Ivory

Intro

• "An African American witch who dabbles in the craft of making and selling candles with a wicked twist, along with other petty merchandise."

• Basic Info

  • Name: Ivory
  • Gender: Female
  • Played by: LilHateMachine
  • Race: African American
  • Alignment: Lawful evil
  • Age: Appears to be 20
  • Body Type: Curvy & muscular
  • Height: 5'9"
  • Weight: 155lbs
  • Hair: Frizzy & long
  • Eyes: Dark brown
  • Handedness: Left
  • Relationship Status: Changes upon time period
  • Personality: Manipulative, Strategic, and sometimes Rash
  • Likes: Sweet scents, ignorant people, scheming, witchcraft, Halloween, birds
  • Dislikes: Pure-heart people, most organized religions, children, love spells

• Description

  Physical Features:
  
  Ivory is an African American woman, though her skin complexion is rather light. She isn't monstrous but easily defined as tall. Her curves can be misleading because she actually has a lot of muscle, more than the average human woman, but less than the average human man. Ivory's hair is long when stretched out, but sits at shoulder-length when naturally curled. Ivory's hair and eyes are dark brown, seemingly black. Nothing alarming immediately stands out with her, though she has scars in hidden places.
  
  Attire Variety:
  
  [ See pictures below for each century, including more modern times ]
  
  Personality / Behaviors:
  
  She looks innocent enough at first glance. On the contrary, Ivory is manipulative; behind those calm eyes is a progressive mind, swarming with new ways to scheme people and new ingredients to use in spells. To serve her purpose, she must stay innovative.
  
  Back-stabbing people is what she does best, as she's felt the same pain, and so Ivory understands it better. Ivory has little to no personal life. When dealing with business, Ivory can feel guilt on occasion, though she bounces back easily. Times can be hard since she doesn't have much of a personal life to fall back on, though that depends on the time period.
  
  Ivory does not like anyone smart enough or who may have the potential to see into her business for what it really is. She'll do her best to throw anyone off her trail, although sometimes she bribes them to join her side. In which case Ivory will use said person for her own benefits and not truly teach them everything.
  
  She enjoys working alone; it's her curse to bear, as she sees it. And besides, who would believe she sold her soul to Satan himself?

• Background Story

  Though Ivory has a lighter complexion compared to other black women, her roots are clearly African American. She comes originally from the Motherland, but grew up in Europe in the 1700's. Ivory's biological mother was involved in witchcraft and so the craft passed on to Ivory genetically.
  
  Ivory was orphaned into a middle-classed white family, which is where she was given the name Ivory Sutton. The oldest child of the family took a liking to the young Ivory, so they formed a sister-like bond, despite the four year age gap. She was treated lesser than the family yet, in a way, accepted to certain events. Ivory's sister Celina taught her to read and write, both in German and English.
  
  Ivory knew how to be only herself and no one other. So, she dabbled in the making of harmless spells. At the age of fifteen, she cast a spell of love to a village boy, which failed, and instead won her the loyalty of an animal friend - an osprey - that she named Gehorsam; German for the English word "obedient." The bird was exactly that too: an obedient pet, which she treated well by feeding it and giving it shelter. The family she was given found this odd and everyone strayed from Ivory's strange ways. Everyone except Celina that is.
  
  As Ivory grew up, it was becoming apparent to the rest of the town she lived in that Ivory may be of a demon-like descent. However, the opposite was true. If Ivory wasn't so oblivious to the gossip, she'd have tried to explain that witchcraft is only a skill, a power, though it cannot be taught to the same extent other skills can be. Not everything "crafty" was evil or was linked to the Devil. But she couldn't argue it when she was taught differently by word of burnings in other towns and what was spoken of in church.
  
  The surrounding towns came back with stories of witches being burnt at the stake, and she knew damn well what her skills would look like to anyone else. They were a craft. And the people would be too blind to the purposes or effects of said skills. Rather than give up completely, she kept her hobby hidden even moreso than before.
  
  Problem was, that included pushing Celina out of her life at times. Ivory would go to the woods or lock herself in the chambers of her bedroom when wanting time alone to practice spells and make concoctions. Despite her practice being brought down to a minimum, Ivory was doing better than ever. However, an issue rose over time as Celina felt like she'd been banned from spending quality time with her sister; she didn't take too kindly to all the secrets. Day by day, the two had altercations - assaulting words shared between both of them - causing them to drift apart further.
  
  When the heat of the situation cooled down, Ivory attempted an apology, which Celina accepted on one condition. Relying on plenty of Ivory's magical spells then after, Celina used them for petty gains that resulted in her superiority over others in town, as if she didn't have enough to begin with, wealthy as Celina was and with quite the future ahead of her. Ivory had grown tiresome, not only physically drained by all the favors she promised Celina, but mentally couldn't come up with reason for why she continued to be Celina's slave.
  
  When Ivory reached the age of twenty, she was thankful Celina was too busy lately to ask for favors. Celina had suitors lined up to marry her, each just as wealthy as the next. Her eyes were set on someone else entirely. Lucky for her, her father didn't find any of the suitors worthy anyhow. Until one highly-esteemed man traveled a long distance, coming into town to ask for Celina's hand. Her father approved instantly and denied Celina of choosing any other previous suitor, though she was madly in love with some low-life village boy, one who didn't return any mutual feelings as he'd seen firsthand Celina's greed and vain; all distasteful qualities.
  
  While things seemed bad for Celina, they were even worse for Ivory.
  
  The poor young adult begun having vivid, horrifying nightmares that which she could not wake from right away. Ivory either suffered from night terrors or a bad case of insomnia in the cases she would fight drowsiness if that meant avoiding the nightmares that plagued her mind every single night. With time though, the nightmares bled into reality and she found herself hallucinating when in her most exhausted state.
  
  And in this state, Celina demanded Ivory make her a love spell. Ivory was realistic with her, saying how it wouldn't make a difference if she helped; Celina would be forced to wed one she didn't love because her father would never approve of anyone else. Celina couldn't open her eyes to the facts though and terrorized Ivory. Even when Ivory explained she had never mastered a love spell anyway, Celina refused to hear any of it.
  
  After a few nasty exchanged words, the whole thing seemed to be over. At last, Ivory could focus on more pressing matters and so she turned all her time towards creating a spell to end the nightmares. However, it became more and more evident it'd never help. Crafting a spell for sleep did nothing to prevent the terrors in her mind that attacked there. And it became more evident that which was feeding Ivory the nightmares as well as visiting her in them was the Devil himself. Lines were blurred. Her craft, which seemed all right to her, wasn't helping and, in fact, brought on the Devil more.
  
  Meanwhile, Celina was plotting something before the wedding. The next day, when she was on a daily run, Ivory was surprised to find a number of angered men and some women who held lit torches. When the hallucination did not shake quickly, Ivory soon realized it was all real and in the moment. In a panic, she ran home. The small crowd grew, following her, shouting obscenities and accusations. "Witch!" They chanted. At the doorstep of what was her home, Ivory found Celina with the most evil smirk on her face; she gave her witchy sister one last chance but Ivory knew all too well it was over with. She gained some posture and respect for herself as Ivory refused a final time to do no more of Celina's bidding.
  
  The witch was swept away easily. As they'd done before, they tied Ivory to a wooden stake, surrounded by a tepee of more wood. As she was being burnt alive, Beelzebub came to her, offering her another chance at life and then some in turn for two things.
  
  In a revengeful, desperate state, Ivory agreed, selling a partial piece of her soul to Him. She also promised in the upcoming life given to her, she'd work endlessly for Him, until death.
  
  In turn, Ivory was reincarnated twice. Firstly, with the already existent strain of magical connection between Ivory and Gehorsam, she took over the body of the bird. Legend tells that the bird lived for five years, forever watching those who had burned her birth-given body. Myth also tells that the bird brought disease with each visit. Ivory's bird form had even brought death upon Celina's true love, though he was nothing but an innocent victim. She saved her sister for last though as she watched her with every passing day. Celina lived an unhappy life and that satisfied Ivory, and so she spared Celina's life in the end.
  
  When the bird died naturally, Ivory was born yet again, as promised.
  
  The trick was she was reincarnated further into the future. She was given her old body back, in the same last healthy condition it was in. Living at the apparent age of 20 years old, Ivory continued on with her life.
  
  She then begun to pay her debt to Satan.

• Pictures

  Ivory's attire throughout each time period. Pay attention to the clothing more so than the model wearing it; these are just examples to give you a better feel for each century she can possibly be set in.

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