[FTH] Sedge

For-The-Herd 

Name: Sedge
Gender: Male
Age:  3 Years, Adult
Species: Common (Fluffy White Tail)
Height: A little taller than average
Weight: Average, although appears underweight at times.
Appearance: Appears tall, lithe and thin. Thick fur falls in soft waves around scarred flesh, and you’re met with an icy grey stare that does not waver. Sedge is not a shining image of untouched glory, but a painting of time and loss, of unconventional strength. Some may call him an ugly thing, and he will not flinch, because what is beauty if not an expression of life lived? Scars and all. There is nothing to lament, not even the horn to the left of his head, that grows like the branch of an old gnarled oak and never tines out right.

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Herd: Agartha

Task: None

Rank: 0

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Personality: The hush of wind through the cattails and bergamot, the inevitable numb of ice cold creek water, the smell of rotting wood and mycelium with the fresh green of duckweed. A sunset turning the woods dark and silent in a blanket of comforting cold. Forever sleep, covered by clay and dirt and root.

Oh Sedge, darling Sedge. With tired eyes that speak volumes, a buck who was not supposed to live and was spat back out by the cruelty of the world, crudely formed into a much gentler creature. He, who lays in the clover, who listens and listens and listens some more, until his head is so full of every word spoken that he’s not sure how much more he can remember. He is a careful, quiet thing, and while the world may see him as cold by the scars on his body and the ice in his eyes, his heart is full of everything good in this world. A doe’s comforting love, the first steps of a new fawn in the morning light, dandelion seeds on the breeze. Sit with him and he will tell you stories of survival, stories others turn ears away from, of fighting against all odds. He will wander, and he will find you in your weakest moment, laying with you as the night turns dark and dangerous, and you will feel safer than you’ve ever been. There is no need to be afraid, and he’ll tell you why.

Beliefs are a funny thing, and he isn’t sure he believes all the nonsense the herd has been fed. These souls, even after bone has been crushed to dust, surely continue to wander or find their lungs again in the first breath of a newborn fawn. Like antlers, again and again, death and rebirth in an eternal dance. While he doesn't fully agree, he doesn't voice his opinion, respecting the dead in his own way.

Elders tend to find solace in his speech, and he is prone to enjoying their gossip, always willing to hold a conversation. While he seems to be a mystery, he is anything but. He is here to breathe in fresh air, to learn and teach, and to enjoy playful banter with anyone who will lend an ear.

History: What is there to say? He will tell you his story, of running from coyotes as a fawn and stumbling into their hungry jaws. How, oh, his poor mother was so brave, and she fought them off but she didn’t make it too much longer after that, nobody would come to help her, nobody at all. The other deer only took little Sedge back to the herd and cared for his wounds, and unlike his mother he made it through. It wasn’t in the stars, he supposed. He can't even remember where the herd is that he had grown up spending so much time with.

As a yearling he wandered, and as the few years passed he spent his time as a drifter, going between places and simply finding others to speak to, company to weave stories with, to play in open fields and find peace under the night sky. But he's grown tired of wandering too far, and has settled in Agartha to see if he can find his place. Maybe as a Sentinel, he's not quite sure. He has always been one to go with what is handed to him.


Other: His scars and design are merely a suggestion when being drawn. As long as you can tell it’s him, feel free to simplify as much as you’d like! Scars don't have to be exact, markings can be on both sides, scars can be on both sides or just one. He also seems to almost always have plants stuck on him, they're usually vines or ivy but can be ANY plants/flowers/etc! Or none at all uwu