Appearance is the one of a human-faced TEF deer, with blue eyes, dark hair and long pointy ears. Her fur is pale cream with white and golden markings, a white belly and darker legs. Hooves are white. Also tend to shapeshift into a feral-faced deer, most often wearing a part of a skull on her face, while at other times can be completely skull-faced. This is only some examples of the ways she can use forest magic to alter her looks.
born as the result of a secret love affair between a minor norse god and a giantess from Jotunheim. Brought to the forest shortly after birth for her own safety, disguised as one of many orphaned fawns that would often appear in the forest.
in her youth, Nimh grew up among many strong and impressive creatures and she aspired to one day become just as strong and a great warrior like they were. Numerous vicious battles among loved ones put an end to that however, and the young one soon grew to loathe battles and fighting.
she rather tried to be a peaceful creature who would attempt to see things from both sides without being judgemental of either - with mixed results.
made some very bad decisions in life which had her plunge into a black hole of guilt and self-loathing. Managed to fight her way out of it eventually, but the whole ordeal has left her rather insecure about herself and with a somewhat weak mind.
avoids any confrontation if possible, but will stand her ground if there is no other way out.
friendly and inviting to strangers, judges out of personality rather than appearance and will welcome most creatures into her company.
tries her best to be loyal to loved ones, and to be there for them should they need someone to lean on or talk to.
Nimh was perhaps born outside of The Endless Forest, but the forest has still grown to be her true home. As she grew up, Nimh had dreams and visions about the world she came from, then without knowing what those dreams meant, if anything. Later - as she finally was introduced to portals that could take her out of the forest - she was able to meet her true parents and learn why they had brought her to the forest in the first place. Understood why they had done it and was glad she got a chance to meet them and talk with them, but at the same time did realize that if she should one day get an opportunity to go live with her parents, she would probably chose to rather stay in the forest. For now may visit other worlds for a shorter or longer periods of time, but The Endless Forest is and will always be her true home, a home she will return to sooner or later no matter how long it takes.
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alice Not related by blood, but a mother all the same. Grateful for all the love and support she's been given by the doe over the years, loves unconditionally.
morgûl Alice's mate, adored and respected.
mika Viewed as a sister. Deeply missed, will never forget.
róta Viewed as a sister, though made some terrible decisions that ruined what once was. Rarely approach out of respect for the other one, but will always adore and try to come to her aid if needed. tho probably wouldn't be of much use since róta is a better fighter than her anyways :sweat:
kiosydan Viewed as a brother, have had their ups and downs but always managed to work things through. Loves.
snorri & lifa The youngest children of Alice and Morgûl. Met only briefly shortly after their birth, but already adores. Almost hesitant in involving herself in their life in fear that history will repeat itself.
ridera Friend from childhood, and one of her closest ties. Sister figure.
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umay The first creature she met within the forest. Time may pass between the moments she get to see the lioness, but her adoration for Umay will never fade.
rojan One of her closest ties within the forest. A childish crush that grew into something more, longed for for years until she finally had to voice her feelings for the chimera. This lead to a difficult time with lots of ups and downs, in the end is just glad she didn't lose Rojan as a friend during it all, while at the same time finds it difficult to let go of the feelings she has even though she knows they could never be.
aurora A gentle doe that helped Nimh though some of her darkest times. Is eternally grateful for that, adores.
kody Aurora's partner. Doesn't know him well but respects and likes.
kuwaka Met Kuwaka for the first time when he was just a small cub. Immediately took a liking to, and as he grew has grown to become a close friend. Doesn't see him as often as she used to, but always appreciates the time she get to spend with him.
lycaon Friend from childhood, once one of her closest ties. Will never forget, hope she will see him again someday.
adayti Friend from childhood, will never forget and hopes she will see her again someday.
echo One of her first friends within the forest, hasn't seen in a while but will never forget.
sloane Once a close friend, still cares deeply for despite everything. A source of quiet longing, but has accepted things as they are.
rhea An acquaintance that has grown into a relaxing and pleasant company. Enjoys to be with.
bohdiciea Unknowingly helped bring her to life with a drop of blood. Watched over when Boh was a fawn, grew more distant over time but will always adore.
grete Fellow troll and partner in crime during her childhood.
creüsillana Friend, tried not to let her own opinions of the doe waver despite seing the hurt Rojan was put through. Deceased, grieves for.
My characters is always IC. Their actions are theirs alone and does not reflect my opinions as a player. I do however take responsibility for their actions, so please contact me on the character biography or discord (Valkyrie#7470) if the actions of my character somehow bothered or upset you. If there is something about my character's behavior you don't understand, reading their condition, thoughts, mood and recent happenings can give you a heads up about what's going on, or you could just ask me if I haven't updated the character profile lately :')
Haha, welcome to my world. c'x
There have been a few many times I believe I've tracked something, and realize much later I haven't tracked it at all. ;;
Pfft, better late than never. c:
So did Nimh! n_n She had to take Róta back to the others though, because I have to go soon and didn't want to leave her all alone when Nimh went poof, lol.
Oh hello. n_n
Nimh had a great time romping with Bynight as well, she was so sweet with all the kids. And it was fun interacting with one of your characters. c:
My apologies for running this cutie over with my OOC :< Didn't realize it was her at first when I went to use her for pelt spells /sob appreciate the nuzzles tho ;;
No need to apologize. ;; I would have let her stay asleep if I had known, but I had just been afk and kinda just woke her up immediately when I returned - and too late realized your OOC came over to get a spell. D:
La plopped down on a flat rock near the young doe. "Hope you don't mind me sitting with you," she said, lifting a back leg to scratch an itch behind one of her ears. "But I've been running all over the place and it got me tired. How's your day been?"
A ridiculously long ear gave a twitch at the sound of someone settling down nearby, before Nimh turned her head to have a look at the other one. She had seen the other one around before - but never greeted properly - and a polite smile found it's way to her lips. "Not at all." She replied, while shifting to find a better position. The Ruins didn't really offer the best surface to sit on. "My day has been rather quiet, unlike yours at the sound of it." Another smile, followed by a slight chuckle. "It could seem the rutting deer are taking a break today, or perhaps I've just missed the action." She added, hoping the other one would know what she was talking about. Nimh hadn't know anything about rutting until very recently.
"Well it seems like it's one of those days where people are determined to make their own action. I think you're right though, that the rutters are taking a break. Not too surprising really, they spend days running around crashing into each other and stressing out over their little party groups, they need some time off." She tucked her front legs underneath her and let out a heavy sigh as she relaxed. "Saw some folks still doing it today even with no one around for them to try to impress. Guess this--I dunno, this holiday I guess I'd call it--works people up."
Like Nimh, La was still developing an understanding of The Rut's place in The Forest and what it's relevance was to her life. She saw it most as an ongoing festival or holiday for sports.
True. Nimh was very familiar with those kind of days. It was how her days usually had been before the rutting began and the blood began to boil in the veins of several individuals. Nimh could feel her own blood boiling, though she couldn't quite explain the feeling. It wasn't pure lust, the primal urge to carry on one's genes - no, she was too young for that kind of stuff. It was excitement, perhaps, like she was affected by how everyone was behaving, how social the forest suddenly was. Yes, it was exciting. "They have indeed spent a lot of energy during the last days." Nimh agreed with a nod of her head. Sometimes watching challengers and competitors made her itch to join them, and Nimh would certainly have taken the role as a challenger every now and then - if she had only been bigger, stronger... and had a pair of antlers. She shook her head, and then tilted it curiously towards the other doe. She was using some strange words. 'Folks', 'holiday'. But she understood the meaning of the words, so she didn't ask about them. At least not now.
"My name is Nimh, by the way." The other one's true name was easy enough to recognize, but it was always nice to have a spoken name to add to someone's faces, to have someone to call them by at a later time.
"I'm La," she replied. Her pictogram blinked bright once out of pride, a visual introduction of her proper noun. She could recognize Nimh's true name, but appreciated now having the sound for it and not just the image.
"I'd play along with them," La said of The Rut, "Maybe get someone to help me get some spells to toughen me up--metal mask and pointy antlers, I guess--but I'll be honest, I'm a wimp."
She smiled at her self-deprecating humor, always one to laugh at her own failings. "I'd come in last place every time, wouldn't have anyone to keep me company! So it's easier to just hang out and party when everyone gets together as a group. I like it. I like people."
La, that was a name that should be easy enough to remember. Nimh gave a nod, as if to let the other one know she had caught the name. For a moment her gaze swept across the area, but it seemed quiet still. No stags bellowing, no thundering sound of hooves and antlers clashing, so her attention was soon back on the other doe.
Using forest magic was perhaps not a bad idea. Nimh could consider gaining antlers that way to the next Rut, if she would still be just as interested in joining the challengers. She then grinned towards La. "Sounds to me like you could have been able to use your wits as an advantage instead of pure strength." Nimh had observed the rutters, and had quickly realized that it was more to it than brute force. Being clever could get you just as far, if done right. "But I agree with you, it's nice to just hang out. I've meet a lot of new faces after the Rut began, and I hope I'll continue to see at least some of them when it's over."
La contemplated quietly for a moment, her eyes narrowing as if perhaps she was looking at something far away. "Maybe if I dug a hole and then got them to fall in. But then I'd risk them breaking bones. I dunno if it's worth it, you know. Not for me, at least."
After a moment of fidgeting and shifting she expanded on her motives, "The prize of winning or doing well is impressing people. But that's not really my thing anyway. I feel like I can do that well enough by talking. And yeah, I think that most people are still gonna be around. I imagine most of them live here and aren't planning on bouncing back to some other plane of existence when it's all over."
The mental sight of rutting deer tumbling down into holes dug in the ground made Nimh smile, though she had doubts the sight would have been just as funny if it had been real. "I think digging those holes would have been a bit too time consuming... and, as you said, the risk of someone breaking a bone." A smile lurked in the corner of her mouth after she silenced again, listening as La spoke, giving nods in agreement.
"If I should have been out there fighting and gathering a herd, then it would have been for the thrill of it, not to impress anyone." Nimh could understand why many of the stags were fighting; to impress, for the opportunity to pass on their genes. This was very serious to them, while others - like her - seemed like they joined the rut more for the fun of it, to socialize.
A frown then appeared on her face, as Nimh began to ponder about a certain part of La's sentence. "What do you mean, most of them live here?" She asked with a tilt of her head. This forest was all Nimh knew, and so far she had assumed it was just the same for everyone, it hadn't crossed her mind that it could be other places. But then again, she had one time had this strange dream of scenery that had looked nothing like the forest. There had been snowy mountains, green fields and things that looked like they were made of gold shining in the sun. Nimh hadn't even tried to make sense of the dream, it had been too strange. But at the same time impossible to forget.
"As endless as The Forest is," La said, "There's still more outside of it. Some people come in and out of The Forest, and they come from all kinds of strange places. Sometimes they come here and stay. That's why sometimes you see people with long faces, or with paws instead of hooves or things like that."
La indicated the hewn stone they were sitting on with a pointed nod of her head. "These things weren't made my nature and they weren't made by Deer. Humans--that's another kind of non-Deer person--made 'em. But there are no humans here now, as far as I know. At least none that look human."
She looked at Nimh encouragingly. "I'm from here. Created out of nothing here, grew up here... but I've left a few times. Only briefly though. It's amazing what's beyond."
Wonder and confusion was clear on the young doe's face, and again she gave a slight tilt of her head. It had never occurred to her that there was a reason for all the different creatures of the forest. Everything was just as normal in her eyes; all from winged creatures to clawed creatures to skull-faced creatures. And if someone came and went from this place... how did they do that? Nimh had during her time in the forest realized that if you ran in one direction you would eventually end up back where you started, no matter which direction you ran in. She had never crossed a path or anything that could lead to a different place.
Nimh lowered her head to the stones she sat on when La mentioned them, and she picked up the word human, though it didn't really tell her that much. The way La said she had appeared here sounded very similar to how Nimh had appeared. Just out of nothing, with no parents standing guard over her when she first opened her eyes and blinked in the sharp sunlight. But she had found a mother later on, at least.
She was quiet for some time, trying to let everything sink in while many questions swiveled around in her head. Finally she was able to grasp one she could ask out loud. "How can someone go out of the Forest? I've never seen a path out. Everything goes in circles." The thought of a world beyond the Forest was overwhelming, exciting and a bit scary. It sounded like things she had never seen or even heard of was out there... like golden halls and snowy mountains.
"I don't know," La said apologetically. "But there are a few people here and there who can step between worlds, or who can open up a tunnel to connect them. Most people can't walk there. I think that there are a lot of ways to do it but the common denominator is magic.
"I think of it like this. I can walk forwards, backwards, left, right, and any combination of those directions. But, if someone falls asleep in a mushroom circle and turns me into a bird, I can also go in two new directions: up and down. When I left The Forest it felt like moving regularly, I was just going in a brand new direction I never knew about, that I can't see."
La decided that was a good time to pause. Judging from Nimh's face she'd dropped quite a lot of information onto her shoulders for her to think about. She smiled reassuringly to the young doe.
The fact that you couldn't simply walk out of the forest, but had to use magic made it even more complicated - at least in Nimh's head. As the other one mentioned being turned into a bird, Nimh raised her gaze upward, to the skies. She had been turned into a bird once, but she had never tried to fly above the treetops. Perhaps that was possible, to fly out of the forest and into another place? But then how would you come back? The thought og being 'locked' out of the forest, away from friends and family, was so terrifying she shook it away immediately.
"I think I understand what you mean. At least some of it." It was as if her mind was shaping images of how it worked, but those images was too difficult to explain with words. Then she suddenly remembered something, and stretched out her left leg in front of her, to look at the bracelet tied around it. When her mother had given it to her, she had said something about a different world. Nimh had wondered about it back then, but had been too young to speak properly. But now she could ask what her mother meant about it. "This is from another place, I believe. My mother gave it to me." She explained to La, with a nod towards the bracelet, smiling.
La leaned in until her face was centimeters from the bracelet, doing her best to identify the materials and the symbol. "This definitely looks human-made," she commented, and La certainly felt that she had the qualifications to make such a determination. "Someone needed hands, fingers, and tools to work the metal and make the cord.
"I don't know the language of that symbol, though," La went on. Everything she could read used either the Latin or Greek alphabets. "It could be a word, a name, or an entire sentence, for all I know. Humans don't have their names floating above their heads like we do--it's a little bit sad, actually--so some of them like to wear words and symbols on them to help show other people who they are. I know I would if I were them."
Nimh perked her ears, curious of what the doe would have to say about the bracelet. It was quite strange, to think it had been made by creatures Nimh had never seen. She tilted her head again. "What is that? Hands, fingers, tools?" She asked curiously. Nimh had heard of hooves and paws, but couldn't recall having heard about hands before.
The bracelet had inspired her to attempt to make trinkets of her own, using bird bones and pond reed, but it was very difficult with hooves, and the one thing she had managed to make - with the help of a lamb named Maximus - didn't look half as good as this bracelet. Nimh had wanted to make gifts, for her mother and her siblings, but so far she hadn't managed to make anything pretty enough to give away. Perhaps one needed hands to do that. Or tools. The thought was quite disheartening.
"Perhaps it's my name." Nimh suggested, with a smile to hint that she was only joking. It didn't really matter that she didn't know what was written on the bracelet, it was beautiful anyway. For a moment she thought about those humans again, without having a true name floating above their heads. The world outside the Forest sounded like a very strange place.
name NimhCírnimh, Thyrna, Nimeria. Goes by Nimh in the forest.
what a cutie patootie
edit: nailed it.
Pixel by Shadowfly ♥
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I would love to throw my
Woah, suddenly comments, lol.
Xemi;
Shame on u. :c
Naah, just kidding, thanks for tracking now. ♥
Revtheyr;
Thank you! :')
Pandoris;
Eee, thank you so much. ♥
pagethief :0
ROFL XEMI
NikaGika;
Please do, I would love some interactions! :'D
I kept wondering why I never
Haha, welcome to my world.
There have been a few
manytimes I believe I've tracked something, and realize much later I haven't tracked it at all. ;;I don't believe I've tracked
Rota enjoyed their little adventure today. c:
Pfft, better late than never.
So did Nimh! n_n She had to take Róta back to the others though, because I have to go soon and didn't want to leave her all alone when Nimh went poof, lol.
Oh look another cute fawn.
Oh look, I used the wrong
Oh hello. n_n Nimh had a
Nimh had a great time romping with Bynight as well, she was so sweet with all the kids. And it was fun interacting with one of your characters. c:
OH YEAH! She finally grew
I'm so happy ;; Adore ♥
Yeah, she's at least a little
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Youuu. ♥ Pfft, BRING
My apologies for running this
No need to apologize. ;; I
Haha its plenty alright ;; We
Awesome new background image!
she's growing so fast, oh lordThank you. ♥ Pfft, I
You're lucky you only weigh
^Annnd idk why there's a
A SIZE*. DAMNIT. stupid
tracking!
hiyo sweetie
Watching this pretty.
Jala; U mad bro? c: Lol, for
U mad bro? c:
Lol, for now. *imagining grown-up Nimh attempting to sit on Joro's back* x'b
Awentia, Keepiru, Fmn;
Thank you! ♥
Jezabelle was pretty happy to
I was fangirling internally
Track!
Thank you. n_n ♥
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Hello there, and thank you.
-parks truck-
No trucks in here. >c Well,
Well, okay, I'll allow it this time since it's you. c:
(Found ya at the ruins) La
La plopped down on a flat rock near the young doe. "Hope you don't mind me sitting with you," she said, lifting a back leg to scratch an itch behind one of her ears. "But I've been running all over the place and it got me tired. How's your day been?"
( Oh hello n_n ) A
A ridiculously long ear gave a twitch at the sound of someone settling down nearby, before Nimh turned her head to have a look at the other one. She had seen the other one around before - but never greeted properly - and a polite smile found it's way to her lips. "Not at all." She replied, while shifting to find a better position. The Ruins didn't really offer the best surface to sit on. "My day has been rather quiet, unlike yours at the sound of it." Another smile, followed by a slight chuckle. "It could seem the rutting deer are taking a break today, or perhaps I've just missed the action." She added, hoping the other one would know what she was talking about. Nimh hadn't know anything about rutting until very recently.
"Well it seems like it's one
Like Nimh, La was still developing an understanding of The Rut's place in The Forest and what it's relevance was to her life. She saw it most as an ongoing festival or holiday for sports.
True. Nimh was very familiar
"My name is Nimh, by the way." The other one's true name was easy enough to recognize, but it was always nice to have a spoken name to add to someone's faces, to have someone to call them by at a later time.
"I'm La," she replied. Her
"I'd play along with them," La said of The Rut, "Maybe get someone to help me get some spells to toughen me up--metal mask and pointy antlers, I guess--but I'll be honest, I'm a wimp."
She smiled at her self-deprecating humor, always one to laugh at her own failings. "I'd come in last place every time, wouldn't have anyone to keep me company! So it's easier to just hang out and party when everyone gets together as a group. I like it. I like people."
La, that was a name that
Using forest magic was perhaps not a bad idea. Nimh could consider gaining antlers that way to the next Rut, if she would still be just as interested in joining the challengers. She then grinned towards La. "Sounds to me like you could have been able to use your wits as an advantage instead of pure strength." Nimh had observed the rutters, and had quickly realized that it was more to it than brute force. Being clever could get you just as far, if done right. "But I agree with you, it's nice to just hang out. I've meet a lot of new faces after the Rut began, and I hope I'll continue to see at least some of them when it's over."
La contemplated quietly for a
After a moment of fidgeting and shifting she expanded on her motives, "The prize of winning or doing well is impressing people. But that's not really my thing anyway. I feel like I can do that well enough by talking. And yeah, I think that most people are still gonna be around. I imagine most of them live here and aren't planning on bouncing back to some other plane of existence when it's all over."
The mental sight of rutting
"If I should have been out there fighting and gathering a herd, then it would have been for the thrill of it, not to impress anyone." Nimh could understand why many of the stags were fighting; to impress, for the opportunity to pass on their genes. This was very serious to them, while others - like her - seemed like they joined the rut more for the fun of it, to socialize.
A frown then appeared on her face, as Nimh began to ponder about a certain part of La's sentence. "What do you mean, most of them live here?" She asked with a tilt of her head. This forest was all Nimh knew, and so far she had assumed it was just the same for everyone, it hadn't crossed her mind that it could be other places. But then again, she had one time had this strange dream of scenery that had looked nothing like the forest. There had been snowy mountains, green fields and things that looked like they were made of gold shining in the sun. Nimh hadn't even tried to make sense of the dream, it had been too strange. But at the same time impossible to forget.
"As endless as The Forest
La indicated the hewn stone they were sitting on with a pointed nod of her head. "These things weren't made my nature and they weren't made by Deer. Humans--that's another kind of non-Deer person--made 'em. But there are no humans here now, as far as I know. At least none that look human."
She looked at Nimh encouragingly. "I'm from here. Created out of nothing here, grew up here... but I've left a few times. Only briefly though. It's amazing what's beyond."
Wonder and confusion was
Nimh lowered her head to the stones she sat on when La mentioned them, and she picked up the word human, though it didn't really tell her that much. The way La said she had appeared here sounded very similar to how Nimh had appeared. Just out of nothing, with no parents standing guard over her when she first opened her eyes and blinked in the sharp sunlight. But she had found a mother later on, at least.
She was quiet for some time, trying to let everything sink in while many questions swiveled around in her head. Finally she was able to grasp one she could ask out loud. "How can someone go out of the Forest? I've never seen a path out. Everything goes in circles." The thought of a world beyond the Forest was overwhelming, exciting and a bit scary. It sounded like things she had never seen or even heard of was out there... like golden halls and snowy mountains.
"I don't know," La said
"I think of it like this. I can walk forwards, backwards, left, right, and any combination of those directions. But, if someone falls asleep in a mushroom circle and turns me into a bird, I can also go in two new directions: up and down. When I left The Forest it felt like moving regularly, I was just going in a brand new direction I never knew about, that I can't see."
La decided that was a good time to pause. Judging from Nimh's face she'd dropped quite a lot of information onto her shoulders for her to think about. She smiled reassuringly to the young doe.
The fact that you couldn't
"I think I understand what you mean. At least some of it." It was as if her mind was shaping images of how it worked, but those images was too difficult to explain with words. Then she suddenly remembered something, and stretched out her left leg in front of her, to look at the bracelet tied around it. When her mother had given it to her, she had said something about a different world. Nimh had wondered about it back then, but had been too young to speak properly. But now she could ask what her mother meant about it. "This is from another place, I believe. My mother gave it to me." She explained to La, with a nod towards the bracelet, smiling.
La leaned in until her face
"I don't know the language of that symbol, though," La went on. Everything she could read used either the Latin or Greek alphabets. "It could be a word, a name, or an entire sentence, for all I know. Humans don't have their names floating above their heads like we do--it's a little bit sad, actually--so some of them like to wear words and symbols on them to help show other people who they are. I know I would if I were them."
Nimh perked her ears, curious
The bracelet had inspired her to attempt to make trinkets of her own, using bird bones and pond reed, but it was very difficult with hooves, and the one thing she had managed to make - with the help of a lamb named Maximus - didn't look half as good as this bracelet. Nimh had wanted to make gifts, for her mother and her siblings, but so far she hadn't managed to make anything pretty enough to give away. Perhaps one needed hands to do that. Or tools. The thought was quite disheartening.
"Perhaps it's my name." Nimh suggested, with a smile to hint that she was only joking. It didn't really matter that she didn't know what was written on the bracelet, it was beautiful anyway. For a moment she thought about those humans again, without having a true name floating above their heads. The world outside the Forest sounded like a very strange place.
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