And I was in the darkness. So darkness I became.
Character Information...
Name: Finley Cahill
Nicknames: Fin
Height: 5'4
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Silver
Birth Place: Earth
Current Home: Asmiara
Species: Noroci
Sexual Preference: Demisexual
Face Claim: Anastasia by Maksim Mashnenko
Birth of a Monster...
They say a Noroci is born when a person has nothing left when the world has become so dark that their soul mirrors the darkness they see in the rest of the world, and they steal another's light. That is what they say. The say they are born from countless lifetimes of having horrible things happen to them. And in these lifetimes their belief in the goodness of their fellow man fades, darkening their soul each and every lifetime. They become cold and stop caring about their fellow man or care for very few and they start to crave the light trying to fill the empty void within themselves.
They might exist this way for centuries but one day they always turn from a human Noroci into a beast the day they feed for the first time on another being by taking their light. They remove the victims eyes and they consume them,leaving the victim to become lost in their own mind and wander blindly in the dark until they die and in the process they become a beast. The transformation to true Noroci is complete and the soul turns black as are doomed to be a monster on the outside and the inside seeking nothing but to consume the light of others for all time.
Or so we all believed. It was long wondered if anything remained of the person that they were and if it was possible to bring such a person back and if it was what would they become. Finley was the first of her kind go ever be brought back. The man Iejiel being tasked with bringing the head of a Noroci, a beast that has only been killed once by the witch queen Astrea. He decided to take it one step further and end a Noroci not in death but by returning her to life because if the test was about proving he could protect his love Everleigh, he would prove he could do more than just protect her from the monster outside but he could protect from the monsters within.
A Life of Servitude...
Finley had started her life before she became a monster in ancient Rome. She had always been angry at the world around her. But, she managed to keep her thoughts to herself, watching her parents who like her were born slaves, serve their master. She had few friends growing up. Most people saw her strange distance behavior as odd and tried to avoid the young girl. It was fine by her but it seemed to make her master nervous. He was cruel to her like so many of his slaves but their was something in her eyes. Those strange eyes of her that seemed to bug him and yet draw him towards her.
Life was hard for her family. They were always at the whims of their master an a society that viewed them as nothing more than property meant for the amusements of others. It was the slave upraising that would change everything for her family. People were always afraid that the slaves were going to joint he rebellion, even speaking the wrong words could get one killed and her parents were among those that were killed. Her mother stoned for simply speaking the wrong name to someone and her father condemned to die in the arena.
She would have met the same fate as her parents if she hadn't gotten mad and struck back at the men who came to take her away. By some power she had no idea she had she managed to survive to fight back and kill her master and his men, fleeing into mountains it was there she would join the slave rebellion. It was in this she found a sort of home. Because she could focus all that angry inside of her soul on the task of killing her enemies. She found power in the battle field and a love of violence, losing herself to the carnage.
It was here that she would go from a soul that was darkened to a human Noroci. The rebellion was crushed and those that survived were crucified, Finley was among them though whether her real name or one she took later no one knows. But, she died on the cross like so many others but the darkness whispered to her, and she could see the pain of her life and so many lives before it and in that rage. She pulled herself off the cross and was reborn as something else.
A New Beginning...
Leaving Rome behind she wandered on her on. Hating the world but still longing to find a place to belong. She still had pieces of her humanity and she craved the light of others but was able to resist it. She came upon a place. A place known as Shangri La and it was here she met the man who would mean more to her than life. The pure soul and Lord of the land. The two of them fell in love but she knew to love her was to condemn him. She could feel herself slipping more and more into the madness and knew some day she would fall even further for it was the destiny of her kind.
She became pregnant and with it her cravings increased she asked herself how she could bring a life into the world when she was nothing but dark and how it would effect her child. But, while she was with child she was so consumed with need that she took the eyes from someone and so she began to change into a beast. She managed to fight off the transformation long enough to give birth to a beautiful baby girl, hoping the child wasn't corrupted she transformed and fled in order to keep her husband and daughter safe and his people.
She was unsure exactly what she was but she was compelled to leave and she found her own kind on a place called Asmiara. She left her own world behind and along with it the rest of her humanity. As she stalked the Forbidden Forest as a Noroci. She sought out people devouring their eyes and with it their lives, driving them made for countless centuries.
In the dreamscape she came upon a young man who would change everything. He offered her his life to save her and for the first time other than her husband, who as a pure soul couldn't offer his light. Someone gave her something. He was doing it for his own love to gain a way to save her in exchange for performing tasks. But, he said he had to honor her and that if he left her as this it would not honor the girl that she was or something like that. She didn't understand it but it spoke to the long buried parts of herself.
She agreed to let him try in the end and it awoken something in her. Changing her in part to the girl that she was a long time ago, but different from her time as a monster. She came crashing out of the dreamscape unsure of what this new existence means to her. But, she has been given a second chance and due to promises she made she is going to make the most of it.
