Meet My Character: Jaye MacCullagh

 

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Today's character is Jaye and she is actually the only character in this blogging series not from Rage Like the Gods. That's right, Jaye is actually the only POV character from Of Stars and Shadows.

Ravven presses his lips together. “Why, pest, for as ugly and mortal as you are, you certainly think like a faerie.”

I don’t know why, but I am oddly complimented by that even though essentially he is saying that I am evil, conniving, and twisted.

Personality-wise Jaye is a sarcastic and grumpy person. She's an overthinker and oftentimes takes things too personally. She is extremely loyal and will do anything for those that she cares about. She never gives up, no matter how steep the odds, even if she doesn't think she will make it, she will still at least try. She has a hard time expressing the way she feels towards people and prefers to be left alone more often than not. She enjoys a good argument and will consider it a personal loss if she can't come up with a witty response.

INTP//Gryffindor

“I like risky plans, they’re my favorites.”

Theme songs:

Still Rolling Stones

Immortalized

Bleeding Out

Young and Beautiful

Sometimes Jaye feels like all she has going for her is her determination. But hey, at least she's got that. When she was born, Jaye was supposed to have received both a blessing from the Seelie faeries and a curse from the Unseelie, however she believes that she was overlooked on that day since she received no gifts or curses. Still she won't let anything stop her from the destiny she believes that she was born into as the next of the MacCullagh line, even if she thinks she will be doing it at a marked advantage.

Even if we get home. Will I ever be able to fully leave the Otherworlds behind?

And that begs the question that I don’t want to ask.

Do I even truly want to leave?

Jaye's family is part of a long line of human guardians, descended from Ireland, who defend the world from the faeries. Now living in the Midwest of the good ol' USofA with this current branch of Guardians that includes her parents and uncles, Jaye is determined to carry the family legacy even without a blessing. She has a little bit of a phobia of the faeries after spending her whole life learning about them and all the terrible things they are capable of. Her homeschool education included reading, math, but also extensive faerie studies and learning to wield weapons such as her iron knife. Jaye is quick thinking and resourceful and not afraid to cross some moral boundaries if it comes down to it.

“This just doesn’t sit right with me; the ends don’t justify the means.”

“It does if the means is a faerie. Need I remind you that faeries are evil.”

Ravven clears his throat. “Need I remind you that I am standing right here. Your argument for morality is admirable, mortal, but that is all it is. You are in the Otherworld now, there is no morality.”

A darker part of her is that Jaye has a lot of insecurities and she tries to hide them all behind her more caustic personality, it's a defense mechanism after having spent most of her life thinking that she had been passed up and is not good enough to be a Guardian.

Thomas is her brother and helps to balance out some of her wilder tendencies. Sometimes he has had to stand in as her moral center, and he will always be there to protect his younger sis. And then there's Ravven... Jaye isn't exactly sure what she thinks of Ravven, but no matter what happens they're still there for each other. So call it what you will, but they don't trust each other, and they definitely don't like each other so don't even suggest such a thing.

We were foolish. We thought we could be the exception to the rule. And now we are paying the price.