| Eien Seida
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| Dossier
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| Name |
Eien Seida
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| Aliases |
N/A
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| Date of Birth |
February 15, 1992
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| Birthdate |
Port Island
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| Occupation |
Student, D4 Rookie, Barista
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| Height |
5'6"
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| Gender |
Female
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| Eyes |
Olive
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| Hair |
Black
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| Persona |
Hekate
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| Arcana |
IX: The Hermit
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| Quote
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"Ah, you realize that magick is something we do to ourselves. But it is more convenient to assume the objective existence of an angel who gives us new knowledge than to allege that our invocation has awakened a supernormal power in ourselves." --Aleister Crowley
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| Playlist
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Do You Believe
The Cardigans
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Do you really think
That love is gonna save the world?
Well I don't think so
I just don't think so
And do you really think
That love is gonna save your soul?
Well I sure hope so
Yeah I really, really hope so
But I don't think so
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Seven Devils
Florence + the Machine
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Holy water cannot help you now
Thousand armies couldn't keep me out
I don't want your money
I don't want your crown
See I've come to burn your kingdom down
Holy water cannot help you now
See I've come to burn your kingdom down
And no rivers and no lakes can put the fire out
I'm gonna raise the stakes, I'm gonna smoke you out
Seven devils all around me!
Seven devils in my house!
See they were there when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done
Seven devils all around you
Seven devils in your house
See I was dead when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done
Before the day is done
And now all your love will be exorcised
And we will find your sayings to be paradox
And it's an even sum
It's a melody
It's a final cry
It's a symphony
Seven devils all around me
Seven devils in my house
See they were there when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done
Seven devils all around you
Seven devils in your house
See I was dead when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done
Before the day is done
Before the day is done
Before the day is done
They can keep me out
'Til I tear the walls
'Til I save your heart
And to take your soul
For what has been done
Cannot be undone
In the evil's heart
In the evil's soul
Seven devils all around you
Seven devils in your house
See I was dead when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done
Before the day is done
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Small Town Witch
Sneaker Pimps
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Small town witch come to mess me up
Small town witch come to mess me up
Small town witch come to mess me up again
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Fantasy
DyE
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I have no idea what the lyrics to this song even actually are, and it doesn't matter because THAT ISN'T THE POINT ANYWAY
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| History
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| Childhood
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Eien was born on Port Island in February of 1992. Her parents, Akira and Kasumi, had high hopes for their daughter, as from an early age she demonstrated a remarkable and active inquisitiveness about the world around her.
At eight years of age she went on a camping trip with several other families. Sitting around the campfire one night, the adults told kaidan -- traditional ghost stories, many of which date back to the Edo period -- and Eien was so terrified by them that her parents were forced to leave the trip early and bring her home...though her nightmares didn't stop. In an effort to give her a way to deal with her nightmares, her father told her that he would take her to the library to take out books about kaidan, because the most frightening thing about the unknown is that it IS unknown, and the more familiar one becomes with something, the less scary it will be.
He would regret his approach. Her interests, previously roaming and all-encompassing, suddenly narrowed to supernatural subjects almost exclusively, broadening gradually to include the occult: magic and all manner of esoteric, hidden knowledge. As she buried her nose in strange books and babbled excitedly, incomprehensibly, about astrological significances and pagan holidays, all her parents could do was look at one another uneasily and hope that it was only a passing phase.
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| Early Teen Years
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It wasn't. In 2007, at the age of 16, Eien discovered a piece of paper tucked into a book about occult rituals, on which were written instructions for a specific ritual that would summon a powerful spirit to come to her aid. Of course, she couldn't resist; two weeks later, staying at a friend's house near a plot of undeveloped land, the girls went into the woods at three in the morning and performed the ritual according to the page: it had required three days of fasting to prepare, and she was already light-headed when they tromped into the woods.
At the culmination of the chant, Eien collapsed...and met Philemon.
It wasn't more than a month later that she woke up in the middle of the night in the Dark Hour to go to the kitchen and get herself a glass of water, and realized that the world she could see through her kitchen window was...wrong, somehow. Baffled, she went outside -- and was almost immediately attacked by Shadows.
That is when Hekate manifested for the first time. In the middle of fighting the Shadows, Mitsuru Kirijo, Ran Itoh, and Akihiko Sanada, patrolling the dark hour, heard the scuffle and helped to defend Eien. In other circumstances, they might have tried to recruit her after the battle was over...but SEES was still reeling from the loss of Shinjiro Aragaki, and the group wasn't any longer readily taking on new members. It was Mitsuru Kirijo who gave her a quick explanation as to what had just happened to her -- about the Dark Hour, and about her persona. She never had deep involvement with SEES in the years that followed, but she did occasionally see Mitsuru and Ran, always with the impression that they were checking up on her, to see if she was still alright.
She always was.
Gaining a persona did nothing to deter Eien's interest in the supernatural, of course, though by this time her parents had succeeded in encouraging her to devote herself to a mundane and practical course of education. By day she studied the sciences at Gekkoukan High, particularly biology, chemistry, and criminology, and worked part-time as a clerk and barista in a small bookshop and cafe; by night she read ever-and-increasingly more esoteric volumes, some of which her parents would likely have disowned her even for looking at.
To say nothing of what they would have done to her if they'd known that, at eighteen, she summoned a demon, and made a deal with it.
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| Current Events
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Eien grew up on Port Island. She went to Gekkoukan High, and is now attending Fra Mauro University, spending most of her credit hours in labs of various kinds. Her intended major is forensics, which may account for her recent internship with Department 4.
She's always had a 'thing' for occult subjects, which may seem a little at odds with her friendly, outgoing, social personality...but there's no question she's an expert when it comes to all things strange and spooky.
Persona users in the city would probably already know that she's one of them -- a spotter -- and her Persona is Hekate. Far fewer of them may know that she has another, more unusual talent.
For the last year, she's been a part of several D4 activities in Sumaru, and a few joint ventures between the loose factions that have sprung up across the city, always in a support role. More controversially, a contest she held at the bookstore she works in has resulted in a few supernatural incidents for the winners, related to short stories they received as prizes. That situation is not even close to being resolved yet, but curiously, Eien's unusual talents haven't been of any use in helping the others to make headway toward a solution.
Recently, she participated in a process designed to repair and reconstruct dysfunctional psyches. The subject was Kyo Enda. She hasn't really been the same since.
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| Persona and Resonance
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Hekate
Hekate is an ancient cthonic goddess with almost as many depictions as she has names, though she frequently appears in historical art pieces as either a triple-faced woman or a single-faced figure carrying twin torches. She has rulership over earth, sea and sky, and is variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, fire, light, the Moon, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, necromancy and sorcery as well as a more universal role as Saviour (Soteira), Mother of Angels and the Cosmic World Soul.
When she manifests for Eien, she appears as a semi-transparent, austere, topless woman, with skirts of star-fields that terminate in rolling, frothing ocean waves. She has a luminous crescent moon on her forehead and long, dark hair interwoven with raven feathers, a laurel of twined oak and yew dappled with bright red yew cones wreathing her crown. In her hands she carries long, slender silver torches, but they burn with the cold light of stars rather than the warmth of fire.
Because Hekate's significance and role varies so widely between time periods and cultures, Eien's resonance can also be perceived in many ways by others, depending on things like their personal disposition and her mood.
Possible Scents: Garlic, yew or oak, running water, medicinal herbs, ozone, seawater, incense, smoke from a fire, or the smell of dogs.
Possible Sounds: Baying hounds, chanting women, rhythmic movements of the ocean, rhythmic movements of mortar and pestle, the pop and hiss of fire, the chirp of crickets.
Possible Feelings: Awareness of mortality, anticipation (like that of approaching a door to some unfamiliar place), the feeling of being watched by someone unseen, ritual trance, the gravity of celestial mysteries, the solemnity of ritual, the comfortable companionship of a loyal friend, the danger of the unseen.
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| Logs, Cutscenes
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| Once Upon a Time TP
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NOTE: With a few exceptions for grouping like materials together, these logs run in roughly chronological order. (This section will be under heavy edit for the duration of the plot. If you're involved and you write a cutscene related to the events, please let me know so that I can be sure to include it here!)
- Log: Enigma - 02-19-13 - In which Miwa Saitou laments a run of bad luck.
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