( janet montgomery, 128, cis woman ) by the gods is that JUNIPER BRYMOIRA ? the locals say she’s ENIGMATIC & PERCEPTIVE and DETACHED & OBSCURE. SHE is known for being a SEAMSTRESS. word around the tavern is that SHE HAD DECLINED WHEN OFFERED A PLACE IN THE PALACE FOR HER SERVICES IN THE WAR, but you didn’t hear it from me.
NAME: Juniper GENDER: cis woman PRONOUNS: she / her / hers AGE: one hundred and twenty-eight ( 128 ) ORIENTATION: demisexual, partial to women OCCUPATION: seamstress, weaver, merchant POSITIVE TRAITS: enigmatic, perceptive, insightful NEGATIVE TRAITS: detached, obscure, cold
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
NAME: Sionia Brymoira ( see-YON-ya bri-MOY-ra ) PREVIOUS AFFILIATIONS: rebel forces, antiregime PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS: double agent, spy, poisoner ROLES IN THE BATTLEFIELD: archer, assassin
TO OTHERS
Very little is known about the woman who lives in the cottage by the wood. She goes only by “Juniper” and has, as far as anyone can recall, lived on her own in Delos since the closing of the Blood War. Her shop, The Crimson Thread, sits close to home and is fairly modest, nondescript — the last among a row of cheerier-looking bakeries, haberdasheries, and warehouses. Far from being the only seamstress in town, she seems to have neither real need nor intention to keep her shop open regularly. She sometimes receives special commissions, and while Juniper is known to take her sweet time with these requests, the outcome is always the same: beautiful, of superior quality, and somehow inexplicably enchanting.
Tucked away from the more peopled areas of Delos, her cottage is where she appears to spend most of her time when not selling her wares. Hunters and foresters have noted seeing her walking alone within the darker corners of the forest, often with a lantern and a basket in tow. Many assume she does so to collect materials and resources for her threads and dyes, and as no one has seen anything to prove otherwise, this could very well be the case. Still, others prefer to concoct theories of their own.
Ever the enigma, Juniper is not completely without company, but even these people would have little more to say about her than what is already known.
TO HERSELF
Something inside her died in the war.
Though she may as well have been right at Death’s doors in those final days, it wasn’t the physical and bodily harm that did it. Harrowing as it was to lie bleeding and beaten, helpless inside a healer’s tent, the elf had been dying long before. Growing up under the shadow of what seemed at the time to be one never-ending war, Sionia Brymoira’s had to be many things: a poisoner, a spy, a murmur in the crowd, a knife in the dark; and in her last days, a warrior in the field. Some said it was meant to get easier with every death — the burden to lighten with every drop of poison and every slit throat — but this elf was not quite so lucky.
After the war, Sionia refused a position in the palace, instead asking that her life be her own, away from the noise of the capital. In Delos, Sionia took on a new name, one of healing, of cleansing and blessing, and retreated silently into obscurity.
RANDOM OOC TRIVIA:
Juniper is based on a D&D character I have but never quite found the right game to play with. She was meant to be a changeling and a Circle of the Moon druid, and her name at the time was Rowan!
She’s influenced by a character of the same name, as written by Monica Furlong. I absolutely loved reading Wise Child, and the way her namesake, Juniper, was characterized in the novel gave me a whole lotta Great Vibes. This character is an homage to that book ♥
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