Character Name: Phoenix Delaney

Age: 4000+

Nature: Selkie

Description: Characteristic of the selkie, Nix is tall (5'8") and dark, with black hair and soft brown eyes. Besides beautiful, the first word that comes to mind when she's encountered is "sorrowful."

Personality: Nix is rather shy and introverted, untrusting of humans in general. She wouldn't be on land at all if it wasn't for the cruelty of one, and she will never forget that. She's soft spoken, very often non-confrontational, but when angered, she's completely ruthless. She has a cynical and sarcastic side which shows itself often, because of the bad hand she's been dealt in life. However, becoming her friend means having a friend for life, who will fight to the death to protect you, and will help you in any way possible. Possibly the only time she's anywhere near comfortable on land is when she's performing.

Special Talents/Abilities: If she had her skin, Nix would be able to transform from seal to human, but that option was taken away from her. On land, besides her beautifully melodic voice, her only real talent is being psychic. She's adapted relatively well to the human way of life, and privately tutors vocal students, which is her main, and, due to her talent, plentiful source of income. In the water, she is an unmatched swimmer, completely in tune with the ocean.

History: Life was easy enough for Nix. A selkie, she spent the majority of her time in seal form, off the west coast of Ireland. As a member of this ancient race of shape shifters, she protected sailors from harm, and kept them on course in storms whenever possible. All in all, it was a decent life.

All that changed about five hundred years ago, when she shed her skin to bask in the sunlight one day. Of course, that particular fateful day, a seal hunter was watching the shoreline. Realizing exactly what he had witnessed, he stole down to the rocks on which Phoenix was sunning herself and stole her skin. He claimed it as his special trophy, and passed it down from generation to generation, as a prized possession.

Nix, on the other hand, found herself at the mercy of humanity, with whom she had virtually no contact. Naturally intelligent, as well as a survivalist, she quickly adopted human ways, and dwelled among them, though always thought of as "different." In all this time, she has searched for her skin, desiring nothing more than to return to the waters where her home lies. Recent searches have landed her in Midnight Bay, which, while not home, is much more comforting to her than some of the inland cities where she had been forced to live. Part of the selkie nature is immortality, both in and out of ones skin, so she will live eternally, either blissfully happy when and if she is reunited with her skin, or miserable without it.

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