Chanel Lyang

Chanel Lee [she/her], better known as the Sprite Butler, is a mysterious entity who works for the D’Aulnoy Division of the Fairytale Authorities - an organisation mostly dedicated to keeping legacies from deviating from the norm, and assigning “nonlegacies” to “fill in” needed roles.

She spends most of her time in her office, somewhere in France, but one might find her around in Faerieland, on a business excursion, and very (very, very) occasionally, prodding around the school archives at Ever After High.

Personality
Well, for starters, does Chanel even have one? The fae seems to take on whatever character is necessary - the wise mentor, the smooth-talking businessperson, the good or bad or ugly cop.

She possesses a sharp, acerbic wit, and has a penchant for details, legalities and loopholes. As a student of rhetoric and logography, Chanel has an uncanny ability to twist her words - and even that of others. Within half-an-hour, she can convince you that you committed of a crime that didn’t even exist, despite all evidence to the contrary, or make a compelling philosophical argument against all standard morality.

What she can’t do is tell a bare-faced lie, and will often use speechwriter’s logic to get through that barrier.

To most, she appears unassuming, perhaps a tad meek, with a hidden wit and charm.

Granted, it’s a good persona to have when your job is striking business deals and ruining other people’s lives.

Appearance
Typically, Chanel appears as an adult female, with pale skin, thin brown eyes and browning hair. She is generally seen as being of East Asian descent.

A pair of pointed ears peak out behind her hair - denoting fae heritage. Most people, given her epithet “the Sprite Butler”, would assume her as a sprite.

She does have a changeling form - her body is pink and her skin is ice-cold. Neither form sports any wings.

Hobbies and Interests
TBA

How it Goes
wikipedia page

How does Spritey comes into it?
Like any other changeling. They kidnapped a host, and replaced it with herself.

Parallels

 * TBA

Backstory
It is believed that Chanel Lee’s host was an adoptee from somewhere in East Asia, raised by rich American parents - a white, new money couple with a penchant for adopting foreign kids and going on overseas golf trips.

It is rumoured that it was on one of these golf trips (to somewhere in the British Isles, the parents didn't care enough to differentiate between the countries) that Chanel Lee’s host was replaced. The replacement went mostly unnoticed by the couple, who were not observant enough to care, too busy seeking out million dollar swimming pools and more foreign kids to adopt.

Changelings feed off attention. Or human love or care. Or whatever. Growing up had been a very cold sort of existence for the changeling, and she was beginning to wonder whether she picked the wrong host.

Eventually, she found a degree of interest in numbers - economics in particular had a certain appeal. She made efforts to secure a job as a banker.

Existence was more than merely cold - it was stagnant, it was predictable, it was boring. For a changeling, for one of myth and folklore, it seemed intolerable.

In her early twenties, her sister’s fiance would show up murdered without explanation, and Chanel would have been forced to flee the country, taking her Mirror-on-the-Wall Street dreams and money she sneaked from her host parents’ fortune with her.

It is the law of literature that the best way to hide something was in plain sight.

So she donned a persona as a shifty, fickle fae, and the name “Chanel Lee”, and ran.

To Montreal first, for ease, then off to France -- an ocean away from what had been her life, and a whole world closer to her old home. It was a country, unlike the one she grew up in, that actually gave a care towards fairytales, and even - thankfully - some begrudging respect towards the fae.

Her quick-wit and sly businessperson skills enabled her to climb up the job ladder, step on others along the way, finally securing a place with the Fairytale Authorities.

Host Family
After messing up and committing murder all those years ago, Chanel has yet to reconnect with her ‘family’. They haven't made much of an attempt to reconnect with her either.

Original Family
Chanel returns frequently to Faerieland, mostly to catch up on gossip. Occasionally, she makes a visit to her host. They get along with a degree of civility, though the other woman is still harbours a decent grudge over her one chance of a family being taken away from her.

Co-Workers
they exist I'll write about them later

Lenin Marx Lexwington: She's regularly irked by Lenny’s antics (and doesn't fail to reprimand him for them - his paycheck suffers with each new shenanigan).

Outside of the D'Aulnoy Division, Chanel is aware of others in the Fairytale Authorities, namely a certain Grim(m) Reaper.

Enemies
Utility Feng never fails to get on Chanel’s nerves. The other changeling is an utter mess and disgrace to their fae race, Chanel is prone to think. A shame that they've defected, gone native (ie, fully accepted humanhood), and ignore their heritage completely.

But what annoys Chanel more than Utility’s lack of care towards being a changeling is how much Utility utterly cares about the Fairytale Authorities. Chanel finds the young scientist’s actions invasive and weird and obsessive. She has made a permanent note not to let the other fae onto the staff board of any division - none whatsoever at all - of the FA.

Gallery
I have so many sketches of her it's maddening

Trivia

 * Originally Zena’s EAHsona. Ended up getting her own storyline, became far too separated from Zena and was better off as her own character.
 * Chanel Lee is clearly a pun on changeling.