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Verity (Chosen name)
Kaoru Mizuhara (JP)
August 8 (Real-Earth Analog)
About
A fractured soul left behind after being forcefully separated from its vessel. Verity is both a piece of Van and the unwilling host of the Cygnet system, comprised of emself and Deneb. Ey currently reside in the body of Phakt, the last custodian of the temple's feretory which housed many religious artifacts, including the Limbus Grimoire where Verity was imprisoned.
Verity and Vanitas were once a creature known as a Lightprancer, a sacred creature to the Nymphs. They were captured and magically separated against their will for the sake of "science" and "advancement", but their powers were twisted into a tool of destruction which transformed Deihexis from a loose association of peoples united under similar, yet distinct, beliefs into a theocratic entity that then isolated itself from the outside world.
Character
Trivia
Likes
BOOKS In spite of the nature of Verity's prison, ey're still quite fond of books, likely because stories were the only thing that kept em company for the eons they were sealed.
PRAISE / ATTENTION It was lonely being stuck in a book for so long, and considering how jealous she is of all the "attention" Vanitas got...
TRAVELING Verity mostly just likes moving around in general, but traveling is an absolute novelty for em since ey've only ever read about some of these places.
STARGAZING The stars vaguely remind Verity of home. She has few memories of life prior to being sealed, but they make her feel safe.
Dislikes
SLEEPING Verity is afraid of sleeping, but specifically of dreaming since her time in the Limbus Grimoire was like a very long dream.
DECEPTION The concept of "deception" is something completely foreign to Verity, as her original species communicated nonverbally and were literally incapable of deception.
MANUAL LABOR While Teth is decently strong, Verity doesn't actually like exerting physical effort if ey don't have to... Van is the muscle in her eyes
THE CHURCH Considering that they imprisoned her and used Vanitas as a puppet, I'm not sure what else you'd expect.
- When Verity is feeling a strong emotion, she sometimes involuntarily shapeshifts her legs.
- In Deihexian, Verity speaks in the tense reserved for written works. This can't really be portrayed in English, but that's how she talks. If you want the closest real world equivalent and inspiration for this, read about the French passe simple here.
- Since Verity only heard some words pronounced, ey tend to mispronounce things (with full confidence).
- Verity still keeps the Limbus Grimoire on eir person because her life force is still tied to it. She loses control of the body and becomes unconscious if it's too far from her.
- Verity is a smuggler during the Epoch of Insurrection, at least that's what Teth's job is while they're on the run. They mostly smuggle food and medicine, but since she hates deception and is honest to a fault...she's not very good at it. Teth primarily relies on her teleportation, leaping abilities, and light-distortion magic whenever she has to be depended on, and nothing else.
- Verity's motifs include forget-me-nots and the swallow-tailed kite.
Stats
Strengths
Persistent Very persistent, seeing as she's willing to travel all around Deihexis to find a way to reunite her and Vanitas properly.
"Intelligent" Supposedly. Verity is intelligent in some respects, primarily in magic casting and the history of Deihexis and the church, but...her knowledge is spotty, uneven, and sometimes terribly outdated. Those books only had so much up-to-date information in them.
Honest Verity wears her intentions -- good and bad ones -- on her sleeve rather proudly.
Magically powerful Verity has a marginally better grasp of her innate magical abilities than Vanitas has on his. Verity's magic focuses on the distortion of light and short-distance teleportation.
Flaws
Controlling Verity hates things being outside of eir control, especially Vanitas.
Naive While she's slowly learning, Lightprancers don't have a very strong grasp of "deception", so she's quick to believe people and often lacks tact when dealing with more delicate situations.
Vengeful Her desire to reunite with Vanitas is both because she feels incomplete and because she feels that he's had it too good for too long.
Physically weak Verity isn't a strong person, though this might be a side effect of Teth not having the most muscle power. She's just less likely to exercise what little physical strength they have.
Design
Notes
- Verity can shapeshift eir lower legs into bird legs, ey also have dark blue forked tailfeathers. Refer to the swallow-tailed kite.
- Verity doesn't wear her hair down, ey pretty much always have it braided. It can be placed behind em or draped over either shoulder.
- Verity doesn't take off the earring or jewel brooch on eir collar. Without the cape, ey put it on eir bowtie.
- Verity can be drawn with both of eir eyes showing to the viewer. Eir heterochromia isn't something ey hide, really.
- Icon credit: 491
- "About" section credit: Eldur
- "Trivia" section credit: SNES
- "Design" section credit: klug
- "Summary" section credit: tetrangel
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Summary
EPOCH OF DISUNION
Verity and Vanitas were originally born before Deihexis was a unified nation. They remember very little of this time, but Verity recalls living with their herd for a short while before being abandoned by their family.
EPOCH OF CONJUNCTION
While Van was being used as a puppet to prove the existence of "god" and to intimidate the people into submission, Verity was imprisoned within the Limbus Grimoire in an eternal dream state. The book was preserved for future research, but was inevitably forgotten as the original team of researchers became more and more corrupted by Van's influence and his ability to foresee the future. Her understanding of the world was limited to that hazy dream, and she was only able to "travel" mentally between the thousands of other books in the temple's archives.
With the grimoire's purpose long-forgotten, it become just one of the many "holy" artifacts housed in the main temple's feretory. A young nymph known as Albireo Beta became the primary custodian of these artifacts and discovered a psychic connection with Verity, and the two hatched a plan to free her-- and the entirety of Deihexis -- from this twisted rule.
EPOCH OF INSURRECTION (PRESENT)
Unfortunately, Vita and Verity's plan wasn't meant to be. Upon their first attempt at "dreamwalking", Albireo Beta perished gruesomely and Verity was once again left alone. Ey wouldn't meet another who could communicate with em until several years later, when Phakt arrived in the capital. He was following Vita's footsteps and pursuing the truth behind her untimely demise which had been buried for years by the church and hidden from their clan.
Phakt and Verity agreed to work together. Teth would learn the truth of Vita's time at the temple, why she was really there, and Verity would get back what rightfully belonged to her... And during the Epoch of Insurrection, the two broke free from the temple -- with Van in tow.
Related
VAN / VANITAS
Verity's true vessel. Even though he's virtually unrecognizeable, and much more "human" than "Lightprancer", Verity knows that he is the "flesh" she was torn from all those years ago. She orders him around and finds his complete obedience to be a bit of a nuisance, but she thinks that she'll be able to whip him into shape eventually.
PHAKT θ / TETH
Verity's current physical vessel. Teth literally acts as Verity's eyes, ears, and legs until she can truly "reunite" with Vanitas. While the two of them made some sort of deal, Verity isn't always certain that Teth has been fully truthful with her... Unfortunately, they're the only options that both of them have.
Albireo β
A nymph who worked in the temple before her untimely demise. Teth seems to have been friends with her. She was the first person to extend help to Verity, but...
