Character a Day Challenge - Ghost

in characteraday •  7 years ago  (edited)

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I've started a new project based on some ideas rattling around in my brain, basically to use the onsite wardrobe function of Subeta to create new characters and worlds to help relieve some of the creativity that's been building up in my head and encourage my own creativity as well :)

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Prompt Word: Ghost

Name: Stella Holland
Age: 40 at the time of her death, over 200 years old now
Gender: Female

Race: Ghost (deceased human)
Height: 4'9"
Weight: Nothing (spectral entities do not weigh anything)

Languages: Common
Birth Date: November 23rd, 1872
Birth Place: South Shore

Sexuality: Pansexual
Romantic: Demiromantic

Family: All deceased save a many-times great-grandaughter to whom she is just a story.

History: Stella was born to high ranking family in the city at the time, one of many noble families vying for power and the local Viscount/Viscountess titles since the Viscount of the time was ill and thought to die soon. Because of the turmoil, and the determination of the other families, her family died when she was barely a teenager leaving her as the only survivor.

To save herself from death she married into one of the other families, leaving hers just a memory. Her new husband was unkind, however, a member of a rival family that had wanted to see hers dead to begin with and he was not pleased to be forced to marry such a woman. Though she bore him children it was not of her own will, but it was life. That did not mean that her death was not a mercy, however, as she passed away in the aftermath of birthing her sixth child by the man.

Because of how he felt towards her, however, he denied her a proper burial and instead had her body set adrift at sea. This was considered highly disrespectful, but no one in his family cared because of where she had come from and thus they all wanted nothing more to do with her and only barely tolerated the offspring she had given to her husband.

Stella's soul, therefore, was not at rest. As her body rotted on the ocean floor, consumed by the animals of the water, her spirit came back. For the first few generations after her death she could not interact with the world around her, and all anyone noticed if she passed was a sudden cold feeling. But she drew on the time she had and slowly gained power enough to be seen, be heard, and even move objects. By then, however, she was nothing but a story as many people become over the years, and at times she was not even that. There was no one left to remember her, no one left who knew her life, and many fled at the sight of a ghost.

So Stella returned to the home that had belonged to the family she knew before they were all killed, as it still stood relatively undamaged. The place gained a reputation for being haunted as she did try to show herself to anyone who entered. As more years passed the house fell into disrepair, and as it was demolished Stella did not stop the construction. Instead she welcomed the new building that was erected in its place, and eventually set herself to moving on instead of staying in that place.

Now she has no home, but she has no need of one either being a spectral entity with no need for food, water or sleep and not being affected by the elements at all. So she just moves from one place to another, trying to find acceptance as the years wear on and her mind slowly slips away from the loneliness.

Banner was made by me in Photoshop, character reference image was made using Subeta's onsite wardrobe function.

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