Username:.Tik.Tok.
Name: Will o' Wisp
Gender: Male
Explanation: I was born in a swampland at the edge of the sea. It is a dark, mysterious place, the air heavy with the mist brought in by the tide. Sometimes the fog is so thick, you feel as if you're choking on it. The sky is a dreary grey, pressing down onto the earth. The calls of strange creatures sound only long enough to send chills down your spine before they too are swallowed by the mists. Trees that were surely once heathy giants now rot in the decay of the bog, their spindly branches, once strong and proud, now wither from disuse. The few retched leaves they produce are brown and molded, starved for the sun that never shines. I live in a hollow in one such tree, my nest lined with peat-moss and rushes. Some times, a traveler wanders into my lonely domain, and I do my best to guide them through. My bright spots of color shimmer in the darkness, and I lead them around the dangerous bits of mire. But more often then not, I am alone in my realm. My only company being the marsh birds and other, more sinister creatures. Outside of the blackened tree I live in, there is a thick bramble that prevails in the darkness. A thorny and twisted plant, but a testament to the endurance of it's kind. Every time I walk near it, I cant help but to admire the ferocity that allows it to survive in a place like this. A place where animals live their entire lives never having seen the sun, a place where the dampness finds it's way into your bones and stays, where the bog consumes anything that so much as touches it's surface. It's no rose, that's for sure, and the few berries it yields are sour and shriveled, but it gives me hope, that unlike the moss that sucks the life from already rotting trees and the mushrooms that live on the decay of other, once living things, there is a place here for something alive, something like me.