Cornelia

Name: Cornelia

Nicknames: Neli, Papercut soldier

Age: 8 years

Gender: female

Height/Weight: 17 cm / 32 g

History: Cornelia was created 8 years ago together with several other ‘inklings’ by a 13-year-old witch who was bored and wanted some friends to play with. And friends they became. The young witch was very kind, but she did not take into account the fragility of her creations and most of them died through the years. Cornelia is the only one left of the first batch of inklings. The witch did make two more inklings, who were more durable and are still there today. The three inklings usually stay in the witch’ room to guard her notes and dairy, a task which especially Cornelia takes very seriously. Though she is not very powerful, she is convinced that it is the rumours of her mighty paper sword that has kept intruders away so far. Now that the witch is older and is starting to mingle more with the serious magical crowd, there are actually people who will be after her notes, so the inklings will probably have to work harder and harder to keep them safe and hidden.

Personality:

+ Valiant, loyal, steadfast, helpful, curious, tidy, creative

+/- Talkative, skillful liar

- Proud, stubborn, nosy, judging, rash, short-tempered, likes to gossip

Additional trivia:

- Cornelia can manipulate paper and ink.

- Though she is made of ink herself, most of her shape is fixed in the spell that made her, so she cannot change it, except for het arms. She also cannot make herself float.

- She often uses her paper controlling skills to make herself a pair of wings to fly around with.

- Her body is pseudoplastic: it is usually solid, but when large force is applied, the ink becomes fluid again.

- She can repair herself to some extent.

- She cannot touch water, because it dissolves her. She does like to put inkdrops in a glass of water en watch them dissolve, out of some kind of morbid fascination.

- She does not go outside often, because it is so dangerous for her and she has, of course, her very important task to fulfil, but her curiosity sometimes gets the better of her.

Made for 's character design contest: fav.me/db2h1pf