Not a NaNo 12: Alias Grevillea
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Not that I'm going to accomplish all 30 for the month, but I'll be continuing on with this anyway. Not-a-NaNo, wherein I pull names from a small box and give them character!
Tip for if you want reference for anger: look up tennis players. They look like this when they're HAPPY let alone when they're actually angry.
NAME Riisha, alias 'Grevillea'
WHO IS THIS PERSON One of the current Bouquet, the Kazinian empress's personal assassin squad. Grevillea is the Shaza connection.
GENDER Female
AGE 27
BRIEF BIO Riisha was born into a relatively wealthy family somewhere in tropical Kazin, but there were complications with her birth. Because the queen of her province was really ill at the time, the healers couldn't (or were probably forced not to) waste time on anyone but the queen. So Riisha's mother died. She was raised by random aunts, whoever was available on any given day to look after her, and has grown up with their hatred and prejudice against the queen and also healers.
It was in her early twenties, when she heard about an assassin in town, when she developed the idea of killing the queen. She sought out the assassin, first with the idea of paying her to kill the queen--Riisha comes from money, remember--but quickly learnt that even her inheritance couldn't afford such a service. Instead, she became the assassin's student. Her tutor quickly explained why killing the queen is fraught with such danger that she deliberately prices herself out of anyone's market, but Riisha was determined. She eventually convinced her tutor to work with her on this one, and in the years of their training and preparation, they fell in love.
When the time came, they kinda failed. Not miserably, but they were both captured and separated, never to see each other again. Riisha was taken to Shizaaqa, where the empress employed her typical death-or-money tactics and bestowed Riisha with the alias of Grevillea before shipping her off to Shaza. Shiz gave her a few missions to placate her--killing a couple of healers who weren't pulling their weight--but Grevillea was lonely. She briefly tried looking for her lost love, but Shizaaqa quickly sent her an 'I know you're looking' letter and put a stop to that.
Fast forward to SH:Tarnish where all the Bouquet gets together, and omg it's thingie! And now she's Strelitzia! Yay happy ending! And a significant other who's going to actually get a character!
CHARACTER Riisha is volatile. She very quickly takes insult in the slightest comment, but she'll also be the first to roar in triumph with her successes. So much of her life has been spent in hiding and hatred, so much has been dictated to her, that she has become pretty insecure since her tutor girlfriend was taken from her. Riisha makes it obvious what she's thinking, even when she's trying to hide it behind shouting and anger.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Even among the Bouquet, Riisha insists on being called Riisha. She hates having an alias.
Grevillea is built. Rather than have a favourite weapon that she keeps coming back to, she practices and trains with everything.
Tip for if you want reference for anger: look up tennis players. They look like this when they're HAPPY let alone when they're actually angry.
NAME Riisha, alias 'Grevillea'
WHO IS THIS PERSON One of the current Bouquet, the Kazinian empress's personal assassin squad. Grevillea is the Shaza connection.
GENDER Female
AGE 27
BRIEF BIO Riisha was born into a relatively wealthy family somewhere in tropical Kazin, but there were complications with her birth. Because the queen of her province was really ill at the time, the healers couldn't (or were probably forced not to) waste time on anyone but the queen. So Riisha's mother died. She was raised by random aunts, whoever was available on any given day to look after her, and has grown up with their hatred and prejudice against the queen and also healers.
It was in her early twenties, when she heard about an assassin in town, when she developed the idea of killing the queen. She sought out the assassin, first with the idea of paying her to kill the queen--Riisha comes from money, remember--but quickly learnt that even her inheritance couldn't afford such a service. Instead, she became the assassin's student. Her tutor quickly explained why killing the queen is fraught with such danger that she deliberately prices herself out of anyone's market, but Riisha was determined. She eventually convinced her tutor to work with her on this one, and in the years of their training and preparation, they fell in love.
When the time came, they kinda failed. Not miserably, but they were both captured and separated, never to see each other again. Riisha was taken to Shizaaqa, where the empress employed her typical death-or-money tactics and bestowed Riisha with the alias of Grevillea before shipping her off to Shaza. Shiz gave her a few missions to placate her--killing a couple of healers who weren't pulling their weight--but Grevillea was lonely. She briefly tried looking for her lost love, but Shizaaqa quickly sent her an 'I know you're looking' letter and put a stop to that.
Fast forward to SH:Tarnish where all the Bouquet gets together, and omg it's thingie! And now she's Strelitzia! Yay happy ending! And a significant other who's going to actually get a character!
CHARACTER Riisha is volatile. She very quickly takes insult in the slightest comment, but she'll also be the first to roar in triumph with her successes. So much of her life has been spent in hiding and hatred, so much has been dictated to her, that she has become pretty insecure since her tutor girlfriend was taken from her. Riisha makes it obvious what she's thinking, even when she's trying to hide it behind shouting and anger.
POINTS OF INTEREST