Tearis 'OC'

『PERSONALITY』

As a child Tearis was emotionless. She was simply a child soldier only capable of performing her duties. As she grows older and learns the truth of the world she starts to grow emotionally.


『BACKSTORY』

Tearis Hornington was, from a young age, trained to be a soldier. The tyrant ruling her country was doing all he could to procure more troops, and she was part of one such program. Despite having such a brutal life, she ended up more gentle than the rest of the lot. The violence was engraved into her body, yet her mind remained soft.

The training camps were rough, but they still allowed the trainees to live some semblance of a normal life. One such pleasantry was that storytellers would come in from time to time, and those that wanted to listen in could. She took a liking to stories of ghosts or other apparitions. She was inspired by these stories and would come up with some herself, though she never shared them with anyone.

Now old enough to be sent into combat, she got her first taste of battle. They performed a night raid on an enemy camp that got scouted out. Being told over and over that these people were not in fact people, but demons in human skin, she thought she was performing a righteous act as she swung her blade down on soldiers that didn't have time to properly gear up. Victorious but not without injury, tearis walked away from that night with only one eye. Her hatred for the demons grew every time her wound ached.

In a later raid, taking place in a peaceful elven forest village, Tearis' world started to crumble. Clearly not evil beings, the elves protected each other valiantly, and she saw through the lies she had been fed. Her whole life she was nothing more than a pawn in a twisted game, and due to her inability to realize this earlier, the weight of her sins bore down on her all at once, crumpling her to the ground. After lying there dazed for a moment, trying to process it all, a scream brought her back to reality. She quickly got up and rushed to the protection of a young elf that was almost cut down by a soldier. She fought and killed a few of them before being stabbed non-fatally. A well placed arrow killed her assailant. The raiders were defeated, and as Tearis lay bleeding out, the young elf boy shielded her from the others.

After waking up, Tearis tried to take her own life for the atrocities she committed throughout her time in the army. The healer designated to her smacked her sword away with her staff and hit her over the head. The elf, Sari, convinces her to travel with her to a magical lake back at her hometown, one which could erase someone's memories and allow them to be reborn anew. This would essentially be suicide, but Sari had plans to convince her otherwise during the journey.

Travelling together, they grow fairly close. Tearis starts to feel that, maybe, she deserves to live despite what she's done. Ultimately, the elf is unable to change her mind. Tearis feels that her reborn, sinless self, would be more deserving of life than her. They say their goodbyes, and Tearis comes out of the magic lake without any of her memories. Sari holds her close and swears to herself that she will teach the new Tearis of her old self, in order to restore as much of her as she can.

The two of them returned to the war effort, and after 10 years, words of their heroic impact on the battlefield spread far. They had grown closer than ever through their time watching each other's backs.