Appearance

She's four inches tall from head to toe, with bird-like wings patterned after the starling and dressed all in leaves. But Gwynn looks human if not for all that.

Powers?

Gwynn is a winter fearie, a creature of magic, and she has access to a suite of winter-based powers. You might call them powers, anyway. She would call them 'her snow', or 'her ice', the same way that someone who walks might refer to their legs or how someone who sings might talk about their voice. The strength of these powers is dependent on the season, and on whether she is indoors, or outside. It is outdoors, of course, in the dead of winter, that she can put on the most impressive displays. As an agent of winter, that season's hazards are her companions. It is said that given the time and the freedom her kind have the potential to treat directly with the forces behind the gathering of storms...! Not that Gwynn has ever had the need to do anything so drastic herself -- but she has heard stories. Gywnn's talents are decidedly more localized - allowing her to invite the rain and the winds to play with her, as often she does, and beyond that she can encourage the cold to come in around her in the same way that anyone else might gather old friends for a meal. The winter itself is not her doing - it is a force outside of her - but she spreads the winter, encourages it, strengthens and lengthens it. She finds the winter where it lurks, and makes it flourish.

Inside of dwellings, lacking a connection to the outside, she may yet be able to make use of the winds, as people do tend to trap them unknowingly when they open and close doors and windows against the storm. She can draw small tokens of rain or snow from atmosphere, too, as these are in the very nature of the air, and her skill at ushering the heat out of a space is universally applicable, as all environments exist at one temperature or another. Tea too hot? Well, Gwynn's your gal.

Motivations!

Gwynn feels a responsibility to tend to Winter and her children. While she is familiar with plants and creatures of all kinds, she has a particular fondness for and responsibility to the flowers and animals of her season. The ones born in the winter, the ones who thrive there. Therefore she is well acquainted with winter plants and herbs and their forms and functions. She takes responsibility for them. She can see the magic in them.

As an extension of this, faeries of Gwynn's kind feel a sense of belonging in places where gardens are fostered. Just as certain birds and insects can be encouraged to visit by the introduction of certain flowers, so too do faeries feel particularly drawn to inhabit locations within close proximity to particular species of flowers and grasses, trees and other growing things. And if the flora is of the sort which Winter fosters, then that sense of invitation might grow to one of obligation for the faerie in question.

Organization--

Gwynn's kind do hold courts, but she has never attended one. She has, of course, heard stories of them. She has yet to declare for either side, the Seelie or the Unseelie, and this is one reason that she is prone to interacting with humans. No fearie from the court would risk revealing themselves to the humans after all, nor risk tainting their Place by treating with Man. It might also be said that her association with humankind is part of the reason that neither court has declared for her, either. In cases such a hers, only one mechanism remains to decide her Place -- her own actions. Gwynn therefore acts outside of the court, without their direction, organization or pressure. She is aware of them, and they of her, but they hide from her now as they do from the Men.

Humans?!

Gwynn is intensely curious about humans, and quite entirely suspicious of them. Furthermore, although in her own mind she is confident about the pronunciation of human words and the uses of human things, the meanings of human sayings and the kinds and sorts of humans that exist, her assumptions come from things she has gleaned primarily from a distance and from passing observation. So, she's often mistaken, silly thing.