{ OPEN } May there always be angels to watch over you

[aceso]

WHO: Christine Delacroix and OPEN!
WHAT: She's getting used to being a Spirit Healer and having a friend on the other side.
WHEN: any time after Drakonis 17th until month's end.
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Christine has a spirit of Faith in communication with her. It will be observing the world around her and asking her questions. If your character is having a crisis of faith, doubts, etc. Faith may nudge Christine towards your character to see if she can be of help, but she won't know what exactly is the matter without your character telling her. Also, Faith will just be really curious in general. Have your character dance a jig, lose at cards, mend a shirt, whatever, and Faith will be wanting to know more.

{ anywhere }
When she thinks back on it, Christine knows that the reason the spirit of Faith approached her in the Fade is because Christine had visited the chapel before her test, trying to erase her doubts. But it was having doubt that caught Faith's attention and cemented their relationship. It's hard for a perfectionist like her to admit that there are times when she isn't sure of herself because it's admitting to weakness. Yet already Faith is changing her perceptions. There can be no faith without doubt. If Christine was perfect in every way, she wouldn't need a spirit to help with her ability to heal. Faith is needed, because doubt is inevitable. Questioning things, missteps, complications -- Faith is drawn to it all, and as Christine sticks to her daily routine around Skyhold, she often feels the gentle nudge of her spirit companion against her mind, sending her towards a person.

Of course, Faith doesn't always use words and simply say why it's guiding Christine towards a person. Is it because they no longer believe in the Maker, or because Faith wants to know what they're doing with that rope, tankard, and a duck?

{ kitchens }
With the soiree over, Christine can head back into the kitchens to practice her cooking once more without Skyhold's cooking staff at their wit's end trying to get all the food prepared in time. Some days she makes bread, others she makes pie. Others still it's something completely different, but if anyone comes in looking for a snack, she invites them to be her taste tester.

{ healers' tents }
Just because she's now a Spirit Healer doesn't mean Christine is going to request the help of Faith for every little scrape and cut. The point is to use the spirit's power for much more complicated wounds, to save the healer's mana. So there are no glowing blue eyes to be found as Christine sees to patients. When the rifters arrive, she's available to use healing magic to lessen the ache in their hands until they get used to the shard, and is happy to fill them in on the world they've been dropped into. For anyone else, she's there to heal them with magic or bandages; whichever they'd prefer.

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

See, he is capable of learning. It's a something holiday miracle.

"So they don't really have a use for names since they know each other on sight anyway. I guess...names are a pretty mortal thing."

Well see now he's just uncomfortably curious. "Okay so...let me hit you with another question then. So the whole reason people get anxious and sword-happy about this kind of thing is because it might be a demon that gets inside you instead of a spirit. But obviously nobody's coming to threaten you with beheadings or anything, especially since it went without a hitch. Sooooo...if someone did accuse you of having a demon, how would you be able to convince them otherwise? Is it obvious when you're demonically possessed instead of...spiritually possessed?"

[aceso]

"Well, if you allow a demon possession of your body while in the Fade, your soul remains trapped there outside of your body while the demon inhabits yours. That transforms your body into a monstrosity. It's how Templars in the Circle knew mages had failed their Harrowing: they suddenly changed into an abomination." And she has to give her head a shake. "I am not possessed. The spirit is not inside of me. It is still on the other side of the veil that separates the physical world from the Fade. But because we have an agreement, it can reach out and communicate with me, and lend me power for healing."

[motherfucking_ghost]

"...So if someone were to, say, accuse someone out of a rift like me of being a demon, the fact that I'm still obviously human is a pretty big sign of obviously-not-a-demon. Gotcha." Not for...any...particular reason...or anything...

"So Faith, it can only talk to you from the other side of the invisible boundary between life and spooky green dream world afterlife demon plane because of an agreement? It wouldn't be able to do that any other time? Except...maybe dreaming, I guess."

[aceso]

"A pretty big sign, yes. Though that will not stop others from believing otherwise. You are still an unknown, and people will believe anything if they are paranoid enough."

Once again, she has to smile at his strange way of looking at things, like the Fade being a "spooky green dream world afterlife demon plane." How does he come up with this stuff?

"Only if a spirit accidentally fell into this world through a rift. Though some mages have experienced feeling a presence watching over them before. That doesn't mean the spirits were able to communicate with them, however."

[motherfucking_ghost]

"Yeeeaaah, there's been some...fuckery around that. With us Rifters. And how nobody trusts us." He waves it aside, because that's not important right now. "So like Faith can still sort of see into our world, though. Like through your eyes? To know what's going on and what to ask."

[aceso]

"More like... beside me. A friend observing close by. Spirits can become easily confused. If Faith looked through my eyes, it might think it was me. But this is just how I handle having a spirit companion. Others might do things differently." Christine likes to set clear boundaries and rules. Too much leeway could spell disaster to a mage with a spirit close to them.