Finally finished my Master! Who will hopefully be paired with VV.
• Name: Esperanta Dektri
• Age: 19
• Gender: Female
• Appearance:
Whee.• Personality: Despite her exceptionally poor fortune, Esperanta is a bright, cheerful and almost blindly optimistic young woman. No matter how bad things get, she will face it with a smile; after all, things can only get better, right? As long as she's still alive her luck hasn't ran out completely. Whilst some would assume that her optimism and idealism is simply a mask to hide some kind of inner turmoil, they would find themselves completely wrong. Esperanta really is that optimistic and idealistic, believing very staunchly that as long as you still cling onto hope things will turn out fine in the end. She's usually very polite to everyone, even those who really don't deserve it. She's also a bit nervous and shy, especially around strangers, but she tries her best to work through this. After all, a stranger's just a friend you haven't met!
• Backstory: Despite her almost ridiculously sunny disposition, Esperanta's life hasn't exactly been rather happy. Born prematurely, it was a miracle she even survived, although she was weak and sickly all throughout her childhood. Her condition really hasn't gotten too much better, although her habit of getting into all sorts of accidents doesn't help; it's been almost ten years since she lost her left eye in a bizarre manicuring accident, and that's only the most noticable of her injuries. At around the same time, her father tragically died under mysterious circumstances involving sixteen garden gnomes and a bicycle pump, leaving her mother to take care of her. Unfortunately, not long afterwards her mother ran off with a rich businessman from a neighbouring country, taking with her only a leather suit and a riding crop and yet oddly no horse. This led to Esperanta being passed into the care of various aunts and uncles, all of which met rather bizarre fates involving such things as crazed rabid weasels, incredibly localized thunderstorms, unexplained gas explosions and an out of control steamboat that somehow made its way several miles inland. But even through all this tragedy, Esperanta kept her optimism. After all, at least she still had her health, right? And at least she had a job now, taking care of great auntie Nau's restaurant! Even if it had seen better days... And wasn't exactly getting much custom... But at least it gave her a roof over her head, at least aside from all the holes in it. And at least she was making enough money to live! Well, she was breaking even at least... But at least things were looking like they were going to get better. It wasn't like anything bad was going to happen anymore, right?
• Skills: Clumsiness, lack of depth perception due to her missing eye and near-terminal levels of bad luck. On the plus side, Esperanta happens to be a simply marvelous cook, possibly the best in all of Saulbine. Thanks to her luck, though, her cooking skills have not recieved the reknown they really deserve, but at least it's not bad enough that her restaurant recieves too little patrons to continue running.