Firenza Caprios

Generally regarded as a charming, sweet girl, Firenza's endearing nature shined through in everything she does. Often putting great thought and consideration into things, focusing on the people around her, even a handful of crumpled daisies can be charming in their own way when gifted from the little princess. With a light touch, bashfully girlish nature and an undying love for any number of things, Fire was difficult to anger, though her frustration was quickly invoked by some of her more rambunctious, rough housing cousins (See: Cedric), going as far as to announce that if a monster was going to eat someone, they should eat him.

Constantly asking questions or observing what other people are doing and mimicking them, she was both impressionable and naive of how things work, often seeking out answers to impossible questions like "How do I make everyone happy?" or "Why are mean people mean?" Firenza fixated on a couple of different 'causes'. Her first notable quest was delivering picked flowers to family members in an attempt to cheer them up, which was a rousing success in her opinion. It was only afterward that she began to note how lonely she was between her studies, with her elder brother often occupied in his studies, elder sister dead and younger brother just not much fun, yet, she embarked on her longest quest to date: to find friends. (See: Order of the Octopus)

When it comes to family, Firenza's affection ran very deep behind the line of propriety that was drawn between them (some more severely than others). From her tendency to run giggling into her various uncles' arms and being toted around on shoulders to the quiet, adoring smiles to her parents, there was a vast spectrum of affection that Fire was versed in. Without comparison, the Princess' adoration was unyielding when it came to her father, who she openly called 'Daddy' or 'Daddy Majesty'. In her eyes, the Emperor could do no wrong, even when firm or distant. Even though her father holds that position of absoluteness in her heart, Firenza was nothing but loving of her mother and insisted on mimicking her mother's clothing on occasion, wanting to model herself after the type of woman she was.

Jordan was another source of constant pride and doting, while Fire may have more of an adventurous streak in her somewhere, as a young girl she was constantly trying to look after the crown prince and became extremely distraught when he became upset and fiendishly protective if anyone got him in trouble somehow, always finding a way to make Jordan's faults someone else's. Something peculiar happened after the death of the third to their trio; for long after a year after her sister's death, Fire seemed to completely ignore what had happened and refused to accept it. Still freely talking about her sister, including her in games and stories. This became more distressing when she began tearing up rooms and destroying things, then tearfully pleading that Meg had done it; a habit she suddenly stopped one day.

• Auntie Bees. Received a crushed bundle of daisies. Her guards 'didn't look nice enough' so she left the delivery to her neighbor, Mal'kai.
  • Lesson Learned: Guards are scary. Mages are weird, but nice.

• The Yellow Haired Excellency. A handful of pretty red poppies pulled up from the atrium pots, delivered during a card game.
  • Lesson Learned: Yellow Haired Excellency is allergic to flowers.
  • Lesson Learned: The Queen of Spades is called "The Bitch" And you give her to Dorian.
  • Lesson Learned: "Bitch" Is a naughty word.
  • Lesson Learned: When on a boat, you paddle oars. When the coxman yells 'Stroke' you push and pull as fast as you can. Dorian has to do it when I say so he can practice for later.

• Uncle Drus-sellency. A giant sunflower in a tiny pot was delivered to the Baron's room and leaned up against his practice dummy. After running into him accidentally and trying to hide the flower as a surprise. He plays along nicely.
  • Lesson Learned: Sunflowers Bite.

• Uncle Fray-ton. A bunch of multicolored hydrangeas bigger than the little princess' head. Knocked on every door in the Green Field's baronial hallway until /someone/ said hello. Met Nikolasellency in the Golden Crescent suites, where Fray-ton was helping him unpack.
  • Lesson Learned: Eventually you always find the right door. But the wrong ones can be fun, too.
  • Lesson Learned: Servant Dangle needs flowers. Next Victim Sighted.

• Monster Gidhil is encountered at the Spring Festival in Seal Cove. Convinced that he eats small children and especially babies, Fire gives him a stuffed bear so he wont eat her, Little Asha, her siblings or her cousins (Except Cedric).
  • Lesson Learned: Even Monsters have Names.
  • Lesson Learned: If you really put thought and heart in something, you can make a new friend. And sometimes those new friends can eat people for you.
  • Lesson Learned: The most normal looking items can be the most powerful ones.
  • Lesson Learned: Octopuses have 8 legs.
  • Assignment: Asha's Mommy gave Fire a stuffed octopus. She's supposed to find 8 friends just like the legs of the octopus. So far, she has Little Asha, Jordan and Meg.

"I got a dragon for Tommy and a bear for the Monster and Baroness got octopuses and I gave Gidhil the Monster the bear and now he wont eat me or Asha or Tommy or Jordan or Meg or Paiva or Parlan or Paley or Sheridan or Ivy or Figgy or Caed or Ainsley or Jilly or Jobey or Philly or Chandra, But he can eat Cedric, because I said so."

• While playing 'Chase' with Sir, Fire wanders into the Salon to see a very naked Lady Renata Sendai on the couch, surrounded by a group of onlookers as Ambassador Juste Chevalier paints her.
  • Lesson Learned: We do not talk about naked people in public.
  • Lesson Learned: We do not get naked in public. Unless we're taking a bath.
  • Lesson Learned: We do not let people paint us naked. Especially in public.
  • Lesson Learned: Yellow Haired Excellency can do the Mad Voice /really/ well.
  • Octopus List: Added Parlan, because Uncle Frayton said I could. 4!

The high-tension words passed from not just the Baroness, but the Knight as well, has Fire shrinking a little into the man's shoulder. Her eyes blink-blink-blinking from that realm. She knows that sound. Bad words and all. Silent and small, as the Knight turns away to walk right back out of the room, Fire's eyes roll over the couch. Just as they exit, her voice is as clear a bell, "She was /naked/!" Click, the door shuts. "She was /naked/!" Comes the insistent sound of the spritely girl who just gleefully ran into the other room. Into the atrium comes the black-garbed Princess once more, carried in the crook of the Knight's arm now as she stares, wide eyed at him. "Why was she naked? Did someone steal her dress? There were people there, did /they/ /steal/ her dress?"

• Old enough to attend lessons now, Firenza learns how to write her name and immediately begins writing letters to those she hears have children. Sending for the infamous Shoes Shelve-Leer, once more, she informs the Prince that one of his children should be her friends. That very morning, she meets Juste's apprentice, Shala, who is also asked to be her friend and given a handful of wilting autumn flowers.
  • Lesson Learned: Writing letters is fun /and/ makes things sound super important.
  • Lesson Learned: Paisian sounds really funny.
  • Octopus List: Added Shala and Syddie! -- Executive Decision. Because Jordan and Meg are her brother and sister, they don't /really/ count. But they can still play.
    • With the increasingly official sense of Firenza's friendship club, she officially renames it the Order of the Octopus.

• Another letter is sent to Duke Raz-EE-el, having heard someone talking about the trouble he had with his son, Solomon. Invited to the Mists Conservatory, Firenza informs him that one of his children should join the Order of the Octopus.
  • Lesson Learned: Faeries are teeny, tiny people with wings that fly around and play with little girls.
  • Amendment from Previous Lesson: Not /all/ Mages are weird.
  • Octopus List: Added Nina, The Mistress of the Fae!
    • With more of that 'official' feel to her new Order, Firenza charms one of the seamstresses to make little 'badges' for her group. Soon, all members are given a piece of blue cloth with a gold shield and a happy little octopus on it. Because you're supposed to give your friends special presents.