dubious, unsophisticated, careless, stubborn, smart-ass, sarcastic, hot-headed.
Worst Fear: Dishonoring her family name, being weak and useless to those around her.

Personality: Tindle has a very big heart, although it doesn't always show. She has a wry sense of humor, an infectious smile and a presence about her, a sort of magnetic charm that people can relate to. Tindle tries to give most people the benefit of the doubt, making her a bit soft-hearted, which has caused her trouble on more than one occasion. She is still somewhat naive, having very little worldly knowledge. Despite this she is smart and learns quickly, picking up on almost anything she sees on the second try.

Tindle does have deep set insecurities about intimacy and tends to be quite oblivious to affections unless she’s confronted directly. She is very self critical, and will beat herself down more than she should. Tindle will close up when she is emotionally over-loaded, avoiding others and being generally quiet. However when pushed or cornered she can get extremely angry, even violent, and becomes a raging force of nature that no one would want to face down.

She hates it when people try to protect her or make decisions for her. This makes her feel like she’s weak, useless and a liability. This has proven to be a very difficult issue for her, given she’s had many instances where others have wrestled control of her life from her hands. Tindle struggles with her identity a great deal, wanting to prove she’s just as good as any son; however she deeply just wants to be accepted for who she is.
History:

Hestus VanMora moved to the city of Rionia with his family when he was a child. Hestus grew up in Rionia's walls, and knew what he wanted to be since he could remember... a soldier for the great city. Hestus's dream came true when he enlisted in the Rionia army and eventually became the Captain of the Rionia Guard when he was twenty-five. He spent many years in the service of Rionia, helping during the war efforts to unite the lands of Auraton. About ten years into his service he met the woman of his dreams, Elayne. She was the daughter of a wealthy merchant and an educated woman. She loved cooking with her father's imported spices and was practiced in medicine and herbal remedies. Elayne was greatly impressed with Hestus when they met, and he courted her for a year before he asked for her hand in marriage. She accepted wholeheartedly.

Retiring from his position in Rionia with honors he decided to take his wife and move north to the village of White Springs. They purchased the inn and fixed it up, and with Hestus's knowledge the small town began to flourish. He was appointed their mayor the day he found out that his beloved was carrying his child.

Tindle was born on Icedawn 4th, 3099 ADW. She was to be the only child to Hestus and Elayne, for it was said that Elayne could not survive another child birth. Tindle grew up in the village and was an energetic and helpful child. She did many things around the inn to help her parents, like carrying and stacking kegs and supplies, chopping firewood, and helping out in the kitchen. Tindle was taught everything she knew by her parents. Hestus taught her to practice the sword in her late teens, and her mother taught her how to cook, showed her useful herbs, and how to treat basic illnesses and wounds.

Growing up her best friend was a girl named Lydia. Tindle took it to heart when Lydia died from illness at ten years of age. She spent weeks in seclusion, remaining quiet and closed off. When Tindle started reemerging from her depression she was rather cold, blunt and a bit hard. She found it relatively hard to relate to other girls her own age.

From youth she hadn’t been like the typical girls, into dolls, sewing, music or art. She always dreamed of adventures, loved the stories her father would tell her of Rionia and his time there. Whenever she had spare time she would be out running in the fields, climbing trees, and playing in the forest pretending she were a knight.

Because of her indifference in girly things she would often hang out with the boys around the village, being that they liked to play games like she did. Although they were teases and poked at her strange tomboy attitude, she didn’t care. Some of the girls did play with her and talk with her, up to their teen years. It was around then the majority of the girls began to form clicks and started leaving Tindle to her own devices. There were a few who were nice to her in general, that she got along with for the most part, but she never grew close to any of them.

Tindle had developed a small crush on one of the boys when she was fifteen, Seth Byron, who was three years older than she and whom had made it a point to harass her endlessly. She didn’t let him get to her, and in fact was the only girl in the town to be impervious to his form of bullying. Gathering her wits she told Seth she liked him one day while they were out alone. Seth attempted to force himself on her. Tindle got away from him before anything happened, however, rumors in the town spread quickly- and Seth made no effort to squelch them. Tindle was mortified. It was around this time that she started having difficulty with people around the village. She faced some public ridicule at first, and so she began avoiding people as much as possible. But after several years, especially after Seth left the village, the rumors began to die down.

One day her mother sent her on an errand to find a specific herb that she had run out of. It was a good half hour walk to the part of the woods where it grew, but she had been there many times before and wanted the alone time. So Tindle took her time walkin, enjoying the fresh air and freedom of the outdoors. As she returned to her home she found the village aflame, the bodies of hundreds of people littering the bloodied streets.

Tindle went into her desecrated village to find her father's broken body surrounded by dozens of dead orcs just outside the inn’s rear door. It was apparent her father had fought bravely, but there had been too many, and he had been overcome. Her mother's body was just behind his... their hands clasped loosely together, as if they reached out to each other with their last breath. Tindle clutched the bloodied bodies of her parents and sobbed for hours as the rains rolled in, putting out the flames.

Once the tears stopped falling she went and dug a grave for her mother and father. As she set them into the earth she removed the large ring from her father's finger, her house symbol of a hawk in flight. Saying a prayer she buried them together as she knew they would want to be. She left the other villagers, for she couldn’t stomach any further death. Alone, afraid and heartbroken Tindle fled her home.

She stayed in an abandoned cabin out in the woods south-east of White Springs. This is where she met Otaka. Tindle had only seen one demon, and Otaka was a far contrast to the one she had seen years ago. She didn't think Otaka fit the beastly descriptions she had heard, despite her odd features and strange wings. Tindle had no one and Otaka didn't either. She didn’t want to be alone, and although she was wary of Otaka at first they formed a sort of sisterly bond. This is also where she crossed paths with and befriended Xeno, Ryana, Lilith, Raven, Silver and Yamatsu.

Tindle is now traveling with Xeno, practicing the sword under Xeno's tutelage. She is also in the company of Rhyn, Barell, Yadira, Renaire, Darie and Zabel. Tindle has seen and experienced many things since that fateful day in White Springs, things that have shaped her into the person she is today.

Note: More on Tindle’s story and further adventures thereafter can be found in game.

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