Eos

Mastigos; Silver Ladder; Cabal (Position)
Disciple 1º
Ada Lorna Fox; Prudence/Pride; "Aes Sedai"/La Grande Dame

Ada Lorna Fox was born on February 9, 1939 in London, England. She was sent away by her parents when she was barely over a year of age with her older sister, Rebbecca, to Clovelly to live with an aunt in order to avoid the terrible Blitz of 1940. Unfortunately her parents did not survive the German bombardment of the city, leaving her and her sister to be raised by her strict aunt, who was not all too fond of children. When she was nine years old, she moved away with her aunt to America. Her sister returned to London where she married a wealthy banker named Lawrence Turner.

Ada spent the remainder of her childhood and teenage years living in rural Chillicothe, Ohio with her aunt.

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• Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve 3; Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2; Presence 2, Manipulation 3, Composure 3
• Abilities: Academics 2 (Psychology), Investigation 2, Occult 3; Stealth 4; Empathy 2 (Lies), Expression 2, Intimidation 1, Persuasion 2, Socialize 2, Subterfuge 2 (Lies)
• Merits: Contacts 1 (Police), High Speech, Ingratiating Wanderer 2, Status (Psychiatrist) 1, Status (Silver Ladder) 1
• Advantages: Health 7, Willpower 6, Morality 7, Size 5, Speed 9, Defense 2 (Armor -), Initiative 5

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• Magic: Gnosis 2; Mind 3, Prime 1, Space 2
  • Glorious Shield: "Diplomat's Protection", Mind •••, Wits + Expression + Mind
  • [Rote Name]: "Memory Hole", Mind ••, [Attribute + Ability + Arcanum]; [Factor Bonuses]; Tradition Rote: [Details, if it is a Tradition Rote]
  • [Rote Name]: "Third Eye", Mind •, [Attribute + Ability + Arcanum]; [Factor Bonuses]; Tradition Rote: [Details, if it is a Tradition Rote]
• Legacy: None; 1st — X, 2nd — X, 3rd — X
• Nimbus: X

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• Possessions: X
  • Magical Items: X
  • Magical Tools: iron sickle (Path); personal diary (Mind), crystal pendant (Prime), sextant (Space)
  • Weapons: X
• Other Notes: X

Character Questionnaire

These questions must be answered as part of character creation.

1. Describe your character’s physical appearance. Eos believes that one must always look presentable and thus wears only fine & well tended clothing, whether she's wearing shawls over an earth tone grandmotherly dress or a bright green silk gown befitting a queen. She only wears dresses, as is only proper for a woman. She wears her grey-white hair down, but will style it tall atop her head when she seeks to make an impression. She is fond of and often wearing antique jewelry, but believes in sturdy sensible shoes hidden under her skirts. Eos is an elderly woman, with hard blue eyes & stands barely over 5' tall, though her demeanor often adds another foot of height (and her hair when worn tall several more inches to that).
2. Describe what it looks like when your character’s Nimbus manifests to those with Mage Sight. What does it look like when it bleeds over into mortal perceptions? (The Nimbus can be quite impressive to Mage Sight, but is always subtle to mortal perceptions.)
3. Describe your character’s preferred Magical Tool, either a Path Tool or an Order Tool. If your character uses any Arcana Tools, describe those as well. Is there a background or back story to this item? Eos' path tool is a very old, yet well kept iron sickle that she has had in her possession decades before she had Awoken. It was a strange keepsake she had been given by her Aunt when she was a teenager. Her Aunt explained that it had belonged to her mother before she had put aside foolish ideas and married a good man in Parliament and that she had been pressed by her sister to give it to her youngest daughter as a keepsake when she was old enough. Her Aunt admitted that she'd rather have tossed the damnable thing out, but when her sister insisted on something, it often felt impossible to deny her wishes. Her arcana tools consist of an antique setting with a large smoky crystal in it, an old leather sleeve that the composition books she uses as journals can be slipped in & out of and a really old sextant that she found in an antique shop that requires frequent oiling to keep the parts moving.
4. When your character’s Unseen Senses trigger, what kind of sensation does your character experience? (This tends to be individual from mage to mage; some examples include a slight headache, a raising of the hairs on the back of the neck, goosebumps, a sudden change in temperature sensation, etc.) A mild sense of vertigo & sudden intensity of light & color.
5. Describe how your character most often interacts with her Virtue. All good things require careful & cunning patience. If you jump at the first seemingly good opportunity & find that it was in fact a lure with hook & line in it, then you deserve your foolish fate.
6. Describe how your character most often interacts with his Vice. Eos is the epitome of unquestionable truth & righteousness. Her wisdom is beyond that of ordinary mortals & she, above every other authority, knows what is best for everyone in the world whether they want or know it.
7. Describe your character’s Mentor, from her perspective. This is the person (not necessarily of the same Path) who brought you into the Order, and taught you the Order’s magical Praxis. Insufferable woman! Eos had lived & seen nearly half as much life as this arrogant witch had seen, yet she had the gall to try & humble & belittle Eos? They never got along, although her mentor always seemed some infuriating combination of fond & amused. But when Eos was hungry to learn more, her mentor would instead decide not to teach that day, instead they would spend time sitting at a mall watching people, or shopping for pointlessly extravagant shoes. When Eos would be melancholy or struggling, her mentor would instead pile on more tasks & assignments. And then...demand tea of all things! And the woman didn't even drink tea!! It would just sit there, all tea & perfect like, and grow cold. Until she would finally remember it & then pour it out into a nearby dead plant. Probably poisoned by tannins. Eos would have wished for a focused & strict mentor, but instead she got some deranged & random woman who was addicted to nearly unwearable shoes, chain smoked cigarettes & suffered from acute ADD. A gease to stay away from her for two years would seem like a blessing. But...somewhere along the way. Eos stopped hating her & found herself, though she'd never admit it, admiring her. Just a little mind you. Probably just due to familiarity over the years. Indeed. Insufferable silly thing. ...Hope she's alright...
8. Choose the Mage Sight your character uses most often. Describe to me how your character interprets the occult information granted by that spell; for instance, some mages perceive various Mage Sights as strains of music, strange smells, memory flashbacks from their own lives relevant to the information gained, physical sensations or other similar sensory input. Each form of Mage Sight usually has its own set of sensory symbols, often in line with aspects of the character’s personality, occult praxis or background. Eos uses Third Eye of the Mind Arcanum. She perceives intricate networks connections around people, like a spiderweb woven from rainbows with symbols and/or images where the links in the webs come together, like many strings on an investigator's cork board connecting clues together. In addition to the normal insight one gains from Mage Sight, she can also perceive emotions as subtle to aggressive vibrations upon the colorful threads of the webs around people. She can also detect mental influence, which manifests as dark streaks of silver-grey in the otherwise colorful spectrum, or discolorations in the images that have been tampered with.
9. Choose a song that you think might serve as your character's "theme song."
10. Does your character have any family? Eos has two living sons, and three daughters. She had a third son who had died when he was young in a car accident. She has a total of nine grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. She has buried two husbands, one who was the father of all her children save the youngest daughter who was fathered by a single night fling with a young artist. It was that event that had caused her husband to kill himself & her children to become estranged to her. The only child she has contact with (that they're aware of) is the youngest daughter, Emily, a single mother of young twins who owns a successful tattoo parlor in LA. Her daughter regularly calls her to update her on life & the twins and sends a plethora of pictures via e-mail. She also has a sister who lives in London with her husband (a wealthy retired banker) Lawrence Turner. Her sister was unable to have children of her own & had later adopted two sons during one of her Peace Corps visits to Africa, Jory & Mika. Eos & her sister write back & forth regularly, preferring this very old tradition to e-mail. They call each other once a year on Christmas. They have not actually seen each other in person since she was nine years old. There is also her Aunt, who is now nearly 100 years old, refuses to die, as well as refuses to stop driving much to the terror of her neighbors. Save for her eye sight she is far healthier than a woman of that age has any right to be & carries around nearly a century of ire & determination to whatever goal she fancies at the moment, which is often to point out the foolishness & shortcomings of those within earshot. Eos sends her Aunt a Christmas card each year, but otherwise has not spoken to her in nearly 30 years.
11. Your character has, at some point in his life, had something to do with the Hotel Regina. It has been out of business since the 1940s, so you won’t have visited it while it was in business. Your character doesn’t even have to had any kind of major interaction at the location — you simply have to have a moment in your character’s history where the Hotel Regina played some role, even if it was just as a backdrop. Perhaps an uncle was a photographer that loved buildings from the Thirties, or your mother had a framed print of the building in the living room over the hearth. Tell me what the Hotel means to your character. Before Eos' mother had married her father, she & her sister (Eos' aunt) had spent many years living and traveling America. Her Aunt had many pictures of herself, Eos' mother and a variety of other nameless individuals scattered throughout the house where Eos grew up. Her Aunt refused to ever identify any of the other people in the pictures, only ever frowning & muttering something about fools, but often she'd catch her Aunt looking at those same pictures longingly & sighing. More than one of the pictures had the Hotel Regina in the background and thus Eos has long associated the image of the nameless structure with her Mother & Aunt when they were younger.

Other Questions

The following questions can be answered as part of further development for the character once play begins. No more than two questions may be answered in between game sessions, and for every two questions answered the PC gains +1 point of Development Experience.

Background

1. Where did your character grow up? Briefly describe his childhood and adolescence. Eos and her older sister were sent away by her parents to stay with her Aunt in Clovelly, England to escape The Blitz. Her parents died in the Nazi attack and so she & her sister remained with their Aunt. When she was nine years old, she & her Aunt moved to America and her sister returned to London. Eos spent the remainder of her childhood and teenage years living in rural Chillicothe, Ohio with her Aunt who made a living buying and selling antiques and other strange items to an often even stranger clientele.
2. What part(s) of the character's childhood most influenced the person he/she is today? Describe an important lesson your character learned as a child. She lost her parents when she was an infant. She was taken away from her sister & her country when she was nine. From this & her teenage years she learned that people & connections are fragile and the world filled with unhappiness, indifference & people too desensitized to seek a way to make it any better. She never had many friends. But she knew everyone, listened to them all, watched them all, cataloging each of them in her mind (and journals), their hopes, goals, connections, talents, merits & flaws. She sought a pattern in it all, a proper placement to fight the gloom in the world and make sense of it all. The first notable piece of her puzzle that clicked into place was when she was in middle school. Karla was a sad little poor girl that was picked on for her shabby clothes in school. Eos had spied her notebook one day & saw hidden talent in the doodles constrained within the margins of her pages. She made a point to point out & praise her talent frequently. Eos began to request samples & pictures for various projects & got the art teacher involved with her & urged her to take art class. She even provided Karla with art supplies that her Aunt had given her upon request. Karla's inner light finally started to shine and her talent escaped notebook margins & blossomed upon canvas and took shape in clay. Karla grew up to become a notable artist & a very successful fashion designer until her overdose & death in the early 70's. Pity. But did her light shine brightly for years & through her work she had inspired so many others & shaped creation in her wake. Eos learned that with a little guidance, a kind word of support or inspiration or a nudge in the right direction, she could make minor shifts in reality. They didn't always work. And sometimes they would work only for a duration. But any light in the gloom is welcome. And with enough little lights in tandem, they are like a dawn light preparing the way for the sun.
3. When the character was a child, what did he/she want to be when grown up? When she was a child she wanted to be a princess or a dancer. When she got a little older, she wished to become a airplane pilot so she could travel the world. That goal shifted to teacher & then later to psychiatrist, which is what she became, though deep down inside that dancing princess is still twirling about in her soul.
4. What was your character's first, or most memorable, love affair? It can be anything from a pre-teen crush to a memorable love affair. Be sure to describe the object of your character's affection, along with the changes that your character went through in terms of feelings and thoughts about that person. Did it start out as maddening hatred? Instant love? Who fell for whom first? Was love a surprise? Assuming it has, how did it all end? How do all involved (your character, your lover, rivals, observers, etc.) feel about it now? Her first love was a short lived one. His name was Edward, though the fool ever insisted on people calling him Ed. They were in college, she was 19 and he was 24, with long trailing honey colored hair & thick round spectacles perched upon his nose. He was a biology major and had just completed his masters degree. They had met at the library & began seeing each other regularly. They fell in love & then quickly married. Two days after their honeymoon he had stepped out to go buy cigarettes and never returned. His car was found three days later crashed into trees off the road beyond the outskirts of town. The police reported that they were unable to find his body, but that there was too much of his blood at the scene for him to be likely to have survived. They reported the vehicle having been in severe condition & that it looked as if some sort of large wild animal had been involved. The guessed that he had wrecked and an animal had found him and taken him away. Eos was numb. But she would get over it. She was young. And she would love again one day, a jaunty young jazz player in New Orleans. They would wed & have many children & be happy, though they would lose one son when he was struck & killed in a hit & run. Then she would love once more & break the heart of her husband for it, causing him to take his own life & blaming her, she would lose all of her children forever. All due to one night with a passionate artist with fiery red hair & leonine features. And then she would give birth to her youngest daughter Emily. Her past & her losses were ever a sadness, but this new life in the world was a good thing and never something she could regret.
5. Assume your character is seeking companionship, and has the opportunity to write a detailed personal ad for an internet dating service (and was willing to do so, without fear of security risks or anything like that). Write the ad. Where would be the character's idea of a good place to take a date? "Elderly yet lively woman on a quest to better the world seeking a fiercely adventurous man who seeks a life a little less than ordinary. Enjoys jazz, classical and ska and is able to dance to any of it. Likes a mix of travel, crawling her home streets as well as quiet time at home." As for where she would take a date? A happening sushi bar followed by dancing at a club, then a walk through the park, a stop at a cafe for coffee & conversation & then back home to the couch to watch a movie & cuddle together.
6. What is your character’s most precious pre-Awakening memory? She & her sister's "secret place" when they were very young living with their Aunt in England. Falling in love with a young & talented saxophone player in New Orleans, marrying him & the birth of each of her children.
7. What is your character’s most traumatic or grief-inducing pre-Awakening memory? Cheating on her husband, his grief induced suicide following his discovering her & her lover & her children blaming & disowning her as their mother.

Personality & Habits

1. Name five things your character likes to do that have absolutely nothing to do with being a mage. Eos likes to knit and often produces an obscene amount of knitted items that she frequently gives away as gifts to others or donates them. She is an avid reader of books, particularly books on psychology & trash romance novels (the latter a fact that she tries to hide). Eos had married a saxophone player when she was younger, and still likes to sit back & listen to jazz music, often while knitting or writing. She keeps a journal & has crates filled with them, having been writing in them since she was 12. She likes to collect antique jewelry & she is a frequent visitor to art shows & museums, particularly of artists that she has inspired to get off their rumps & embrace their potential. She has been known to volunteer in soup kitchens in the past as well. Eos is in love with the concept of technology, though she doesn't always fully understand it. She has an iPhone she can barely figure out how to use & a laptop that serves as little more than an expensive game of Solitaire with e-mail & facebook.
2. Is the character sentimental about anything? If so, what? If not, why not? Eos is terribly sentimental. She keeps tabs on everyone that she has touched or who have touched her throughout her life. Facebook has made this so much easier to do. She hangs onto keepsakes & gifts for eternity & proudly displays framed photos of the people she has been close to in every phase of her life. But to hear her speak of them, it's eerily more like listening to someone speaking fondly of their pets rather than people.
3. What's your idea of getting "dressed up?" Fine long dresses, shawls, cloaks, large pieces of antique style jewelry, big, tall hair & little to subtle cosmetics.
4. Does the character have any catch phrases, nervous tics, or personal habits that would identify him/her? She flattens her lips & frequently hides her displeasure or irritation behind a cup of tea, in her journal or in knitting. If she lacks these usual devices, she will frequently straighten her dress or rearrange her shawl if she is wearing one. When she is in "diplomat mode" then she will sit or stand straight & still as a statue, an expressionless mask of serenity on her face with only a hint of the potential storm hidden within her eyes.
5. Does your character believe in true love? Elaborate. True love is a very useful tool. Love makes people into fools & fools are easily manipulated. Aye love is real, but so are fools. But how much fun it can be to be a fool sometimes. If only she had the time to indulge in it.
6. Describe three public places that your character enjoys spending time at. Eos enjoys spending time in libraries and schools, places where people go to learn, seek answers or chase their dreams. She likes writing or reading in well maintained & populated parks, where she can watch people living their lives out & amongst other people. She also likes small diners & cafe's for similar reasons, but also so that she may hear those around her, talking with each other about anything & everything.
7. Describe your personal bedroom space. What might someone poking about find, both in terms of actual things and in terms of what the space says about you?
8. What moves your characters to anger or violence? Eos is very quick to anger, but she reigns it in & sits on it, hiding her irritation or rage to the best of her ability. Minor slights will have her wishing ill upon those who wronged her, a dangerous temptation for those of the Mind Arcana. Greater injustices will have her seething within with potential plots for justice or vengeance. Whether or not she carries any of them out, or later dismisses them as fanciful rampages in her mind depends upon the circumstances of the situation.
9. What moves your character to tears? Family.
10. What makes your character very happy? Seeing someone she has inspired to reach out, grab & tap into their true potential.
11. What makes your character depressed or hopeless? Feelings of insignificance, of being ineffective or lacking the power to change the world around her. She fears a life of quietly watching the world around her slowly slide towards indifference, chaos & collapse.
12. What sorts of situations make the character feel awkward or ill-at-ease? When in the presence of others who can see or sense her mental weaves or those who are obviously far stronger than she is. She is also uncomfortable when around enfeebled elderly people.
13. What's the best way to persuade the character to do something? Point out the benefits it could have for society, particularly aspects of art, culture & government. She is also a sucker for romance, and if a request is given a dramatic or romantic twist, she is more likely to set her senses aside to make a leap for adventure!
14. Choose five adjectives to describe the character. Proper, imposing, calculating, arrogant & sometimes a bit delusional in her self justified righteousness.
15. Give me some reasons why someone might reasonably dislike your character on first impression. Why might someone come to hate them in the long term? Eos can at times be pushy, arrogant, insensitive, patronizing, dismissive, manipulative, cold & calculating. These are often traits that do not gain her adoration, though her abilities often allow people to overlook these aspects. Those immune to her "charming" personality too frequently only see her darker side & take umbrage at her methods and fail to see her nobility and higher goals for the greater good.
16. How would your character react if he or she was publicly humiliated by a total stranger? What if it was a private humiliation? What if it was a friend and not a stranger? If it were a stranger? No one would pity this fool, for no one would be able to recall exactly what became of him. And the stranger would probably find himself a stranger forever to himself after Eos has finished flaying every shred of memory & personality from his mind, leaving it either bare or replacing it with something more...pleasant. If it were a friend? It would be made very clear, that her "friends" do not treat her with such disrespect. If it were to happen again, then they would not be treated as a friend, but like a "stranger". This is of course what she would WANT to do. The real severity would entirely depend on the situation, but in her own head she is flaying the minds bare of half the people she passes on the street but restrains herself from making this a reality.
17. If your character could have one object for himself or herself (and not to turn around and sell), regardless of price, what would it be? A framed Nobel Peace Prize, a string of Russia's Kremlin diamonds around her neck & Kenneth Branagh to keep her bed warm.
18. What kind of music does your character like? Does he or she like different kinds of music in different circumstances? Jazz, Classical & oddly enough, Ska.
19. What is the character's favorite food? Eos' favorite food by far is sushi. She also has a very strong sweet tooth and in addition to keeping a hearty supply of sweets on or near her at all times, she makes frequent stops at bakeries, donut shops & other sweet shops to fuel her habit.
20. What's your character's favorite color? Any particular reason? Pale blue or yellow, though she is quite fond of green as well. Pale blue is such a calming color, while yellow is simple & happy. Green the the vibrant color of life itself. Her wool clothes tend towards more pale earth tone colors, though they are usually accented with her favored blue or yellow. Her silk gowns are generally brighter variations of her favored colors, especially green.
21. What is your character's routine when he or she is not tending to Awakened business/crises? Learning, listening, guiding & helping others achieve their true potentials or at least to play their parts in helping others do so. The world is a game she must play to win, the prize is the betterment of humanity as a whole and her adversary is the ignorance, sloth & apathy of the very people she seeks to help. Thus whether she is visiting the library, working in the soup kitchen, or kitting in a coffee shop, she is always on her life quest & these are all just locations for her to move her game pieces into better locations.
22. Assuming they could speak, what would each of your character's parents (separately) say about him/her? Eos would love to know what they would say. She always tried to imagine what her parents were like as her Aunt would not tell her much save that her Mother was a foolish adventurer who dragged her along into danger far too often and that her Father was a fine man, a member of the English Parliament and that she was glad he made her Mother settle down, though she probably had the poor man wound around ever finger on her hand. Since awakening, Eos has often wondered whether or not her Mother had also been awakened. The strange band of people in the pictures growing up, Hotel Regina itself in some, the iron sickle passed down to her through her Aunt. Comments her Aunt has made over the years. It would be...vastly unlikely. But...perhaps? As for what they would think of her? A fine upstanding woman aiming to straighten out & uplift the human race surely. Death is not her purvey, so she cannot say.
23. Who are you important to? Why? Eos is important to her youngest daughter, because she is her mother & raised her. She is important to her sister, though they have not seen each other in near six decades. But they are sisters & they still have a bond. She is not aware of it & wouldn't suspect it, but she is important to her iron faced Aunt who refuses to die. And she may not be specifically important to them, but she is remembered fondly or stands out to a number of people who she has helped, inspired & guided throughout her many years.
24. Assume your character is plagued with a recurring nightmare that awakens him or her in a cold sweat every time. Describe the dream. (This will not necessarily be the case, though many people do have frightening, recurring dreams.)
25. What aspect of him/herself is the character most uncomfortable with? What aspect of him/herself is the character most satisfied with? She is uncomfortable with some of the things she feels she must do for the greater good & pushes these thoughts aside as necessary acts that someone must perform for the world. Every war has casualties & the world is at war with itself against itself and she must save it. Part of her knows she deludes herself to justify things simply because she wants them, she buries that little voice, because it tells her she's a villain. And that simply cannot be right! She is a hero! A radiant goddess come to raise humanity up to greatness. Isn't she?... This is also what she is most satisfied with. She is great & good & a beacon of light flaring forth in a dark world & will bring this light & awe to everyone & make the world a better place.
26. Is the character an introvert or an extrovert? How does the character behave in group settings? How does the character behave around someone in whom he/she is interested romantically? Eos is a careful & calculated extrovert. She folds into situations in a manner that is appropriate, often taking quiet observational roles & speaking when appropriate or when she has a goal to achieve at which point she often inserts herself into advisory positions, especially to those of important status. She listens to everyone around her always & will nudge people either through mundane means or through magic as she sees fit. She is more cautious amongst other supernaturals, as it is a much more dangerous game & more likely to be quiet & observe for any advantages she can use.

Awakening & Beyond

1. Describe your character’s Awakening.
2. How has the Awakening changed your character, other than the obvious kewl powerz? Eos took her Awakening as fate choosing her to perform a task. She had always lamented upon witnessing so many people, particularly the young squandering untapped talent & potential, choosing to indulge in apathy, indifference, sloth or being crushed by the heavy weight of the dismal world around them & losing themselves. She tried to help through guidance & psychiatric means, and did help some, but not enough. Her Awakening was fate itself pointing out to her a mighty & awesome task and giving her the tools she needed to accomplish it. She used to have hopes & aspirations, the Awakening gave her goals & destiny!
3. Why did your character choose the Shadow Name s/he did? Eos is the Greek titan goddess of the Dawn. Dawn is associated with the element of Air, which is also associated with her Zodiac birth sign Aquarius. These links & signs have always surrounded her and when it came time to choose a shadow name, it seemed appropriate to her. For she is like a mighty titan of the dawn, heralding in the light of a new day.
4. Name and describe three non-supernatural individuals that your character interacts with on a regular basis (such as a neighbor, best friend, co-worker, and the like). If you have any Contacts or Allies, these can be part of those Merits. Detective Rudgar Sonderson - an angry gay bulldog of a man with a soft spot for Eos (who he knows as Dr. Juliette Pearce) & treats her as someone would their grandmother. He is driven & often obsessive over work, much to the annoyance of his frequently neglected partner, a pastry chef named Carl Grimsley (who Eos frequently buys sweets from). Her daughter Emily Stone and her twins, Björn & Alva. Emily is a free spirit, quirky & has questionable romantic taste in both men & women. She owns a successful tattoo business in LA where she has lived for nearly 20 years. She gets along well with her mother, who had always allowed her much more freedom than her previous children & calls her frequently. She gets her stubbornness & pushy nature from her mother & love of the arts from her father, who she is still in contact with. She is short like her mother, but also inherited her father's leonine features & almost glowing red hair.