their hearts have not grown cold.
all the trees of the field. The less-than-nice men and women of taledom who might get it into their heads to mess with Cygna, or otherwise take advantage of her naivité. It's surprisingly easy to do... as long as you can sidestep all the men protecting her, that is. [xwhatbigteethx & OPEN]
in the devil's territory. She dated Evan almost through the entirety of college, and they were in a serious long-term relationship - they were living together, and she honestly could have seen herself marrying this man. But after graduation, everything splintered when he cheated on her; Cygna's anger clicked in a way that it hardly ever does, and they dissolved. Three years later, the two are finally friends again, and she'd trust Evan with her life. But naturally, there's still a slight element of awkwardness, considering they never quite properly fell out of love. [thetomcat]
to be alone with you. Blast from the past. Cygna lived in Queens until she was ten; these are the people from that shady chapter of her life who, by stroke of sheer dumb timing, knew Cygna (or the Weisses, period) when they were still one family. She might've gone to school with these people; they would remember her as absurdly quiet and timid, almost mute, instead of the lively, chattering woman she is today. [bramblesgaveway, tinkerbelling, gangstermoll, OPEN] Requirements: same age and origin in Queens, New York. Yes, it's pushing plausibility for so many people to know each other, but that's what RPGs are all about, amirite?
abraham. Uhhhh. Totally open for you.
sister. Cygna's happiest when she has a group of female friends to fall back on. These are some of them. [scheherazading, maddiemuffet, claudiajane, whynded, OPEN]
we won't need legs to stand. Coworkers and colleagues from the Al Hirschfield Theatre -- or New York stage people in general, who she might recognise from the theatre circuit. [OPEN]
a good man is hard to find. RICK. [agoldenchain]
he woke me up again. Hello, unresolved sexual tension. Cygna is not a girl for one night stands or for leaping into bed with someone immediately, but here's the one and only person she'd reconsider that for. There's flirtation. There's tension. They keep bumping into each other around the city. There's some sort of turbulent connection there, and he probably drives her up the walls half the time - but that's just because he throws her mind for such a loop. [OPEN]
seven swans. Her six swan brothers: all connected by tale, but only some connected by blood. Three of the brothers constitute what used to be the Weiss family, and grew up with her in Queens before being separated by social services -- the other three are unrelated, which bodes for all sorts of awkwardness once they finally find each other, because Cygna still loves them more than anything.
- The Eldest (?)
- The Second (?)
- The Third (?)
- The Fourth (?)
- The Fifth (?)
- The Youngest (Noah Marks, swanlet, age 16)
the transfiguration. Try to think of a woman that's as different to Cygna as you can possibly get. This is her, and they don't get along. Maybe they were close friends once and something soured it; it is, after all, easiest to hurt Cygna once she cares about you. Whatever happened, they now bring out the worst in each other, which is an unusual thing to see in Cygna Jones. [OPEN]
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