dance with me !

A STUDY IN— identity loss, the complexity of grief, and what duty is when sacrifice has already been made (—flash of an ankle, flip of a skirt. feel them excite, enflame and inspire).

❛❛ what do i mean… ❜❜ he muses, barely a step in her direction and two to the side. his gaze travels the eerie surface of the many objects in the room with not the briefest hint of turning in her direction ( but he could now, couldn't he? the touch of his stare a moment away from her skin ). ❛❛ why, now that i think about it i may have gone a step too far from my understanding of the situation. faust, what do you call the very act of concealing the consequences of one's reckless endeavours, almost hidden with complete success save for the fact that it was witnessed and then commented on by all at the south end? ❜❜

❛❛ blood! ❜❜ exclaimed the familiar, waving with energy the bandages caught with the end of her tail.

a song of ice and fire. a dragonseed born in lys, a child whose dreams often carry certainty about the future. his parents disappeared when he was young and he grew up almost alone in the streets, cheerful in a way that's uncommon for children in his situation, loved by many vendors and citizens who delighted in his antics. as soon as he got the chance, he crossed the sea to westeros and become a relatively known figure, awaited along the continent for his magic tricks, many stories and the unusual items collected here and there for anyone in need of a rare ingredient or some pretty addition to their clothes.

variation only for the game of thrones series timeline: asra is still a descendant of targaryens but not as he is in the hotd or akotsk timelines, his ancestor is further back, as it's the case for several lysenes who only inherited genes like the whiteish hair and purple eyes from their old connection with old valyria and the many decades of targaryen men doing their thing with local girls.

a song of ice and fire. nisha sand, born and raised near the red mountains until the death of her grandparents. stole what she could until she had enough for passage to the free cities without a clear plan for her future. ventured around until she met a lysene with lilac eyes and a deck of cards, the two of them agreeing to travel back and forth across the continents, selling rare items, reading the fortunes of lovestruck maids, and entertaining crowds for a roof to spend the night. (same story goes for house of the dragon, a knight of the seven kingdoms and game of thrones. only variation among these would be that nish is one of oberyn's daughters in the got verse.)

lolverse/arcane. an orphan with the sands and the mountains in her blood, a thief that takes enough to go by. nish though herself too smart one day and stole from the bags of people you shouldn't mess with. she should have died with a knife buried in hr back, but her blood stained an old sanctuary covered by the sand, its goddess long forgotten by all in shurima. all but her, the girl begging for a second chance.

the wheel of time. there are two versions for this universe, as nish loses her memories at some point in her adulthood.

verse 1. a girl born with the spark, sheltered in the margins of the map until the death of her grandparents. a wilder meeting one such as herself. nish and her companion wandered the land until an accident made it seem that she had lost her life (for all the events from her childhood to her early adulthood, can be used for alternate versions of her story in which the accident never happened and her interactions with other characters in this universe are with her as a young wilder).

FAMILY: aisha and salim alnazar, mother and father, taken away from him when he was a child. has no memory of other relatives from the time before he moved to vesuvia with his family. RELATIONSHIPS: the apprentice (student and friend, former partner in some verses). faust (familiar, ball python snake). muriel (best friend).

PERSONALITY: always with a part of himself wandering far away. his curiosity and wide eyed wonder of the world around them makes him fascinating as well as unreliable, for it seems that no promise is more important to him than the urgency to see what waits for him on his next journey. relentlessly secretive, though you wouldn't know for sure if that's being driven by the love he has to his own freedom, or the urgency to escape his own feelings. upon all that, asra is addictively delightful to have around (whenever he chooses to exist among others, that is). always with a smile on and the loveliest tales to share around in such cases, he genuinely adores to listen and learn about the lives he has crossed paths with (though their preference will always be to be on their own or around the extremely few people he can't get enough of, like muriel). for all his detachment with those around him, can be strikingly direct when he has been aggravated, far from one to be subtle or polite when a line has been crossed. opportunistic and one to defy rules, sometimes even looking forward to go against what's expected of him.