#rstd:char

[the-real-rg]

D - Devi

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[Devi’s] fall from grace had been a public spectacle that none were keen to let her forget. Despite the many years that aged its memory, the incident had even given life to her nickname in the Arena: the Devil.

D E V I ’ S life, it seems, has come full circle.

She started her life living as a street rat, painfully familiar with the gruelling grind that was living each day just trying to survive to the next. By the time she met Amator, she'd learnt to expect the worst. But he provided opportunity - one she was desperate for. She wasn't without her suspicion, it was too perfect, to convenient, but it offered her with not only a purpose but a family. People to trust and be trusted by, and that was too tempting a bait. Devi accepted.

Her reception as Amator's personal guard was cold. The people of his high society life expected her to slit Amator's throat in his sleep, and Barachiel shared the sentiment. It took them all a long, long time to understand that in giving her this chance, Amator had earned her loyalty.

Worming her way into Barachiel’s heart was tedious. He hated her for reasons she couldn't understand, turning up his nose at her whenever she entered a room by Amator's side. It was her desperation to be accepted by Amator's friends that kept her stubborn as she hacked away at his walls. With time and painfully earned understanding, she eventually came to call Barachiel her friend. Her best friend. She trusted him, they trusted each other.

And then he killed Amator - killed the man who had given them everything, who had loved them, respected them. 

She hadn’t even seen it coming.

Devi lost everything when Amator died. The man she considered a brother was dead. Her best friend was his murderer. Barachiel, ego fat with blood, considered her another object he could pluck from their home and take along with him on the next part of his plan. Devi got front row seats to the genocide of magicians, watching the slaughter from a cage disguised as a bedroom.

Then, when he got bored with her, he dumped her in the remains of Aera - a once proud nation brought to its knees by Barachiel’s power lust - and she was left to piece together the remains of her life, struggling to survive. Again.

Originally, Devi’s character intro was going to be done in the same style as Desdemona’s and Barachiel’s, but then when I started the A-Z challenge, I decided to include it under the letter “D” instead. Here’s the original moodboard I had planned to use, with Devi’s faceclaim front and centre.

[the-real-rg]

B A R A C H I E L - run says the devil

Alignment: Antagonist; True neutral

Notable: Reigning monarch of Querevage, Founder of Querevage, Silver-tongued Sociopath

Quote: “Trust that above all things I will protect myself. At present, by your side is the safest place to be.”

BARACHIEL is the master of legislation; the legal force behind the Quereven throne. Within the upper-class social circles, he’s reclusive, if charming, staying mainly to himself, confiding solely in Desdemona. Though, it has been noted by the more observant folk that he has taken a liking to the young Gemini, mentoring her in her political ambition. Though some may object to this inclusion of non-Nobel blood in the High Court, none would dare to do so in his presence. He is far too influential to anger.

His will is unshakable - undeniable - a man knows what he wants and can spin any number of pretty words to get it. Barachiel has never known failure. Never tasted defeat, evident in his confidence and in his gait. This aspect of his character was once an asset to Amator - a necromancer and the primary founder of Querevage - but has since served in the dismantling the old monarchy, and in outlawing magic in all its manifestations. For this, he is hailed as a hero in the new regime and has little to want for. Except, perhaps, for the company of an old friend.

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