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| − | A baritone sax in orchestra and a piece of theatre trash, Sage is a guy built for the stage and the pit. Generally you'll find him working on his latest play or musical, whether it's fussing over dialogue and lyrics, chasing up actors or spending sleepless nights perfecting choreography. |
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| − | However, in the recent years, he had developed an insatiable urge to "discover truth", as he says, and has become a conspiracy theorist. |
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| + | He is currently in his final year at Ever After High. His reputation at the school is rather polarised - one either views him as the adept Theatre Vice-President, who works endlessly on any upcoming musicals, or one views him as the intimidating, paranoid conspiracy theorist. |
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| − | In general, he's an odd sort, who's convinced that the fairytale world – whether that's the authors or the monarches or the governments – is against him. As a result, Sage is desperate to "dismantle the current World Order", and liberate his fellow students who he mockingly refers to as sheeple. |
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| − | Through growing up with an older mentor – his future university student in the tale, Sage gained an incredibly overactive imagination. First, that had started out with an interest in the arts – music and theatre, more specifically. Then, he started getting into theatre legends and reading and exploring abandoned places more and more, and starring in shows less and less. |
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| + | Who ''is'' Sage Idason? It depends on who you ask. |
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| − | So when the awkward theatre kid returned to Ever After High after summer break last year, he had turned into a full-out conspiracy theorist. |
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| + | There are some things that anyone would agree on. He is organised and driven. |
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| − | Superstitious and speculative, Sage is almost always paranoid that something is out to get him. He buys his food organic, dissing GMOs; he wears a gas mask when not in Orchestra, mumbling about “chemicals in the air”; he duct-tapes the cameras on all his devices and got his high-tech smartphone jailbroken to prevent hackers. |
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| − | His organisation skills are incredible. Sage is well-known for keeping his school notes tidy, but even more is he known for his cabinets and cabinets full of brown manila folders. And if you asked him if he was afraid of losing all those manila folders, he’ll pull open his desk drawers to reveal several backup hard-drives. And, if that wasn’t enough, he has everything backed up on a least three different types of Cloud systems. Although he’s known for accumulating tons of data, Sage is always somehow able to find exactly what he needs almost immediately. Must be all the colour-coding he does. |
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| − | However, one thing that is admirable is how far he is willing to go to be credible. If someone questions one of his beliefs or theories, Sage will literally run off and return with a dozen manila files. He’s desperate for people to believe him, to trust him, to understand him. And the only way he thinks he can do that? It’s to prove himself competent over and over again. |
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| − | Sage is sneaky. Although he is far from taciturn, Sage is eerily quiet when he’s hunting down new information to compile and study. As a result, he has a habit of sneaking up on people, “appearing from nowhere” and just seeming downright creepy. Unfortunately, Sage doesn’t even apologise for constantly scaring people with his sudden presence, he’s just irritated that others get in his way. |
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| − | Insanely curious, all Sage really wants to do is find out more. In terms of the arts, Sage wants to use music and theatre to understand the depths of mankind, the workings of the soul. In that aspect, he’s quite philosophical. In terms of other issues, like politics and government and current events, Sage is searching for truth in media accounts and what the authorities tell people and what people believe. He’s scared that the world he grew up with is being sanitised and censored and wants to find “reality” outside of what’s handed to him. Perhaps, in a way, he views himself as a prisoner trapped in Plato’s theoretical cave, and longs to be free. |
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| − | Finally, Sage is outspoken. He says whatever he believes in and speaks whatever is on his mind. Sage thinks that truth should be something that everyone should be aware of and withheld from no one, which is why he’s constantly standing on a dais and yelling his beliefs from loudspeakers. Ultimately, he wants others to experience the “enlightenment” he has received, and for them to be aware where they stand in the world. |
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| + | Sage's mother runs a dance studio, and that is where he grew up. And having spent his summers at programs hosted by the Copenhagen Theatre, having matured in an environment where there was nothing but music... |
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| + | Well, the Performing Arts ''are'' his life. Sage would be damned if he gave them up. It's not just in his past, but it's also his future - he recently accepted his study program after Ever After High, an internship at a prestigious theatre where he can work on his stagecraft. |
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| + | '''Theatre''': At Ever After High, Sage is currently Vice-President of the Drama Club, [[The Drama Kings and Queens]]. While he loves the group, he hates how the school constantly gets on their backs, and frequently has to fight the administration for agency on his artistic visions. One frustration he has is the frequent typecasting - because of his height, Sage often gets typecast as fairies or children. And royalty and other upper crust students would tend to get lead roles, and Sage believes he's being pushed away from his potential to shine. |
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| + | Sage, aside from a performer, is also an avid composer and playwright, and tries to write his own original content. So far, he's produced a repertoire of one-act plays and some snazzy orchestral pieces. |
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| + | '''Orchestra''': Aside from song and dance, Sage plays the saxophone. Specifically, he's skill in both tenor and baritone, but plays the baritone more often. This is also his instrument of choice in EAH's Ogre-stra. |
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| + | {{quote|I blame the summer between Legacy and Classics Year, personally. The dreams were getting more vivid, even when I nap…}}Being the next Little Ida, Sage has the current family curse. This is his real magic touch. Sage Idason may sleep at night, and sometimes he dreams. When he does, those dreams are vivid and feel exactly like real life. In other words, Sage Idason is sometimes essentially awake 24 hours a day. |
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| − | *Sage has a love for speculative stories, just as Ida did. |
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| − | *Sage loves theatre, which involves dance, and the flowers were at a dance. |
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| − | *Little Ida had a ragdoll, while Sage collects creepy stuffed toys and can pull off ventriloquism. |
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| + | In these dreams, Sage has to face his fears like it's reality. It's like a Theatre performation, it's like a rehearsal for real life. Over time, Sage has come to believe that these dreams are like some training. Sure, they're scary. But what's scarier? Real life. And these dreams are training him so he can fight the world. Because of this, Sage believes he has an inherent duty to "do good" and "fight for what's right". |
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| − | The previous little Ida currently runs a dance studio, mostly frequented by more modern-styled dancers. It's a nice, expansive (and expensive) studio, lots of sunlight. |
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| − | Sage's relationship with his mother is sort of distant. Although Little Ida's a respectful, responsible type, she's often too busy wrapped up in her own work to look after her son. As long as her darling son doesn't get up to too much trouble and invites her to his orchestra and theatre performances, he's not doing too badly. |
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| + | {{quote|Do people even remember who I was before the conspiracies? I sang, I danced, I acted-- I wrote plays, did anyone care about those?|Sage, in [[Veritas Virumque/Chapter 5|Veritas]]}}Sage Idason - if you don't recognise that name from Theatre Club pamphlets, there might be another place you recognise it... |
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| − | Sage's father and mother are now divorced, and only really meet when the two are invited to one of Sage's performance nights. His father runs a florist shop and does flower arrangements. Nothing special. He's pretty chill about his son as well, but is a little worried about Sage's conspiracy theory obsession. |
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| − | The person who has had the most influence over Sage. Currently taking theology at university. Probably annoyingly pretentious. |
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| − | Sage generally chills with fellow Orchestra or Theatre people. |
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| + | Conspiracy theories. |
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| + | To most people, Sage isn't the skilled playwright or actor or saxophone player. Most people don't know Little Ida's son as the clever, creative composer. Outside of the group he's close to, Sage has a public persona that is rather different from his reality. |
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| − | A collection of stuffed toys and porcelain dolls. Sage keeps these in the glass cabinet on his bookshelf, and refuses to let people touch them. These toys and dolls are said to be "sinisterly creepy". |
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| + | Dressed in a trench coat, with a gas mask over his face, carrying aluminium foil and yelling about 'the System', Sage publicly appears as a paranoid extremist, with inconceivable takes and ideas on the land of Ever After. He pretends that the gas mask is to filter out toxins in the air, he claims that there are always "people watching, listening in". Above all, he believes in ''the Authors''. |
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| − | Sage thinks of romance as a connection of "''anima and psyche, a relationship that transcends all logic''". If asked if he would ever find his own romance, he would bluntly reply that he knows no one who matches him in mind and soul. |
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| − | He claims that his only enemy is "the system". What is the system? Sage defines it as the government and most monarchies in the world. Most importantly though, he declares that the most malevolent forces at work are "the Authors". |
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| + | Most people often write off Sage as silly or un-researched. That doesn't mean that they don't love the sensationalism - his blog, where he writes about his conspiracy theories (dispersed between promotions for Theatre, of course), gets frequent hits. Is this persona just a giant advertising campaign? |
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| − | In his basic outfit, Sage wears a dark beige oversized trenchcoat over black skinny jeans and a graphic t-shirt. Above the trenchcoat, he wears an infinity scarf that near-completely covers his neck. |
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| + | {{quote|If I sound too serious about what I say, if people can’t write off what I do as ‘ironic’...|Sage, on why he's so dramatic on conspiracy theories.}} |
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| − | His boots are standard combat boots – made from dark brown faux leather (Sage has recently made a new opposition with the leather industry, and has decided to boycott them for the time being). |
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| + | Well, yes. And maybe no. Sage does want to spark ideas and thinking, but also wants to conceal his real takes. He plays up the ridiculousness, he plays up the drama. If he does that, then perhaps people won't see what he's writing as a threat. |
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| − | Over his face, he wears a facemask that covers the bottom half of his face. It's equipped with two side cylinders to breath out of, and the front is decorated with an illuminati symbol. Often, he tops his outfit with a pair of goggles with rose-coloured lenses. |
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| + | Sage is impeccably organised. His room is full of filing cabinets, and in them are brown manila folders. He always carries coloured pens and highlighters on them and proudly flexes his colour-coding skills. |
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| − | *The name Sage was shown since it was a herb (and had flowers). It also means "wisdom", which is something Sage thinks he has a lot of. |
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| + | *His favourite cafe in BookEnd is an anarcho-syndicalist cafe named The Little Red Hen Cafe. |
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| − | *Idason literally just means Ida's son. It's a portmanteau or whatever. |
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| + | *Sage also collects porcelain dolls and stuffed toys, which are displayed in a glass cabinet in his room. |
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| − | *Yes, Sage can access the Deep Mirrornet. No, he's too much of a chicken to do anything illegal on it. |
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| + | *While botany is no means a major interest of Sage, he is very adept at distinguishing between various types of flowers. He has fond memories of the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen - the very gardens that inspired Andersen to write the fairytale. |
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| − | **On that note, Sage has admitted that he would "love to be a hacktivist" but "the risk is really really big and I don't even know how to read HTML." |
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| − | *Sage does like memes, particularly the "illuminati confirmed" meme. However, he is annoyed at the fact that people take his attempts at humour as him using this meme seriously. |
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| − | *He actually doesn't believe that the air is full of poisonous chemicals. In fact, he hardly wears his gas mask when he's hanging out with Theatre, Music or Poetry people. |
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| − | *Most of his "quirkiness" is actually a front and a desperate bid for attention. |
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| − | Reaction-Zena.jpg|Sage with [[Angeline_Patchwork_(Patchworks_Inc)|Angie!]] they're sewing theatre costumes! (done by the lovely Patches!) |
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| − | Mysterious bae.jpg|he's is officially Patches' husband now, it is decreed~ |
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| − | Aroughsketchofpatchyshusbandwithflowersnsht.png|by [[TaylorRocks]]. sage doesn't know how to express his emotions when he feels cute |
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| − | My husband omg.jpg|smol sage contemplating (by the lovely Patches) |
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| − | *[[Murder Mythstory: Garden Party]] (as your fiancé) |
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| + | *The student tells Ida speculative stories. Sage, much like Ida, loves stories, especially speculative ones. |
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| + | *The flowers are shown to be at a dance. Sage's mother not only runs a dance studio, but Sage is adept in Theatre and other stagecraft. |
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| + | *Little Ida is a story about an intense dream that bleeds into real life. Sage's Magic Touch reflects this. |
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| + | *The lawyer in the story is rude and demeaning towards Ida. Sage does not like the law. |
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| + | *Just as Little Ida had a ragdoll named Sophie (a name that means 'wise'), Sage also has a ragdoll named Sage Junior (Sage being another name that means wise). |
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| + | *"Little Ida's Flowers" is often regarded as HC Andersen's ''first'' fairytale. It was published in Andersen's first collection of stories, and was the only fully original one of five. |
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| + | **Sage is often regarded as the oldest of my OCs. |
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| + | *'''Sage''' was chosen as it was a flowering plant, as a nod to the flowers of the fairytale, and for its second meaning - "wise". |
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| + | **Interesting enough, Little Ida's doll is named Sophie, which also translates to wisdom. Similarly, Sage's own ragdoll, the next Sophie, is named "Sage Junior". |
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| + | **'''Idason''' is merely a surname that means "Ida's son". |
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| + | *Sage breaks the Zena OC formula by being the only OC in my cast to have a ''character concept'' before I had a ''role'' decided for them. The concept was a Theatre nerd who was also an avid conspiracy theorist. Little Ida was already a fairytale dear to childhood me. Combining the two was a revelation. |
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| + | {{quote|Oh, must I abandon my goal, when my height prevents me, and curses me with this eternal struggle?|tfw you're short and can't reach the shelf of a costume cupboard}} |
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| + | {{quote|He decided to say nothing after his name – not even a quick ‘hey, guess my tale!’. Sage didn’t want to ruin his characteristic ~mysterious air~ around non-theatre people.|Sage, typically after introducing himself.}} |
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We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. |
—Jonathan Gottschall | |
Sage Idason [he/him] is the son of Little Ida from Little Ida's Flowers.
He is currently in his final year at Ever After High. His reputation at the school is rather polarised - one either views him as the adept Theatre Vice-President, who works endlessly on any upcoming musicals, or one views him as the intimidating, paranoid conspiracy theorist.
Character
Personality
Who is Sage Idason? It depends on who you ask.
There are some things that anyone would agree on. He is organised and driven.
TBA
Appearance
For a guy who wants to hide his identity and become an enigma, Sage sure dresses like it. Very rarely does he show any skin, covering himself up in large trenchcoats and face masks and infinity scarves. His bulky clothing hides his stature and many distinguishing features. Ironically, his attempt to be unrecognisable is exactly what makes him easily recognised.
Behind his clothing, Sage is actually quite well-built, the product of dance lessons since childhood and a habit of carrying heavy equipment around. As a result, he looks quite bulky and menacing – if it weren’t for the fact he’s also short.
He has a mop of dark brown hair that's slightly lightened in places. It’s very flat and straight and just flops over his head. Medium-length, just up to the base of his head. His eyes are an intense brown. Height-wise, Sage is short - somewhere between 5'3" and 5'4".
Hobbies and Interests
Performing Arts
Sage's mother runs a dance studio, and that is where he grew up. And having spent his summers at programs hosted by the Copenhagen Theatre, having matured in an environment where there was nothing but music...
Well, the Performing Arts are his life. Sage would be damned if he gave them up. It's not just in his past, but it's also his future - he recently accepted his study program after Ever After High, an internship at a prestigious theatre where he can work on his stagecraft.
Theatre: At Ever After High, Sage is currently Vice-President of the Drama Club, The Drama Kings and Queens. While he loves the group, he hates how the school constantly gets on their backs, and frequently has to fight the administration for agency on his artistic visions. One frustration he has is the frequent typecasting - because of his height, Sage often gets typecast as fairies or children. And royalty and other upper crust students would tend to get lead roles, and Sage believes he's being pushed away from his potential to shine.
Sage, aside from a performer, is also an avid composer and playwright, and tries to write his own original content. So far, he's produced a repertoire of one-act plays and some snazzy orchestral pieces.
Orchestra: Aside from song and dance, Sage plays the saxophone. Specifically, he's skill in both tenor and baritone, but plays the baritone more often. This is also his instrument of choice in EAH's Ogre-stra.
Voice Range: Sage is a baritone.
Dreams
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I blame the summer between Legacy and Classics Year, personally. The dreams were getting more vivid, even when I nap… |
Being the next Little Ida, Sage has the current family curse. This is his real magic touch. Sage Idason may sleep at night, and sometimes he dreams. When he does, those dreams are vivid and feel exactly like real life. In other words, Sage Idason is sometimes essentially awake 24 hours a day.
In these dreams, Sage has to face his fears like it's reality. It's like a Theatre performation, it's like a rehearsal for real life. Over time, Sage has come to believe that these dreams are like some training. Sure, they're scary. But what's scarier? Real life. And these dreams are training him so he can fight the world. Because of this, Sage believes he has an inherent duty to "do good" and "fight for what's right".
Conspiracy Theories
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Do people even remember who I was before the conspiracies? I sang, I danced, I acted-- I wrote plays, did anyone care about those? |
—Sage, in Veritas | |
Sage Idason - if you don't recognise that name from Theatre Club pamphlets, there might be another place you recognise it...
Conspiracy theories.
To most people, Sage isn't the skilled playwright or actor or saxophone player. Most people don't know Little Ida's son as the clever, creative composer. Outside of the group he's close to, Sage has a public persona that is rather different from his reality.
Dressed in a trench coat, with a gas mask over his face, carrying aluminium foil and yelling about 'the System', Sage publicly appears as a paranoid extremist, with inconceivable takes and ideas on the land of Ever After. He pretends that the gas mask is to filter out toxins in the air, he claims that there are always "people watching, listening in". Above all, he believes in the Authors.
Most people often write off Sage as silly or un-researched. That doesn't mean that they don't love the sensationalism - his blog, where he writes about his conspiracy theories (dispersed between promotions for Theatre, of course), gets frequent hits. Is this persona just a giant advertising campaign?
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If I sound too serious about what I say, if people can’t write off what I do as ‘ironic’... |
—Sage, on why he's so dramatic on conspiracy theories. | |
Well, yes. And maybe no. Sage does want to spark ideas and thinking, but also wants to conceal his real takes. He plays up the ridiculousness, he plays up the drama. If he does that, then perhaps people won't see what he's writing as a threat.
Organisation
Does this deserve its own header? Absolutely.
Sage is impeccably organised. His room is full of filing cabinets, and in them are brown manila folders. He always carries coloured pens and highlighters on them and proudly flexes his colour-coding skills.
Other
- His favourite cafe in BookEnd is an anarcho-syndicalist cafe named The Little Red Hen Cafe.
- Sage also collects porcelain dolls and stuffed toys, which are displayed in a glass cabinet in his room.
- While botany is no means a major interest of Sage, he is very adept at distinguishing between various types of flowers. He has fond memories of the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen - the very gardens that inspired Andersen to write the fairytale.
Fairy tale – Little Ida's Flowers
How the Story Goes
A little girl named Ida talks to a student about flowers. He makes up a story about flowers partying hard. Ida goes to bed and dreams of flowers partying hard with her ragdoll and the flowers telling the ragdoll that they're all gonna die and that Ida better plant the flower corpses in the garden. After the trippy af dream, Ida wakes up and yells at her ragdoll for not reminding her. So she plants the flowers in the garden in a box, and her cousins from Norway fire crossbows over the flowers' grave.
How does Sage come into it?
The previous Ida grew up, lived life, got married, had Sage, got divorced. Currently, she runs a dance studio in Copenhagen.
Parallels
- The student tells Ida speculative stories. Sage, much like Ida, loves stories, especially speculative ones.
- The flowers are shown to be at a dance. Sage's mother not only runs a dance studio, but Sage is adept in Theatre and other stagecraft.
- Little Ida is a story about an intense dream that bleeds into real life. Sage's Magic Touch reflects this.
- The lawyer in the story is rude and demeaning towards Ida. Sage does not like the law.
- Just as Little Ida had a ragdoll named Sophie (a name that means 'wise'), Sage also has a ragdoll named Sage Junior (Sage being another name that means wise).
- "Little Ida's Flowers" is often regarded as HC Andersen's first fairytale. It was published in Andersen's first collection of stories, and was the only fully original one of five.
- Sage is often regarded as the oldest of my OCs.
Trivia
- Sage was chosen as it was a flowering plant, as a nod to the flowers of the fairytale, and for its second meaning - "wise".
- Interesting enough, Little Ida's doll is named Sophie, which also translates to wisdom. Similarly, Sage's own ragdoll, the next Sophie, is named "Sage Junior".
- Idason is merely a surname that means "Ida's son".
- Sage breaks the Zena OC formula by being the only OC in my cast to have a character concept before I had a role decided for them. The concept was a Theatre nerd who was also an avid conspiracy theorist. Little Ida was already a fairytale dear to childhood me. Combining the two was a revelation.
Quotes
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Oh, must I abandon my goal, when my height prevents me, and curses me with this eternal struggle? |
—tfw you're short and can't reach the shelf of a costume cupboard | |
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He decided to say nothing after his name – not even a quick ‘hey, guess my tale!’. Sage didn’t want to ruin his characteristic ~mysterious air~ around non-theatre people. |
—Sage, typically after introducing himself. | |
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I told you, I dream vividly. I’ve lived nightmares. So why should I pull the curtain on everything-- on all that people call ‘conspiracies’, just because they’re scary? I know I’ve faced scary things like they’re real life. |
—Sage Idason on his lucid dreaming, and why it makes him less scared of dealing with conspiracies. | |