Esme
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ESme the Rogue
BASIC INFO
NAME:
Esme
AGE:
21
PRONOUNS:
She/Her
POWER:
STABILITY:
DECEITFULNESS:
DESIGN
SPECIES:
Tiefling
HEIGHT:
5'2ft
VOICE:
link
NOTES:
Esme's is a phantom rogue
can talk to ghosts
Just an absolute icon, we love to see it. Art is Esme Human!Au
MOODBOARD
It's all lies, darling
Wild feral stare, her winter lips as cold as stone
STORY
The youngest child of two human parents. She was adopted by them and grew up on their ranch in a small farming community. Things were good, she lived a simple life and was loved by them. Eventually however all good things come to an end. The community was raided by some criminals on the run and to destroy evidence they set their farm house ablaze. Esme’s parents were killed in the flames while she survived via hiding in the barn where her Mother had stored her away. Once the criminals left she climbed out of the hayloft and watched as her life burned to the ground. In the ashes of what was left behind she finds her parents corpses which she sets with until she is discovered by the neighbors and taken in. Overwhelmed with grief and a desire for revenge at the loss Esme steals some gold from the farming family and enough food to last a few days before running off. She manages to pay her way onto a wagon heading towards "Starlidian" city. Once there Esme is confronted with the hard life of a street rat. She works hard though and trades in secrets, she is an apprentice spy under the city’s spy master in exchange for a meager amount of coin that she uses to buy food. Growing hateful and bitter she distrusts everyone around her but can put on a nice smile while hunting for information. During this time Esme makes her first kill. While listening in on a conversation she hears the name of the man who killed her family. Overcome with a blind rage Esme attacks the man who spoke of him in an alleyway stabbing him to death. After this Esme begins to hear voices. Specifically those whom she has killed. They follow the young girl and are in her service. The voices she wishes to hear most - her parents - are never there. .
PERSONALITY
LIKES:
- Pink
- Shiny Things
- Sewing
DISLIKES:
- Sweet things
- Reading
- Birds
Esme becomes infatuated with life and death, deciding to be a far more kind and excitable person now that she can see the error of her ways. She continues her work as a spy and continues to kill though now she does so with a smile on her face and pink bows covering her outfits. .
RELATIONSHIPS
Elijah Petrov —
His relationship with Esme is complicated. He finds Esme’s skills to be fascinating and was unsure for a time if her contact with the dead was simply the figment of a mentally ill child’s imagination or actual magic. They met when she was 9 years old with Esme having been starving on the streets but the sort of desperation and steel already set in her eyes telling him that she might be of some use. He took her back to his operation base and allowed her to clean herself up and offered her a meager amount of food. She devoured it immediately. He explained to her that if she wanted to continue eating, having a place to bathe, or even possibly a place to sleep she would have to make herself into something useful. Esme agreed to the terms - he would tell her people to stalk and follow listening into every little detail of conversation they had. Being so small and quiet it wasn’t a particularly hard job for her to do. Early on in this career one of the men she had been tailing mentioned a name she hadn’t heard in a few years at that point. This would lead to her first murder. She stumbled back to her Spymaster’s base covered in blood and her own tears completely in shock from what had happened. Elijah comforted her and helped clean her hands of the blood of this man. He had already intended on having the man killed and simply hadn’t entrusted the job with Esme considering her age. He soon hears word of how brutal the slaughter had been and he makes the decision to keep her close. This desire to keep Esme under his wing only grew stronger when she started telling him about being able to talk to the man in her sleep and how his ghost seemed to haunt her now. He first believed that perhaps she was simply easier to crack than he had first believed but when she was able to produce information and skills he simply knew she had no other way of knowing he was convinced. From this point on though Esme’s job isn’t as simple as secret hunting for food. It turns out Murder is a higher paying business. She doesn’t kill every person she stalks and uses for information of course but sometimes Elijah would hand her an opportunity to sate her newly discovered bloodlust when keeping a person alive simply wasn’t worth it anymore.
Stefan —
However as a couple years passed they grew into something closer to allies. Things really change when Stephan grows ill suddenly and Esme is unsure what to do or feel about it. It had been a long time since she had anyone she really cared about and even through the haze of her grief and angst :™: she knew she couldn’t just let him die. This lead to her spending all the money she had saved on a doctor for him. . In their late teens/early adulthood the two of them form a romantic relationship. While they would never outright call each other their ‘girlfriend/boyfriend’ they would refer to each other as ‘partner’. Stefan has completely disappeared. Given their profession Esme assumes that he is dead and mourns him. Though a body is never found. I think their dynamic is very playful and teasing? Lots of mutual bullying, but with a touch of genuine care. He’s very charming and used to be more of the ‘face’ of the operation when they worked together.