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User:	betrayalbecomes (20623) There Is No Other Troy For Me To Burn I have learned I will rise and you'll see me return being what I am	View all userpics
Name:	Krissy Diomedes//Cressida of Troy
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Bio:	Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it. Name: Krissy Diomedes//Cressida of Troy Nicknames: Cherie Age or Birthday: Looks to be about 23 Birthplace: Unknown; lived most her life in Troy Gender: Female Sexuality: Heterosexual Occupation: Call girl for an escort service to Realms folk and other notables (only resorting to prostitution as part of her "engagements" in very rare cases) Powers or Abilities: Good with words, a natural mediator Weapons: Carries a gun for protection; can handle a knife Affiliations: Undecided Appearance: Krissy is full figured, with a pleasant round face and a full mouth. She has large, expressive hazel brown eyes and a short, pert nose. She's curvaceous, sometimes considered to be a bit plump, with a winning smile that extends all the way across her face. Family: She was taken by slave traders from a far off land and therefor has no idea if she indeed has any family and if they still live. Personality: Krissy is quick to laugh, pleasant and kind. She has a need to try to fix things, to make things right, and sometimes her methods seem questionable even if her intentions were good. She separates her life very much into two different areas: the one where she has no modesty, where she is only Cherie the negotiator, the seductress, the counselor; and the other where she is still the slave girl Cressida, innocently loving with all her heart her lost love Troilus. History: At a very young age, Krissy was kidnapped by slave traders while playing in the ocean; she was drugged and has no memory of her homeland or of her family. She was taken across the seas and sold to a queen who gave her in offering to a local temple expecting, no doubt, that she would be sacrificed. She was not. Instead, she was taken to the kingdom of Troy where she would have met her death had it not been for a chance encounter with a princess who took pity on her and ordered her to be spared. She became a handmaiden to the priestesses there. It was in this duty and her dutiful and grateful service of the princess that she met Troilus, youngest prince of Troy. They fell instantly in love and shared many a secret rendezvous within the temple. It was clear that Troilus was infatuated but still Cressida hesitated, doubting that his parents would ever allow him to marry a slave. They were young and drunk on their own lovemaking, but Cressida began to doubt the future of it. And then came the threat of war and the raid upon the temple by Achilles and his Myrmidons working with the united armies of the Greeks. She managed to hide Troilus before she was captured and claimed as a spoil of war. The last thing she saw of what had become of her home and her friends as she was being carried away was the gruesome but clear image of her beloved Troilus being beheaded upon the alter; it was a trick and he lived, but not knowing this, she fell into a bitter depression and cursed all those who dared come near to her. Agamemnon, intrigued by her spirit, ordered her to be his concubine but Achilles, in an act of mercy for he knew the old man would only abuse and defile her, claimed her as his; to appease the great but increasingly surly warrior, Agamemnon acceded. Achilles made many attempts to reach her, but she remained distant, her heart mourning painfully for her lost love. But she grew in those days spent talking with him to know Achilles as a man and saw in him a great heart. As she shared his bed, he admitted to her that he no longer wished to fight and regretted the carnage he had wrought upon the temple and so she forgave him and convinced him to withdraw from battle. That he did and made ready to leave with his soldiers; it looked that she might save many if not the one life she had cherished. But then oldest son of Troy, Hector, in retaliation for the slaying of his brother and Cressida's love, struck down Achilles' youthful and faithful companion Patroclus. He would not hear her counsel anymore and, enraged, mustered his men after mourning so profoundly that Cressida thought her heart would be rent forever more. He killed Hector and defiled the body, though Cressida convinced him to allow proper funereal rites for him and he returned the prince's body to King Priam. Now unable to counsel Achilles, Cressida turned to Odysseus whom she hoped to talk sense to. He was a clever man, attentive and intelligent, but victory so near had taken his heart and she watched helplessly as the commanders plotted and executed Troy's fall. She watched it burn until there was nothing left; all the people, the places she loved were gone forever. She was slain, she knows not by whose sword save that she fell and found herself in the Elysian Fields. And there she dwelt in the House of Hades for countless years untold until she felt a rift begin, a weakening in the Gods' powers as they grew further away from the mortal realm. She pleaded with the kind queen of the underworld to allow her to leave. Moved by her impassioned words and aware that those denizens of the Realms were unique from mortals and therefor protocol was slightly different, the Queen agreed, though she could not grant Cressida's other request of allowing Troilus to go with her because, she revealed, he had never been killed. What was more, he knew of her unintentional betrayal and had cursed her name. She was crushed but found a renewed purpose to find Troilus; she was released into the Realms where very little seemed to have changed. She found the ruins of Troy and the portal that had lain beneath the palace; it branched off in two directions but one way had been blocked. She found herself thrust into the mortal world, quite puzzlingly in the very same ruins of Troy, though they had been destroyed by ages and many curious digging hands. The path finally collapsed behind her as if it had only been waiting for her all of those years. She met others like herself and one who supplied her with false papers and documentation that stated she was a citizen. She found work that would make considerable usage of her powers of persuasion and seduction. And so she lives, ever hoping to find her Troilus while enjoying the second life she had been granted. PB: Billie Piper Header image by: stardustescape @ LJ Banner image by spock @ IJ
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