Delphine is a girl who lives in her head, at times. She's an artist, and can be found painting - often bluebloods, but if a commoner can offer her something of interest (even if this is simply by being an interesting model) she will paint them as well. She sees beauty in people, and the world, that others may not see, especially if they are not looking.

When it comes to family, Delphine misses hers. She spent her teenage years in the settlement, as her family came through in the first wave, her mother was a scientist (studied plants) and her father in the storm guard. When she thinks about her parents, she does not feel bitter that they left her to explore beyond the wall, rather she views it as: they had a duty and they fulfilled that duty. She chooses to remember only happy memories of them. That is how she chooses to view everyone around her. If someone hurts her, she decides to see the good times; and ignore the bad. This means that, at times, Delphine can come across as oblivious, but it's simply on purpose.

This young woman has a love for people who need her--precisely, a love for being needed. Through that logic, infants and children are her favorite people, though she can still appreciate adult interaction. She has such a happy outlook, that she has no issue caring for young children at all hours of the day; able to find what they need when they need it. She has taken to babysitting some of the children around the settlement, in her free-time, typically free of charge. Also due to her need to be needed, she obeys command without too much resistance, though if it something she knows she should not do, she will resist and make that resistance known. As long as she is needed, she's happy. As long as she has her artwork, she's happy. For a girl who likes to wander through nature, very little can make her sad--but one surefire way to depress this butterfly, is to take away her freedom to roam.

Giving her a challenge is like giving her a present. She loves to work with her hands, and her mind--so challenges are welcomed, readily. Delphine will work at a puzzle, no matter the puzzle, until she gets it; and she rarely gives up.

Fear is not something Delphine knows well. She should learn to fear, but instead, she turns her fear into amazement--awe, and finds a reason not to fear, even if it takes some research and learning. She has a vivid memory, and loves to learn, cherishing everything she does learn.

Delphine views the world around her, as every person and creature having a purpose. If asked, she'll tell you why someone did what they did, and how it connects to the bigger picture. She has interesting thoughts on colors (particularly the colors of people's eyes) and how they suggest what type of person someone is, but it can also be applied to things in nature.

She can, also, set color to sound. Certain tones have different colors, and some sounds have shapes that go with them. The color of the words depends upon how they are said, and by who--some people may come across to Delphine as being "angry", and she may find that attribute in the color of their speech; or even the shape of it. The world is a rainbow, to this soft-spoken individual.

When nervous, Delphine tends to get quiet, and chew her lip. She is very soft-spoken, and tends to look to her elder brother, Alder, for orders and how to act. She obeys easily, and well, though not without thought. If she was ever given any kind of order she did not agree with, she would question it, as she is very direct when curious or worried.

This doll of a girl uses her magic to aid her art. She has learned to use her alteration, to keep her paintbrushes and paints in the air around her, normally so she can simply grab the brush she needs, release it and grab another. Everything about her art is quickly paced and requires her to move with enough speed to keep up. She never requests a model slow their magic, or if they are speaking the spell, slow their voice. She wants everything done as if it were real. When painting she is hyper-focused, distractions are willfully ignored. She also uses her alteration to dry her paints or to even alter the light or darkness of the pigment, if she is missing color and cannot mix to get the one she wants.

Delphine, being a bit of a chemist (see: she makes her own paint from plants she grows) is very good at cooking as a result. She is great at housework, simply because she appreciates a nice, clean home, and that bleeds into her artwork--she keeps her area clean, and in order, while she herself, at times, may get messy whilst painting. Usually, that is because she forgets that she has paint on her hands, and brushes her hair out of her eyes. She tries her hardest to present herself as ladylike as possible, and when she comes upon tasks she does not know how to do, she is not shy about asking for help.

While her first love is being an artist, Delphine works as an apprentice healer, often taking on creating new potions and salves from plants. She also works on creating new teas, to aid in different things, as some people do not like the bitter tastes of potions. When she is not painting, she is testing her own creations and learning as much as she can through trial and error about plants. She consults her mother's notebooks for many things; as her mother spent her entire life studying plants and their uses.

Delphine has spent much time in isolation, and so have her children. She's a terrible mother, often resenting her children rather than showing them joy. She still feels responsible for them, and therefore they travel with her everywhere, or are under the watchful gaze of Poe, her companion.

Delphine is depressed, and often resents herself for her thoughts. She's trying to figure out the world of Caido, and where she belongs now, two years after the Northaveners came through the portals.

Delphine Arya Mountrose was born the second child to Alder Mountrose, and his wife, Daphne Mountrose. Daphne was a scientist, a blueblood born with restoration magic, who studied plants, specifically, and her father was a higher-ranking member of the Storm Guard, once again, a blueblood born with destruction magic, back in Northwind. Delphine discovered her alteration magic at the young age of five, when she was trying her hardest to get to a canister of paint she needed, without asking her father for help. Of course, while she was able to alter the air around the can long enough to get it off the shelf, she promptly dropped it all over her workspace, and ran crying to her father. She discovered her healing magic, when her mother presented her with her first tansy, at age six. This tansy was hers, to learn responsibility for caring for it, and it did not stay healthy very long. She first began to cry, and the longer she held the pot in her lap, and allowed her tears to hit the soil, the healthier the plant seemed to get.

When word of the first wave came, the Mountrose's gained entry due to their jobs, and the knowledge they each possessed. And therefore, Delphine spent her teenage years watching the settlement grow. She remembers not the fear, but the excitement of this new world; this portal--and Delphine admired those who helped to build the settlement. She held great respect, from the age she went through with her family, for those who created this world they lived in and kept them safe.

Delphine was born with the ability to see sound--specifically, she saw colors and shapes for sound. Her mother embraced this as artistic talent, as a gift, and spent days teaching the youngest Mountrose to paint. First, they painted the sound of the wind, and then... well, each day was a new sound. Delphine was trained by her mother, through various means, to listen for the smallest of sound, and as such, has much better sound than the average original.

She earned the nickname of "Tansy" because the flowers baffled her with their beauty. She was constantly painting them, growing them, admiring them--her father taught her to craft tansy-chains, tansy-crowns, and various other adornments, and as a child, her trademark was a tansy behind her ear. After her father's disappearance, nobody has ever called her "Tansy" again.

The Mountrose family lost their solid ground, when both parents ventured outside the Wall, with the very first group of explorers. Alder Mountrose the Second, Delphine's elder brother (ten years elder, to be precise) took over raising her when their parents never returned to take her into their care once more. Delphine cherished her memories, and to keep those memories alive, she took to painting sounds more and more--before attempting to paint magic, for the first time, a few weeks after turning eighteen. She has to get creative, at times, due to the lack of sound that some magic may inherently produce, but she always finds a way.

When Delphine was nineteen, she began to court Bellamy Rowan--and became his second wife, later that year. However, prior to that, her elder brother was killed while creating the Outpost--a feat Delphine could not help but be glad for.

A few months into her marriage to Bellamy, Delphine became pregnant. She gave birth to two twin girls, fraternal twins, of course. Bryony and Acantha.

When the girls were just a month old, Delphine found herself in a new world. She took her children, who were suddenly three years of age, and went into hiding.

Forsaking the world for her safety, and theirs. She feared that her husband would find his way to them and be angry with her for something she could not control. She also feared she might end up dealing with a jaded ex-boyfriend. To further protect her children, she dropped her husband's name, and began to consider herself a widow.

Time to Make Amends: Delphine has heard a rumor that Zariah is around Halo, and sets out to see if she would teach her magic.

haven't we been here before: While in Halo, Delphine reconnects with Loren (poorly), he gives her some advice that she does not take.

I'm Not Here, Don't Look At Me: While in Halo, just after her reunification with Loren, she literally runs into Noah and makes a friend.

Remember When We Were Naive?: Delphine travels to Torchline after promising the twins and Poe a 'vacation' away from the Hollow Grounds.

Searching for Something: Back home in The Hollowed Grounds, Delphine runs into another Outlander and learns about his world, and tells him about her world.

All The Possibilities: While in Torchline, Delphine sets out to score some drugs, and paint supplies. She meets Saiden.

Whims and Wiles: Delphine returns from Torchline, with drugs, and visits the bar instead of going home to her children.

{PQ} fire in our hearts: Delphine sees a flier where someone is seeking help, and heads out to help without really knowing what she's helping do. She meets Samuel, Aisha, Alina and Oliver.

Wanna See Me Soar?: Delphine is painting in the streets, while her children play behind her when she notices someone sad nearby. She meets Petra for the first time.

Anything But Memories: Delphine walks into a shrine without an offering, and asks Ludo to take her memories. Misunderstand after misunderstanding leads to Ludo taking her children's souls, and cursing her to always remember what she did to them. Following this, she entombs the children in the only home they have ever known, a small cave in the Hollowed Grounds, packs up what she wants to keep, and she leaves.

Missed Connection: After Ludo has taken Delphine's children, and cursed her to always remember, she tries to forget. She meets Sunjata and Nate after getting high on drugs from another dealer (not her regular dealer, Saiden).

Acantha Mountrose & Bryony Mountrose

The twins were five years old and arrived in Caido with their mother two years ago. Both girls have the same father, though they knew nothing of their father because their mother would not speak of him. The children had to be taught how to live in older bodies because they had just been born when they were portalled to Caido. Bryony is a shy child, preferring to latch onto her mother and avoid surprises, while Acantha charges surprise head-on.

During Leafchange 310, Delphine walked into a shrine in the Hollow Grounds and did not have an offering. She also did not speak clearly with Ludo, the god who answered her request. Due to this, she lost her children's souls to Ludo and became cursed so that she could never forget what she had done to her children.

Fun OOC Note: Delphine felt obligated to keep her children with her out of a selfish, wanton desire to have children. She had always wanted children (to the point of essentially, kidnapping a child in her homeland). When she finally had her daughters, they were one month old prior to being portalled to Caido. After that, they were three years old and basically aliens to her. However, she still recognized that she once wanted them, and refused to let anyone else have them.