N i c k n a m e ? Chrys, and only Chrys. If you ever call her by her full name, you will not be responded to. Very few even know her real name.
R o l e ? Rebel Leader & King's Call girl
A g e ? Twenty-three
O c c u p a t i o n ? Rebel Leader / Call girl
C l a s s ? Commoner
P e r s o n a l i t y ?
Chrys has never been perfect, this is something that she recognizes more than anyone else- she is not the sort of person who is arrogant by any means, despite occasionally coming off as self-righteous in her points of view. She has a very strong sense of wrong and right, and can be rather unwilling to budge on her beliefs of them, unless proven without a doubt- though even then, she may cling to her previous ideals. The woman may be capable of adapting to new situations in the way of blending in and doing what she must do to get by and such, but her mindset is one thing about her that is always constant. She has prejudices, just as everyone else does, and it would take a good deal of persuading for anyone to make her believe that one of those 'filthy scum upstairs' have even a shred in good of them. She isn't exactly the most trusting of people, even with her fellow commoners, and is completely biased against all of those who claim to be superior to others. While this persistent nature may be an advantage for her, making her strong-minded and difficult to fool, it can also be damaging, as explained above. Her pig-headedness leaves an almost willfully discriminatory person. To her, any act of good from those she has decided are enemies is not unlike the glitter of a knife, pretty but deceitful.
Other than being biased and stubborn, the young woman is incredibly intelligent, which is why she has been the one leading the rebellion against the 'royals', whom she simply calls by an insult followed by "upstairs" (for example: the bastards upstairs, the scum upstairs, the morons upstairs, etc). She is calculating and the sort to think of every single possibility, and then proceed to have a back up plan for whatever may come. Chrys's mind is somewhat similar to a catalog, filed with strategies, plans, and words that fly across her mind a mile a minute. One may be wondering, given that her mind is so organized, how she prevents the High King from discovering her identity given that she is his call girl? Well, for one thing, she isn't entirely sure that he doesn't know who she is. For another, she has always been very strong minded, and is able to divert her thoughts away from hatred. Chrys has learned to lie in her thoughts just as easily as someone may tell a fable vocally- it is necessary, after all, when your greatest enemy is a mind reader.
While she is calculating, Chrys is far from being cold, though that tends to be the word that people associate with a calculating personality. She is more fire than ice, a very passionate person by nature. She is incredibly opinionated, though of course she must often bite her tongue in order to survive, something that is a strange combination of easy and painful for the young woman. She was raised in a very peaceful environment, but that kind of thing has never really been her style. The leader is by no means a pushover, not the sort to take things peacefully and move along, happy just to be alive. She is a fighter, someone who will push and push until she gets what she wants or what she believes is right, and isn't afraid to get her hands dirty doing so. When she does get into arguments, the girl is witty but genuine, not the sort to lie if it isn't necessary (though it usually is). What she feels, she feels strongly. Whether it be hate, indignation, love or sorrow. However, when it comes to the last one, it generally is transferred quickly into a desire to change herself and her environment.
L i k e s ?
+Independence
+Intelligence
+Variety
+Running
D i s l i k e s ?
-The High King
- Hierarchy
-Pretty Fools
-The Rain
B a c k g r o u n d ?
Chrysanthemum Keller was not born into wealth or fame, nor was she born into a comfortable middle-class life, or technically one of great poverty either. She lived in an alternative lifestyle, if you will, the one which is both wealthy and destitute at once, providing either a moment of bounty or a day of starvation. Her family, one consisting of only she and her mother, lived paycheck to paycheck, job to job. It simply so happened to be the case that, on some occasions, those paychecks were actually quite a good sum of money. Her mother, you see, was a prostitute. That is the bare minimum of it, really, and she has never thought of her mother as anything but that, but in all technicalities Ms. Keller claimed to be a female escort- which really only translates into a high class hooker, the sort who works with clients who are businessmen, athletes and other varieties of well-off. Chrysanthemum was the daughter of one such person, the illegitimate child of a famous actor, and was given a rather ridiculous name because her mother had possessed this moment of childish hope when she gave birth to the girl, naming her for a flower which meant joy and happiness. Jade, which was her mother's name, had the tendency to have those moments. The woman, you see, was the sort who had been born into this world, just as her daughter had, and yet retained this childlike belief that maybe, maybe, everything would simply become better. She constantly reminded herself that there were others in her profession who starved at night, while she was one of those who could make ends meet with her money, thanks to several wealthy clients. It was the doe-eyed innocence that seemed to attract the men, who were more accustomed to jaded women whose hopes had been worn away with time.
Chrysanthemum, who demanded that she go by Chrys by the age of eight, did not inherit that stubborn innocence and improbably purity. She may have received a stubborn will to go on from her mother, but other than that her personality split off quite early in life. While her mother spoke of their blessings, Chrys would remember the look on her face every morning when she came home, worn out and fading, before forcing a smile for her precious daughter. She remembered the shame on her mother's face when she mentioned that it was career day at school and asked if she would come in. Despite the fact that her mother had a hope for the future, a dream, Chrys knew that she could not survive in this world forever. She would either lose that spark, and therefore her appeal to most of her customers, or die. In ninth grade, her mother began to grow weak. She hid it for as long as possible, but Chrys had always been a clever and observant girl- she noticed fairly soon. Besides that, she knew what would come due to her mother's weakened state. If her mother continued to work, she would die. If she did not, they would be left penniless, as their life was always tightrope walk based upon the moods and preferences of others. She had read a book in that year in which one of the characters stated that the best thing a girl can be in the world is a 'pretty fool'. This thought bewildered Chrys, but she resolved anyway to keep her mother in such a state. She began to take jobs in the stead of her mother, able to play any part necessary because life had taught her to do so. This effort allowed her mother to live for four more years. However, all things must end, and when Chrys was twenty, her mother passed away.
When that happened, the young woman went into a state of depression for six months, taking no jobs and eventually ending up out on the streets, unable to pay for her rent or for food. She was on the brink of death one day, sitting on a chair in the Smithsonian and staring blankly at a piece of artwork in front of her, and suddenly seemed to come to a conclusion- she was not going to die. After that, the girl began to work again. She earned money, ate, and looked back on the life of her mother with a new realization- the worst thing to be in life was a pretty fool. Pretty fools are taken advantage of, and are liable to only cause troubles for others. She loved her mother with all of her heart, but one pretty little fool was draining enough for Chrys, and even worse when she was gone. The young woman became determined to change her fate, beginning to take courses during the day for a degree in Information Technology. However, a career in such a field was not to be her fate, as the world caved into itself as the nuclear war, a violent background to the latter years of her life, raged on.
When the war did come to a close, it was to reveal a world in which one family stepped up above all else, establishing themselves as the absolute rulers. They were wealthy, opulent, and, in the eyes of Chrys, demons wearing finely tailored clothing. Instantly she knew that this was wrong, remembering the world past, and began trying to gather like-minded people. The first person to join her was Kent, one of her best and only friends ever since a rather awkward encounter a few years prior when they realized that his father was one of her mother's clients. The two both had reasons to hate the bastards upstairs, so to speak, and had both been friends before anyway. Together, they began to gather more members and make their way into the family. It wasn't long before she found herself able to get close to the family, although through the life she had tried to escape.