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[b]Name:[/b] Primrose Azelhart
[b]Game Origin:[/b] Octopath Traveler
[b]Appearance:[/b] [url=https://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-37/art/ot-primrose-concept1.jpg]Full Character Art![/url]
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[b]Personality:[/b] Primrose is a mature young woman, with a strong sense of justice and even stronger desire for vengeance. After enduring hardship after hardship during her teenage years while searching for her father's murderers, Primrose has gained an inner strength and powerful resolve to see things through to the end. However, theses trials have also given her a tough outer shell. Although her acting ability is top notch and she can easily play the part of a cheerful girl, most people that have met Primrose in passing know that she is mistrusting and distant. She is cold, cunning and aloof; a woman of few words unless she needs something from someone - and even then, she lets her body do the talking. 

However, despite her impressions part of that happy girl growing up in Noblecourt still remains. At heart, Primrose is an extrovert, and when some lucky people worm their way into a friendship with her they'll be able to see through the walls she's put up around herself. If given the opportunity to relax, Primrose will open up and even get a little playful. Kind words from Primrose are reserved only for those closest to her. Even the most beautiful of roses has it's thorns though. Even the greatest of friends have a hard time prying any personal information out of Primrose, and none would be able to dissuade her from her quest for revenge.

[b]Background:[/b] At the age of thirteen, Primrose's world crashed down around her. Under the cover of darkness, three men broke into her home and murdered her father in cold blood. Unbeknownst to any of the men in the room, the young Primrose saw the whole thing from underneath her father's desk. She watched on, silent, shaking and horrified as they killed her father and left as if it was just business. 

Primrose's life as a noble in the prestigious House Azelhart ended that night. The young girl seethed with a need to see her father's murderers brought to justice - even if she had to be judge, jury, and executioner. She set out away from home in search of the killers, with only one piece of information to go on: each man had the mark of a crow tattooed on their skin. One on the left arm, one on the right, and the final man had his on the neck. For two years she traveled, and eventually arrived in the desert town of Sunshade, where a man with a crow mark was known to frequent the dancing establishments. 

She was taken in by a wealthy man named Helgenish, whose business was in pleasure. He owned several taverns and the women that danced in them. In order to follow up the only lead she had, Primrose stayed in town and was transformed into a pleasure woman under the tutelage of Helgenish's top dancers and the man himself. It was demeaning work, but Primrose did not allow herself to feel shame in it. She did it for the sake of her revenge. Her pride drove a wedge between her and the other girls in Helgenish's employ. Only one other dancer, a young woman named Yusufa, attempted to befriend Primrose despite the once-noble woman's cold attitude. It was seven more years of enduring perverted hands of customers, rotten words from other girls, and abuse at the hands of her own employer before it all finally paid off.

There, in the back of the tavern, was a man with a crow mark on his arm. Immediately Primrose attempted to confront him, but Helgenish stopped her. In a cunning ploy, Yusufa offered to distract Helgenish so that Primrose could pursue the man with the crow mark. She chases him down through a catacomb, and once emerging on the other side she finds not her target, but Helgenish and his goons holding Yusufa captive atop a cliff. Helgenish had been in cahoots with the crows the whole time, and he was unwilling to let Primrose, his must lucrative dancer, go. He threw Yusufa from the cliff in order to make an example out of her and scare Primrose into cooperating, but it only fueled the fire in Primrose's heart. She killed Helgenish and his henchman, lifting a map the crow marked man had given him off her employer's corpse. Her chase continued, sending her to the far Northern end of Orsterra.

The next leg of her journey was long, but Primrose had waited ten long years to deliver justice to the men who killed her father. Along the way, fate decided to tie her and seven other people together. Adjacent to the Sunlands where she'd been living for the last half of a decade was the Riverlands, and in a sleepy little town called Clearbrook she met a young man named Alfyn. He was a budding apothecary, and he was on the hunt for a venomous snake, in order to make an anti-venom for a little girl. Although Primrose was distrustful of people in general, but especially men, she wasn't the type to ignore a child in danger. Once they'd obtained the venom and saved the girl, Alfyn asked if he could accompany Primrose on her journey as a way to repay her. Primrose, although a bit begrudgingly, accepted. Their two person traveling party snowballed from there. Therion, Olberic, H'aanit, Cyrus, Ophilia and Tressa joined them sooner or later. Together, the now eight person team could tackle anything. They moved through the country and helped each other achieve their goals, and Primrose's was no exception. 

By the time the group made it to Stillsnow and Primrose confronted and killed the left crow, she'd grown a serious soft spot for every single one of her seven companions... but no matter how soft parts of her heart grew, there was still a dark, cold stone nestled at the center of it. She was still hellbent on avenging her father.

Her quest led her back to her hometown of Noblecourt. The city had deteriorated since her youth, but parts of it remained the same. Primrose was greeted by some familiar faces, although some reunions proved to be less heartwarming that others. Revello, a former city watchman and friend of her late father's, and Simeon, a charming man and aspiring who used to garden for her family, caught Primrose up on the what's happened in Noblecourt since her departure. The Obsidians - the true name of the crows - had taken over after killing her father and destroying her family. Together they tracked the right crow to the Obsidian's hideout, where another face from the past reared his head: the former captain of the guard, a man as close to her father as anyone, was the identity of the right crow. Seeing Albus, her father's friend, and knowing that he was complicit in his murder brought to life a whole new darkness in Primrose. The harsh bite of betrayal fed her rage, and soon afterward the second crow was dead by Primrose's hand.

Then, Simeon slipped into the room. Primrose suspected nothing, because they'd been good friends before her father's murder. He would show Primrose his poems all those years ago and watch her swoon. He'd helped her after she arrived back in town. Simeon was there beside her now, but there was a pain. Hot and pure, and blood, and a knife - the knife was in Simeon's hands, stained red, but that wasn't possible, Simeon wouldn't do that. The head crow was here, and the dark mark of the bird was on Simeon's neck, he'd stabbed her, but he wouldn't... 

Primrose's consciousness slipped just as a brilliant light covered the whole of Orsterra and beyond. When she woke up again, Primrose was in city she'd never seen before and surrounded by all types of beings. She was trapped in the World of Light without her friends, nursing a fresh betrayal, and with her vengeance not yet sated. 

[b][u]Specialty[/u]:[/b] Support[list][*]As a dancer, Primrose focuses on raising the stats of allies. Offensively, she utilizes dark magic at range.[/list]
[b]Level:[/b] 1
[b]Experience:[/b] 0/10 
[b]Powers:[/b][list][*][b]The Art of Dance[/b][list][*]The skill Primrose learned in Sunshade. Rhythmic swaying of her body can grant buffs to the stats of allies, such as their attack, magic power, speed, and defense. [/list][/list]
[b][u]Strengths[/u]:[/b] 
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[*][b]Bewitching Beauty[/b][list][*]Primrose can usually get what she wants out of people by utilizing her charm, grace, and stunning good looks. This is commonly called "using your feminine wiles." She can even get people to follow her and help in battle, but her beauty is less effective on the strong willed. [/list]
[*][b]Enduring Tenacity[/b][list][*]She will stop at nothing to find the men who killed her father and avenge him. In order to reach that goal, Primrose has become an amazing actor, able to put on a front and endure any hardship until her revenge is complete. [/list]
[*][b]Strength in Numbers[/b][list][*]Although she may not always show it, traveling in a group and making bonds gives Primrose more strength and confidence than she ever had while she was fighting her battles alone. She'll go the extra mile while in a group.[/list]
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[b][u]Weaknesses[/u]:[/b] 
[list][*][b]Single-Minded[/b][list][*]Primrose is so focused on her vengeance that it can sometimes blind her. She is prone to falling for traps or missing critical information when she's chasing down the object of her loathing. The sight of a crow tattoo will make her drop everything else in pursuit.[/list]
[*][b]Suited for Support[/b][list][*]Although she is more than capable of wielding a dagger with deadly skill, Primrose is ill-suited to fighting on the front line. Her frame is thin but curvy for the most alluring dances, and her physical strength is lacking.[/list][/list]
[b]Spirits:[/b]
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[*]n/a
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[b][u]Kindred Spirits[/u]:[/b][list][*][url=https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/feheroes_gamepedia_en/f/f8/Olivia_Blushing_Beauty_Face.webp][b]Olivia[/b][/url] (Fire Emblem) - Another beautiful dancer and dagger user. However, that's where the similarities end. Where Olivia is timid and indecisive, Primrose is determined and self-assured. 
[*][url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/eternaldarkness/images/f/ff/Alexandra-Roivas.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20090709050636][b]Alex Roivas[/b][/url] (Eternal Darkness) - A young woman seeking the truth who becomes embroiled in a conflict beyond her imagining, much the same as Primrose herself. Alex also wields dark magic, although her source is the sinister Tome of Eternal Darkness. 
[*][url=https://res.cloudinary.com/cook-becker/image/fetch/q_auto:best,f_auto,w_1920,e_sharpen/https://candb.com/site/candb/images/artwork/Chun-Li-Streetfighter-Akiman_Capcom.jpg][b]Chun-Li[/b][/url] (Street Fighter) - Beautiful, gustsy women seeking revenge for their fathers' murders. What's more to say? 
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[b]Inventory:[/b][list][*]The dagger of House Azelhart, emblazoned with the inscription "Faith shall be your shield." 
[*]Yusufa's handkerchief, another memento of someone Primrose watched die. 
[*]An ornate fan, a prop used in her performances. 
[*]A Thunder Soulstone, a gem imbued with lightning magic that deals damage in a wide area. 
[*]600 leaves (currency of Orsterra)
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