For your consideration:

[hider=Rionach][hider=Appearance:][img]https://orig00.deviantart.net/d001/f/2012/125/5/2/shallow_tail_colours_by_pixelisedmind-d4yldyc.jpg[/img]Clothed in garb that manages to be ostentatious even with muted colors, Rionach can be said to do everything in her power appearance-wise to create an image that is memorable.  Her close-cropped, bright-red hair bears a long bandanna and a jaunty feather, and it crowns a face that despite prominent brows, a Roman nose, and somewhat thin lips, cannot reasonably said to be unattractive.  Aware of this, no doubt, Rionach's mostly-practical choice of dress -made purposefully and without trepidation- helps accentuate this aspect of her.  At 5'8" tall and 160 lbs, she boasts a well-built physique.  It, along with the engaging glimmer seldom lacking in her dull gray-blue eyes, makes hers an eye-catching visage without being quite so bold, tacky, or showy as to imply self-absorption[/hider]

[b]Name:[/b] Rionach (pronounced ria-nack)

[b]Sex:[/b] Female

[b]Class:[/b] Soldier

[b]Starting Weapons:[/b] Uprising Spear – a long, flexible spear decent for throwing and excellent for vaulting up into the air

[b]History:[/b] One cannot speak of the kingdom of Valentia without bringing to mind its long and storied schism—the story of Rigel and Zofia, only relatively recently reunited as one sovereign nation through the marriage of Prince Albein Alm Rudolf and Princess Anthiese after a bitter and brutal time of conflict.  This era, dubbed the 'Twilight of the Gods', gripped every corner of the realm.  Even in mountainous southeastern Rigel, the wave of upheaval brought about by the divine dragon Duma's degeneration surged forth.  There, an earthquake nearly brought ruin to the city of Gadanka, ripping open a great chasm that cut off the only routes through the mountains toward the kingdom's central cities.  The populace's hard life grew harder, improving only marginally as a semblance of trade resumed over time.  Now isolated in an unforgiving region, Gadanka lost wave after wave of citizens to emigration, shrinking from an icon of the mining and hunting industries to a remote town, lost in the wilderness and forgotten.

Rionach was born well after Gadanka became a footnote in the history book of the new kingdom of Valentia.  Starting at an early age, she exhibited a great energy and drive to improve the situation of her fellow townsfolk.  With the poor of character weeded out by generations of manageable but nevertheless challenging hardship, the villagers had one anothers' backs through thick and thin, treating one another like family.  Rionach cherished her community and its people, believing them to be the purest sort of people imaginable; yet, a sense of frustration always stung her when she wondered why such good people suffered harsh lives, forgotten or ignored by the rest of the world.  By the time she reached adulthood, Rionach was already cultivating a plan.  Inspired by stories of famous heroes, performers, and other legends, she resolved to take on the mantle of a celebrity herself.  Determined to make a name for her long-suffering town and put it back on the map, she declared her intentions to the elders: to go out across the land, win fame and fortune, and make Gadanka a name known the world over.  Then, she reasoned, the townsfolk's lives would improve, and they would wallow in nameless irrelevance no longer.  Beloved as she was, Rionach received no objection, and was furnished with everything she needed to begin her great adventure.

Before long she set out on her journey, hunting down maps to follow to city after city.  Rionach visited them one by one, marveling at their size and culture, getting to know their people and their ways.  She bore an enthusiastic smile everywhere she went, drawing eyes in whatever ways she could.  Any sort of publicity, she figured, was good.  Time after time, however, she found herself confounded.  Eyes narrowed when confronted with a woman proclaiming herself as a celebrity from a town nobody ever heard of; her airs and lack of experience with the world pushed others away.  Small jobs she found in abundance, performing enough various tasks to live off of without issue.  After all, for the sake of her town and the people she loved, no work was too small.   But no amount of deer-hunting, cleaning, questing, or construction would ever make her a somebody—the somebody she needed to be.  When it came to bigger things, nobody would give a nobody a chance.  Though pretty, she could not compete with the truly beautiful.  Though naturally talented with a spear, she couldn't hold a candle to the professionally-trained soldiers employed in the army.  As witty and agile as she was, a circus troupe lay far out of her purview. 
 General handiness only went so far against guild craftsmen, whose lifetimes of experience allowed no contest.  Everywhere it was the same.  With no fortune or noble house to her name, no doors were open for her to elevate her station and justify her behaving like a celebrity.  Rionach's pleas and attempts at maneuvering fell on deaf ears, though she became popular enough with the common folk, and she fell into a habit of filling the holes poked in her dreams with wine.

Nevertheless, her spirit is unbroken.  She continues to work hard, wandering from place to place, doing whatever she can while looking for an opportunity to seize fame.

[b]Personality:[/b] If nothing else, Rionach boasts a larger-than-life personality.  Outgoing and talkative, she's adept at making conversation and infusing a little energy into any interaction.  This does not overflow into nosiness or blithe chattiness, however.  In fact, Rionach is both conscientious and empathetic in addition to being emphatic and dramatic.  She is not without either humor or tact.  More often than not, she seems to behave as though someone's following her recording her every action for making into a play or story, and it is Rionach's duty to make it as interesting and entertaining as possible.  In a sense she acts somewhat like a classic hero, but she is hardly so faultless.  Rionach is greedy and, even when good-naturedly doing kind things, primarily self-serving.  Her ambition -to win fame for herself and her remote home town- is evident in most of her actions, and sometimes she treads a little too close to the line that divides goal-oriented and desperate for success.  Furthermore, while her gregariousness is genuine, deep inside she struggles mightily with self-esteem and identity, sometimes convinced she doesn't have what it takes or that she's betraying her principles or losing who she is in a mad dash for fame.  Still, the average person would seldom guess all that behind her cheery smile and charismatic demeanor, and she is a primarily moralistic individual who would never stoop to nefarious means to achieve her goals...probably

[hider=bonus]I support the one true pairing, the only lifelong bond that will never be shattered: that special something which exists between Alphonse and the bench[/hider][/hider]