Aleksina Viscretia

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Creator: Omni
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Name: Aleksina Viscretia
Age: 32
Gender/Pronouns: She/her
Faction: Rogue Kindling Assassin
Birthplace: Naru

Appearance: Aleksina's skin is that of the summer dunes, glistening under harsh sunlight. In the shadows, her skin becomes far less fair, and obsidian freckles show themselves under her granite eyes, her gaze as unmoving as the stone. Her hair is sleek and thin, its midnight strands coiled tightly back into a bun. Otherwise, it falls to her shoulder blades. She has a cleft chin. She stands at 5'3 when her back isn't slanted forward, which is not often. Her body doesn't show signs of physicality, but she has hardened muscles underneath her unassuming build, built for endurance. She wears gray undergarments with a black cloak donned on her shoulders. The cloak has a hood. She wears pouches belted around both arms, both thighs, and her waist, for containing her tools of the trade. Underneath her clothes, she has several scars criss-crossing her back.

Personality: Aleksina hasn't let herself feel in a long, long time. In that emptiness, she has let rage take over. She is determined and stonehearted. She is driven and single-minded. Her mind races but she knows her goals. She isn't good on failure, and the rage fuels when something unforeseen and unexpected happens. She laughs when she's angry, and bitter remarks are her favorite thing. She can be persuasive when she puts her mind to it, and she is a smooth talker, if she doesn't let her emotions get in the way. She can be intense and off-putting, and is reluctant to let things go or let go of control, because she feels it is the only way she can get things to go her way. She has little reason to trust because everyone in her life abandoned her or used her, and she views people the same way. She will use people to get what she wants.

What're They in For: Aleksina started a protest in the town square of King Rhys, where several other people joined in. They were all arrested and their public execution is being promptly scheduled. That puts Aleksina right where she wants to be.

Core Motivation: Aleksina, despite herself, believes in something better, and believes that there has to be something better. If it has to take a world-shattering prophecy, then so be it. Anything's better than what's going on now.

Backstory: Aleksina grew up in a poor family in Naru, where she had to learn hard work at an early age. She was the youngest of six siblings, and with too many mouths to feed for too long, eventually things got so dire that, when a cunning businessman swept through the town with empty promises and large pockets, Aleksina and her two younger siblings were sold off to the man for a pretty penny. Aleksina doesn't remember his name, only that he called himself Hatman. She gathered that wasn't actually his name, but nobody ever mentioned anything other than that. Maybe it was for a reason, so she couldn't get back to him and slice his throat open in his sleep.

Hatman was a brutal person behind closed doors and an enthusiastic people pleaser when company was present. His tongue worked fast, and his brain worked faster. He was always in meetings in the mornings, and he would force Aleksina and her brothers to do brutal grunt work while he was busy. Then, in the evenings, he would teach them. Arithmetic, reading, writing, the different native languages of Blitzia, philosophy, secrecy, politics, how things ran, how things actually ran, and how to kill. Hatman was ruthless, an evil person, but there was something about him that was sincerely passionate about making sure Aleksina and her brothers were raised right, or at least what he deemed was right.

When her brothers both turned twenty, Hatman sent them on a mission to Eider Isle. Missions were common for them as soon as they were old enough to go on their own. None of them ever thought about betraying Hatman, even though they all hated him. Her brothers never broke, not like she did. They were stalwart in their duties and did whatever Hatman ordered them. But, when they turned twenty, they were sent to Eider Isle and never returned. That was what broke Aleksina. She tried to be as strong as her brothers were, but after they left and didn't come back, she couldn't do it anymore. Hatman, of course, was infuriated by this predicament. He beat her to the brink of death, let her recover, tried to force her to do his bidding, and when she wouldn't, he did it again. This happened for weeks, until he realized she was no longer valuable to him and he tossed her to the streets, leaving her in the dumps of the back alleys of Onyx. She was twenty, beaten and broken, barely clinging to life when she was found by the Kindlings, who nursed her back to health and offered her an ultimatum: join their ranks or go back to the streets. Aleksina knew who they were, and she knew her only option was to join. So she did. Through the next decade, she climbed the ranks of the Kindlings and eventually even began to believe what they were spitting out: that there could be a better future if they were the ones to push forth the prophecy by ousting Rhys and putting his sister on the throne.

But, really, she wanted to find out what happened to her brothers. So, she took a mission to go to Eider Isle, to the mining operations to try and rally people to the Kindling cause (as its popularity within the city of Onyx had stalled over the recent years). She joined the mining operation, but was never able to figure out what happened to them. The security within the mines were far too severe and caught her before she could investigate further, and she was flayed publicly and sent away from Eider Isle, as a message to the Kindlings and their Queen that they wouldn't ever be welcome on the island. With that, something hardened within Aleksina. On her journey, she saw how many people were jaded about the prophecy, and how even the Kindlings weren't favored amongst the public. For many, the prophecy wasn't something of good omens, but of disaster and too much change to their simple lives. Combined with how long she had been a part of the Kindlings with no movement on the prophecy --there was a lot of talk and no action over the years-- Aleksina lost faith in the Kindling mission. She thought less of their intricate plans and silly machinations on how to get it done, and thought it was all pointless. She was trained from a young age that people who talk too much do so because they couldn't get things done. So, she took it upon herself to get things done.