Moonchild (King Crimson)

NAME/ORIGIN

Character name
 Moonchild
Song/Album
 "Moonhild"/ In the Court of the Crimson King
Act
 King Crimson
Writer
 Peter Sinfield
Release Date
 1869


ABILITIES

Powers
-Communicate with plants
"Talking to the trees" 
-Understand the melodies of birds
"Waving silver wands to the nightbird's song."
-Travel in time and to alternate realities
"Drifting in the echoes of the hours"
-Soar (not fly) on air currents
"Sailing on the wind"
-Communicate with ghosts (and other liminal beings?)
"Playing hide-and-seek with the ghosts of dawn"
Skills
-Dancing
"Dancing in the shallows of a river"
Attributes
-Can sleep anywhere, from "the shadows of a willow" to the "steps of a fountain."
-Early riser
"Waiting for the Sun on a mountain." "playing [at] dawn"
Vulnerabilities
 N/A
Formidability
 Can movie in time and between realities, but doesn't seem to do anything with that ability.
Attractiveness
 is "lovely"
Source
 The Moon
Goals
 Unclear. Perhaps none.


POSSESSIONS

Weapons
 N/A
Amulets
"Silver wands"
"Circle stones"
Objects
A "sundial" 
Clothing
A "milk-white gown"
Vehicles
Can float and time travel, so doesn't need one
Dwelling
 N/A
Milieu
-Riverbanks
"Dancing in the shallows of a river/ Dreaming in the shadows of a willow"
-Other places with moving water, like a "fountain."


BIOGRAPHY

Gender
 Female
Age
 N/A. Likely immortal, forever young
Physique
 Likely non-corporeal, but appears as a young woman
Ethnicity
 Lunar?
Origin
 The Moon
Ancestry
 The Moon
Profession
Florist
"Gathering the flowers in a garden"
Education
 N/A
SES
 N/A
Relationships
 Prefers to interact with nature rather than humanity
Pets
 Is friends with birds and trees...


PERSONALITY

Morality
 Amoral
Intro/extrovert
 Introvert. Avoids human contact
Intelligence
 High
Emotions
 Impassivity, revelry in nature
Sanity
 Sane
Enemies
 Does not seem to have relationships of any kind


Narrative Function
 Catalyst
Other Notes
 When it comes to "been there, done that," Moonchild has seen it all-- all of history, and all possible futures. And, having seen the totality of humanity, she has rejected human contact. She communes with trees, birds, ghosts... anything but people. She spends her days playing in nature instead.
She only comes into human spaces when people are asleep. It may be possible that she is eternal, yet an eternal child, never able to grasp human interaction and so frightened by it that she simply plays in nature... eternally.
She prefers to be near running water, perhaps because it reminds her of her own existence, fluid and forever moving. 



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