~Emlyn Fallon Azrail~
The Paradox

'we're all a little mad, are we not?'

||Role||
High General of the Spring Court

||Name||
Emlyn Fallon Azrail

~Emlyn~
Emlyn's first name means 'charming, flattering, or rival', and although the first two characteristics can't be applied at all to her, Em certainly likes to think of herself as a rival to all who even think of betraying her Lord. Or a rival to anyone who gets on her nerves. It's safe to say that she isn't a charmer or flatterer- she doesn't need to be. Perks of being a High General, after all. Automatic respect.

~Fallon~
Emlyn's middle name is Fallon, which has several meanings including 'leader' and 'superior'. Whilst she might not quite be a leader, she certainly considers herself superior to most. Part of her has always preferred her middle name to her first name. It always sounded stronger, more tough. But she's known as Emlyn Azrail, a name that automatically strikes fear and respect into any spring court resident's heart, and she's not about to change that now.

~Azrail~
Emlyn's surname means 'angel of death', and its rather fitting. Part of being High General is dealing with the dirty and gritty stuff that her High Lord entrusts her with, and whilst the High Lord of Spring is in no way afraid to get his hand dirty, Emlyn is always by his side ready to help him in whatever way she can. Execution? She can do it. Torture? She knows a few things. Spying and espionage? Not her strong suit but hey, she'll give it a go. Like a shadow she'll stand by her High Lord and help him destroy all that stand in his way.

||Nicknames||
~Em~
This nickname is obviously just a simple shortening of her name, and it's used by any and all she considers amiable. Anyone she sleeps with has permission to use this nickname, human or fae, and anyone she deems a friend also has permission. Those who use it without permission do not fare so well.

||Titles||
~High General of the Spring Court~
Her official title, and one she is very proud of. A title her father once held and passed onto her when she took over from him, and she is very protective of it. If anyone dares tries to smear her name, they will be met with a quick and brutal death, providing her High Lord allows it.

||Age||
1684
Her birthday falls upon the 1st of January

||Gender||
Female

||Court||
Spring

||Species||
High Fae

||Powers||
~Shapeshifting~
As many of the Spring Court fae, Emlyn has the ability to shapeshift into whatever animal form she chooses, taking on the strength and skin of her chosen candidate. Whether it's the wings of an eagle or the paws of a tiger she craves, all it takes is a quick snap of her powers and she's able to take on whatever form she desires.
~Plant and Animal Control~
As the name suggests, Emlyn has the ability to control plants and animals and bend their will to her own. It's not her most useful power, but it has its uses.
~Winnowing~
Like most powerful fae, she is able to transport herself from one place to another with a simple surge of power. It saves her a lot of time with stairs and journeys, which is something the impatient Emlyn is always grateful for.

||Sexuality||
Bisexual

||Appearance||
Katya Miro

||Personality||
Emlyn Azrail is, to put it quite simply, a little bit mad. You see, she doesn't have morals in the same way most people do. She understands them in theory, and has a few of her own, but mainly she operates above the constraints of things such as ethics. Life isn't separated into what is good and what is bad, simply what works for her and what doesn't. In order to be considered useful, something has to either benefit her or her High Lord, and if it doesn't do one of those two things, then she is likely to see it as an obstacle to overcome. And believe me when I say that Emlyn is brutally efficient at removing obstacles. Like most High Generals, she is no stranger to killing and the horrors of war, but this doesn't weigh on her conscience at all. She doesn't really have one. One benefit of this is it makes her a brilliant advisor. She presents all the options, gruesome or lenient, and doesn't let stupid things like guilt stop her from doing what needs to be done. She is also a brilliant General because of this. People fear her, and that makes it easy to control them, not to mention her ability to come up with rather creative strategies, for war or anything else.

And oh, she does love power. There is something incredibly addictive about it, the way people's wills bend to her own. The only person she accepts as having more power than her is her High Lord. And this is where Emlyn becomes something of a paradox. Whilst her innate urges are to protect herself only, to do whatever it takes to make herself happy no matter what happens to anyone else, this isn't applied to her High Lord. Like most High Generals, she would kill for him, die for him. His aims and hers might as well be the same thing, because whatever he wants, she's going to make damn sure he gets it. Her loyalty is borderline fanatical. Her High Lord is also perhaps the only person in Prytan who can gets her do what they want. To everyone else she is untameable, a wild wreck with a tendency to murder first and ask questions later. But for him, she will do whatever he says. Well, most of the time. Perhaps there are occasions where she feels he's wrong, and her solution is to get things done more... discreetly. What he doesn't know can't hurt him, after all. Not that she'd let anything hurt him at all.

Emlyn is not afraid of confrontation. One of her best traits (or worst, depending on who you are) is her ability to make people mad. She is demanding and provocative and doesn't hesitate to cause mischief and strife wherever she sees fit. Her sharp intelligence and keen sense for how to get on someone's nerves also help her with her fun. The world is hers, and she's more than happy to leave a mess for someone else to clear up. Emlyn's mind works at a hundred miles a minute, never slowing down, never letting up, and due to this she is very easily bored. Her methods for dealing with this boredom including ridiculously heavy drinking, spending every night she's not needed by her High Lord at any party she can find, and sleeping with whoever happens to be closest. Unlike her High Lord, Emlyn doesn't despise humans. She honestly finds them kind of endearing, in their own pathetic way. They're harmless, after all, and she does so love the passion they bring under the covers. Fae are fun to sleep with, but Emlyn has always preferred humans. Their lives are short, and they make the most of it.

One of Emlyn's biggest downfalls is perhaps her inability to connect with people. She sees it all around her, the way people care for one another, the way they share each other's souls, but for some reason, she's never quite understood it. Part of her wants it more than anything, to be held in someone's arms and feel safe. But for now she is satisfied with the life she has. One night stands can fill the void she feels, right?

||Background||
Emlyn was born into her position. Her father, a man named Astor Azrail, was a brutal but effective teacher when it came  to the skills that a High General require. He taught her combat by showing no mercy and letting her take the blows she failed to block, often ending up with her face and body being littered with bruises. He taught her strategy by making her hunt humans, using her knowledge to predict their moves, and showing her how to properly finish them off. He taught her ambition by showing her just exactly what happens to the losers in war. Trips to the dungeons, forcing her to look at every face and help deal out their punishment, whether it be losing a hand, an eye, or their lives. Perhaps it seems extreme to the outside eye, but Astor had seen first hand the requirements of being a General, and there was no way he was letting his daughter walk in their unprepared. Emlyn's mother, Lavinia, was a troubled woman, always seemingly stuck between worlds, never sure what was real. Emlyn had quite loved her, despite her detachment from reality, and spent many hours sitting on the floor listening to the nonsense muttering that came out of Lavinia's mouth. Unfortunately, one day her mother disappeared. No one could find her, no one knew what had happened. Until her body was found a few days later, floating in a lake. She'd wondered in and drowned, that's what people said. Astor fell sick after that, destroyed by grief, and died shortly after. And that's when Emlyn took over as general.

||Skills||
~Combat~
Like all Generals, she has extensive training in many types of combat, and like her High Lord, will fight alongside her soldiers when she needs to. Although she is proficient in many weapon,s her favourite is the simple dagger. Some might consider it lowly in comparison to a sword or an axe, but Emlyn admires its versatility. It can be thrown, stabbed into someone, or simply held against someone's throat to get them to shut up. It's also discreet, and allows her to take it wherever she goes.

~Intelligence~
Despite her brash and impulsive personality, there is quite a brain for strategy somewhere within Emlyn, which is part of what makes her a good General. She oversees the whole army in the Spring Court, after all, and that wouldn't be possible without having a good grasp of war strategy, but also a good grasp of people. Manipulation is a skill that requires intimate knowledge of the brain and how it works, and Emlyn use all her knowledge to help her with it.

~Ruthless~
Perhaps one of Emlyn's greatest skills is her ruthlessness. She sees the point from A to B, and is willing to do anything to achieve it. This of course comes with many downsides, but she puts full faith into her High Lord to put her in her place when she gets ahead of herself.

||Aesthetic||
TBA

||Quotes||

'nothing is safe, sacred, or sane'

'bare those teeth and snarl, baby'

'whoops, looks like i fucked up'

||Trivia||
~Fun Facts~
Emlyn cares about only two creatures on the planet, and that's her High Lord and her cat. Yes, she has a cat. His name is Deimos, and she likes to dress him up in tiny clothes.

~Scars + Markings~
Has her fair share of scars, but the most noticeable is one that trails from her right ear to the base of her neck. Her father gave it to her in training.

~Theme Songs~
Dead or Alive ~ Stileto
Trust ~ Boy Epic
Natural ~ Imagine Dragons
Ashes ~ Stellar
Victim ~ Halflives