| Relatives | The Pale King (father), Hera the Beast (mother), Ghost (sibling), Hollow (sibling) |
|---|---|
| Languages | Common |
| Affiliations | Silver Lining Crew |
| Aliases | The Human Child |
| Marital Status | Unwed |
| Place of Birth | Deepnest |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female (she/her) |
| Height | 5’0 |
| Weight | 100 lbs |
| Eye Color | Red |
Hornet is the princess of the lost kingdom of [redacted], though she has long since left that life behind. She pilots an SSC Monarch mech. Hornet shows up in the Lancer open table campaign In The Shadows of a Willow.
Physical Appearance[edit | edit source]
Hornet is relatively short, being just five feet tall, though her cool demeanor and hard-set eyes more than make up for her lack of height. She has long white hair, sharp red irises, and fair skin. Her body had a decent amount of muscle and faded scars from years spent fighting, but this is usually obscured beneath her chosen attire. Hornet’s typical pilot outfit is a black bodysuit under a red cloak that has been outfitted with flight capabilities. When activated, the cloak flares out with feathery, white wings.
Personality[edit | edit source]
Hornet is fairly blunt and can come across as aloof. She puts much of her focus into finding effective and efficient ways to achieve whatever task is currently at hand. According to her, she once reveled in her own strength, but has since come to view it as a tool. Hornet has a cool disdain for most NHPs, though this hasn’t prevented her from working with them if she deems it necessary. The obvious exceptions to this disdain are her legionnaire siblings Ghost and Hollow (who are essentially NHPs within artificial bodies). Despite her task-focused nature, Hornet enjoys putting good into the world where possible. In quiet moments, she finds comfort in playing music.
History[edit | edit source]
“Once, we knew not of gods.
Perhaps that was their greatest trick:
Coming unto us when we were nonbelievers.”
—Lament for [redacted]
The Pale King couldn’t have been human, nor could he have been a paracausal flicker like RA. For what human is so unknowable, and what being of paradox has such concrete wants? The people who came to speak of him took to calling him a Higher Being. Whatever he was, he appeared as a handsome human man, bearing a strength more powerful than any mech: a will which could not and would not be ignored. He claimed a kingdom for himself on an unsuspecting planet, and he named that kingdom [redacted]. The Pale King took a wife for himself who came to be called the White Lady. What she may have been named before does not matter. Together, they ruled their kingdom in simple, perfect tranquility. Yet, for all his stunning and terrible identity, the Pale King was not the only such Higher Being who wanted his kingdom. The Radiance may have come before him and she may have been blissfully dormant before the undeniable will of the Pale King awakened her. Regardless, she had no desire to become a forgotten page in the king’s legacy. To be so desperate to avoid being forgotten is something deeply human, isn’t it? How strange, that beings beyond mortality can sometimes cross lines so familiar to the mortal mind.
Hornet’s birth was the result of a bargain between The Pale King and the Queen of Deepnest, Hera.
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