Kyrill

Kyrill is the Empress of New Angelou and the last Queen of Angelou. She is the daughter of King Cato, older sister of Eponine, and ex-fiancé of Lorian, as well as a former sacrosanct trainee under Malakhai's tutelage.

Kyrill is a light tanned Crei woman with a fit yet feminine body shape, forged through years of physical activity. With a pretty face, violet eyes, as well as a unique rainbow color palette reflected in her Creian markings, she does by no means give off a matching first impression to her wild personality. Her long, bicolored hair splits from an ash brown - her natural hair color - into a beige blonde, and reaches down to her hips. Nowadays, she prefers to wear her hair open, sometimes with less and sometimes with more braids involved, or kept very simple, fully depending on her mood. While she wears no consistent style of clothing these days, as her free time is limited, she always fondly carries a leather armband around her left wrist; a gift she has received from Avandias.

Characteristic for her species, Kyrill's body is painted with runic markings when unconcealed, stretching from head to toe in selective wave patterns. Unlike other Crei, who only represent a single shade, Kyrill's markings shine in a wide rainbow range of colors, pastel in hue.

While representing her kingdom as a queen, Kyrill was made to wear her hair in elaborate curls adorned with various flower ornaments, along with an Angelian tiara representing her status as a yet to be officially coronated queen. During hours spent on the throne, she was dressed in a pure white fitted dress, with white veils layering onto her arms. All of Kyrill's wardrobe while inside Imroth was some form of white with golden details, including her night gown and fountain gown, representing the "pure" aspect of the queen.

Before returning to her home city, Kyrill wore her hair layered around shoulder length, while a longer part was braided off to the left side of her head. She would also usually hide underneath a simple brown cloak in order to avoid being spotted by enemies. During the royal banquet, Kyrill tied her hair back into loose curls and wore a a layered, pastel purple dress with sectional frills, as well as a black collar with a blue crystal pendant.

Kyrill is a survivor of Angelou and the heir to the throne by birthright, thus becoming the queen of the rebuilt civilization and later empress of New Angelou. For eight years she lived on the run from those wish to obtain the secrets of the phylacteries, eventually making the decision to accompany the group out of intention to help them find what they were longing for. While travelling with her companions, Kyrill maintained a positive relationship with the general group, though stuck mainly to Avandias, whom she developed an unrequited crush on, and later hopelessly fell in love with.

After departing on a journey to find Angelian ruins, Kyrill had taken on the throne in Imroth as the respective queen of the survivors of Angelou, and was later officially coronated by its elders. Not wanting to have their only royal representation to go amiss again, she was briefly kept inside the city walls, forbidden to leave again, until rescued by her friends.

Habits and Trauma
Kyrill is generally an incredibly kind and caring person, who loves strongly and will fight for those who don't have a voice. Coming off as carefree and cocky, she tends to be open to conversations with just anyone, and despite not having an easy time of getting close to others, seems to positively affect people around her. Different opinions only bother her if they involve harm or hurt caused for others, and she will try to see another person's view point, as long as it's getting across in a civilized matter. The downside to her openness is the incredible stubbornness that accompanies her sharp tongue, as well as her levels of respect that rock back and forth like a metronome. While she was trained to be a proper royal, she very rarely chooses to behave that way, preferring to maintain her free lifestyle in where nothing and no one can chain her down. Becoming her friend is not easy, as she has a hard time understanding when someone genuinely cares about her.

While in comfort of someone she trusts, Kyrill is generally a very sleepy and relaxed person, who likes to be buried in endless piles of blankets and pillows, loving the warmth of summer and hating anything cold. As a bookworm, she loves to sit in bed for hours and read novels, with romance being her favorite genre. The large consumption of romance novels does, however, lead her to see everything through heart-shaped glasses, imagining romantic scenarios that are not exactly realistic and more of a guilty pleasure. She relishes in the feeling of physical touch when it comes from someone who treats her with understanding and patience, though encounters a few issues in that regard.

In connection with both the emotional and physical abuse of her father and people who surrounded her, Kyrill developed a distaste to straight out fear of being touched, being perceived, or being told what to do or think. Very rarely will she allow anyone to touch her, especially with hostile or suggestive intent, experiencing all touch as the sting of needles if laid hands on during an argument, whether it serves to hurt or comfort her.

One of her unhealthiest habits was developed during her early adult years, in which she learned to associate the feeling of being wanted with the seduction of strangers who desire her, leading to a rather complicated relationship with the idea of physical intimacy. As opposed to past incidents where she was violently exposed to being used by others, she feels herself in full control when luring sexual partners with the beauty they desire her for, filling the void of feeling unwanted with a rush of dopamine, fake love, and showers of compliments, then ghosting these relationships before the night is over, allowing for no affection outside of physical satisfaction. Unfortunately, thanks to these frequent incidents acted out to drown out her own trauma that edge on self harm, she can no longer tell apart feelings of pleasure and pain properly, struggling to endure any touch too intense, even if meant in a fully platonic way. Although she has sworn these methods off, her mind still begs her to relapse, severely suffering from the sudden withdrawal.

Additionally to her issues regarding physical touch, Kyrill has the unhealthy habit of disappearing without a word, isolating herself, and hiding away her emotion behind a well-established ability to not let any feeling show on her face or in her tone of voice. The only time she will break her façade is when referred to as immature, childish, reckless, or any other comments that suggest she is out of touch with reality. Kyrill hates nothing more than not being taken seriously and will show this fact by getting defensive and cocky, tending to provoke a conversation partner for fun, worsening the situation instead of finding the core of a communication issue. Another reaction is to potentially just cut off a conversation when getting too upset or angry, and to leave a situation by fleeing. This behavior is also a result of her relationship with her father, as rebelling against him used to be the only way for her to speak up and defend herself.

Due to this wide collection of trauma, as well as depression and frequent suicidal thoughts, Kyrill struggles to get the colors of her markings to shine, as they respond to positive emotion. She surprisingly cries very little, however, and expresses her depression or hurt by going completely quiet.

Skills and Talents
Kyrill is an experienced cook, who perfected her skills over several years while having to cook for her younger sister, and prefers to eat her food well seasoned rather than following a clear recipe, as she is used to the South's variety of spices. Her worst enemy are unseasoned dishes, which is why she goes quite ham with spices and herbs whenever she can, resulting in quite flavorful meals. As long as she has some form of recipe, she is able to cook most things, with fish dishes and spicy food being her specialty.

Another talent of hers includes fishing, due to her past spent in a coast village near Jaraska. Her preferred methods include net fishing and heavy bait fishing for swordfish, though she knows quite a few more tricks, as it was her paid profession. Due to this, Kyrill loves to go fishing, especially in the southern ocean. Since she had to spend so much time in the water, she swims like a dolphin, enjoying the experience inside water despite her negative history with the queen's fountain.

Divine Benison
Kyrill enjoys the Divine Benison of Nabita, an ancient Celestial of Creation. Connected to each other through the ley lines stretching across the continent, Kyrill can access the runic energy Nabita produces and redirect it into all touched by this ancient energy source, nurturing the world and her children in her place.

Additionally, Nabita's Divine Benison acts as a guard protecting her descendant from harm of contesters. While limited in terms of coming into contact with magic (see below), Kyrill's body is immune to all magic cast on her or applied to her, as well as magic found in nature. As a result, Kyrill can briefly suppress certain aspects of a Malediction or magic-altering substances, unless the exposure does not allow her to step into a closer range in the first place. If she were to endure the pain and would be able to touch a maledict mage for long enough, her interference with the curse could, in theory, cause severe harm to them.

The effect of the veil cast through Nabita's Divine Benison becomes void if Kyrill's body is cut open, allowing magic to get into open wounds. Trying to cleanse the unnatural danger of her mutation now posing a threat, her blood will begin to boil painfully, and normally blocked effects will have a window to cause damage.

Soul Extraction
Kyrill could originally filter out a Malediction from the souls of Crei without suffering consequences of soul rot, a feat only accomplished by the female heirs to the throne of Angelou, due to Nabita's Divine Benison. Because of the mutation of her body, she can no longer do so. After receiving sacrosanct training, Kyrill can still extract a soul, though can not hold on to it for long if the target has been involved with a Celestial, as her body would not be able to sustain the effects of filtering a soul affected by magic.

Kindred Spirit and Mutation
Kyrill was born as a Kindred and thus gifted with a natural connection to Celestials. As such, she would naturally be able to understand their language and to allow these godlike creatures to use her body as a vessel. Both of these abilities, however, are currently interfered with by the effect of Cudeiya's kiss, which mutated her body.

Following the exposure to a reality-altering shockwave created by Cudeiya's kiss, Kyrill's body experiences the opposite effect of her birth conditions. While Celestials who take over a host body in any form are repelled by her entirely, any other kind of their kin wounds her fatally upon direct contact, forbidding her to touch them or remain in their general presence for too long. While staying near them for a prolonged time will only result in her feeling sick, direct contact will bruise her or cut her skin open, even burning away at her flesh. The physical damage endured scales with the power of a Celestial. The same phenomenon applies to any maledicted mage, with short contact causing fatigue and nausea, while longer touch or contact will result in a sharp pain and later wounds, the effect being more instant if maledicted by an Ancient. In case of a cursed mage, even those cursed by a Celestial requiring a host will burn her. This is not the case with anyone blessed by a Benediction, unless exposed to their magic directly for too long.

Combat
Kyrill formerly was the proud wielder of a black, heavy lance forged from runic mithril and engraved with Angelian runes, which resembled a jousting lance. This weapon was primarily used as an offensive weapon for combat, as well as a tool to enhance her mobility during fights or to overcome general obstacles, such as low walls. Years of experience were expressed through the skilled movements of her weapon, which were precise, though were affected by its weight. Lifting such a heavy weapon required her to use her entire body, allowing only a limited amount of swings in a short duration, before inevitably taking a toll on her muscles. While the blows could be devastating, the Angelian weapon had definitely proven not to be the best choice against agile enemies in the past. It was eventually broken by the Puppeteer, as Kyrill lost control over the lance while her connection to Nabita was weakening, causing her to lose grip on it while swinging it at the enemy. After being shattered into many pieces, she was forced to abandon it.

Language
Kyrill is fluent in both common tongue, as well as Cretufei, the language of Angelou. Before she joined the others on their travel, she had a southern accent, which she trained away as not to raise suspicion for her heritage. Despite understanding most of Kalon's native language, some vocabulary is still foreign to her, and she still struggles with the written aspect of the language.


 * ★ Spotify Playlist
 * ★ Kyrill's alignment is Chaotic Good
 * ★ Some of her favorite foods include grilled swordfish, any variation of cod, different soups during the colder months of the year, as well as most spicy foods from the South. She is also obsessed with bread, a definite comfort food. Not a fan of specific veggies, however, such as peas, corn, and brussels sprouts.
 * ★ She prefers to wear shades of brown and hooded cloaks, not wanting to stand out more than necessary, despite actually really enjoying bright colors. Her favorite colors include periwinkle blue, lilac, light orchid pink.
 * ★ Not a fan of heels. Terrible to walk in.
 * ★ She is decent on a horseback, having ridden horses while doing delivery runs for the capital.
 * ★ Her alcohol tolerance fluctuates with how quickly she consumes a drink. Once drunk, she loses most filters and has a tendency to flirt and get touchy.