There is a storm inside her

 It had been a weird, short phone call in which Aoife had explained to Genevieve that she wanted to help her with her magic, not just for the safety of Siren Cove but also just to help out another weather witch and maybe for all the times that Mira had helped her (she hadn't mentioned that). 

Either way, Aoife was back for Christmas and New Year's Eve, and she was at the beach, waiting for Genevieve to show up, pushing and pulling at a small gathering of wind above her head. She wasn't completely sure if the woman would show up, and she hoped nobody wanted to use the beach with these temperatures. If they would, Genevieve would have another reason to try really hard to get the elements under control. Who knew who'd you anger with a small rain storm, after all. 

Thor was playing at the water line, barking at the ocean like it was a play mate. He had grown since she had last seen him, but the connection still felt clear enough. Maybe Genevieve needed to find herself a familiar as well. 

OOC PREFERENCES: Permissions for OOC game activity.
CONTACT METHODS: Twitter, e-mail
THREADJACKING: Okay with it.
SLOWTAGGING/BACKTAGGING: Okay.
NSFW: Okay.
AVOIDED SUBJECTS: Everything in moderation


IC CHARACTERISTICS: Information for players.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Pastels, floaty, pale and light. Also in her way of dressing. She's uncomfortable about her lack of figure and likes to cover up legs and/or arms.
DEMEANOR: Hautain, will use arrogance and stand-offishness to cover discomfort
PHYSICAL CONTACT: Unless coming from family or Isaiah, unappreciated
FLIRTING: Not appreciated
RELATIONSHIPS: A rocky one, with Isaiah
HOME INFORMATION: She might be the only one left in the Coombs Mansion
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: Not really


IC PERMISSIONS: Permissions for IC game activity.
RELATIONSHIP CONTROL: Isaiah about relationship things, Ed Cabot and Keira Sullivan about friendship things, every Coombs about family things. All this is (small) details, bigger things after communication, please
MENTAL: Yes
FIGHTING/VIOLENCE: No
LURING: Unless she's with Isaiah, she carries a ward against siren lure.
MAGIC: No, she's covered
OTHER / NOTES: Aoife is always available for plots and threads.


DATE LAST UPDATED: 28/01/15

 It’s almost like Aoife never left. The town feels the same, like before it was covered by media and paparazzi, at least. Like it can breathe again, which makes her feel better as well. She’ll never claim to be tapped in to her surroundings, but some things you just can’t ignore.

Her sister is back to whatever she does, th- that other person she doesn’t need to think about, and Thomas is safe with friends. Maybe Aoife can even relax a little, before she confronts Isaiah about – about them. She knows that she’s been using her time away to find plenty of excuses to make this peter out, and yet there’s some scary bright thing inside her that lights up whenever she thinks of him. He just needs to take the wheel, she’ll follow him into any wreck, just to point out that she warned him and escape.

But right now she doesn’t have to think about any of that. It’s still early, fog is still gathered in the streets like a fluffy duvet for the ground. Some weather witches start out with fog, but for Aoife, rain has always been easiest. Still, she hears its beckoning and steps in closer, lets herself envelop by it with a giggle.

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 Even while walking back home with Alodia, Aoife still found it a weird idea to say goodbye to her childhood home. Was she supposed to hate this place now? Was she supposed to ignore every sweet memory because her mother had spent so many years here as well? Were Moira, Amelie, Aoife and Thomas worse off because their mother was Violet Coombs?

"Everyone was at the front when I left", she points out to Alodia. "I left via the garden gate and I hope we can enter unseen as well. I really don't want to give them more to write about. Just get my stuff and close our grounds to those people."

Maybe I should stay. Be the Coombs that stands her ground for once. It was a brave thought, but Aoife didn't feel brave. She wanted to be comforted without prejudiced, rolled up in someone's hug and not think about anything. Not be responsible for preventing their family house to be wrecked by people that wanted Coombs blood as ink for their pens. 

She approached the gate, impress and heavy and elegant all in one. "Ready?"


OOC so Aoife and Alodia are going to paparazzi-proof the family house. Find them to help or make a bigger mess of the family relationships or take something loved from an old room? 

 My boyfriend's doing a surprise visit from tomorrow morning* until Tuesday night (fun) for a less than fun reason (funeral). So no clue if I will have the time, or the inspiration for playing. Just so you know. 



*my tomorrow morning is GMT +1

 Seeing Moira had made Aoife nervous, and jealous. She would go to Fabrice, they would comfort each other, Aoife would be the one left behind. 
Not that the itch underneath her skin was all her sister's fault. It was just easier to deny the reasons, to blame something else for it, than to acknowledge what was going on. 

Her magic wanted out. The mist - a dark mist - had tickled her and Aoife wanted to demand clouds to crash, wind to break trees, hail to attack the ground she was standing on.

Not many inhabitants of Siren Cove liked the dark woods, and she had walked far enough to make sure she would be alone. Aoife opened the skies.

Aoife got this necklace from her parents on her twelfth birthday. There are several reasons why she has fond memories of it, but the biggest one is that her twin sister got something very different. Her parents had managed to think up TWO different presents for the twins! 
Her father had whispered to her that no matter how scattered she felt, she should always remember that there were lines holding her together and that she should make it a goal in life to find those lines and hold on to them. 
It was also the first golden piece of jewelry she ever received. Before this, it had been silver. Aoife saw it as a hint: from now on she needed to be the Coombs' golden girl.

The 1970 Bentley was a gift from her first boyfriend and Aoife knows that her family frowns upon her for accepting it. At sixteen, she was awkward and Bambi-ish, confused about men's interest in her. But a car comes with status, and Aoife definitely knows that that's something you should cherish. The boyfriend - with his garage owning family - turned into an ex after five weeks, but she fought hard (and used her magic, the only time in her puberty, and the reason why ever since she's frightened of what she can do) to keep the car. So impeccably hers. She only drives it short distances, because she usually doesn't have money for fuel and  doesn't dare go far anyway. But in the car she's cool, impressive, a threat to the small people. 


That Aoife doesn't like her witch-self doesn't mean everything involving magic is banned from her life. Every idea, spell, thought about the things she will one day do, things she should never ever do and things she has tried to not have magic be an important part of her life, are all in here. She hides it in a new spot every few months, because she doesn't trust her family not to 1. use it to make fun of her, 2. try out what she's written down or 3. try to make her try out what she's written down. 








One day Aoife will use this suitcase, fill it up with her measly belongings and disappear into the wide world.
Just become a nobody with a silly suitcase. 

Aoife Cassandra Coombs, twenty-four years old.

PERSONALITY: Aoife is a twin. Even now, at twenty, after fighting hard to build a life - an identity - of her own, she knows all too well that she's nothing without her smarter, funnier, not-so-frightened, twin sister. And don't even get her started about Moira. Her older sister is an amazing, yet terrifying inspiration/image of what Aoife will never be.
Because she's afraid of the world. Afraid of her powers (weather control), afraid of what people will think of her when they hear her family name, afraid of the hate of the Thorntons, afraid of other people's expectations. After giving up on two universities after three months, running away from jobs she only got because of the family name and even failing in running away, she's now little more than a weary animal.
There are two things in her life that make her get up in the morning: making sure that the Thorntons won't ever hurt her and this town again, and the hope that one day she'll become the family favorite. Everyone's favorite.

The worst is that she knows there was a better time. Sure, she was the silent twin, the dreamer, but there were friendships and hobbies and a pride of ownself. It's when puberty hit, their mother turning into a monster about how a Coombs Woman should be, their father's death, and all the insecurity of growing up got amplified. It was easier to retreat back into herself, than to fight and/or leave like Moira.

Aoife can be viewed as cold, clumsy, arrogant and shy at the same time. She's lost and easy to influence.

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