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★[Name] Selene Bryant (SUH-LEEN)

★ [Title] Keeper of Dreams, ex-princess, Sleepy Beauty

★ [Gender] Female

★ [Race] Human

★ [Age] Appears to be late teens or early 20s. Actually 420.

★ [Height] 5'7"

★ [Date of Birth] July 18

★ [Country] The Kingdom of Susci

★ [Job] Keeper of Dreams

★ [Skills]
☆ Sleepwalking - Yes, you read that correctly. Sleepwalking. Unlike most people, Selene becomes about five times more coordinated and ten times less stupid while she's asleep. If you want an intelligent conversation with her, wait until she's snoring away. Oh, don't mind that she hit her nose against the wall there, she can't feel it anyway!

☆ Dreamwalking - Dreamwalking? What's that? Walking in people's dreams obviously! Duh. Selene's spindle is for more than just show. If she pricks a sleeping person while she herself is asleep, she can enter their dreams as an observer. For the most part she can't do much, but if both she and the dreamer are sleeping very deeply, she can guide the overall flow of the dream (for example, keep it from turning into a nightmare if it was heading in that direction), but she can't make you dream whatever she wants. If the dreamer becomes aware of her presence, she'll be forcefully ejected from the dream, usually resulting in her waking up with a headache.

☆ Falling on Her Face - Okay, not really! While asleep, Selene's senses are dulled, giving her a high tolerance to pain, fatigue and other things as well as increasing her overall stamina. Obviously doesn't apply to extreme injuries such as stab wounds, but a punch to the face might not phase her. "Oh, oh oh! Did a *yawn* leaf brush across my face?!"
★ [Original Story] Sleeping Beauty

★ [Personality] Selene is a fairly laid back person (while she's awake, at least). Because of her narcolepsy, she's incredibly lazy and more than willing to go along with whatever idea or thing other people come up with, as long as they're doing all the work and she can go nap in the corner. A frequent yawner and mumbler, she'll often go on little spiels (punctuated by yawns after every third word) about how such and such material makes the best bedding, or how it would be great if you could just add another feather pillow or two to that bed. The ten that it has already are definitely not enough!

Selene is not the sharpest sword in the barrel. You know that sword the apprentice uses when they're pretending to be a really awesome knight? And then they try to chop firewood with the sword because they think that's extra cool, and sometimes they drop it, or leave it out in the rain, and so the sword gets all dull and chipped and very pathetic. Everyone pities that sword because it's so dull and non-sharp that it would be a waste of time to try and fix it. That sword is Selene. She's dumb. She's ditzy. She doesn't have the slightest grasp of sarcasm (or does she?). If you told her the mop in the corner was your cousin, she'd probably believe you and try to offer it refreshments. That might be a little extreme, but the point remains that she's dumb as dirt. She's also extraordinarily clumsy, and often falls asleep in the weirdest places.

While asleep? That's a different matter. She doesn't talk much, but her subconscious seems to be about ten times as intelligent as her waking self (though considering how she is normally...). She also has a nasty habit of (non fatally) stabbing people with her spindle and engaging in crazy shenanigans that she doesn't remember when she wakes up. While she doesn't become an amazing gymnast while she's sleeping, her footwork and sense of direction greatly improve. Most of her Keeper duties are performed while she's asleep.

She doesn't remember the majority of the things she does while she's asleep, and will comment on how funny someone is if they try to bring them up. Her curiosity combined with her narcolepsy can lead to some very bizarre situations. Have you ever woken up in a butter churn? No? Oh, I could tell you a story...

★ [Story] Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Susci—No, this is not the butter churn story, sorry—The reigning King and Queen gave birth to a beautiful little girl with a ridiculously large amount of voluminous brown hair. Really, what baby is born with shoulder-length hair? Anyway! They named their little bundle of hair Selene because they thought it was a Very. Pretty. Name.

Now, in the kingdom of Susci everyone is always busy at all hours, and being lazy is a punishable offense. No one sleeps more than is necessary to function on a day to day basis. Naps are among the highest offenses and outright BANNED. The more energetic a person, the better, and the little Princess was among the most energetic in the history of the kingdom. Constantly awake, making noise, rolling around, never letting her parents get the little sleep they required. Needless to say, they were absolutely THRILLED and decided to throw a gigantic party to celebrate their perfect little daughter.

Everyone in the kingdom was invited to the party, including twelve of the thirteen witches of the kingdom. The thirteenth witch was not invited because her many hobbies included taking NAPS. The King and Queen were outright APPALLED by her insolence and wouldn’t have been able to stand being in the same room with her.

The party started off wonderfully! The princess was as lively as ever, the first eleven witches each blessed the Princess with various things such as intelligence and grace and lovely stuff like that (considering how she turned out, it makes one wonder if they had any talent at all). The twelfth witch was just about to bless the Princess with the gift of Insomnia when the doors flew open. Who was it? THAT’S RIGHT! It was the dreaded nap-taking witch, who was thoroughly offended about not getting an invite.

She glared at all of them with her eyes that were disturbingly void of dark circles beneath them (Really, it made her look like an ALIEN.). Then, raising a threatening finger, she pointed it dramatically at the Princess and shouted in a horrifyingly well-rested voice. “On the Princess’s sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and—“ she paused for dramatic effect, “—become cursed with having to take a three hour nap twice a day.” The collective gasp that resulted from these words could be heard from miles away. This was the worst possible thing that could befall their beloved princess!

The nap-taking witch nodded to herself in a smug and self-satisfied kind of way before turning around and walking out the door on her well-rested legs. Chaos erupted behind her. What would they do?! Their Princess was going to grow up to be a criminal! But wait! The twelfth witch had yet to bestow her gift, and she stated quite confidently that she could reverse it. Unfortunately, the twelfth witch was just as incompetent as the first eleven (or possibly even more so) and instead of lifting the curse of sleeping, she accidentally curses the princess with ETERNAL SLEEPINESS (aka narcolepsy). The King and Queen are not sure if this is better or worse, because while she would be taking six hours worth of naps with the Nap-Taking Witch’s curse, the Twelfth Witch’s curse could potentially lead to MORE THAN THREE NAPS PER DAY. And three is far worse than two! Even if they’re shorter naps.

Outraged by all the potential naps their princess will be taking, the King and Queen banned the Twelfth Witch for promoting illegal habits, and also banned spinning wheels for good measure. Also having more than two pillows on any one bed (they were quite fond of banning things.)

As Princess Selene grew up, she was still incredibly energetic (though her blessed intelligence and grace weren’t developing as quickly as the King and Queen would have liked, so they also banned the Third and Fifth witches for false gifts.) As the day of her sixteenth birthday rolled around, the Nap-Taking witch found a way to lure the princess out to her cottage (because Princess Selene was already quite a dull sword by this point), where she kept a spinning wheel hidden away in her basement. The princess had no idea how the contraption worked, and quite promptly stabbed herself in the finger with the spindle. Because, as a rule, you should always touch potentially dangerous and sharp objects.

The curse! Oh no! Princess Selene suddenly became very sleepy, and decided it was time for a nap. And when she woke up, she decided it was time for another nap! My, these nap things sure were addictive. In between naps she ran home and went to tell her parents the amazing news of her new-found hobby… or she would have, but she promptly fell asleep where she was found by her horrified parents. OH! THE CURSE! They had been almost positive that they’d gotten rid of all those pesky spinning wheels… they’d even banned the only person in Susci that made them.

The entire Kingdom went into mourning. What were they to do with such a lazy Princess that took naps and didn’t do any work at ALL. She even began to expect her servants to help her dress in the morning! Talk about entitlement! Selene’s personality had practically turned around. Instead of playing out in the gardens, she would stay indoors and nap. Instead of being decisive she would shrug her shoulders and let someone else do it. Unfortunately, she was still dumb as dirt.

Offended by how everyone was treating her now (really, what was so bad about taking a nap or two?!) Selene packed her bags and headed out of the kingdom to find a handsome young man. If you knew anything about curses at all, you knew that they were ALWAYS cured by true love’s kiss (even Selene knew this), so she thought that if she could find a true love, she could get rid of her pesky narcolepsy.

… It didn’t go as well as planned. Sleepy Beauty was confused. Surely she was doing everything right! “Oh, oh, oh! I have been cursed with Eternal Sleepiness and only my True Love’s kiss can break the spell. Are you my true love? I bet you could be! Will you give me a kiss?” Her plan seemed perfectly logical and likely to work, after all.

And one day, surprisingly enough, it did! The Prince (Who is not important enough to be given a name, as princes never are) of the neighbouring kingdom of Somni encountered our sleepy Princess taking a nap in a little stream (she had fallen asleep while trying to cross it), and instantly fell in love with her. He carried the sleeping Princess back to Somni and asked her to marry him. Selene agreed, although she was still fixating on the fact that the KISS OF TRUE LOVE hadn’t lifted her curse. Maybe it was outdated? Anyway! It didn’t matter, because the kingdom of Somni had a rule that everyone was to take a minimum of three naps a day, and every day but Thursday was a holiday.

Princess Selene liked this arrangement very much and she and her nameless Prince promptly got married that Thursday (because they were too busy sleeping to do have it any sooner). And they lived happily ever after!! –for a few weeks.

One day, Selene was woken up during her second mid-morning nap by none other than her PARENTS who had traveled all the way from the Kingdom of Susci with the Nap-Taking witch. Apparently they had convinced her (with a bribe of allowing her to take a nap every other day) to remove the curse! They begged Selene to take the offer and to come home to their sleepless kingdom where she would never have to waste more time sleeping than was necessary.

Though Selene’s head was quite empty, and even more so from all the sleeping she had been doing, she refused their offer. She had grown quite fond of taking naps and the people of Somni never tried to make her DO things. Like reading. Ugh, so boring!

Heartbroken, the King and Queen returned alone to Susci (the Thirteenth Witch stayed in Somni where she caught up on her sleep), and Selene lived happily ever after with her Nameless Prince. Again, for a little while.

One day, when she was doing her monthly stroll in the garden, Selene found a mask with a curious design nestled between the branches of a tree. With great delight, she noted that it had no eye holes “Oh, oh, oh! This will be just PERFECT for keeping out the light when I sleep!” And she quickly grabbed it. However, instead of obtaining a wonderful eye-mask, she obtained a JOB.

★ [Keeper]Her body and memories frozen at whatever age she was (she was too lazy to keep track of the EXACT number), Selene suddenly found herself to be the Keeper of Dreams. While she doesn't particularly like her job, most of the time she performs her responsibilities while she sleeps, so she's never found a reasong to leave it. Besides, she can't even remember the name of her Nameless Prince!

★ [Additional Information]
☆ She loves food. 90% of her time is probably divided between eating and sleeping. Or even eating while sleeping!
☆ Her voluminous hair is perfect for using as a pillow when she decides to fall asleep in a strange and mostly uncomfortable place.
☆ Despite carrying a spindle around, the most she can do is accidentally stab herself in the hand. She can't sew worth anything.
☆ She's narcoleptic.
☆ She might not actually be as stupid as she seems, but this fact has never been proven.
☆ Despite being half asleep the majority of the time, she has quite a bit of stamina and can withstand harsh weather conditions.
☆ She's also very forgetful. She likes to tie multicoloured little strings around the ends of her fingers to help her remember certain things. Unfortunately half the time she forgets what each of the colours mean.
☆ The fact that her mask doesn't have any eye holes doesn't bother her. While awake, her balance is about the same with or without the mask on. THE EYES. THEY DO NOTHING!
☆ Says "Oh, oh, oh!" a LOT.

Description
Larger image.
Without her cape thing.

★[Name] Selene Bryant (SUH-LEEN)

★ [Title] Keeper of Dreams, ex-princess, Sleepy Beauty

★ [Gender] Female

★ [Race] Human

★ [Age] Appears to be late teens or early 20s. Actually 420.

★ [Height] 5'7"

★ [Date of Birth] July 18

★ [Country] The Kingdom of Susci

★ [Job] Keeper of Dreams

★ [Skills]
☆ Sleepwalking - Yes, you read that correctly. Sleepwalking. Unlike most people, Selene becomes about five times more coordinated and ten times less stupid while she's asleep. If you want an intelligent conversation with her, wait until she's snoring away. Oh, don't mind that she hit her nose against the wall there, she can't feel it anyway!

☆ Dreamwalking - Dreamwalking? What's that? Walking in people's dreams obviously! Duh. Selene's spindle is for more than just show. If she pricks a sleeping person while she herself is asleep, she can enter their dreams as an observer. For the most part she can't do much, but if both she and the dreamer are sleeping very deeply, she can guide the overall flow of the dream (for example, keep it from turning into a nightmare if it was heading in that direction), but she can't make you dream whatever she wants. If the dreamer becomes aware of her presence, she'll be forcefully ejected from the dream, usually resulting in her waking up with a headache.

☆ Falling on Her Face - Okay, not really! While asleep, Selene's senses are dulled, giving her a high tolerance to pain, fatigue and other things as well as increasing her overall stamina. Obviously doesn't apply to extreme injuries such as stab wounds, but a punch to the face might not phase her. "Oh, oh oh! Did a *yawn* leaf brush across my face?!"
★ [Original Story] Sleeping Beauty

★ [Personality] Selene is a fairly laid back person (while she's awake, at least). Because of her narcolepsy, she's incredibly lazy and more than willing to go along with whatever idea or thing other people come up with, as long as they're doing all the work and she can go nap in the corner. A frequent yawner and mumbler, she'll often go on little spiels (punctuated by yawns after every third word) about how such and such material makes the best bedding, or how it would be great if you could just add another feather pillow or two to that bed. The ten that it has already are definitely not enough!

Selene is not the sharpest sword in the barrel. You know that sword the apprentice uses when they're pretending to be a really awesome knight? And then they try to chop firewood with the sword because they think that's extra cool, and sometimes they drop it, or leave it out in the rain, and so the sword gets all dull and chipped and very pathetic. Everyone pities that sword because it's so dull and non-sharp that it would be a waste of time to try and fix it. That sword is Selene. She's dumb. She's ditzy. She doesn't have the slightest grasp of sarcasm (or does she?). If you told her the mop in the corner was your cousin, she'd probably believe you and try to offer it refreshments. That might be a little extreme, but the point remains that she's dumb as dirt. She's also extraordinarily clumsy, and often falls asleep in the weirdest places.

While asleep? That's a different matter. She doesn't talk much, but her subconscious seems to be about ten times as intelligent as her waking self (though considering how she is normally...). She also has a nasty habit of (non fatally) stabbing people with her spindle and engaging in crazy shenanigans that she doesn't remember when she wakes up. While she doesn't become an amazing gymnast while she's sleeping, her footwork and sense of direction greatly improve. Most of her Keeper duties are performed while she's asleep.

She doesn't remember the majority of the things she does while she's asleep, and will comment on how funny someone is if they try to bring them up. Her curiosity combined with her narcolepsy can lead to some very bizarre situations. Have you ever woken up in a butter churn? No? Oh, I could tell you a story...

★ [Story] Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Susci—No, this is not the butter churn story, sorry—The reigning King and Queen gave birth to a beautiful little girl with a ridiculously large amount of voluminous brown hair. Really, what baby is born with shoulder-length hair? Anyway! They named their little bundle of hair Selene because they thought it was a Very. Pretty. Name.

Now, in the kingdom of Susci everyone is always busy at all hours, and being lazy is a punishable offense. No one sleeps more than is necessary to function on a day to day basis. Naps are among the highest offenses and outright BANNED. The more energetic a person, the better, and the little Princess was among the most energetic in the history of the kingdom. Constantly awake, making noise, rolling around, never letting her parents get the little sleep they required. Needless to say, they were absolutely THRILLED and decided to throw a gigantic party to celebrate their perfect little daughter.

Everyone in the kingdom was invited to the party, including twelve of the thirteen witches of the kingdom. The thirteenth witch was not invited because her many hobbies included taking NAPS. The King and Queen were outright APPALLED by her insolence and wouldn’t have been able to stand being in the same room with her.

The party started off wonderfully! The princess was as lively as ever, the first eleven witches each blessed the Princess with various things such as intelligence and grace and lovely stuff like that (considering how she turned out, it makes one wonder if they had any talent at all). The twelfth witch was just about to bless the Princess with the gift of Insomnia when the doors flew open. Who was it? THAT’S RIGHT! It was the dreaded nap-taking witch, who was thoroughly offended about not getting an invite.

She glared at all of them with her eyes that were disturbingly void of dark circles beneath them (Really, it made her look like an ALIEN.). Then, raising a threatening finger, she pointed it dramatically at the Princess and shouted in a horrifyingly well-rested voice. “On the Princess’s sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and—“ she paused for dramatic effect, “—become cursed with having to take a three hour nap twice a day.” The collective gasp that resulted from these words could be heard from miles away. This was the worst possible thing that could befall their beloved princess!

The nap-taking witch nodded to herself in a smug and self-satisfied kind of way before turning around and walking out the door on her well-rested legs. Chaos erupted behind her. What would they do?! Their Princess was going to grow up to be a criminal! But wait! The twelfth witch had yet to bestow her gift, and she stated quite confidently that she could reverse it. Unfortunately, the twelfth witch was just as incompetent as the first eleven (or possibly even more so) and instead of lifting the curse of sleeping, she accidentally curses the princess with ETERNAL SLEEPINESS (aka narcolepsy). The King and Queen are not sure if this is better or worse, because while she would be taking six hours worth of naps with the Nap-Taking Witch’s curse, the Twelfth Witch’s curse could potentially lead to MORE THAN THREE NAPS PER DAY. And three is far worse than two! Even if they’re shorter naps.

Outraged by all the potential naps their princess will be taking, the King and Queen banned the Twelfth Witch for promoting illegal habits, and also banned spinning wheels for good measure. Also having more than two pillows on any one bed (they were quite fond of banning things.)

As Princess Selene grew up, she was still incredibly energetic (though her blessed intelligence and grace weren’t developing as quickly as the King and Queen would have liked, so they also banned the Third and Fifth witches for false gifts.) As the day of her sixteenth birthday rolled around, the Nap-Taking witch found a way to lure the princess out to her cottage (because Princess Selene was already quite a dull sword by this point), where she kept a spinning wheel hidden away in her basement. The princess had no idea how the contraption worked, and quite promptly stabbed herself in the finger with the spindle. Because, as a rule, you should always touch potentially dangerous and sharp objects.

The curse! Oh no! Princess Selene suddenly became very sleepy, and decided it was time for a nap. And when she woke up, she decided it was time for another nap! My, these nap things sure were addictive. In between naps she ran home and went to tell her parents the amazing news of her new-found hobby… or she would have, but she promptly fell asleep where she was found by her horrified parents. OH! THE CURSE! They had been almost positive that they’d gotten rid of all those pesky spinning wheels… they’d even banned the only person in Susci that made them.

The entire Kingdom went into mourning. What were they to do with such a lazy Princess that took naps and didn’t do any work at ALL. She even began to expect her servants to help her dress in the morning! Talk about entitlement! Selene’s personality had practically turned around. Instead of playing out in the gardens, she would stay indoors and nap. Instead of being decisive she would shrug her shoulders and let someone else do it. Unfortunately, she was still dumb as dirt.

Offended by how everyone was treating her now (really, what was so bad about taking a nap or two?!) Selene packed her bags and headed out of the kingdom to find a handsome young man. If you knew anything about curses at all, you knew that they were ALWAYS cured by true love’s kiss (even Selene knew this), so she thought that if she could find a true love, she could get rid of her pesky narcolepsy.

… It didn’t go as well as planned. Sleepy Beauty was confused. Surely she was doing everything right! “Oh, oh, oh! I have been cursed with Eternal Sleepiness and only my True Love’s kiss can break the spell. Are you my true love? I bet you could be! Will you give me a kiss?” Her plan seemed perfectly logical and likely to work, after all.

And one day, surprisingly enough, it did! The Prince (Who is not important enough to be given a name, as princes never are) of the neighbouring kingdom of Somni encountered our sleepy Princess taking a nap in a little stream (she had fallen asleep while trying to cross it), and instantly fell in love with her. He carried the sleeping Princess back to Somni and asked her to marry him. Selene agreed, although she was still fixating on the fact that the KISS OF TRUE LOVE hadn’t lifted her curse. Maybe it was outdated? Anyway! It didn’t matter, because the kingdom of Somni had a rule that everyone was to take a minimum of three naps a day, and every day but Thursday was a holiday.

Princess Selene liked this arrangement very much and she and her nameless Prince promptly got married that Thursday (because they were too busy sleeping to do have it any sooner). And they lived happily ever after!! –for a few weeks.

One day, Selene was woken up during her second mid-morning nap by none other than her PARENTS who had traveled all the way from the Kingdom of Susci with the Nap-Taking witch. Apparently they had convinced her (with a bribe of allowing her to take a nap every other day) to remove the curse! They begged Selene to take the offer and to come home to their sleepless kingdom where she would never have to waste more time sleeping than was necessary.

Though Selene’s head was quite empty, and even more so from all the sleeping she had been doing, she refused their offer. She had grown quite fond of taking naps and the people of Somni never tried to make her DO things. Like reading. Ugh, so boring!

Heartbroken, the King and Queen returned alone to Susci (the Thirteenth Witch stayed in Somni where she caught up on her sleep), and Selene lived happily ever after with her Nameless Prince. Again, for a little while.

One day, when she was doing her monthly stroll in the garden, Selene found a mask with a curious design nestled between the branches of a tree. With great delight, she noted that it had no eye holes “Oh, oh, oh! This will be just PERFECT for keeping out the light when I sleep!” And she quickly grabbed it. However, instead of obtaining a wonderful eye-mask, she obtained a JOB.

★ [Keeper]Her body and memories frozen at whatever age she was (she was too lazy to keep track of the EXACT number), Selene suddenly found herself to be the Keeper of Dreams. While she doesn't particularly like her job, most of the time she performs her responsibilities while she sleeps, so she's never found a reasong to leave it. Besides, she can't even remember the name of her Nameless Prince!

★ [Additional Information]
☆ She loves food. 90% of her time is probably divided between eating and sleeping. Or even eating while sleeping!
☆ Her voluminous hair is perfect for using as a pillow when she decides to fall asleep in a strange and mostly uncomfortable place.
☆ Despite carrying a spindle around, the most she can do is accidentally stab herself in the hand. She can't sew worth anything.
☆ She's narcoleptic.
☆ She might not actually be as stupid as she seems, but this fact has never been proven.
☆ Despite being half asleep the majority of the time, she has quite a bit of stamina and can withstand harsh weather conditions.
☆ She's also very forgetful. She likes to tie multicoloured little strings around the ends of her fingers to help her remember certain things. Unfortunately half the time she forgets what each of the colours mean.
☆ The fact that her mask doesn't have any eye holes doesn't bother her. While awake, her balance is about the same with or without the mask on. THE EYES. THEY DO NOTHING!
☆ Says "Oh, oh, oh!" a LOT.