Lustre

Lustre, a character in the The Cursed Heart series, is Kieran's ex-girlfriend and a Princess of the Sun Court. She is first seen in Chapter 6, although she can be mentioned for the first time in Chapter 5.

Appearance
Lustre has long brown and golden hair, golden eyes and light skin. She wears a golden spiked tiara, and a black and golden dress with stripes and stars. She also has golden flakes covering her arms.

Personality
Lustre can be described as cruel and deceiving. According to her storybook, she is also wicked (even referred to as 'The Wicked Princess'), witty, clever, power-hungry and very ambitious.

Background
Lustre is a Princess of the Sun Court who was admired by all for her beauty and wit. Even the taciturn and aloof Kieran fell under her spell, and she courted him/her with poetry and moonlit trysts in the palace gardens. However, Lustre cared little for romance, and nothing at all for Kieran. Her smiles and affection were weapons she wielded to gain trust and sow chaos for her own amusement, and what she cared above all else was power. With her cousin Radiance being groomed to wear the crown of the Sun Court, she sought another route to the throne. Lustre became a frequent presence in the Moon Palace, where she fawned over Kieran and ingratiated herself even with his/her trusted inner circle. It was all a fabrication. A ruse, carefully crafted over many years, for one sole purpose: To find a way through Kieran's defenses. For years, she played her part flawlessly. Kieran was slow to trust, but she gave no sign, no crack in the facade of her true ambition. Until eventually, Kieran had no secrets from her. Lustre had studied her notes, devoured her library, and learned how to pick every lock that guarded Kieran's heart. With an arsenal of wicked and clever magics, the princess executed her final plan one moonlight night, as Kieran slept unaware. Had Kieran not awaken at the last moment, she would have succeeded. Instead of falling under her spell, the accidental curse made Kieran impervious to death, likely the opposite of what she intended. Lustre fled back to the Sun Court, but rather than offering her shelter, the elders condemned her to the dungeons in the hopes of appeasing Kieran's wrath. There she remained for a hundred years, forbidden all visitors but her closest family as punishment for her cruel ambition. If there was ever a deeper motive behind her attack on Kieran, she guards that secret still.

The Cursed Heart

 * Chapter 5: Accursed (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 6: The Grand Hunt
 * Chapter 9: Flower Festival
 * Chapter 12: Enlightenment

Kieran
One day Kieran fell in love with Lustre who was a bright and laughing girl with eyes of gold. Lustre urged him/her to open him/herself up to joy and happiness again, and to put down the books and be in the world once more. And Kieran did do it, because he/she loved her truly. The two spend many blissful years together, but one night, Kieran awoke to find Lustre, her beautiful face twisted in malice, her hands crafting some terrible enchantment. Lustre after having studied Kieran's defenses over the course of their years together, deftly unravelled one ward after another, stripping Kieran bare. However, Kieran had not spend decades of study in vain, and he/she brought terrible and ancient magics to bear against her. Unfortunately though, Lustre's curse seized Kieran's heart and shattered it into a thousand pieces, twisting his/her fair form into that of a mindless beast. Lustre, her true nature and intentions revealed, fled back to the Sun Court where she was sentenced to a hundred years in the Sun Palace dungeon as a punishment for her crimes.

Your Character
You find her graceful, powerful, and otherworldly beautiful and feel self-conscious in comparison.