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BOSCHA
THE SPIRIT GUIDE
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Code by Yukitera
「 INTRO 」
「 ABOUT 」
「 HISTORY 」
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DANCE, LITTLE FOX
TREAD LIGHT AND
DO NOT STALL,
FOR IN THE MEADOW
WHERE YOU DANCE,
DARK SPIRITS LIE IN WAIT
TO WATCH YOU FALL.
𓃥𓃥𓃥𓃥𓃥𓃥𓃥- 「 INTRO 」◈ THE BASICS ◈
FULL NAMEBOSCHAAKABOAGEphys. 16 to 17 years oldGENDERfemaleSEXUALITYAsexual as a spirit; in mortal form, having had immersed herself in ancient scrolls describing human men of legend, Boscha's curiousity does tend to lean more towards boys!NATIONALITYOf the Spirit WorldOCCUPATIONa Knowledge Keeper of Wan Shi TongALLEGIANCEholds an infallible belief in the goodness of humanityALIGNMENTLawful goodROLETHE SPIRIT GUIDE◈ APPEARANCE ◈
descriptionAs a spirit, Boscha was a small yet sprightly fox with dusk orange fur, black-tie legs and a narrow, clever snout with no whiskers, as was the trademark of Knowledge Seekers. Her most prominent features were her long, elegant charcoal ears and sharp pale, bluish-ember eyes. Now 'cursed' as a human, these two prominent features are what stuck with her the most. Her new fur, relegated almost solely to her head, is a long, wavy tumble of umber. Larger-than-life, black-brown fox ears sprout elegantly from the sides. She stayed as versatile and lithe in this mortal realm as she was in the spiritual one.
dist. featuresObviously, there are quite a few things 'off' about human Bo. Firstly, there's her ears: much larger, animal-like, pointed. And though not usually visible thanks to human clothing, Boscha's tail is now as dark as cocoa with a white tip. She is able to retract and protract nails that are naturally longer and spear-like, darkening at the ends.
height & weight5'1 (152.4 cm) // 112lbs (50.8 kg)
◈ ABILITIES ◈
MAIN BENDING TYPEBoscha is not a bender of the elements. She still retains her animalistic capabilities though, which means that she possesses fox-like sense of smell, hearing, eyesight, agility and speed.
PROFICIENCY | N/ASUB-BENDING TYPEN/A
PROFICIENCY | N/A
MISC. SKILL PROFICIENCYSmell | 9
Hearing | 8
Eyesight | 8
Agility | 7
Speed | 7
- 「 ABOUT 」◈ PERSONALITY ◈
descriptionIf one were to choose a word to encapsulate Boscha, it would undoubtedly be "dreamer." On one hand, she embodies the gentle form of dreaming, gazing pensively out of windows with starry eyes and a mind lost in the clouds. Her imagination skillfully intertwines the stray threads of her thoughts, weaving them into vivid visions of the future. Her time is consumed by delving into the pages of ancient manuscripts, her ideals mirroring those of legendary heroes, and her very existence plays out within the realms of her imagination.
Conversely, Boscha is also a fervent dreamer, driven by a relentless pursuit of the loftiest ideals that propels her beyond conventional limits. This is the dreamer who extols the virtues of bravery in the face of the seemingly impossible, occasionally mistaken for sheer foolishness. This passion brings to the forefront her profound zest for life and genuine love for those who navigate its intricacies. It is a passion that ignites the flames of curiosity, prompting a relentless stream of questions that may, at times, overlook personal boundaries and emotions. This intense passion for dreaming has, however, left her somewhat deficient in practical matters, and her inclination for thinking beyond the confines of the norm may cause her to forget that the proverbial box has four sturdy walls for a reason.
traitsvirtues+ IDEALIST
ᵒⁿᵉ ʷʰᵒ ᶜʰᵉʳᶦˢʰᵉˢ ᵒʳ ᵖᵘʳˢᵘᵉˢ ʰᶦᵍʰ ᵒʳ ⁿᵒᵇˡᵉ ᵖʳᶦⁿᶜᶦᵖˡᵉˢ, ᵖᵘʳᵖᵒˢᵉˢ, ᵍᵒᵃˡˢ, ᵉᵗᶜ. ᵃ ᵛᶦˢᶦᵒⁿᵃʳʸ ᵒʳ ᶦᵐᵖʳᵃᶜᵗᶦᶜᵃˡ ᵖᵉʳˢᵒⁿ. ᵃ ᵖᵉʳˢᵒⁿ ʷʰᵒ ʳᵉᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗˢ ᵗʰᶦⁿᵍˢ ᵃˢ ᵗʰᵉʸ ᵐᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵒʳ ˢʰᵒᵘˡᵈ ᵇᵉ, ʳᵃᵗʰᵉʳ ᵗʰᵃⁿ ᵃˢ ᵗʰᵉʸ ᵃʳᵉ.
+ CONSCIENTIOUS
ʷᶦˢʰᶦⁿᵍ ᵗᵒ ᵈᵒ ʷʰᵃᵗ ᶦˢ ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ, ᵉˢᵖᵉᶜᶦᵃˡˡʸ ᵗᵒ ᵈᵒ ᵒⁿᵉ'ˢ ʷᵒʳᵏ ᵒʳ ᵈᵘᵗʸ ʷᵉˡˡ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵒʳᵒᵘᵍʰˡʸ.
+ METTLESOME
ᶠᵘˡˡ ᵒᶠ ˢᵖᶦʳᶦᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶜᵒᵘʳᵃᵍᵉ
+ IMAGINATIVE
ᶜʰᵃʳᵃᶜᵗᵉʳᶦᶻᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ᶜʳᵉᵃᵗᶦᵛᶦᵗʸ, ᵒʳᶦᵍᶦⁿᵃˡᶦᵗʸ, ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃ ᵖʳᵒᵖᵉⁿˢᶦᵗʸ ᶠᵒʳ ᵛᶦᵛᶦᵈ ᵐᵉⁿᵗᵃˡ ᵉˣᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶦⁿⁿᵒᵛᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿ.
neutral= GUILELESS
ᶜʰᵃʳᵃᶜᵗᵉʳᶦᶻᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ˢᶦⁿᶜᵉʳᶦᵗʸ, ᵃ ˡᵃᶜᵏ ᶦⁿ ᶜᵘⁿⁿᶦⁿᵍ ᵒʳ ᵃʷᵃʳᵉⁿᵉˢˢ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵒʳˡᵈ ᵃⁿᵈ ʷᵒʳˡᵈˡʸ ᵗʰᶦⁿᵍˢ; ᶦⁿⁿᵒᶜᵉⁿᶜᵉ ᵒʳ ⁿᵃᶦᵛᵉᵗᵉ
= IMPRESSIONABLE
ᵉᵃˢᶦˡʸ ᶦᵐᵖʳᵉˢˢᵉᵈ ᵒʳ ᶦⁿᶠˡᵘᵉⁿᶜᵉᵈ
vices- IMPULSIVE
ᶜʰᵃʳᵃᶜᵗᵉʳᶦᶻᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ˢᶦⁿᶜᵉʳᶦᵗʸ, ᵃ ˡᵃᶜᵏ ᶦⁿ ᶜᵘⁿⁿᶦⁿᵍ ᵒʳ ᵃʷᵃʳᵉⁿᵉˢˢ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵒʳˡᵈ ᵃⁿᵈ ʷᵒʳˡᵈˡʸ ᵗʰᶦⁿᵍˢ; ᶦⁿⁿᵒᶜᵉⁿᶜᵉ ᵒʳ ⁿᵃᶦᵛᵉᵗᵉ
- STUBBORN
ʰᵃᵛᶦⁿᵍ ᵒʳ ˢʰᵒʷᶦⁿᵍ ᵈᵒᵍᵍᵉᵈ ᵈᵉᵗᵉʳᵐᶦⁿᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵗᵒ ᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᵉ ᵒⁿᵉ'ˢ ᵃᵗᵗᶦᵗᵘᵈᵉ ᵒʳ ᵖᵒˢᶦᵗᶦᵒⁿ ᵒⁿ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵗʰᶦⁿᵍ, ᵉˢᵖᵉᶜᶦᵃˡˡʸ ᶦⁿ ˢᵖᶦᵗᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵍᵒᵒᵈ ᵃʳᵍᵘᵐᵉⁿᵗˢ ᵒʳ ʳᵉᵃˢᵒⁿˢ ᵗᵒ ᵈᵒ ˢᵒ.
- DISTRACTIBLE
ᵉᵃˢᶦˡʸ ᵈᶦˢᵗʳᵃᶜᵗᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ˢᵐᵃˡˡ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶦʳʳᵉˡᵉᵛᵃⁿᵗ ˢᵗᶦᵐᵘˡᶦ.
- INTRUSIVE
ᶜʰᵃʳᵃᶜᵗᵉʳᶦᶻᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ᵃ ᵗᵃᶜᵗˡᵉˢˢ ᵒʳ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳʷᶦˢᵉ ᵒᵇʲᵉᶜᵗᶦᵒⁿᵃᵇˡᵉ ᵗʰʳᵘˢᵗᶦⁿᵍ ᶦⁿᵗᵒ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳˢ' ᵃᶠᶠᵃᶦʳˢ.
◈ OC QUESTIONS ◈
favorite season?From what she had read about the seasons in the Spirit World, Boscha is wholeheartedly convinced her favorite season is fall!favorite atla animal?As a former spirit fox, Boscha always wondered whateatingmeeting a squirrel would be like...VIEW ON THE STATE OF THEIR NATION?For Bo, it is hard to see and reconcile what is happening to the Spirit World. An illness, growing since the disappearance of the Avatar, has begun to ravage and the symptoms are clear as day thanks to the dark spirits bleeding into the mortal realm. She believes that both realms are at their core, sisters, reflections of each other and meant to share an eternal universal bond. She believes earnestly that the knowledge she now holds is the key to saving the only thing that can realize her vision of both worlds coming back into harmony: the Avatar.VIEW ON THE FIRE NATION?Knowing little of the details on what has happened to the Fire Nation since the disappearance of the Avatar, Boscha can only go off of what she knows of the old regime. She sees the Fire Nation as the reason for why a being like her master Wan Shi Tong, could justify his own hatred for humans. On the one hand, there is no denying the rich, ambitious, powerful history of ancient Fire Nation that Bo's read in the archives. On the other, it is this exact ambition and power that had tipped the scales of the mortal world for so long. Despite the difficulty she has reconciling the two, Bo earnestly wants and believes that glory can and will be brought back to the Fire Nation, but only with the help of the Avatar.VIEW ON THEIR ATLA CANON PARENT/MENTOR?Despite their difference in status back home in the Spirit World, the older Knowledge Seeker fox Kanon always tried to have her back, even at the end, when she was banished. He was as gruff and tough as they come, but Boscha could tell he cared for her more than he was willing to admit. She sees him as a distant father figure of sorts and holds him in very high regard.WHAT IS THEIR BIGGEST FEAR?Boscha's biggest fear is the fear of failure. Failing to live up to the reality, failing to accomplish the terms of her banishment, failing to save the world and the Avatar simply because her dreams stretched a little too far.
- 「 HISTORY 」◈ HISTORY ◈
descriptionBrought into being just before the Owl's bitter retreat into the Spirit World, Boscha's memories of the underground archive and the rebellion were almost nonexistent. Instead, her roots began in the ethereal, nonsensical realm of the Spirit World, surrounded by nothing but endless labrynthian halls full of scrolls and books and artifacts that were her duty to keep and preserve.
Tomes upon tomes of manuscripts, lines upon lines of ancient relics. The wisdom of thousands at one's fingertip; the arts and treasures of countless civilizations just at an arm's length; the histories and records of the past all in the same place in all their absolute grandeur. Hidden, where their fragile states would face no threat of destruction, no threat of violation by wayward eyes and have no chance of ever returning to the mortal places of their very creation.
To the unsuspecting or the quiet intellect, executing such a purpose would be paradise. But as one tethered to their care, a certain young fox spirit could not help but see that despite its magnificence and splendour, the Spirit Library was little more than a gilded cage that she called home. Despite the prestige of being so close to the very essence of the past, there was one very crucial fact that could not be ignored: Boscha was, at almost every occasion, utterly alone.
Of course, she was not the only one of her station. There were other Knowledge Keepers, but contact was often fleeting and perfunctory. Their first and foremost duties were to the Library, not each other. It didn't help that she was a relatively young spirit or that there was in fact an unspoken pecking order within the ranks of the foxes. The status of Knowledge Seeker was a privilege held mostly by Wan Shi Tong's most loyal, and often oldest assistants. They were superior in almost every sense: strength, size, agility, stealth. They were elders of the pack, the elite who possessed the rarest treasure in all of the Library: Wan Shi Tong's trust.
In Bo's eyes, they were idols, and most importantly, the closest connections she had to the other side.
Unfortunately, not many took to a youngling, most especially a mere Keeper's, rapt and unceasing attention. Like Wan Shi Tong, this elite group of fox spirits were tight-lipped and rigid. A loose cannon, a nuisance, unorthodox in her manner and in her questionable sympathies towards the mortal world, who would do well to stay in her own lane. Many saw her in this way, but not all. One such Knowledge Seeker was an older fox spirit by the name of Kanon. He was no gentle giant, but for whatever reason, he tolerated her and kept her in line as best he could, within the confines of the Spirit Library's social order.
Through the precious conversations she and Kanon exchanged when he was in the Spirit World, Boscha learned bits and pieces about the intricacies of the human world, nuances that she could have never gleaned from the countless scrolls and books she read. Though it was expressly forbidden by Wan Shi Tong, when Kanon was in a good mood, Bo's questions would mold slowly from being about sites of artifacts into inquiries about the humans themselves. What were they like? What were the states of the nations? How were they living?
The answers almost never gave away the full picture, but they were enough. Enough to fuel what started out as embers into flames of burning curiousity, blurring the lines between her spirit duty and her humanlike desire to reach beyond her own nature.
Though she was almost too young to ever remember, there was no doubt that the Avatar's disappearance was an event that shook the foundations of both realms. Stubborn entities like Wan Shi Tong may refuse to see it, but the Spirit World was fracturing. Crevice by crevice, inch by inch, a chasm was forming. One that only the Avatar, half human and half spirit, could bridge over. But where was he?
It was a question that was left hanging, on windowsills, doorknobs, spirit branches and off of dusty old books in the Spirit Library. Wan Shi Tong, He Who Knows Ten Thousand Things and his closest spirits knew that the Avatar was no longer in the earthly realm. He was in the Spirit World, but it had been clear from the moment they came back that Wan Shi Tong had no interest in finding out where precisely. The highest cardinal sin of the Library was the involvement or meddling of humans, even the great Avatar himself, in its great mission. The Great Owl had come back to escape the humans entirely, an action that some could say was a sign early on, of a darkness that made him scornfully blind to all but his Library.
So when his Knowledge Seekers began to come back home bleeding and reporting accounts of being attacked by dark spirits, Wan Shi Tong did nothing, nothing but continue on as before. When Knowledge Seekers started to not come back, he began to seal himself further away within the depths of the Library, in corners where even the most savvy of his assistants did not venture in.
Except for Boscha, that is.
Call it a hero's complex, call it a fool's errand, call it the most dangerous thing she'd ever done. Kanon certainly would have, but he was too injured from his own encounter with a dark spirit to stop her. The answer to the question of the Avatar had to be in the vast archives somewhere.
And she was right.
Through a pain-staking trail of following one clue of a manuscript to another, the pieces all began to fall into place as Boscha learned of the existence of an ancient scroll detailing a compass that the very first Avatar used when he visited the Spirit World. A compass that, if assembled correctly with the right materials, could lead one to the boy Avatar, Aang. The scroll was almost inconspicuous, but it made up for it in its dicey location: the chambers of Wan Shi Tong himself.
It breached all levels of Library protocol. Kanon, by that time well enough to move, refused vehemently to help her, threatening to betray her plans to the Owl himself in an effort to convince her to not follow through, the human world be damned. But Boscha could never see it that way. This was the point of no return.
And no return it was.
Her plan was to bring it to the humans. Bring it to the humans and come back, dodging dark spirits along the way. It was simple, it was quick, it was the kind of plan that could have had her home by the next cycle. But then, anything human was hardly ever simple.
She was brought before Wan Shi Tong himself. It was the first time the young spirit had ever seen her master so close, and it frightened her to the core. His expression was sharp with a simmering anger, but it was clear that for whatever reason, the anger was restrained. It was at this moment Boscha caught the eye of Kanon, who stood to the Great Owl's right, with eyes that said, I'm sorry. This was the best I could do for you.
Banishment. She was no longer to be a Keeper, no longer to be a spirit, no longer to have a home. It was harsh, some could say even cruel, but, moved by the words of one of his closest assistants, Wan Shi Tong made a move of mercy.
"If it a Knowledge Seeker you wish to become, so be it. By a year's time in the mortal world, you must learn three things," he commanded. "What dwells in man, what is not given to man, and what men live by. Only then, and only then, will you be able to regain all that of which you have lost."
She had lost. Lost everything she had ever known for a world she only ever knew from texts of the past. But that was the bargain, that was the price for her dreams. And little did she know, it was a price worth paying for.
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