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SagaWolf — AU | Anatea | Mudlark | Occasus
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Description
Created: March 11, 2020
1 fullbody - 5 Points
Trivia word count: 264 - 2 Points
Personality word count: 207 - 1 Point
History word count: 563 - 6 Points
Total Points: 14
Moodboard - To Come
AU Manuscript
"Leave nothing but hoofprints"
Profile
Name: Anatea
Nickname: Tea... probably chose that themselves
Former names: Fiona (dryad) and Dorothy (unicorn)
Age: 30s. Adult, that's for sure!
Gender: Woman
Pronouns: They/Them - She/Her
Breed: Hybrid: Dryad and Unicorn
Build: Warmblood with a wide chest to support two necks.
Height: 15Hh
Coat Colour: Liver Chestnut Palomino Chimera with minor white patterning
Orientation: Lesbian, demiromantic
Partner: --
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Faction: Occasus
Rank: Mudlark
Previous Location: Elysium
Previous Rank: Slave
Affinity: Life
Trivia
- Despite their two heads, Anatea is one person, one mind and one soul.
- Each head is capable of speech although words and fractions of sentences usually jump back and forth, making conversation somewhat difficult to follow at first. They need to focus to isolate speech to just one head and even then randoms words are usually echoed.
- All senses function on both halves; sight, hearing and taste and while one head will usually keep watch as the other eats, they like to alternate between. The pale deer enjoys sweet and fruity while the dark unicorn prefers savory and tart. Test nibbles usually determines who gets to munch.
- Mother is the name of a healthy female javelina (collared peccary) which follows them around most of the time. Anatea considers her a dear friend and NOT a pet, although that is likely what others would call their relationship. Mother gets he name from her incredibly ability to pop out little baby javelinas, and is almost always accompanied by a small flock of these adorable critters. Anatea will let them climb all over her anytime. Too cute!
- Anatea's foliage mane and tail, along with her horn, hooves and eyes, change color depending on the seasons. However, since Occasus is pretty much the same all year round, they are usually found in various shades of green, representing spring and summer. The autumn flames and bone bleached white doesn't have a chance to show off on this isle.
- Loves, loves, loves, loves, LOVES!!! Gossip! Maybe that’s why they chose the nickname Tea? Cause they love to... spill it? :3
Personality
Curious of the world and people around her, but with a healthy suspicious nature that keeps her from falling for most ploys and death traps. She is soaked through with wanderlust and cannot set down roots for long, driven by a constant need to 'see it all' after a long life with few personal choices. Stubborn to a fault when her mind it made up, she struggles to admit faults, and it takes a lot of debating and convincing to make her change. Deeply passionate about Occasus' volatile land, she finds it difficult to connect with people, especially when they do not share the same love of nature.
As a friend she is loyal, kind and helpful, ready to offer her assistance at a moments notice, as long as it doesn't compromise her own comfort too much. A gift at the end will certainly sweeten the deal and make her much more cooperative.
As a foe she will dig up your deepest darkest secrets and spread them across the isle with vengeance, spite and malice. And if dirt is too difficult to find, she'll just make some up instead. It works just as well and she has picked up many vile schemes from her time in Elysium.
History
Some parents were just not capable of love as demonstrated by Anatea's mother who sold her 'deformed' child at the first opportunity. Not the best, nor most well informed opportunity, but the absolute first. The little one's life started out in Elysiums fine slavery trade, where they were perhaps not very useful but at least a fun oddity to string along, a curious pet to be gawked at. It was also decided before they could talk that they were two twins and therefor two people, and they were named Dorothy and Fiona. It was fine for as long as they were too young to really understand, but as they grew, this concept of double names, one for each head, confused them immensely. When they had enough speech and understanding to argue that they were just one person, they would be punished or ignored and treated like 'the twins' regardless.
It was exhausting but necessary to teach themselves to respond as two individuals, even if it slowed them down and made them appear less intelligent. All in all it was a small blessing that they were eventually purchased to be the exotic pet and playmate of a noble's young son (Darcy), though this position bleedover into general housekeeper and glorified babysitter as the years rolled by. What had been a deep childhood friendship faded away in favor of the 'proper' master and slave relationship, where 'Dorothy and Fiona' were often reminded of just how little worth they had. Darcy wasn't all bad though, but he was socialite extraordinaire, and a sloppy drunk, who left a mess of parties in his wake for staff and slaves to clean.
Life probably wouldn't have been too bad if it had carried on this way. Anatea was fairly protected in their position of 'precious pet'. They never experienced much cruelty aside from a few beatings in their young years, and drunken screaming abuse when Darcy was in particularly foul moods. They had certainly allowed themself a sense of security in that life was set and directed for them, a security that began to flake when Darcy announced he would be exploring the world, taking Dorothy and Fiona with him.
Terrible decision for Darcy. Not all that bad for Anatea. Occasus did its thing, turning on the greedy little creatures wanting to exploit it for profit, and Anatea somehow made it through the chaos. Perhaps, they'd often muse, Gaelus found in them some kindred spirit and spared them, though it is much more likely they simply ran faster than others. They never discovered Darcy's fate, mourned him a short while, and then moved on trying to navigate a new life of freedom. So much freedom! At first they stuck to a serving role, falling under whatever leadership rose with little care as to who they were, but their proper first step to a new life was a new name; Anatea.
For the first time in their lives, no one insisted on them being two individuals and they found themselves blossoming, falling madly in love with the dangerous land and the hardened survivors. They explored, memorized and discovered many wonders and dangers. They made a friend, Mother the javelina, and a small name for themselves as a competent Mudlark. They grew to understand the land and care for it like family, and to this day life is good and wonderful.
Design and lineart all mine, and a thousand thank yous to queerly for helping with the colors!
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A good one too 
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:3 More moss for the island of sirens!
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Aaaah thank you! They sprouted some extra flowers from that praise XD
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Indeed! Probably a good one too
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