[color=lightgray][table][row][/row][row][cell][right][h3][color=bc4b32][i][b]Corisande Olympia Somerset[/b][/i][/color][/h3][sup]"I am in her employ, I'm not allowed to have feelings.”[sup] - Corisande's thoughts when asked about Lady Daventry[/sup][/sup][/right] [b][color=bc4b32]⚘ Looking Inside[/color][/b] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ There is a high level of skepticism and doubt that she must deal with in situations and more importantly with people. Corisande wants to trust but finds it hard to do so, tending to think the worst about a situation. With people it is worse, as her lack of trust even after an extended period of time can bring issues to the surface. Closed off, Corisande can become emotionally distant when confronted or even aggressive if the circumstance causes her to feel threatened. Once she is sure of something, no matter how wrong it may be, it is hard for her to let it go: especially informationly. This ill-informed nature leads her to act foolishly or even rashly, only added to future skepticism. As negative as her mental capacity can be Corisande is very practical and responsible about things, understanding personal views aside she is lacking in many ways and must deal with the situation in front of her instead of focusing on her inner thoughts. She places a lot of thought into her future and how she will get by day to day so her opinions matter little when it comes to the larger picture: which is survival. Frugality is required as well as keeping a level head for these things. She is careful and wary, a woman who keeps her mouth shut. When it comes to situations or people she might draw the wrong conclusions but that doesn't mean she isn't noticing things. Corisande is very observant to things that are going on around her in the world. [color=bc4b32][b]⚘ A Brief History[/b][/color] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [hider=Before Entering RP] [color=bc4b32][b]Childhood:[/b][/color] Corisande was born to Richard and Jane Clemins during the winter of 1794 in a small village known as Monkswood in the northern English Countryside. Richard was a farmer and Jane was a seamstress. Corisande had a good childhood, learning how to sew from her mother, that was until she was sixteen years old. Corisande, as well as many in their village (including her parents), all came down with influenza that winter. It was a hard several months. Many recovered, including Corisande. Her parents did not and died within three days of each other. [color=bc4b32][b]Adulting:[/b][/color] Being of marriageable age, the local minister arranged for Corisande to marry Brighton Somerset, the local barrister three decades her senior. They were married for eight years before the man passed away, a nice way of putting it. He was run over one morning by a wagon as he was passed out in a drunken stupor on the side of the road and the driver did not see him. Having no children, and no property, and their house rented from the local Minister, Corisande did what she could to stay afloat for a time. [color=bc4b32][b]Elmswood Manor:[/b][/color] Word of Corisande's sewing skills reached Lady Daventry and Corisande accepted a job as her personal seamstress. The pay was not much but it provided her with a roof over her head, food in her stomach, an exit from the home she had been forced to live in, and some sort of stability. Since moving into to Elmswood, Corisande has to play it safe as the Lady Daventry is volatile against any who do not live up to her standards. She spends many late hours sewing, trying to keep up the maddening pace, but Corisande keeps loosing time. Hours and hours, and she cannot figure out why. [/hider] [hider=A Stitch In Time RP] [color=bc4b32][b]Elmswood:[/b][/color] [/hider] [color=bc4b32][b]⚘ Relations[/b][/color] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [hider=Major][right][sub][h3][b][color=bc4b32]Brighton Somerset[/color][/b][/h3][/sub] [sup]"I will burn for feeling relief." [sup]- Corisande on his death[/sup][/sup][/right] Corisande was only sixteen years old and just healing from influenza when she was married to Brighton Somerset. It was not a marriage that she wanted but as she had just lost her parents and so many in their village had died as well there was not a lot of options for a young girl wishing to retain what little reputation she had at that tender age. Brighton was the local barrister and could provide a roof and food. It was the best that she could hope for. They were marriage for eight years and had no children during this time. Corisande was not upset when he died after being run over by a wagon but she felt bad that she didn't feel bad. [/hider] [hider=Minor] [right][sub][h3][b][color=bc4b32]Lady Daventry[/color][/b][/h3][/sub] [sup]"Your skills aren't near what I am paying for, do it again!" [sup]- To Corisande after at least half the dresses[/sup][/sup][/right] Lady Daventry hired Corisande not long after her husband died. She wanted a personal seamstress so that she did not leave her beloved Elmswood Manor. Corisande moved and began work. She has worked for the woman the last couple of years and is very on edge because of it. Lady Daventry pushes for unobtainable standards and time restraints on dresses. Corisande does everything she can, keeps her mouth shut, and her head down. So far she has managed to retain her job. [/hider] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [/cell][cell][center][img]https://i.ibb.co/6FJsSn0/Corisande-Somerset.jpg[/img] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Female [color=bc4b32][b]↕[/b][/color] 26 [color=bc4b32][b]↕[/b][/color] British ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5'4" [color=bc4b32][b]↕[/b][/color] 108lbs [color=bc4b32][b]↕[/b][/color] Willowy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Cerulean [color=bc4b32][b]↕[/b][/color] Walnut [color=bc4b32][b]↕[/b][/color] Peach ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=bc4b32][b]Psychology[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [b][color=39b54a]Positive Traits:[/color][/b][list][*] Sensible [*] Prudent [*] Observant[/list][color=c0392b][b]Negative Traits:[/b][/color][list][*] Doubting [*] Misguided [*] Impulsive[/list][color=2F4F4F][b]Fear:[/b][/color][list][*] Drowning[/list] [/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=bc4b32][b]Abilities[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=bc4b32]Strength:[/color] 15 [*] [color=bc4b32]Dexterity:[/color] 34 [*] [color=bc4b32]Fitness:[/color] 22 [*] [color=bc4b32]Intellect:[/color] 24 [*] [color=bc4b32]Will Power:[/color] 18 [*] [color=bc4b32]Perception:[/color] 30 [*] [color=bc4b32]Attractiveness:[/color] 26 [*] [color=bc4b32]Luck:[/color] 30 [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=bc4b32][b]Languages[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=bc4b32]English (Native):[/color] 30 [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=bc4b32][b]Skills[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=bc4b32]Breakaway:[/color] 34 [*] [color=bc4b32]Etiquette (Regency):[/color] 30 [*] [color=bc4b32]Farming:[/color] 30 [*] [color=bc4b32]Alertness:[/color] 50 [*] [color=bc4b32]Ambidexterity:[/color] 40 [*] [color=bc4b32]Art (Drawing):[/color] 40 [*] [color=bc4b32]Art (Painting):[/color] 34 [*] [color=bc4b32]Cook:[/color] 30 [*] [color=bc4b32]Dance (Ballroom):[/color] 34 [*] [color=bc4b32]Fashion Sense:[/color] 50 [*] [color=bc4b32]Memory Training:[/color] 30 [*] [color=bc4b32]Trade (Seamstress):[/color] 70 [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=bc4b32][b]Family[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] Richard Clemins[list][*] Father[*] Deceased[/list] [*] Jane Clemins[list][*] Mother[*] Deceased[*] Maiden Name: Ballard[/list] [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=bc4b32][b]Character Trivia[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=bc4b32]Sexuality:[/color] Demisexual [*] [color=bc4b32]Likes:[/color][list][*] Painting Landscapes[*] Designing Dresses[*] Gardening[*] Reading[*] Birds Singing[*] Fires[/list] [*] [color=bc4b32]Dislikes:[/color][list][*] Creeks[*] Ocean[*] Sea[*] Rivers[*] Wells[*] Alcohol[*] Growling[*] Shadows[/list] [*] [color=bc4b32]Scars:[/color] Length of Right Bicep [*] [color=bc4b32]Religion:[/color] Church of England [*] [color=bc4b32]Birthday:[/color] January 12th [*] [color=bc4b32]Nickname:[/color] Cori [*] [color=bc4b32]Items Of Note:[/color] [list][*] Design Journal[*] Paintset[/list] [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][/cell][/row][/table][/color]