Whisper

Name: Whisper; legal/real name unknown

Creature Type: Changeling

Seeming/Kith: Fairest Shadowsoul

Court: Winter

Description: Very little is known about this lovely Winter Courtier, and that's just how he likes it. One rumor has it that in Arcadia, he was forced to sing for days and weeks and months on end, until his prized possession, his enchanting voice, was worn away and lost forever - which is why he only speaks in a whisper. Another rumor says that his singing voice is so bewitchingly beautiful, anyone who hears it falls hopelessly, tragically in love with him - and after watching too many people fall to heartbreak and despair, he has vowed to never sing or even speak above a whisper, lest he chance it again. The truth is unknown; what is known is that on the rare occasions that he can be enticed to be social, he usually ends up strumming a guitar by the end of the evening - but he never, ever sings.

Whisper has been named the Winter King for the last five years in a row; he shows up to Court at the changing of the seasons, accepts the crown, and vanishes again. He puts in an appearance at major Court functions, but otherwise remains an unseen force guiding from behind the scenes. If Changelings encounter him outside the Freehold - sipping tea in a coffee shop, for instance, or poring over a history book in the library - he does not acknowledge them, and if they try to initiate conversation, will quickly finish whatever he's doing and leave. Logic dictates that he must have some way to communicate with his courtiers, but no one outside the Onyx Court knows what that is.

In his Mask, Whisper is a shockingly handsome young man with sad dark eyes and unruly hair. His light brown skin would look equally at home in the Middle East or in Mexico. His Mien is much the same, except that his skin darkens to almost pitch black, and takes on a shadowy, insubstantial feel, while his gentle features sharpen to become painfully, unattainably pretty. His Mantle hits like the worst of Florida winters - gentle and inexorable, not too painfully cold, but highly unsettling to those unprepared for it - desolate and bittersweet, without even the promise of snow to soften the chill that creeps right to your bones.

Relationships

 * Whisper would seem to be dating Reveka Waters and Erik of the Cairns, after an apparent stormy start with the pretty water-siren.
 * Whisper has apparently acquired a "big sister" in Zoe Torres... after that one time she gut-punched him.

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