Character Introduction
Demon #0112: Dayanara Nadya Boswell
Age: 17-18
Birthdate: December 12
Gender: Female
Blood Type: O
Race: Human, Talented. Registered as Seer.
Associated With: Ashley Jenkins, Kenji Inoue
Known Capabilities: Sensitive to folds between the Spirit and Material plane. Able to see spiritual manifestations in the material plane with standard human vision. Clairvoyance suspected and unofficially confirmed. Has not been tested.
World Description: Dayanara lives in the quirky northwest, residing within the historic and slightly less trendy Portland district of Goose Hollow.
Story Arc: When Daya discovers that ghosts are real, much less that she can see them before others can, she discovers the society entrusted with keeping the Spirit plane a secret. Things begin to get out of hand when a nosy reporter and Japanese demons show up. Not to mention, it's approaching finals week and all Daya really wants to do is get out of High School.
Demon #0112: Dayanara Nadya Boswell
Age: 17-18
Birthdate: December 12
Gender: Female
Blood Type: O
Race: Human, Talented. Registered as Seer.
Associated With: Ashley Jenkins, Kenji Inoue
Known Capabilities: Sensitive to folds between the Spirit and Material plane. Able to see spiritual manifestations in the material plane with standard human vision. Clairvoyance suspected and unofficially confirmed. Has not been tested.
World Description: Dayanara lives in the quirky northwest, residing within the historic and slightly less trendy Portland district of Goose Hollow.
Story Arc: When Daya discovers that ghosts are real, much less that she can see them before others can, she discovers the society entrusted with keeping the Spirit plane a secret. Things begin to get out of hand when a nosy reporter and Japanese demons show up. Not to mention, it's approaching finals week and all Daya really wants to do is get out of High School.
Story Excerpt
The New Kid
I was late again, but I didn't much care. Finch's room was stashed clear on the other side of the school from my second period math class. How was I expected to show up on time, every day, when I had five minutes between bells? It's not like I was going to run it. I save that for after school.
“Ms. Boswell,” she said as she turned. “This marks the third tardy this month. That is grounds for a suspension young lady.”
“Oh.” I said. Mrs. Finch was one of those who subscribed to the belief that if she treated her high school students like little adults, they would behave as adults. I wondered if I had eroded her faith yet. “Does that mean I can go now?” I twisted the door handle behind me and backed up a step.
“Sit down!” She pointed at my seat in the back corner.
I shrugged amid the sniggers of my classmates; stepping forward and allowing the door to swing close behind me as I made my way to my seat as ordered. It had been worth a try.
Eyes trailed me, and I felt a little bad for the new kid. What was his name again? I hadn't meant to spoil his grand entrance. Then again, I amended as I took a good look at him; he didn't appear to have much of a grand anything.
The transfer student was shifting his weight anxiously, still standing in the spot that Mrs. Finch had dragged him to. He had a round face with wide cheeks and a snub little nose. His eyes seemed to disappear behind his glasses. The heavy black frames were better suited on some despairing poet, not on some preppy boy. Though his clothes were neatly pressed and immaculate, he had the distinct look of someone disheveled, like the bums who rode the MAX in downtown. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but something about him was all wrong.
I was zoning out when he took the seat next to me.
“Hey, what was yer name again?”
He looked at me with wide eyes. I hadn't known that Asian eyes could get so round.
“Ms. Boswell! If you are going to continue to interrupt my class, I shall have you removed!”
“Its okay, Mrs. Finch, I can remove myself.”
I stood to go.
“Sit down Ms. Boswell!”
Inspired By
Who and What Inspired Daya
Daya comes from a long line of characters that have morphed, either on paper or in my mind, for several years. The first identifiable origins would be a character created for a role-play game in 2001 named Daewyn.
Daewyn was my attempts at experimenting with a mature, much more world-wise personality with a jester's sense of humor and infectious thought. She was also of a different nationality, affording for a surprising amount of insight of the culture she was placed in. I went all in with her creation, making an over the top performer who spoke a second language, spoke the common language with an uncanny accent, and assigned nicknames to every person she met.
Another key note was that Daewyn did not subscribe to a binary perception of gender; meaning that her character was originally adapted for a brash Princess named Alexandra who was named Alex and a lover of women.
Daya is my first urban, modern character and draws on the outspoken, brash, foreign aspects of the original Daea.
The physical representation of Dayanara is a compilation of stock images; chiefly those portraying the Romani people.