Guinevere Skye

Name story:

This doll has been Jocasta, Johanna, and Guinevere. My mother cast the deciding vote, for Guinevere.

Character age:

Ageless

Character gender:

Female

Offsite roleplay:

This doll's character is not available for offsite roleplay.

Guinevere Hollia Skye is an elf. She spent her life with her family, a seemingly close-knit but strict group of elves that harbored a mild distrust towards humans and the outside world. During her early years Guinevere developed two personalities, one for daytime (which she spent at home) and one for nighttime (which she spent on trap lines in the woods). This personality trait led to tensions between Johanna and her family, which wasn't as stable as she thought. Her overly-curious mother stepped out on her father multiple times, and one of these affairs resulted in Guinevere. Guinevere sought out her birth father who proved to be a member of a rival elf clan, and when the Skyes found out they disowned her. Guinevere subsequently joined the Martian Settler Program and travelled to Armenia City. She regrets nothing; she knew that the Skye clan was already planning to throw her out due to her split personality.

Guinevere tries to keep her mental illness in check, but there isn't much one can do for a split personality. By day she's demure, shy, and sweet, but by night she's bold, adventurous, and a little on the sarcastic side. Guinevere doesn't know why her family resented her for this split, but she does realize that it's confusing for her friends. She is thus trying to merge the two sides of herself into one happy medium. She's succeeded a little; both sides are brave and fiercely loyal, though Guinevere insists that both sides were always that way. Ylla begs to differ, saying that Guinevere's day personality was timid, while her night personality was two-faced and prone to volatile mood swings.

Guinevere's split personality makes her a bit unpredictable, but she is not a danger to herself or to others. She has managed to find a close friend in her Martian housemate Ylla K. Ylla is able to read minds and can thus predict what Guinevere is going to do. She has managed to deduce that Guinevere's personality shifts are prompted with the rising and setting of the sun, and less dramatically, with the changing of the seasons. This has done nothing to stop Guinevere's shifts, but she is better able to prepare for them. Ylla and Guinevere have slowly become inseparable, though they are quite different. While Ylla is calm and rational, Guinevere is easily excited and a hopeless romantic. Guinevere is also close to Chloe, who accompanies her on her foraging outings.

Since she is unofficially the town apothecary Guinevere doesn't have much time for a personal life. When out of school she spends her days gathering herbs and mixing her medicines. Her evenings are spent hunting for meat. She is particularly skilled at mixing the wolf's bane concoction that Alistair uses to control his lycanthropism. In fact, she is so good at this that Alistair doesn't trust anyone else to mix and fill his prescription. In spite of these time-consuming tasks Guinevere does enjoy a few hobbies. She particularly loves collecting blind-bag figurines. I've managed to put together quite a collection for her, too!

As I insinuated above, Guinevere has a fairly wide circle of friends, though her split personality makes her a little nervous around newcomers. To an outsider she seems quiet, but she's just trying to figure out whom she can trust. She gets along well with her roommates and with her schoolmates, and enjoys a close platonic relationship with Alistair Adalwolf. Her love interest is shy, naive Johnny Hailey, who is completely clueless to the situation. This drives Guinevere nuts, but she isn't sure how to resolve the situation. She doesn't know whether to leave Johnny be or to try and pursue her heart's desire. Both paths could potentially break hearts and end in disaster, but both could also end happily. Poor Guinevere is very conflicted, and her situation is worsened by both her split personality and the dissenting opinions of Chloe and Ylla, both of whom she respects. Chloe is convinced that Guinevere and Johnny would be perfect for each other, while Ylla insists that Guinevere will be happier pursuing another boy. Guinevere has told me that she feels like a leaf caught in a storm, being pushed and pulled violently in all directions. Despite all this turmoil, Guinevere remains cheerful and optimistic, confident that one day her puzzling life will fall into place.

Guinevere Skye

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