[I plan on stealing from various mythologies/making stuff up on my own for this. Hope you don't mind!]<br/><strong>Name(s):</strong>Was given the name Astrid, has other names in her native tongue that cannot be pronounced on land<br/><strong>Race:</strong>She is a selkie- A mermaid with the ability to remove her tail to venture onto land to seduce mates<br/><strong>Age:</strong>372, Selkies reach maturity at 3 years- she's considered to be mature and of high stature by her peoples..<br/><strong>Place of Origin:</strong>She was captured off the coast of Finland<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>She is a female<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>She is technically A-sexual, though she has external sexual organs. The only time a female Selkie mates is when they shed their fins to venture onto land. There, they seduce men, leading them down into the water. Female selkies, being born once for every twelve "males", keep harems of "male" selkies. Male selkies do not have any external sexual organs- they are unable to shed their fins. Instead, they contain the internal organs needed to reproduce. Female selkies use the male humans they have captured to reproduce with the males in their own harems.<br/>Because Astrid has been away from her home for so long, she finds herself becoming less and less like a true Selkie. She engages in intercourse for things other than manipulation. Astrid uses sex as a vent for anger. It's not so much normal pleasure as it is a release or an escape from the grief she feels as being departed from the sea.<br/><strong>Special Abilities:</strong>She can, with or without her tail, breath under water. She can also speak with water animals, though this has diminished over time, being away from them. She was touched by a Norn as an infant, and can see the past, present, and future. Though the images come and go as they please, and they are never concrete. When she senses a past, she describes the feeling as nostalgia that doesn't belong to her. When she senses another person's present, she is solely drawn to a specific place, feeling a certain emotion. When she sees glimpses of the future, they come to her in foggy whispers.<br/><strong>Physical Description/other:</strong><br/>(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/145/d/9/Mermaid__s_hair_by_sylphielmetallium.jpg)<br/><br/>She has soft, delicate features and a high-pitched voice that seems to come from many directions. Her hair is the color of a wheat field at sunset, becoming more vibrant and wild when she's under water. She walks with an air of the Wise, people who have special abilities granted to them by the Life Force- Wizards, Witches, and Seers like herself. She is elegant and frail, and seems to move slowly, like time is passing at a different rate; yet she strangely pops up in places where you would have sworn she wasn't before.<br/><strong>Personality:</strong>She is like the water, flowing and changing, taking on many states. One moment she is like a trickle on stone, content with watching slowly, steadfast and unmoving, making the world change to her will quietly. And another moment she is fierce and destructive, like a wave washing away history. Though, most naturally, she moves like a river through the forest, calming those around her and offering life in a peaceful manner, experiencing the world in cohabitation.<br/><strong>Brief History:</strong>Astrid was a well-off member, regarded highly where she lived. She was wealthy, and Wise, head of her council. She had a large harem and many captured males. There was one evening when she surfaced to look at the horizon- something she rarely did, when she was suddenly struck with a wave of danger. She saw a ship heading for the rocks. Astrid wasn't usually one to mess in the affairs of humans, but she called upon the Animals to distract the ship away from it's course. A man on the ship, unbeknownst to her, was a wizard, and could tell that the animals were not acting of their own accord. He scanned the seas for their master, and saw Astrid. He knew at once what she was. He ordered his crew to dock, and he waited on shore.<br/>That same night, Astrid went ashore to catch another mate for her harem-there was something about breathing air that made her nostalgic. She went into town and found a handsome young man. She tried to seduce him, calling on her powers of will, but then something went wrong. She felt a hard tug at her heart, like a lifetime worth of grief. She ran quickly back to the rock on the beach where she stashed her fin. Standing there, holding her fin, was the wizard. She felt a longing within her like she had never felt. The wizard knew he would have this control- if you possess a selkie's fin, then you possess her heart. But it was not love. It was anguish. The wizard took her back to his castle, and she grew bitter and angry, but still filled with a profound longing that would never be filled until her fin was returned.<br/><br/><br/>EDIT: edited sexuality and age- her character needed more years to fit her personality and experience.