World of Blessings [WIP]

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Fye's powers emerged long before her Naming, the child that was called Amber found herself surrounded by a ring of fire where there was once a ring of clover. Perhaps it had been the fault of her older brother, teasing her about her crush on a Earth Blessed who was kind to her in school. Frose—an Ice/Snow Blessed—was always teasing her on a multitude of subjects, from her hair to her clothes which were just hand-me-downs of his altered to fit a girl to how she chose to try and make her speech sound less "country". One moment she was searching the patch for four-leaf clovers, then flames three feet high for a few seconds before suddenly a snowbank blanketing her and the ring in the middle of summer.

So her childhood ended at the ripe age of 8, Amber was no more and Fye was who stepped out of the Naming Circle that evening. That night she spent in tears; dreams of burying her face in flowers, a larder full of food she'd grown herself, and a home smelling of fresh cut pine all burst into flame. Sure, she could enjoy all of those things without the aid of her Blessing, but it didn't fit into the plans made by an 8 year old. Not to mention the wrench it'd thrown into her Shadow and Water Blessed parents' plans of matching her to another Shadow Blessed lad, hoping to throw her Blessing that way. If she had likened to him, anyway, and they didn't know of her fondness for the Earthen boy.

But Blessings rarely went the way that others planned them.

Blessings have been around since the earliest days of their people, very few Blessed are able to pull of Great Works. Mostly everyone seems to be at the same levels of abilities; and while one Blessing might be able to combine strength and skills with one of another Blessing, multiples of the same sort never seem to do more than their individual abilities allow. One's heritage never dictates what kind of Blessing you'll find yourself with, two Light Blessed might turn out a Time Blessed. You might find your Blessing early or late, though it is unusual, but there's one thing for sure...

No one has ever gone past the age of 18 without receiving their Blessing. Everyone is Blessed.

Or are they...

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speech

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1. What does this character's voice sound like? High-pitched, deep, hoarse? Low, for a lady, but not terribly low. Still pleasant to the ears, a rich alto tone when she chooses to sing.

2. How does she normally speak? Loud, soft, fast, evenly? Does she talk easily, or does she hesitate? There's plenty of hesitation normally, except for when she's angry or excited. That's when the words just tend to bubble up inside her and spill out without order.

3. Does the character have a distinct accent or dialect? Any individual quirks of pronunciation? Any, like, you know, verbal tics? She's tried her best to tune the "country" out of her voice—or at least what she takes that to be. Mostly she's just succeeded in giving herself an accent/dialect that sets her apart from her home village. Which suits her just fine.

4. What language/s does she speak, and with how much fluency? Given how remote her home village is, chances are that she speaks anything other than Common (English equivalent) are very slim. There might be a few High (Latin) phrases here or there, but mostly only identifying terms for plants.

5. Does she switch languages or dialects in certain situations? As mentioned in #2, excitement or anger tend to make her words spill out and her accent/dialect falls back to her home village's.

6. Is she a good impromptu speaker, or does she have to think about her words? She takes her time...most times, thinking about an answer if it's somewhat of a touchy subject. It's not in her to try and rile someone's anger and in turn rile her own on purpose.

7. Is she eloquent or inarticulate? Under what circumstances might this change? Again, referencing #2 and #5 of this section for circumstances. But for the most part she's somewhere in the middle of the two, leaning more heavily to inarticulate when it's a new situation/feeling. She has grown up in the country, rural areas, and so formal education one might get in a more city-like area is vastly different.