Alias: N/A
Race: Hybrid (Ifirit/Golem)
Age: 23
Nationality: Tibolt
Occupation: Tavern Waitress
My Character's Hometown Was Like: Piper comes from a stone city called, Thorncrest. Though it wasn't the town she was born in, it's a home to her. Thorncrest is decently big compared to the other Tiboltan towns and cities. Other than the few festivals each year, people go through their routines and lives, without the need of getting the latest gossip about someone that lives on the opposite end of Thorncrest unlike people of a small town would. There's two festivals that occur every year, apart of the national kingdom holidays. They are to celebrate the middle of the year, when the harvest is prime for the picking even more so than the rest of the year, and one at the end of the year.
Thorncrest isn't much of a farming town. Yes, there are farm fields surrounding it but most of Tibolt's crops are produce from the other settlements. Thorncrest is mainly a trading town that does business with traders that come and go from the city.
Talent/Skills: Being a tavern waitress at her father's tavern, Piper has pretty good social skills and knows how to keep her anger, temper, tongue, etc in check instead of doing something rush and stupid. She has a talent for being lucky in the tavern card games and other forms of gambling, many times winning and rarely losing a penny. In the past six years, she's also took blacksmithing lessons from her father and is pretty good at it.
Power(s): Piper has odd powers compared to both of her parents' races. Instead of just having one or both with different amount of control, the Ifirit and Golem blood combined. Her power is the control of metal and the properties of metal. She can heat and cool metal or change its shape. Piper can even refine metal to make it stronger. Downside is that she can not control earth or fire.
Weapon(s): Since her father was a traveling blackmsith, he knows a couple of things about combat and self defense. Since travelers are at times at the mercy of thieves. So he decided that she needed to know some fighting skills. Piper can decently hold her own with her twin fighting knives.[/color]
Personality: Piper is charismatic. Often easily starting conversations, continuing, and making people feel comfortable due to her years of experience being a waitress. She's rather easygoing by not having to do something every second of the day. Instead she would be more than happy gambling and being in a light-topic conversation. She's rather considerate and patient of other people and their feelings. It's not uncommon for her to offer an ear for someone to release their troubled mind. There's always a smile on her face.
All of that, it's fake- even her always lasting charming smile. Piper is two faced when she's around people. From when she gets up in the morning to when she calls it a day, she wears a mask and hides her true self under her willing smile. The real Piper is frank, harsh, and anti-social. She hates being around people anything other than the sake of making money- which she'll smile and bare it. Never letting on that her words and actions are the complete opposite to what she thinks and feels. Even if she has a very low opinion on people and society, she's a truly caring daughter that's hard-working and committed to making sure her family's secret remains secret and continuing making the family business a success.
Past: Piper was born in another town that wasn't Thorncrest. She was born in a small farming town called Guelder. One of the down sides that she learned from living in a small town, it never takes long for the townspeople to find out who's who and also who's a hybrid. Rumors and stories are spread through mouth and ear like wild fire. Since her mother was born and raised in Guelder, everyone knew she was a Golem. Her father was a traveling blacksmith that was passing through the small town looking for a bit of work. He made his money by repairing and creating farm equipment. So folks in Guelder quickly founded out he was a Ifirit, since he used his fire gifts to assist him with heating the metals. Piper's father was planning to continue traveling until he met her mother and he kept prolonging his stay until he finally decided to settle there. After buying a house, he begun to court Piper's mother which later lead to marriage.
Even during their courting, the townspeople of Guelder were decently friendly with the two. It's not rare that the young people experiment a little. Their attitudes quickly changed when the two got married and even worse when Piper was born. As a kid, she could feel the glares of the people on her back when she walked through town. The people plainly talking ill of her and her family, never bothering to whisper or out of her hearing range. Kids never played with her, those that wanted to were quickly got pulled by their parents to the side and told them to stay away from 'the filthy hybrid'. The townspeople made it clear that they didn't want a hybrid family in their town. Piper's family stayed until she was seven when her folks finally sold the house.... three times over its value. "Hey. If the people in this town hate us to the extent to making our lives a hell with insults, cold glares, and even refused to any business with us, they deserve to spend a very pretty penny to get rid of us ", her father said after the deal was done.
Then Piper and her parents traveled for a new town to live in. They passed a couple but it was Thorncrest that they liked. For one, it was a city so if they run into trouble with a couple of neighbors because they were hybrids they could simply move to another side. Since her father got so much from over selling the house. He was able to buy a tavern and a comfortable house with the money off their old house. Though he still did a little smithing on the side. Sadly, the ordeal of Guelder left Piper's mother all too eager for a brand new life- a completely new life that didn't include her father or Piper. It wasn't long until the woman found fellow Golem man to woe and later marry after divorcing Piper's father. The woman didn't even have the mercy on them to move to a different town after she married her second husband. Even a different part of the city would be better than seeing the new family a few streets over on a daily bases.
The tavern was a good business for that part of Thornecrest since there wasn't any close taverns close by to be competition. Her and her father appeared to be full Ifirit family, giving an explanation that her 'birth mother and his first wife' died before marrying Piper's actually birth mother that left them. When people asked about Piper's lack of Ifirit ability, her father would explain it was from poor blood lines from her mother's side of the family. Which led to Piper not able to command fire at will like her father or other Ifirit. Everyone believed it and their little secret was kept safe.
As Piper grew older, she was able to help in the tavern more. She did date a little but none of the relationships weren't all that serious on either side. Well, that how her dating life was until she was 19 when she met Sado. The two hit it off since he quickly became a regular and they dated for two years before he purposed. Of course her father and Happy Mug regulars were excited. Even her father said one round was on the house when Piper told him the news. Sadly within a couple months of the engagement, it was broken off. Since then, Piper doesn't have any interest in seeing someone new or even marriage.
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