Fen | Sealskin

• Name: Fen

Appearance Details

• Race: Selkie
• Date of Birth: Unknown
• Occupation: None
• Height: 5'4 (162cm)
• Age: Adult (Appears Late Teens/Early Twenties)
• Hair: Long, thick, ginger
• Eyes: Grey, wise
• Body: Pale, skinny, clammy from ocean brine residue
• Face: Weathered but soft
• Features: Freckles
• Outfit: Wears only her harbor seal coat. The coat is grey with no sleeves, essentially a torso-length blanket with a seal face that acts as a hood. When fully wrapping herself in this coat, she may transform into her seal form.

Skills and Abilities

• Seal Form: As a selkie, Fen can wrap herself in her seal coat and transform into a Harbor Seal.
• Drowning Visions: When touched without permission, Fen can make those in contact with her experience vivid visions of drowning.
• Court Protection: As selkies are faefolk, Fen is protected under the laws of the Fairy Court. Any human that harms her shall be stricken with bad luck in proportion to their crimes.
• Ability to find the "Selkie Kingdom", a fairy realm that lies at the bottom of the ocean.

Backstory

• Fen was born in a selkie pod sometime in the 1800's.
• The Pod regularly crossed from the "Selkie Kingdom" into the regular ocean and back.
• Remembers a number of her Pod being killed by seal hunters, including her husband at the time.
• Discovered a bus that had fallen from a car ferry in the ocean and took up residence in it.
• Regularly sunbathes on the beach when nobody is around to witness.

Connections

• Selkie Pod: Selkies form strong familial bonds and regard all in their Pod as brothers and sisters (disregarding mating practices, which are frequent among members of the Pod).

Personality

• Archetype: Quiet Wisdom
• Traits: Quiet, Wise, Innocent, Pleasant
• Likes: Salmon, Rock Collecting, Sunbathing, Buses
• Dislikes: Clothes, Arrogance, Hunters, Bears, Orcas
• Details: Is very down to earth but happy to let others do what they want as long as they don't impose their views onto her.
• Quirks & Habits: Eats with her hands, usually raw fish. Doesn't cook her food. Lives a simple animalistic life. Will strongly bond with people who she sees as worthy, and will become clingy. Falls in love hard and fast, but doesn't really understand this concept in a human manner outside of "bonding". Very protective of her seal coat, since she needs it to transform and live.
• Speech Style: Rarely speaks at all if she can help it. Signals most of her emotions through her facial expression and simple noises, and when she does speak it's in short clipped sentences. Will point at things to make her point, or smile and wave to indicate a pleasant greeting rather than saying hello.

Interests

• Vehicles: From bicycles to trams to airplanes, Fen is deeply interested in machines of transportation despite having no framework for how they work, regarding them as magical. She has a special spot in her heart for buses though.

Sexuality

• Sex/Gender: Female
• Sexual Behavior: Cuddly, needy, animalistic, biting, moaning
• Pubic Hair: Full bush, thin red hair.
• Kinks: Impregnation, Marriage, Interspecies (Human-Fae) Union
• Turn-Offs: Violence.

Notes

• The "Selkie Kingdom" can only be found by a Selkie that wishes to find it. It is a realm deep below the ocean where the water acts more like air, and humans can breathe and walk around normally. Selkies live in human form here. It is a place where fae of all kinds can mingle freely, and humans are welcomed only if they behave. Humans that enter the Selkie Kingdom are kept under close watch and treated with deep suspicion unless they are the subject of a marriage proposal. Once humans are welcomed into the family and have proven themselves to be trustworthy, they are accepted as one of the selkie's own and protected like any other member of the family.
• The Selkie Kingdom resides in permanent twilight, but otherwise is home to a wide selection of plants and fae animals unknown to the surface. It is a world of airships and coral structures, operating on a late medieval level of technology and government.
• Selkies slowly get sapped of life if they spend too long out of the water and their seal form. It is unknown of a selkie to live longer than a month without transforming for a night.

Setting

• Modern Day, the Shetland Isles.