Soleil Fry
From Fate's Harvest
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“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. ”
– Gertrude Jekyll
Overview
Mortal: Soleil Fry is living the hippy dream. She runs an organic farm and apiary in Tamarack Falls, working closely with her dairy farming family nearby. She is excessively helpful and friendly, the sort of person everyone calls first if they’re moving or need someone to help with a local event. She arrived a while back, apparently the illegitimate love child of one of the older Fry men.
Lost: Soleil Fry is a Spring courtier….Really Spring. She’s known to be a savvy hedge or goblin market guide, and is active within several freehold organizations. She is also a member of the Knights of the Knowledge of the Tongue, and has an obsession with culinary oddities that can be unnerving at times. Among other things, she always seems to have an abundance of goblin fruit, which she’s pretty easy about giving away.
Freehold Roles
- Greenies: Grandmaster- Soleil recently took on the administrative leadership of the Greenies. As they say, she was the only one stupid enough to volunteer.
- Harvestmen: Private- to Captain Jonah. Soleil manages Jonah's schedule and a few other tasks, essentially acting as Harvestmen's Secretary and Go-fer.
- Waykeepers: Waykeeper: Soleil is a Waykeeper almost by default. She was doing the tasks anyway, and eventually just decided to join the gang.
- Custodians: Custodian: Many are surprised to find that Soleil has an extensive library of her own, and collects knowledge as eagerly as honey, goblin fruit or friends. And just as with honey, goblin fruits and friends, she's as eager to share as she is to receive any knowledge she gains.
Noteworthy Merits
Fame (Local Eccentric/Youtube Star) •• Inconspicuous (Fairy!)•• Survival (Hedge) ••••• Mantle (Spring) ••••• Goodwill (Autumn) •• Influence (Greenies) •• Influence (Harvestmen) •• Influence (Waykeepers) •• Influence (Custodians) •• Influence (Spring) • Influence (Fry) • Barfly •• Allies (tons!) Contacts (lots!)
Contacts
- Sam - Curious. Interesting. Let's be friends!
- Luna - New friend! Like one of the Muses from the old stories.
- Nathania - New friend! Such cute knitted things, and so friendly and cheerful for a Winter.
- Jonah Creepy new friend! Flower-Reader and extreme eater. Omen-reading abilities as yet to be proven.
- November Does she even /do/ friends? I mean, maybe, it seems like it. I definitely want to be her friend.
- Yuuki Family is family.
Reasons to RP
- Looking for goblin fruit?
- Looking for a member of one of the freehold sub-factions?
- Need a new friend?
- Need someone to guide you through the hedge or goblin markets?
- Looking for some juicy gossip?
- Need a recommendation for a good place to eat, or where to get the best bespoke hipster ride?
- Have some work you don't want to do?
- Just looking to chat?
- Need some Spring Cheer?
- Love food? Love weird food?
- Soleil's your gal for any of these things and more!
See the 'hooks and rumors' below for more interesting tidbits and potential reason to RP.
=Youtube Playlists
Here are some of the titles of the highest viewed playlists and videos on Soleil's channel - Girl Eats World:
- Playlist- Strange foods from around the world (Soleil, eating things like balut, surstromming, Nakji, haggis, at local markets around the world, with cooking tips and cultural information thrown in for good measure)
- Playlist - Fair Fare (Soleil eating the grossest, greasiest, nastiest of county fair foods, and showing people how to make their own!)
- Video- World's most dangerous eats (A fairly quick video of various dangerous foods- fugu, casu marzu, ackee, etc)
- Playlist- Girl eats bugs! (What's on the tin. Soleil eating bugs. Lots of them)
Hooks and Rumors (Please feel free to consider all this IC info, though there are no guarantees that any are true)
- Soleil’s named after her aunt, who disappeared not to long ago (and good riddance!). Come to think of it, she looks quite a bit like her too, when she was younger.
- Soleil is super helpful. Almost /too/ helpful. She doesn’t ask for nearly enough in return. What’s she saving up all those unspoke IOUs for?
- Soleil is growing a lot of pot somewhere deep in the woods. No one’s found it yet, but she /must/ be right? She’s totally probably selling weed and other drugs. She totally fits the profile.
- Soleil is more than willing to trade her substantial supply of goblin fruit and whatnots in exchange for information or specimens of rare creatures or plants from the hedge. Some have even said she’s paid for a particularly detailed recounting of running into such things.
- Soleil’s dog is a vicious beast. It eats other animals, peoples’ pets! Or maybe Soleil puts them in her soup? In any case, the number of stray/untagged animals that go missing in the wake of Soleil is hard to ignore completely. It could just be a coincidence, of course. Or maybe she just does what any good Samaritan would, and takes them to the animal shelter.
- Did you hear about the time Soleil had to be talked off the bridge? She doesn’t /act/ like someone suicidal, but that excessive cheer has got to be hiding something right? She swears she was just trying to fly, so many suggest she wasn’t suicidal, but just high. Those who know her best keep quiet on the subject, saying she is just fine and everyone’s making a fuss over nothing.
- Some people think Soleil has a twin, or is on meth, or maybe has some kind of clone running around, given how much she gets up to, and how much she gets done. She /does/ get super snippy about people watching her work.
- Getting lost in the woods and hedge is kind of Soleil’s forte. Bringing people out again? Sometimes people worry whether she’ll get them out safe. So far, she promises (and no one’s found evidence to the contrary) she’s brought everyone back alive and well. She may end up going the long way around, but you can be sure you’ll be safe (mostly) and that snacks will be offered.
- Soleil’s Youtube channel is some kind of weird front for a secret society.
- Soleil’s been making eyes at the mayor of Tamarack Falls. She’s never been the wanton sort, so most assume she’s trying to get some sort of permission that requires the clout of the mayor.
- Soleil is definitely the gal to call if you need help moving, with a bit of yard work, or cooking a big meal. You barely have to ask. What’s even better? She seems to prefer to be left alone to do the job. Many a local has Tom Sawyered Soleil into doing their work for them. She never seems to mind though.
- Soleil is extremely protective of the children of Tamarack falls, especially those who frequently use her home as a playground. Rumors of everything from strange bee attacks to the abusive father who dropped dead when Soleil glared at him abound, though few can be truly substantiated.
- Soleil is a go-to person for fresh fruit and veg, as well as fresh honey from her bees. She seems to have even the most hard to find or out of season items at hand with only a little bit of notice.
- Many people who know of such things are pretty darn sure of the nature of Soleil. She doesn’t do a great deal to conceal her otherworldliness, quite frankly. Lost worry about this, as do smarter mortals, but many find the helpful fairy in their midst somewhat charming. Most assume that her excessive helpfulness and collecting of favors and goodwill is an attempt to buffer herself against any potential problems. Others think she’s deliberately making herself a target. The most paranoid worry she is so carefree because she’s already made a deal with the Gentry.
- Soleil is undeniably Spring, but many find it surprising that she shows little more than a passing interest in the carnal delights. Her own desires seem to be in a different vein, though she is far from prudish.
- Soleil says her dog can find anything or anyone. The dog just tells you (or those who can handle a talking dog) to get lost.
- Did you know there’s a group of elitist ‘foodies’ that get together and eat pandas and shit? Soleil’s supposedly one of them.
- Soleil’s adventurous cooking style can be exciting, or…disconcerting. The Spring court loves to tell of the time she decided to do a hedge seafood banquet, with creatures that were still quite alive, swearing it was all the rage in Japan. Luckily Spring is good with triage.
- Soleil is, apparently, the long lost love-child of one of the Fry men. Must have been an awkward moment when she arrived.
- Soleil is rumored to have a network of hollows and friendly hob homes to stay in, throughout the hedge. Some say she can get anywhere in the world in just a few minutes by hollow-hopping. Others are /sure/ she’s got some insane bunker full of dangerous items hidden somewhere.
- Locals often run across Soleil doing some strange things- hunting for spiders with a Halloween mask on, collecting dew at the crack of dawn, collecting snails, filling in cracks on the sidewalk. Most have come to accept that she is harmlessly crazy, and just go along with it when she goes around town knocking on doors and asking for socks that have lost their mate, or is found in someone’s back yard examining their roses to see if any are ‘exactly right’. Some even join in on the more entertaining tasks.
- Soleil is super friendly with hobs, just as she is with people. This makes her a great guide to the goblin market or dealing with hobs, generally, but can be a bit weird if you meet the ‘roommates’ she shares her hollow with.
- Soleil’s go-to offering of food is a stew that seems to be constantly simmering on her stove. Some say it’s the equivalent of Game of Thrones’ “bowl of brown” and you don’t want to know what’s in it. Others think it’s made out of those who cross her, or loyalists and hobs.
- Going to the goblin market? Soleil is a great one to bring along. She has friendly relations there, and seems familiar with local and foreign markets, and her dog can help sniff out anything you might be looking for.
- Trying to pawn off some bit of crap? Ask Soleil. She’s easily convinced that useless items have value, and many a child has traded her a handful of bent nails in exchange for fresh-baked cookies. Sometimes she’ll even do some highly valuable tasks in exchange for stuff that appears to have no value- Mrs. Winters down the way says Soleil made her daughter’s wedding cake in exchange for a week of tapes of her husband talking in his sleep. And Jim at the gas station says she cleared out his whole barn in a day, and only asked for a footlocker full of old nudie magazines in exchange.
- In need of some strange bit of esoterica from the hedge, or have a ghost to kill? She might be able to help. She has a wide variety of items found or traded. It’s a bit mind-boggling, and sometimes ridiculous. Some do question her capacity as a market guide when they start hearing the things she’s got though, and the stories of what she traded for them. The number of utterly useless items that sound almost like they might do something useful, if you don’t read the fine print, suggests she’s more likely to make poor choices in trades than not.
- Need to know what that obscure goblin fruit you just found is? Or what sort of hedge creature that paw-print comes from? Soleil has a vast knowledge of the hedge and the flora and fauna of it.
- Soleil’s likely to get herself killed with kindness one of these days. She’s much too trusting. She’d probably invite a Gentry in for a cup of tea if he looked tired, and she’ll let anyone, no matter how shady, crash at her place if they even hint at needing a place. She doesn’t even do the most simple of vetting, just ‘Hi, nice to meet you, come on back to my place for some food and stay as long as you like’.
- It is an /odd/ bunch that stays on her property. A mix of vagrants, homeless, farm hands, hippies, ‘Woofers’ and locals always seem to be hanging around her place. It’s a rare moment when the farm is empty.
- Some Lost (or those in the know) worry about Soleil’s ‘Save the bees’ campaign, and the related attempts to get bee hives in every yard in Tamarack Falls. On the surface, it just seems like another silly Soleil cause, but others wonder if she’s bugging the town in more ways than one.
- Just mention you are feeling down, need a friend, like a girl, etc and Soleil will plan an event, or arrange a ‘fateful’ situation in order to make you feel better, get you social or create the perfect meet-cute. Whether you want it or not.
- Did you hear Soleil once gave a hob a handy in exchange for some weird hedge herb? Girl will do some crazy things for unique and strange foodstuff. Guess that comes with that whole ‘Gastrognome’ thing.
- Soleil has friendly relations with all the courts, but seems to have a special place in her heart for the Autumn court, and they for her. She gets a rather surprising amount of access to the Autumn court, in many ways, given how exceptionally Spring she is.
- Soleil keeps a room full of hot-house poisonous plants somewhere in her house. She’ll make you sick if you go against her.
- Soleil is joining in the ‘next gen’ Fry family endeavor to take over the tooth-rotting and sweet bringing markets of the area. Rumors have it she’s working on a line of candies and cakes, and planning on opening a shop some day soon. Be careful though. She’s followed the Dare-ya trend of making them super weird flavors.
- Soleil has a vast garden of goblin fruit, and is exceptionally willing to share them. She’ll often ask for a trade, but if you give a ‘good reason’ (which is pretty loosely defined given her soft-hearted nature) she’ll probably just give it to you for free.
- Soleil tends to the homeless, bringing them food and offering safe camping spots or work for those who want it. The local food banks and soup kitchens know all they have to do is give her a call and she’ll give them a generous supply of ‘surplus’ vegetables and fruits.
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Soundtrack
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David Bowie - As the World Falls Down
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Michael Jackson - Rock With You
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