STATISTICS

Noelle Greenway

FULL NAME

Noelle. You might get away with Prickles if you're very special

AKA

Unknown but very old

AGE

If she celebrates, it's during Yule

BIRTHDAY

Pansexual

SEXUALITY

Single

RELATIONSHIP STATUS

House by the lake, backing the woods

RESIDENCE

Owns a string of green houses, along with a florist

OCCUPATION

Dryad/nymph

SPECIES

PERSONALITY

Noelle is much like the holly tree she really is -- prickly and occasionally poisonous. Her people skills can be rough sometimes, despite having spent a fair amount of time with them. She can be very literal at times and miss references to things that make sense to humans. However, she has nothing at all against sex with just about anyone. You just have to watch what season you're in or you might get more than you bargain for, as when she's in berry season she can make you rather ill if you kiss her.

It's very apparent if you spend a fair amount of time with Noelle that she really isn't human, or not completely. She mimics some of it well, and she does have her own set of emotions and thoughts, It's simply that she isn't human. And she's prickly and moody and doesn't particularly appreciate what people do to the environment. But she also has a huge well of kindness and patience.

She can be quite humorous, though it's often of the raunchy, earthy sort, quite appropriately considering what she is. She can also be mischievous. Sometimes she toys with people, purposefully misunderstanding, though people don't always catch on that she's doing so, as sometimes she really means what she says.

She does care about others, though. It just doesn't always show in typical ways. Her sense of humor is off beat. She can be very affectionate physically, or very offputting.

It takes a lot to genuinely frighten or anger Noelle; she has a calmness like a tree. Severe weather, threats to her tree, earthquakes of strength or fire especially can scare her. She can react several ways -- freezing up, fleeing, or reacting very violently. The older she gets, the more the last option happens, especially if someone else is threatened, except if her tree is at risk.

Above all, though, she is honest, most of the time bluntly so. She tells the truth as she sees it, which isn't always as others see it. She is old, and sometimes jaded, but she hasn't lost all hope. She is steadfast and true to those who have earned it.

APPEARANCE

PB: Emilia Clarke

Her appearance changes some with the seasons. In winter, her hair turns white; spring, a paler brown. Summer is a rich mahogany and fall somewhat auburn. Winter often brings berries into her hair and on her ears, which means you need to watch it as they're mildly poisonous and can make you ill.

Her eyes are generally a blue-grey color, however occasionally they'll shift green or brown. It's a product of being a tree.

She's svelte and, well, nymph-like. They didn't get their attractive reputation for nothing, after all. Most find her very good looking, and modesty is something of a mystery to her, as she doesn't understand it. Her figure is quite nice.

Keeping clothes on Noelle is very difficult. She doesn't see the point in them, always pointing out she's a tree even though she appears to be very much a female human. She'd be perfectly at home in a nudist colony, and everyone is constantly at least keep her out of sight of others or clothed when she is around them. Sometimes she toys with people about this, but often it is simply how she is.

HISTORY

Noelle is unique and considered rather deviant among her kind. She travels with her tree, which has been bonsaied, and in fact has a couple of other trees in a few locations. She's always enjoyed travel and that in itself is inexplicable to most rooted beings. She can even travel farther from her bonsai than many would thing so long as she carries a small bit of dirt or a branch on her person.

When she was quite young, barely able to slip out of her tree as a child, a group of men came to her grove. They were rough men who wanted to indulge freely on the dryads and nymphs, who normally don't mind so much except they wanted it by force. When all hid in their trees and flora, they were maddened and set fire to the grove.

Noelle was frightened out of her tree, which was a small holly. Panicked and afraid, she accidentally broke a large part of her tree off (which hurt worse than anything... until the fire got to the rest of it) and fled, clinging to it.

She was found, nearly dead, by a traveling woman in a caravan, who took her in, knew her for what she was, and managed to coax new roots from her branch and grow her home anew.

Thus started Noelle's travels and education.

Noelle has no concept of when or where this was. Many years blur completely together for her. But the woman taught her of the nature around her, of herbs and healing and poultices and human and animal anatomy and hurts. She taught her all these things, though bedside manner never quite made its way through Noelle's head.

After the woman's death in a rock slide, Noelle traveled. Sometimes with people, sometimes without. She doesn't like people as a whole, but individuals she can love.

Her emotions aren't human, precisely. She is a tree after all. But she does have them. They aren't always considered socially acceptable, but she has them.

Over time she started more than one tree and hid them away in the wild places, close calls as well as paranoia from her youth compelling her to have a back up. This is considered nigh unto insane by her kind, but she doesn't really believe she's suffered for it aside from accidents happening to a few of her parts. (Her bonsai has been destroyed several times, thus her paranoia in safeguarding herself)

Noelle sometimes disappears for a decade or two at a time, to some wild places. But she has acclimated to people as well, and so feels drawn back towards them despite herself. As someone who has lived a very long time, she has accrued assets to keep her going. She has greenhouses scattered many places, as well as land, but she's been settled at her greenhouses and florist for quite a while. She has an online essential oil thing going, as well. Her best person owns an eclectic shop that sells dried herbs, some live plants, and other such things, in a partnership with her. Her dryad gifts include helping things grow, heal, and all of that sort of stuff. She's not quite immortal, so long as her tree lives, but she can be hurt and can be killed.

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