Name: Robin D'Arques

Age: 18

Appearance: Completely androgynous.  Olive skinned (from her mother) and green eyes (from her father).  She's 5' 5'' and has the lean physique of a runner due to her profession;  the more mail she distributes, the more money she makes.  Has short, messy brown hair which she keeps under a dark gray cap, and often wears simple trousers, a tunic, and hardy boots.  

Occupation: Mail Runner

Personality: Generally quiet and hyper sensitive to her environment, but is coarse and foul mouthed to those she  becomes comfortable with, mainly due to how she grew up mingling with street urchins.  Because of this, she can be slightly off putting to those she meets, but doesn't mind.  A true introvert, she likes to spend time alone or with a few group of people she enjoys being around.

She’s resilient and well composed, having been put through many physically and mentally challenging situations in her life.

She has a quick wit and an even faster reflex, but lacks in people skills and academic strength.  She’s good at transactional relationships when you first meet her but has difficulty bonding with people beyond that. Has a keen sense of wanderlust, which she attributes to her father, but is much more careful than he.  

History: Robin was raised in the poorer part of the city with her aunt and cousin after her father left to pursue riches in the east with the promise of "making our dreams come true! I'll be back!" Robin's father is a French traveling merchant who has always chased his dreams,  despite having no record of success or measure of cautiousness.  It was that lack of restraint that led him to marry her mother, a gypsy he encountered while traveling. With time and the disillusionment towards the romanticism of settling down with a family, the two parents agreed to split and leave Robin with her father's aunt, a stern and austere innkeeper.

Her aunt took baby Robin in, familiar with her brother's whimsical nature, and raised Robin as if she was her own--with unwaivable sternness. Her father has visited a few times, always with tales of foreign lands. Both Robin and her cousin, whom she grew up with, were put to work in the inn since day one.  Robin never liked the monotonous work that seemed to bear little benefit to the family business, so when she was 8, she found other work as a mail runner and heaved the inn work on her cousin.  She found that she could make more money as a runner the better she got, and could help support her family that way.

She befriended the other mail runners, who were often older street rats of various ages with impressive knowledge about the streets, and grew up with a family away from home who took her in as their own.  Her hat was a gift from her “mentor” when she finally beat him at a race across the city.  The nooks and crannies of the city became familiar, and the street urchins her teachers, and her feet.  Family and running are the most precious things to her.  

Items Held: A single Flower (received from Eveline, the lantern.