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Nyx
most often as an anklet
peaceful ✦ tender ✦ protective
wistful • taciturn • melancholy
A very quiet and mysterious xyn. She is selectively mute and not many have heard her voice. Those who have say it is a little eerie almost, like a whisper on the wind, but it still conveys a kind gentleness even in her few words. Nyx at first meeting might seem a bit aloof, but in actuality she is simply hyper aware of her surroundings and is always on guard. As a young child, she was the unfortunate victim of a corruption beast attack in her home, the Heartsong Isles. She was taken by Lullay Knights to the capital for the best corruption healers to work on curing her. Despite losing a lot of her sense of self to the corruption, Nyx still volunteers with the Knights. Her wish is to protect other xyns from meeting the same fate. It's also a good distraction for her, as she never went back home after the attack so many years ago... she's afraid to know what happened to her loved ones, but also afraid to know what they'll think if they saw her. It's a double-edged sword and Nyx copes with it by instead never seeking an answer. But she will find one eventually.
While her demeanor is mostly very passive and introverted, Nyx adores and is fascinated by anything that is golden in colour, ranging anywhere from fruits, to accessories, butterflies (one of her top favourite things!), the sun and sky, or even other xyns, and she tends to open up more around anything even moderately yellow or orange. Once while still in knight training, she nearly lost her life going on a solo mission to protect a little yellow xynlet from a corruption beast. She was later found shaking and protecting the sleeping xynlet nestled under her wings, afraid to let them go even when the other Knights finally found her.
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Likes
- anything yellow/orange/gold in colour
- flowers & butterflies
- collecting objects of her fav colours
- wearing jewelry
- being around quiet, peaceful xyns
Dislikes
- her recurring nightmares
- the beach (cautious around freshwater)
- overly loud noises
- storms
- Corruption Beasts
Backstory
When she was a little xynlet, Nyx was known by another name. It is not one she can remember now, but she can remember everything else about that day clearly. The faces of her friends and family smiling as they played in the waves. How their expressions changed when a huge shadow appeared over them and blotted out the moonlight. The cacophany of screaming, of wingbeats, and the cries of the corruption beasts as they swooped down. Her natural talent for magic that she was proud of suddenly became something she wished she didn't have, as the beast rounded on her first, sensing the feast within. She had no time to run.
She awakens days later in an infirmary she doesn't recognize. She is lucky to be alive. As she looks around, she notes several tired-looking Lullay Knights resting at her bedside now stirring from her movement. She opens her mouth to thank them, but nothing comes out as she notices the changes to her body. Her once-golden scales have darkened to a blue, and her gold fur is now pitch black. Her horn has been broken off entirely somehow, and she feels only the barest hint of magic sizzling in her, a tiny dwindling ember compared to the roaring sun she had felt before. A Lullay Knight holds her paw quietly. She cries unlike she's ever cried before, but after that, she is never seen shedding a single tear ever again. When she was finally given the all-clear to leave, she was asked her name, and she couldn't remember. It was yet another thing the beast had taken from her. Thinking for a moment, she offers "Nyx" as her name, as she now feels like she is just a xyn with nothing left. When she steps outside for the first time in ages, she feels hardly anything but numbness and grief. It takes her a long while to grieve what she lost, but eventually she gives herself a goal--to try and become a Knight, so that she can prevent others from her same fate.
After several years of training, Nyx finally managed to regain a bit of her magic. It's not the same as before in any way, but it is there, and her horn returned as one made of light. The tiny star pieces she collected in her fur over the years seemed to offer her some of their latent energy as well, and she was able to make a halo again. She's bothered that her magic is now black and off-white as opposed to gold it used to be, but she now for the most part accepts that she has changed.
Fun Facts
✦She has a veritable dragon's hoard of golden objects. Her Bag of Holding from Knight training has proved to be more of a means for her collection rather than any official use. However, she simply just adores these objects and seeing them makes her happy. She isn't greedy or selfish and she enjoys gifting the little trinkets she finds to friends. Seeing a friend adorned with a gift she gave brings her even more joy.
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