What I've thought of so far, so there's two daughters, an elder, and a younger. The Elder will be my main, and she's going to be on the verge of womanhood, a good ol' coming of age story for her then. The younger will probably be from 8-10. Obviously, this isn't very typical, so the officer is probably a higher up, with noble blood and influence, and he's been playing the game for a while, so this sorta' thing can happen.
Her thing is ever since her sister was born, she's been with her father, at different battlefields and war-crap. That's because, dundundun, her mother died at her sisters birth, cliche, but it gets interesting. Older-girl and Father both have brown hair, mother had brown hair, all very uniform, and mundane. However, younger sister has red hair, blue eyes, a spot of color. There's rumors, given that she was born while the father was away, being an officer, that the Mother was untrue and she isn't truly his daughter. The Officer-man denies it, at least publically, and cares for the younger daughter just as he does the others, but there's still rumors. He knows the redhead isn't his, it's just not possible, he was away, and could not have impregnated his wife. But he sees her sin being paid for when she dies in childbirth, and saves his own reputation and the reputation of this little girl, by acknowledging her as his.
This makes him very untrusting of people outside the army, and so after his wife dies, he keeps his daughters, true and adopted, with him.
The elder daughter, though, is freaking tired of war, she wants to go to Court, like other noble ladies and get away from all the freakin' smelly ass soldier men.
Officer man is totally against that.
So the girls don't really have a role, they're sorta' along for the ride, kept protected because their father's an high-up officer, and they probably know a lot of the other officers/soldiers that have been around for a while. Kinda' like mascots XD, especially the little one.
Her thing is ever since her sister was born, she's been with her father, at different battlefields and war-crap. That's because, dundundun, her mother died at her sisters birth, cliche, but it gets interesting. Older-girl and Father both have brown hair, mother had brown hair, all very uniform, and mundane. However, younger sister has red hair, blue eyes, a spot of color. There's rumors, given that she was born while the father was away, being an officer, that the Mother was untrue and she isn't truly his daughter. The Officer-man denies it, at least publically, and cares for the younger daughter just as he does the others, but there's still rumors. He knows the redhead isn't his, it's just not possible, he was away, and could not have impregnated his wife. But he sees her sin being paid for when she dies in childbirth, and saves his own reputation and the reputation of this little girl, by acknowledging her as his.
This makes him very untrusting of people outside the army, and so after his wife dies, he keeps his daughters, true and adopted, with him.
The elder daughter, though, is freaking tired of war, she wants to go to Court, like other noble ladies and get away from all the freakin' smelly ass soldier men.
Officer man is totally against that.
So the girls don't really have a role, they're sorta' along for the ride, kept protected because their father's an high-up officer, and they probably know a lot of the other officers/soldiers that have been around for a while. Kinda' like mascots XD, especially the little one.
