"Whatever happens, happens."
Geneva
25
Human
Appearance:
Coming from a humble background, Geneva usually wears a blue tunic over a light chainmail and black breeches tucked into boots. When out for bounties or travelling, she adorns a Steel Armor.
Personality:
Geneva is known to be fierce and unyielding in battle. Out of it, however, people notice her humble beginnings by being, well, humble and polite. She has a good moral compass, believing that people are capable of good despite what people see of them or their past. Overly protective of those she cares about, she’d sooner die than turn her back on them. For strangers, however, her darker roots shine through as she puts her life above those she doesn’t know. She is dangerously indifferent to the lives of criminals deemed to be too far gone. She does sympathize with child criminals as she was one in the beginning, but would not bat away if she is betrayed the second time for the life of crime.
Starting magic:
Healing and Ice Magic. Both were learned with the help of the Salagin family’s court wizard jokingly but warmingly refer to as the ‘Gran Mage’. Gran Mage is usually found in the Knight’s training field, healing foolish reckless knights and giving them a stern warning not to do so again. As a warning to the knights she heals, Gran Mage has the tendency to shoot precise snowballs with some ice in them. Unfortunately, Geneva usually receives this snowballs. While it wasn’t due to foolishness, it was mostly because of her recklessness in proving herself capable in the battlefield. Geneva, not really wanting to be a burden to the court wizard, asked to know some healing. Gran Mage passed her knowledge to Geneva, the Ice Magic a side-effect in their odd friendship. Geneva can stop the bleeding with her healing magic and could generate small shards or cubes of ice.
Starting weapon:
Long Sword and Shield. She doesn’t bear arms or armor that holds the Salagin crest while adventuring. She deems it too dangerous and could put the noble family in unneeded trouble.
Belief:
Geneva came to believe in the teachings of Kidara when she came into the mercy of the Salagin noble family -- the people who took her in. She’s been taught of Kidara’s lessons and understood, deep in her heart, that Kidara’s lessons were the only reason she was alive today.
Greatest Strength:
Geneva takes great pride in her strength, convictions, and humility. Without those, she believes that she wouldn’t be who she is right now.
Backstory / Other:
If people looked at Geneva’s past and compared it to her present, they wouldn’t believe what they’d see in their own eyes. Before she was a well-respected knight of the Salagin noble family, she was just a part of a hungry group of thieves and murderers. She was born in that life, only knowing the life of crime. She learned how to steal food from inattentive stall owners, manipulate the good will of ordinary people in order to steal from them, and hunt both animals and people.
Geneva knew that what she was doing was wrong, however. She had doubts with her family but knew to keep those thoughts to herself. After all, some of her family were made an example of. Her life changed, however, in that one fateful day. There was a fancy carriage riding through the woods accompanied by few soldiers on horseback. Sensing the opportunity, her family charged. Geneva only saw chaos and bloodshed. Her doubts rose and her loyalty to her family reached its breaking point the moment her mother pulled a young girl, younger than Geneva, by her hair and threatened the girl’s life if the girl’s family didn’t obey her mother.
The father of the girl commanded the soldiers to stop fighting and Geneva’s family immediately proceeded to loot every single thing they could see. Geneva would’ve gone back with her family, disillusioned but still willing to obey if it meant her safety, were it not for the fact that Geneva saw the change in her mother’s expression: her mother tightening the grip on the dagger she held against the throat of the young girl, the smile that Geneva knew would turn into that insane grin, the way her mother just straightened.
Before Geneva knew it, her dagger’s blade bit into the leg of her mother. Her mother’s sheer surprise and audacity of her own daughter wounding her was enough to weaken her grasp of the girl and allowed the daughter’s father to command his soldiers to kill all of Geneva’s family. Geneva, on the other hand, held no illusions of dying in the hands of the soldiers as she knew that her mother would do the deed were she not fast enough.
Fortunately, in that moment, Geneva was. After her first cut that made her mother stumble and fall to one knee on the ground, Geneva buried the dagger deep in her mother’s throat and backed away. When remembering that event, she thought of it as rather anticlimactic. There were no dashing escape from her mother’s wrath, but only the gurgling of the dying woman that gave birth to her. Her family, those that weren’t felled the by the soldiers, managed to flee deep in the forest never to be seen again.
Geneva, on the other hand, was given another chance. There, she was offered to pay her crimes by serving the family she rescued in that day. It was also where she would learn how to read and write, to wield a sword not to kill but protect, and given a shield to defend. It was there where she saw the wonders of the world, where good was many and evil few. Geneva was knighted when she was twenty-one, served Lord Salagin’s daughter, Amanita --the same girl she saved all those years ago -- for four years before being allowed to wander away from Salagin lands and learn more of Edrim.
