cypress [parents surname]-asphodel they/he ftm
tiefling, half?
bard, multiclass rogue?
cast-out prince (second-born)
twin of popple
-cypress is a bastard (?)
-the genes really said fuck this guy in particular @ cy and racist royals were like oh no our [reputation] and abandoned him
-their mother had a 'few' tief ancestors but most visual traits have mostly faded out (files down small antlers and her eyes are greener than a normal humans). the pregnancy had complications and mother prayed to [a tief god] to save the twins. TG was like ye i can do that but it Will cost yr life. mom was like idgaf just save my kids. TG is like hell yeah that's rad i'll bless them too
-they r born healthy and whole. mother (queen) dies. cy comes out (second-born) Very Visually tiefling and the king is like blah blah blah cursed child killed my wife raaah and tosses him out, doesn't tell the princess about him when she's older
cy was blessed with the full tief genes for the purpose of being raised in a loving and fulfilling manner, he was cast out but because of that he got to love and be loved and live in ways that he wouldn't of had had he been raised a prince(ess)
mothers name was narcissa, named cy. the nursemaid was there when narcissa named them and thus knows their names. she got cy out and checked in on them occasionally which is why they know their name. she told princess her real name before she was executed and also that she had a twin her father ordered executed at birth bc he was cursed. didn't say how he was cursed tho, maybe implied it was visually noticible
Asphodel will be their mothers maiden name idgaf we're really leaning in to the aesthetic. popple takes it, cypress hypenates it with whatever their parents was
nanny gave cypress to an older couple who died when he was in his teens. they loved him a lot and were great. encouraged him to do music bc it made him happy. they were poor and cy got into petty theft to try to help provide when busking wasn't enough. maybe one of them was long-term sick and they couldn't afford medicine
ultimately was homeless for a bit but got pretty good at barding and stealing when needed. a traveling bard took them as an apprentice when adopted parents died
i think that would be around mid-teens, and then the king finds out about them when the twins are 18/19
im thinking king got progressively worse and was very anti non-humans and had the nursemaid/nanny killed bc [he somehow finds out she didn't have cy killed like he ordered. this is when princess runs away. she still doesn't know cy is her brother, but maybe has figured out she had a twin.
cypress has no idea why hes getting assassination attempts. runs. princess stows away on the ship cy [legally but only barely] takes to get away from whoever the king sent to have him killed. the ship is attacked by pirates.
popple and cy take down the pirate captain who the rest of the pirates were already planning on killing soon [princess does most of the work] and they're like hell yeah do yall wanna join? he was doing some shitty things and we wanna be Good Pirates and only rob rich assholes, cy and princess are like Hell Yeah
their antlers mach their eyes and the vest shirt thing is probably white
also has gold bangles on the antlers. very shiny for a rogue