《 zendaya. cis-female, she/her. keep the streets empty for me – fever ray 》 oh my, there goes GUINEVERE “BONES” SAMAEL. the 26 year old LYRE is currently working at HEARTHSTONE CRYPT as the GROUNDSKEEPER. they’ve been in salem, ma for EIGHT YEARS. they are known around town as THE MEDIUM. i have a feeling they AREN’T aware of what’s going on in town, and they are NEUTRAL. hopefully, because they are known to be SELFLESS and PERCEPTIVE while also being MELANCHOLIC and DISCONCERTING, they will survive. i guess only time will tell.
aesthetics: an overwhelming fogginess, an infectious sadness, a glass shattering scream, a lone figure in the shadows
biography: selected at creation, her soul was chosen out a few to become a banshee. her job on earth was to warn mortals of upcoming tragedy. she was able to call upon spirits to help protect the area she was in. however, it was a cold, uninviting world that she was sent into. sometimes it felt like it still was. every spirit she’s encountered has told her their tragic stories and things that they never got to do or say. most of the time guinevere would try to help; communicate for them to their loved ones that often leaded to her persecution. humans did not like banshees. they feared them. every lifetime she was hunted; even when she tried hard to hide who she was.
the next couple of lifetimes she spent on the run. her lives would always end in tragedy. it wasn’t until about five lifetimes ago that she stumbled upon salem. it was an accident. after being hunted across the county, she ran into the woods. she hid there and eventually, the spirits in eastrath started calling out to her. they invited her in. she couldn’t initially see salem but was told to follow their voices until she found it. in salem, she found solace in hearthstone crypt. she became its groundskeeper and was on the lot most of the time. she really bonded with the spirits who lived there. they became like family to her.
guinevere grew old in salem but the worst part about dying was having to start over. she would be born into a new family and grow old enough to go out on her own and find salem again. she soon adopts the name bones while living in salem. the name was the only constant about her. every lifetime she comes back as a different person but the townsfolk knew it was her whenever she returned. about 15-20 years after every time bones dies, a young girl comes stumbling into the graveyard. bones quickly became the town’s medium. people would come to her to talk to passed loved ones and she enjoys doing it.
headcanons: bones basically lives at hearthstone crypt; sleeps there, eats there. although she lives in south salem, she will more than likely be at the graveyard if you come looking for her. she frequents salem city hospital when a soul calls her to help them through their journey to the afterlife. when overwhelmed, you can find her at midhaven bar and sometimes, just high passed out in the crypt.
connections: family - she has human family that she left behind in new york. her parents and a younger sister. they all got along pretty well and she left before any of them could find out that she was a banshee
miscellaneous:
“to have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.” – dorothy thompson
