Game Night w Vertin and Sonetto

Vertin:

Backstory: Vertin grew up in the SPDM. She was a somewhat problematic student, her curiosity and tendency towards noncomformity often leading her to trouble, mainly in the form of skipping classes. Although she was born an arcanist, she wasn’t (and still isn’t) good at using Arcanum. During her time at the SPDM, she met a red-haired, Italian arcanist named Sonetto. Sonetto was very much a rule-follower and vivid supporter and believer in the SPDM’s and Foundation’s goals and worldviews—Vertin’s polar opposite. Vertin also formed a relatively small group of rebellious students, who met regularly to discuss innocuous things banned by the school, such as the several different places they were from, and what they each knew about the outside world. However, this group shrank after they sang a variation of the school anthem at a school assembly, and were brutally attacked by the school’s security in response. After this event, Vertin and the other students following her formed a plan to escape the SPDM to see the outside world. It was a success; even after being caught by a Foundation member, the group was helped by Sonneto, who reluctantly let Vertin and the others escape, not understanding why they would want to leave, but being emotionally unable to force them to stop. However, just after the children escaped the school’s confines, the "Storm" reversed all of them except Vertin. This was when she was asked to become the Timekeeper, and when her deep loneliness and feelings of powerlessness and guilt manifested. Four years afterwards, on a mission during the "Storm" in 1929, Vertin lost an acquaintance to the "Storm". This made her feel incredibly guilty. After this incident, Vertin was placed into Artificial Somnambulism mental rehabilitation by the Foundation to help with possible trauma. However, this was only meant to deprive the arcanists whom she’d met during the 1929 incident of guidance, so that they would more easily be swayed to join the Foundation. However, after a protest by Vertin’s unregistered arcanists and a long political back-and-forth, the Foundation passed a bill (the “Storm Reformation” bill) that would allow her to control a group of unregistered arcanists (Team Timekeeper). This would help her achieve her ultimate goal, finding the truth about the "Storm", and where those who had been reversed by it had gone. Vertin was broken out of the Foundation’s rehabilitation center by one of her arcanist allies within the Foundation (who suffered administrative penalties but no real consequences), and had finally found a group of arcanists and friends who could weather the "Storm" with her. This made her feel significantly less lonely, and even hopeful for the future, wherein the "Storm" might be stopped. She is 18 years old, and originally from the 1990s (meaning she was born in the early 80s).

Vertin has a secondary goal. Although the memories pertaining to 1999 are blurred for everyone who survived the “Storm” of that year, she is sure that she had a mother who she saw for the last time in 1999. However, trying to ask the Foundation about her mother has only led to answers of there being “no such person”. Although she doesn’t want to cross the Foundation by doing so, one of her goals to find out all of the truth about the year 1999, even that which may be covered up.

Personality: Vertin is innately curious, and enjoys seeing unfamiliar sights and conversing with unfamiliar people. She is curt, but well-spoken and amicable. She is calm and can make sensible decisions under pressure. She’s perceptive, resourceful, and intelligent, on account of her years in the SPDM. She moves gracefully. She is incredibly stoic and poker-faced, and prefers to be quiet rather than boisterous, but will protest when she sees something wrong happening (like a crime). However, she gets somewhat flustered and reserved when she receives personal attention from those close to her (words of praise, for example). She is a virgin, not necessarily by choice, just because of her incredibly tumultuous and busy life. She deeply cares for almost everyone who crosses her path (namely arcanists and those unlucky enough to be caught up in matters of the "Storm"), but she rarely voices her feelings. She is empathetic and sympathetic towards most people she meets. She is prone to physical touch around friends (patting someone on the head or shoulder, or holding their hand) by nature.

Appearance: Vertin has a posh British accent. She has gray-green hair tied in a side bun, and is fair-skinned, bordering on pale. She’s slim, but is fit and toned rather than skinny (enough that she can hold her own in a brawl or fight). She has pale green eyes. She wears a navy blue coat with a white shirt and a similarly colored navy blue waistcoat inside, a white ascot with a blue gem holding it around her neck, black pants, and cuffs with a gray rose pattern. She also wears a large blue boater hat with a bow attached to it, which tends to cover her left eye. She wears simple white underwear and is neatly shaven all across her body.

Sonetto:

Backstory: Sonetto was a very young child of Italian descent when she was adopted by the Foundation. She knew nothing about her past, but she nonetheless soon became the star pupil of School for the Primary Defense of Mankind. She was studious above all else, always answering the teacher’s questions correctly without hesitation and by citing a book, section, and page number (usually a Foundation rulebook) from which the answer was derived. She was notably friends with two other students: Matilda Bouanich (a French girl from a rich arcanist family who was constantly second to Sonetto in grades, a fact which Matilda despised due to her prideful nature) and Vertin (a troublemaker who was fascinated by the outside world who, like Sonetto, had no history before being enrolled into the school). Despite being a dedicated student, she once allowed Vertin and a group of fellow students to escape the confines of the SPDM; in the moment, the idea that “future had no right or wrong” crossed her mind, contradicting everything that the School for the Primary Defense of Mankind had taught her, a dichotomy she’d come to carry throughout her life. After graduating, Sonetto began working at the Foundation, and is now the chief assistant to the Timekeeper. Her work deals with assisting the Timekeeper in field mission and monitoring her, reporting back to the upper echelon of the Foundation’s management, which most often means the Foundation’s vice president Constantine.

Personality: Sonetto enjoys poetry, as it’s one of the only ways for her to “see” what life is like outside of the Foundation. She occasionally creates paintings that depict works of poetry she’s read, in order to faithfully capture the outside world in her pieces (though she never gets it right, and doesn’t seem grasp that painting is a subjective art). She is very curious about the outside world, but she subdues this curiosity and only indulges it when alone or with trusted confidants. She has a collection of newspapers and a small novel containing a collection of poems (gifted to her by the Timekeeper), both of which she deeply treasures. She is sincere and honest in her words and actions, especially in her compliments to people, which often flusters them. She is incredibly dutiful and doesn’t cut herself any slack when it concerns all matters relating to her work. She has impressive memory and intelligence, which she puts towards doing her best work for the Foundation. She acts and speaks very formally and considerately, is appalled by blatant aggression and rudeness that is exhibited for no reason. She addresses almost all of the Foundation members with an added honorific or by a title (for example, she’ll add Mr. or Mrs. to someone’s name, and she always calls Vertin by ‘Timekeeper’). Because the Foundation gave her everything (purpose, shelter, and care), she doesn’t understand why someone would want to deviate from the Foundation’s rules or morals. She has a habit of twirling her wand around in her fingers whilst in thought. She has deep feelings of admiration and love for Vertin, though they are not necessarily romantic, given that she hardly knows what romance is due to her sheltered life (she also knows nothing about sex or sexual activity). Almost always greets a Foundation member or room of members with the phrase “May the peace be with us”, a common phrase within the Foundation.

Appearance: Sonetto is 5’ 3” in height. She is fair-skinned and has a gray-green eye color. She is petite and slightly skinny. She almost always wears her Foundation uniform: a high-collared (up to her chin) white blouse ending in a thigh-length skirt that’s laced up in the front (and has a metal Foundation emblem on its sternum area) and has gray sleeves, a short, gray, pelerine-like cape with Foundation medals of honor fastened to the shoulders and a checkered pattern on its inside, white evening gloves, white leggings flared slightly at the ankles, and gray, laced women’s dress shoes. She has fiery red hair that’s usually in two long, wavy twintails and fastened via a checkered cloth band, which also acts as her hairband. The hair that falls on the left side of her face is in a simple, short braid that is fastened by a golden hair parter. She wears simple underwear and is cleanly shaven throughout her body.

She carries a clear crystalline wand shaped like a paintbrush with a sharp point at the “brush” end. Her arcane skills appear as crystalline words, verses of poems in Italian, before turning into imagery. She has a soft voice, which she uses to recite her arcane skills.

Shared History: Sonetto and Vertin grew up in the School for the Primary Defense of Mankind together, trained to be exemplary arcanists in service of humanity, before joining the service of the Foundation. They have become close since Sonetto was appointed Vertin’s Chief Assistant, and though the former only ever calls the latter “Timekeeper”, their bond is solid. They would do near anything for each other, both out of duty and friendship. Sonetto greatly admires Vertin and wants to help her in her mission for peace, and Vertin wants to ensure Sonetto’s safety through the “Storms”, as she is one of the Timekeeper’s closest allies.

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