Your Character (The Cursed Heart)

Your Character in The Cursed Heart is the main protagonist of The Cursed Heart series.

Although her/his/their default name is "Ella" for Body Type 1 or "Ellis" for Body Type 2, the player can choose to name her/him/them as they wish.

Appearance
While the appearance of your character is up to the player, it is said that she/he/they are incredibly beautiful with a lovely face and hair that was the envy of all that looked upon it.

Personality
While most of your character's personality is left up to the player, you are said to be kind and warm, usually putting others before yourself, even if it puts you at risk. While usually coming off as friendly, shy and nice to most people, you don't allow yourself to be pushed around, specifically by Kieran. According to Radiance you are clever, but at the same time very naive and trusting, which is shown from how easily you were deceived by him/her.

Background
Long ago, you lived in a tiny village of little consequence, and you had a heart that was steady and true. Despite many warnings of the dangers, you often visited the Fae forest, intrigued by the magical stories you had heard since childhood. One day, your kindness compelled you to free a hungry wolf from a trap, and you were nearly eaten in return, only to be saved by a mysterious figure dressed in all black. That same night, while pulling water from a well, you discovered a strange red jewel with an unearthly gleam, and when you touched it, the jewel vanished. Suddenly, the veil of magic was pulled from your eyes, and the hidden world of Fae was revealed. Chased into the forest, you happened upon a Fae revel. The curious Fae showered you with attention, including Prince/Princess Radiance of the Sun Court, who invited you to return to the Sun Palace with him/her. Before you could answer however, the mysterious figure reappeared: It was the Night Prince/Princess in disguise, who came to claim you as payment for saving your life. Taken into the Prince/Princess's household as a servant, you were oddly drawn to the aloof, lonely Prince/Princess, and you shadowed her at every step. Despite his/her cold nature, there was a melancholy within him/her, and a sadness in his/her eyes that you knew all too well. Slowly, your kind and generous nature warmed the cold Prince/Princess's heart, and at night, you shared your secret passions in the world of dreams together. That being said, the Prince/Princess hid a secret, which was that he/she was cursed to walk the night as a mindless beast, seeking the scattered shards of his/her broken heart. Determined to help him/her, you discovered that you were the one that carried the last piece of the Prince/Princess's heart. Attacked one night by the beast, you fled to seek help from the Day Prince/Princess, whose promise of aid was but a ruse. Instead, he/she tricked you into trapping Kieran permanently as the beast, and threatened the world with eternal Summer. Battered, betrayed, but never broken, you stormed the Sun Palace with an army of the wild creatures of the forest who called the Moon Court home. Willing to risk your own life, the depth of your selfless love broke Kieran's curse, and restored him to his/her true self. Having triumphed over every obstacle thrown in the way, you and Kieran returned to the Moon Court to enjoy a time of peace and love.

The Cursed Heart, Book 1

 * Chapter 1: The Fae Forest
 * Chapter 2: The Moon Court
 * Chapter 3: Palace of the Moon
 * Chapter 4: Flight
 * Chapter 5: Accursed
 * Chapter 6: The Grand Hunt
 * Chapter 7: Invulnerable
 * Chapter 8: The Magpie's Lair
 * Chapter 9: Flower Festival
 * Chapter 10: Mountain of Beasts
 * Chapter 11: The Palace of the Sun
 * Chapter 12: Enlightenment
 * Chapter 13: A Nest of Vipers
 * Chapter 14: A Dream Within A Dream
 * Chapter 15: A War of Hearts
 * Chapter 16: Unbroken

Kieran
Since he/she saved you from the wolf, you owe him/her a debt and he/she claims you. Kieran says that once Spring comes you'll be able to leave, but because you are not willing to accept being a prisoner, you try to escape the Moon Palace at every turn. You also have the choice to challenge Kieran with your attitude, leading to a dysfunctional relationship between the two of you. At the same time however, you feel an attraction and a connection to Kieran, and you even have a vision of you two sleeping together. When you try to escape in Chapter 4, the winged beast swoops in and carries you back to the Moon Palace, shortly before it's revealed that Kieran and the winged beast are one and the same. At first Kieran is angry that you tried to leave, but then explains that he/she is cursed, and that every night when the moon rises, he/she becomes that creature and has no control, meaning that he/she could hurt you unintentionally. Once you find out the truth about his/her curse, you vow to help Kieran break it. Kieran then in return, invites you on the Grand Hunt.

During the Grand Hunt, you stick close to Kieran, and he/she in return protect you from any unknown dangers in the woods, such as Fae creatures and traps from the Sun Court. You eventually win the hunt by finding the Winged Fox and putting it down. Later, you have the chance to bathe with Kieran and get closer to him/her, and claim him/her as yours. In Chapter 7, when Kieran returns wounded after trying to retrieve a piece of his/her heart, you can help treat his/her wounds. Once you do, he/she tells you that Magpie was the one who attacked him/her and the one that has his/her missing heart piece, and you both device a plan to get it back. The plan involves trading a precious artifact with Kieran's heart piece. You can also pose as Kieran's fiance(é) by dressing up and pretending to be a couple in front of Magpie. However, this fails and Magpie refuses to sell the heart piece, which prompts you to steal it from her vault. When you bring it back to Kieran, he/she thanks you and puts it back in his/her chest. This leads to Kieran having uncontrollable positive emotions for a short amount of time, and you can choose to kiss and touch each other until this feeling subsides and Kieran returns to his/her normal self.

In Chapter 9, you attend the Flower Festival with Kieran to obtain a charm to protect you against the mountain beasts. There, you see him/her talking to Lustre and feel self-conscious about your status and what you could offer Kieran. Kieran is distraught by your distress, and removes a spell from your choker, allowing you to be able to remove it at will. He/she tells you the choker is imbued with the most potent protective spells he/she knows and as long as you wear it, you will be safe from all curses and enchantments that are within his/her power to oppose. Kieran frees you from your life debt, telling you that he/she can no longer live with the pain he/she brings to you and would like to see you happy. Afterwards, you have the chance to sleep with Kieran for the first time, and get more intimate together. When you leave the Flower Festival, you realise that the red gemstone you have in your chest is in fact Kieran's heart, and that you need to find a way to tell him/her about it, before he/she attacks and kills you after becoming the Winged Beast.

In Chapter 10, you have the opportunity to invite Kieran to stay and have breakfast with you. If you do, Kieran tells you that he/she has never seen anyone prepare food without magic before. If you ask Kieran to chop onions and he/she begins to cry from doing so, Kieran accuses you of enchanting the onions to poison him/her. When you explain to him/her about onions, Kieran says it's no wonder that mortal lives are so short as they are full of toil. After having breakfast, Kieran informs you that he/she has located another piece of his/heart heart at the Mountain of Beasts. However, in order to retrieve it and escape unscathed, you need to execute the plan flawlessly at the right time before Kieran transforms into the beast. Meanwhile, the thought of Kieran hunting you down and killing you to get his/her heart piece is still troubling you, but you decide not to tell him/her about it yet. Once you are both ready, you set the plan in motion, and Kieran takes you into his/her arms and flies you there. While being in the air, you finally come to the realisation that you care and love Kieran with all your being. After arriving at the Mountain of Beasts, the plan to get Kieran's heart piece fails, and he/she transforms into the Winged Beast and chases you down. In order to escape, you decide to leave Kieran, and find shelter at the Sun Court until you find a way to break his/her curse.

In Chapter 12, you find yourself once again having a lucid dream with Kieran. However, this time you realise that the dream and Kieran are real, and that Kieran was having the same ones as well all this time. He/She then tells you that he/she understands why you decided to leave, and in the same dream, you have the chance to hook-up with him/her. You meet again during the Moon Ball in Chapter 13 after Lustre puts a curse on you that's meant to take Kieran down. At first you try to remain unseen, but no matter how hard you try, Kieran finds you and says that he/she wants to talk to you. You have the chance to either stay at the ballroom, or go outside in the gardens. Either way, Kieran confesses his/her love to you, and despite your best efforts to reject him/her, you tell him/her that you feel the same, which leads to Kieran hugging you and activating the curse and turning him/her into the Winged Beast.

Radiance
You meet Radiance for the first time in the woods when you're trying to escape the Winged Beast. He/She assures you that as long as you are with him/her and the other Faes, the Winged Beast won't attack you. Shen then asks how you found them, and when you tell Radiance about the gem, he/she seems intrigued and asks you where it went. When you decide to leave, Radiance invites you to come and stay with him/her at the Sun Palace, until Kieran interrupts him/her and claims you first. You see Radiance again during the Grand Hunt in Chapter 6, and you can join him/her in the lake, and flirt with him/her. He/She says that you have brightened his/her day, and that you have a very gentle heart. He/She then admires the strength you've shown during the Grand Hunt and in surviving in Kieran's household, and it pains him/her to think that you have suffered these past few days, and says that nothing will harm you as long as he/she is there. What's more, Radiance mentions that he/she wants to be friends with you, and that when your service with Kieran ends, you should go find him/her.

When your plan to help Kieran break his/her curse fails and he/she transforms into a beast and chases you, you seek shelter at the Sun Court. Radiance is happy to see you and offers to help you by destroying Kieran's collar, and by inviting you to stay with him/her at the palace. When you tell Radiance that you want to break Kieran's curse, he/she tells you that the palace's library might have the answers. However, first you have to go through his/her two great-great-uncles, and convince them to give you permission. Once you do, you return to the library and search for a way to break the curse with Radiance. You also have the chance to take a stroll in the gardens with him/her, learn more about his/her life, and kiss him/her. Later, you return to the library alone and discover how you can help Kieran break his/her curse once and for all. Shortly after, Radiance shows up and when you tell him/her what you've found, he/she exposes his/her true nature, saying that you are his/hers now, and that they can finally proceed in destroying Kieran and the Moon Court once and for all.

In Chapter 13, Radiance carries you with magic to the throne room, where Lustre, Brightness and Blaze expose their true colors. If you flirted with Radiance and kissed him/her, Radiance admits he/she did have genuine feelings towards you. However, given that you are a mortal, it's nothing more than a dalliance never meant to last. Radiance also says that he/she had her eye on you ever since you first met him/her and told her about the heart piece. According to him/her, had Kieran not shown up and claimed you, he/she would had taken you back to the Sun Court and cut the heart piece right out of your chest the same night. Radiance then instructs Lustre to put a curse on your heart to take Kieran down, and sends you back to your room to prepare for the Moon Ball. There, you have the chance to wear either a Sun Court outfit or a Moon Court one. If you go with the second, Radiance is angry and says that he/she will punish you for disobeying him/her.

Longclaw
You meet her for the first time when Kieran claims you and takes you to the Moon Palace until Spring. Longclaw is very friendly towards your character, and very sympathetic once you tell her what really happened and that you want to leave. You become friends with her quickly, and you help her with daily tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and feeding the ravens. In Chapter 4, you overhear her talking to Sir Montgomery about a secret that Kieran has and that you don't know yet. Later, this secret is revealed to be that Kieran is the Winged Beast. Once the truth is revealed, Longclaw is more open to you, and you have the chance to accompany her to the throne room where she tells you more about Kieran and about what happened. If you decide to have breakfast with Kieran after you get closer and potentially sleep together at the Flower Festival, albeit not saying anything, Longclaw notices the tension between you and seems happy.

In Chapter 14, when Kieran transforms into a beast permanently after being cursed through you, you try to tell Longclaw what really happened, but the curse by Lustre prevents you from doing so. Once you break out of the dream that Radiance has trapped you into, you rush back to the now-destroyed Moon Palace, and attempt to help Sir Montgomery with his injuries. However, Longclaw is furious at you, bears her fangs, calls you traitor, and orders you to stay away. She says that you are no different from Lustre, and when you try to explain what happened, she tells you that we all make choices, and that you should had come back to them instead of going to the Sun Court. Shortly before leaving, you tell her that you will do everything in your power to help Kieran and stop Radiance.

Lustre
You meet her for the first time during the Grand Hunt in Chapter 6 when she throws an arrow in your direction. She says that she thought that you were an animal, but from her tone, it is clear that she was well aware of your presence and that she has a distaste for mortals such as you. You see her again in Chapter 9 talking to Kieran. You find her graceful, powerful, and otherworldly beautiful and feel self-conscious in comparison, but Kieran assures you that he/she feels nothing for her anymore. When you seek shelter at the Sun Court in Chapter 12, you stumble upon her in the palace, and she tries to bully you. At first you threaten to tell Radiance about her behaviour, but when it is clear that she isn't afraid of him/her, you stand up to her once and for all. Later when Radiance and the rest of the Sun Court expose their true colors, Lustre puts a curse on your heart. This specific curse forbids you from telling Kieran the truth about what happened, and its goal is to extract Kieran's heart piece from your chest, and in turn, transform him/her into the Winged Beast forever.

Your Parents
Your parents were loving and good to you. Your mother often fixed lemonade for you and made meat pies and gathered fruit such as strawberries. Both of them were a large fixture in your life growing up, and their words stay with you long after their passing. When eating a Fae dessert offered by Kieran, you immediately lapse into the memory of your life, remembering the last picnic you had before your mother was too ill. Your attitude regarding your trusting heart came from your father, and he taught you to fight for everything, Your mother was sick with a plague when you were younger, and your father passed soon on thereafter.

Body Type 1

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Body Type 2

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Other Looks

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Miscellaneous

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Trivia

 * A Body Type 1 version of your character is shown on the cover of The Cursed Heart.
 * If the default name is kept, body type 2 version will share the same name as Ellis Knight from Platinum, and body type 1 version will share the same name as Ella Grassley, a character from Crimes of Passion, Book 1.
 * The book reuses three male faces from Veil of Secrets and three female faces from the America's Most Eligible series.
 * Three out of the four Body Type 1 default hairstyles are reused from female Marshal Keane. The fourth one is reused from female Avery Wilshere. And one of the Body Type 2 default hairstyles is reused from Everett Flynt.
 * You know much of plants and herbs. You flavor the soups in the tavern and they are the taste of the town. You also know how to use Echaniacea and Goldenglow for healing salves.
 * You know much of plants and herbs. You flavor the soups in the tavern and they are the taste of the town. You also know how to use Echaniacea and Goldenglow for healing salves.