Natalie "Nettie" Constance Botwright

[Nettie Botwright]

NATALIE “NETTIE” CONSTANCE BOTWRIGHT

Where the river runs deep,
And the larger fish creep.
I’m glad of what keeps me afloat.

NAME: Natalie “Nettie” Constance Botwright
AGE: 19
GENDER: Female
RACE: Human
OCCUPATION: Daughter of the Lighthouse Keeper
REGION: Bermuda Islands
ERA: Age of Exploration
POWER: Nettie has just learned that she is also part siren, and because of a promise her parents made before she was born, she is the keeper of the gates to the lost city of Atlantis. Due to her siren heritage, her singing ability is great, and she can also manipulate people and nature with her voice, though not to the extent of a full-fledged siren. Her voice can manipulate people’s emotions and can make slight changes in the weather, especially to the winds and the water.

EQUIPMENT: She constantly wears an oddly shaped piece of broken of abalone shell that has been turned into a pendent and hangs off a long silver chain from her neck. Due to the length of the chain, the abalone pendent is usually tucked beneath her shirt.

LIKES:

• watching the ocean sea before a storm. There’s something very beautiful and very dangerous in the waters before a huge storm
  
• collecting sea shells and sea glass. Nettie loves listening to the ocean roar inside a conch, and she adores making little mosaics out of the sea glass she finds and holding them up to the sunlight.
  
• waving to the sailors from the shore. She doesn’t have much contact with anyone outside her father and her aunt, so even just getting a wave from the sailors is an event for her.
  
• chasing the seagulls. Like I said before, she doesn’t have much contact with the outside world, so she’s mostly on her own.
  
• weaving and sewing. Over the years, Nettie has become quite good at taking fabric and turning it into beautiful clothing. She is also good at embroidery and other fabric arts.
  
• working the lighthouse. She only gets to do this when her father is off to the mainland for business, but she loves lighting the flame that guides her sailor friends to safe harbours.
  
• dancing on the beach. Who doesn’t love to do that?
  
• swimming in the ocean. But only in the summer.
  
• singing. She’s good at it anyways.
  

DISLIKES:

• the way salt water sticks to the body after swimming in the ocean. Raise your hand if you actually like that – hand raised- Really? You’re an idiot.
  
• stepping on sharp rocks. It really, really, hurts
  
• getting caught in the tide. It sucks, and it’s difficult to get out of it.
  
• not being allowed travel to the mainland. As much fun as their peninsula is, she wants to meet other people.
  
• when a crab pinches her. It’s very painful, and it’s hard to make them let go.
  
• arguing. It ruins the peacefulness of her life
  
• arguing with her aunt. She already dislikes arguing, but she and her aunt disagree on almost everything
  
• reading her aunt’s ‘escapism’ novels. She finds them disgusting.
  
• watching her animal friends die and not being able to help them.
  
• being bored

FEARS: Nettie has been raised to fear nothing, but to have a healthy respect for nature, especially for the ocean.
SECRET:

• she secretly hates her aunt.
  
• she is part-siren and Keeper of Atlantis
  
  PERSONALITY:
  The Water
  Nettie is an interesting girl of her age for her time. Raised by her widowed father and his sister and separated from the rest of society, she grew up as an independent young woman. Nettie finds joy in the little things in life, enjoying finding new things on the beach, or breathing in the salty air of her North Atlantic home. Because of her isolation, she has never learned the fine art of masking her emotions, so she is very easy to read. If she is sad, she’s not afraid to show that she’s sad, and she doesn’t attempt to pretend she’s happy for others. The same goes for when she’s happy. Nettie doesn’t exactly understand the concept of a personal bubble, so it’s to be expected that she will tackle-hug you.
  
  Made By Maid
  Nettie’s mother died in childbirth, and due to the fact that even her aunt had a life outside of caring for her brother and his daughter, Nettie grew up learning how to take care of household duties. This is mostly the reason she takes in many injured animals/anything really and cares for them. She has grown into a motherly role, and she suits it well, always and forever bright and cheerful for her dear old pop. She is a very god cook, and always experimenting in the kitchen, with her dad as a –very bad- guinea pig, since he will eat anything she makes. Often, Nettie worries about others before herself, trying to figure out what is wrong. Helping others makes her happy, anyways.
  
  Awake My Soul
  Despite being happy as she is on the island with her father, Nettie still longs for adventure and life with other people. She is a hopeless romantic, always looking for excitement and is eternally optimistic. Often times, she pretends that she is Queen of the Pirates, ravaging naval ships and capturing dashing young men, or she imagines that it is she being taken away by some roguish pirate – this happens when she reads too many romance novels. More often than not, Nettie views herself as the adventurer, the one leading the pack, the one in control. Her whole life was given to her with complete freedom, and she intends to stay free.
  
  HISTORY:When Christopher Botwright was a young lad, he traveled around the world, creating detailed maps of the uncharted world. But during a fateful storm, his ship sank and he somehow arrived safely upon a rocky island. It was here that he met the Sirens, and fell in love with one in particular, named Peisinoe, meaning persuasion. Christopher was stranded upon the island for a few months, and in these three months, he was able to make Peisinoe fall for him. When he’d constructed a small boat, he convinced Peisinoe to come with him, and in the night, she snuck away with her sisters and left with him.
  
  For a few years, the two traveled together, until they finally married and settled down in a northern port town where Christopher’s sister, Abigail lived. Two years later, and Peisinoe was pregnant with the couple’s first child. They decided that year to go for a pleasure cruise down to the islands, taking Abigail and her husband along with them. Unfortunately, a late November storm struck them dead on, putting everyone in peril. Both Abigail’s husband and Peisinoe were thrown overboard. Desperate, Christopher jumped in after both of them, but he did not have the strength to carry either of them back to the ship while fighting the swells. Peisinoe’s sisters appeared, and as much as Christopher begged, they would not help. It wasn’t until he begged for his unborn child’s life that they decided to give their support. But they choose to only help their sister, for they knew well that they Sirens were not meant to bear children, and that she would not survive. Abigail’s husband drowned that night. Just before the storm passed, the Sirens promised Christopher this;
  Child of Earth and Child of Sea,
  Shall leave one day and set us free.
  To open the gates of the Lost City
  Her soul to keep is out fee.
  The tenth-and-ninth year shall she leave.
  And of this intricate tale, she will finish the weave.
  
  On a cold day in February, Peisinoe went into labor. It was long and intense, and no matter the efforts of the midwives, Peisinoe was fated to die in child birth. After giving birth to her only daughter, she fought long enough to hold her child and name her Natalie. As her baby cried, she drew her last breath. When Christopher set her body out to sea, she turned into sea foam, floating away to her home. After the devastation of losing his brother-in-law and wife to the sea, Christopher promised to never set sail again. But Mother Ocean calls her children back to her, and unable to leave the ocean, and unable to face society, he choose to become Keeper of the Lighthouse, protecting ships from the rocky coast line.
  
  Like the Prospero and Miranda of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the father and daughter lived by themselves on the island that hosted their lighthouse. Abigail visited her brother and niece from time to time, making sure that Natalie didn’t grow up to be too wild and un-ladylike. While her father and aunt taught her acedemics, such as reading, writing, mathematics, charting, and other areas of importance, Nettie learned her most important lessons from the Nature around her. She learned how to climb trees, how to outrun the crashing waves on the shore, how to swim, and most importantly, to never take Mother Nature for granted, for she was quick to teach harsh lessons.
  
  Due to the loneliness of their situation, both Christopher and Nettie became adept at playing a fiddle and singing. The time they spent together singing and dancing made them grow closer as father and daughter, and kept the darkness at bay for a bit. As Nettie grew older, her aunt visited more and more, giving her niece gifts of fabric and looms to weave and create clothing. She also instructed her quite impatient pupil how to cook almost everything, considering the lack of resources of the island.
  
  So went Natalie’s life, broken by the passing ships filled with sailors and stories. Most of Nettie’s time was spent reading her father’s books on map-making and more scientific articles, her aunt’s romance, poetry, and Shakespeare novels, sewing, weaving, swimming, and thinking of wonderful adventure stories for the men aboard the ships that passed her home.
  
  All of that changed the day of her nineteenth birthday. Despite both her father and the aunt’s attempts to keep Natalie inside, she was able to sneak outside to witness what she believed to be the greatest storms of her life. Once the storm ends, Natalie rushes to the beach to find what her Mother Ocean has given her, when to her surprise, she finds a man lying on the beach. Upon closer inspection though, this man is no man, but a merman. Dying, the merman delivers to her the promise the Sirens gave her mother so long ago, telling her over and over that she is the Keeper of Atlantis. Before she can react, the merman releases an ear-piercing cry, and then dies upon the beach. When Natalie confronts her father and aunt of this, the finally tell her of her history. Instead of being angry and upset at her father, Nettie decides to face this like the woman she is, and do whatever she can to keep control.
  
  ROLE-PLAY SAMPLE: am I really going to need this???
  
  OTHER:
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  ALIAS: Leice/Kamiki
  
  HOW DID YOU FIND US? Mika and Kuro
  

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