🍎 Keyshia Fields 🍎

the hideaway healer

🌱️ 🌿️ 🌼 🌳 🍎 🌳 🌼 🌿️ 🌱️

🎵 ~ Run, run, run and hide
Somewhere no one else can find ~ 🎶

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🌳 basics 🌳

• name: Keyshia Anthea █████████ ████████ Fields
• species: Fae / Human
  • ethnicity: African-American
  • variant: Court Fae
• birthday: September 6
• age: 24?
• gender: Genderfluid femme
• pronouns: She / her
• orientation: Demisexual
• profession(s):
  • Apothecary apprentice
  • Seelie Court member

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🌼 appearance 🌼

• skin: Medium brown w/ neutral undertones
• hair: Navy blue; a mix of 4-A, -B, and -C; falls past her waist
• eyes: Harlequin green
• height: 6’ 0" / 183 cm
• build: Chubby; has long legs
• other characteristics:
  • Dimples
  • Pronounced canines
  • Pointed ears
  • Central heterochromia in the shape of a flower in both eyes
  • Dermatosis papulosa nigra spots on face; on left side of neck
  • Bright green pseudo-gem embedded in chest
  • Malus pumila flowers bloom in hair at random times
  • Tattoo-like marking on back, between shoulder blades (check ref)
  • Can manifest large, green, butterfly-esque wings

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🌿️ personality 🌿️

• alignment: Neutral Good
• enneagram: One (with a nine wing); self-preservation variant
• jung / mbti: INFJ-T
• sloan: RLOAI (primarily Organized)
• temperament: Phlegmatic / Melancholic
• zodiac: Virgo
• positive traits: Compassionate, honest, loyal
• neutral traits: Intelligent, reserved, stubborn
• negative traits: Anxious, insecure, paranoid

By all appearances, Keyshia is an... honestly bland young woman. She's mild-mannered, trustworthy, and hardworking, seemingly doesn't have a mean bone in her body, and has a perpetual smile on her face. Those that see her that way would be mostly right — but she's smart as a whip and stubborn as a mule underneath that demure demeanor. She's surprisingly quick-witted and perceptive, with keen eyes and a sharp tongue, and fiercely protective of those around her. Too bad almost no one sees that side of her — she's terminally anxious and insecure, rendered paranoid by her time in the Fae realm, and she keeps everyone at arm's length as a result. She also has a tendency to be absorbed by her work, so simply getting her attention may be a fool's errand by itself.

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🌱️ trivia 🌱️

favorites

• books: Romance, slice-of-life
• drink(s): Hot chocolate, green tea
• food(s): Apple pie, red velvet cake, green bean casserole
• fashion style: Preppy bohemian; flowerpunk; bright floral prints, worn jeans, and sundresses
• movies / tv: Animated classics, nature documentaries
• music: Jazz, classical, acoustic covers
• hobbies: Cooking, gardening, reading
• interests: Alchemy, biology, geology
• other likes: Animals, jazz clubs, pastries, science museums, romance movies
• dislikes: Disorganization, getting sick / hurt, closed space, snow

symbols

• animal: Corvus corax principalis
• colors: Leaf green, sky blue, pastel pink
• flower / plant: Malus pumila
• major arcana: The Chariot
• mineral: Quartz
• playing card: Five of Diamonds
• scents: Vanilla, mint, petrichor
• sin | virtue: Wrath | Charity

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🌳 stats 🌳

strength	⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪	wisdom	⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
agility	⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪	willpower	⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪
dexterity	⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪	charisma	⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
constitution	⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪	magic	⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫
intelligence	⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪	luck	⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪

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affinities
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talents

• Living Vivarium (Chlorokinesis) — Signature power. Keyshia can control any plant in the immediate vicinity and grow new ones anywhere she wants, including her own body. She can only grow plants she has personally come in contact with.
• Healing Factor — Keyshia recovers from most injuries and diseases noticeably quicker than most. She can also exert her healing factor outward and heal anyone within a small radius. She must rest for several days after any prolonged use of this power.
• Minor Hydrokinesis — Keyshia can control small (as in, enough to fill a pitcher) amounts of water. This ability's power is exponentially increased if near a large body of water or when it's raining, suggesting Keyshia has not hit her limits with it.

inventory

• Bandana — A plain red piece of fabric. Slightly increases charisma.
• Crystals — Several small pieces of quartz, all with their own minor enchantments. Slighty increases constitution and luck.
• Old locket — A weathered gold locket, with a picture of her father inside. It's the only thing she has left of him. Slightly increases wisdom.
• Strange ring — A gold band with an indecipherable inscription engraved on it. Your head hurts if you look at it too long. Greatly increases willpower, magic, and luck.
• Woven bracelets — Made in a fit of boredom. Slightly increases dexterity.

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🌼 history 🌼

Keyshia Fields spent her formative years in a small house in a small mining town. Her father, Marcus, was a hard-working, reliable man who was the pillar of the community. Her barely-seen mother, in contrast, was a flighty, erratic person who flitted in and out of her life at random, often disappearing for months or years at a time. Marcus did his best to eke out a living for his only child, and the two led a peaceful, humdrum life together. The peace was shattered when Keyshia turned 16 — he died of a mysterious illness, leaving Keyshia to get his final affairs in order.

On the eve of Marcus's funeral, her mother appeared on their doorstep once again as if nothing happened. Seemingly unconcerned with the death of her child's father, she instead announces that she has "great news". She reveals her true identity as Naseile Allwood, Archfae of the Seelie Court, and with Marcus's death, she was free to take Keyshia to the Realm of the Fae to raise her as she saw fit. Keyshia barely had enough time to say "wait, what!?" before Naseile had whisked them both away to the Realm.

Thus began several years of hell. The magic of the Realm was noxious and overripe, and she went from healthy and hale to sickly and lethargic in almost no time. Her father's death weighed heavily on her, but Naseile either never noticed or never cared. Instead, Naseile stole Keyshia's name and used it as leverage to force her to do whatever she wanted, christening her with a fae name in its stead. She turned her child into a living power source and used her child's "fresher" magic whenever she wanted, leaving said child perpetually exhausted. It crossed the captive teen's mind to try to reach out for help, but between the naked contempt of the other nobles and a dead-eyed doppelganger ordered to watch her every move it was apparent she was shit out of luck.

Things only got worse once her healing ability showed itself. The formerly disdainful court suddenly scrambled to get into her good graces, desperate to ease their pain and halt their bodies' decay. Naseile jumped at the chance to use her daughter's ability to her advantage, dangling the promise of relief over their heads and twisting their arms to get what she wanted. Naseile never stopped siphoning her daughter's power, either, and the suddenly-designated healer nearly became bedridden under the new stress.

With Naseile now motivated to keep her golden goose upright, the teen ended up spending most of her days shotgunning antidotes and panaceas in her mother's workshops and laboratories, and came to know them like the back of her hand — or so she thought. On a rare day on her own, she snuck to a little-used laboratory in the deepest part of Naseile's mansion and discovered a fairy ring, a portal to Earth, inert but fully intact. Bolstered by her discovery and her simmering hate of the Realm and everyone in it, she decided to do everything in her power to activate the ring and escape.

Every scrap of time she could get to herself became an opportunity. She tore through Naseile's notes for any morsel of info she could use. Dodging her doppelganger let her devour any and every spellbook she could. She was able to worm her way into Naseile's storerooms, pocketing whatever would help her, with no one the wiser... or so she thought.

When the young girl's chance came, she leapt for it — while a massive ball was happening on one end of the grounds, she was making a beeline for the fairy ring on the other end. A few magic words and a ritual would be all she needed to escape...

...if it wasn't for Naseile and the doppelganger strolling in while she was putting the finishing touches on the ritual. Naseile had gotten wise to the ransacking long ago, but didn't fully put the pieces together until the doppelganger oh-so-helpfully spilled the beans.

Thus began a struggle over the ring the teen seemed destined to lose. Naseile handily restrained her without breaking a sweat, condescending to her the entire time. But Naseile had left herself open, allowing the girl to summon one last great burst of magic and skewer her mother with the largest tree she could muster. With Naseile bleeding out and the doppelganger shaking in a corner, the teen finished the ritual, activated the ring, and quickly jumped through it.

Now settled in Vivariiium, Keyshia lives her life as normally as any other citizen... but with a constant gaze over her shoulder, expecting and dreading the day one of the Court comes to avenge their Archfae. But she's not the naive little kid Naseile kidnapped anymore. All she can do now is wait.

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🌿️ relationships 🌿️

	Thalifea Allwood ☆☆☆☆☆ Enemy. Why the fuck are you here. Keyshia has absolutely no interest in even holding a conversation with them, let alone build a relationship with the person that helped make those seven years hell. Why Thalifea still tries is a mystery to her.
	Cordelia Nejem ★★★★★ Soulmate? Okay, but how. Keyshia lost her mark ages ago, and she's sure it wasn't her name she had. There has to be a mistake somewhere... Friend, queerplatonic partner (eventually). Okay, so she isn't so bad. Cordelia is legitimately charming and has a relaxed yet mischievous aura that's pretty endearing. Also she has gorgeous eyes and a wide smile that crinkles them at the corners and wait a minute.
	Lorelei West ★★★☆☆ Friendly acquaintance. Whenever Keyshia needs more... esoteric ingredients, the mermaid is usually her first stop. Lorelei somehow always has a fresh pot of tea ready whenever she comes by.

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🌱️ miscellaneous 🌱️

• Her Pinterest board, for the curious.
• Keyshia has multiple middle names, partly because she wanted to, and partly so she can keep some of them secret and prevent anyone from stealing her name again.
  • Also, "Keyshia Fields" is not her birthname.
  • The only one who knows Keyshia's full name is Cordelia.
  • She has never told anyone what her name in the Fae realm was.
• The longer Keyshia knows and is in contact with a person, the easier and less energy-intensive healing them gets.
• Despite her healing factor, Keyshia is borderline-paranoid about getting sick.
• She gives her friends some of her woven bracelets if she makes too many.
• Keyshia has no composure around attractive people, and she turns into a red-faced, stuttering mess.This gets ten times worse when she meets her soulmate(s).
  • Despite this, Keyshia cannot tell when she is being flirted with. At all . Anything less than "I am coming on to you" she Will Not Get.
• Keyshia has a talent for potion-making, and has several bottles of magical brews at her apothecary at home.