Character 100-ish 130: Lady Mina
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I only realised well after both Lady Mina and Princess Mina were established that they have the same name. Which, yeah, happens in real life of course, but happening in a story is awkward.
Poor tired mummy-healer. I have no idea what her hair clip's made out of. They haven't invented plastic yet. green shell?
NAME Lady Mina
WHO IS THIS PERSON Healer at the palace healing house in Ni-Yana
GENDER Female
AGE 35
BRIEF BIO Mina was brought up in one of the high-class Ni-Yana villas as the second youngest of six children, but none of the six ever really knew their parents. Her dad was a workaholic and her mother was too much of a socialite to really take notice of her kids.
Initially Mina was furious with her parents for paying no attention to any of them, and ran away from home once with her brother when she was ten. By some kind of miracle tho, they ran into a healing house, and the healers there took them home.
Mina tho, she'd had a taste of freedom now, and she moved out of home, and Ni-Yana, as soon as she was able to, so not long after she turned sixteen. She caught a trading vessel and headed upstream towards Ni-Aneka. While she was on the boat, she fell for one of the sailors. He didn't return her feelings initially, but Mina proved to him that she could learn the ropes on the boat, and eventually won him over. Incidentally, she abandoned her ideas of going to Ni-Aneka and stayed with her lovely instead. Their relationship became a little strained after a coupla years, but they married when Mina was nineteen. Two years later, she had a little baby boy, then a second after another two years. Naturally she paid a lot more attention to them than her own mother had paid to her, and made sure that her husband did the same.
He wasn't really the fatherly type, though, so that set Mina off, and eventually he complied and played with the kiddies. Truth be told, their marriage isn't the strongest. He's accused her (not altogether unjustly) of oggling one of the other guys on the boat, she's tried to get them, several times, to get off the damn boat and get a house, because trading boats aren't the place for kids, so then they moved to Ni-Mytaa when Mina was 26. They settled in, Mina's husband got a job as a jewellery merchant, cos it's almost like trading, and everything was shiny for a year, until they were broken into and all the jewellery in the house, including Mina's own, was stolen.
That of course required another move, which very nearly tore them apart again because her husband had just gotten into the whole trading thing in Ni-Mytaa, and the only other place he was willing to live apart from a boat was Ni-Yana. They very nearly broke up over that, but for the sake of her boys, Mina agreed.
They quickly realised that living in Ni-Yana was considerably more expensive than Ni-Mytaa, so Mina started healer training at the palace healing house, leaving the kiddies to wander around the palace and have fun with camels and horsies and whatever else they could find. This of course gave the boys aspirations of getting into the army, so they're due to start training in a few years.
CHARACTER Constantly tired through trying to balance her work and her kids. She's dedicated to both, especially her boys, because of her bitterness towards her own parents ignoring her as a kid. Bit of a temper, used to talking to two young boys and being obeyed, then flying off the handle a little bit.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Mina has a bit of a bad habit of talking to some of the trainee healers as though they're her boys, which means either telling them what to do and expecting to get her way, or baby talking them.
Mina talks to any warrior who comes into the healing house about how good her boys are going to be, and that whoever she's talking to had better look out for them.
Mina's favourite (and all the girls in the healing house have one, whether they'll admit it to you or not) is Kurae. Poor deluded creature.
Mina had chicken pox badly as a child and still has a number of white spots left as scars, most notably one under her right eye and one on her forehead, right above where she puts her healer's dot.
Poor tired mummy-healer. I have no idea what her hair clip's made out of. They haven't invented plastic yet. green shell?
NAME Lady Mina
WHO IS THIS PERSON Healer at the palace healing house in Ni-Yana
GENDER Female
AGE 35
BRIEF BIO Mina was brought up in one of the high-class Ni-Yana villas as the second youngest of six children, but none of the six ever really knew their parents. Her dad was a workaholic and her mother was too much of a socialite to really take notice of her kids.
Initially Mina was furious with her parents for paying no attention to any of them, and ran away from home once with her brother when she was ten. By some kind of miracle tho, they ran into a healing house, and the healers there took them home.
Mina tho, she'd had a taste of freedom now, and she moved out of home, and Ni-Yana, as soon as she was able to, so not long after she turned sixteen. She caught a trading vessel and headed upstream towards Ni-Aneka. While she was on the boat, she fell for one of the sailors. He didn't return her feelings initially, but Mina proved to him that she could learn the ropes on the boat, and eventually won him over. Incidentally, she abandoned her ideas of going to Ni-Aneka and stayed with her lovely instead. Their relationship became a little strained after a coupla years, but they married when Mina was nineteen. Two years later, she had a little baby boy, then a second after another two years. Naturally she paid a lot more attention to them than her own mother had paid to her, and made sure that her husband did the same.
He wasn't really the fatherly type, though, so that set Mina off, and eventually he complied and played with the kiddies. Truth be told, their marriage isn't the strongest. He's accused her (not altogether unjustly) of oggling one of the other guys on the boat, she's tried to get them, several times, to get off the damn boat and get a house, because trading boats aren't the place for kids, so then they moved to Ni-Mytaa when Mina was 26. They settled in, Mina's husband got a job as a jewellery merchant, cos it's almost like trading, and everything was shiny for a year, until they were broken into and all the jewellery in the house, including Mina's own, was stolen.
That of course required another move, which very nearly tore them apart again because her husband had just gotten into the whole trading thing in Ni-Mytaa, and the only other place he was willing to live apart from a boat was Ni-Yana. They very nearly broke up over that, but for the sake of her boys, Mina agreed.
They quickly realised that living in Ni-Yana was considerably more expensive than Ni-Mytaa, so Mina started healer training at the palace healing house, leaving the kiddies to wander around the palace and have fun with camels and horsies and whatever else they could find. This of course gave the boys aspirations of getting into the army, so they're due to start training in a few years.
CHARACTER Constantly tired through trying to balance her work and her kids. She's dedicated to both, especially her boys, because of her bitterness towards her own parents ignoring her as a kid. Bit of a temper, used to talking to two young boys and being obeyed, then flying off the handle a little bit.
POINTS OF INTEREST