Airmid Valerian

"In no way am I worried about not being able to excel in my destiny. It's CANdle not CAN'Tdle"

- Airmid when asked about destiny

Airmid Valerian is the child of Godfather Death, from the same tale of the same name. However, she is following the path of her late surrogate brother, not the Godfather himself.

Airmid is agender, and uses she/her or they/their pronouns. For the sake of this article, I will be using 'she' pronouns, but generally I will use both.

As the next physician of Death, Airmid is a huge advocate of the scientific process and the pursuit of knowledge. She believes in the innate goodness of people, resulting in her having a protective nature over people. Airmid is not unhappy with her destiny – in fact, she's fond of most of it, especially being recognised as a world-famous physician. She's even fond of the part of the princess.

However, she dislikes the idea of sacrificing her job and her life simply because of the physical attraction she may or may not experience for a pretty princess. That makes her feel her future demise is undignified and shameful.

She can be typically found working in the infirmary or researching in the library. Otherwise, she's usually hanging out in the alleys of BookEnd and probably trading illegal substances.

Airmid Valerian's RP Tumblr

Character
Personality

Airmid is blunt – and would say whatever is on her mind, no matter how rude it might make her sound. She insists on elaborating on topics at hand, and enjoys debate and sharing her opinions. Airmid has a strong belief that any problem can be solved by human intellect – her inspirations include Voltaire, Socrates and Darwin, all who broke away from the norm to achieve what the information the world deserved to know. Being sagacious and quick-witted, Airmid is fond of philosophy and science, particularly of the biology and chemistry category.

Often, she loves to rant. She's full of information about scholars and philosophers and scientists. Science is her "special obsession", and Airmid has incredibly respect for the scientific process, approaching things with logic and reason, and whatnot. This is what forms the basis for how she carries herself in life, and her general thought process.

Airmid typical tends to be stubborn and arrogant, and often believes herself in the right. Usually she is, due to her observant and diligent nature. When she's corrected and realises she's wrong about a point, she makes an effort to apologise, but often feels ashamed of herself and embarrassed. That's why when she argues, she will back herself up with facts and evidence, to avoid these moments.

While Airmid truely believes that every person has potential to do their best. However, she cannot stand laziness and people who don't pull their weight, as she has worked hard to get where she is now, and dislikes people who think they can half-ass everything and still get though.

Airmid has a very self-centered approach to life, rarely doing anything out of the goodness of the heart. As a result, she tends to dominate and control the current conversation. She's also incredibly determinded, and once she has her mind set on something, she obstinately refuses to give up. She's adaptable – if a current situation doesn't suit her current plans, she's willing to change such plans for the better (and when she mentions adaptability and flexibility, she often references Darwin's Survival of the Fittest).

She is naturally argumentative, being fond of debates and full of wits. As a result, she often backs up her points with reasoning, and is incredibly capable of controlling differing points during in arguement. However, she's just as capable as manipulating others perspectives with her facts, and often does so for her own greed and benefit.

Inspirations
As I often emphasise, Airmid’s principles and ideas were heavily based off Voltaire, a philosopher in the Age of Enlightenment. She’s a theist with no religious basis, she believes that logical thinking leads to a more civilised way of life, and she’s an advocate for coffee.

Another one of Airmid’s inspirations is none other than the founder of nursing, Florence Nightingale. Airmid strongly admires Nightingale’s direct approach, and how she made nursing a respectable career. She’s also disappointed and slightly angry how history books portrayed Nightingale as a mild feminine figure when Nightingale, in actuality, was certainly a force to be reckoned with.

However, I truly think Airmid gets her roots from anything classical. From Greek philosophy to Roman literature. She studied Latin and Ancient Greek from a tutor, and while she cannot speak Latin conversationally, she can read and write it rather fluently. She has read the philosophies of Plato, Socrates and many more, she always had a fondness for Catullus’ poetry, and history during that era will forever fascinate her.

And above all, she’s inspired by the world around it, and the memories and ideas people of the past have had about this world. In the words of Issac Newton, she only sees so far because she’s stood on the “shoulders of giants”, and she wants to see further, maybe even stand amongst these giants, but right now, she’s only concerned about appearing as diligent and meticulous as possible, while learning and being as enlightened as possible but dayum does Airmid care about her reputation

Appearance
Despite her blonde hair and green eyes, Airmid is quite plain looking. Her face-shape is more on the masculine side, and her skin is a bit more pale than it should be. Airmid is of average height, but on the slim side. She has a flat chest, a button nose, and she is quite fond of her cheekbones.

REWRITE

Fairy tale – Godfather Death
How the Story Goes

Once, there was a man with twelve kids. When the thirteenth one was born, the father took a walk, because he decided that kids were so burdensome. Then God came up to him, then the Devil, and the father told both of them to get lost. Then Death came up to him, and the man was like "Dude, you are cool. You shall be my kid's godfather."

So Death attended the bapistism. When the boy grew into a man, Death trained him in the sharp eye industy of seeing Grim Reapers, and gave him a special herb that would heal any malady.

But the boy was an idiot and healed the king AND the princess when the two were supposed to die, so Death killed the boy. Ta-da.

How does Airy come into it?
ehhhhh I'll rewrite this pathetic section So, there was a man with thirteen children. He rejected God and the Devil, but accepted Death. Death attended the bapistism.

When Airmid was six, her birth parents caught a sickness and died, so Death took her under his wing. Airmid was a bright child, full to the brim with ideas and knowledge and an eagerness to learn, and Death, considering his past "mistake", decided to teach Airmid the full art of being a physician, intend of just giving her a herb and going "ta-da, you are ready bro."

Airmid currently attends Ever After High.

Family
Airmid's relationship with her biological parents is nonexistent. She appreciates them for her life, but they're dead now, and she gives no thought of them. Afterall, she had Death has her godfather, and he was in every way a better parent than they ever were.

When Airmid was six, her parents caught some sort of illness and died. Airmid’s siblings moved on, trying to start their own lives, while Airmid was adopted by her godfather, Death.

Death was a great parent. Despite being busy snuffing out candles and reaping souls, Death supported Airmid throughout her education, taught her some life long lessons, and ended up moulding her into who was she today. He made sure Airmid was eating right and had good sleeping cycles, and made sure that Airmid DID NOT TOUCH THE CABBAGES.

Airmid had to be mentally, physically and emotionally healthy to carry out her role as the next physician of Death. And through being raised by Death, that happened. When she was diagnosed with ASD, Death made sure that all the school teachers would support her learning and developmental growth, and he made strides to support her as best as he could, providing stimming material and getting Airmid all the books she wanted. When Airmid found interest in a subject, Death would always be there to listen to her. Death is literally the most chill, and the most supportive person in Airmid's life, so it's no wonder why she looks up to him.

To Airmid, her godfather is everything. The only problem though, is that she appreciates Death too much, and isn't exactly excited to have him take her life away.

Friends
Airmid also appears fond of people destined to die in their tale, or people who can somehow keep up with her thinking speed of two steps ahead of everyone. However, she does not tend to regard them as friends, more like acquaintances who seem to be their worth of weight. While Airmid appears to be anti-social at first, she actually wishes to have a diverse range of acquaintances to socialise and share her ideas with, despite tending to have conversations sprinked with brutal honesty.

The Squad
She is friends with her roommate, Luciana Carland, and Scarlet Danseur, whom she met while studying at the library. Airmid also annoyed Avril L'Épée slightly on their first meeting, but the two had since agreed to watch Man of Steel together. However, that never happened because Avril turned out to be busy on that day. Airmid was disappointed, but did not show it.

Barley
Another one of her friends is Barley the scarecrow. The two basically just talk about anything, whether that's science or philosophy or literature or anything. Airmid sees Barley as enthusiastic and likeable, and really adores that he takes her seriously and listens to every she says, even her rambling.

Griselle Damgaard
"Griselle is brilliant. She’s reserved without being awkward and witty without being overbearing. She’s worthy of my friendship, but we aren’t friends, which I would say it is huge disappointment. To me, I mean. She probably wouldn’t want to ‘hang out’ with me after the Che-myth-ry incident with the bunsen and gas pipe."

While Griselle Damgaard and Airmid are far from friends, Airmid seems to be incredibly interested in the swan. Is this romance attachment? That's for you to interpret and for me to never tell.

Dead Epics
She also seems to enjoy the company of the Dead Epics. Sadly, I can't say whether or not the Dead Epics enjoy the company of Airy.

The Junipers
"They're an odd, broken bunch. I like them."

Airmid seems to hang out with Icarus Juniper a lot even though Icarus is sarcastic and Airmid takes everything literally. The two met through Dead Epics, and ended up running the group together. They hung out to discuss plans with the groups, becoming friends through that way.

That also leads to an odd sort of friendship with Avian Juniper and after the events of Spring Unsprung, Lea die Birke. Airmid has a particular liking for Lea as the young girl can catch pretty much all of Airmid's literacy references.

Pet
At Animal Calling, a carrion crow flew up to Airmid. That was actually a rather shocking incidence for the young physician, who isn't all that fond of birds especially corvines. She ended up giving up the crow to something who liked birds a lot more than she did though.

That resulted in a slightly irked Death who wanted his goddaughter to get a familiar, so he ended up gifting her a small black kitten for Christmas. Airmid instantly dubbed it Catullus, obviously named after the poet Catullus, who wrote a lot about sparrows and other stuff. She thinks Catullus is very loveable, but a dork. In reality, Catullus is intelligent and devious, often causing havoc in Airmid's dormitory. (Catullus is evil)

Romance
gay

Airmid and romance do not mix. While she had always enjoyed the idea of connecting to someone on an intellectual and emotional level to the point where you would do anything for them, she had always felt deterred from romance because of her destiny. Airmid loves her life. She loves to live, she loves to discover new things, she loves to contribute to the chaotic world she knows. What she doesn't love is the idea of taking away her own life because she fell in love.

Additionally, the school views Airmid as a girl, and because of the heteronormative norms of Ever After, Airmid's future royal will most likely be a prince rather than a princess. Airmid's irked by this. Even though she has never really been in love or been attracted to people that often, Airmid knows that she's not into boys, and that she never will be. Having her future royal be a prince feels like a punch in the face, and this physician will do anything to emphasise that if she dies, she will die for a princess.

Meanwhile, Airmid simply enjoys to make the occasional crude joke, recite obscene poetry, and make sarcastic comments about couples. Currently, Airmid may or may not have affections for a certain swan. No one is really sure, not even Airmid. That certain swan is Griselle Damgaard, by the way. Airmid's not really affectionate towards Grisey, it's more like fascination. Airmid, you're a terrible person for objectifying girls. #Don'tTrustAiryToLeadMedicalIndustry2k15.

Lea die Birke has an intensely, overly romantic crush on Airmid, fuelled purely off her idealised image of the physician. Airmid is not entirely aware of this crush, but she does think of Lea as an incredibly good friend, one who she had rant about poetry and philosophy too without even bothering to control herself from overwhelming her with information.

Outfits
Airmid's wardrobe generally consists of earthly colours, such as green and brown. She likes to dress sharply, wearing semi-formal clothes such as button-ups and vests.

Motifs on her outfits are generally skulls, vines, flowers and candles. There are also some other symbols of death such as hourglasses and whatnot, but candles and skulls are the major ones.

She also has an androgynous way of dress, wearing both skirts and suits and basically anything. To Airmid, clothes have no gender and she's fine with dressing in anything that she dresses comfortable or aesthically attractive. {| class="article-table" ! Art !Airmid's Outfits
 * Airmid_official_art.png
 * Airmid_official_art.png

Basic
did you know that Airmid's basic design has been the same for three years


 * TBA
 * TBA

Legacy Day
Airmid wears an ornate plague doctor masks passed down from the physicians before. However everything else she wears is her own, as her godfather forbids any trance of the previous physicians even in Legacy Day.

Airmid has opted to wear a dress blah blah blah
 * TBA
 * TBA

Hat-Tastic Party
finally she wears a suit
 * Com_airmid_unsprung_by_anigirl5-d900mbi.png
 * Com_airmid_unsprung_by_anigirl5-d900mbi.png

Spring Unsprung
Airmid wears a poofy floral skirt over a floral textured shirt. Both items of clothing are of a soft, cream colour. Over that, she wears a black leather jacket thats entirely simple with no defining feathers.

Her tights are black and patterned with white skulls, and she wears a pair of black Doc Martens, with flowers tucked in the laces.

Her hair is pulled into a sidebun and pinned with an ornamental fake Valerian flower.
 * TBA
 * TBA

Date Night
I dont even know if Airmid deserves a date night.
 * }

Trivia

 * Airmid's birthday is on November the 5th, which is conveniently Guy Fawkes Day/Bonfire Night. That makes her a Scorpio.
 * Airmid has admitted to being a fan of "angry, loud rock" and "particularly of the death metal variety". She has also admitted owning long black coats which she wears to concerts of death metal bands.
 * In regards to these bands, she often sneaks out of school to attend these concerts.
 * Airmid has a natural inclining for chess. This is based off the idea of chess matches against Death.
 * Airmid considers herself as a neutral alignment, but is slowly leaning towards Rebel.
 * Airmid is grey-ace, demiromantic with an attraction for girls or female-presenting people.
 * Airmid once set her copy of Wuthering Heights on fire because she disliked the novel so much. Actually, she sets a lot of things on fire.
 * On the topic of fire, Airmid is a pyromaniac. She’s absolutely mesmerised by the way it burns, by the way it’s so beautiful and bright, by the glowing reds and soft yellows, and how destructive yet useful it can be. She hates the idea of any fires going out, especially any fires that she lit herself.If anyone questions her affinity for fire, she looks at them dead in the eye, quietly whispers “it’s a caveman instinct”, and keeps staring at them until they back away.

Quotes
"We're philanthropists, not hot headed revolutionaries looking for a fight!"

- Airmid explaining her idea of the Rebel cause

"While you two bicker about unnecessary topics, I shall be headbanging to some fine death metal."

"I'm sorry, but some asshole's got my pen..."

- Airmid in the Orientation Day RP

"I remain adamant to involve myself in a battle of wits, as it’s not proper decorum to take advantage of the weaker."

- Airmid to Florence Linden

"Keep rolling your eyes, Linden, but it’s been disclosed that your intellect is more obscure than your tale. Your supposed cerebral wisdom is only obtained through your own deluded fabrication and your constant regurgitation of pseudo-scientific articles. I heard some people have delusions of grandeur, but you’re dissimilar to such people. Instead, your delusions are of adequacy, and none of your shrivelled wit is capable of barricading that certainty."

- Airmid to Florence again

"I'm a bit miffed that the tower fell. I was proud of how neatly I stacked all those chairs up."

- Airmid's love for arranging things asymmetrically

"Who cares about us, anyway? The rest of the school avoids us! Being friends with those destined to die, you can practically feel the tension! You would have to think carefully about anything you might say, least we be sensitive. And being emotionally attached to someone who would be leaving this world after graduation... hardly anyone would want that pain. You realise we get called ghosts behind our backs, right? You realise the faculty doesn't speak to us as often as the others, right? The whole world – the Grimms, the staff, fate, destiny, whatever you believe in – is against us. What I'm trying to say is, if the world's against us, then we need to support each other. Oppression from destined death is not a contest. Look after each other, punks."

- Another of Airmid's rants in Dead Epics.

Portrayals
Airmid would be voiced by Tara Strong in English. Tara Strong also voices Twilight Sparkle and Raven (from Teen Titans), and Airmid's voice would be a combination of Raven's sarcasm and Twilight's excited rants.

In live-action, Airmid would be portrayed by AnnaSophia Robb, as they have the same hairstyle, same blonde hair and AnnaSophia has the perfect cheekbones. Although AnnaSophia's eyes aren't as green as Airmid's, contacts could be used. Also, AnnaSophia is maybe to portray a variety of emotions, and will most likely to pull off Airmid's sarcastic quips.