Once upon a time there was a beautiful child who dreamed and dreamed and dreamed of being something else, anything else, but she wanted most of all to be a fairy princess. She wanted to be loved and protected and honored and appreciated. She wanted people to call her good and kind and beautiful and wonderous. She wanted to be everything she thought she wasn't.

As the child grew, she claimed to herself a code of conduct, became a true Christian, and did her best to love the world and all the people in it in the true Christian fashion.

And then the day came when the child found out that she was something else, she was a faerie, but all was not as she had dreamed. She was not a faerie princess, she was a common Satyr, and her heart rebelled.

She would not sink that low. She rejected that which those around her demanded that she be. She held close her Christianity, her music, her love of stories and of learning, and her love of life, but she rejected the sexual irresponsibility, the drugs, the alcohol, she rejected all the vices associated with her Kith and she demanded of herself a higher standard, and became more noble than the Nobles.

Hers are problems of a deep level, the conflict resides within her own soul, when she is not being persecuted or mistreated by those who refuse to understand that she *means* "no" when she says "no". Hers is possibly the most difficult path to take, but in her heart she knows the journey is worth every step.

Okay, for one, she may or may not actually have True Faith, but in any case, she has some reason for rejecting some aspect of her Kith (and she doesn't even have to be Satyr, that was just the original character. Other Kiths could apply, though they might not be as dramatic a rejection since Satyrs are primal forces incarnate) and she doesn't even have to be Christian, though that makes alot of sense for me in particular.

The plot hooks for such a character are boundless, as are the explanations for them. Perhaps the faerie soul was a tithe to Heaven and retained a touch of that spirit. Perhaps she is really the rebirth of a noble princess foully murdered and returning to life to complete some task, or be reunited with a True Love. Perhaps she just had the ill-luck to have accepted something of human life that she cannot give up, and that keeps her from Bedlam. Perhaps she is under some sort of curse that changed her Kith. Or maybe a Marauder mage played with her on a whim.

In any case, she truly believes in the Dreaming, in Glamour, and in being Faerie, she just has reservations about her particular Kith, and some of the stereotypes thereof.

This character concept has its foundation in the Nature vs. Nurture argument and it is suggested that only mature, experienced, talented players try to take on such a difficult role. And it would take a mature, experienced, and talented Storyteller to properly augment the experience.

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