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Miriam

Basics

Name Miriam (Miri)
Age 19 yrs
Gender ID Agender (afab)
Pronouns She/Her
Sexuality ???
Race Tabaxi
Background Farmer
Height 5'11"
Demeanor Happy
Home/Origins A Field Somewhere
Alignment Chaotic Good
Tarot The Empress
Aesthetics Board
Playlist

Likes

  • honey
  • chickens
  • cherry blossoms
  • gold + green
  • talking to plants
  • jigs
  • flute + fiddle music
  • ravioli

Dislikes

  • dark purples
  • clocks
  • her claws being sharp
  • poisonous plants
  • industrialism
  • technology
  • ghosts, monsters, etc.
  • gems, crystals, geodes

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Miriam is a level 5 College of Eloquence Bard. She was raised on a fairly secluded farm, in a home built by her adoptive parents. It is obvious immediately when meeting her that she is full of love, both given to her and to give. She had a comfortable childhood, though not one without discipline, and is far from gullible or incapable, despite how she may come across.
General Traits List: Cheerful, enthusiastic, adaptable, easygoing, humble, intuitive, green-thumbed, frugal, folksy, wary, private, somewhat anxious, mischievous, indecisive, thievish, somewhat lazy, superstitious.

Miriam is easily described as folksy at first glance. She is informal but most often polite if a bit strange. She is cheerful, enthusiastic, outwardly easygoing, and comes off carefree. Her demeanor and appearance are likely to cause one to view her as easy to trick or mislead, but she has been taught well and boasts strong natural intuition that often guides her. She seldom uses a person’s underestimation of her to her own advantage, though, as she often feels no need to. She simply recognizes and accepts it. At best, she would use it to play a mischievous prank on someone, and at worst, to steal from them (which she is prone to doing). While she has a silver tongue, she would not be considered sly, diplomatic, or refined. She knows how to talk or act to get her way when she needs it, and that’s enough for her. How she comes off is similar to a red panda – charming and amusing. Who could turn away that face? She does not lie with malice or to cause real actual harm, but surely to cause mischief, steal and get free food. She is also very adaptable, but only in actual environments – she can flourish just about anywhere, and get by with anything. However, this isn’t true for all social settings. She is particularly awful at navigating any interactions with nobles or people of power, and those of similar nature.
Much work growing produce and caring for house plants over the years has caused her to become fond of the work. She is a green-thumbed individual, loves nature, and is additionally frugal, an enjoyer of the simple. She is delighted by having a hand in growing things. She does not enjoy things that are grand and fancy and polished (like large marble mansions or evening balls), but she can appreciate the dramatic and flamboyant and is especially a fan of the theater – especially that which is over-acted. She loves to participate in acting, herself, even.
Despite the sunniness she outwardly projects, Miriam is actually quite a private, somewhat anxious (more so wary) person. She doesn’t like to talk in detail about her family or life or anything of the sort; it would need to be coaxed out of her. While she may spin stories similar to those of her family, she is extremely hesitant to mention them by name or go into actual honest detail about her life and them due to fear that it may attract danger to them. Though she may come off confident, she is highly indecisive and prefers to have others decide things for her (the exception to this is if she is faced with any decision she can identify as blatantly morally conflicting to her, or in regards to things like deals with individuals in exchange for power, and a few other specific things). She is also quite humble, perhaps partly from lower confidence but also simply due to her upbringing. Miriam can also be lazy, sneaking off to nap or birdwatch or things like that to avoid actual labor or things she doesn’t ordinarily enjoy doing.
Miriam does not often get angry. She is generally unbothered, but there are of course exceptions to this. She can be prone to feel spiteful when she feels she or a loved one has been wronged – but only if said wrong has been inflicted by someone she would deem immoral. If someone tripped her on purpose unless they were a rich politician or abusive or something else she is unlikely to retaliate. She will still wish karma upon them, though, and will probably stare at them through a fork pretending you’re in jail. If you are a person like that, though, she may actually take action against you in some way – like go out of her way to steal important things from them that she doesn’t even necessarily want, or publicly humiliate them, or make them trip and fall down a flight of stairs. If you’re bad enough in her eyes, she may even try to kill you! It’s never come to that, yet, though.
She is, additionally, highly superstitious. Over the course of her childhood, Miriam adopted a large number of superstitions due to nerves from constantly hearing various horror stories and lessons from her parents about their lives and adventures. She, in turn, lives and swears by these superstitions. Many she truly believes to work, others she simply wants to believe in, others she has made up herself just chooses to believe them, even if she hasn’t even fully convinced herself.

Her superstitions are as follows (Some Real World ones & some made up):
☆ She must always have an even amount of coins in her bag. She will get rid of any that are over the amount.
☆ If you turn your back to cattle and close your eyes, and then say “Cow be kind!” 3 times, it cannot hurt you. (Taught to one father to help him overcome his fear of cows…)
☆ Before going on a journey, she must leap backward and forward 3 times over a fire before doing so, which will make her “invulnerable” to die on the journey.
☆ She planted rosemary in the front of her childhood home to ward off evil! Anywhere she lives for a prolonged period, she will do this.
☆ 4 leaf clovers are lucky! Finding one will bring good luck.
☆ NEVER knit outside in winter — it will prolong it!
☆ Eat grapes on the new year for good luck!
☆ She will steal and collect the ace of spades out of card decks since they are the luckiest card.
☆ Ladybugs are a good luck sign and should not be killed under any circumstance
☆ White heather protects from evil and should always be collected if found.
☆ Never bring bananas onto a boat, lest you want to incur awful luck.

About

Early Life

The adopted daughter of two famous heroes, and retired adventurers themselves, Miriam’s upbringing was shockingly mundane given this fact. This was intentional on their end, of course. Ready to settle down after all the chaos in their lives, they found a home in one another and soon built a place out in the countryside, in a lush field a little ways from civilization. Shortly after moving in, they brought children into the mix. Miriam was taken in as a baby from her adoptive uncle’s orphanage, which one of her fathers used to help run (his brother). She does not know her birth parents, has no interest in finding out and has hardly even considered them.
Having seen many things in their time, good and bad, they raised Miriam and her brother on many tales and such of their adventures and lives. Miriam’s fathers were loving parents, most importantly. However, they were far from “skilled” or perfect at parenting, especially early on – still irresponsible themselves, in many ways. Miriam was prone to landing herself in trouble as she engaged in mischief for much of her childhood, and they’d have to scramble to help her or correct things often. She was never badly hurt or anything, but she definitely got dropped on her head a few times and was all-around a kid that was often roughed up simply due to her own curiosity and uncanny ability to get into all the places she wasn’t supposed to. (WIP)

Life on the Farm

Miriam grew up as nothing short of a farmer, tending crops and plants and livestock they kept to sustain themselves. Although her fathers kept a teleportation circle in the basement to visit civilization (and particularly her uncle), they really had all that they needed on their land. (WIP)

Trivia

  • Miriam is a canon-insert oc, with her adoptive parents being Br'aad Vengolor and Taxi from the first campaign (The Fated) of the DND podcast Just Roll With It :3c.
  • She does not like rich people. She believes it is fine to antagonize them. She feels it is morally correct to steal from them.
  • Miriam is a firm believer in heeding advice/warnings and will internalize and often parrot lessons she learns, trying to impart wisdom, even if it sounds absurd at times. She is usually the first to believe the “crazy” rambling old man in a town waxing about doom.
  • She is afraid of skeletons.
  • From Taxi's teaching, she is good at identifying herbs at a glance! Especially good medicinal ones.
  • She is an early riser and enjoys napping in the sun.
  • The Hat of Disguise she owns was made by Br’aad.
  • Growing up, she had certain lessons drilled into her growing up by her parents, family, and family friends, reinforced with many horror stories to back them up. Biggest takeaway lessons that she will parrot to people:
    ☆ NEVER touch weird gems. The prettier the look, the eviler they probably are.
    ☆ NEVER make deals with weird guys — OR charming guys. Or either of those types of people that don’t fit the “guy” label.
    ☆ DO NOT engage with anyone who tries to promise you power, wealth, or desires. ESPECIALLY if they ask for something in return.
    ☆ NEVER adventure on your own. DO NOT split the party.
    ☆ NEVER disrespect nature, or anything related to the Fey.
    ☆ DO NOT cast a ranged spell before you are SURE of where it is going to hit.
  • Her voice claim is LittleKellyPlayz

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Br'aad Vengolor [ adoptive father ]

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Taxi [ adoptive father ]

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Bear [ adoptive brother ]

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