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Thorny Rose
Princess
Thatcher's Starlight
â„Ageâ„
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â„Genderâ„
Female
â„Sexualityâ„
Heterosexual
â„General Appearanceâ„
Unlike her brothers who don't much care if their fine shirts and dirt stained, Ilene is far from humble. Wearing the most extravagant dresses her family can afford or she can craft, are of great importance to her and as such is often found sewing her own dresses. Even when forced out into the field with her family, she wears pants with elaborate stitching and a top fit for royalty and wears gloves to save them from callouses and imperfections. Jewlery to she prizes and hordes when she can. She loves the exotic so often visits merchants from far away lands to try and put her best foot forward and appear exotic among other, richer noble women around her.
Much to her chagrin, Ilene does have one imperfection she tries to hide. When she was young and frilly dresses far from her mind, she to had practiced her sword had with her eldest brother. During one of these secret play fights, the two of them wandered off in the forest and found themselves in real danger. Before the two were saved, she received four long scratches thanks to a wolf from her right shoulder down her back to her left hip. Though the wound healed nicely, she still has the ghastly scar and no manner of makeup can over them.
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Spirited â Determined â Ambitious â Passionate â Calculative â Charitable
She is just as spirited as her brothers and will not easy bow to anyone or anything. It is not the idea that she above them, but the idea that if she is to be a 'horse' gawked at for the highest bidder, she'd be a stallion, wild and free. Her parents pressed her for marriage many times but each time she refused to marry and if not given a choice, gave her suitors quite the run for their money until they themselves retracted their steps. She is determined to stand on her own and show she doesn't need a man to be strong and has the wish that some day she would be able to change the place of women or at least set them on the course. If that means she will die a shrewd, so be it. She has the determination and stubbornness of any man and will not easily take no for an answer. She will fight for what she wants.
Surprisingly, though she has ambition, she is not one to spurn others or be jealous. Though she used to envy the ladies much wealthier and more powerful, she had realized that this envy will not gain her anything. Instead, she looks within herself to improve. If she and another are vying for position and she loses, she will let herself be sad for a day or two but then reins herself back in control telling herself there will always be another chance and possibly a better chance. This makes her calculative in her actions and if she makes a mistake, she learns from it and adds it to her arsenal for she knows everyone makes mistakes. And her calculations may turn to manipulations but she is in no way vindictive. She just knows that sometimes you have to do things you'd rather not to get to the places you want. She doesn't do anything to hurt others on purpose however, even if they slight her. She's seen enough to know that fights over minor slights end up with the people involved hanging from a noose and tangles webs for everyone else.
And since she is a Thatcher threw and threw, she is compassionate to those loyal to her and her family. She is charitable to her people and kind to them, gaining their favor much like Avery who tends the fields with them. Though she wont' get down and dirty, she will help them with a little bit of coin here, a good word there, and will help the women folk mend clothing. Though seemingly untouchable, she loves children and will often do much to aid them. It is one of her few soft spots. She wants children of her own but she'd rather die than admit that.
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አSewing
አReading/writing
አLeisurely rides around her home
አCaring for children
አDancing
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âWomen's subservience to men
âGetting in the dirt
âHaving to be escorted
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âHer beauty
â Calculative personality
â Intelligence
â Determination
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â She doesn't have any battle experience
â As woman, she doesn't have much power without a man backing her.
â She is still young so there is much she needs to learn.
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⣠Howling of wolves, but more directly wolves themselves.
⣠Not accomplishing any of her goals.
⣠Being forced to marry someone she doesn't think will help her.
⣠Losing her brothers to death.
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It was during one of these bouts that the two of them ran off into the woods together to explore and pretend they were knights looking for a damsel in distress. At the time, Ilene was 8 and Avery 14. Ilene was terrified to be out in the forest but she put on the brave face and followed her brother. Everything was fine for a while but eventually a couple of wolves had scented them out. The two children cried out for their parents and Avery told her to run. He tried to hold them off and while he did manage to keep one back, the second wolf rushed after Ilene. Unfortunately she was no match for the wolf and the beast jumped her and raked its claws down her back. The wolf probably would have killed her right then and there but her father was never too far off from his children. The man struck the wolf with an arrow when he broke through the trees and managed to get to Avery after the second wolf got through his defenses. While Avery sustained a shoulder injury, Ilene wasn't out of the woods. The slashes she received were deep and it took a long time for her to mend, even getting an infection at one point. Her life was touch and go for a while but she managed to survive but she never forgot her life and death experience. From then, she stopped pretending and playing with swords, much to Avery's heartbreak and tried to do whatever he could to make it up to her for not being able to protect her. She didn't blame her brother but his honor refused to let him accept her forgiveness and he trained harder and harder to make sure he never failed again.
Staying closer to home, her mother was able to groom her for court and she became more lady like though she never forgot how helpless she had been. She didn't want to be a helpless made and she refused to believe that her fate was to obey her father, brothers, and husband. She truly believed women should hold the same amount of power. It was a blow to her to find that though she was second born, she would not hold any power as long as her brothers were the heirs and that burned her inside. She had so much she wanted to do and she felt like her voice was muted for all the chains that bound her. She decided that she wouldn't marry unless there was a man that could match her mind and actually work with her rather than over her.
She quickly learned that men fawned on beauty and as Thatcher's starlight, she knew she had some manner of power based solely in the fact that she was a woman. With this little consolation, she continued to work on her wit and hardened herself like a warrior before battle. She'd use whatever tools she had at her disposal to gain any power she could get to try and change and shape things for the better, little by little. Her parents tried to marry her off but every suitor that came to their door she refused to marry if they failed to measure up to her idle and striving for equal partnership. What ave need of she for another man lording over her? Her brothers she could weasel and she knew they loved her truly and would do whatever they could for her but a husband? She didn't want to risk it if she wasn't sure of the man herself. Behind her pretty face was a warrior's resolve.
When she found out that the princes were looking for wives and that her family was invited, she had mixed feelings. She didn't want to be married off but the power of being married into the royal family was quite the luring bait. Still, she has no plans to fall desperately into their arms. She would see just what kind of rulers they were going to have and whether or not it was worth the chain.
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