Ethel Taveril
Az Persona
Physical Description
Identifying Characteristics
Ethel looks as many humans do in the twilight years of old age. Her features are wrinkled and frail with the many years that she lived. There's a curvature to her spine developed from many hours spent hunched over, hands calloused and worn from repeated motions with a mortar and pestle. While there is a tremble to the way that Ethel walks, there is a steady dexterousness to her hands that she seems she should otherwise be incapable of.
While her eyes appear to be blind, clouded with what appears to be years of cataracts, when using this persona Azzy's eyesight technically remains unchanged. That said, given that sightlessness is one of the facets of this persona, Ethel Taveril is functionally blind and Az will usually rely upon his raven to see for him when using this persona.
Special abilities
A skilled, though perhaps not very well liked, apothecary, Ethel was very adept at creating potions and remedies. Using this persona gives Azzy a proficiency with a herbalism kit, but relies on a muscle memory that can only be tapped into when he is actively using this persona.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Ethel Taveril is a woman that lived and died in the same town for the entirety of her long life. She was the daughter of a healer who was the daughter of a healer and so her destiny was spelled out for her long before she was even born into the world.
Az and Ethel met in the twilight years of her life where she had somehow grown to be rather fond of the changeling and how much he looked like her grandson. Azzy never bothered to question the fact that she had never married nor had any children to give her grandchildren in the first place, nor the indisputable fact that she was already quite blind upon their first meeting.
Though Azzy departed from the town that Miss Taveril resided in before her death, it has been many years since then, and he does not need the confirmation of his patron to know that Ethel no longer walks the Material Plane.
Persona Usage
Other than the times in which Azzy will wear this persona to tap into the herbalist skills that are muscle memory to it, he also has used this persona in the past for the feeble nature of Ethel's appearance. Even the grumpiest elderly are akin to be underestimated if they appear outwardly weak enough, and Az has used this to get himself in (and out of) places he has no business being, or to slip away from confrontations unfettered.Social
Social Aptitude
As is rather common with the severely elderly, Ethel is a rather unpleasant woman. While not necessarily mean-spirited, she's extraordinarily impatient and has absolutely no qualms about airing her discomforts. So long as she's properly catered to, her presence is tolerable and perhaps even marginally liked in the way that even the grumpiest of the elderly can manage to be endearing on occasion.
Speech
Ethel's manner of speech more comes in the forms of various demands that she has little patience waiting to be carried out. She has a tendency to bluntly speak her mind followed by her raspy, ear-grating wheeze of a laugh.
Species
Children
Gender
CIS Female
Eyes
Cloudy and pale
Hair
Graying, unkempt
Character Prototype
Vera Moray/Granny Rags from Dishonored
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