Character Description
Name: Jolinn
Meaning of name: One who is patient, independent, a fighter,
and leader
Species: Fae
Hair color: Flame orange
Eye color: Jewel pink
Personality: She’s essentially bubbly with a touch of sass,
and really good at finding positivity in all situations. Also, she’s a bit on
the curious side, and has an air of independence. And a furious temper.
Most treasured possession: A pink crystal rose bracelet
History: She was involved in a war among two kingdoms that
rose out of jealousy. Her boyfriend, Kayin, along with the other men, who fought,
were killed in that war. However, before dying, he handed her a bracelet and
told her to wait, for he would return. Having been left the last one of the
species, she decided to live in solitude deep inside the forest, now devoid of its
magical creatures.
A hundred years pass, and one day, in the modernised word, a
digging machine rumbles its way into the forest, uprooting trees and
vegetation. That was when she realised that her dwelling was now on the brink
of being turned into a park for the human civilization. No more than a couple
of bushes from the great forest were left, where she continued to live.
Now a couple of decades into the modern world, she’ s
finally caught on to the pace of the humans, and decides to enrol into a school,
as with the power of the bracelet, she found out she could turn into a human.
The bracelet was stolen by Kayin from the neighbouring kingdom’s ruler, as he
had been told by a fortune teller about the war. He wanted to stay with Jolinn,
so he figured the bracelet would help him. But little did he realise that this
act itself would be the cause of the war in the first place. The neighbouring
kingdom suspected that a spy had done the act, and when their accusations were
not dealt with seriously, they attacked. The folk, unaware about the existence
of such an incident, passed it as an act of jealousy over wealth and
prosperity. Kayin, as well, was unaware.
Do I Know You?
Stasis
The sun rises just as it did a century ago. The park is
filled with people jogging, walking their dogs and exercising. In one of the
bushes, there’s a tiny but perfectly furnished house in which lives the fairy Jolinn.
Used to the regular schedule, she gets ready, and heads off to high school, but
not before turning into a human using her bracelet. Her best friend, Lilith greets her at the gate
of her school. They go to class and study and chat and go shopping. They spend
a day at Lilith’s house, and when she asked to go to Jolinn’s house, she could
do nothing but apologize and give an excuse of renovation, so they go to
karaoke. A couple days pass similarly.
Trigger
Suddenly, one day, as she walks through the hallway with her
clueless human best friend, she suddenly catches a glimpse of a familiar face.
One that seemed faded away into a distance, yet so close. She runs after him
and watches him from behind a tree, interacting with his friends. As he turns
around and she looks at him, Jolinn realizes her long-lost love had, after all,
fulfilled his promise. The one who had told her to wait. The one she had waited
for. She remembered the fairy war that happened many centuries ago. How much
time had passed since then she did not know. But what she did remember was that
her lover had been a martyr in the war, and before dying, he had promised to
return. She excitedly changes into her tinier, winged version, and flies off
home to pull out an old, yellowed portrait, of her lover Kayin, and her, to
show him, but decides not to. Later, Kayin passes her a sly smile, and Jolinn
wonders whether he remembers everything or not. She follows him around on
pretext of having a crush, and finally befriends him.
Quest
After dating a couple of months, and never mentioning the
magical aspect of their relationship, Jolinn, unable to phrase it better, asks
him if he knew her. He laughs the question off. Three more months pass happily,
but the question is never repeated. However, along the way, she started to
notice Lilith hanging around Kayin a little too much. She’s determined to find
out the truth, as something seems out of place. Quietly suspecting Lilith and
Kayin, she continued her daily life. But one day, returning home from shopping,
she finds them roaming in the park that housed her bush. A wave of anger hit
her, and instead of ignoring them and making believe stories, she marched right
over and demanded an explanation about they were together without her.
Critical choice
Surprisingly, there was no hint of embarrassment or guilt on
their faces, but a smug one, almost wicked. Not answering her question, they
ask her back why she wasn’t going home and always lurking around that park. Then,
they start demanding that she take them to visit her house. Upon her refusal,
they reveal their knowledge about her being a fairy. While talking, they’d
casually led her to a secluded place deep in the trees in park. There, Lilith
suddenly waves her hand and turns into a witch, followed by Kayin, who turns
into a fairy. He looked just as Jolinn remembered. Jolinn transformed too, in a
daze. They were so small they could stand on a leaf.
Surprise
When she looked back at Lilith, her eyes were glaring and
angry, and she demanded that the rose bracelet be handed over to her as that it
belonged to her. Upon being asked why she couldn’t do that earlier, she revealed
that if she had straightaway taken the bracelet from Jolinn, it wouldn’t
satisfy her revenge for having to rot in an underground prison for centuries,
where she was thrown in by the enemy king, with false accusations, during the
war. The moment the ground was torn open by a digging machine, she had taken
off to hunt down the one who’d stolen her possession. Because of the bracelet’s
powers, it was certain that the person would be reborn as a human or a fairy.
Since there were no fae left, it had to be a human. And she was led to Kayin.
And after that, the destined person was sure to find him, so she hung around,
till Jolinn came around, and Lilith saw her turn into a fairy and fly away the day
she first saw Kayin. Since then, Lilith had hung around Kayin, putting him
under a spell that messed with his memories. That explained his constant
changing behavior. Lilith had stolen the very person from Kayin whom he had
stolen for from her.
Climax
Jolinn watches with horror, as her best friend stands
alongside Kayin, wearing the dress of a witch, and Kayin looking no less evil.
She can’t speak, as Lilith circles her, slightly bigger than her in her witch
form. She then reveals that the root of the war was Jolinn herself, and how the
kingdoms had war over the bracelet, and not some petty jealousy. She refuses to
believe, and in the midst of their fight, Kayin admits to stealing the bracelet
from Lilith of the neighboring kingdom and that it was a mistake. Lilith then
smugly announces that she’d forgiven him, as long as he stayed with her instead
of Jolinn. Kayin, under the hypnosis of Lilith’s dark magic, sides with her and
attacks Jolinn.
Reversal
With Kayin and Lilith attacking her, and the sadness of
betrayal, coupled with years of no combat training, Jolinn soon finds herself
losing. Still, she keeps fighting bravely, but when Kayin hits her, all the
decades spent in isolation, waiting for him seem to go down the drain, and
anger strikes her and she throws a powerful attack at him, hurling him away.
Seeing a chance, Lilith rushes ahead to channel the final blow at Jolinn. But
behind her, Kayin stands up, dazed. The pure magic in Jolinn’s blow was strong
enough to break him out of his hypnosis. As he sees Lilith go for Jolinn, he
flies right between her and the fiery blow, protecting Jolinn. Both watch in
horror as he falls to the ground. Jolinn pleads Lilith to revive him, in
exchange for the bracelet, to which she reluctantly agreed, for she herself had
newfound respect for him, seeing his love for Jolinn, such that he could steal
and put himself on the line for her.
Resolution
After reviving Kayin, Lilith reveals that after foreseeing
the war, she knew since the future couldn’t be altered, the only way to
repopulate the fairy folk was to create a way to turn other beings into their
kind. Following which the bracelet was made, but its dangerous existence was
leaked by a gossipy servant boy, which had reached all the way to Kayin’s ears.
Since becoming a fae was equal to being immortal, it was important that it be
in good hands. So, Lilith took responsibility of that, and, furthermore, in
honor of their respective kingdoms, they swore peace and tranquility in the
future, and the last witch Lilith took her bracelet and parted ways with the
last fairy folk Jolinn and Kayin. They go on to live in tranquility and
friendship for centuries to come.
