Delphine
First they murdered her household. Then they tried to kill her. Then they threw her into the shore-tide like a bit of flotsam, thinking they’d succeeded. Then the sharks came. Then she was rescued by a smokin’-hot young merman with a handy pod of dolphins (!).
Delphine kinda had a rough first day…
I like her, though. I like where she’s going. Given my history, I perhaps shouldn’t, but I do nonetheless.
Delphine is, as Tamasi was not, stunningly beautiful. It’s practically part of the setting. This is Amber, after all—all the women are stunningly beautiful and (almost) all the men are smokin’ hot. Something in the water, one presumes. Possibly because the GM and several players are female, I find my usual resistance to physical pulchritude in my characters much lessened. I suppose it’s that I can trust these folks to treat Delphine as more than a pretty face.
Me being me, though, I gotta be subversive somehow. I borrowed the body-art notion from Passions of the Tide; Delphine is quite covered in scarifications, face to waist. What the other characters think of this should prove interesting. Likewise Delphine’s utter lack of a nudity taboo. I mean, merfolk, clothes, why? Especially since, like Tamasi, Delphine is bioluminescent. So “dressing for dinner” means turning on the light-show, you know? And clothes would only get in the way.
Again, I can’t quite see myself doing this in a male-controlled game. This game, I think it’ll work. Most games, it wouldn’t.
She just made a small but unmistakable pass at her rescuer. Talk about things I normally wouldn’t do in a game… but it doesn’t bother me one whit. And I do hope he takes her up on it.
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