alexa, play burn your village by kiki rockwell

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Name Ariadne Frey Age mid 30s Species Witch
Occupation Business owner Sexuality Bi (her a drink first)

About.

At first glance, Ariadne Frey owns the Jane of All Trades coffeeshop/bookstore/antiquities stop across the street - you know, the one that just opened last week. Or has it always been there? Unimportant.

Her presence behind the till alone is enough to drive business to overnight success, because who doesn't love an interesting face? It's surely the goth-looking, tattooed, aloof woman whipping up flat whites, finding you the best trinket for that friend who really needs a pick-me-up after a bad break-up, or writing by hand - with spotless calligraphy - a notice that says children left unattended will be given coffee. It has nothing to do with the way Jane of All Trades sits on a leyline, or the rituals Ariadne puts into making the storefront as enticing as possible to every passer-by. And it's certainly not because it's run by a witch. The coffee is just that good, you guys.

Beneath the surface, Ariadne is a witch specialising in domestic witchcraft - imbuing cookies with good luck, getting the floors to be spotlessly clean, sewing protection charms into your clothes, house always cosy, tea always perfectly brewed and steaming. The magic she knows was passed down, from generation to generation, dating back to several-times-great-grandmother who was the village witch in some remote place in Eastern Europe. With a healthy dose of respect for the craft, Ariadne has been carrying on the family's talents for years now; Jane of All Trades is a front, with her real talent hiding in the ritualistic spellcraft.

For some years now, she's started adding spells as tattoos on her body. The way they work is the inked incantation make it possible for her to skip with the whole boring bit of drawing a circle and lighting some incense, and just rub her finger over the tattoo to get the magic to work. She has a grimoire that she can summon from a pocket dimension kept in a locket around her neck (read: the Choker of Holding), but the grimoire is very 'domestic witchcraft' focused, so interactions with it usually go like this:

Grimoire: What do you want?

Ariadne: Give me something powerful

Grimoire: I see you are trying to be a powerful witch, have you considered a spell that makes seven perfect bagels?

Ariadne: Fuck.

Needless to say, there is some level of friction and some frustrated ambitions between the inherited talents and what Ariadne would rather be doing. There's a reason the store doesn't linger in place long.

First impressions.

Visual. Human woman, long black hair, black eyes, in her mid-30s. You wouldn't notice her walking by if she didn't want you to. Is well dressed, looks aloof until you speak to her, and then there is a warmth. Has several tattoos, some of them just for the art, and some imbued with spells that allow her to cast magic without needing to draw a circle. Most of them not visible unless you get her naked. (I know the PB has a butterfly tattoo on her neck but we get that it's just nearest approximation and not 1:1 similarities, right?)

Fashion. Mostly wears black, could be accused of 'cosy goth' or 'office goth' on any given day (she'd prefer visigoth, but who's got the money for a full set of armor?). Hair is always on point, appearance is always on point. Unfortunately looks good and smells good at any time of day, such is the nature of domestic magic.

Demeanour. The unfortunate owner of resting bitch face, but don't let that stop you. When you scratch past the surface, she is unexpectedly warm and friendly, maybe even funny. If 'black cat behaviour' could be a person, it would be Ariadne, all the way down to expecting attention and affection out of what she deems hers. Or who.

OOC note.

This whole OC is a work in progress, you guys. As such, details might change as I hash them out (hopefully through rp). I'm pulling inspiration from a bunch of books, and a few original ideas. The tl;dr is: Voicetesting but OTA.

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