Cilvia Dictus - Old Version

[Broken Reality - Character Analysis - NR]

All of her life Cilvia followed the same set of rules. She was to never harm someone with out a fully decent reason. People are to be held at a distance, the farther away the safer for the both of them. Her thoughts are hers alone and no one really needs to know them in full. Only say what's needed. Only communicate what you understand. Stand your ground. Protect the weak, don't force them to fight for themselves. Unite with the strong, together you can withstand anything. Ignore the meaningless. The powerless are meaningless. And, finally, don't let anyone try to change your beliefs.

Many of these changed when she was four, when her little brother and sister were born. Her amazing and powerful little shadow bender slash light bender little sister Sharah should have been her priority. As her rules dictate she shouldn't of noticed her powerless, human like little brother at all. Yet, as the years rolled on, it was him she noticed.

Cilvia broke her second rule by choice. She saw her brother doing as she does, distant and shadowing. But, she also knew, it wasn't his choice. He had wanted to play with her, she doesn't like playing with people like him. If you must you could caller her racist against people with out powers, but that had to do with the fact that the people she had met up to that point, the powerless were the bullies while the powerful were made into the weaklings. She hated it. But she knows better than to throw a label on someone she barely knows. Besides her brother is now shunned for the very same reason she was feared. She was strange and indifferent. He is strange and indifferent. But, for him, there was more. Him and people, they could work out if only someone could break the barrier.

The still young girl, age eight, took her brother under her wing. Well, not literally under her wing, but she taught him many things that year. Mostly small games they could play together. It didn't take long for her to notice he's stronger and faster than normal humans. He was like the less extensive experiment's children. Why was he pushed away then? Was it the way he treated people?

Cilvia had power over shadows. She would ask them to follow her brother and watch him. She needed to know how he treated others. What was reported to her angered her. Cil is not one to harm people weaker than her unless there is a good enough reason. For the most part she ignores people. But this... Blatant disrespect for her little brother set her on edge. Being the big sister she is she left her own class, ignoring her teacher and the janitor as she ran into the shadows themselves. She knew the way, and, when she came out, she was at her old preschool. That was the first time Cilvia ever spoke more than necessary.

She yelled at the boys who wouldn't let her brother join in with them. She yelled at the teacher, she yelled at her little sister to not tell her to calm down. And finally she yelled at Aaron, her little brother, "Don't just take things lying down! Fight for what you want!" He, of course, ended up calming her down by saying he really didn't mind. A few minutes later one of her three mothers, Rose, showed up and picked up all three kids. Cilvia got yelled at in the front seat while the other two were treated to cookies and juice.

Years pass and Cilvia is a happy thirteen year old. Her brother is an ever energetic nine year old. Together they play and take on the world. Cil going around the city with her little brother in tow, the two just pushing themselves to their limits. Although, occasionally, Aaron would get hurt. It would drive the elder sister crazy. Often times she would confide in her own older sister Fallyn, the angel winged woman would always listen and hold her little sister.

More years pass. Cilvia had gone off to college and come back for a break. That's when her brother broke the news to their family. He was joining the military. Her mothers broke, she could see it in all three of them. Her own blood mother leaving the conversation completely. Meanwhile Aaron and Sharah's blood mother sighed and let him go. Riley, the third mother, was panicking. Their father ended up saying it was okay too. If they were fine with it Cilvia would be too. It wasn't until the family stopped getting letters home that she started to worry. But she trusted Aaron, he had promised her to come home alive, and he wouldn't do that to her.

By the time he was supposed to come home came around Cilvia wasn't so sure. She avoided the airport once she was home herself from her own break. Instead she walked the city, ignoring people and watching the sky. The camera in her bag calling to her to take pictures of this beautiful city she calls home. But then a voice had called out to her, it was her little brother. She had felt so relieved when he showed up before her. But then... He told her he was in love. And everything changed.