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Neroli Illes
Design Notes
5'8. Thin, she looks lanky due to it. Wears muted or light clothes mainly.
Hair is braided in a bun from behind, with a ponytail coming out from under it.
Folds arms often or holds newspaper under arm with coffee in her hand. Mature air.
Likes
Black coffee
Oscar Wilde
Hugs
Quiet spaces
Long baths
Dislikes
Ruckus
Dust
Sour food
Insects
Lying
Greatest Strength
As a mandrake she has the qualities of both plants and humans, for her she sprouts blanket flower leaves on her head every once in a while. Her hair tie looks like regular leaves, but its fake. As the oldest she's very smart too and good at tasks.
Greatest Weakness
Unfortunately she's the eldest daughter, which carries so much responsibility in name and practice. She's good at multitasking, but it's a lot overall with so many siblings.
Calligraphy
Told by Elodie's grandfather that she had the neatest handwriting, she cultivated it and got into calligaphy and formal writing as a hobby. It's very neat.
Reading
She can read books, but prefers to read newspapers as they're mostly straightforward without a sense of anticipation like a story. She likes to know what's going on in places she doesn't go to.
Strolling
Just a morning routine when the sun isn't so bright. She walks around town before all the shops open, sometimes taking one of her little siblings if they actually get up early.
Positive Traits
Neroli is considered the most responsible in her close circle and family, someone who often knows the correct answer to a situation and will always be proactive than reactive. She tends to think before doing things so her composure is stable, her calm look reassuring to others during stress.
Neutral Traits
She's stern because she means well, but some of her siblings dislike that she can appear as a parent than a sister sometimes. She scolds them if something isn't right, but will also take the time to fix things with them so it isn't repeated. She's so used to caring for others that she rejects help as well.
Negative Traits
There are times that she appears annoyed and easily becomes annoyed with others in an obvious way, by making a displeased expression or resorting to tapping her foot/fingers. Niemi often tells her it's easier to say what she feels than to wait for others to guess what they did wrong.
Others' Perception
Loved Ones
Her family probably wouldn't function as well without her so they admire her even if she's tough on them. She cares for them too.
Strangers
Customers feel a smart aura from her since she acts mature and doesn't really make mistakes. Her handwriting is nice too.
Enemies
Some might find her seriousness offputting when she doesn't react to compliments or jokes.
When her eyes opened for the first time, Elodie’s grandfather was the first person she met, her creator who treated her like family. She shared part of the Illes family’s DNA, another portion with the Marigold, a plant with a fairly short germination time. Being his first successful Mandrake, Neroli had the shortest childhood of her successors, growing up in the blink of an eye past the human age of 5 within a few months. Needless to say, stored baby clothes for her weren’t tossed away despite everything, as she was going to have siblings eventually.
Her first little sister was Niemi, another child who could only be held briefly before she was already able to prance and skip around. The two played around their “Grandfather’s” home during the day, becoming the two mandrakes most familiar with him, and staying underground in a hidden garden during afternoons. It’s said that Neroli is a young lady with a personality that takes after an old man, whether through her mature manner of speech or her habits of reading the morning paper with a cup of black coffee since she was younger.
When Grandfather announced he was terminally ill, that one day he wouldn’t unlock their hidden basement garden to let them out, they at least would one day meet his granddaughter who’d he’d entrust their care to. Likewise, he asked Neroli to take care of Elodie as well. From stories alone, she was someone special that Neroli wanted to meet one day, waiting a couple months in the hidden garden after Grandfather’s passing before she had finally met her. Within those months, a handful of her siblings had sprouted, essentially born with longer childhoods as the Mandrake research polished with time.
While Neroli and most of her siblings shared a majority of Grandfather’s DNA, the last two mandrakes shared Elodie’s DNA gathered from a childhood hairbrush. As if sensing she had come to her childhood home again, that’s when Taimi decided to sprout, Kuiper following suit shortly. As for Neroli, a new life of raising her siblings and managing the florist’s shop with Elodie began.
It’s believed that Neroli fills in the shoes of her late Grandfather with her parent-like personality, responsible and careful in what she does. While the mandrakes were intended to be hidden from the public, Neroli spends most of her time at the front of the home where Elodie continues to run the family’s florist shop. Many had seen Elodie move in, but the mandrakes seemed to have appeared suddenly in contrast, yet Neroli has a quick answer whenever asks who they are.
Knowing Elodie’s past full of grievances, and that the mandrakes are loved like they are her own children, Neroli would like to see Elodie’s life blossom into one full of love. Even if sometimes she’ll be strict with her siblings, even if she doesn’t fully comprehend the ordeals her family had gone through, as the eldest daughter Neroli ultimately takes care of everyone around her.
∙ Nicest handwriting in her family.
∙ She often keeps her hands at her face and bites her nails out of habit. She tries to often hold something to keep her hands busy.
∙ Fish unsettle her, she hates looking at their eyes specifically. If she eats fish she always tosses the head out.
∙ Indoors, she always wear slippers. Outdoors, she always wears flats.
∙ As serious as she looks reading the newspaper with a cup of coffee every morning, she goes right to the comics before actually reading the news.
Close Box
Tokyo flash
Vaundy (music box)
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