~Acantha~

[⋅ acantha ⋅]

ACANTHA


innocent//independent//fighter

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Name: Acantha
Age: Looks about late teens
Type: Nymph (Dryad)
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Title/Position: Ancanthus Thorns
Occupation: N/A
Nationality: N/A

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Skin: Fair
Eyes: Hazel, appears dark when she shows intense emotion
Hair: Light blonde
Markings or Scars: A long scratch remains on her inner thigh from her scuffle with Apollo
Body type: Slender, petite

Clothing:

Acantha usually prefers wearing dresses of white and silver, colors that often represent purity and spotlessness, something that has still been retained since the encounter. She also has an appreciation for the shades of green and neutrals that normally adorn the dryads. She prefers to go barefoot for everyday activities.

Overall Description:

Acantha has the natural beauty and sweetness that appears to be a general similarity amongst her kind, though she would consider herself to be average looking when compared to the great beauty of other nymphs. She has a round, slightly childish looking face with a small pointy nose and large, curious eyes. Her lips can sometimes appear to be pouty whenever she is displeased with something or simply being slightly immature. Her most noticable feature is her smile, one that can be innocently impish whenever a dangerous idea pops into her head or one that can be genuinely sweet, beconing anyone who sees it to also break into a smile.

Long, fair hair cascades down to her waist in soft curls. This is another one of her noticable features and is what she happens to play with whenever she gets excessively shy or nervous. Her skin is soft and displays only the marks of her attack. Her curves are slightly more on the volumptious side for one so slender.

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Personality Description:

Acantha has the tendency to be slightly shy and somewhat anxious of strangers or whenever in the presence of a powerful being. There is a definite appreciation that Acantha holds for things that are naturally beautiful in nature and tends to have a much longer attention span than other nymphs whenever she does find something of interest. She greatly enjoys the feeling of being free and unbound to anyone or anything (aside from the ancanthus plant.) She enjoys expressing this fact by climbing, running, and singing whenever she pleases.

When it comes to being amongst her kind, she enjoys company and loves to talk whenever the occasion arises. One thing that sort of sets her aside from other nymphs is her view on the idea of romance. She isn’t a nymphomatic like some, and yet she also isn’t on the other extreme, those that have sworn to be a virgin for the rest of their life. She is simply living in the moment, but will fight back if she feels threatened or confined from making her own choices.

Likes:

• Having company
  
• Running
  
• Singing
  
• Nature
  
• Beautiful things
  
• Individuals that show kindness
  

Dislikes:

• Apollo
  
• Confinement
  
• Stereotypes
  
• Cruelty
  
• Violent force
  

Strength:

• Her will
  
• General happiness
  
• Generosity
  
• Respectful of others
  
• Kind
  

Weaknesses:

• Panics at the sign of trouble
  
• Self conscious
  
• Easily hurt
  
• Self doubt
  

Fears:

• Powerful Gods
  
• Strange humans
  
• Apollo
  
• Falling in love
  

Goal: Acantha doesn’t have much thought for the future, so she has not yet developed any major goals.

Powers/Abilities: Turning into an acanthus plant

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Spouse/Lover: None
Relationship Status: Single
Family:
Parents: Unknown (couldn’t find anything about her family)
Assumed to have several nymph sisters/river god brothers

History:

Acantha is another beautiful nymph with the misfortune of being loved by someone that she did not love back. Apollo was the culprit in this case. He "loved" the nymph so much he tried to rape her. Acantha panicked at the prospect of losing her pure form this way and fought back with everything that she could. After a great scuffle, the nymph managed to scratch the god’s face, most likely causing pain and increasing his annoyance with her. As a result, the little nymph was transformed into the acanthus tree, a "sun-loving" but thorny plant. From then on, she has been the guardian of this particular plant after being turned into one after the tragic event.

Since then, she has remained cautious of strangers and remains wary of powerful gods, especially ones like Apollo. She tries instead to forget about the incident that haunts her dreams and also strives to regain the security that she once had in her sheltered home of the wood and other aspects of nature.

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Your name: Rye
How long have you been RPing? 3 years
Where/How did you find us?

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