[center][h1]Nea[/h1]
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[h3]Nea Honeyforge ● 16 ● She[/h3][color=gray][sup]______________________________________[/sup][/color][/center][h3][sup][i]Appearance:[/i][/sup][/h3][indent]Nea stands at 4'11 with the stocky, rounded build of someone who still hasn't fully grown out of childhood yet. Though her hands are callused from long hours in the kitchen and her attire is such that no one could mistake her for anything more than a servant, Nea's sleek hair and pale complexion are her self-declared charm points and she's stupidly confident that she'll grow up to be a jaw-dropping beauty come two or three more years.[/indent]
[h3][sup][i]Reputation:[/i][/sup][/h3][indent]Nea's position as apprentice maid in the summer estate of Lord Mildred Karstein down in the Croplands precludes basically any personal reputation she may have. As with any maid in the service of an aristocrat, she can be expected to be quiet, hard-working, and punctual, though some leniency should be given owing to her age and nature as an apprentice.[/indent]
[h3][sup][i]Reason for Traveling:[/i][/sup][/h3][indent]A letter from her village in the Highlands bade her to come back, with no further clarifications or instructions. After stressing about it for a couple days, Nea asked for leave from the butler, and as Lord Karstein was unlikely to be expected to return to the estate in the next half year, he allowed it, sending the girl off with some extra wages to help with travel expenses. It's unlikely to be enough for the whole trip though.[/indent]
[h3][sup][i]Skills:[/i][/sup][/h3][indent]Having worked at the estate of an affluent lord for the last two years, Nea has become proficient in performing a variety of menial tasks and has trained herself to wake up at the crack of dawn, regardless of when she had slept the night before. It's unlikely that she would ever encounter something she didn't know how to clean, and Nea is especially skilled at butchering animals and cutting vegetables; it's why she had been primarily working the kitchen for the last four months.

Though an inexperienced traveller in that she doesn't spend her life on the road, Nea possesses the sturdiness of any commoner who lived their formulative years in the Highlands, and, in preparation for roadside dangers, has pounded a dozen or two nails through the business end of her travelling stick. Whether she possesses the will to swing it though with full intent of maiming another human being's face, however, is still up for debate.[/indent]
[h3][sup][i][b]Meta[/b]:[/i][/sup][/h3][indent]Nea exists so I can practice writing volatile emotions. She's not a trained badass and she's not smart and she's not going to keep her cool in situations that her job hasn't prepared for her, so hopefully there will be plenty of situations where she wonders what the hell's going on. This, obviously, may exclude her from participating in combat scenes, especially near the start of the RP. I'm not sure where her character arc will go otherwise, but there are two things I'd like to clear up.

Once she reaches her village in the Highlands, Nea will leave the party permanently, no matter whether the situation at the village is tragic (oh no, everyone's dead) or immensely stupid (parents literally just wanted to see her again). As such, I'm open to any plot hijinks, so long as it doesn't take the note of something like "your parents were in another castle, so travel more with us". Partings are also things that I never get to write in RPs.[/indent]