[hider=Lady Melodia Lapseus][center][h2][color=crimson]Melodia Lapseus[/color][/h2][hr][img]https://i.imgur.com/zomOP9e.png[/img][hr]
[hider=Click Me][youtube] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SFBOasS8CGY[/youtube][/hider][/center][indent][i][h3][color=crimson]ℙersonal 𝕀nformation[/color][/h3][/i][/indent]
[color=d8cfbe]House: [/color] [i]Lady of House Lapseus[/i]
[color=d8cfbe]Age: [/color] [i]Fifty-Two[/i]
[color=d8cfbe]Race: [/color] [i]Human[/i]
[color=d8cfbe]Gender: [/color] [i]Lady[/i]
[color=d8cfbe]Appearance: [/color] [i]4'7 in height // 95 lbs // White Hair // Crimson Eyes[/i]

[hr][indent][i][h3][color=crimson]𝕊o 𝕆n & 𝕊o 𝔽orth[/color][/h3][/i][/indent][color=d8cfbe]Reputation: [/color] [sup]Melodia's reputation is a difficult one to describe. Her history is full of discrepancies, she appears to be a teenager despite a number of decades on her seat within House Lapseus. She is known to be a savant of Medical Science and helms the development in the north for such endeavors. Not only this, but she is rarely seen by the public unless she is unveiling some new development she had made with her research, mainly those discovered through unknown means of funding and with little to no transparency in those studies. There are rumors that she and her sister are illegitimate children with foreign blood, though these have yet to be proven - there are a mixture of positive and negative rumors that circulate through the social circles of commoners that work within her region. Most of the negative ones root back to the earlier eras of Lapseus control, though the disappearances of people and Lapseus Sisters' appearances do tend to unsettle those who live within the cities under their control. There are also positive chatters as well as she has discovered numerous groundbreaking medical methods and developed countless pharmaceutical products in these curious endeavors.[/sup]

[color=d8cfbe]Alignment: [/color] [i]"I serve only House Lapseus."[/i]

[color=d8cfbe]Skills: [/color]
[indent][u]Wise Beyond Her Years[/u] - [sup]Melodia was quite gifted in her youth. Her and her sister were blessed enough to have expensive tutors that taught them within their estate. These tutors were not only gifted themselves, but were given permission to teach the young girls everything they wished with accelerated lessons and six to seven day plans that ceased only during the winter every year. Knowledge was power in the north, and although Melodia's parents were selfish, greedy, slimy, cutthroats who screwed the lower class without end. They did care deeply for their daughters and wished for them to be ahead in life for the cruel world that awaited them in their adulthood. And as evil as they may have been, Melodia thanks them even in current years for this. Nonetheless, decades have gone by and while Melodia's body is brittle and small - her knowledge grows and flourishes every moment of every day. There is a say "[i]The wisest warrior sharpens their blade every day.[/i]" and she embodies this saying by constantly pushing the boundaries of her studies, intellectually, and morally.[/sup][/indent]
[indent][u]The Unassuming Predator[/u] - [sup]Melodia's [i]condition[/i] allows the the cold and cruel noblewoman to retain the appearance of youth. She uses this to her advantage. Those who don't have knowledge of the truth behind Melodia's facade would easily fall for the noblewoman's facade - but those that do know of her truth don't see a young girl, but a ruthless opponent. When not playing the young unassuming girl card Melodia's quite cruel to those she does not respect, and sometimes even to those she does. Her tactics are generally unorthodox and calculated without the bindings of morality, even some of the southern nobles could take notes of from her cruelty. But she is by no means the most powerful noble, nor does she wish to be, she simply has her own goals and will take every step needed to reach those ends.[/sup][/indent]
[color=d8cfbe]Backstory: [/color]
[hider=The Death & Rebirth of Lapseus] The Lapseus Family were once quite established in the northern cities. With a noble bloodline dating back before the war with the south the House was most famous for the deceased Almonte Lapseus who fought without end to better their position among the other nobility and earn more prosperous lands for the people. But after Almonte’s death the House would fall into decline. The ambition that the famous figurehead left behind only caused his descendants more trouble, insurrections, deceit from former allies, all of which had been caused by the good intentions. This track record only caused the generations that followed to grow more bitter and secluded themselves into their abodes, angry and unfulfilled. 

It wasn’t long until this treatment twisted the once benevolent nobility into those that loathed others and wished only to improve their momentary happiness. Greed, lust, gluttony, all forms of atrocity were performed over the years by these generations of the Lapseus Family. None were innocent, as those who didn’t outright enact the horrendous actions simply watched in depression. This attitude spilled into their ruling over the lands, causing ever increasing debt and disparity for the people - trade grew worse and worse over the years and eventually poverty became the norm. This became even worse during the war, as rations became even more sparse and the nobles chose their own safety over that of their people, shutting themselves and their protectors away in their estates in a selfish act of self preservation. This is what drew the final line  between the house and their people.

Fast forward a few years and welcome a baby [color=crimson]Melodia[/color] into this world, she’s a Lapseus true as all can see with her stark white hair and bright blue eyes. She was born alongside her twin sister [color=tomato]Rhythmia[/color], both girls were on the smaller side though were healthy and promising heirs to the Lapseus seat. Melodia was a bright youth from the start, her outlook on life was positive despite the conditions around the House, she and her sister was tutored rigorously by Amadeus Sytheria a fairly accomplished scholar in the north, the workers and servants within the house were incredibly friendly, all seemed well in Melodia's early childhood. But with age and time soon came realizations. Melodia would soon come to learn about her family's darker side, their greed, their treatment of the people, none of which sat well with the pure spirit that was newly brought into the world and still quite sheltered. 

It was after this realization that she would take steps in the right direction, hoisting herself into the medical field as she found the study both exciting and helpful. Even at a young age Melodia was quite skilled when it came to this profession, and would even sneak out of the estate to treat people of simple ailments - with the supervision of personal bodyguards that she trusted personally of course. These night trips would result in a small but budding trust in communities around the House's estate, embers of a fire that would soon ignite and incinerate her family as a whole. A letter would arrive from the court of law, stating that the entirety of the main family branch of House Lapseus was to appear before them to be tried for so-so many laws being broken and the cruelty to the masses finally being addressed.[/hider]

[hr][indent][i][h3][color=Crimson]𝕄agic[/color][/h3][/i][/indent]
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[hr][indent][i][h3][color=Crimson]𝕋echnology[/color][/h3][/i][/indent][color=d8cfbe]Equipment: [/color]
[sup][b]• Medical Equipment -[/b] Melodia keeps on her person a number of medical tools, syringes, phials, pills, antiseptic, a number of scalpels of different lengths. One would typically be found with a firearm in the north, especially in this day and age but not Melodia - weapons are quite literally never found within her arsenal per say. Instead she keeps things that she might need to tend a wound, or take a sample, things that fall more in line with her professional background than that of self defense or anything of that ilk. She does however have chemicals that could be deemed harmful one her should she need to escape sticky situations.[/sup]

[hr][hider=Lapseus & The People][indent][i][h3][color=Crimson]L a p s e u s[/color][/h3][/i][/indent][hr]
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[color=d8cfbe]Domain: [/color] [i]Research[/i]
[color=d8cfbe]Location: [/color] [i]Northeast[/i]
[color=d8cfbe]Members: [/color]
[url= https://i.imgur.com/qDLultf_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium]• Vati Polynox •[/url] The easiest way to summarize Vati Polynox is that he’s a nobody - no public record, no family history, no trace of citizenship on any census, he’s a ghost and that’s exactly what he was meant to be. Vati is Melodia’s personal bodyguard, caretakers, he’s basically responsible for most of the unpleasant stuff that she would need to deal with if she wasn’t a brittle old crone. But those who would be lucky enough to meet the boy would find that he is completely obedient and enamored with Melodia, and while they bicker from time to time their connection is very real and visible.

[url= https://i.imgur.com/ogjVXgZ_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium]• Theadora Thespia •[/url] Although she wasn’t even born during the culling of House Lapseus, the branch family of Thespia still feels those effects to this day. Formerly a house that prided itself on maintaining the bars and dice houses of the Lapsean cities, the “House of Liars” has within the new generation - reformed into something else entirely. Theadora Thespia was raised in a time where the main family nor her own were doing so well, and when the nobility isn’t doing well - neither are the people. The gambling days were limited, bars were empty, people were starving. Thea was by no means a sheltered youth, often taking to the streets with her mother and seeing these atrocities with her own eyes. And it was with her summit to the head of her branch that she decided to change things. In her teens she took to visit the scientific savants of the main family Melodia, and was taught by her for some time - but she also ventured to House Young which had a lasting relationship with the family. And with the teachings of these two intellectual households she came home with a new focus for the Thespia, developing new and more accessible food sources and utilizing science to create them if they didn’t exist.

[url= https://i.imgur.com/dsyp4GG_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium]• Cian Mortimarx •[/url] A strange relic of the past is the Mortimarx family, still they are rightfully a branch of Lapseus to her dismay. They are the gravekeepers of the region, by choice and by trade, and aren’t even really a noble house by any means other than name - rather they live in the far north of their territory in the boonies. The Mortimarx also have a knack for dressing outlandish and making scenes in public, whether this is for attention or not is to be decided, but they are renown for the wrong reasons among Lapsean people. Cian is the head of this family, he’s around Melodia’s age and the two have more in common than either would like to admit. He is whimsical and uncomfortably eager to please any who are unlucky enough to have this fellow arrive at their door.

[color=d8cfbe]Gohetia: [/color] [i]Gohetia was named after a being that the first lord of house Lapseus saw in a dream. The city itself is massive, bright, and lively, and to visitors or those whom look from the outside in it would look like a bustling little paradise. But that is not the case, the problems that are outside of Lady Melodia’s control still remains no matter how much she sacrifices. There are slums where those whom can not earn wage live in shabby houses and live on the bare minimum, there are still seasonal food shortages that cause distrust and paranoia during times of hardship. But there is something else in Gohetia, and all of the Lapsean territory itself. [b]Hope[/b]. Free medical assistance is there for every wounded and sick at each hospital in the region, Melodia sets countless coin aside to purchase food stores for the people that are also given out for free. She is seen as a savior, and a motherly figure you many in the city and many of nearby towns and settlements. But there is also a strangeness to her, and her methods. [/i][/hider][/hider]