Jasmine Florinia
She doesn’t really have any nicknames, but is well known as she has her name on her flower cart. She is regarded as probably the best florist in the city, and with her Alarune magic, she is able to help the flowers live longer and be brighter than most others, which has given her a steady stream of business. She is even able to keep the flowers blooming in the winter, something very few other florists can do.
Physical Description
An average height for a human, but short for a fae, she is quite a unique sight. Having a pale green skin, and a slightly thicker frame than most fae, she has a rather large chest and wide hips. Her long green hair is tied off to twin ponytails in the back, going all the way to her backside. In the front are loose bangs framing her face and going to her shoulders. Her ears are long like a high elf, but pointed more outwards. She also has long, sharp nails that look almost like thorns in shape.
While she doesn’t need make-up, she does enjoy it, as it makes her feel prettier. She paints her lips a berry red, and gives her cheeks a slight red blush, and finishes with a two tone eye shadow, maroon on the top and a little dark green on the bottom. She also paints her long nails a dark red. She also has some natural additions which add to her colour. Her body is covered with vines growing from and up her entire body, ending just around her shoulders, and not going down her arms. The leaves on the vines actually change colours with the season from a bright green when they sprout in the spring to a bright red in the fall, before going brown and falling off in the winter. She has a mass of small twigs with leaves in her hair which does the same colour change.
Physical Quirks
When she’s more than a mile away from her roots, she begins to fidget and shift uncomfortably. While she has no problem surviving, she just is nervous when she’s not close to it. She does have a few friends who live close by, and has a phone to contact them if she feels any problems, but she can’t help but be nervous. She also gets very pale when she’s not near any fertile ground, like in the middle of a large concrete area, or a desert.
Clothing Style
As a creature born of the forest, she has no need for clothing, but growing up in the city, she learned that it was necessary, and has no problems wearing them. She really only has one outfit, which she washes every night in the creek and dries on in her maintenance hut while she sleeps in her roots. It is a very short loose top, which doesn’t even cover her entire chest, leaving the underside of her breasts fully exposed. She also has a flowing miniskirt to cover her waist. Both have ended up stained a permanent dark green, and she doesn’t even remember what colour they used to be. She did find a pair of high heeled pumps which look like they are made of roses which she absolutely adores as well. She doesn’t like wearing metals, so doesn’t have any jewelry, since she has no place to put it when she sleeps.
Mental Characteristics
Personal History
As Alarune are naturally occurring fae which spontaneously spawn on an area touched by fae magic in the right conditions, most everyone in New York was surprised to hear of one being born in a park in the middle of the city. Members of the local fae community came together to help raise the little girl and make sure she was safe, as these fae are as vulnerable as they are rare. They worked with the city to ensure that her roots were kept safe for as long as she was alive, and helped her get her an education with tutors who came out to teach her. She never really took to her studies, but was able to get herself at least a GED.
As she had always been good with plants and anything botanical, at first they had her taking care of the park she was living in, but she soon grew bored, as it was an easy job for her. So she talked to some of her friends and they all worked together to get her a flower cart, and hook her up with local flower suppliers. She’s been doing that for the past 15 years and has built up quite a customer base.
Education
Her tutors, usually teachers in the fae community, would each rotate and take a day off their regular duties to spend with her and help her to learn about her world and how to interact in it. She often would ask passers in the park if she had a homework question she didn’t understand, and would usually find someone to give her a hand.
Employment
She worked for the city doing park maintenance for two years after she finished her schooling, but she became so bored with it, as most people in the area were good and didn’t make a mess, and it was easy for her to clean up. That’s when she started Jasmine’s Bouquet, her own mobile flower shop. She could be making a good amount of money on it, but she doesn’t care about profit, so only makes enough to keep things maintained, her stock filled, and a small amount extra so she can survive the slow winter months.
Morality & Philosophy
Being literally one with nature, she is more in tune with how things are, and she doesn’t see things as bad as everyone makes them out to be. She has plenty of space, is able to flourish, even in the middle of a city, and there’s plenty of air for her. Sure, sometimes its a little dirty, but it’s a plants job to clean it, and most of what’s in that dirty air is good for plants, so it helps them grow. She doesn’t care about what happens across the world, or even on the other side of the country, she’s content with her happy little corner of the world.
Personality
Motivation
She really only is interested in surviving and keeping the plants in her little grove happy and healthy. Everything she does is about those goals for the most part. She has picked up some compassion for the people in her area that have helped her, and so she is saving a little money from her business to repay them all. She’s not sure how she will do it, but she knows she wants to do something, and she’s been keeping a list of everyone she wants to give back to.
Likes & Dislikes
She loves rainy days, running around in the water and jumping in puddles like a little kid. She will even look up and let the rain roll into her mouth. She is terrified of thunderstorms, however, and will hide in her roots when they come around. She knows what they do to trees, and is worried that a lightning bolt will strike near her and hurt or kill her. Little does she know, the fae who helped raise her thought of that, and set up a lightning rod system to pull any strikes away from her, but she doesn’t know that.
Virtues
She is very carefree and innocent for the most part, not really knowing about any bad things, and having been protected all of her life. She is very protective of her area, and the people in it, and even the muggers have learned to avoid her area. She’s caught more than one with vines and held them till the police came to take them away.
Vices
Since she is so carefree and innocent, she does occasionally forget her clothing, but is usually reminded quickly by the people in the area. The local police respect her and know it’s not malicious so if they end up catching her will just chide her and remind her. She also tends to forget her nails and the thorns which some of the tentacles can grow, but will apologize when she hurts someone unintentionally with them.
Quirks
She moves almost like a snake, and loves to wrap her arms around friends, being almost like a vine herself. She says she loves to feel the warmth and sometimes her leaves will tremble against her skin when she is happy. It makes a sound just like a wind through the trees.
Values
She values those who are kind and helpful to her, as well as those who help clean up her grove. While she will usually keep it clean, sometimes she will miss things, and when someone helps clean it up for her, she will generally reward them with a kiss and a hug.
Sexual Style
While she may act and seem innocent, she is most definitely an adult, and understands sex just as well as any adult. In fact, she enjoys it a great deal, and has many locals and friends whom she is quite fond of and will share this with. While she doesn’t have a high sex drive, and she isn’t open about it, she is very flirty with those she is interested in. While she doesn’t mind going back to someone else’s place for this, she has two other options. The first is a small shack, which was the park maintenance shack that was set up when she was born. She was allowed to use this as a private room, and she has a bed there where she takes most of her partners. But the second option is more personal, she can cause her root to open up into a small room where she can have privacy and literally invite her partners inside her. She only does this with those she really trusts. She likes both men and women and is always curious to try new things. She does like to use her vines and roots, which end up like tentacles when she’s in a playful mood. She can use them for bondage or outright penetration for the willing. Those who get to go into her root are in for an intense time and have become very fond of her as well, partially because of the natural pheromones exuded by it.
Social
Contacts & Relations
She doesn’t really have a family, since Alarune are not born in the usual way, but she considers most of the neighbourhood to be her family, and is friends with pretty much every family there. She grew up with many of their children, was given hand me downs from a good portion of them, and has been helped by them as well, and so she helps them as well. All of their gardens grow big and healthy with her around. She also has some friends in the fae community, especially those who helped her when she was growing up. There’s even a few folks from the city who aren’t locals who come to visit her, and she loves all her friends deeply.
Social Aptitude
An open and carefree woman, she is quite frank when she talks, telling people the truth, not really understanding why things are hidden from others. In that respect she’s like a child who says what they are thinking. She does know that some things are very hurtful to say, so will just keep her mouth shut when it comes to those. She’s happy to talk to new people, especially when it comes to talking about the plants or her flowers.
Religious Views
She never did understand the concept of religion, as she thinks in terms of nature, and there isn’t any big tree which tells the others what do, so it makes no sense to her. She does realize that some people take it very seriously, so generally avoids talking about it.
Mannerisms
For the most part, if you thought she was a child based on the way she acted, you would be forgiven. She is very much a free spirit, and trusts most everyone she meets at first. She is very charming, especially with the help of her natural body pheromones, which work to make people think favourably of her. The longer you are around her, the more it affects you. It is gradual enough that most people don’t even notice, and is mostly based on her flowery scent. Her sense of humour is equally innocent, liking silly play on word and non sequitur jokes.
Hobbies & Pets
Besides tending her plants, she likes to dance, and has been learning from a couple of the locals. She also has been learning slight of hand magic from a street performer, and is getting quite good at it. She loves to lie in the sun and just soak up the rays some days, even climbing tall trees to get better light. She has a sort of pet, a crow that lives in a tree near her roots. She will talk to it constantly, and it has begun to speak back to her. She calls him George, but it’s actually a female.
Speech Style
She has a rather sultry voice, sounding a little like Galadriel from the Lord of the Rings movies, but speaks more innocently and honestly than most would expect from someone with that voice, and without the accent. It’s a very soothing sound, and she knows it’s affect helps to calm agitated people and will use it appropriately. She’s helped many hurt kids calm down after their injury just by talking to them.
Political Affiliation & Activism
She doesn’t understand everyone’s fascination with politics, and certainly doesn’t understand why people care about what others do so far away. She has met most of the local politicians, and she knows they will do what they can to protect her and her home, but doesn’t understand that it took a some pressure, and the reminder that if they didn’t they would pin her death on them, to do it. As such, all the politicking makes no sense to her, and just seems like a useless way to argue. While she does understand that activism is good, and protecting things is good, she doesn’t understand why people want to protect and fix everywhere but where they live, and will often ask anyone saying they want to protect the earth, what have THEY done in their own neighbourhood. This has led to most people campaigning for a cause to avoid her area completely, as they don’t want to be embarrassed.