Age: 22
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History:
The fairies, and fae in general, did not fare well after the disappearance of magic. Those who once could fly lost their wings. Many of the smaller varieties, pixies and such, died out - they were unable to adapt to their new lack of flight, and could not survive as earthbound beings, much like a bee that has lost its wings. Cecilia and her family are from the group most would call the Tree Nymphs. Their loss of magic caused them to lose their abilities to communicate with plants, control the growth of plants, and, most importantly, their ability to bond with a home tree. The effects of this separation of tree and nymph were both immediate and long lasting. One thing to understand about this bond is that the trees and nymphs were linked, they could sense each other, draw energy from each other, one's life was the others. Cut off from this bond, many of the nymphs died immediately. The few that survived were sickly, as were their descendants. Cecilia's ancestors were never able to evolve totally out of their dependence on this botanical bond, a predicament that has lead to the shortened lifespan of those that exist - including Cecilia's family.
Despite their once solitary nature, the nymphs have banded together to form the last surviving settlement of their kind. As their ancestral home of Europe lost much of its forests to harvesting and industrialization, they migrated over to the New World that is America. Unbeknownst to them, they have, purely by coincidence, ended practically on top of the well which holds the last source of magic. Over the centuries, as bloodlines became diluted with 'mortal' blood, the descendants of one of the last surviving groups of fae has forgotten their true heritage. Cecilia is no different.
Having lived in Brookvale all of her life, Cecilia is a well known face in the community. Both of her parents passed away right after she graduated high-school, they were 40, which was pretty long given that most of her family passed in their early thirties. Cecilia is the owner of a successful plant nursery in town, a fact probably due to the small blessing afforded by her heritage as a forest nymph. She is greatly in tune with nature, possessing the ability to pick up on general 'vibes' of plants, and possesses an extraordinarily green thumb. Cecilia has a young child, Peter, who is about two years old. She was married for a time, but her spouse was a victim of the same early deaths that seemed to run rampant in town. She aspires to making her nursery successful enough to expand, and knows nothing about magic.
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She doesn't need anything, her talents are innate. However, like any modern lady, she keeps a thing of pepper spray and her phone, in her ever present purse.
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