When Colette had her birthdays, they weren’t acutally ‘birthdays’ as much as they were religious festivals in Iselia. It was a huge thing in the village and everyone celebrated it.
Colette was often presented to everyone where they’d give gifts and offerings and her friends weren’t actually allowed to be there with her.
It wasn’t as much her birthday as it was everyone celebrating her life and her eventual death, which at the time everyone had assumed for centuries was the only solution to their world’s problems.
Colette always wished her birthdays didn’t happen because of this.
On her twelfth birthday she snuck out into the woods to cry because she was discouraged by the fact that no one was really happy that ‘Colette’ was born.
She was wrong, Lloyd and Genis lied saying they couldn’t come only because they were working on her presents. Genis baked her a cake and brought tea, Lloyd made her a necklace with advice from his dad.
After this, it seemed to have really set Colette on the path to willingly wanting to save people, because Lloyd and Genis were the two people that were genuinely happy that Colette was born. It was something she had to do anyway, but being reminded that she had friends and ( even if they couldn’t show it ) family that cared about her, she somehow found her resolve to choose to die on her own terms.
Colette was twelve years old on this birthday. As she was going to journey when she turned sixteen, in all terms, she had four years left to live.
in divination, the fool is the first tarot card in the major arcana. it is often interpreted as the hero or protagonist who goes on “the fool’s journey.” it is also associated with new beginnings, adventure, spontaneity, innocence, etc. however, it can also signify recklessness, naivety, or (of course) foolishness.
If you follow me on Twitter, you know I’ve been on a serious Tales kick (blasted through Zestiria, currently going through Hearts and Berseria), so I just had to draw my favourite girl in my favourite outfit.
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