The Soulless Socialite

this is the old version. i was still getting the hang of who the fresh hell reisz was (well. there wasnt anyone to be.) and what i was going for with their story & themes. a couple bits of the extra text on the other version got severed and split into two characters ;) if you've ever seen me mentioning a "hyacinth", that's where that stuff went. not to be confounded with "hyacinthe", my nem pc. she also got stuff tho. yeah i know i know its complicated & confusing. blame the second for remembering her name and thinking it was their name

fun fact: hyacinth was originally what the H. stood for - theres even tidbits in rei's journal in which they call themself "cinth". alas! turns out these weren't their memories! they do not know this. after so long, after brain damage, after so many other memories they made... they barely recall the memories of a lesser self at all.

close-up in case tumblr cronches the image too bad:

some notes & extra commentary:

🔅 they cut new scars on top of their burn scar, yes. they spent months without it bc the fire either melted it away or it got healed with the burns. not having a degree of muscle damage worsens their depersonalization issues... mfw the load-bearing pillar of ur sense of identity is pain

🔅 if u didnt know, surprise! their eyes became a permanent cosmogone mirror reflecting the parabolan skies ever since they got A Questioning of Riddlefishers! they actively suppress it with glasswork bc they usually don't want people attracted by the nostalgia while looking at them. they'd rather use their own hard-earned persuasive skills, thank you very much.

🔅 their hair is a little frazzled bc the ends got burned. (another random fun fact: did u know their hair is alive? now u do.)

🔅 height & weight is inconsistent bc of their shapeling arts bs. new limbs weight a lot, they take these on and off and i hc shaping with amber has a caloric cost on the body (its a biological process after all!), specially when done from within. yes the reisz is constantly hungry. they once developed an habit to eat any creepy crawlie they came across for a reason

🔅 when not doing Twilight Phantom work (parabolan guide & Orphanage-related), they have a billion epithets working as a silverer bc they dont usually introduce themself so. people just call them whatever.

🔅 faction is blank bc they became that much of a detached power. they fit best as a bohemian, but they do not particularly sympathize with one over another.

🔅 "appetite" is an inherited destiny. reisz has no destiny.

🔅 narrative theme was decided with their (subconscious) take from the main storylines theyve been in.

🔅 color: i ended up with an entire associate palette, but if we had to choose ONE its either That soft coral or #333138 (grey dark purple). if it were neathbow colours, though, they are cosmogone/peligin. (+ violant with the steel chair post-zenith...)

🔅 flower: the inherited bluebell vs the earned impossible blue rose ;)

🔅 animal: i was going to put an actual chimera but the 7th coil really was the start of it all. for funsies, tho, their entire multitudes: feline (black cat/jaguar), canine (marsh-wolf/eater-of-chains), serpentine (fingerkings, california kingsnake), chiropteran (1% curator blood influence + vampire motifs), and lyrebird (their singing themes + stolen voices thing + mimicry & emulating voice thru glasswork bc they have trouble with speaking). hence "chimera"...

🔅 you'd think their element would be fire, specially post-avulsion, right? well... there might be fire in their veins, but they were still born anew from water. cold water calls. born of the water, born of the flame. this is why they are a cold little thing in love with the fire.

🔅 this is also why hot x cold is a 50/50. in another sense they are Also hot (sex appeal LOL) and cold (personality towards 98% of people). very cosmogone in the way they attract with warmth but theres a chill underneath...

🔅eyes x hands: reisz woke up "blinded" (head wrapped up in a cowl), and the TBI from the vivisepulture on their first months of life gave them many vision issues for a while - they thought they were going to go blind and tried to train themself to not rely on vision much, covering their head/eyes very often. the TBI also gave them fine motor control issues, and they had many issues grasping things! the brain damage healed away (long story) but they currently have the consequences from getting avulsed: once again, reisz has ongoing issues with their hands. (they did spend half a year eyeless too, tho)

🔅 tarot: Reisz has it reversed, but their body has it upright :)