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Body and Appearance
1. Describe the character's height and build. Is she heavyset, thin, short, rangy? Petrana is roughly five feet, four inches tall and she's small with a slim build. She's not what you'd call athletic, but she's kept a decent figure over the years - a little looser around the tummy-area and with wider thighs than at twenty-one, but two kids later and she's doing pretty nicely for a woman of her age and lifestyle.

2. How old is she? David Eddings's mildly incoherent timeline for the Elenium (which I am obliged to use for her despite the fact she's an original character for that universe) doesn't lend itself well to age math; I estimate Petra would be roughly in her late forties by this point.

3. Describe her posture. Does she carry herself well or does she slouch? Petra is a lady, and as such she has the posture befitting one. She stands up straight, puts her shoulders back, and maintains excellent poise almost all of the time. She's not inclined to slouch, but she will sometimes drape herself bonelessly when she's lying down.

4. How is her health? Is she fit or out of shape? Any illnesses or conditions? Any physical disabilities? She's relatively fit - she's not exactly going to the gym, here, but she's active and busy and often moving around, which helps. She doesn't have any chronic illnesses or conditions, but she has been hit pretty hard by 'her death of cold' in the wintertime before, and on depressing note miscarrying is not uncommon among women with the kind of limited medical options and understanding her world has. Her first two pregnancies were fine, but she lost a third baby when Iola was about four - not exactly to a miscarriage, though, she went into labour prematurely and the child was stillborn. Not something she discusses!

5. How does she move? Is she clumsy, graceful, tense, fluid? She's graceful - part natural, part learned and practised. She's usually a little tense, and a little too aware of her surroundings, but the more she relaxes wherever she is the more fluid she becomes. She will sometimes move as if she were going to do something and then change her mind and fall still again.

6. How attractive is this character physically? How does she perceive herself in the mirror? Well, physical attraction is a subjective thing! Petra is a beautiful woman, but 'small dark-eyed brunettes' might not be somebody's type, I would not presume everyone wants a piece of that. She's attractive enough that she's used to being noticed for it, put it that way; she's inclined towards vanity but pragmatism and the fact that her life took a left turn with something of a damaged reputation that might give some people ideas have encouraged her to downplay those tendencies in herself to avoid looking as though she's courting a scandal.

7. Describe her complexion. Dark, light, clear, scarred? Pale - but not to the point of porcelain cliché - and clear, Petra has few scars and 'good skin'. She does have stretch marks around her hips and abdomen from having been through two full term pregnancies.

8. Describe her hair: color, texture, style. Man I feel like I have been talking about Petra's hair all damn week. Anyway! She has very long, very thick dark hair; it's not black but can look it in the right light, and has a tendency to wave to the point of loose curls (the sort that you might otherwise acquire by putting in ringlets and having the curls drop over the course of a day) when it's not weighing itself down. More or less this means it looks curlier up than down. It reaches roughly her mid-back, and used to be longer until it became completely unmanageable and far too heavy. On occasion it gives her headaches!

9. What color are her eyes? Joanne Whalley's eyes have been described as, I shit you not, black marbles dipped in ice water. Really. So! Petra, like her former lover, has very dark brown eyes which do, in fact, sometimes look as though they're just plain black.

10. Does the character have any other noteworthy features? Judging by chat, I am very tempted to say 'her breasts'. But no, not especially. She's fine-boned with delicate features that occasionally skew kind of sharp.

11. What are her chief tension centers? Her hips and the small of her back.

12. What is the character's wardrobe like? Casual, dressy, utilitarian? Bright colors, pastels, neutrals? Is it varied, or does she have six of the same suit? Upscale! Petra is an Elene noblewoman and she dresses the part, with a wardrobe that primarily features floor-length gowns with voluminous skirts and bodices that lace and button. She favours jewel tones for her more dressy pieces, particularly blues and greens, and avoids reds. Her around-the-...castle clothes run towards simple white gowns that are more or less glorified slips with sleeves and ties, and she likes an hour-glass silhouette but will lounge around in an empire waist. She has a lot of different gloves, and an assortment of hats; her traveling clothes tend to be dark greens or browns, and much simpler. She keeps a selection of dresses in cheaper fabrics and simpler makes for when she's in her art studio, because they won't matter as much if she stains them with paint or charcoal.

13. Do her clothes fit well? Does she seem comfortable in them? Petra had her own seamstress, although she did occasionally branch out when she was looking for something specific or had merely heard that some woman was particularly good and either liked the style enough to seek her out or just wanted to keep up with her peers. Basically this means all her clothes have been handmade specifically for her, tailored to her, and tailored to precisely her requirements. They fit her perfectly, and she enjoys her wardrobe. She does still have all of the dresses she wore during her pregnancies, also.

14. Does she dress the same on the job as she does in her free time? If not, what are the differences? Petra is a courtier if she's anything, and therefore does not actually have a job, per se, except so far as 'being a member of the aristocracy' actually is sort of a full time job. Arguably - and it's a valid argument - being a mother and managing a household is a hell of a lot of work, but Petra dresses to occasions and not to work.

15. You knew it was coming: Boxers, briefs or commando? So, fun fact, in Petra's day women didn't wear panties. They had shifts and slips and chemises and corsets, as well as things similar to 17th century stays and mid-17th century boned bodices, but no knickers. Petra does wear garters with her stockings, but yeah, uh, that would be one for 'commando'. (Elene fashion is slightly hodgepodge, and the world itself does not precisely analogue to one specific era, but a quick google tells me women didn't start wearing knickers until about the 19th century.)

Speech
1. What does this character's voice sound like? High-pitched, deep, hoarse? I am so terrible at describing voices, so: Joanne Whalley (and Timothy Dalton). The accent is wrong, but the voice is right; she shows up roughly halfway through, but it's v. short and worth watching in its entirety just because it's fantastic.

2. How does she normally speak? Loud, soft, fast, evenly? Does she talk easily, or does she hesitate? She usually speaks evenly, softly, and if she's not focusing on it then she talks a little faster than she really needs to. She doesn't often hesitate, but she does have a tendency to think about what she says to the point of overthinking it and veers between letting someone else guide and dominate the conversation entirely, or breezing through so quickly that she finds she's in control of it quite by accident.

3. Does the character have a distinct accent or dialect? Any individual quirks of pronunciation? Any, like, you know, verbal tics? Petra has an upperclass Cimmuran accent, the shorthand for which I have come to rely on being basically what would happen, vocally, if you blended the south of France with the British royal family. She's technically from Demos, but was heavily influenced by the amount of time she spent in Cimmura and the two cities are close enough that there's not a significant difference in the first place. Trips to Vardenais when she was younger - her family would go with Martel's - also played a role in her accent/dialect, and Vardenais and Lady Veleda's Arcian roots can be held responsible for why Petra's accent in particular skews more towards France than Britain, in European terms.

4. What language/s does she speak, and with how much fluency? Petra speaks native Elenic, which is...basically English, conveniently, and from her assorted knights she's picked up a minor smattering of Styric. She could swear in it, if called upon to, although she will totally deny this. Other than that, she's not especially linguistically gifted.

5. Does she switch languages or dialects in certain situations? No.

6. Is she a good impromptu speaker, or does she have to think about her words? She's a passable impromptu speaker, but she'd prefer to have time to think about it; when she has to speak on her feet she's more likely to be immediately honest, and one of life's strongest lessons has been that it's probably better to be careful.

7. Is she eloquent or inarticulate? Under what circumstances might this change? She's relatively eloquent, but under pressure she'll start fumbling for words or blurting things out.

Mental and Emotional
1. How intelligent is this character? Is she book-smart or street-smart? She's a clever girl, but she's also a noblewoman, a sheltered member of the aristocracy; she isn't what you'd call street-smart by a longshot. Her education was encouraged as much as it was probably because her parents had no other children, and in particular no sons to focus on.

2. Does she think on her feet, or does she need time to deliberate? It's Petra's nature to be impulsive, and over the course of her life she's taught herself that it's better to be patient and think about what she's doing. She tries to, at the very least, meet somewhere in the middle.

3. Describe the character's thought process. Is she more logical, or more intuitive? Idealistic or practical? Logic is 'the Elene complaint', among other interesting terms; Petra 'suffers' from it as much as the rest of them, but she's probably more an intuitive thinker.

4. What kind of education has the character had? She had private tutoring growing up, which included through her late teens and early twenties the mentoring of an Arcian artist that Lady Veleda introduced to her family.

5. What are her areas of expertise? What, if anything, is she interested in learning more about? Petra is an artist herself, and that's what she'd think of as her primary area of expertise; she's also very clever at navigating court and the accompanying social politics, and managing a household and budget balancing and the like.

6. Is she an introvert or an extrovert? An extrovert who tries to teach herself to be an introvert.

7. Describe the character's temperament. Is she even-tempered or does she have mood swings? Cheerful or melancholy? Laid-back or driven? Petra is a creature of high drama! She's cheerful by nature (Martel, reflecting on her, thinks of how when they were young she was always laughing and chattering or whispering), with a nasty temper that has her prone to outbursts, temper tantrums and vicious passive aggression. (It's not pretty.) She smiles even when she's angry, which Martel speculated was a habit she picked up from him but no, they were just both like that. She's not suited to melancholy and tends to channel her grief into anger and then, when she's run out of anger or displays of it have simply become inconvenient, she does her best to repress it so she can continue functioning. Most of the time she's pleasant, quiet, and maybe a little sly.

8. How does she respond to new people or situations? Is she suspicious, relaxed, timid, enthusiastic? 'Cautiously optimistic' is probably a good way of putting it; she wants to like people, she wants to think the best of people, but she's aware that by and large, people are bastards. It requires careful navigation.

9. Is she more likely to act, or to react? The position that Petra's life puts her in is one that's largely passive; she has, unfortunately, spent most of her life reacting to the actions of people (mostly men) around her. A lot of the lifestyle she's living now comes out of being forced to respond and protect herself from the negative choices of one very specific man in her life to whom she'd been very close. Long story short - she'd like to think she acts, the truth is she's more often reacting to situations created by other people.

10. Which is her default: fight or flight? Flight, if it's a physical confrontation, but otherwise she'll fight, she'll lash out.

11. Describe the character's sense of humor. Does she appreciate jokes? Puns? Gallows humor? Bathroom humor? Pranks? Her sense of humour is a little sly, a little dry. She doesn't crack jokes so much as she makes 'observations' that have layers.

12. Does the character have any diagnosable mental disorders? If yes, how does she deal with them? She doesn't, no.

13. What moments in this character's life have defined her as a person? Well, Martel's expulsion from the Order unfortunately defined a lot of the course of her life afterwards; prior to that the understanding that Good Girls Don't had already begun molding the way that she behaved and the way she let herself speak. The decimation of her own reputation following what he did emphasized that lesson and Petra, in an unhappy place at the time, often focused on the negative feedback she was getting rather than the support. She heard the whispers and saw the way she was looked at, rather than focusing on the people who rallied around her. Later, motherhood was a pretty defining experience and learning to get by independently as a married woman wholly responsible for her home while not entirely sure if her husband would come home was, too. She's not unaware that a lot of her life's definition has come from other people, and in the face of this sometimes overwhelming mold she's fitting into she has a tendency to make small rebellions wherever she can. Her opinions are fairly progressive for her era and position, and a moment of wholly personal definition was when she made the active choice to pursue a broader view than she was being offered.

14. What does she fear? Something harming her children; her husband's death. Martel turning up out of the blue. Someone finding some new scandal to hurt her and her family with. Wild cats.

15. What are her hopes or aspirations? To one day see Matherion herself, to visit Rendor. To spend time learning at a convent (no, really). That her daughters will have happy, stable lives and that they'll be interested in the heritage she can give them from Elenia.

16. What is something she doesn't want anyone to find out about her? ... a lot of things to do with her relationship with Martel.

Relationships
1. Describe this character's relationship with her parents. Petra was her parents' only child, and they were attentive to the point of actually spoiling her. She was let away with a lot of things when she was younger that she might not have been if she'd had more siblings, or if she'd specifically had a brother. Her mother, in particular, was very indulgent; she sometimes treated Petra a little like a doll, but genuinely loved her and tried to support her in the things she loved. Her father was the one who encouraged Petra's interest in portraiture, and many of her earliest pieces are portraits of him, sitting for her over and over again with nearly limitless patience. She admired her father a great deal, and took it particularly hard when he eventually died in battle.
Petra and her mother didn't always agree - her mother was fairly viciously prejudiced against Styrics and had always privately objected to Lady Sephrenia's tutoring of the knights. Being as her own husband had been tutored by her and remained steadfastly loyal to his 'little mother', this was something she spoke of more to Petra than anyone else, and Petra was...never quite comfortable with her mother's attitude, particularly when it came to insinuations about those Styric women and their reputedly loose morals. Petra picked a few fights with her about it, but eventually in her adulthood they simply didn't discuss the things they disagreed on.
They were particularly happy with Petra's engagement to Martel not because it was a good match - although getting hitched to the Pandion's rising star was, at least from a pro-Pandion perspective, a pretty damn good match at the time - but because Petra was legitimately in love with him and marrying for love wasn't uncommon, but it also wasn't necessarily something one would count on. Sir Davidias was introduced to the family when Petra's father was assisted by him in Deira, and he was curious enough about the stories he'd heard about the older knight's daughter to agree to come visiting. It was generally agreed that getting not one, but two engagements for genuine affection was more or less some kind of blessing and Petra used to tell her father he was a consummate matchmaker.
Petra's mother outlived her husband by several years, but was injured and developed an infection from it that eventually killed her.

2. Does the character have any siblings? What is/was their relationship like? No, no siblings.

3. Are there other blood relatives to whom she is close? Are there ones she can't stand? She has no siblings, but her husband has an older sister - Marpesia - to whom Petra is not close. The impression that Marpesia leaves a person with, as Kay once put it in narrative, is 'bitch' and in the narrow scope of power that Marpesia has she is vicious. Backhanded and passive aggressively cruel, Marpesia dislikes her sister-in-law and deems her an unfit bride for her beloved brother; the two of them have never got on, and after a few half-hearted attempts at making a truce early on in her marriage Petra has more or less given up and merely tries to work around her.

4. Are there other, unrelated people whom she considers part of her family? What are her relationships with them? Lord Romiar and Lady Veleda, Martel's parents, were as good as Petra's own surrogate parents when she was growing up; she spent a great deal of time at their estate, where she endeared herself to Romiar by utterly adoring his dogs and developing a fascinating kind of selective hearing. (Which is to say: when he was feeling particularly waspish, Petra began responding as if he'd said something perfectly nice and feigning obliviousness when he called her on the transparent artifice. He found it entertaining to try and get her to bat an eyelid, and she enjoyed rising to the challenge of not letting him get a rise out of her.)
While she spent a lot of time playing with the wolfhounds and convincing Romiar that he really should have had a daughter, Petra also became close to his wife, Veleda. Veleda was not particularly thrilled with the reduced social standing and political tensions that she had to deal with in her close proximity to the knighthood in Elenia, and Petra offered her solidarity and patience and willingness to do her part to try and push them through it. Petra endeared herself to Veleda largely through shamelessly abusing her friendship with Martel to convince him to do what his mother wanted him to for the sake of their interests at court. The two of them spent a lot of time alternately managing the things they had to deal with and discussing anything else.

5. Who is/was the character's best friend? How did they meet? Petra's best friend growing up actually was Martel, but after relocating to Gatas with her husband she became fast friends with a Deiran noblewoman, Lady Ekatera, who keeps a townhouse in Gatas (where she was born) but bases herself in Asabel, the nearest Deiran port at the Thalesian strait. Ekatera 'married down' - her husband is a sea captain who now styles himself a Lord due to marrying into Ekatera's father's title. They travel often - but more often apart than together, with Ekatera making regular trips around Eosia to visit friends or to Chyrellos in particular to genuflect piously and otherwise entertain herself observing the excesses of churchmen. She and Petra write letters to each other when Ekatera isn't in Gatas, and she's the godmother of both Petra's daughters. She's famed for her parties and patronage of poets, and mysteriously has managed to remain largely free of scandal despite her lifestyle and rogueish taste in husbands. Rumours occasionally surface, but never really take hold. She took it upon herself to take Petra under her wing when she arrived in Deira, only to discover that she was doing that antisocial wallflower thing on purpose and knew damn well how to socialize if she wanted to. They've been friends ever since.

6. Does she have other close friends? Not a great deal of them; she has a fairly large social circle simply because she's the sort of woman who flourishes with people around her, but she's not necessarily very close to everyone that she's friendly with.

7. Does she make friends easily, or does she have trouble getting along with people? Petra is pretty good at handling people and social situations, and can generally endear herself to a few people without a significant amount of effort on her part. Socializing is not especially difficult, in and of itself, just sometimes stressful when considering mitigating factors.

8. Which does she consider more important: family or friends? Family, always.

9. Is the character single, married, divorced, widowed? Has she been married more than once? Married to Sir Davidias; this is her first marriage, but she was previously engaged to 'the renegade' Martel, you know, before he was 'the renegade'.

10. Is she currently in a romantic relationship with someone other than a spouse? No, and she'd be very offended by the suggestion. B|!!

11. Who was her first crush? Who is her latest? Martel, who she grew up with and who was also the first man she fell in love with and, incidentally, the first one to get up her skirt. (The first of, uh, only two.) At the moment she is madly in love with her husband.

12. What does she look for in a romantic partner? Judging by Martel and Davidias - 6'3" and 6'4" respectively, both highly trained warriors - she likes her men significantly taller than she is and capable of snapping someone in half without breaking a sweat. Her 'type' tends to run brilliantly intelligent, magnetically charismatic, sharp-tongued and possessing a viciously nasty temper to match or outmatch her own. They say girls like ~*bad boys*~ and it is possible that Petra has, on occasion (one memorable one!), taken that to extremes. Both Martel and Davidias are/were very sharp, competent men who run a little volatile - one more than the other. Davidias is more genuinely good-humoured than Martel, and an all around less dark individual.
Petra looked for someone who makes her feel safe standing next to them because she's standing next to them rather than in their path, rather than looking for someone she feels safe with because they are a safe person. She likes someone who is a little bit demanding, whose tastes she can get the hang of and then try to please - she likes a healthy conflict in her relationships, which has sometimes led to not always recognizing unhealthy conflict when she strikes it. Men who are powerful (which is a fairly broad category, depending on how you define power) and understand the proper wielding of it appeal to her. She doesn't necessarily require that she be the focus of someone's life - but she will give a lot of herself and give it freely with only the expectation that she is loved, wholly and solely, in return. (When she is particularly enamoured of somebody, and if they do care about her enough to make an effort, she will sometimes let herself turn a blind eye if they are not, in fact, quite as much in love with her as she is with them. Martel was a good example of this! He did love her, but he wasn't in love with her and she decided that she could just live with that as long as she remained the only object of his affections, such as those affections were.)

13. Does the character have children? Grandchildren? If yes, how does she relate to them? If no, does she want any? Petra has two daughters - Iola and Isaune, who are twelve and ten respectively. She'd like grandchildren when her daughters are older, and has always wanted a larger family of her own.

14. Does she have any rivals or enemies? Marpesia probably qualifies as a rival, but beyond the expected jostling for position among courtiers, Petra has often and deliberately taken herself 'out of the competition', as it were, in Deira. Elenia didn't give her specific enemies, but it did show her who her friends were - and there were more people willing to watch her fall on her sword than there were friendly faces. She's wary of becoming a scapegoat, because frankly she feels it's much more demeaning than if someone would actively hate her for who she is, rather than picking her as a convenient and easy target.

15. What is the character's sexual orientation? Where does she fall on the Kinsey scale? Petra is about a two; her only lovers have been men and she's only ever considered men sexually and romantically, but her actual sexuality is a little more fluid and under the right circumstances she could very easily end up with a woman. Unfortunately she doesn't come from a time which is particularly sexually progressive, and her exploration of her sexuality could potentially be sort of fucked up and even damaging to a partner. (e.g. she could justify slowly falling into a sexual relationship with a woman if she were separated from Davidias - in Taxon while she's still married it's very unlikely she'll ever see him again, for example - for long enough because 'it's not really sex (there's no dick involved)' and 'she's not really like that', 'they're just friends' - that kind of rationalization. Not actually healthy! Probably not very good for someone involved with her.)

16. How does she feel about sex? How important is it to her? Petra likes sex and refuses to be ashamed of that, although she's...still not going to talk about it a whole lot and she is aware that that very attitude could get her into some moral trouble with those holding more traditional views. She views it as an important and necessary part of a healthy marriage/romantic relationship, but not the most important, and while long periods of separation from Davidias are frustrating, she's not going to die if she has to go without for months or even upwards of a year. She'd just prefer not to.

17. What are her turn-ons? Turn-offs? Weird bedroom habits? Petra enjoys the concept of 'power to please someone'; barring something that she just finds repulsive, she'll usually adapt to her partner's preferences and enjoy that just fine for the sake of how much they like it, as long as it still gets her off! Thus, despite only having had the two partners in her lifetime (and only one she would freely admit to, because she was never married to Martel and without those portraits, no one can prove she even saw him naked much less let him touch her before he was Allowed), she's actually done rather more sexual experimentation than one might expect from a buttoned up forty-something mother of two. She did not really care for the knives - knives in bed was extraordinarily hot, but she preferred the threat of it rather than actually bleeding, which she found...less okay. Mild bondage is all right, she discovered with Davidias that she much prefers being on top and she really, really likes sex in places one does not, traditionally, have sex.

Beliefs
1. Do you know your character's astrological (zodiac of choice) sign? How well does she fit type? Unfortunately I do not! One day I will pick one for her.

2. Is this character religious, spiritual, both, or neither? How important are these elements in her life? Petra, like the majority of Elenes, worships the Elene god through the Church of Chyrellos, and due to the fact her husband is essentially armed clergy, this is actually a fairly active and important part of her life. Exposure to the knighthoods offers, ironically, a slightly more nontraditional approach to religion and Petra is generally of the opinion that God trusts them enough to let them do their own thing, and the best way of honouring him is to make oneself worthy of that trust.

3. Does this character have a personal code of morals or ethics? If so, how did that begin? What would it take to compromise it? Yes, she does! She more or less picked up the Pandion attitude from her father, which ... is a very flexible moral code and admittedly one designed for, you know, big scary warrior men, but it does have some basic tenets that she will stick to. She might break some of it for the sake of self-preservation, or more of it to protect her children, but there are limits even to that and to what she could force herself or aforementioned children to live with afterwards.

4. How does she regard beliefs that differ from hers? Is she tolerant, intolerant, curious, indifferent? Petra is totally fascinated by other people's viewpoints! People are totally interesting creatures and while she might not understand, while she might balk at what she doesn't understand, she would still love for you to tell you all about what makes you tick and she'll do her very best to wrap her mind around it. She might not adopt it for herself, but she'd love to hear more about it.

5. What prejudices does she hold? Are they irrational or does she have a good reason for them? She is working her way through trying to more thoroughly expel racial prejudice - which is not something she ordinarily struggles with, but she's doing a bit of self-examination and not always liking what she finds! Otherwise she tends to automatically suspect the apparently perfectly decent, because, well, she grew up in Elenia. Everybody's got a skeleton in the closet and if you can't immediately see any flaws then it's probably really bad.

Daily Life
1. What is the character's financial situation? Is she rich, poor, comfortable, in debt? Petra is extremely wealthy, which is not the result of anything she did so much as 'coming from money' and then 'marrying into money'.

2. What is her social status? Has this changed over time, and if so, how has the change affected her? From the perspective of someone lower on the social totem pole, Petra is doing pretty damn good - she's a wealthy Countess with an active social calendar and, at least in Deira, well respected. In Elenia it's...a little different, because Elenia has more close associations with Martel's downfall; his betrayals were committed while she was engaged to him, and there was a significant amount of flow-on effect there which meant her reputation suffered with his. Arguably hers suffered worse, because Martel immediately got the fuck out of the country while Petra was forced to stay and deal with the fallout of what he'd done. It made her a much more self-contained person, and much more conscious of social politics and propriety; afterwards she devoted a great deal of her life to not drawing any more attention to herself. It wasn't a great experience and it had an impact on her entire lifestyle and the way she behaved.

3. Where does she live? House, apartment, trailer? Is her home her castle or just a place to crash? What condition is it in? Does she share it with others? Petra lives in a very lovely Deiran castle that she shares with her children, her husband, her sister-in-law and their sizeable staff and assorted guardsmen. She arrived as a young woman and promptly began redecorating the things she didn't like, and at this point most of the newer artwork is her own.

4. Besides the basic necessities, what does she spend her money on? Clothes, jewellery, hair accessories, fabric, art supplies, toys for her children, lots of books, sometimes interesting jeweled knives just for the sake of it. Artwork, if she really likes it. Entertainers for the castle - bards, musicians.

5. What does she do for a living? Is she good at it? Does she enjoy it, or would she rather be doing something else? She's courtier, socialite, philanthropist, mother & wife. It's much busier a lifestyle than you might think.

6. What are her interests or hobbies? How does she spend her free time? Her favourite use of her free time is painting, and when she can get away with it also climbing and swimming. She enjoys reading but almost exclusively in the evenings, and goes for walks to clear her mind or focus it - walks that she will usually be accompanied on by her dog (a wolfhound which she named Romiar after...Lord Romiar, who gave her her first wolfhound as an engagement gift when his son finally got around to proposing). She's very, very fond of dogs and Davidias only won the argument about whether or not they're allowed to sleep in the bed by pointing out that if she insisted on having her dog, he was therefore allowed his cats. All animals were henceforth expelled from the bedchamber - except for when Davidias is away, and then he comes home and his pillow smells like dog.

7. What are her eating habits? Does she skip meals, eat out, drink alcohol, avoid certain foods? She doesn't fuss much about food; she eats three meals daily and occasionally will snack a little, but always goes off cheese when pregnant.

Associations
Which of the following do you associate with the character:

1. Color? Weirdly, dark brown.
2. Smell? Rain.
3. Time of day? Dusk.
4. Season? Winter.
5. Book?
6. Music? Moonlight Sonata. B|
7. Place?
8. Substance? Pearl.
9. Plant?
10. Animal? Wolfhounds :3

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