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OC-tober Day 11: OC in love

My followers are so strong for tolerating a month of this on their dashes. I don’t know what proportions are.

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Character Bio: The Adust Siblings

Zerada and Jezero Adust are the two adolescent heirs of Genus Adust, a major noble family who have worked for and with Genus Sondaica for four thousand years. At the end of Book 1, they are both free and supporting Marin, but their motivations aren’t quite aligned with the human heroes. Things will only get worse.

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Name: Zerada Adust

Pronouns: She/her

Species: Elf (high nobility)

Age: 94 (19 in human years)

Special skills: talented in mind control and illusions, very charming and manipulative, skilled in politics and the games of court. Her primary weapons are daggers which can be thrown.

Appearance notes: Zerada is 5’6 but frequently wears very high heels. She looks ethnically ambiguous in the way that many elves are, with lighter skin and wavy dark brown hair. She has pale “freckles” on her face and shoulders, a genetically modified Adust trait. Her eyes are light brown or amber, and her magic is a burnt orange color. Zerada is very attractive by Western standards and dresses to make the most of it, but has a more athletic build than a stereotypical model.

Zerada is Marin’s betrothed, but would be a more capable ruler than him and everyone knows it. She’s spent the past decade hanging out in among the rich, famous, and desperate of the human world and having a pretty good time. She’s the younger daughter of Kavec Adust, who was Ishtar and Ryn’s mortal enemy. Zerada projects an image of being a genius, a femme fatale, and a vixen like the symbol of her family. In some ways she is. Zerada will beat you at poker and then use mind control to steal the rest of your money.

However, Zerada’s parents were murdered in the coup as well as a few other family members. She’s more worked up about it than she wants to admit, and deep down she is just a teenage girl going through the motions. Zerada is currently in a weeks-long situationship with Brian, though she has ulterior motives (manipulation) and it won’t last much longer.

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Name: Jezero Adust

Pronouns: He/they

Species: Elf (high nobility)

Age: 106 (20 in human years)

Special skills: Jezero is a skilled warrior specializing with curved swords. He’s also a capable politician who has survived and done well at the Conservatory for seven years. They are good with mind control and illusions, but their real talent is identifying when other people are doing the same. Even for an elf, Jezero has very sensitive hearing.

Appearance notes: Jezero is 5’10 with long limbs and the classic slender elf bodytype. He has darker skin than his sister and features that lean more East Asian and African than hers. They have tightly curled hair that they currently wear in twists dyed ombré red. Their eyes are light brown or amber. Jezero has sharp canine teeth like many elves.

Jezero Adust just got broken out of prison and he had a bad time there. Also one of his best friends got recaptured or killed in the escape while trying to be cool and rescue Sierra. They are the new Lord of Genus Adust after the murder of their parents and grandfather, and had been seven out of nine years through the Conservatory (the noble school that is also one giant shared trauma to bond the nobility together with mutual guilt and grievances) before the coup. Jezero is perceptive and bold. He hates being bound or having something weighing on him. Unfortunately, being a Lord is a pretty big weight, and so is revenge.

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Fun fact! adust is a word (archaic English with a latin origin) meaning "burnt or having a scorched color", among other things.