Samaya

An alt of FEF. Original still image by EcchiPandaa.
Name: Samaya
Age: Unknown 20 years since appearance in current time
Weight: 98 lbs (44 kg)
Height: 4’11” (149 cm)



Samaya,

If you're reading this, you probably want an explanation.

But first and foremost, we want to apologize to you. We never wanted to abandon you like this. It was the most difficult decision we ever had to make, as your parents. We don't expect your forgiveness, but we hope once you've found our messages, you'll at least come to understand why we had to do this.

Samaya’s presence has always had an odd effect on the timespace surrounding her. Her body, as well as any objects within a few feet, move at about 80% of regular speed. Occasionally, her body will flicker and fade in and out of time itself.

This lends her a rather ethereal presence, her every movement seeming unnatural. The eerie way her hair and clothes seem to suspend in midair has lead the local populace to refer to her as “The Azure Phantom”.

As a result of the superstitions surrounding her, Samaya has never met a town she hasn’t been exiled from shortly thereafter. She lives in the woods, in a cozy, secluded cottage she found abandoned. She spends her days tinkering with broken clocks she scavenges from local dumps. Of course, Samaya’s odd power offsets the hands of the clocks, meaning each clock is uniquely wrong. Nevertheless, she takes solace in their familiar ticking sounds.

She’s never learned what exactly she is, but has nevertheless has managed to leverage her chrono-powers to offset her innate disadvantage. Although hunting wild animals is tricky when they move 20% faster than you, Samaya has discovered that [ she can imbue small objects with a field that will slow down or speed up the flow of time in a small area.] To this end, she prefers to use the petals of the flowers she adorns her hair with, and she's begun leveraging her time powers to efficiently grow a garden of these flowers outside of her abode. As a result, the local villagers have come to fear these flowers, just as they have the girl herself. When caught off-guard, Samaya is basically helpless, but given time to prepare, she can accomplish incredible feats with even this rudimentary control of her abilities..

Understandably, her past encoutners with other humans have trained Samaya to be cautious when first meeting someone. However, far from being shy, she'll open up to strangers quite quickly, provided they don't run from or assault her like so many others have. She doesn't really understand the customs of polite society and can come off as somewhat rude at times, but she's ultimately a good-hearted girl.

While for the moment Samaya remains anchored down in a specific time, that anchor rests on loose and shifting sands. Thus, she’s able to be played in just about any setting. Don’t sweat the details, just blame it on wibbly wobbly, timey wimey … stuff.

Oh, and to state the obvious, Samaya’s abilities will also create some oddities during vorish processes. But rather than explain them all here, it would be more fun to see for yourself, don’t you think? Click the button below for a larger version of the profile image, without animation.

We can't explain everything to you here. There are those whom we cannot allow access to the information. It is for your eyes alone. The clue to the whereabouts of the next message is:

"profile/isikhathi".

Hopefully you - and you alone - will know what this means.