User:Luckie Tammatini
From The Skybrary
Luckie is a little girl with big dreams and a big heart.
| Luckie Mikelenia Tammatini | |
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| Kid Worker of Odd Jobs | |
| Born | 23 March Earthbreach |
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| Died | Still alive Hopefully in the same place Luckie was born |
| Species | Squirrel |
| Affiliation | None |
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| Profile | Profile |
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[edit] History
Luckie Tammatini hails from Earthbreach. She hasn’t moved much from where she was born; on a small country shanty near the edge of the Skyland's secondary, smaller island to which the main island is linked with metal chains. As a young child, she would always toss rocks over the fence and strain her ears to listen to the subsequent splash. Before her brother Larson, nine years her senior, began traveling, the two siblings often held mock battles with toy planes, which she still has and holds very dear.
At the age of five, she was given her first pet, her Kirby-With-Glasses (c-o.o). It is said that her pet helped her cope with the events to follow.
[edit] Tragedy
When Luckie was only seven years old, her parents died in an aircraft accident involving a drunken pilot. She did not physically see the accident, only some of the neighbors coming to take the pilot for punishment. She had seen her parents alive only moments before, heading out for a nice dinner to celebrate a job promotion, and after hearing a loud skid and thump, she stepped outside and found they had already taken her parents away.
To this day, Luckie remembers almost everything about the pilot: his face, his plane, even some the medallions on his pilot suit. She cannot look at a Kitty Hawk without flinching slightly, if not breaking down completely.
[edit] Hope?
The following month, Luckie woke up one morning and found that her brother had left the house. She ran out the door and called after him, and he told her, “You know, you just can’t sit there and do nothing. You gotta get out there, you know?” and left.
For almost a year Luckie confined herself to her home. She did not know much about how to take care of herself. She was incapable of cleaning and repairing much of her home. She couldn’t tend to the meager set of fruits and vegetables in the garden in the backyard for extra food, and the crops withered and died. She cried almost every night, and when she wasn’t crying, she was praying.
Larson had come home every night to put her to bed and sleep, after a long day of working in the Earthbreach tavern, for he was now almost 18 years old. Then, one night, he didn't return. Luckie grew frantic that night but quieted down as she became tired. The next week he returned home, but when he told her where he had been, well...she had always felt that something was missing.
Larson was traveling now, off to who-knows-where, although he always said he made a point of coming home as often as possible. There was a strange particular reason why he would not allow her to join him on his expeditions…
When her Kirby-With-Glasses began to starve and snap at her, Luckie snapped her fingers, stood up, and that was the moment that ended her period of grieving.
[edit] A Future Nonetheless
Luckie still remembers it was a bright sunny day when Larson timed his arrival perfectly to land on Earthbreach on her eighth birthday. Sweat beaded the boy’s face and an exhausted expression covered it. Nonetheless, Luckie scampered out the door and rushed to greet him. She peered over his shoulder and realized that he had been flying their parents’ Nomad, Searching for Answers, from place to place. Her eyes widened as Larson told her that he taught himself to fly. Then his eyes lit up, for an idea had just hit him. He asked her if he could take her to a Skyland he'd heard of so that she could find work somewhere. She told him that the week before, she’d taken her brother’s prior words to heart and convinced herself to leave the house to find work around Earthbreach, but no place, not even the tavern, was willing to hire a “Worker” with very little purpose and who was under ten years old.
Larson took his sister to a hidden Skyland, the name of which she still does not know. Then he left to fulfill his own obligations, taking Luckie’s only way back home to Earthbreach with him.
Since the day she first walked into the tavern, few have objected to her presence. She currently works odd jobs that nobody else wants to do and has been deemed too short at four foot to officially tend. She has lots of ideas and possible potential—it just hasn’t been discovered yet.
[edit] Luckie Tammatini Today
She has kept her light, wispy fur short with some spare rusty scissors found around the tavern so as not to interfere with her work, so she is often mistaken for a boy. Her clothing is very simple. She generally does not keep herself clean because she dislikes that the showers are not well kept. She prefers to sleep under the stairs or in a back corner of the tavern rather than in a bed because she believes that the beds are for tavern visitors, not employees.
She is very outgoing and energetic; her extreme curiosity is well known. During almost all conversations between tavern visitors, she will interrupt with questions of her own, and is fascinated by almost everything.
Often she is aggressive with an idea or reasoning of hers even if it does not make sense to anybody else. She is unafraid of using force to get what she wants, but is not very strong. She is known to randomly roll around on the dirty tavern floor, spend hours playing with her toy planes, and to ask many, many questions.
She will not accept charity because she wants to work for what she has, like her parents and like her brother. Thus, she does not understand the concept that the tavern runs entirely on donations.
She becomes squeamish and loses confidence if someone questions her presence in the tavern or asks her about her past, after which for a period of time she becomes uncharacteristically shy.
Often her desire to help is so strong that she thinks she is assisting someone but is actually hindering them. Then she becomes upset when the idea that she is hindering someone’s efforts gets to her.
Luckie had to leave school because her brother did not bring home enough funds to pay for school. Her dreams for the future involve saving enough money to return to school—or, in the very least, learning to read and write. Her other dream is to be reunited with Larson and travel with him wherever he goes.
She loves tavern work, and has met some interesting people during her time there. She has been through a lot for her young age, and, if she has the courage and the will, she will be able to pull herself out of where she is and make for herself and her older brother a better life.