Duri

Duri, Viscountess of Separation

Lifepath

Lotus Flower (Key I), Key of the Descending Angel

My Power (Heart)

- well-intentioned meddler - helping you move past the things that hurt you (Separation is Something You Can Describe) - Carrying the burdens of my past so I can help others (Trouble Inspired Me) - a network of people helping troubled youths, orphans and abuse victims (Contact - Organization)

My Nature (Shadow)

- glorious - set apart - I left a hole in the world and something might have come through (Contact – Ghost) - I hurt others and I hurt myself (Song of Hell)

Mimulus (Key XIII), Key of Something Restless

My Path (Heart)

- Runaway from my own life - Orphan of Reality, I separated myself from my dharma (I am Just Plain Weird)

Why It Feels Empty (Shadow)

- self-doubt - the things I've left behind - the things I don't remember (I lived a Troubled Life)

My Choice (Heart of Lotus Flower + Mimulus)

(Separation is from the Painful Side of the World)

- I only remember how much it hurt...

More Than Anything Else, You Are... Just Plain Weird

I am nobody. I am an orphan of reality. I was chosen, I was granted power and the first thing I did? Used it for my own ends. I don't remember why, but I ripped myself out of history, separated my dharma from me and now I am unmoored. I'm still here. I am still the Power of Separation as far as I can tell.

But everything else I was? Gone.

Separation is From... The Painful Side of the World

It wasn't easy. It's never easy. It might be necessary, it might be for the better, but it is never easy. The moment you have to let go, the moment where one path splits in two and you have to leave something behind.

I have become better at it. More of a precise cut than the ripping and tearing from when I pulled myself out of history. It's more neat, but it hurts all the same.

Separation is... Something You Can Describe

It is cutting off the necrotic limb before it can affect the rest of the body. It is cutting somone toxic out of your life. It is changing your path and leaving something or someone behind. It is the act, the moment, the decision.

It can be a weapon. But I try to use it for good, instead. To help those who need to get away, who need to get past something, who want a chance at a new life.

I Lived A Troubled Life

And I don't remember any of it. But it must have been terrible, because I did something unspeakable to myself in order to escape it.

My Troubled Life Inspired Me

So that I can help others who wish to escape their lives. Those who would do anything, who would throw themselves into the Not if they could. But there is another. It's painful, but surely is better. It has to be better.

Contact: Organization – The Orphan's Association

It began with a simple network of mortals to help troubled youths and other people who might need it. Sometimes I would get involved myself. Those who were particularly messed up, unmoored from reality like myself or got involved in the affairs of the mythical world, I took with me into the Chancel.

The organizaton isn't quite a cult (yet...), but they have spread my reputation as an urban legend of sorts. The Orphan, a mysterious being that helps the lost and the troubled.

Contact: Ghost - ???

I ripped myself from the world and it left behind a hole. I have not yet figured out the whole consequences of my actions, but I am sure it will catch up to me eventually. If it will, I am ready. I will fix my mistakes.

Affiliation: Song of Hell

There is no way around it: I hurt people. I hurt the world itself. I separate that which is together. But the pain must be worth it, for a better future. The scars may remind, but at least you can live, maybe even become happy.

You have a better chance than before. Trust me.

Character Sheet

Mortal Stats

Arts and Crafts 3

Teenager 1

Cool 1

(Superior) Unreality 3

Duri is unmoored from regular reality, despite being a normal human otherwise. In prosaic reality she is difficult to notice / record and easily forgotten after an encounter. She does not have much presence and can literally slip through the cracks and is almost weightless. It's also very difficult to hurt her by mundane means, even ignoring her Noble nature.

Basically, she works similarly to a ghost on a mortal level.

Attributes & MP

Aspect 0 6/6

Domain 4 6/6

Persona 0 6/6

Treasure 4 6/6

Estate Properties

Separation

- … hurts (3) - … drives things apart (2) - … can't destroy (1) - … exists in the moment (1)

Bonds and Afflictions

Bond – I cut you off from the things that hurt you. (3)

Bond – I always end up hurting myself (2)

Bond – I am the leader of the Orphan’s Association (1) Mundane Anchor

Bond – This half of a scissor is all I have left from my old life (2) Wondrous Anchor

Bond – My phone is my connection to the world. (1) Wondrous Anchor

Bond – Caesar is always by my side, when he doesn’t take care of the orphans (2) Wondrous Anchor

Bond – Echo is always watching the mortal world from the net (1) Wondrous Anchor

Bond – I am the Warden of Emily and The Seamstress, perhaps they can become something greater together. (1) Miraculous Anchor

Affliction – I am unmoored from reality. (4)

Notes on the Anchors

Orphan’s Association (Mundane)

- A network of people around the globe helping the lost and misfortunate, not limited to but focusing on children / teenagers that ran away from home or do have other issues

The Karmic Blade (Wondrous)

- One half of a plastic scissor for small children, that was leftover from Duri’s reality retcon - It has no dharma just as it’s master, but is able to cut the strands of dharma in others - Duri can use it with her Arts & Crafts skill to reshape dharma

Duri's Smartphone (Wondrous)

- Smartphone that can connect from anywhere to anyone - can communicate even with people who are not connected to a network / don't even have a phone

Caesar (Wondrous)

- A robot / android that Duri saved from his former master - Official designation C-45-R - Robot butler of sorts - Takes care of the orphanage and serves as an adjutant for official business - Has cool robot stuff like laser eyes, rocket boosters in the feet, ect

Echo (Wondrous)

- Was once a normal kid that got caught up in a conflict with an Excrucian - They/Them - Was erased from existence and only their online presence survived - A virtual entity, more like a digital ghost than an actual AI - Can collect information / communicate over the internet and possess digital systems and by extension other kinds of media (like a radio or even a book)

The Seamstress (Miraculous)

- A Daemon, meaning here an autonomous process that straddles the Prosaic and Border Mystic world - Created by a cabal of sorcerers for an unknown purpose, but outgrew it’s masters and gained self awareness - Takes the form of an infinite tangle of spider limbs originating from a locket, but can propagate through reflections and live video to increase reach - Has the power to weave dharma into threads and weave those threads into a new fate - Currently possesses the girl Emily, who resides at the Orphanage, it’s not a malevolent possession, they have some kind of arrangement