Post by Honora Allemeade on Jun 16, 2021 12:22:34 GMT -5
GENERALHONORA ALLEMEADE
Name: Honora Allemeade
Age: twenty three
Birth Season: Winter
Occupation: Royal Governess (unofficially: therapist/counselor)
Citizen Status: Marchioness
PHYSICAL
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 128 lbs
Body Description: Honora is a woman of understated beauty. She is delicately built with soft, welcoming features. Her dress and overall appearance is feminine, yet austere; simple, yet elegant. Her light blonde hair is usually knotted back in an intricate braided hairstyle, pulling it back off her face to feature her bright blue, deeply kind eyes. No matter the season or temperature, Honora always dresses in long-sleeved, conservative dresses. She also wears a pair of gloves long enough to meet her sleeves in order to avoid any skin-to-skin contact. Her overall demeanor is quiet, yet welcome. She smiles freely, yet always as a melancholy tinge about her. Honora’s voice is measured and soft, but though her words are few, everyone seems to listen while she speaks.
PERSONAL
Alignment: Lawful Good
Reputation: Honora conducts herself with a composure and elegance far beyond that of your average twenty three year old. She is reserved, quiet, and thoughtful - always choosing her words carefully and reflecting before acting. Listening is more important to her than speaking, caring for others is more important to her than taking care of herself. Her sensitivity to human suffering is unparalleled. Honora feels for the struggles of others and genuinely wants to help - even if others may regard her altruistic intentions with skepticism. Her greatest concern is for gifteds and the oppression they have experienced.
Her uncompromising commitment to service to others is almost saintly, but leaves little room for flexibility. Honora’s expectations for how the world should operate are arguably unrealistic. After all, the world is an uncertain, difficult place and not all people can afford to keep their hands clean. Though she tries to avoid passing judgement on others, her seeming inability to deviate from her own rigid moral code can cause her to not take decisive action when needed, or fail to protect herself from evil influences. For example, even though knows how to defend herself, she is a pacifist and will go out of her way to avoid violence or physical confrontation. This can put her own physical safety at risk. She is, however, willing to step up in order to protect others.
To the most cynical of folks, Honora can come off as prudish or difficult to relate to. Though she is guarded emotionally, she has managed to cultivate an almost bulletproof reputation. She is seen as someone of saintly compassion and unshakable principles. This has given her privileges and credibility not afforded many other gifteds, particularly those of such power. However if she is able to draw energy without making contact, this may change.
Combat Experience: The Allemeades know all to well the importance of being able to defend yourself. As a young girl, she was trained alongside her older brother, Remi. Her instruction was cut short when she was sent off to the hermitage to live with Nell. Once at the hermitage, her combat experience was more about discipline and practice than actual, well, experience. Under Nell's instruction, she became highly proficient with the rapier, bow, and throwing knives. She also has a solid foundation in hand-to-hand combat, though more through practice rather than actual experience. Honora is not particularly strong, but knows how to strike a well-placed blow.
MAGIC
Psychic Absorption: Honora possesses the ability to draw psychic energy. Psychic energy encompasses a range of things, including memories, feelings, thoughts, and impressions. After drawing the memory/thought/feeling of the target to the surface, Honora experiences that memory/thought/feeling as if it were her own. She can choose then to either leave the memory/thought/feeling with the target, or draw it out of them entirely so that they will no longer remember the memory/thought/feeling.
Honora’s gift is strongest with skin-to-skin contact, locking the subject into an almost magnetic hold that is difficult to break free from. The ease with which Honora can draw the memory/thought/feeling depends on the mental and emotional strength of the target. Extended or difficult draws of psychic energy are excruciatingly painful for the target. Prolonged or out of control drains can cause temporary or permanent psychological damage to the target.
LEVEL 10
As a result of her training with Hiram Eldouir, Honora uncovered an aspect of her gift previously unknown to her. Now, not only can Honora drain psychic energy, she can emit it. Honora can implant or emit a memory/vision/thought/feeling in a target, either one that she has absorbed from another source or created from scratch.
HISTORY
Family: Bayard - Father | Adda - Mother | Brothers - Remiel Allemeade , 24, 21, 18 | Bryce Allemeade - cousin
Tale:
Honora is the third child of Bayard Allemeade and Adda Darcy. As a young child, she grew up in the care of her mother, Adda. She remembers little of her father and has no emotional connection or feeling for him. From a young age, Honora was a quiet, thoughtful child. Stories of the heartbreaking betrayal and slaughter of the Allemeade family was the backdrop of Honora’s childhood, causing her to internalize a sense of fear and a need to be constantly ready to defend against attack. At first, her gifts were not evident, leading her mother to question whether she even had gifts at all. But Honora soon began to demonstrate a strange understanding of the inner emotions and experiences of others - knowing this she couldn't possibly know. All of this came to a head when she was fighting with a child her age from a neighboring farm. He had taken her journal and hid it, and she was demanding to know where he had taken it. Grabbing the boy by the arm, in her rage she began to draw psychic energy from the boy - her gifts trying to give her the information she had demanded. Untrained, she was unable to pull away until the boy had collapsed, confused and unresponsive, seemingly out of his mind.
Fearful that their child would be discovered by the family of the boy, her parents determined it would be safer if she was separated from the family. Honora was sent to live in a hermitage with a governess, an old common woman who went by Miss Nell who was sworn to secrecy. She was described to townsfolk as an orphan taken in by the old spinster. There, Honora grew up sequestered, but free. She read books and learned all sorts of things from the educated woman who would be her teacher and her companion. Nell was fully aware of Honora's gifts, and gave her the guidance she needed to teach herself how to control them. It was at this time Honora took to wearing gloves in order to eliminate the possibility of human contact.
Nell died when Honora was sixteen. On Nell's deathbed, she imparted a lifetime of memories to Honora that she carries with her to this day. After living on her own for a while longer, tending to Nell's farm, Honora worked up the courage to strike out on her own. At first, she worked under the name Nell as a schoolteacher for common children in a small village near the palace. Word of her patience and excellent instruction spread and soon, nobles wanted to employ her services as a tutor - all the while oblivious to her gifts and true heritage. It wasn't long before she was tapped to be the Governess of @iliana , unwittingly positioning herself as a confidant and role model to the young royal.
After Bryce openly declared herself to be an Allemeade, Honora remained quiet. She was frightened of having to reveal her power and register with the Eldoiurs. Her family were strangers to her after so many years apart, so none of them recognized her. Honora witnessed the struggles of her dearest brother Remiel from afar, unwilling to step forward. But, after the disappearance of Bryce, Honora viewed the newfound friendship between Remiel and Hiram Eldouir with new eyes. There was no Allemeade left to stand strong against the Eldouirs in their quest for power.
As Nell, Honora was already known among noble houses as someone who was kind, just, and reasonable. Even given the recent revelation, she has been allowed to keep her position as Royal Governess. She has formed close relationships with many at court. Her position as a commoner and an outsider allowed her to become a therapist of sorts - someone who people can seek advice and comfort from without judgement and with total confidentiality.
OOC
OOC Name: Rigby
Gender: Female
Time Zone:EST
Discord ID:Rigby#3969
Other Characters:Magda Ivanova
Tagging: Eloell
