<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><strong>The Banished Character Sheet</strong></span><hr/><div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/sxslVNj.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/3c/00/b5/3c00b5f5e90b4410fb30d677169cc669.jpg)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong>Korey<br/><strong>Inspiration:</strong>Persephone<br/><strong>Nature:</strong>Sheltered Rebellious Country-girl<br/><strong>Demeanor:</strong>Introverted extrovert, shy, capricious, playful, fanciful, naive, rebellious, guilty<br/><br/><strong>Faceclaim:</strong>Alina Kovalenko<br/><br/><strong>Physical Description:</strong>While in body Korey is best described as slight in stature, standing at a maximum height of 5 feet and 4 inches, she is beautifully curved and holds the body of a dancer – nimble and flexible – with long shapely legs and a petite but ample bust. Her naturally rusty locks fall around her face in sweeping waves of fire-silk, framing her high, freckled cheeks and vibrant blue eyes in beautiful contrast.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Korey’s favorite season is fall. She loves the changing colors of all the wilting leaves, showing that even outside of one’s prime they can be extraordinary. At her very core the sheltered girl is an idealist and is always trying to find the silver lining to every cloud no matter how dark the sky. Even if one cannot be found, Korey is the type to try and create one of her own. Nothing can ever be as black and cold as it seems. For that, Korey is often described with words like ‘fanciful’ and ‘unrealistic’. The humans may know her story as a tragedy, but she refuses to wallow. For Korey is just as happy to dance beneath the stars as she is to bathe beneath sunbeams.<br/><br/>Despite this, Korey often second guesses herself. She tries not to see herself as a victim, but after the strict and very isolated way her mother raised her in, it’s hard not to feel that way sometimes. Especially as she makes her way out there into a world completely unknown to her - and we’re not even talking about earth! Just her own homeworld is strange to her. That aside, she loves to read and often has her head in the clouds. She survives off of the fantasy worlds she’s devoured from whatever books the nymphs could manage to sneak away to her. Korey hates feeling restricted, and often rebels in any way she can when she feels as such.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>As the inspiration of Persephone, Queen of Hell, Korey’s life has been less than stellar but not quite as<i>hellish</i>as most would assume. Within the realm of Korey’s existence she had little idea her mother held such great importance, and this was something her mother took great care to make sure of. From Korey’s birth she was kept away from the entirety of the world, sequestered away into a mythical forest her mother forbade others from entering and protected aggressively.<br/><br/>You see, it was her mother, Demeter, whom had been held captive and raped by a powerful being in her youth. She was abused, and when she sought out help none would lift a finger for her due to her rapist’s status. She became so embittered by her abandonment on top of the crimes committed against her, that she turned away from society and chose to close herself away within an overgrown forest created with her tears. Demeter became entirely agoraphobic and paranoid to the point of madness, a dark sorceress, holding no trust for any other creature that lived outside the thorny border of her beloved holt. She did not dare to return even when she realized her unwilling union festered within her and forced her to conceive Korey.<br/><br/>Though Korey was a continuous reminder of a dark past she wanted to cut herself away from, she did love her daughter with full and obsessive entirety. Korey was never free to leave the grove her mother planted her, and her only friends were the woodland creatures and the occasional nymph. Korey hadn’t seen another humanoid unless painted within the pages of her books, and wouldn’t otherwise until she was well into her late teens. Any questions made of the outside world was often met with either silence or outright aggression, especially should she persist.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, Korey had grown lonely and cagey. She felt trapped within her leafy cage, and began to plot her escape. The older she grew, the more powerful her own powers began to manifest. It was becoming easier for her to navigate her mother’s maze of overgrowth. It became easier for her to part the thick trees that lined her home like a great wall. And eventually she did manage to escape, but not without her mother hot on her trail.<br/><br/>Korey fled to the nearby settlements, amazed with wonder for their amazing buildings and beautiful trinkets - barely keeping one step ahead of her mother. But as she turned to the townspeople for aid, the moment she mentioned her mother’s name they would suddenly turn their back on her or flee. Apparently Demeter had made a name for herself, yet another thing her mother had neglected to tell her. While Korey was ignorantly searching for help, rumors began to spread of the sorceress’s daughter and eventually reached the ears of the lord that had placed her in Demeter’s belly.<br/><br/>Shocked, curious, and perhaps a bit suspicious, the man sent out minions of his own to track the girl down. It was here that Persephone’s myth began. As Korey crossed the realms to ancient earth in order to lose her trackers, she dazzled villagers with her power over gaia itself. They watched as her only friends, the nymphs of her home, tried to escort her to safety only to stand helpless with horror in their eyes as a dark figure appeared from the aether just to sweep the young maiden up and disappear within the ground just as quickly. Nymphs referred to the man just as Demeter always had - The terrible rapist, a vile demon, dark and dangerous. The villagers that overheard instantly suspected the gods were afoot, and Hades suddenly became her abductor.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, in Korey's home realm her mother became so furious with her daughter's abduction by her father that she cast the world into eternal winter, forcing other powers to come forward and either battle her rapist or force him to return her beloved child. Once it became clear Korey was the warmonger's daughter, they realized they could not in good faith force the child away entirely. That's right, you're reading correctly. Persephone's story was essentially one giant, ridiculous custody case. In the end Demeter was forced to concede to sharing her daughter with her own attacker, and Korey was forced to spend half of the year with her wretched father and the other half with her crazy mother.<br/><br/><strong>Notable Achievement:</strong><br/>Creator of the popular plant Mint<br/>Resurrected some sentenced to death by her father.<br/>Set free some of her father’s enemies.<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Powers</span></strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Agrokinesis</strong> <em>The psychic ability to manipulate plants, vegetation and plant-based materials. With this Korey can move, reform and shape plant matter as she sees fit. She can also create, restructure and accelerate the growth of plant life. When creating plant life they are sprouted from her own body, growing directly from a part of her skin, usually the hands or along the crown of her head. </em></li><li><strong>Apothecary</strong> <em>Through the use of plant matter she can transfer life energy to rapidly regenerate and heal other beings, even bringing them back from the brink of death. Combing this ability with the ability above allows her to transfigure and restructure plants for various uses such as potions, antitoxins, antidotes and other curatives - unfortunately, these are not instantaneous and take time to reach their full effect. She is also capable of making things with darker intents, such as poisons.</em></li><li><strong>Extraordinary Willpower</strong> <em>After growing up with an entirely domineering mother and ending up with an even more domineering father in a world where people like to mind game the fuck out of you, Korey has an incredible sense of self and an indomitable spirit.</em></li></ul><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Armament of Divinity: Dragonfly Hair Comb</span></strong><br/><em>Description.</em><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>A Taste of Darkness</strong> <em>Once removed from her hair, Korey can transform the comb into a staff infused with the most potent of her mother’s dark magic, causing decay upon all it touches.</em></li><li><strong>Mother’s Love</strong> <em>As a token of her affections, Demeter personally gifted this comb to her daughter as a source of added protection. This activates when she is in harm’s way and will temporarily create a protective bubble around her.</em></li></ul>