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OOC:

PLAYER NAME: Inky

EMAIL: inkstaninederin@gmail.com

AIM (optional): ryunistarchild (please do not mock. It was another era...)

IC:

CHARACTER NAME: Brier Delman

DISPLAY NAME: Brier

CANON:OC

CANON POINT: near the end of the novel she is a character in, after...um....being fatally stabbed?

AGE: 19

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Brier has pale blonde hair, pale skin and light blue eyes. Her commander says she "looks like she was left out in the sun too long and all the color faded out". She tends to dress modestly. Her hair is cut to the length of her chin. She parts it on the side and it sometimes falls in her face. Sometimes this may be intentional.

Brier speaks softly. She has an accent, though those not from her world will not be able to quite place it. She tends to hold herself in such a way as to take up the least space possible. She dresses simply and modestly and prefers skirts, but will wear whatever is available or necessary for the task at hand, as long as it covers the important bits.

Brier is petite with even features and a bit of pink in her cheeks, causing some to compare her to a doll.

HISTORY: Brier grew up a middle child in a family of seven siblings. Her hometown, Sweetwater Creek, was in the mountains in the north of her home kingdom of Anjuly, an area know for it's harsh land and poverty. Life was not easy, but the family was close.

Her eldest brother left home when Brier was six to join the army. When he came home again for a short while, when she was eight, Brier was amazed by his sharp uniform and worldly speech patterns. He had taught himself to read and seemed like a creature from another world to Brier. She worshiped the ground he walked on and decided to someday follow in his footsteps. Women could not join the army or the navy, but they could join the palace guard in the capital.

Brier realized this dream, thanks to an introduction from her brother, at the age of sixteen. She worked hard and kept herself, causing others to think she was a goody two shoes. Given assumptions about mountain-folk that they are uneducated and inbred, as well as being a woman in a men's field, Brier did not have an easy time or make many friends.

One day the crown prince's wife, Quirnia, noticed Brier. She liked the neat, doll like appearance of the girl and asked to have her appointed to her personal guard. Brier received a promotion and one of the easier jobs for a guard at the palace. However, one evening she heard footsteps but failed to catch any intruder. Quirnia promised to keep the matter "their secret" so long as Brier requested a transfer. Brier, not suspecting Qurinia's motives in keeping the secret, did so gladly. Brier was transferred to a different assignment, keeping watch over a prisoner at the palace.

Usually prisoners were not housed in the palace but this prisoner, Zara Beck, was suspected of kidnapping the daughter of the now dead Prince Nicolai. In this position, Brier came into contact for the first time with the crown prince, Xanti, and learned he was a monster. Brier began to question her world view, which eventually led to her breaking Zara Beck out of her cell and attempting to return her to her friends, who operated a pirate ship.

Brier did not realize that she and Zara Beck were followed, nor that the missing princess was, indeed, a member of the pirate crew. With the crew arrested, Brier found that only she and one other crew member, a shoemaker from the Northern Islands who had been kidnapped a few months earlier, were left to protect the princess and see that she made it back to the capital to claim the throne of the kingdom in the place of her evil uncle.

Brier and her comrades reached the royal palace and entered in disguise, but Prince Xanti recognized them. Brier attempted to hold him off, allowing the shoemaker and the princess to escape, and succeeded in buying them the seconds they needed to do so, but only at the cost of two stab wounds, one above the shoulder and one in the gut. When Brier blacked out she was sure she was dying.

But apparently not.

PERSONALITY: One cannot overcome the challenges Brier has - extreme weather, extreme poverty, near starvation, being a woman in a man's field, challenging long held beliefs to break someone out of prison, confronting a man who is clearly better at you at swordplay - without some strength of character. One would not know this to meet her without speaking to her, however. Her supervisor describes her as "a mouse" She is shrinking, quiet, shy and embarrassed of her own accent. She seems to scream with every movement that she is uncomfortable in her own skin.

She was not always like this however. Once she was a bold sister, playing and fighting with her brothers rather than engaging in the quiet play her sister and mother encouraged. If one is willing to wait long enough that Brier is comfortable with them, they will find she is sweet, loyal, good natured, generous even when she has little herself, and even has a sense of humor.

Brier is level headed in a crisis. When needed, she is capable of shedding her mouse-ish demeanor and standing to fight.

ABILITIES: She is also good with 19th century firearms, using them but also taking them apart, putting them together, cleaning them etc.

She can knit, sew and darn socks. She can also perform most tasks associated with 18th to 19th century remote mountain farming, like tending a garden, gathering herbs, horseback riding, building a fire, cooking on a fire, sheering sheep etc. She can survive in a forest.

She has some first aid skills and is particularly good at treating frostbite.

Brier cannot read.

POSSESSIONS: Bloody guard uniform. More layers of underwear than necessary. Sword. Most of a flintlock pistol - but not enough that it is able to be used. A carved bird pendant on a blue ribbon tucked under her shirt.

ANYTHING ELSE: Anything else you’d like us to know.