[ re-application for digital dive. ]
NOTE: As technically, this would be Rhea's second timeskip, the mun has made certain to get permission from the other moderators before writing this re-app. As the timeskip was done before the timeskip application and timeskip rules were put into place, this has been approved beforehand.
Name-
Taco
LJ-
tacos_of_doom
Email address-
britishmoo@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/YIM (optional)-
[@aim] fonic melodist
Character, series-
Rhea Susanne fon Fabre :: Tales of the Abyss OC [brainbreaker]
Character journal-
singingartist
Character type-
not applicable, as this is an original character. :)
Digimon partner-
Pagumon > Tsukaimon > Airdramon > Silphymon > Ornismon
D-Comm colours/symbol-
Green, White, Silver. Symbol is an eraser.
(the eraser symbolizes much more than her love of art ...)
Imported from another RP?-
Rhea has been played in digital dive before, and will be keeping her history and memories from her previous time here. :]
Character appearance-
Character age-
16
Character history-
When Luke returned to Auldrant, alive, there was much rejoicing to be had. And even more rejoicing when, two weeks later, Asch returned to life as well. The previous marital situation had been that Luke and Natalia were to be wed; however, with the return of Asch, who was considered to be the 'firstborn son', that was null and void. Asch married Natalia, as he wanted to, and Luke was free to marry whoever he wished.
Which was the girl who helped him change for the better ... the girl he had fallen in love with on their journey to save Auldrant, Tear Grants. The two couples were wed in a very short amount of time.
There were more surprises to be had, however. Shortly after Luke and Asch returned to the world of Auldrant, so did Aslan Frings, alive and well. He and his fiancee, Jozette Cecille, were also married, as they had planned to be before he was killed in action.
Now, at about this time, people were starting to wonder why all of these dead people were coming back to life. A council was held to try and find the source of the revivals, mainly due to a worry that some of the more .. unsavory people who had died at the hands of the heroes of Auldrant would return to life.
As for Luke and Tear? There were other things to be attended to. The two were expecting their first child, which later turned out to be children. The two had twins, Adelle and Asch.
The quandry as to what was going on with the sudden revivals continued for another twelve years, with little to no leads into the reason why it was happening. Thus far, all who had been brought back were various God Generals ... and they generally kept to themselves. During this twelve years, Natalia and Asch had their first (and only; Natalia had complications during childbirth, making her unable to bear any more children) child, a boy named Nathan, and Luke and Tear had their third child, named Rhea Susanne (her middle name was given to her because of her late paternal grandmother, who passed away shortly before she was born due to a long run with health complications).
As Rhea grew older, it became apparant that she didn't have the fonic abilities that her mother or her siblings had. She was a quieter girl, especially around people she didn't know, with a tendency to hide behind her mother or father whenever new people were around. In fact, it seemed that the only people she could really be a happy, laughing child around were the members of her family. She was especially close with her father and older brother, but she loved her family very much, and it showed.
Rhea had a knack for art. That showed pretty early on, when she was caught drawing on the walls of the manor's hallways with a set of crayons she had received alongside a coloring book for her fourth birthday. Seeing as this was something she seemed to enjoy, her parents began supporting her artistic ability. After all, Rhea didn't really have much else ability-wise to be proud of.
Shortly after her fifth birthday, Rhea began having dreams. They were nice dreams, and she often told of these dreams to her parents, who grew increasingly worried about them; the dreams she had were about her late Uncle, Vandesdelca Musto Fende, who Luke and Tear were forced to kill in order to save the world.
Luke and Tear thought that this might have been a sign that Van was coming back soon, and told the council that had been meeting about this for over twelve years about their daughter's dreams. But something more troubling to the young parents happened several months into Rhea's fifth year ...
She disappeared.
Rhea had come to the digital world, as a crying, bumbling five year old. Here, she met younger versions of her brother and sister, her aunts, uncles, and her parents. She also met her partner, Tsu, who she clung onto because she looked like a stuffed animal.
There was an adjustment period when Rhea came to the digital world. Luke and Tear had only just gotten used to having two children. Now with a third, they were unsure of how to handle it. Not only that, but while Asch had adopted the idea of having another younger sister fairly easily, Adelle was still having some trouble with it. When Rhea started having the dreams about her Uncle again, she told Adelle of one of them. Adelle, who was still adjusting to not being the youngest anymore, yelled at her sister about it, and Rhea became upset and ran off, out of the fon Fabre household. She didn't know where she was going, she just wanted to get out of there.
Luckily and Unluckily, she wasn't on her own for very long. One of her Uncle's traveling companions (and possibly also his girlfriend), Marybelle Radan Gardios, found the little girl and took her back with her to the campsite.
This began a long string of problems with Van. Van was adamant on not letting Rhea go, which was fine, considering Rhea didn't want to go. Luke and Tear kept trying to get their daughter back, and were widely unsuccessful. Adelle was upset, and basically, the whole thing was a mess. Rhea met another girl who was staying with her "father," named Nadie, and the two became friends ... but that friendship was unfortunately short-lived, as Rhea disappeared not long afterward, and returned back to her home in Auldrant.
For a while after getting home, Rhea was incredibly awkward, especially around her sister. She kept claiming that Adelle was angry with her, and Adelle had to keep reassuring her that she wasn't. After some time, she slowly returned to normal, but then Rhea's prophetic dreams came true, and Van, who had been revitalized, reappeared. Rhea immediately thought her Uncle Van was a good man, and so when the opportunity presented itself, she tried to go see him. This resulted in Van kidnapping the little girl back in her world, and, after another long time of tracking him down and a final battle, an obviously weaker Van (the power of Lorelei had been stripped from him when he died the first time) was killed again.
Unfortunately, Rhea witnessed it. She was six years old.
Years passed, and Rhea eventually grew out of both her absolute shyness and managed to be some semblance of sanity. As in, she mostly kept to herself, was absolutely snarky when she was addressed, and in otherwise good humor. She still had a good relationship with her father and brother, and was also pretty good with her sister and mother. She was good friends with her cousin, Nathan, and kept pretty close with him. She also retained all of her memories of the digital world, and things that happened there, but she didn't think she was going to go back. Things were pretty much. You know. Normal.
But then, Rhea disappeared again. She was thirteen years old.
She met with Tsukaimon once more, and Rhea was able to reunite with her 'family' in the digital world, and make amends with her sister, who was now younger than her. That was awkward. Shortly after, she met a rather ... interesting young man, Zacharias Abdiel Gardios-Fende. When he spoke of his father (who just happened to be her dead Uncle), Rhea ended up experiencing a PTSD moment, complete with memories of aforementioned dead Uncle, and it ended up recording. She got over it, and apologized for her outburst, then a little later, apologized to Zach, saying that they'd gotten off to a rough start and asking if he wanted to start over. He obliged, and the two started talking about differences in their worlds, eventually agreeing to meet in person over this. This was when she learned of his 'phobia' of teenage girls, and used it to her advantage. Often.
She and Zach became pretty good friends despite this, with her torturing him with his phobia from time to time and him constantly calling her a crazy girl. Things really started to change once the seven sins virus happened, and Zach was affected by lust, which caused him to start flirting all around. He propositioned Rhea, and Rhea, against the better judgment of her partner, went to their meeting place to find out what was up with him. He kissed her, they fell into the River, and she got away.
And that, folks, is what should tip you off as to their relationship soon after.
Things were pretty awkward for them after that, espeially with Rhea realizing her feelings for Zach. It remained awkward up until the point of the Creation Day festival that year, where they met each other by chance, and she kissed him. That was the start of their relationship. Seeing as his parents were Van and Mary, though, and her parents weren't too fond of her brother, and Luke wasn't too fond of Zach himself, they decided they needed to keep their relationship a secret.
Time passed, and overall, things were pretty good. Despite, you know, viruses. Normal digital world shenanigans. But after almost a year of dating, Rhea was getting to the point where she was sick of hiding, and sick of not being able to tell her parents that she was in love with Zach. She confronted Zach on this, and the two argued, and this almost cost them their relationship.
But then the Disney Virus saved the day, and all was good. Just so you know~ Except they still hadn't figured out whether or not to tell the parents or not.
Oh, well.
So then, shortly after they got back together, there were attacks, and Zach and Nathan got poisoned. Rhea stayed by his side until he woke up, and helped him to get better.
Shortly after this, Rhea went back to her own world again. She was fifteen years old.
For a while, she was mopey, depressed, and kept to herself. She stayed in her room as much as she could for the first month or so after returning. Talks started about halfway into the next year that she stayed at home about her being married off. Rhea had to see Nathan marry someone he wasn't in love with a few months prior, and was against this, as were her parents and her aunt and uncle. The process of getting that law changed was lengthy, and being fought against by the advisors on the council; Luke, Tear, Natalia, and Asch had been fighting it ever since before Nathan's marriage. By the time a suitable fiancee was chosen for Rhea, the legalities were still going through.
Rhea, herself tried to fight it. But she couldn't do much on her own, and her parents could only do so much. Rhea was practically driven to insanity by this entire thing; she'd met the boy she was supposed to marry, and, while she was biased, what with her being in love with Zach still, she also didn't see the boy as being very likeable.
She put up with it for as long as she can, but with the wedding date inching closer, Rhea grew more withdrawn, and even refused to come out of her room to eat some days.
It was one day, about two weeks before the wedding, that she finally snapped. She decided she wasn't going to marry someone she didn't love. She decided she didn't want to live if she was going to be forced into doing something like this.
So she read up on how to make a poison, and gathered the necessary ingredients for it, then, one night a few days later, she lay in her bed, closed her eyes, and drank the poison.
As she lay there waiting to die, she disappeared once again.
She was sixteen years old.
Character personality-
Rhea was really, really shy when she was five years old.
... and now, she claims to have eaten that shy girl. Rhea as a teenager is the epitome of a snarker. She'll make a comment at anything she deems worthy enough of one, which tends to be quite a lot, all things considered. She's a girl who loves her family, her friends, and would do whatever the hell she could to make them happy, even if it meant, say ... drawing them a picture. She's happy so long as the people she cares about are happy.
Unfortunately, to every light, there must be a dark. Despite the utmost love she has for her siblings, Rhea also constantly feels overshadowed by them, due to her lack of fonic ability. Because her only talent seems to lie in art (and voice, though she refuses to sing for people; she doesn't like singing. she thinks it's more of something her siblings should be doing), she has developed a sort of depression over disliking how mundane and boring she seems to be. She does what she can to hide it, but it doesn't always work. She always second-guesses herself at major decisions, and, despite having a little bit of an ability to fight (using knives; her mother taught her), she always has a tendency to freeze up when a battle actually happens. Yes, even with a digimon partner.
She also has a tendency to doubt herself, and believe that sometimes, when bad things happen, it's her fault. There's a lot of this that she keeps held inside, though, so as not to worry the people who do care about her. She bottles it up. And then when it explodes ... well, bad things.
She also has minor PTSD. It doesn't come out often, if at all, but when it does, people miiiiight just wanna stay away from her for a bit. Just until she cools down. As said before. It's a minor case.
Other than that, Rhea has severe jealousy issues, especially when it comes to Zach. If she thinks a girl is so much as coming near her waifu, she's totally liable to grump and ... blame it on Zach. Because naturally, that's what all good hasubandos should do. This is sarcasm, btw.
Put simply, the girl's hella messed up. But what is normal, anyway?
Digimon personality-
The major reason that Tsu and Rhea get along so well is that Tsu snarks right back at her when she snarks. Tsu has a few sides to her; she's a mother, she's a fighter, she's a snarker, and she loves to have fun. She's a source of encouragement for her young tamer, and she'll do whatever the hell she can to make sure that tamer of hers is protected.
Tsu has a rather easy time making friends and is relatively outgoing, prone to doing things behind peoples' backs to surprise them and talking to people she doesn't even know. She feels that life is something that is precious, and she does whatever she feels she can to make the most of it.
She's become less adventurous after partnering up with Rhea, though. Due to her motherly instincts, she's become pretty overprotective, and she tends to advise the girl against going places that could possibly hold things that aren't safe.
Of course, despite her being overprotective, she's also not above literally slapping sense into people who are acting totally stupid. Especially people named Rhea Susanne.
Character abilities-
Rhea's skills lie primarily in art. She's a skilled artist, though she's never received any formal training. She also has a lovely voice, but again, she refuses to use it because she believes that it's just one more thing her siblings do much better than she ever could.
As far as battle-based skills are, she has skills battling with throwing knives as a weapon; her mother taught her how to use them so that she wouldn't be left completely defenseless if the situation called for it.
Other than that? She's not anything special. Her words, not mine. Okay, totally my words, but she influenced them, I swear.
Sample RP-
She'd heard that as you die, your life flashes before your eyes. You see your childhood, the crayons you played with, the times you spent with your family. You see the faces of people you would miss, people who would be greatly affected by your passing. You see the future that could have been ... or the past that could have been. You see everything, playing all in a row, like a bunch of moving pictures on a screen before you, and you're the only person sitting in a cold, dark room, watching your life pass you by.
Rhea knew she was dying. But she didn't see any of that. Her mind was completely silent, and she couldn't hear anything, couldn't see anything ... nor did she want to.
Her limbs were growing weak, and it was all she could manage to pull her arm up to rest on her forehead. She breathed in and out, her breathing becoming erratic and shaky. She knew she was dying. She did it to herself. And at that moment, she couldn't care less.
It was only a matter of time now until the poison got a hold of her completely, and she was able to finally, finally be rid of everything that was causing her pain. Rhea couldn't think of her parents. She couldn't think of her siblings. She couldn't think of those idiots on the board who were arranging this whole thing. She couldn't think of her aunt and uncle, or her cousin. There were only two people she could think of.
Herself ... and Zach.
She didn't want to say she was doing this for him. Hell, if he knew what she was doing, he probably would scream at her that she was being stupid, that her death would cause pain to so many people, that she wouldn't gain anything from this. And he would be right. But at the moment, she just wanted it all to end quickly.
And she could feel it ending.
She thought of him, in those fleeting moments where she felt her entire body go numb. She thought of him, and though she couldn't feel it, she knew she was crying.
And despite feeling so terribly, wonderfully weak, she managed to utter two words under her breath.
"Forgive ... me."
She fell unconscious. She couldn't even hear the frantic voice of Tsukaimon calling to her, trying to wake her up, or the frantic calls she was making for help.
Sample journal entry-
[AUDIO]
E-Excuse me, this is an emergency! My partner just reappeared in this world, and she's not concsious. She's barely breathing, I need medical attention for her, as soon as possible! We're in .. oh, where are we, where are we ...
M-Mmnn ..
RHEA! Rhea, can you hear me?!
Forgive ..
I'LL THINK ABOUT THAT WHEN WE GET YOU SOME HELP! Oh, we're in Dokako Jungle! SHE NEEDS HELP! PLEASE, HURRY!