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The Story of a Maiden Fair
With Shades of Silver in Her Hair
Created on 2007-08-23 19:29:20 (#13662660), last updated 2008-03-24
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Basic Info| Name: | Lady Corinna Merton |
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BioRoleplay journal where justice is attempted to be done to Corinna from Franny Billingsley's brilliant book The Folk Keeper. No thoughts or actions should be assumed to reflect the beliefs of the player. Corinna belongs not to the player, but the excellent Ms. Billingsley.
In the sun ’tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine. -From "Witch Wife," by Edna St. Vincent Millay Canon: The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley Species: Sealfolk Age: 17 Hair: Silver, calf-length Eyes: Green, silver in dim light Abilities: the Last Word, seeing with her hair, knowledge of the time through the tide, closing her ears, holding her breath for long periods, is never cold, skill with anything to do with water, extensive knowledge of the Folk and charms Likes: Fish, rain, learning, sailing, kind and/or intelligent people, and especially Finian Dislikes: Lots of sun, people foolish/inconsiderate/proud without basis, excessive noise, crowds | Corinna spent the first twelve years of her life being somewhat abused in foundling homes, where her ferocity and tenacity earned her the surname "Stonewall." She bribed and eavesdropped herself an education. When she was twelve, in transit between homes she cut her hair and disguised herself as a boy, becoming the Rhysbridge Home's new Folk Keeper. She was their best Folk Keeper, devoted and determined, though she had somehow lost that ultimate edge over the Folk, the Last Word. When Corinna was fifteen, the dying Lord Merton ordered his cousin Sir Edward and rather younger wife Lady Alicia to take Corinna on as Folk Keeper and into their family at the estate Marblehaugh Park. While there, Corinna discovered she had even more mysterious powers, and befriended Finian Hawthorne, Lady Alicia's son by her first marriage. But there were many secrets at Marblehaugh Park. Sir Edward figured out that Corinna was the late Lord Merton's only child, and intent on finally claiming the estate for himself, he left her in the Folk Caverns for dead. He didn't count on how resourceful she was, or on her claiming all the powers she had as her mother's daughter, and thus one of the sealfolk. Powers like the Last Word. Corinna made it out of the caverns alive. In another confrontation with Sir Edward, she and her newly found sealskin were badly burned, but saved from death (partially with the aid of Finian). When she attempted to enter to the sea as a seal for the first time, she discovered that the burned parts of the sealskin would not allow for the change back again. Panicked at the thought of losing all she had on land, she ripped it off and left it in the sea. She has not regretted this. She went back to land, accepted her role as Lady Merton, and, more importantly, Finian's proposal. She was quite happy with her life. Then she was brought to Moksa University. |
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boats, charms, convictions, estates, fish, manors, music, otherfolk, poems, power, privacy, sealfolk, seals, secrets, songs, the folk, the sea, words, writing
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