Home stretch! The second to last Desire Keeper is right before your eyes! Woohooo!
Meet Felicity! A shy and reserved panther, the youngest Desire Keeper out of the seven known, the Keeper of the Tickling Desire. And, trust me, when I say "youngest", I really mean it. Felicity has been a Desire Keeper for only a single year.
Just a year ago, Felicity was your average girl. 19 years old, socially awkward, not having many close friends or relatives around her. The panther had down-to-earth aspirations in life, thinking of working in the fashion industry someday, designing clothes. However, all of that was thrown out of the window when she found a shiny shard of a Desire Gemstone. In any other circumstances, if anyone else had stumbled across the weird shard, nothing of interest would've happened... yet when Felicity picked the crystal up, the piece immediately resonated with her, looking deep into her soul. The gem felt as if it found a perfect Keeper for itself... but why's that?
There's something Felicity kept secret from those around her. The sound of laughter brings joy to almost anyone, but in Felicity's case, the joy she felt was quite different. The girl was extremely excited by tickling. She would get extremely flustered if anyone of her peers would show any signs of increased sensitivity, immediately imagining just how outstanding their laughter would be after the slightest touch or the tamest rub of a feather. The panther loved the rush she got whenever she had the chance to do even some playful ticking... however, in the end, she considered her passion to be something weird, something to be ashamed of. Felicity tried her best to numb the fetish out of her mind, completely ignoring the urges. It was hard, but she didn't want to seem like some sort of a creep, didn't want to be even more of an outcast.
Yet, by complete chance, The Tickling Desire found her, binding with her soul and picking her to be its next Keeper. Felicity's normal life spiraled out of control. Quickly, by sheer accident, she discovered the powers she now possessed, discovered them out in the open, in full view of unsuspecting bystanders. Such unexplainable power to control specific objects quickly made it so that everyone the girl even remotely knew turned away from her. The authorities grew more and more interested and the panther practically got to be a target of a witchhunt. Desperate, almost caught by officials eager to restrain and research her, Felicity opened her very first dimensional rift and jumped to a random realm, leaving her old life behind her forever.
The following months were terrible for the newfound Keeper. She was stranded, not understanding where, not even fully realising how, only knowing that she became exactly what she feared she would become, an outcast... and then some. The part of her life she wanted to hide away seemingly manifested and came back at her to tear down the simple sane reality she lived in. Felicity has been going from place to place, very carefully tapping into her powers, trying her best to get by, hoping to stay out of much trouble, even if that wasn't always possible. During her time along she became depressed, wishing she had never found the gem that gifted her the werid powers. Felicity almost grew used to the fact she'd spend the remaining life in loneliness, being a weirdo who seems to be able to levitate feathers. That changed very recently.
Our panther, as if feeling a weird call, moved through another realm, finding herself in a desolate forest under red skies, with a grand Castle towering over the sea of crooked branches. Felicity had nowhere to go and the odd feeling kept nagging her to go there. Having nothing to lose, she walked to the Castle. On her way, the twisted wildlife attacked, as if sensing a prey. As weird creatures emerged from the dark, she started running in terror, but the monsters were faster. She tripped on one of a roots sticking out of the ground and fell down, thinking that this was the end. Felicity fully believed her stupid urge to follow what the gem wanted was about to get her killed. The following minutes were vague, a struggle... a blade... someone... and she lost her consciousness. The interdimensional travel took a lot out of the girl.
When the panther came back to her senses, she was in a comfortable bed, a bed inside the very castle her gem lead her to, in the company of Charles. Felicity finally met people like her, the other Desire Keepers. They took her in and now she's living among them, seemingly having found her place. Felicity still feels as though she doesn't quite belong here, feeling homesick. The poor girl has found some support, though. Of course, the likes of Meruette did not care about the rookie too much... but there was always Charles. When the tall aristocrat first saw the girl, he couldn't help but feel sorry for what she must've had to go through. Since then, he tries his best to be her support, to help her settle in with her "curse". In many ways, Charles became Felicity's father figure and she's more often than not hanging out around him and Mary, who she's good friends with. By the extent, she's on really good terms with Claire and Darefell.
Slowly, Felicity's sadness began to wash away. She's learning more and more about the gem she's binded with. Felicity's powers are mostly physical, just like Darefell's. She freely controls feathers and similar enough tickling tools, levitating them through air with relative ease. If she keeps adding more shards to her gem, she'll develop her abilities further and further, possibly growing able to influence one's sensitivity or just forcing a laugh out of a person with pure will. Felicity finds Charles' words hard to believe. What the other Keepers (and Mary in particular) quickly learned when Felicity finally started to accept her own fetish and actually use it, is that when this shy and reserved girl gets into tickling... she seems to completely change. There's absolutely no doubt she enjoys the process to the extreme, likely after years of bottling all this energy in herself. Felicity gets scarily excited, driving the targets of her tickling sessions to complete exhaustion, enjoying every second of their loud laughter, constaltly switching between the spots and the tools during the process. No use in struggling, she'll make sure you're completely helpless, tied down secure enough for her to freely continue playing around with feathers. When she's done, she returns to her former self, usually apologizing profusely and blushing heavily, feeling guilt over the impulse.
Currently, Felicity is settling in with the rest, getting accustomed to this new life, finally finding a place she could almost call home.
Felicity is heeeeeeeere! I am just as excited as the panther is when she gets to tickling. We're back to very big walls of text, but I figured a lot of the elements about Felicity had to be stressed out, seeing as she's fairly different from the rest of the cast, being new to her powers and the concept of "Desire Keepers" overall. Tickling is a topic I'm not overly familiar with, but I hope to give it justice with our panther gal over here. I'm quite happy with how she came out design wise and I believe the character makes for a good dynamic within the group, but we'll have more time to properly explore all the interactions later on. Also-also, before I forget, this piece is different from the "Debut" pictures of other Desire Keepers. Do you think you can spot whyyy?~ Anyway, yes, shy, not overly talkative, yet with a hidden excited side to her - I hope Felicity is to your liking! (Be sure she's no stranger to peril~) :3
Lol, that character is very similar to Silvana Rosechu - a character from the infamous web-comic "Sonichu" by the infamous artist Chris-Chan. The design is extremely similar, down to the gem on the forehead.
Lol, that character is very similar to Silvana Rosechu - a character from the infamous web-comic "So
