Her full name is Thorns Hidden in Fragrant Blossom. The second, if
you want to get technical, since she is named after her mother, who
had the same name. She is mostly called Thornblossom, or sometimes
just Thorns. Her full name is misleading, by the way. It suggest that
she is bad news hidden behind a beautiful exterior. But her exterior,
alluring as it may be, doesn't hide anything. It is painfully clear
that she is the “interesting times” of ancient curses incarante.
Thornblossom is a fey-blood, born of a fairy mother and
(presumably) a human father. Unlike many of the fey that sire mortal
offspring, Her mother (Thorns Hidden the first) took an occasional
interest in her upbringing. This was, perhaps, not for the best.
Thornblossoms mother was not a benevolent fey. Like many of her kind,
she took a curious interest in the passions of her mortals. But she
did this with the thoughtless cruelty of a child pulling the wings of
insects. Chances are that Thornblossoms father lies at the bottom of
a fen somewhere.
Personality
Thornblossom is not quite as bad as her mother. She is half human
after all, and not
completely devoid of empathy. But she is
not a good person, by any stretch. In lieu with her fey nature, she
views life as a game, as a work of art. But, being mortal, she can
experience pain, loss and want. Which enables her to experience
pleasure, excitement and passion the way no true fey can. And she is
determined to drink this cup to the bottom.
She loves to take risk, to experience the thrill of danger. The
occasional pain and suffering only heightens the thrill. Also, she
loves passion in the purest sense: carnal desires. She loves to
desire, and to be desired. She loves the pain and pleasure that it
brings. Her revealing clothing and provocative demeanor both reflect
this. After all, she has no problem with being viewed as a “sex
object”. It's usually those that desire her that end up with
problems.
Her love has a sadomasochistic streak. She can be cruel, reveling
in the power a man (or women) desire gives her when they desire her.
Or, she can be immensely attracted to someone that can manage to
demonstrate superiority over her. In her own way, she can be
surprisingly loyal to a person that has stuck her fancy. She have
been known to stay several decades with a lover, throwing herself
into her love with the same passion that she does anything else. In
these instances, she demonstrates true kindness and selflessness
towards the target of her affections.
Skills and abilities
Like many fey-bloods, Thornblossom has magical powers she
inherited from her mother. She primary excels in chaos and darkness
magic. Shadows hide her when she wishes, and she can disappear in a
puff of dark smoke, reappearing where she wishes. She also dabbles in
curse magic. Also, she is supernaturally agile and a skilled martial
artist. She is one of the few that can weave magic into her fighting
style, teleporting in mid-combat to outmaneuver her foes. She lack
finer social skills, but her beauty and fey charm draws people in.
She is the kind of person you cannot help to love, even though you
know it is a bad idea.
Joy in Adversity
Joy is Adversity is Thornblossoms lifetime friend. (Which is
saying something, since she is about 400 years old.) It is also her
weapon. Joy in adversity is a fey-made sword, given to Thorns as a
maturity gift on her sixteenth birthday. The sword is made from
gossamer (solid dream), magical, and perfectly sentient. She has come
to refer to it in the masculinum, even though it of course has no
true gender. Joy in adversity is sarcastic, condescending and
unerringly loyal. He can communicate effortlessly with her, and can
,with some effort, communicate with others. Apart from generally
aiding in her fighting, he can striker her foes with poison, or suck
their essence to heal her. He doesn't like scabbards, so she just
carries him around without anything to carry him in. He has been lost
or stolen, but the nature of his enchantments make them always find
each other again. His-razor sharp blade never accidentally cuts her.
(But it sometimes does so deliberately.)
