CHIRU
âI wanna become the strongest, because then I'll be friends with everybody!â
BASICS
Title and/or Aliases: The Fairy of Frost, The Foolish Fairy
Age: Unknown (People have recalled witnessing her for at least two generations, yet even she forgets her true age)
Gender: Female
Species: Fairy - These feeble creatures are said to be the embodiments of nature. Wherever a fairy sleeps, the plants grow even when on the edge of death, and wherever they play, the forest sings praise, the fields dance and the water greets. Yet, very few are allowed witness of fairies as they reside away from all other civilized creatures, or at least most of the time they are. Every fairy has some sort of special ability that relates to some part of nature which can scarcely harm a person. Fairies, however, are considered a nuisance to people, at least humans, in many ways. Indeed, they are known well for mischief as they will go out of their way to befall misfortune upon any unlucky suspect, whether it is making a traveler lose his way or dropping stones on him. Their abilities are usually problematic for people, such as causing weeds to grow in gardens or even through stone. Often, when something unexplainable happens, such as the disappearance of an object or even a person, fairies are to blame. Fairies represent all that is untame about nature and all that cannot be explained easily. Fairies most often take on the deceiving appearances of young children, whom like nature, are difficult to tame. Yet, it doesn't matter how much one scolds a fairy or hinder a fairy's tasks, fairies are incorrigible and will harshly change, just as nature is incorrigible. Such is why very few fairies take an appearance older than a child.
Fairies also are very difficult to kill physically. They can be harmed, but it takes a great deal of effort to truly kill a fairy as they will merely recover, however such a recovery may take a long period of time and will often render a fairy weak and unable to move very easily as most fairies will take on a form of chrysalis, which varies in nature depending on the fairy's power, to protect themselves and to keep their injured flesh unexposed. This process can take up a lot of power. Yet, while fairies are very resistant to physical injuries, they only stay strong as long as they are connected to nature. If they were to be taken away from nature, they would gradually become weaker, and using their powers only weakens them even further. A fairy can become weak enough to fail to recover from physical injuries then and may be vulnerable to physical harm or they may become so weak that they fail to be able to sustain their own existence and merely become dormant with little hope of waking up again, or in really extreme cases, may just fade away (this is more likely to happen depending on age). Of course, very few people have witnessed a fairy's death and nobody has witnessed a fairy's birth other than a fairy.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Appearance: Chiru takes on the appearance of a very young girl, no older than seven, an appearance that represents an undying naivety and an appearance that has harshly changed throughout her entire life. Her skin hardly has any imperfections, no fairy would have any, and is cool to the touch, yet hardly lifeless like a corpse would be. Her short hair is a light blue, just as the sky is, and is often tinged with frost like that which appears all over the grass grass in a chilly November morning. Her eyes are blue as well, but a deeper blue like that of the vast sea of which meets the sky at the horizon. One of her most apparent features are her wings. Every fairy has a unique set of wings and Chiru's take the shape of three diamonds on each wing, their translucency, imperfections and light blue color making them appear like crystals of ice. Chiru's presence is always dominated with the feeling of frost and an appearance like that of the uncommon diamond dust that glitters in a cold morning.
Clothing: The clothing Chiru does wear, she hardly ever changes and thus, unlike her perfect skin, there is evidence of wear on them. Things like grass stains and dirty patches and tears of which have been sewn together are prevalent on her clothing. She wears a white blouse, where stains are most visible on the short sleeves, and a cherry-red ribbon of which is tied around the collar in a bow (just as Daisy taught her). Over it, she wears a blue jumper dress which has the most evidence of wear on it. She still does her best to clean it, however. In her hair, she has a great big blue bow of which she treasures (though she can't put it on herself) and hardly goes anywhere without it. She has no form of footwear, however, and is nearly always barefoot. Where Chiru's clothing came from, even she doesn't know. She merely found each piece floating down a stream one day, which where she finds a lot of things from the settlements of people. She merely loves wearing it all as her favorite color is blue.
Height: 45 inches
Weight: 40 pounds
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Really, Chiru isn't exactly the most clever fairy there is. Often, she'll try to fix something only to succeed in destroying it even further. She may try to clean something only to mess it up even further. Often she'll try and complete a task or try to come up with a clever plan only to have it hit her back in the head (often literally) yet no matter how much it may hurt or how many times she fails, she never truly gives up.
Indeed, Chiru vows never to give up. She is a very brave girl and refuses to back out from any sort of challenge and does her best not to cry when she is unable to do something. After all, she vows to be the strongest person in the world, mostly because it sounds cool. She's not entirely sure what it means to be the strongest, whether it's physical strength, magical power, combat prowess or perhaps intelligence or some other form of mental strength, but she does know it means that she is the best at anything and that she must never accept defeat. Of course, this often ends up in her randomly picking fights with people. However, Chiru's got a squirrel's attention span.
Phobias/Fears: Chiru claims that she has no fears, but she actually has plenty of fears, many of them in fact. Only, she does her best to overcome them as best she can.
Goals/Desires: Chiru wishes to become the strongest fairy in all of Cathidus, but she is unsure of how to do so. All she knows is that she must never lose to anything, whether it to be against a sorcerer or a locked door.
Sexual Orientation: Chiru hardly understands this sort of love anyway. She only wishes to be best friends with everybody.
ARMAMENTS/ABILITIES
Skills: Fairies, though there are many, all have unique abilities. Chiru's special ability is the ability to completely freeze anything, even air (although, the lower freezing point something has, the more difficult it is to freeze, so she can't really freeze a gigantic block of air at ease) or simply moisture in the air. That way, she can encompass solid objects in a layer of ice. Her ability, however, is limited to her only being able to freeze anything of which she touches. She is able to extend that touch, however, by freezing anything that touches something that is already frozen that is touching her, such as freezing a stick and touching something with it to freeze it as well, or freezing the moisture in the air around her to create a shield that can freeze things that are thrown or shot at her. Thus, this ability has more defensive capabilities than offensive. Also, her chrysalis is made from ice.
All fairies have the passive ability to nurture the growth of plants wherever they reside and can even fully heal a wilted flower or cure a sick tree if they were to stay around it all day and sleep around it. Her wings also allow her flight, like any fairy, but she often prefers walking short distances and only flies when she really needs to as flying is often very tiring. Also, just like other fairies, she is able to recover from nearly any physical injury, though often when recovering, she wont be able to do much during the duration of the recovery, however long that is. A really minor injury like a scrape can be healed in minutes and may leave behind frost, but something like a bad cut wound may take hours to days, yet Chiru only needs to keep a specific part of her body protected with ice. While she is healing, she will likely not have the ability to fly and won't have as much power to freeze things. If it is a major or extensive injury, however, Chiru can keep her entire body protected inside a hard ice chrysalis that completely encompasses her and keeps her protected, although it's not completely unbreakable as it's only a thick layer of ice. In this state, she is constantly either in a state of deep-sleep or half-sleep and during a stage of half-sleep it is possible for her to hear what is going on outside of her chrysalis and can be awakened suddenly if it is destroyed, but during deep-sleep she will not be responsive to anything, even if the chrysalis is broken, making her vulnerable.
Armor/Tools: Absolutely nothing. She might pick up a strange object lying around somewhere, but she'll easily forget about it. At most, she can use ice to protect herself or make an icy brick.
HER PAST
Chiru's life is rather mysterious, mostly due to the fact that fairies normally keep to themselves and stay away from any sort of settlement (they even tend to stay away from elves) and live nearly anywhere people don't. Wherever they do live, however, they're presence merely makes nature thrive. Often forests that are infested with fairies or have been at one point will have unnaturally large plant growth, such as giant trees, mushrooms and flowers and the like, and they are often so thick with plant life that traversing them is extremely difficult, especially with much light being blocked by the large trees overhead. Such forests, however, are popular for having rare plants such as herbs that may have a high medicinal value or have very potent poisons and the like. Chiru lives in one of such forests, living on the edge of a very large lake which blankets the surrounding area in a thick fog in the morning. These areas are very clear of any people or settlements as people tend to avoid this forest in fear of losing their way and being kidnapped by fairies or suffer some other fate. Chiru was born on the edge of the lake in a chilly December morning, although fairies don't have parents. They just merely appear beside water or in the middle of a flowerbed or next to a very old tree or something of that nature.
Of course, this area was heavily populated by fairies, fairies of all kinds. Some fairies loved playing around flowers, some lived in trees, some lived around or even in the lake, some flew all the way up into the clouds, some danced under mushrooms and some played around during the day and some played around during the night. Fairies were merely children whom lived happily within nature. Yet, it wasn't as if they were wild animals. Indeed, fairies always tended to band together and create groups, often just to play or pull mischief. Yet, these children do organize themselves loosely. Younger fairies are always taught by Greater fairies, whom teach them how to do new things and what sort of dangers are to be avoided. Greater fairies may have slightly older appearances, perhaps taking on the appearance of preteens or even young adults, but all fairies are different in some way. The teacher that Chiru looked up to was Daisy, a Greater fairy whom of which was wiser than her kin but very cautious of the unknown, and was a sort of sister figure to Chiru.
Chiru, however, has always been curious of things, such as of humans whom of which she would pull mischief upon. After all, for much of her life up to that point, she had harshly left the forest or the vicinity of the foggy lake. So, she would often go out and explore places very far away for periods of time, such as townships of humans or the tops of mountains or even going so far as to visiting the sea, yet she always returns home whenever she begins to feel homesick (which fairies can apparently die from) where she'll tell great tales of her adventures, such as when she fought a giant catfish or when she defeated the ravenous chicken army or when she bested the watermelon thief, and similar adventures.
However, Chiru isn't the strongest in terms of memory. Plenty of things have happened in Chiru's lifetime that she forgets about all the time. Fairies often only remembered pleasant things and tend to forget even terrible experiences. If anything bad has happened in Chiru's lifetime, she probably had forgotten about it. Yet, there may be people out there whom do not.
Still, Chiru wishes to continue on her goal to become the strongest fairy in Cathidus. Chiru doesn't remember exactly what sparked this, but she merely decided that this had to have been so and that she was going to stop at nothing to achieve this. Yet, Chiru would have never realized that her biggest adventure yet has just begun.
