[hider=Penelope McGareth][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/wDdwEm6.png[/img]
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[color=Cornsilk]Name[/color]
[indent]Penelope McGareth[/indent]

[color=Cornsilk]Nickames[/color]
[indent]Penny[/indent]

[color=Cornsilk]Age[/color]
[indent]16[/indent]

[color=Cornsilk]Gender[/color]
[indent]Female[/indent]

[color=Cornsilk]How did they get onto the Officer Programme?[/color]
[indent]Penelope was promoted from the standard soldier classes at the academy.[/indent]

[color=Cornsilk]Prefered Weapon[/color]
[indent]Sword and Buckler[/indent]

[color=Cornsilk]Appearance Details[/color]
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[list][*][b]Hair:[/b] Blonde | Wavy | Worn either in a ponytail or loose
[*][b]Eyes:[/b] Blue
[*][b]Height:[/b] 5’5
[*][b]Body Type:[/b] Slim (Ectomorphic).
[*][b]Clothing Style:[/b] Light Dresses and Casual Clothes | Penelope can often be found wearing light dresses (such as that in the picture above) or casual clothes, including simple shirts, jeans, cargo pants, and other comfortable clothes
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[color=Cornsilk]Personality Traits[/color]
[indent]Though generally a nice individual to have to deal with, Penelope does have a bit of a rough side to her sometimes gained from interacting with her brothers so much as the only daughter of her family. While she often [i]won’t[/i], she isn’t afraid of telling someone that they’ve screwed up if it really has turned out to be the case and she’s mad enough. She can control her temper and she can take a few negative hits or insults from others, but if you’re going off on her than you can expect that she’ll return the favour. That being said, Penny tries to make sure that she doesn’t damage her relationship with those that don’t turn out to be negative people - not just her friends, but she feels that if anyone is a nice person, then they should be treated as such.[/indent]

[color=Cornsilk]Biography[/color]
[indent]Proper education isn’t received by those who can pay for it, it’s earned by those who push themselves to learn. The McGareth family pushed their three sons and one daughter to learn and educate themselves, and where a proper teacher was not present instead incentives pushed the children to learn for themselves. While the family could not properly afford an education free resources such as a library and the world itself was present for the children to explore - the world being limited to the city of Meisa’s and its outskirts, and as long as they were back in time for dinner. Where one child may struggle there were three more to help ferry them along, and work for the children was forgone while the children were educated. It was all in hope that the children would educate themselves to get at least [i]somewhat[/i] decent jobs and feed that money back to the parents.

It didn’t really work as well as intended. Instead of building up a sense that they should educate themselves and study, the children didn’t feel a sense of duty to do that. While they did educate themselves most days, it was very easy to become distracted and end up playing. As they grew, they only partially educated themselves - how would mother and father know if they were playing hide and seek instead of learning, particularly if they were doing it at the outskirts, by the walls of Meisa? They figured that if they had to grow up and work for money, it would be easy - after all, mother and father were in the lower-middle class, and [i]they[/i] managed just fine.

Penelope’s mindset was in unison with her brothers. She often did read and learn more than them, but that was because she found that fun to do, and did it [i]for[/i] that fun rather than to learn like their parents told them to. And when she wasn’t reading, Penny was playing with them, messing around with a slingshot or stick-fighting them. It was that last part that most likely led to Penny’s goal of going to Estermere - she would look up to the walls and see the soldiers up there, guarding Meisa against threats unpresent or threats unknown, she didn’t know which because she was never told. She duelled with her brothers, imagining she was a knight and her opponent was some kind of grand foe she had to defeat.

In a few years’ time, Penny was no longer dueling with wimpy sticks snapped off of trees, but instead purpose-made, [i]duelling[/i] sticks, wooden batons. She was no longer dueling with her three brothers, but instead classmates in the 1450 class of Estermere Academy’s soldier programme. [i]duelling[/i] might have been an improper word to use, as [i]besting[/i] her classmates might have been better. What education that she managed to achieve already put her high in the class, but it was her duelling technique that pushed her to the top. She was consistently managing to strike down her classmates, and while losing the [i]occasional[/i] duel was still a force to be reckoned with.

Penelope’s consistent high performance was most likely the reason that she received the option of transferring to the Officer’s programme. It was an opportunity that she could not refuse, feeling that if the academy was willing to offer her the position that definitely meant that she was fit for it.[/indent]

[color=Cornsilk]Misc.[/color]
[indent]Joana Gröblinghoff | Cornsilk (FFF8DC)[/indent][/hider]