lilith ♒ information for sw
Player Information
Name: Robyn
LJ Account: limitbreaks
Email: supremia[at]gmail[dot]com
Messenger: aim • supremia shadow, iii god eye
Current Characters: Yuma [utterlybangable]
Utena [drivesthebride]
Lulu [belteddress]
Minako [luvubby]
Erza [thetitania]
Fang [tearsthesky]
Tifa [anunlockedheart]
Lilith will be my eighth character. [Here's the link to the approved extra slot!]
In-Game Character Information
Name: Lilith M. [Melania] Dupond
Age: 18
Personality: Lilith has remarkable intelligence and wit, and is very easy to get along with upon first glance. She's polite, well-spoken and well-learned, and while she is from a noble, pureblood family, she is by no means disrespectful or rude to half-blooded wizards or muggleborns. So she seems pretty modest too. She has a flair and a talent for poetry, and often seems lost in her own little dream world.
She's very beautiful as well, in a mysterious sort of way, but is the sort of person who seems not to fully realize the magnetic pull she has on others. And sometimes she seems a little sad, a little distant...she has a very difficult family life, so it's understandable. She loses her temper every now and again...but who doesn't? Sometimes she gets a little intense and a little cold...but it's natural after being expected to uphold such a prestigious family line. And she's so young, after all. She focuses very hard on tasks, her studies, people. And because of this, she seems to be very good at reading other people. She is a good listener, sympathetic, kind. All in all, she's a likable, charismatic person. Perfectly normal. Charming, even.
But Lilith's true self is hidden beneath all of these layers: it's akin to a creature wearing many, many masks. Or, if we are being poetic, a snake shedding its skin. Her charming, gentle personality is superficial at best: deep down, Lilith is a cold-blooded young woman who views most people as pawns. She's a habitual liar, and a convincing one at that, so it's quite the task to find out the beast that lies beneath all of her social niceties and apparent grace and good humor. She's manipulative, and can and will use her physical beauty and appeal as a tool to do said manipulating.
She's not a very active blood purist. She plays the game as expected. But to her, mudbloods, blood traitors and most of the idiotic, spoiled and arrogant fools that think of themselves as superior simply by merit of their bloodline are all the same. All are just as worthy of her disdain and hatred, and just as easily used and manipulated. Lilith...sees people as toys. And life itself is one enormous and over-long game. She cares for very few, and values very little. She's particular too: she has a certain way of doing everything, all the way down to the way she eats breakfast every morning. She detests when things are out of place. She hates when her routine is broken.
She also enjoys flattery, even though she will portray the illusion of being shy and modest. She loves it when people pay attention to her, she enjoys being fawned over and treated like someone special. It comes from a family life of being treated as nothing more than an extension of her family's bloodline and an eventual baby-maker.
Background: There were three children born to the Dupond family, and Lilith was the first. Her aptitude for magic manifested early, her thirst for knowledge shortly thereafter. Her parents would describe her as "serious," and "quiet."
Lilypad is a well-behaved, proper girl, her father would proclaim proudly. Not like some of that riffraff among the fine wizarding community nowadays. Mudbloods and blood traitors, the lot of them. Beside him, her mother would nod her head eagerly, like a wind-up doll drawn too tight, and Lilith, even as a child, would marvel at the depths of human stupidity. Their ignorance. What did it matter, she thought, of blood? Her own blood meant little to her. Once she played a game with a halfblood boy to see if his blood ran red the same as hers. He didn't care for the game much, sadly enough, but it was all well and good. She'd gotten her answer: they really weren't that much different.
And so, Lilith pondered, what made her different from others. She was most certainly different, she thought. Her parents, dull and stupid as they were, even recognized that difference. That wedge, perhaps, that separated her from others. And for a time, she was appreciated for this. For a time, she was noticed and held up on a pedestal by her parents, treated as superior. When her siblings were born, this disrupted the balance. Now Lilith was a tool to be used and molded to their liking, and pushed to the side in order to make way for the others. This was unacceptable, and entirely unwanted. Her brother was a nuisance, an ill-kept, spoiled boy, and her sister was painfully ill and very near a Squib. But Lilith's parents doted over them both. Gone was the scattered praise for her achievements. Each time Lionel learned a new word, he'd be smothered with attention. All Lillian needed to do was sit up in bed and feed herself, and her parents would think this to be a grand accomplishment. It was utterly and absolutely infuriating. And so Lilith was more determined to succeed. She burned with the desire to be recognized.
And still, she was ignored. Her letter to Hogwarts was expected, her parents would say. What was the reason for celebration?
Her father would have preferred she be shipped off to Durmstrang: Less filth roaming those halls than Hogwarts and Beauxbatons. Bloody progressives ruining what were once fine cornerstones of wizarding education!, but for once her mother's word won, and Lilith, thin and pale and unused to children outside of her detested siblings, was sent away to Hogwarts. She soon learned there that certain groups valued her simply by virtue of her blood, her family name.
And that too was an insult to her intelligence. She did not need the backing of her idiot family to achieve greatness, she thought. But the stupid pureblood children spat upon mudbloods and so called "blood traitors," and so Lilith learned to do the same, to avoid any problems from her housemates. But really, they were all beneath her, all ants scurrying about for one single, mindless purpose: their own destruction. And Lilith was more than happy to help them destroy one another. She liked pitting them against one another: she liked seeing them twist into knots: the purebloods stewing in their hatred for others, the mudbloods' hatred for themselves. All people were the same, she thought. All petty fools. As the years passed, her games grew more complex, more discreet. Any overt tactics she saved for when she returned home, to her favorite targets: her siblings. The girl, Lillian, was of particular interest, simply because she was too weak to put up a fight. And how Lilith enjoyed toys who didn't talk back.
Her first few years of school passed without incident. She was seen as antisocial and unfriendly initially, but as time has gone on, she's "blossomed," so to speak, into a perfectly friendly, if overly serious young woman. Her record is...save a few unfortunate incidents in her youth wherein she was (unfairly, she will claim) accused of bullying, remarkably clean. Her goal, post-Hogwarts is to achieve some high-ranking position in the Ministry of Magic. Preferably dealing with criminals.
They rarely talk either.
Appearance: lol to be edited to make it sound more like I'm putting her up for auction or something. For now, bullet points:
• Black hair and eyes so dark brown they appear black at certain angles. Has her hair in a stylish bob; it used to be longer when she was younger. Rarely smiles.
• Very pale skin; a sprinkling of similarly pale freckles across her cheeks, the bridge of her nose and her shoulders.
• She's pretty curvy (not overweight but kind of...vavavavoom if you get my drift), doesn't really have an athletic build. Strong shoulders, for a girl of her height...probably because she's a little heavy chested. This is not evident at first because she dresses rather conservatively (when out of school uniform).
• Carries herself well, with confidence -- she doesn't slouch and never fidgets.
• About average height.
Blood: Full.
Preferred House: Slytherin
Why you think they belong in this house? Lilith is intelligent to be certain, so Ravenclaw is a distant second, but her cunning and ruthlessness set her out as an ideal candidate for Slytherin. She embodies a lot of Slytherin-esque traits: she is very sneaky and ambitious, and will do anything to reach her goals, no matter how much that might harm someone else, or how many people she has to step on to get there.
She is a pureblood, and while she isn't a blood purist in the traditional sense, she certainly is able to play that part well enough -- if she needs to. She cherishes nothing, save perhaps her sister (and even then, the relationship is very damaged and emotionally abusive), and anything involving hard work is simply a means to an end: Lilith holds her own counsel and has her own agenda. Any house that values loyalty and teamwork would be a poor place for her.
Also, her surname -- Dupond. Say it out loud: "dew pond." I associate her with water, lol.
School Year: Seventh.
Wand:
Erkling Fang. Common. Small elf-like creature native to Germany. Laugh attracts their favourite prey - children. Became common core for wand as part of population control efforts by German Ministry. Strong alignment for Dark arts hexes and jinxes. Very fast casters all-round, not especially powerful in any area.
Poplar - Rare. Light wood, inclined to Dark magic. Considered similar to human bones.
I picked Erkling Fang for a core because of its ties to Dark arts and hexes, which Lilith would take a shine to.
I also chose this because of its relation to danger for children. Lilith is named after the mother of demons, and in mythos/religion is an enemy to children in particular -- the demon Lilith is said to bring sickness to children. As for my own Lilith, she detests her younger brother and her dealings with her younger sister are unhealthy and a form of emotional abuse. She hates children in general, particularly young boys.
As for poplar, the similarity to human bones is another throwback to the root of her name, and given her inclination to Dark magic, it makes sense she'd have a wand wood that specializes in it.
---
11 1/5 inches, rigid
Justice (11): Impartiality, distance, coldness, justice, objective mind, criticism, being clever, insensitivity, decision, intellect, analysis, realism, severity, responsibility, rationality, clear vision, logic and reason.
The Devil (15): Materialism, ignorance, stagnation, self-bondage, lust, egoism, obsession, anxiety, anger, ganance, hedonism, passion, animal instincts, sexuality, temptation, lack of faith, vice, futility, physical attraction, pessimism, mistakes.
The wand length represents some of the worst aspects of Lilith's personality -- her use of her physical attractiveness and intellect as a tool to destroy others, her obsession with detail and her plans, her lack of faith and trust in people, and the anger and anxiety she has bottled up inside.
The wand flexibility is rigid. Lilith yields to no one, and respects nothing. She's very much set in her ways.
Quidditch Position: You must be joking. Her father would slap her if she ever even thought of flying on a Firebolt, let alone grunting and throwing a Quaffle about like some drooling Neanderthal.
Would you like the character to possibly get a higher position? Oh dear. No.
Why do you want to app this character? Well, there's a lack of serious crazy villains, I think, running around, and Lilith fits the bill. To be honest, I just want a character who can easily make friends and take advantage of their trust for her. Bitch crazy, and there are so many adorable woobies who she would take and meld and just break into a million unidentifiable pieces. Delicious emotional torment. She'd also be fun in the Slytherin house, I believe, just because she isn't even loyal to them in the long run, so even they are susceptible to manipulation.
In addition, she is dangerous and highly unpredictable, which would make things really interesting. She differs a little from other characters because she isn't really hurting people because she has to or even because she feels like they're inferior to her (she does, but that doesn't really factor into her decision making process). Lilith hurts people for the hell of it. Manipulation is one of the only things that amuses her. She's a bad person because it's fun, really. Because it feels good to be vindictive.
Roleplay Samples
Journal Sample: And so yet another school year begins.
The ice and snow brings about nostalgia: when I was very small, my mother and father would take my sister and I sledding. A pity that these memories must be locked away. So often bittersweet memories are placed in the back of one's mind, only to emerge again when the winter chill takes the edge off the world's harshness, fills the empty spaces with white.
I do apologise if I was missed. Lillian fell rather ill and I had to return home for a time. I must say, I am pleased to be back...it is always too quiet at home. I missed the warmth here.
To all of you who may be unfamiliar with me: my name is Lilith Dupond, and I am currently attempting to finish my seventh year with flying colours. It isn't quite as easy as one would think, I'm afraid.
As I have noticed several new faces, would it be too much to ask if all of you introduced yourselves in turn?
Roleplay Sample: The first year Lilith found herself observing today was a snot-nosed little whelp, some over-enthusiastic Gryffindor mudblood who had somehow managed to pilfer a broom from the closets and who was attempting to do a hand-stand on it. His grip slipped for a moment, and the other children gasped.
"Be careful!" One of the girls called out. Lilith entertained the idea of hitting him with a hex to speed up this amusing little show. She thought, briefly, of watching him fall through the air and collapse on the ground in a broken heap. His fragile little bones would snap like poorly made doll joints. Maybe he would die from that height, she pondered in an offhand sort of way.
Game over. A dissatisfying finale to a mediocre play. Amusing to watch at first, but the end result left one feeling hollow and cheated.
"Icarus," she murmured to herself. "Who flew into the sun with wax wings." Escaping a prison, only to fall to one's death in the free world. Destroyed by his own arrogant folly. There was something wonderfully ironic about that.
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius (Fixed, Air). February 7th.
+ Frank, serious minded, refined, sometimes ethereal. They are quick, active and persevering without being self-assertive, and express themselves with reason, moderation and sometimes, a dry humor. As they seek truth above all things, they are usually honest enough to change their opinions, however firmly held, if evidence comes to light which persuades them that they have been mistaken. They have a breadth of vision that brings diverse factors into a whole, and can see both sides of an argument without shilly-shallying as to which side to take.
They are nearly always intelligent, concise, clear and logical. Many are strongly imaginative and psychically intuitive. Normally they have good taste in drama, music and art, and are also gifted in the arts, especially drama. Once they decide that someone is worthy of their friendship or love, they can exert an almost hypnotic and irresistible mental attraction on them and will themselves become tenacious friends or lovers, ready to sacrifice everything for their partners and be faithful to them for life.
- The Aquarian philosophical and spiritual bent may be dangerous in that it can drive the subjects into an ivory-tower existence where they meditate on abstractions that bear little relevance to life. They dislike interference by others, however helpfully intended, and will accept it only on their own terms. They sometimes appear to condescend to others and take too little trouble to cultivate the acquaintance of people who do not particularly appeal to them.
They do not give themselves easily - perhaps their judgment of human nature is too good for that - and are sometimes accounted cold. Among the faults to which they are liable are fanatical eccentricity, wayward egotism, excessive detachment and an inclination to retreat from life and society, and a tendency to be extremely dogmatic in their opinions. Aquarians can be a threat to all they survey or a great boon for humanity in general. They may express a lack of integrity in broken promises, secretiveness or cunning. Simmering anger and resentment, rudeness or, worse, a tense, threatening silence which may suddenly burst out in eruptions of extreme temper. This can also reveal itself in a sustained hatred for enemies that is capable of enlarging itself into a misanthropy toward the whole of mankind.
Name: Robyn
LJ Account: limitbreaks
Email: supremia[at]gmail[dot]com
Messenger: aim • supremia shadow, iii god eye
Current Characters: Yuma [utterlybangable]
Utena [drivesthebride]
Lulu [belteddress]
Minako [luvubby]
Erza [thetitania]
Fang [tearsthesky]
Tifa [anunlockedheart]
Lilith will be my eighth character. [Here's the link to the approved extra slot!]
In-Game Character Information
Name: Lilith M. [Melania] Dupond
Age: 18
Personality: Lilith has remarkable intelligence and wit, and is very easy to get along with upon first glance. She's polite, well-spoken and well-learned, and while she is from a noble, pureblood family, she is by no means disrespectful or rude to half-blooded wizards or muggleborns. So she seems pretty modest too. She has a flair and a talent for poetry, and often seems lost in her own little dream world.
She's very beautiful as well, in a mysterious sort of way, but is the sort of person who seems not to fully realize the magnetic pull she has on others. And sometimes she seems a little sad, a little distant...she has a very difficult family life, so it's understandable. She loses her temper every now and again...but who doesn't? Sometimes she gets a little intense and a little cold...but it's natural after being expected to uphold such a prestigious family line. And she's so young, after all. She focuses very hard on tasks, her studies, people. And because of this, she seems to be very good at reading other people. She is a good listener, sympathetic, kind. All in all, she's a likable, charismatic person. Perfectly normal. Charming, even.
But Lilith's true self is hidden beneath all of these layers: it's akin to a creature wearing many, many masks. Or, if we are being poetic, a snake shedding its skin. Her charming, gentle personality is superficial at best: deep down, Lilith is a cold-blooded young woman who views most people as pawns. She's a habitual liar, and a convincing one at that, so it's quite the task to find out the beast that lies beneath all of her social niceties and apparent grace and good humor. She's manipulative, and can and will use her physical beauty and appeal as a tool to do said manipulating.
She's not a very active blood purist. She plays the game as expected. But to her, mudbloods, blood traitors and most of the idiotic, spoiled and arrogant fools that think of themselves as superior simply by merit of their bloodline are all the same. All are just as worthy of her disdain and hatred, and just as easily used and manipulated. Lilith...sees people as toys. And life itself is one enormous and over-long game. She cares for very few, and values very little. She's particular too: she has a certain way of doing everything, all the way down to the way she eats breakfast every morning. She detests when things are out of place. She hates when her routine is broken.
She also enjoys flattery, even though she will portray the illusion of being shy and modest. She loves it when people pay attention to her, she enjoys being fawned over and treated like someone special. It comes from a family life of being treated as nothing more than an extension of her family's bloodline and an eventual baby-maker.
Background: There were three children born to the Dupond family, and Lilith was the first. Her aptitude for magic manifested early, her thirst for knowledge shortly thereafter. Her parents would describe her as "serious," and "quiet."
Lilypad is a well-behaved, proper girl, her father would proclaim proudly. Not like some of that riffraff among the fine wizarding community nowadays. Mudbloods and blood traitors, the lot of them. Beside him, her mother would nod her head eagerly, like a wind-up doll drawn too tight, and Lilith, even as a child, would marvel at the depths of human stupidity. Their ignorance. What did it matter, she thought, of blood? Her own blood meant little to her. Once she played a game with a halfblood boy to see if his blood ran red the same as hers. He didn't care for the game much, sadly enough, but it was all well and good. She'd gotten her answer: they really weren't that much different.
And so, Lilith pondered, what made her different from others. She was most certainly different, she thought. Her parents, dull and stupid as they were, even recognized that difference. That wedge, perhaps, that separated her from others. And for a time, she was appreciated for this. For a time, she was noticed and held up on a pedestal by her parents, treated as superior. When her siblings were born, this disrupted the balance. Now Lilith was a tool to be used and molded to their liking, and pushed to the side in order to make way for the others. This was unacceptable, and entirely unwanted. Her brother was a nuisance, an ill-kept, spoiled boy, and her sister was painfully ill and very near a Squib. But Lilith's parents doted over them both. Gone was the scattered praise for her achievements. Each time Lionel learned a new word, he'd be smothered with attention. All Lillian needed to do was sit up in bed and feed herself, and her parents would think this to be a grand accomplishment. It was utterly and absolutely infuriating. And so Lilith was more determined to succeed. She burned with the desire to be recognized.
And still, she was ignored. Her letter to Hogwarts was expected, her parents would say. What was the reason for celebration?
Her father would have preferred she be shipped off to Durmstrang: Less filth roaming those halls than Hogwarts and Beauxbatons. Bloody progressives ruining what were once fine cornerstones of wizarding education!, but for once her mother's word won, and Lilith, thin and pale and unused to children outside of her detested siblings, was sent away to Hogwarts. She soon learned there that certain groups valued her simply by virtue of her blood, her family name.
And that too was an insult to her intelligence. She did not need the backing of her idiot family to achieve greatness, she thought. But the stupid pureblood children spat upon mudbloods and so called "blood traitors," and so Lilith learned to do the same, to avoid any problems from her housemates. But really, they were all beneath her, all ants scurrying about for one single, mindless purpose: their own destruction. And Lilith was more than happy to help them destroy one another. She liked pitting them against one another: she liked seeing them twist into knots: the purebloods stewing in their hatred for others, the mudbloods' hatred for themselves. All people were the same, she thought. All petty fools. As the years passed, her games grew more complex, more discreet. Any overt tactics she saved for when she returned home, to her favorite targets: her siblings. The girl, Lillian, was of particular interest, simply because she was too weak to put up a fight. And how Lilith enjoyed toys who didn't talk back.
Her first few years of school passed without incident. She was seen as antisocial and unfriendly initially, but as time has gone on, she's "blossomed," so to speak, into a perfectly friendly, if overly serious young woman. Her record is...save a few unfortunate incidents in her youth wherein she was (unfairly, she will claim) accused of bullying, remarkably clean. Her goal, post-Hogwarts is to achieve some high-ranking position in the Ministry of Magic. Preferably dealing with criminals.
They rarely talk either.
Appearance: lol to be edited to make it sound more like I'm putting her up for auction or something. For now, bullet points:
• Black hair and eyes so dark brown they appear black at certain angles. Has her hair in a stylish bob; it used to be longer when she was younger. Rarely smiles.
• Very pale skin; a sprinkling of similarly pale freckles across her cheeks, the bridge of her nose and her shoulders.
• She's pretty curvy (not overweight but kind of...vavavavoom if you get my drift), doesn't really have an athletic build. Strong shoulders, for a girl of her height...probably because she's a little heavy chested. This is not evident at first because she dresses rather conservatively (when out of school uniform).
• Carries herself well, with confidence -- she doesn't slouch and never fidgets.
• About average height.
Blood: Full.
Preferred House: Slytherin
Why you think they belong in this house? Lilith is intelligent to be certain, so Ravenclaw is a distant second, but her cunning and ruthlessness set her out as an ideal candidate for Slytherin. She embodies a lot of Slytherin-esque traits: she is very sneaky and ambitious, and will do anything to reach her goals, no matter how much that might harm someone else, or how many people she has to step on to get there.
She is a pureblood, and while she isn't a blood purist in the traditional sense, she certainly is able to play that part well enough -- if she needs to. She cherishes nothing, save perhaps her sister (and even then, the relationship is very damaged and emotionally abusive), and anything involving hard work is simply a means to an end: Lilith holds her own counsel and has her own agenda. Any house that values loyalty and teamwork would be a poor place for her.
Also, her surname -- Dupond. Say it out loud: "dew pond." I associate her with water, lol.
School Year: Seventh.
Wand:
Erkling Fang. Common. Small elf-like creature native to Germany. Laugh attracts their favourite prey - children. Became common core for wand as part of population control efforts by German Ministry. Strong alignment for Dark arts hexes and jinxes. Very fast casters all-round, not especially powerful in any area.
Poplar - Rare. Light wood, inclined to Dark magic. Considered similar to human bones.
I picked Erkling Fang for a core because of its ties to Dark arts and hexes, which Lilith would take a shine to.
I also chose this because of its relation to danger for children. Lilith is named after the mother of demons, and in mythos/religion is an enemy to children in particular -- the demon Lilith is said to bring sickness to children. As for my own Lilith, she detests her younger brother and her dealings with her younger sister are unhealthy and a form of emotional abuse. She hates children in general, particularly young boys.
As for poplar, the similarity to human bones is another throwback to the root of her name, and given her inclination to Dark magic, it makes sense she'd have a wand wood that specializes in it.
---
11 1/5 inches, rigid
Justice (11): Impartiality, distance, coldness, justice, objective mind, criticism, being clever, insensitivity, decision, intellect, analysis, realism, severity, responsibility, rationality, clear vision, logic and reason.
The Devil (15): Materialism, ignorance, stagnation, self-bondage, lust, egoism, obsession, anxiety, anger, ganance, hedonism, passion, animal instincts, sexuality, temptation, lack of faith, vice, futility, physical attraction, pessimism, mistakes.
The wand length represents some of the worst aspects of Lilith's personality -- her use of her physical attractiveness and intellect as a tool to destroy others, her obsession with detail and her plans, her lack of faith and trust in people, and the anger and anxiety she has bottled up inside.
The wand flexibility is rigid. Lilith yields to no one, and respects nothing. She's very much set in her ways.
Quidditch Position: You must be joking. Her father would slap her if she ever even thought of flying on a Firebolt, let alone grunting and throwing a Quaffle about like some drooling Neanderthal.
Would you like the character to possibly get a higher position? Oh dear. No.
Why do you want to app this character? Well, there's a lack of serious crazy villains, I think, running around, and Lilith fits the bill. To be honest, I just want a character who can easily make friends and take advantage of their trust for her. Bitch crazy, and there are so many adorable woobies who she would take and meld and just break into a million unidentifiable pieces. Delicious emotional torment. She'd also be fun in the Slytherin house, I believe, just because she isn't even loyal to them in the long run, so even they are susceptible to manipulation.
In addition, she is dangerous and highly unpredictable, which would make things really interesting. She differs a little from other characters because she isn't really hurting people because she has to or even because she feels like they're inferior to her (she does, but that doesn't really factor into her decision making process). Lilith hurts people for the hell of it. Manipulation is one of the only things that amuses her. She's a bad person because it's fun, really. Because it feels good to be vindictive.
Roleplay Samples
Journal Sample: And so yet another school year begins.
The ice and snow brings about nostalgia: when I was very small, my mother and father would take my sister and I sledding. A pity that these memories must be locked away. So often bittersweet memories are placed in the back of one's mind, only to emerge again when the winter chill takes the edge off the world's harshness, fills the empty spaces with white.
I do apologise if I was missed. Lillian fell rather ill and I had to return home for a time. I must say, I am pleased to be back...it is always too quiet at home. I missed the warmth here.
To all of you who may be unfamiliar with me: my name is Lilith Dupond, and I am currently attempting to finish my seventh year with flying colours. It isn't quite as easy as one would think, I'm afraid.
As I have noticed several new faces, would it be too much to ask if all of you introduced yourselves in turn?
Roleplay Sample: The first year Lilith found herself observing today was a snot-nosed little whelp, some over-enthusiastic Gryffindor mudblood who had somehow managed to pilfer a broom from the closets and who was attempting to do a hand-stand on it. His grip slipped for a moment, and the other children gasped.
"Be careful!" One of the girls called out. Lilith entertained the idea of hitting him with a hex to speed up this amusing little show. She thought, briefly, of watching him fall through the air and collapse on the ground in a broken heap. His fragile little bones would snap like poorly made doll joints. Maybe he would die from that height, she pondered in an offhand sort of way.
Game over. A dissatisfying finale to a mediocre play. Amusing to watch at first, but the end result left one feeling hollow and cheated.
"Icarus," she murmured to herself. "Who flew into the sun with wax wings." Escaping a prison, only to fall to one's death in the free world. Destroyed by his own arrogant folly. There was something wonderfully ironic about that.
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius (Fixed, Air). February 7th.
+ Frank, serious minded, refined, sometimes ethereal. They are quick, active and persevering without being self-assertive, and express themselves with reason, moderation and sometimes, a dry humor. As they seek truth above all things, they are usually honest enough to change their opinions, however firmly held, if evidence comes to light which persuades them that they have been mistaken. They have a breadth of vision that brings diverse factors into a whole, and can see both sides of an argument without shilly-shallying as to which side to take.
They are nearly always intelligent, concise, clear and logical. Many are strongly imaginative and psychically intuitive. Normally they have good taste in drama, music and art, and are also gifted in the arts, especially drama. Once they decide that someone is worthy of their friendship or love, they can exert an almost hypnotic and irresistible mental attraction on them and will themselves become tenacious friends or lovers, ready to sacrifice everything for their partners and be faithful to them for life.
- The Aquarian philosophical and spiritual bent may be dangerous in that it can drive the subjects into an ivory-tower existence where they meditate on abstractions that bear little relevance to life. They dislike interference by others, however helpfully intended, and will accept it only on their own terms. They sometimes appear to condescend to others and take too little trouble to cultivate the acquaintance of people who do not particularly appeal to them.
They do not give themselves easily - perhaps their judgment of human nature is too good for that - and are sometimes accounted cold. Among the faults to which they are liable are fanatical eccentricity, wayward egotism, excessive detachment and an inclination to retreat from life and society, and a tendency to be extremely dogmatic in their opinions. Aquarians can be a threat to all they survey or a great boon for humanity in general. They may express a lack of integrity in broken promises, secretiveness or cunning. Simmering anger and resentment, rudeness or, worse, a tense, threatening silence which may suddenly burst out in eruptions of extreme temper. This can also reveal itself in a sustained hatred for enemies that is capable of enlarging itself into a misanthropy toward the whole of mankind.