"After women, flowers are the most divine creations."
-Christian Dior
Valerie Briar Alastair
NICKNAMES
Val, Briar
DATE OF BIRTH
1877, exact date unknown.
AGE
140 years old but appears to be 25 years old
OCCUPATION
Head Journalist at Bellingstone Newspaper
GENDER
Female
SEXUALITY
Heterosexual
DIALOGUE COLOR
#DC143C
Faerie Form: Her fairy form clearly shows her to be an earth fairy. She has pearly white skin that emits a light glow from within and with brown undertones. Her irises are a light brown, contrasting strongly against her black pupils, like an animal fossilized within a drop of amber, and her lips are naturally a dark brown. Her hair comes in long, straight ebony strands. Her face is elongated and thin and her ears are long and pointed, adorning several accessories piercing into her skin. Unlike other groups of faeries, Valeria's body structure is very similar atomically to humans, although her faerie form stands at a towering seven feet, very long and slim. Her most distinguishable faerie feature is the crown of her head. Valeria has several sets of horns, two coming directly from her forehead, two ram-like horns each on either side of her head, and two long horns coming from the back of her head. Along the middle of the top of the head are smaller, root-textured horns. In her faerie form, Valeria wears heavily adorned dresses with flower textures.
Human Form: Valeria's human form is a strong contrast to her faerie form and, even though she can change her human appearance at will since it uses magic, the faerie has been very fond of this body for over seventy-six years. Her white skin remains, although this one is a fraction darker than that of her faerie form, the undertones more yellow. She has blonde hair with brown roots and striking blue eyes. In this form, Valeria is five feet seven inches but more often than not stands taller due to high heels. Her body is definitely more curvaceous in this form, but that is considering the discrepancy of tastes amongst species. She is often seen wearing formal, body-hugging dresses with heels and a full face of makeup. Her preference for flower fabrics remains in this form.
PERSONALITY
After living in Bellingstone for twenty-three years and learning to feel safe in this town, Valerie has become more like the faerie she used to be. Valerie means well, loves to laugh, and is usually a nice person, although her faerie nature does cause her to be mischevious and problematic at times. She does her best to not cause trouble in Bellingstone, however, appreciating how peaceful it is and how it took her in from the beginning so she takes advantage of her weekend getaways to the city to do that. She makes sure, for example, that she doesn't go in luring humans into the woods or goes around giving them faerie food. This did happen once, but she has kept it a secret and is often paranoid that someone will find out, despite there being no definite evidence linking it to her, and that the town would expel her. In order to fight this nature, Valerie does go out to the city in order to spend some time with humans. However, having a human population in Bellingstone threatens this self-control because they are so close and there are so many more possibilities for her to slip again.
Even though she is approachable and ready to strike up a conversation, Valerie is very closed up about her life. She never invites anyone to her home, except the rare fling, and she never speaks about her past. Only a few selected citizens of Bellingstone, meaning one or two, know a little about where she came from and have a small idea of what happened. This secrecy is crucial for her feeling safe and comfortable.
Valerie walks and addresses herself with confidence. This gives Valerie a dominant aura, although she is not the dominant type. In fact, she hates direct conflict and will, like any faerie, resort to more sneaky and underhanded ways to get back at a person if needed. She often has to fight this part of her personality when she is out in her field of journalism in order to get information, knowing that it is important to be demanding in her job. So, despite having an even voice, one can clearly see the signs of distress (like palm sweating and shaking) when she has to go out and demand things.
From this confidence, a love for herself has also stemmed. Valerie has learned how to love her two forms once again and does use it to to get what she desires. Sometimes, Valerie doesn't even mean anything but faeries are romantic and flirtatious, and it could cause trouble even when she attempts to be respectful. With that said, Valerie does struggle with the concept of love. Even though faeries love the idea of love, since Techlan, Valerie has not been able to create a deeper, more meaningful relationship.
LIKES
✔ Nature
✔ Aesthetic and beautifu things/people/outfits
✔ Dancing and music
✔ Writing and reading (surprisingly, she has learned to enjoy some reading some human authors)
✔ Sweet-smelling Perfumes
DISLIKES
✖ War/Death/Guns
✖ People prying on her past
✖ Cluttered spaces
✖ Being away from nature for too long
✖ Feeling weak and vulnerable
FEARS
☠ Fire
☠ Faeries of other elements (she has had very bad encounters)
☠ Losing her powers again
Valerie would stay with this faerie clan for fifty-three years. During this time, she would gain a high position among the clan due to her ever-growing powers as well as fall in love with Techlan, the clan leader's charismatic and sought-after son. Everything was perfect until one terrible night in 1940 when there was a terrible noise followed by the flames that consumed their home. Valerie, who was alone in the river that day, was able to escape the flames but, when she went back, she found no more survivors. Devastated, Valerie spent months hiding and trying to find other faeries. When she couldn't find any, she was forced to take up her human form and flee into a world of humans that was also going up in flames with the war. Valerie remembers those first six years with terrible sadness and anger. She lived in Paris and learned the way of humans as well as of the war that was tearing the countries apart. During all this time, keeping her human form since she had to share a room and being unable to be around flora and practice her magic exhausted all of her other powers, leaving her weak and unable to do almost anything. Her life in Paris was harsh and she lived through many unpleasant and haunting experiences.
She was able to leave Europe two years after the war and travel to the United States in a crowded ship. Valerie lived in New York for some time before finding a way to travel to the country. She traveled the woods for several years, working on her powers and searching for faeries, hoping that she could a faerie earth clan that could take her in. Valerie was unable to and was even attacked a few times by faeries of other elements. Finally, she heard of Bellingstone, a peaceful sanctuary for magical creatures, and moved there in 2007.
Valerie lived her first years in Bellingstone in seclusion, getting a job at the newspaper that allowed her to work from the small apartment she rented. It took her a while to get accommodated. Staying in her apartment allowed her to remain in her faerie form for long periods of time without having to exhaust her powers, and being so close to the woods has allowed her to regain some of the powers she had lost, although she still remains relatively weak since it is hard for a faerie to grow her powers to her full potential without the company of other faeries. She is thankful for Bellingstone, which has provided a sanctuary for her with creatures that, although very different, understand what it is like to live in a world dominated by creatures
Now, it isn't rare to see Valerie strutting around in the streets with her sky-high heels and short dresses. She has two or three close friends, with whom she often goes to out to the city to party during the weekends. Bellingstone has allowed her to transform back, to an extent, to the bubbly and confident faerie she used to be.
MISCELLANEOUS
Finally, faeries have very long lifespans so Valerie can live for hundreds of years. With that in mind, she is a relatively young faerie, meaning that her powers are not the strongest.
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