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name
i'd name this absolutely gorgeous girl cygnet phylia! 'cygnet' due to her wing like markings, and 'phylia' due to her love of mechanics, with the name being taken from the letters that make up 'stymphalian', which are steel birds from greek mythology. she has many nicknames, the most common being 'cygnet', 'phylia' and 'phyllie'.

gender
as noted on the reference, phyllie was DFAB, and identifies as a girl.

age
cygnet is six years old. her birthday is november fifteenth, but she's referred to herself as 'nearly seven' from the moment she had 364 days to go!

mechanics?
Ever since she retrieved a small wooden car powered by an elastic band from Jammy Dodger's bin of useless school things, Cygnet has been fascinated by woodwork, mechanics and engineering. Her parents were delighted to find something their restless and detached daughter loved and so provided her with endless Lego kits, some with working motors or lights, to put together. She worked through them at great pace, and would give them to Albus to meddle with when she'd finished - she had no use for them otherwise and every sibling knows the power of favours to hold against their elders! Yet as time went by these became too easy and repetitive for Cygnet to really enjoy - in fact around the time she was to enrol in Primary school - and Albus found that these toys blocking shelf space for his puzzle collection. So in a way it was perfect timing for her move to school, although Hart'yel and Rose were worried about her organisational and social skills. She came home from her first day with bright eyes, flushed cheeks... and a permission slip to join the DT Club at school. This was aimed at much older children but, as her letter from the teacher assured, he'd be constantly supervising her and she seemed eager and intelligent enough. The four year old was so excited her parents eventually agreed, and each Wednesday she'd stay an extra hour after school with a pack of sandwiches. At first she made simple things - a wooden candle holder ("How practical!" remarked Jammy) but soon she was moving onto the more complex projects, such as the car Jammy made aged 12. She even started making a few simple puzzles for Albus - he completed them in seconds, but was grateful for his sister's kind gesture. Cygnet enjoys challenging herself with more and more complicated pieces - she's moved from wood to metal with the help of her teacher and sometimes helps out with engineering at home. So much has changed in the few years since Phylli discovered mechanics, but one thing hasn't - the sandwiches always have to be jam, as both a tribute and tease to her big sister whose discarded school project started Cygnet's passion.


personality
forgetful / clumsy
'my sandwiches!'
It was your average Wednesday after school - Cygnet raced out of class to be the first to the DT club. Her teacher met her with as patient smile, as always, and helped her work on her current project. Why the rush? Well, it was the most complex thing she'd ever attempted - a quiz game for Albus' birthday. Her teacher was doing the programming for her whilst she built the parts for the circuit board under his careful eye, and put together the device. She kept all the parts at school, knowing she'd lose them at home, and was surprisingly delicate in this fiddly field of mechanics. Yet all good things must come to an end, and Cygnet's organisation came to a rather sticky one! She was so concentrated on her work that she barely noticed when half an hour had gone by, marking snack time. She grabbed out her jam sandwich in her left paw and her spare length of wire to be binned in the other. She wandered over, her head full of potential questions to challenge even her big brother - her regard of him was high and she thought no question too hard for him - and tossed the contents of her right paw into the bin. Walking back to the bench, she took a bite out of her 'sandwich'. It was surprisingly rubbery.. and metallic.. she spat it out into her paw and saw it was just spare wire. It took her a moment to register what had happened, and people began to giggle as she stared, puzzled.
"My sandwiches!" she cried, sprinting over to the bin. But it was too late for this snack to be salvaged. Her head hanging down with shame, she walked back to her bench and explained what happened to the teacher. A small smile creeped across his face, and Cygnet nearly cried out in frustration. It wasn't funny!
"Cygnet, don't be upset! I'm not laughing about what happened to your sandwiches, it's what's happened to my sandwiches!" Cygnet looked up, puzzled. He held out her sandwich bag in his paw, and she blushed deeply. "I know you consider yourself quite the chef Phylli, but I'm afraid to say wire and jam just isn't my favourite combination," he grinned, guiding her paws gently into the next task.

determined / creative
'i have to find the best idea, i'll keep trying until i- oh!'
"And make sure you don't stay up reading too late tonight Albus, you have a big contest tomorrow,"
"I won't mum," he sighed, kissing his mother goodnight. Rose smiled at her son, stroking his head fondly before leaving his bedroom, closing the door softly behind her. She yawned sleepily - she loved her wonderful children, but they could certainly be tiring! - and padded over to her room. She was just slipping into bed when she heard the tell-tale scratching of a pencil on paper. With a heavy sigh she patrolled the corridor to see who was a midnight writer - she had her suspicions already. She passed by Albus' room, where she could hear the faint hum of a bedside lamp and a page turning, before the snap of the light being switched off. Yet the pencil continued, so she walked over to Cygnet's room. She walked in, then took a step back as she saw her daughter practically hidden by scrunched up pieces of paper on her desk.
"Honey?" she said, worried. She walked over to her daughter and hugged her. "Bedtime was ages ago dearie, what are you doing?" she asked, not unkindly. Cygnet screwed up her face in concentration, marking out a few lines on her notepad, before sighing and ripping out the page. She looked up to her mother in earnest.
"Tomorrow there's a big event at school for the best invention, and I've been trying to make one all week so I could get a prize and surprise you but I can't think of anything!" she said sadly, before brightening. "But I'm not going to give up, even if it takes all night!"
Rose shook her head. "But Phyllie you have to sleep, dear," she gently reminded her. "Maybe a better idea will come in the morning, after a nice hot chocolate and a bedtime story?"
Cygnet nodded glumly. "Okay then mummy,"
Rose began her favourite bedtime story from when she was a child: 'The Evergreen Tree'. Towards the end, just as she began to speak of the three proud and tall trees, Cygnet sat straight up in bed and reached for a pencil. Rose looked at her questioningly.
"Mummy you've given me the best idea! I'll design a bird box made from the branches of a spruce tree! Obviously they'll have to be synthetic, but they'll be similar in structure so they're light enough to put within a spruce tree to be safe from elements, and they'll be warm too!" Her eyes shone with excitement and joy, and Rose's face lit up as she saw how happy her daughter was.
"Well done my dear," she said, kissing her gently. Cygnet squirmed uncomfortably, and Rose let her go, smiling all the same. "Now why don't I help you sketch it out so we can all have a good night's sleep?" They did this, and Cygnet went into school the next day confident and excited. Rose was certainly busy whilst she was out! She was almost late picking her daughter up, but she ran into the playground and found Cygnet clutching an envelope, looking for her mother. Cygnet ran over to her mother and handed her the envelope. "Mummy read it, read it!" she said, grinning. Rose scanned down it.
"You've won, you've won!" she said delightedly. "Now, I have a surprise for you at home in your bedroom!"
Cygnet raced straight up to her room and saw her bed was painted green.. "Like a pine tree!" Phyllie said, beaming. "Mummy it's perfect! But.. how did you know I'd win?"
Rose looked at her daughter seriously. "I knew you'd win because I believe in you, but this isn't a reward for winning. It's a reward for having such a wonderful idea, and simply a gift because I want you to know that you'll always have a haven with us, winter or summer."

camera shy/embarrassed by affection
-squirms- 'mummy please let me go,'

intelligent/absent-minded
'seven squared is forty nine, the axel is two by three centi-oh, when did you get here dad?''

sensitive/defensive
'im sorry, okay?'


relationships

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Cygnet adores her mother, and she has plenty of reason to do so!
She has always supported her to follow her dreams, even when doing
so goes against her natural maternal protectiveness. Rose wants
Cygnet to be happy and confident, and she respects Cygnet's oddities:
something Cygnet cannot thank her mother enough for. As different
as they are, from hobbies to looks, the two could not be a closer
mother and daughter.

Cygnet has heard many tales about her father: the wanted criminal,
the cruel, grumpy old man. Yet she dis-misses them all as fiction,
because she loves him. She cannot imagine him ever doing any of
the famed crimes - yes, he could be a bit snappy at times, but he
was no heartless criminal: he loved her, and she knew it without
him ever having to say it. She often makes him little trinkets to try
cheer him up when he gets gloomy, and connects with him in that
both of them might been seen as strange, but they don't let that
get to them. He can be a little protective of her, which can be
annoying to this experimental spirit, but overall they have an
unusual but effective relationship that's held together by love.

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xPhyllie and Jammy Dodger have a somewhat rocky relationship. Jammy
knows just how to wind her sister up, and this brings out a rare side of
Cygnet that's cheeky and irritating, trying to get her sister wound up.
They'll often mock each other's hobbies, with Jammy claiming that
mechanics is for idiotic boys and Cygnet countering by saying baking
is for stupid old ladies. It can be quite amusing to watch the 22 year
old and 6 year old in heated arguments. However, Jammy and Cygnet
do this in just sibling play, and do love each other.. uhh.. very deep
down!

Cygnet gets along far better with her brother than her sister. Whilst
their hobbies are different, they're more compatible, and require
the same skills: sometimes Cygnet will chip in her opinion on a
puzzle, and Albus might show her how something should best
fit together on a project. She enjoys her brother's company: he's
quieter than her sister, but she knows he's honest and will stand
up for what he believes in, not deceiving anyone and not looking
to take over the world [unlike someone she could mention]. She
also finds she can always go to him if she has any troubles at
school; he's empathetic and helps advise her in the innocent and
gentle way of a nine year old.

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quirks
fear
whenever cygnet is scared, rather than the classic fight or flee, she becomes frozen to the spot, paralysed with fear. her family has speculated this could be due to her being constantly told that if she ever gets her tail or fur caught in any machinery, the best thing to do is to stay still and wait for someone to slam the emergency stop. obviously this should be accompanied by shouting, making this theory a little unstable, but cygnet just ceases to function whenever she is frightened. a fleeting spook, such as someone jumping out at her or an unexpected crash, will cause her to freeze for just a few seconds, but something that's ongoing will keep her stock still for as long as it poses a threat to her.. in her mind, that is.

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art
by me: x x x x x x x x
[the background for the fifth one is from google images]
by others: m a n g l e ; , adresia, Panic & Paranoia, Ros3Cat, Inky., lacke, belu-ga [dA], RainbowM&MsInWinter, kalimarie718, rothbart., foxdove, shasha~, ~:Saddles&Bridles:~, banana., kydashing, ren-, [ghostcat], lazyredpanda, banana., the knight**star, lazyredpanda, ironicwOrld, lierre, wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., wandzie., scooteson, necrogerbil, necrogerbil, kiruraki, necrogerbil, becnessmonster, kiru raki & wandzie., glispa, frost★, ::lady sheik::, shadypaws, frost★, frost★, girl of the wolves, corrosive_limes, [ghostcat], [ghostcat], kiru raki & wandzie., ~static~, ~static~, ~static~, ~static~, ~static~, ~static~, the birb
65 pieces total c:


art highlights
i'll try change these weekly c:

[Jaskiest]

one last reserve c:

[CompleteCuriosity]

I'm glad you like the art from my form <333 you lucky duck OuO
If I ever get a jbd I'd love to rp.
Beautiful bab

[Jaskiest]

ah i'm sure you'll get a bean very soon, your form was amazing!! <3
i hope you don't mind me using your lovely animation of her as an avatar? i've credited you on my interests c:

[CompleteCuriosity]

Oh yeah, totally! I'm happy to see that it didn't go to waste! OwO

[lolpeaceoutlol]

love this and all of the effort you're putting into your new baby bean <333 I really appreciate that you're taking care of her!

[Lierre]

Such a pretty girl! I was going through some old files and I found a drawing of her. I guess I was going to enter??

Either way, here you go!

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[Jaskiest]

ah sorry about the super late reply but thank you so much lierre! that art is super cute <333