Chenille Safin

Chenille Safin is a rogue half-elf in Wacky Ribbons.

Description
Chenille Safin (Aileen Devoss Jeneville) is a half-elf rogue under employment to Relovan Marseilles and contracted to Trongy Savond. She is also under a contract with Lord Devorak in the Acropolis of Scaena.

Appearance
Chenille has wavy light reddish hair and the pallor of someone who spends most of her time indoors rigorously applying powder to her nose. Her face is, in general, strikingly pretty though it would be hard to pinpoint exactly why. Her features seem very pristine, like porcelain, no blemish on her impossibly smooth skin, or a purple hue under her eyes. It is almost hard to look at her for too long, like staring through a lens only slightly blurred. Just enough to feel unease, if you're smart. In fact the only things that seem truly natural about her are the icy blue color of her eyes, the mole on her left cheek, and the shade of her hair. Her hair cannot be tangled, does not retain dirt or grime, and it cannot be cut. She wears mostly light colors, pastel pinks and blue and whites, and articles of clothing with an obvious air of expense. As the seasons go on her attire appears looser, more comfortable, and a tad less flashy, while still carrying the air of someone who enjoys dressing up (just maybe not as SUCH a superficial display of wealth). She prefers poofy sleeves, she finds them easier to work with than form fitting ones. Chenille has a tattoo on her left hand of a symbol of a crest with diamonds. It has a burn scar wrapping around her palm and down her wrist. She is never depicted wearing gloves.

Personality
If Chenille appears uptight, its not for lack of reason, as she will surely tell you any time you bring it up. She's somewhat snooty, but it seems superficial, and when getting to the genuine underneath all the frills she reveals herself to be a caretaker, a worrier, and a deeply lonely individual. She's passionate, if high strung, and prone to outbursts but not very good at tapping into her own feelings. She reads books, lots of books, of all kinds fiction and non, but her favorites are romance novels because she sees them as a true escape into a life she does not think she will ever have. She gives good advice though, even if she will never ever follow it herself.

Pre-Campaign
Chenille grew up in the Upper City of the Acropolis with her two parents and her twin brother Erik. Her real name is Aileen Devoss Jeneville.

When she was 8 her parents vanished with no explanation and with no relatives nearby her and her brother were sent to an orphanage. This orphanage was not homely, and regularly tried to rip the twins apart, so within the year they devised a plan to run away. They took to living on the streets in the slums of the Acropolis.

Events between this time and her later life are unclear. From the age of 16 to present she is employed and working as a private entertainer by a man named Lord Devorak. She is trained in classical ballet, acrobatics, non-magical illusions, fencing, and perhaps most importantly social etiquette. During this period and after she goes by Chenille Safin. She is treated like an object by her employer, and has scars showing the extremes of that treatment on her lower back (and smaller scars on her legs). Not much else is know about their relationship other than she has never been out of the Acropolis and during her time under him was rarely allowed out of the house.

She has not seen her brother in 12 years.

Season One
Chenille attends Trongy's party in Devorak's stead out of curiosity for the name she'd heard countless times at recent gatherings, including a party she had attended just days prior at the home of her fiancé, Nikolai Storovni, who was at that point out of town on business and allowing his home to be host to the party of a family friend (Relovan Marseilles) while they were doing home renovations. After that event she decided to attend the masquerade in order to learn more about the mysterious host of the party, Trongy Savond.

At the party she becomes entangled in a race of sorts, the prize at the end of which being a forced contract into employment under the host in question. She has somewhat contentious relationships with every member of the party this season but none so much as with Trongy herself, who she regularly picks fights with and loudly resents.

This starts with her stealing Trongy's secret diary, which reveals to her... a great many things that complicate her previous black and white rage. In the Wilds she sees the phantom of her twin brother Erik but all grown up, and she can't bring herself to fight it even though she sees through the deception.

When in jail with Fio, Jack, and Marilla, Marilla gives them a deal: go with her to Devorak's and help her rob him to redistribute his wealth or stay in jail until she gets back. Chenille is adament they not go to Devorak's, though at that point she has not told anyone why. She gives the trio vague cryptic warnings but nothing more helpful than a promise that it will not work out for them should they try.

Near the end of the season in the Dryad Glen she seems to have warmed up to everyone, at least enough to not actively antagonize them. She feels more ready to involve herself in the job, and instead of fighting against it is determined to plow straight through.

Season Two
Chenille is initially frustrated with the detour to find Ruby's cousin, but she quickly grows sympathetic and does everything she can to help find Opal. She grows a particular fondness for a teenage girl named Isabella, who wants to be a seamstress and apprentice in the Acropolis.

Their relationship is rocky at first because Chenille goes through her mail in order to make sure she isn't trying to turn them in to Marilla, but eventually Isabella forgives her (after she gets drunk and spends a good chunk of her salary on luxury fabric as a gift). During a shopping and sleuthing trip she is approached by an old woman and dragged away from the group.

The old woman reveals herself to be Jack, who now works for Devorak and is suffering much more visible abuse since his shapeshifting means he can easily hide it. He gives her a letter and a sending stone to contact her employer, so long as never takes it off. No one who sees it can remember it.

When they eventually find Opal and Ruby reunites with her she becomes overwhelmed by the reunion, presumably because of her similar circumstances, and has to leave. This came across as cold but in reality was very much the opposite, she was overcome by fondness for these two, and had to leave to preserve them.

Season Three
This season she gets very close to the crew member Marie, who convinces her to pursue a few different things she was otherwise held back by. She becomes much closer with every party member, doing her best to help them solve personal conflicts (even if her methods are maybe a little extreme).

That being said when Ruby asks if they're friends she has a loud outburst, saying she "can't do that", no matter how much she wants to. Trongy swoops in and tells her privately that she should do what she wants, because she's in the middle of nowhere and Trongy isn't enforcing rules. She tells Trongy her name is Aileen.

From that point forward she doesn't necessarily acknowledge friendship, but she never shuts it down. That same night she gets a call on her sending stone where Devorak tells her he has Jack staged as a royal guard.

Being in the body of a halfling is particularly traumatic for Chenille, because her identity is so attached to her looks she feels like she's lost all personal control and power she had. After the Siren's Temple, she realizes she's felt useless to the group when they're in danger, so she apprentices under André and learns as much traditional medical aid as she can in the months on the boat. She uses this to help nurse both Trongy and Marie back to health.

Relationships
Trongy Savond

She started the campaign hating Trongy, but after reading her diary felt an unwilling sympathy and kinship with her. That didn't immediately quell the rage, but as time went on those feelings complicated. Now she isn't sure what she thinks of Trongy, just that she is important.

Relovan Marsielles
Relovan has reminded Chenille of her own brother since the very beginning, which made their relationship both immediate and strained. Chenille has a genuine desire to help them, and get them through this, but at times she feels she is maybe trying too hard to make up for old mistakes with the wrong person.

Acacia Synne
Acacia is important to Chenille because even when she was being unreasonable it always seemed like Acacia was willing to listen to her, even when she had nothing to say. She would go to bat for her, and if she ever needed anything Chenille would do anything she could to help her get it, even if her eccentricity is a little off-putting sometimes.

Ipu Olapa
Chenille doesn't really know what to think of Ipu. She trusts him more than any other party member except for Trongy, even if he's done the opposite of earning it. But the closer they get to his home town the more perplexing he gets, and the more uneasy she feels. The gifts feel too close to the superficiality of the Acropolis, and she can tell he wants the flashy lifestyle of the city. Her own bitterness towards that life makes her wary of friendship.

Ruby Beast
Ruby and Chenille have a complicated relationship. She wants to be friends but she is determined to stay away from it for fear of breaking a rule, and she's not very good at explaining it to Ruby in a way that doesn't make it sound like she just doesn't want to be friends. But she likes him a lot, and even his frustrating streaks are endearing.

Song Savond

Song's blinding stubborn optimism is both heartwarming and frustrating beyond reason. She believes he is a good person at heart, but that he needs to learn to hold people more accountable, even when he loves them. She wants to be friends but she thinks she blew it early on, and sometimes she's rude to him because his optimism makes her jealous. She needs to learn to be nicer.

Erik Jeneville

Her twin brother. She took on the role of caretaker when their parents vanished but was over protective to the point of perhaps smothering him. Despite that they were very close in their youth. He was kind, and often adopted "pet" strays off the street they couldn't afford to feed. He also liked the rats, even if his sister hated them. She would often steal candies for a jar they kept below the bakery where they lived, and for every bad word he said he had to take out a candy and give it to Aileen. She always secretly put it back for him later. He liked to paint on the walls when she could get him the supplies, and she would play their father's mandolin while he worked.

Lord Antoni Devorak

She doesn't know much about him, or even if that's his real name. It seems the paper trail surrounding his name was quickly burnt up before she ever knew him. He keeps her locked in her rooms days and nights, and has treated her violently with some frequency. She is very afraid of him, but he is the only person she has truly known for the last 12 years, so as much as she hates him it is still complex. They have the same eyes.