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yorda's journal

Created on 2007-06-05 22:06:40 (#13098847), last updated 2007-06-13

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Name:	Yorda

Bio

~* Doves Fly Free *~
Yorda's Journal

This journal was created as part of the online multiverse roleplaying game, silver_arcadia. It contains spoilers for the game ICO. Proceed at your own risk.

PLAYER INFORMATION:

Alias: Tobu Ishi

CHARACTER INFORMATION:

Name: Yorda

Series: ICO

Mode of entry into the RP: B) Displaced character

Brief description on how you expect your character to start out: Aboard the ship that picked her up, confused and unaware of how she got there.

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History:

The first thing Yorda remembers is her mother's face. The second thing she remembers is shadow. The third, stone walls, and the sky through a barred window. For as long as she can remember, her life has consisted of these elements. Created out of pure magic by her sorceress-queen mother for some purpose beyond her own knowledge or understanding, Yorda lived out the majority of her existence in an iron cage, as subject to the whims and neglect of her creator as the shadowy beings that guard her.

When a young boy crept into her tower prison and broke the chain that held her cage aloft, setting her free, Yorda's entire world began to expand. Ico was a sacrifice, brought as tribute to her mother by the people of his village, who believed him cursed. He led her by the hand through her mother's castle, teaming together his own agility and strength with the fragile girl's magical powers to engineer an escape attempt from the tall stone walls and the tiny seashore island on which they rested. Pursued by her mother's shadow minions, they were on the verge of escape when the queen caught up to them at last, drawing back the bridge on which they stood and turning her daughter to stone. Before her vision faded, Yorda watched in horror as her first and only friend began his fall to what she could only imagine was his death on the rocks below.

She knows nothing of what passed then. The next thing she remembers is awakening in the chamber of sacrifice, but in a terribly altered state--her smooth skin and human form stripped away, leaving her a creature of bodiless shadow like the creatures her mother sucked from the souls of her sacrifices. Stunned, she entered her mother's throne room to find the throne blackened, a sword thrust deep into the stone. Ico's bloodied body lay sprawled on the floor. There was no sign of her mother, and all around them the castle--held together by her mother's magic--was beginning to crumble into the sea.

Although Yorda did not understand all that had happened, she knew that her mother was gone, and that her friend would die if left to be crushed by the falling stone. Gathering him up with newfound, inhuman strength, she carried him to the underground quay of the castle and set him adrift in a small boat tethered there, pushing him out into the sunlit ocean.

Then, afraid to leave the castle in her eerie new form, she turned back, returning to the place of her birth.

The last thing she remembers is the sun on the ocean water as she watched the speck that was Ico's boat drifting away, before the stones crashed down and the sea rose up to cover her.

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When she awakens, she finds herself lying sprawled on a cold metal floor. There is skin upon her hands again and substance to her body, as though her mother's curse had never touched her. Blank silver walls loom around her, and she is alone...but not for long.

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Personality:

Yorda is a very quiet, gentle person. A life spent isolated under her mother's dubious care in a castle full of shadows has not prepared her for the outside world. Intensely curious about other living things and places, she is in no way shy, despite her ethereal appearance and personality. She can spend long hours wandering and exploring, happily examining any new thing or person that presents itself. Although easily startled or alarmed by loud or sudden stimuli, she rallies quickly and is braver and stronger than one might expect from someone so frail-looking. She is quite game and trusting, willing to try almost anything once, just to see what it's like.

Not much given to speech, she knows only the ancient tongue of hieroglyphics that her mother spoke to her, and was unable to communicate with others such as Ico, making her needs known through body language only. She may very well begin to pick up ordinary speech as she spends more time in contact with other people.

Appearance:

Smallish (perhaps about 5'5" at the tallest) and slim, Yorda has delicate features, pointed ears and an ethereal, slightly faerielike appearance, seeming as if a good wind would blow her away. Her skin is pure white and slightly luminescent, and her hair is a soft, mousy gray. She wears a simple, fluttery white dress with brown fringing around the sleeves and back, and walks everywhere barefoot.

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Abilities:

A being of pure magic, Yorda does not bruise or injure easily by physical means, although she can be hurt as easily as anyone else by magical means. She isn't much of a physical powerhouse, unable to do more strenuous activity like climbing or leaping without assistance, but the remnants of her mother's magic are alive in her, and allow her to perform minor feats of telekinesis and to "interface" with other people's spells and magical creations when in close physical proximity, speaking to them in a language of the heart and sometimes persuading them to do her bidding.

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Interests (8):

alive things, birds, exploring, freedom, ico, new things, sunlight, windows

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