Character: Safia Leharmua

Yuumei is one of my most favorite artist, and when I was browsing her tumblr I saw this and instantly went, "SAFIA!"

In human dreamcast though, she looks more like:

Safia, my character in Fateless is an orphan who was adopted and raised by the Temple of the One God, it's basically a nunnery. Usually orphans who received the blessings of the Temple are raised to be acolytes but not Safia. Safia was adopted by the High Priestess personally and her upkeep and training and education are the High Priestess' responsibility. This makes her hierarchy in the Temple very peculiar, most don't know how to treat her so they usually just leave her alone.

Safia herself, doesn't really know what to make of the High Priestess' interest in her. One day though, the High Priestess finally made clear of the reason she was taken in, that the High Priestess had a mission, a mission that needed her and her unique ability to succeed. From then on, her life is all about the mission; everything she does, everything she learns would be about the mission and nothing else.

Living in the temple, Safia is very prim, very serious, very proper. She dresses in the tunic and long skirts or long loose pants that the acolytes use and fashions her hair in the tight loop braids at her ears, the length of her hair covered by scarves and colorful clothes. She has a sense of humor but it's tangled up in her seriousness and dry wit. She's very capable and observant and has the ability to blend into the surroundings like a chameleon. She adapts very quickly and she's used to second guessing other people's motives so much that sometimes she over-thinks things.

Safia respects the High Priestess that took her in, and loves her and honors her vows to her. And she accepts that her value to the Priestess is how useful she can be to her cause. She knows that if she refuse her cause, Safia will be thrown the streets and have to fend for herself. The streets of Sihr is not kind to an orphaned young girl who has no skills (acceptable ones) or magic.

Does she want more out of life? Well, yes. But she knows her limits so she does what she is told. But once in a while, a wildness burns her blood.

The High Priestess often comments that Safia's worst enemy is herself for she is very passionate, very fiery but she is taught to repress; to be calm and steady when she's very much a whirl wind, a desert storm.

And when you repress that much passion, things happen. Bad things.