Iyashikei Application
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Player Name: nel or nelfes
Pronouns: she/her
Age: 32
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Do you have any plans for this character in the game? She desperately needs to learn how to stand on her own feet, and have people trust her to do so. I want her so badly to have a support system and learn to trust herself, ahhhhh
Pronouns: she/her
Age: 32
Preferred Means of Contact:
Invitation: Link
Do you have any plans for this character in the game? She desperately needs to learn how to stand on her own feet, and have people trust her to do so. I want her so badly to have a support system and learn to trust herself, ahhhhh
Chara Information
Character's Full Name: Shirley Fennes
Character's Pronouns: She/her
Character's Canon: Tales of Legendia
Character's Canon Point: On her way to the Wings of Light
Character's Age: Fifteen
Did your character willingly come to Iyashikei? If yes, why? Yes. Because despite feeling like she must, she does not actually want to drown all humans.
Will they need any special accommodations upon arrival? No, though psychological help down the line would be appreciated.
Character's History: Wiki link Character's Personality:
Born to the People of the Water (Ferines) and meant to be their savior, Shirley had to deal with a great many pressures from a young age. Her people, disenfranchised and held captive as exotic goods, prayed for their god - Nerifes - to find Shirley a worthy vessel but when the sea god tells her this requires Shirley to eradicate the humans of the world (Orerines) she refuses, and is cursed for it.
The curse resulted in her near death, amnesia regarding the ritual and her god's command, and a fatal allergy to sea water thus rendering her cut off from any magic and power she would normally have as a Ferines. She spent the three years after this incident with her human, adopted brother in disguise hiding from both the Orerines and Ferines. Her biological sister had seemingly sacrificed herself to let the two of them escape their village after the Crusand Empire’s attack on it (in hopes of capturing Shirley after hearing she had awakened as the Merines).
Due to this and Senel’s over-protective nature she seems like a quiet and demure young lady at first, but this is merely a mask she uses to keep herself safe. In actuality, she is quite blunt and clumsy when it comes to connecting to other people and often feels out of place. Once she accepts that her darker feelings are a part of her, and it is her choices with what to do with those feelings that ultimately matter she becomes more confident in herself and even attempts to help others with their own feelings of inadequacy.
However, at her current canon point Shirley is still far away from that development. She is immensely frustrated by her inability to wield power either politically or through Nerifes’ revoked blessing, and considers herself weak and a failure. She once thought of throwing herself into the sea when Senel had left her alone for a time just to end her pain but her love for Senel and Stella kept her from going through with it.
It is precisely her cherished bonds with these two that keep her adrift, but also trapped in stagnation. Shirley believes she can never live up to Stella’s memory, and feels she is proven right when Stella reappears on the Legacy and saves the Orerines and Ferines gathered there at the exact time when Shirley could not. She thinks she does not even have the right to mourn her sister as immediately the Ferines on the Legacy look to Shirley to be their leader there following Stella’s death, and Senel, heart-broken after finally proposing to Stella only for her to die in his arms, distances himself from Shirley too.
Shirley had buried her feelings for Senel beneath the facade of “mere siblings”, feeling she had no right to ask more of him but a push from Shirley’s first friend and confidante, Fenimore, finally had Shirley attempt to confess only for Senel to insist he owed his loyalty to a ghost. She had thought to bear this all on her own as she always had but Fenimore’s insistence that she would stay with her so she would have at least one person to confide in has her finally cry in front of another. To Shirley, the loss of Senel as a love is not so terrible when she finally can say she has a friend.
She fears perfection and seemingly “perfect” people like her sister. Her internal monologue is often a gloomy one and often she has to actively talk herself out of it. Still, as a figurehead she feels she needs to perform even if that performance is not fully her own volition.
Who is she to follow when all previous Merineses acted out of hatred of Orerines rather than a wish to do good? The Ferines chief and former village elder Maurits takes advantage of Shirley’s displacement from Orerines society to have her attempt the Rite again, and it would have failed if not for the murder of Fenimore by another band of Orerines soldiers.
Shirley found that she indeed held hate within herself and that was enough to finally commune with the raging god of the sea, however while Shirley emerged with the power to alter the world she still hesitated to unleash the Cataclysm that would sink all remaining continents.
There were good people even among the Orerines, after all? Weren’t there? Desperately, Shirley wanted to believe that but when she is told by Maurits that Stella and Senel had hid the latter's past as an enemy soldier from her thinking she could not handle the truth her last thread of hope snapped.
They had never even thought to trust her, or give her the chance to make a judgment, and so Shirley decides that it is enough. She will pay back that lack of belief with her own even if it means drowning the Orerines, even if she is still only dancing to another’s tune.
Shirley was never made for hard choices and so what is there to do but turn away from it all?
In order to fulfill her duty and carry out the continent-sinking Cataclysm she needed to move to the deepest part of the Legacy, the Wings of Light, so that she could connect with its terraforming abilities and so, guided by Maurits, Shirley does so.
Still, even at the peak of her learned helplessness she refuses to become a completely passive plaything to her god. As much as she dislikes herself, her life will end alongside the sinking of the continents and selfishly she wishes to have one moment truly to herself: even if it is one in which she is terrible.
It is then that her letter arrives and desperate for an escape, Shirley says yes with all her heart: please take her away.
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Character's Pronouns: She/her
Character's Canon: Tales of Legendia
Character's Canon Point: On her way to the Wings of Light
Character's Age: Fifteen
Did your character willingly come to Iyashikei? If yes, why? Yes. Because despite feeling like she must, she does not actually want to drown all humans.
Will they need any special accommodations upon arrival? No, though psychological help down the line would be appreciated.
Character's History: Wiki link Character's Personality:
Born to the People of the Water (Ferines) and meant to be their savior, Shirley had to deal with a great many pressures from a young age. Her people, disenfranchised and held captive as exotic goods, prayed for their god - Nerifes - to find Shirley a worthy vessel but when the sea god tells her this requires Shirley to eradicate the humans of the world (Orerines) she refuses, and is cursed for it.
The curse resulted in her near death, amnesia regarding the ritual and her god's command, and a fatal allergy to sea water thus rendering her cut off from any magic and power she would normally have as a Ferines. She spent the three years after this incident with her human, adopted brother in disguise hiding from both the Orerines and Ferines. Her biological sister had seemingly sacrificed herself to let the two of them escape their village after the Crusand Empire’s attack on it (in hopes of capturing Shirley after hearing she had awakened as the Merines).
Due to this and Senel’s over-protective nature she seems like a quiet and demure young lady at first, but this is merely a mask she uses to keep herself safe. In actuality, she is quite blunt and clumsy when it comes to connecting to other people and often feels out of place. Once she accepts that her darker feelings are a part of her, and it is her choices with what to do with those feelings that ultimately matter she becomes more confident in herself and even attempts to help others with their own feelings of inadequacy.
However, at her current canon point Shirley is still far away from that development. She is immensely frustrated by her inability to wield power either politically or through Nerifes’ revoked blessing, and considers herself weak and a failure. She once thought of throwing herself into the sea when Senel had left her alone for a time just to end her pain but her love for Senel and Stella kept her from going through with it.
It is precisely her cherished bonds with these two that keep her adrift, but also trapped in stagnation. Shirley believes she can never live up to Stella’s memory, and feels she is proven right when Stella reappears on the Legacy and saves the Orerines and Ferines gathered there at the exact time when Shirley could not. She thinks she does not even have the right to mourn her sister as immediately the Ferines on the Legacy look to Shirley to be their leader there following Stella’s death, and Senel, heart-broken after finally proposing to Stella only for her to die in his arms, distances himself from Shirley too.
Shirley had buried her feelings for Senel beneath the facade of “mere siblings”, feeling she had no right to ask more of him but a push from Shirley’s first friend and confidante, Fenimore, finally had Shirley attempt to confess only for Senel to insist he owed his loyalty to a ghost. She had thought to bear this all on her own as she always had but Fenimore’s insistence that she would stay with her so she would have at least one person to confide in has her finally cry in front of another. To Shirley, the loss of Senel as a love is not so terrible when she finally can say she has a friend.
She fears perfection and seemingly “perfect” people like her sister. Her internal monologue is often a gloomy one and often she has to actively talk herself out of it. Still, as a figurehead she feels she needs to perform even if that performance is not fully her own volition.
Who is she to follow when all previous Merineses acted out of hatred of Orerines rather than a wish to do good? The Ferines chief and former village elder Maurits takes advantage of Shirley’s displacement from Orerines society to have her attempt the Rite again, and it would have failed if not for the murder of Fenimore by another band of Orerines soldiers.
Shirley found that she indeed held hate within herself and that was enough to finally commune with the raging god of the sea, however while Shirley emerged with the power to alter the world she still hesitated to unleash the Cataclysm that would sink all remaining continents.
There were good people even among the Orerines, after all? Weren’t there? Desperately, Shirley wanted to believe that but when she is told by Maurits that Stella and Senel had hid the latter's past as an enemy soldier from her thinking she could not handle the truth her last thread of hope snapped.
They had never even thought to trust her, or give her the chance to make a judgment, and so Shirley decides that it is enough. She will pay back that lack of belief with her own even if it means drowning the Orerines, even if she is still only dancing to another’s tune.
Shirley was never made for hard choices and so what is there to do but turn away from it all?
In order to fulfill her duty and carry out the continent-sinking Cataclysm she needed to move to the deepest part of the Legacy, the Wings of Light, so that she could connect with its terraforming abilities and so, guided by Maurits, Shirley does so.
Still, even at the peak of her learned helplessness she refuses to become a completely passive plaything to her god. As much as she dislikes herself, her life will end alongside the sinking of the continents and selfishly she wishes to have one moment truly to herself: even if it is one in which she is terrible.
It is then that her letter arrives and desperate for an escape, Shirley says yes with all her heart: please take her away.
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