Once upon a time, you were Agatha Eden Moor - a proud leech, millennial and unemployed daughter of well-off parents and sister of renowned siblings. Yet here you are, trapped in a Cultivation Online Game like some kind of an Isekai Protagonist! Oh, fates are truly cruel...
The worst part - you aren't playing the cool kids either. In character creation, you just had to choose the bad guys.
Heavily inspired by all the other cultivation quests, especially "Man and Mountain", go read it, it's cool~
Your name is Agatha Eden Moor and you are utterly royally screwed. How's that for the eulogy?
Beloved daughter and favorite sister, unemployed recent graduate weak little flower of your mother's garden and simply far too lazy a person to function on its own, how could it be you – a pretty much useless leech of your well-off parents and renowned siblings – to be the one to get stuck in a freacking online game!? Oh, fates are really cruel! To seriously listen to your booze-induced ramblings about isekai-novels and gaping hole of strong female protagonists… Why thou deemed you worthy to close said hole with your own corpse? You were far too young to die in a stupid off-balanced money-sucking cultivation knock-off game! You were far too young, period!
And if only you being stuck in a game was the worst part, but no, you just had to play by the bad guys.
Screwed, utterly and finally screwed, that's what you are.
You created your avatar yesterday, instead of watching doramas like a good little ball of shame you are, spending the whole night to make her look all pretty or, well, as pretty as a six-year-old could be. Apparently everyone start cultivating in kindergarten. It was funny yesterday, but right now you were far too thankful to at least be old enough to wash by yourself and not wear diapers. Or whatever diaper-equivalents there were in pseudo-ancient pseudo-China.
Oh, if only you knew…
First of all, you were –
Choose the Path of your Cultivation.
[ ] Rogue Cultivator – if that can even be used to describe a child of two runaway dummies far too invested in a hush-hush type of research to be left alone. Or alive. Thankfully your parents were well enough cultivators to sniff out the darkening of their doorsteps by half a hundred of righteous bastards ready to leave you an orphan at the tender age of two. So yeah, for the past four years you and your pair of cronies were more or less constantly on the run.
Opens further [Rogue Cultivator] character creation. Race is [Human] by default. You will start with the [On the Run] trait. On the Run – sometimes you question your parents' life choices so very much and sometimes you are just happy to have quite a survival instinct for such a small child. You are persecuted by one of the Four Great Sects and have enemies in high places. +10 to all rolls involving survival, be it a battle or just trying to find some berries for lunch.
[ ] Demonic Cultivator – and not the last one in the hierarchy of your Sect, either! A daughter of chosen disciple and successor of a sect elder and pretty much said elder's spiritual granddaughter, too. You were so born with a silver spoon here - sometimes you weren't even that sad about the whole being stuck in a game thing. Yes, your sect was pretty much a buffer between some demonic clans and a bunch of righteous cultivators that just couldn't, well, not fight each other for one single moment and so resembled more a fort in a warzone than a proper sect, but you learned to like it that way. More or less.
Opens further [Demonic Cultivator] character creation. Race is [Human] or [Half-blood] by choice. You will start with the [Unnatural Selection] trait. Unnatural Selection – you don't know what smoked the bunch of loonies who once upon a time decided to found a sect on a warzone but here you are, still somehow alive. Maybe that was the plan all along? Not every child can survive lullabies accompanied by battle cries after all. You are tougher than you look. +10 to all battle rolls.
[ ] Demon Cultivator – a whole Clan Princess, although not the Heiress one. Still, it did place you on quite a pedestal with all the other clan kids. The third daughter of a Demon Saint and seventh child of the clan head that sounds cool, right? Right! Not as cool as your Honorable First Sister – the Heiress – but at least that also means that you were pretty much the little princess instead with all the little miss cliché it entailed. And yes, maybe being a demoness wasn't so smart considering most of the humans hated your guts just because and most of the demonic clans were at each other's throats for fun and profit, but still. At least you were a rich little miss in this world too.
Opens further [Demon Cultivator] character creation. Race is [Demon] by default. You will start with the [Little Princess] trait. Little Princess – just like in your previous, real-world you are quite coddled and loved by your family. This means, with you being also the youngest and easily the weakest child of your Demon Lord Papa, that you are the favorite target for all kinds of plots and traps. Well, as your Papa said – near-death experiences build character! Or something like that… +10 to all rolls if the matter concerns your Clan, +10 to all social rolls.
Oh, oh, and while we are still here, what exactly is your name? [ ] Whrite-in a name. Remember that you are a female in this quest.
Fuwah~, with all that boring stuff out of the way you finally get to cry about all your horrible not-good so awful it's kind of even funny background choices! Oh, you still remember it as if it was yesterday. Which it actually was. Only yesterday but felt like a lifetime ago.
The thing is, in the "Hurricane of Fate" – who even names the game that way? – you were not only able to create a child with certain traits, appearance and family history, which is creepy and not in a good way as you think of it now, but also play with their, well, character.
Choose your initial traits! These traits are universal and can be combined with any Path you took above, but will be somewhat tweaked due to your previous choice. For example "beauty" standards of demons, humans and even half-bloods are quite different so the character will get three different appearances story-wise with three different paths you can take. You have 5 points to spend.
Advantages:
[ ] Heavenly Luck (3 points) – maybe it's your Platinum Account talking or maybe you were some kind of saint in your life before but you are an incredibly lucky person. Every turn the lowest dice can be rerolled.
[ ] Smart Cookie (2 points) – it wasn't hard to get everyone to think you are quite a precocious child, considering you are indeed an adult trapped in a child's body. Your elders quite like you and will probably help you in your cultivation endeavors if you ask them just right. -[ ] Little Genius (1 point, only with Smart Cookie) – it took some well-placed questions and far too many plays of Go, but here you are – a renowned genius child of your family. It does put certain expectations on your shoulders but also gives you a certain adult heavily invested in your cultivation success.
[ ] Blooming Flower (2 points) – it's not your fault really that you made your character so, so cute! You did have a Platinum Account once upon a time and bought some skins and aesthetics for your child, Who knew one day you will become said child? At least you are the pretty one. Certain DCs are reduced. -[ ] Precious Beauty (1 point, only with Blooming Flower) – well, maybe you spent a lot of money to make your avatar look just right. Oh, the hardships of beautiful ones! Certain DCs are even further reduced, bonuses to certain actions and interactions.
[ ] Little Lioness (2 points) – a free spirit, that's what you are, always looking to get yourself into all kinds of stories and adventures. Your running around did steeled your will a little bit, but it also made you quite prone to getting yourself in all kinds of trouble. Certain DCs are reduced. -[ ] Lady Dragon (1 point, only with Little Lioness) – you are quite brave and strong-willed for a child, always ready to help your friends and punish your enemies, but sometimes your bull-headedness hurt more than it helps. Certain DCs are even further reduced, but a DC will check will be added every time player tries to go against character preferred choices.
[ ] Loyal Friend (2 points) – everyone needs a hug, even your shut-in persona knew that and considering you didn't have any real friends in the real world is it so surprising that you bought one for your precious daughter? Yes, it's a pet and not exactly what can be considered a healthy social outlet, but who cares, we are all cultivators and cultivators are weird anyways! You will start with a random low-level pet. Although it can be raised into something serious you did choose it mostly for the looks.
[ ] Bookworm (1 point) – you read. A lot. Mostly because life of a child is honestly far too boring the second go round, but still it calms your nerves to do something so mundane and normal in this mad stupid world. You know lots of stuff. Most of it useless, but some of said stuff may even save your life one day. When in trouble, the player will get DCs to try to remember information she may've read before.
[ ] Green Thumb (1 point) – you know your greens. And your yellows, and your reds, and especially your poisons. Not on the level to even jokingly call yourself an expert but you do have a certain affinity with plants. Sometimes you even think they kind of like you, too. Certain DCs are reduced.
Disadvantages. You can use more points by taking some disadvantages but only if said disadvantages are not diametrically opposite to your chosen advantages. You can't be silly and smart or brave and cowardly at the same time after all.
[ ] Clumsy (+1 point) – it's not your fault that sometimes your legs live a life of their own. Certain DCs are increased.
[ ] Scarred (+1 point) – well, maybe playing with fire is not one of your fortes. At least you have some cool scars to show off. Would've been cooler if you were not pretty much the only one who thinks they are cool. Certain DCs are increased.
[ ] Short Attention Span (+2 points) – you try, you really do, but sometimes your thoughts are like frightened bunnies running away from wolves. They will get caught eventually but right now they are running, all in different directions and it shows. Every time a character performs the same action for 2 or more turns in a row the action will auto-fail.
[ ] Black Cat (+2 points) – no one actually knows who started the rumors but by the time you were aware of them pretty much everyone around was sure that if they interact with you long enough they will get cursed. It was okay when kids ignored or straight up avoided you, but when adults started to keep their distance too… Certain DCs are increased. -1 to initial social link with other characters. -[ ] Black Heart (+1 point, only with Black Cat) – so apparently your heart is some kind of rare ingredient that does indeed raises the potency of all kinds of curses and arrays. The thing is, you are pretty sure you will die without your heart, so that kind of sucks. You will get a lot of people after you if any information about your condition gets known to the world.
Please, be aware that synergy can be created through your choices. For example, Black Heart with Treasured Beauty will most probably make you into a Black Widow in the making or poor Cursed Beauty, depending on additional factors.
Also, there aren't so many disadvantages because with every path you will already have some. Remember that.
So in this part we pretty much choose all the basics for the character. The second part will have more intricacies concerning your chosen Path, for example what clan of demons you belong to and what sect are you disciple of. It will also probably be the last part of chara creation and we will get started.
And apparently I can't be trusted and more or less started new quest yet again as coping for real-life bulshit, so here we are.
I am such a sucker for Cultivation quests. Count me in.
[X] Plan: Dark Demon Princess who likes flowers and romance novels.
[X] Demon Cultivator
[X] Loyal Friend (Can we have a snake familiar? Snake familiars are cool)
[X] Bookworm
[X] Green Thumb
[X] Little Genius
[X] Black Cat
The plan with This is to Make a Beautiful Genius with A ''Black heart'' Like a Beautiful Rose with Thorns. The black heart that can Enhance Curse arrays even Fits with the demon image Like her heart was so Evil it could strengthen a Curse Array. So we are kinda like a demon empress in training Like the Name.
[X] Plan: Two luck-stealing cats
Name: Mao
[X] Rogue Cultivator
[X] Little Lioness
-[X] Little Dragon
[X] Heavenly Luck
[X] Loyal Friend
[X] Black Cat
-[X] Black Heart
I think that my plan would make for a cool story if You guys would try it. Im feeling kinda sad because Every time i make a plan no one votes for it. Are my plans just that Bad? I Thought it had drawbacks that would make a Good character considering The advantages In my plan. Im not trying to sound whiny or Anything But i would Like it if my plan got more votes. Holy crap i sound like a 5 year old child just uh Do what you want to do I guess.
[X] Plan: Dark Demon Princess who likes flowers and romance novels.
WOuld honestly prefer Short attention span instead of black cat, but this is close enough to what I want. Maybe luck would be good to have but all well.
Okay, it seems like Demon Empress is winning right now. I'm not closing the votes yet, but almost all of you want a demon girl anyways, so I start writing about clans and stuff.
Also, the thing with traits, especially the disadvantages is - you can improve it. Like you will probably spend a year or two to work around the simple ones like "clumsy" or "scarred" but you can more or less negate it. It gets harder with obviously inherent ones but there still will be story-wise chances to make it suck a little less.
I'll also give you the name game again with the clan options cause my small brain forgot that different clans kinda have different naming traditions.
[x] Plan Lucky
-[x] Demonic Cultivator
-[x] Xin Mei
-[x] Heavenly Luck (3 points)
-[x] Blooming Flower (2 points) -[x] Precious Beauty (1 point, only with Blooming Flower) -[x] Green Thumb (1 point)
-[x] Black Cat (+2 points)
Okay, Demon Empress wins and I will update in about 15 minutes. In your second turn, you will be able to choose the Clan and the Name for your cute little burgeoning lady-dictator. Unfortunately, I couldn't give you the last char-gen options because I can't finalize it without knowing which kind of demoness you are playing. So yeah.
Synergy will be opened after this turn, too.
So yeah, you were a demoness, a small one with wobbly feet and not-yet-perfected smile, but a demoness nevertheless. And that's the problem, all right. In the world where goodies always won no matter how bizarre or outright idiotic their actions were, being a creature of Abyss, a daughter of Chaos was a big no-no. The best-case scenario will get you into someone else's harem – a glorious wife with a number somewhere in three digits. Or even worse – a pa-pa-pa victim, a plot device to get protagonist something or other from the demonic side of the world! You don't even like pa-pa-pa that much, you were a shut-in for fuck's sake!
Well, at least you were the cool demon. But all the possibilities still sting. You were so going to get yourself the bestest villainess ever, that is, the one who survives!
But hey, which kind of demon were you, again?
Most of the demons live in the Endless Abyss, which is, well, a virtuously endless sub-dimension of the world you got yourself stuck in. It has some cracks to the Human World where humans and cultivators live, but most of the said cracks are either constantly monitored by the Clan residing in the area or just somewhere on the tail of the blackgoats. On the peaks of unreachable mountain hights, in the middle of the seas full of carnivorous algae, you know the drill.
Abyss itself is an archipelago of four main islands and consecutive biomes: the Winter (North), the Desert (South), the Orchid (East), and the Dusk (West). You honestly don't know how it made sense for the designers but here you are anyway. There are smaller isles drifting around in the Bottomless Oceans, too, but the thing with the big ones – it's governed by the Demon Kings and being a Demon King or Queen is the coolest thing that can happen to a demon. If one likes to live the majority of its life fighting off assassination attempts and deal with your very envious vassals. Most of the demons love the stuff.
So yeah, one Demon King or Queen ruling the local Clans and its own royal family with an iron fist or flaming whip, for about 3-4 High Clans-slash-Families-slash-Tribes in the state of constant struggle for the throne and the innumerable amount of lesser families of all kinds and sorts. There's also Drifting Merchants' clans, who prefer to live on their moving rocks of all things and the Outsiders – the descendants of demons who decided that living in the Human Realm, with cultivators, is the best thing since the moment one very clever demoness tried to boil rogue leaf spirit alive and created tea.
[ ] The Crowned Dragons. The rulers of the North. The Bai Clan who was so very original it makes you bleed from your eyes. They aren't even all white! Which sometimes makes it kinda hilarious, especially when that one massive bitch is so totally a blue horned angry lizard but was named as White Precious Moonflower. You laughed your heart out.
The Clan resides right in the center of the Northern Isle ruling the surrounding families with fairness and sharp teeth. Mostly just teeth but that's tough love for you. You honestly chose them for the aesthetics; they are so damn pretty it hurts, with all the little scales up their cheeks and feathers on their hairline. It looked cute. Also, they are one of the few species around here who have an inherent ability to fly around by turning into massive winged reptilians. Which, on one hand, pretty much explains how the Clan with one of the lowest fertility rates came into power, but also kinda doesn't make sense cause reptilians would've frozen to death on the snowy biome the Clan resides in. -[ ] Snow Dragon. The traditional one. The classics. So apparently your Mama was one of the Bai Clan herself, so no surprises here. You will look like a Polar Owl that somehow got herself smashed with a lizard in your dragon form and have somewhat sharper teeth, harder nails, and typical scales and feathers in your human-ish form. The colors are all shades of snow: the whites, the light blues, sometimes even pinkish. But mostly just whites.
Snow dragons are somewhat smaller than their Abyssal and Depth counterparts, have an affinity for sealing arrays, traps, and talisman crafting. They aren't the biggest or the baddest beasts around but for the last six generations, these guys have kept their ruling position which tells you a lot. -[ ] Depth Dragon. The Mother's Daughter. So what if your Mom was a peace contribution from the pretty much barbaric tribe residing in the deep north near the Isle Edge? Said tribe is one of the High Clans so no one can actually shame you for your upbringing. But it does make you somewhat of a peculiarity – a Depth Dragoness right in the middle of the proper Bai Family. Oh, the horrors. At least as a depth dragon, you have better resistance to climate changes and temperatures, your scales being far tougher and darker than that of your clansmen. The thing is, depth dragons look mostly like dark-colored sea snakes – they don't have wings, although they still somehow keep the ability to fly, a nice and pretty maw with three layers of teeth, far sturdier claws and scales and there you are – angry noodle of death and destruction is ready to move. As a human, you won't have any feathers, but the scales on your face and body will be much more obvious just as inhumanly sharp teeth in your mouth.
The Depth Dragons are generally good hunters, one of the few actually daring to fish and dive in the muddy waters of the Black Mist Sea. They have better resistance to all kinds of mind-altering technics and illusions than most, too. But do remember that although the Tribe is considered one of the High Clans they are deemed barbaric by most. Being somewhat cannibalistic in nature doesn't help the cause either.
The name game: Bai Clan will name you after all kinds of things. The catch is – it just has to be either outright white or have something to do with winter. Ice, snow, blizzards – all the good stuff. Names: Bai Chuhua (white chrysanthemum), Bai Meifeng (white beautiful wind), Bai Mingyue (white bright moon) and so on.
[ ] The Flowery Queens. The rulers of the East. The oh so gracious Mei Clan. Also known as that wild bitches no man should really mess around with. The flower fragrance demonesses claimed quite a bite of the Eastern Isle and with mind-fuckery and illusions, blackmail and, well, seduction has kept it theirs to play with for as long as anyone can remember. You chose them in a fit of man-hating tendencies cause the flower demons could only be female in nature and only have girls by birth no matter who's their Dada was.
The Clan resides on the innermost part of the Isle and is quite famous not only for their beauty and treachery but also for holding five whole cracks into the Human World. With how going into the crack to try and trick a righteous cultivator being somewhat of a local coming-of-age tradition, it's really no wonder most cultivators think all demons are pretty girls out to get them. -[ ] Lotus Fragrance. The most renowned of them all. The alluring demonesses of Lotus Fragrance are your typical honey-traps and would've been easily missed as humans if only not for their, well, lotus fragrance. These girls love to mess with humans and other demons heads, mostly for fun, sometimes for leveling up their own cultivation. One of the only demons who actually can steal your cultivation through strong emotional connections and, simply put, seduction.
Although they are the best illusionists and mind-warpers around they are incredibly weak in battle and have a lot of problems with body cultivation. Their solution to the said problem? Meatshields! No one can kill you if you bury them under the waves of your lovers first! -[ ] Willow Tree. The quiet watchers and observers, this minority of the Flower Demons aren't even flowers but still considered an important part of the family. They don't really like interacting with humans or other demons that much, being the unseen counterparts for their bright sisters. Although still incredibly pretty and well-educated in the art of mind-fuckery, they prefer the wonders of alchemy and pill-making to their sisters' revenues.
Naturally physically weak, Willow Tree Demonesses are the best alchemists and pill-makers in the whole Endless Abyss and it makes them quite dangerous on their own.
The name game: all the flowers! The Mei Clan loves to name their daughters with flowery names for obvious reasons and finds it hilarious when a righteous cultivator finally gets that his Pretty Red Rose is actually, well, a pretty Red Rose demoness. Names: Mei Chenhua (pretty flower of dawn), Mei Fanghong (nice red scent), Mei Lanfen (nice scent of orchid) and so on.
[ ] The hot-heads. The Kings of the South. The "your very typical demon" demons. The Zhan Clan. Maybe it's life in the constant struggle for the very limited amount of recourses on their Isle or maybe it's all the cacti drinking and black pearls smoking getting to them, but these guys are the crème de la crème of local battle-heads. They simply love to fight. The general consensus is that the only reason the Red Devils aren't marching for the other Isles yet is that, firstly, they can't fly and so have to find other ways of transportation through the Bottomless Oceans and surrounding Seas and, secondly, they are far too gone into their own little clan wars to actually care about other demonic world.
The ruling clan – the Zhans – reside on the southest point of the Isle in the city of Dith right in the delta of River of Smoldering Tears. You've yet to know why the hell it's called that way, but the Clan did claimed the best possible and most envious position for settling down considering all the wastes and sands around. -[ ] Ifrits. The sub-population of the Clan that made living in a desert look like a vacation at the seaside. These desert demons have off the charts affinity with fire, perchance for destruction, and ability to use the semi-physical "spirit" form to mess with their opponents or simply lay low between the harsh desert's sands. Great assassins but not so great in-your-face fighters they mostly deal with their own kind and rarely leave the Isle.
One of the "normal" looking squads, although they do have unruly hair in all shades of flames that becomes real flames with them getting angry or simply too emotional. Some of them bond with a battle mount and become the infamous Desert Riders to negate their somewhat weak constitution but most prefer to walk the known path of becoming assassins and saboteurs. -[ ] Dream Demons. The nominal ruling part of the Clan. No one actually knows how these two very different populations of the demons decided to live together but here they are, poisoning the air all the normal desert-dwellers breath. The Dream Demons are natural shape-shifters that in their beast form made quite a threatening picture of enormous very angry and constantly starving doggos. So yes you chose them for the doggos, sue you. Poisonous saliva and claws make them pretty nasty opponents and natural affinity for shadows and darkness will turn the scales of the battle on the wrong side oh so very fast. The best part – they don't even have to fight you face to face, their preferred tactic being to torment and torture their opponents in dreams. Truly powerful Dream Demons can even kill their target by simply poisoning their nightmares. Rumor has it, that's the way the Zhans actually got themselves on the throne – by strangling the previous King in his dreams.
Dark skinned and golden-eyed Dream Demons are just doomed to be the one being left behind on the whole "let's sneak into the human world" thing. They can't even use illusions normally cause their natural magic mess it far too much. They literally can't hide for shits which kind of destroys all the assassin-ish image. Well, at least in the race to negate said disadvantage they did become kick-ass artifactors and tool-makers.
The name game: they really couldn't care less being of the belief that a Demon makes the Name and not the other way around. Which leaves their kids with all kinds of "pest", "yuppy" and the local favorite "sand" names till they prove themselves worthy of a real name. Which can take decades for certain individuals. Names: Zhan Shu (war rat), Zhan Sha (battle sand), Zhan Niao (angry bird, I mean, fighting bird) and so on.
[ ] The traditionalists. The Lords of West. The blood-sucking and flesh-eating creeps we all know and love. You were quite surprised to see the eastern freacking vampires in the Cultivation game but well, maybe you were in you Twilight faze. Maybe it wasn't a faze anymore. Of course, they weren't called vampires here, no, they were Blood Demons and Children of the Dying Sun and whatever your Papa rambled when he was high on some poor girl's blood yet again. The thing is the Hui Clan – your Clan – were blood-sucking monsters that will get very dead very fast without at least weekly feedings which sucked major balls. They couldn't even feed on each other because their own blood was already dead or whatever, so yeah, your Clan was very into slave-owning and human-hunting. Having the second place for the amount of owned cracks to the human world helped but being doomed to depend on the amount and quality of blood – not so much. Although the really old or, well, cultivated Blood Demons can feed on the somewhat your Papa called emanations, but you literally have to survive through your childhood first. -[ ] Red Sun Blood Demons. The warriors, the berserkers, the literal meat wall between the Clan, and all the dangers the outside world is always far too ready to throw at it. Unnatural even by demonic standards physical finesse is darkened by the increased amount of blood they need to constantly consume to feel healthy. Their physical cultivation is so off the charts there are rumors that a well-versed Red Sun Demon can shatter a cultivator's core with its bare claws. The thing is they are what your Clan will call a redmeat. Cool adventurers, wonderful guards, perfect warriors. And disaster in the making in the laboratory.
It's also pretty much an open secret that a Red Sun Demon without a stable anchor will one day snap into the Blood Haze berserker state, too. And will be put out of its misery like a rabid dog the moment it happens. That, or just thrown somewhere near the enemy's borders. -[ ] Black Moon Blood Demons. The royalties. The western vampire count's and gothic Lolita's cliché. And your new family. On the plus side – they have wings. Your typical bat-like quite thin but sturdy wings that sometimes help but most times just mess with your balance when you do materialize them. On the minus side – they have standards. And you better meet said standards if you want to stay in the family and not be either wed off to some other clans, most of whom don't even belong to the Blood Demon's species, or become a servant for one of your more virtuous brothers and sisters. Strict hierarchy and complete and utter control will follow every breath you take in this Clan and you better breathe lightly.
You will have the easiest path to cultivation with this Clan but said path will be a very narrow road constantly monitored by your elders trying to perfect their Clan and species.
The name game: the Hui think themselves as the impeccable peak of demonic evolution and prefer names that serve right to further down the point. No simple flowers or Abyss-forbid animals in your name. If you want a perfect fortune you will need to start with a perfect name first. Names: Hui Leidian (thunder and lightning in the dark), Hui Yingzi (the shadow of the night), Hui Ningjing (the tranquility of the night) and so on.
Please choose your Demon Clan and the Name for your character. You can write-in a different name but please do note that different clans have different preferences in naming their children.
You can ask questions about the Clans to help with your choice but nothing too spoilery, please.
[X] The Flowery Queens
-[X] Willow Tree
-[X] Mei Lanfen
Seems to fit our last character choices the best. We're beautiful, the flowers are beautiful. We're smart and alchemy requires you to not do something stupid that will get you blown up. Also being clumsy and fighting despite it is not a good idea. There is that one thing about our heart being a rare ingredient and us being surrounded by alchemists... but I'm sure we'll be fine.