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Shirley Fennes | Tales of Legendia | Reserved
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Character Name: Shirley Fennes
Canon: Tales of Legendia
Canon Point: Post-Chapter 4
Background/History: Why isn't anyone helping?
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All in all, she's been alone for a long time. Everybody in the village treated her differently, and Senel was a fraternal figure enamored with Stella. She says so herself: she's never had a friend before. Fenimore would be her first, and she would cry with joy and heartbreak that night after Senel has rejected her. Before then, she's alone in a village of Ferines who revere her, and the strain on her relationship with Senel is further cause for depression.
Shirley is stubborn as a mule. The good part is she can work up the courage to do what she deems right; the bad part is this applies for unsavory self-deprecation. Shirley believes she's little more than an over-glorified burden and that she can only continue to do her part in Stella's shadow. She has resolve, but that resolve lacks confidence—in fact, it is trauma that enables Shirley to hear Nerifes' voice, not by her own ability as she had in her childhood.
She had good reason to reject Nerifes then, though. That reason is kindness. She is an optimist who prays for the Orerines and Ferines to find peace, for she has seen the good in the former and would offer her life time and again to help everyone regardless of race. As a result, she's also naive. Her lack of friends robbed her the experience of what it means to watch them killed before her, and Senel had been keeping her safe while others were beaten brutally. But Shirley still maintains that there are good Orerines when she's caught and imprisoned, partly because she loves Senel.
Shirley's love is a strong thing. At the end of the day, she would fight for those she cherishes. Despite her initial timidity, she is quick to fall to the defensive when Fenimore accuses Senel of being a vile Orerines: "My brother isn't like that! Don't talk about him that way!" As far as Senel is concerned, she even becomes jealous when other girls beg for his attention. In general, Shirley is shy but very emotional, and very loving. Even in the face of her abrupt rejection, she would attempt to cushion the awkwardness for Senel by bringing up just how obvious it was that Stella had liked him back.
Fact of the matter is, Shirley has been running from her duty and living in ignorant bliss for most of her formative years. She's only stopped running recently, but gone to attend to her duties in perhaps the worst scenario possible. Stella's benevolent sacrifice is a constant source of pressure, and the Ferines must cope with the idea that living with them is a failed Merines. Powerless she may be, it is necessary that she do her best to restore their broken hope. She just has no idea how she can do that beyond nice words and hard work, and the constant onset of weakness unsettles her.
Shirley has practically convinced herself that she's weak and that nobody cares about her because of it. When she believes she can't do something, that's the end of that. It takes a great deal of outside encouragement to convince her that she can be more than what little she makes herself out to be, so she can be a bit whiny, though it's more insecurity than anything. Much of her world view is considerably contained, and that she compares herself to others so often suggests self-absorption in an entirely bad way.
Then this happened:And perhaps misunderstanding her sister's intention, Shirley slaves over trying to do exactly that. She does have a strong sense of obligation, now more than ever with all that's piled up for the Ferines. However, this is all at the cost of her own happiness, which is where the fatal flaw of her selflessness lies. In a way, it's a little selfish because she's using her duty to play escapism.
In the end, Shirley is still what she is: a human girl. She's shy without her sister, scared without her brother, and all she wants is for everyone to be happy. To live like family and friends. But right now, she has envy issues that could capsize a giant ship.
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Ferines are amphibious humans who can breathe underwater, marked by the dim blue glow of their hair when submerged. They summon, fly, and fight using a teriques, a spiritual extension of oneself; Shirley's takes the form of a blue butterfly.
All Ferines are suggested to be erens (their fingernails glow when activated). Eres is divided into two subsets: iron and crystal, physical and magical. Shirley is a crystal eren. As of her canon point, her powers are locked. Eres is also considered a loose form of communication between humans and the will of the sea; with enough power, one can "feel" Nerifes.
As an awakened Merines, Shirley can hear and fuse her conscience with the will of the sea, Nerifes; access Tidal Wave, a crystal eres exclusive to her and which calls upon the power of the sea; control the Legacy, a giant ship, with sheer willpower; and lose her poisonous reaction to sea water.
She is, however, not awakened as the true Merines and unable to do any of this with the exception of breathing underwater. Fresh water such as from a spring or lake is ideal for her. Once she regains her powers later in the canon, she uses a quill as her medium for casting crystal eres.
Items/Weapons: Just a quill she can't use for the time being.
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Are you busy? ➙ Thank you, Walter.
Not really. I'm just glad that you took it so well.
Sample Entry Two: Shirley tells herself over and over again that she should quell her fears now that a whole two weeks have passed without incident. After all, what has she to be scared of? It looks as though nobody knows what a Ferines, much less a Radiant is—and under normal circumstances she might have been eager to play teacher, but here, in this ghost of a settlement, she pulls back.
It doesn't make sense. Coexistence can't happen without communication.
And yet—
In her absentmindedness, she nearly trips on debris. With a gasp, she rights herself before she loses balance, and now—and now her heart is palpitating, pumping adrenaline through her body as her face heats up. She touches her cheek, the tips of her fingers like cold steel against that warm flesh. She's scared.
It doesn't make sense. There are so many others here, some more eager than others to socialize and gather together for protection. There is no prejudice. There is no war within (not any she suspects, at least not to a catastrophic measure). There is nothing to be afraid of. She's grown up for three years alongside Orerines and none of her kin. She should be comfortable with this.
Her body begins to tremble ever slightly.
—but right now she's alone, and that by itself scares her to death.
-> ACCEPTED