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Sage Idason is the son of Little Ida from Little Ida's Flowers.
A baritone sax in orchestra and a piece of theatre trash, Sage is a guy built for the stage and the pit. However, in the recent years, he had developed an insatiable urge to "discover truth", as he says, and has become a conspiracy theorist.
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.
Character
Personality
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hobbies and Interests
Theatre: tba
Orchestra: tba
Saxophone: tba
"Critical Thinking": tba
The Deep Web: tba
Debate: tba
Journalism: tba
His blog: 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.
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, had Sage. Nothing more to that.
Parallels
- Sage has a love for speculative stories, just as Ida did.
- Sage loves theatre, which involves dance, and the flowers were at a dance.
- Little Ida had a ragdoll, while Sage collects creepy stuffed toys and can pull off ventriloquism.
Relationships
Family
Mother
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.
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.
Father
Sage's father and mother are now separated, 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.
University Student
The person who has had the most influence over Sage. Currently taking theology at university. Probably annoyingly pretentious.
Friends
Sage generally chills with fellow Orchestra or Theatre people.
Bathilda Waits
tba
Daulius Song
bad poetry
Pet
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 "sinsterly creepy".
Romance
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.
Enemies
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".
Outfits
Sage dresses in modest clothing that covers the shape of his body. He aims to show very little skin.
| Art | Sage's Outfits |
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BasicIn 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. 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). 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. |
Trivia
- 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.
- Idason literally just means Ida's son. It's a portmanteau or whatever.
- Yes, Sage can access the Deep Mirrornet. No, he's too much of a chicken to do anything illegal on it.
- 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."
- 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.
Quotes
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That's what the government wants you to think. |
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Of course I buy my food GMO-free! Don't you know that they're putting chemicals in everything now? |
—... everything is made from chemicals, Sagey boy. | |
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