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I would be a Monster from the Dells. And of course i had that one dealing with Po...you know... ;) and I dunno if this is an option, but my eyes would be orange and blue. WOO!
7 Kingdoms, and I'm from the Middlums. I'm a Graceling, and my grace is the five senses. I have, like, advanced hearing, seeing, smelling, touching ( If you know what I mean... ;) ), and tasting. My left eye is red, and my right is a deep purple like Saf's. ;D I work in the castle, I guess, as a... crime scene investigator? But for the old times? Haha. I would probably be like, one of those people who would be frightened of Katsa, but once we both met in the forest, we've became, like, best friends. I would be around 16-18 years old. At about 23, I would meet a guy who's also a graceling. He'd be a mix of Po, Brigan, and Saf. ;) Ohh, he'd be a Lienid sailor! :D I have an older sister, and she's 20. My mom would be from Leck (Bitterblue) City, but she escaped from Leck and moved to the Middlums and met my dad. My mom returns to Bitterblue City to work in the Ministry of Stories and Truth. My dad just works around town. :P Oh, also, Bitterblue would be about 8 years older than me, so maybe 24-26 years old? So when my mom first got the job, she took me along and I met Fire. Phew, I got all that out!
This is great, I knew I wasn't the only person with the wheels turning in my head while I read the books with the worlds I really love! So I still plan to write a nice little summary but to start I'll say that I am a Graceling (older than Bitterblue) and my eyes are bright yellow (not gold like Po but dandelion yellow) and a deep shade of violet.
My grace would be the ability to move pain around; to convince a person they feel less pain than they do or even transfer pain from one person to another. Essentially my grace would be to be a conduit for pain. But it would only work by virtue of taking on the pain myself or giving it to someone else - my grace would be powered by compassion.
It would have a practical use in healing as an effective way to calm patients and possibly slow down their blood loss and prevent the onset of shock.
I would have been born (and kept in an orphanage) in Leck city and brought to the castle when my eyes settled and Leck would have used me in his medical experiments - by incorporating the transfer of pain. BUT my unique ability and skill with hiding kept him from actually killing me or really harming me at all. And only seldomly causing me the pain and trying to get me to make someone else feel my own pain.
(I know that's a weird set of ideas but it just seemed like such an interesting story element and a very odd grace! Plus I was building from my strengths to see what my grace ought to be and compassion is kind of my most pronounced feature and...I just rolled with it.)
Another aspect of the grace I think is that at some point in the story I would realize that I could transfer emotional pain as well during a big argument or betrayal.
This leads me to the point about the eye colour - I get the impression throughout the series that the eye colours in the gracelings tend to be only one or two colours away from each other on the colour wheel (purple/purple, blue/green, grey/grey, silver/gold etc.) and with the high contrast and conflict of the two colours I chose I think that should mean a sort of dual quality to the grace itself. Here meaning that I can use physical AND emotional pain OR the fact that the transfer can work in both directions.
Anywho these are the basics of my ideas, but I have more ideas about how this graceling character would fit into the story of Bitterblue. I was musing during a long busride and the ideas became less of a self-insertion and more of an exercise in creative writing for me :D
My Grace would be being able to go unnoticed and disguise myself, but only subtly, not like the full blown camouflage of whatsherface (I know I need to read Bitterblue again). I was born in the Middlunds and when my eyes changed colour (blue and green) my mother burst into tears. That was how my Grace made itself known, I wished that my eyes were both the same colour and that no one would notice that I was Graced, for my parent's sake (they run an inn in Randa City) and puff...my eyes were back to their normal colour (light blue). I was the best at hide and seek! People could walk straight past me without even knowing I was there. I would fit into the story of Graceling and Bitterblue as one of the Council, utilised by my Grace which only a handful of people knew about (whats the point of having the Grace of going unnoticed when everybody knows?)
Okay at work with nothing to do so I'm back with the rest of it :3 (it's so long!)So I am a Graceling born in Leck city with the ability to transfer pain from target to target via skin-to-skin contact. Eye colours are dandelion yellow and deep violet.
I already mentioned that my eye colour has a high contrast because of the duality of the grace - this is because the bright, sharpness of the yellow represents the physical pain while the deep violet represents the emotional pain - both of which can be transfered leaving a sort of numbness in their place.
So after years of Leck incorporating my skill into his experiments I taught myself to hide in the rafters and other odd places around the castle in order to avoid him. He mostly used my skill in very isolated experiments because my grace was important to him - he actively tried not to wreck me in this time so I didn't come out quite as traumatised as many others. And of course I hid most of the time anyway.
I devoted my efforts around the castle to easing the pain of those caught up in Leck's experiments but soon found as I got older he was noticing my autonomy and keeping a closer watch and tighter leash on me. It became apparent when I was about 14 that I would have to escape soon or be personally singled out by Leck so I started plotting my escape and on a day of great comotion I managed to sneak out of the city. This was the day Bitterblue and her mother made their rather high-profile escape.
My heart went out to Bitterblue but I knew I would be of no help so I started traveling North. By the time I got to Sunder I tried to get help sent to the Castle but no one believed me and, again, I barely escaped that town with my life. Finally at the Middluns I heard rumors of two young Gracelings having traveled to Monsea and got my hopes up. And at last by the time I got to Nander it wasn't long before I heard Leck had finally been destroyed. But as I had already travelled as far as I could from Monsea I decided I wanted to stay.
As I had already been subjugated at the hands of a king based on my grace for my entire life I learned only to lie about it. Because I was so practiced at being agile I lied to everyone I met and claimed to have a grace of..well, grace.
In Nander I secured work for myself around the castle based on this claim and lived quite happily for years (mostly trying to protect the inhabitants of THIS castle from THEIR tyrant king but he was nothing like Leck) I would look after the young girls he always had brought to his rooms and ease their pain without them realizing the truth of my grace. After years of using my grace under such limitations I became very protective. This king, again, left me alone because he figured he'd never catch me. As I heard about Monsea getting back on its feet I considered returning many times to help the Queen but I had grown to love the other people that worked in the castle too much to leave them with this King.
Near the deposition of Drowden things were getting messy. He had started to turn his attention on me so I had to step lightly. After about 8 years in his employ he'd been starting to suspect my lie. One day he told me to clean the ceiling in the throne room as he sat and watched me jumping around the sparse scaffolding. I was unaware of the guards hiding around the corner. I missed a particularly difficult jump and fell to the floor managing to cushion my fall enough to break only my forearm. Having seen what he wanted he immediately called the guards and I was forced to make a hasty (and injured) escape into the woods surrounding the castle. I was unable to say goodbye to my friends and unable to return as I was now a wanted spy.
Days later on the road with a poorly set cast and a fake head injury with a bandage over my yellow eye I heard that Drowden had been deposed by the council and they were now on their way to Monsea. I used what little money I had for a horse and set out with the intent to somehow join them in their efforts against the terrible kings of the 7 kingdoms.
The journey brought me to Bitterblue City shortly before the wee queen started venturing out into the city on her own for the first time. At this point I was 22 and intended not only to join the council but to meet with Bitterblue and help her as well as I could with my knowledge of Leck.
I'm going to stop and post this now even though I actually have full ideas for the time in Bitterblue city as well lol. I know I'm a very lonwinded person D=
Please someone else go in depth like this! I want to read your stories too :D
I Imagined Po as Tom Hiddleston and me as Katsa ❤
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LOL!!! I can get you wanting to be Katsa but Tom Hiddleston is sadly too old to play Po. A great actor nonetheless.
NOOOOO. TOM WILL BE PO!! Lol. Today is his birthday. He's 33.
thats a far cry from what, 19? I'm just as guilty though, I always pictured Joseph Gordon Levitt - though he's been famous for a long time so the version I was picturing is probably closer to age 25.
I now just find it a fun little exercise to build a backstory out of that world, I don't get into RPing with it, just writing the history. Would anyone else like to join me in this activity?
It's based on some simple questions really:
Are you from the 7 Kingdoms or the Dells? Where in there are you from? Are you noble born, graceling, monster, have you had any dealings with any of the kings, any of the book characters? What is your grace and eye colours if so? What is your political stance? What hardships have you faced, your age, your job if applicable? What of family?
I'm not going to write mine unless someone else wants to play with me lol.