APPEARANCE
- Cybele has freckles that dot her skin in the color #f3a656
- Wild flowers, leaves, and herbs grow in her hair
- She's 5'5" (165cm)
- Associated with greens, oranges, and white. She also loves the color brown
- She loves bronze jewelry
PERSONALITY
Cybele is a sweet, empathic nymph who gets too attached to those who even show her a little bit of affection. Her initial reaction is to be untrusting of everyone around her, and is usually mute unless she has opened up to you. Underneath that all, she is highly intelligent and always watching.
She is conniving and loves basic fae traps. She sees no harm in a simple prank, though others may be greatly upset by her tomfoolery.
She spends most of her free time toying with the humans that waltz into her meadows, braiding flowers, and planting mushrooms in ring formations. Sometimes, she goes into the coastal town nearby her home, and spends a day cosplaying a human. She's even got an allocated "normal" outfit she likes to wear.
LIKES
- Deep, red wines
- Drinking water out of leaves
- Playing hide and seek with does
- Playing dress up with human clothes
- Travelling, she wish she did it more
- Tricking unsuspecting folk into spending endless nights in the meadows
DISLIKES
- Flies and noisy bugs
- Catching herself on spiderwebs
- People who are bluntly rude
- Walking on gravel and rocks
- Loud dogs
BACKSTORY
Cybele doesn't share her past much. She wasn't always a nymph, she was a person once, too. She was born somewhere around the 1800s, on the grassy hills of a Scottish isle. She was an only child; her father a hardy man, and her mother a poor farmer. Her parents were strict and precarious about her, so when her father raised his voice, she'd have no where to scamper to out in the open fields. She'd run off often when she could, cursing the things that made her life feel so dull.
One day, she'd ran into a dense forest, looking behind her while her father ran after her calling "Cybele! Cybele…" as his voice faded out. When it went quiet, she turned her face forward, now finding herself locked in an open field. She looked around herself, seeing no tree in sight, despite clearly remembering running into the woods. She was met face to face with a nymph who declared this was her land, and Cybele was an uninvited guest.
Cybele begged for forgiveness, proclaiming a tough, saddened life that she was running from and had unknowingly stumbled in during her escape. The nymph, though usually tricky, felt emotionally pinched on the behalf of this young girl, and bestowed upon her forehead a kiss. All that Cybele remembers is waking up, miles from home, in a familiar town of Greece.
RELATIONSHIPS
Celeste and Cybele are one personality or physical trait away from being sisters. The both of them are demure, soft-hearted women with an outwardly optimistic personality to cover up the hardships they suffer from within. The only difference is while Celeste is through-and-through loving of the world around her, Cybele is hardened against people and rarely feels the joyous persona she puts on around others. Celeste is one of the very few people who Cybele has allowed to worm through that hardened demeanor, and at this point, would trust her with all of her heart.
When Cybele is feeling uncomfortable or alone, she often calls up Celeste for conversation, or to just have her around. Cybele refuses Celeste to be walked over by others, and if she feels something is not right with the way people are treating her friend, she'll lean over and whisper to her to stand up for herself. She truly loves Celeste like a younger sibling.
OTHER STUFF
PLAYLIST
- Poison Tree - Grouper
- Milk & Honey - Alt Version - Billie Marten
- Lost - Autumn's Grey Solace
- Why Did I Laugh Anyway - Dev Lemons
- With You - Pretty Sick