Where I rant about one of my favorite oc's

And it's one that's a child who's been traumatized yaaaaaaayy

this chapter is just gonna be backstory because there's a tad more that I can cover than in applications (in its entirety I'd probably need a whole other comment section)

Anyway

Essie was first created by a little boy named Otto. Otto was a happy little boy, except for one thing. Because he was constantly sick and at risk at getting sick, he couldn't maintain friendships with kids his age. So he came up with Essie, a moth-like human child who was alone like he was. He would draw her endlessly, and acted as if she was truly real; hoarding the lamps in his room "because essie liked them" and sneaking more cookies for her.

Eventually, however, when Otto became so sick they had to quarantine him in the hospital, his father, a well-renowned magician, decided to make his son's dearest friend come to life. It was going to be a wonderful surprise...except Otto had succumbed to his illness before the two could ever meet for real.

  Essie was devastated with this; this boy was her entire world and all she wanted to be with. The man decided that he would raise her and keep her safe so that she could live for his son.

  Over the years they both became quiet adept at magic, and worked in a traveling circus where nobody asked too many questions.

    But the luck took a steep turn for the worst when some teenage hoodlums threw bottles of alcohol into the big top and set the place ablaze.

  Essie managed to survive the fire, but her father had not. In her canon, she haunts the old site, even as buildings were built on top of the grave of her father. She gets by day by day slowly, remembering all the happy summers and the blissful days from when she was a simple and scribbly drawing of a little boy who just wanted a friend.