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[color=gold][h1][b]Lydianna Schaffen[/b][/h1][/color][/center]

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[*][color=gold][u]Name[/u][/color]: Lydianna Schaffen

[*][color=gold][u]Age[/u][/color]:: 16

[*][color=gold][u]Appearance[/u][/color]: [url=https://i.imgur.com/CHvaOy9.jpg]https://i.imgur.com/CHvaOy9.jpg[/url]

[*][color=gold][u]Gender[/u][/color]: Female

[*][color=gold][u]Personality[/u][/color]: The type of person who earnestly seeks to do her best and makes sure of it no matter what, though when she gets especially passionate about a task there is always the chance of overworking herself. Still, in the end one can find her rather reliable in general and prompt when it comes to getting something done. Likewise, cooking has always been a passion for her that even now includes and involves the brewing and preparation of various teas that she’s learned about in the game and likewise since being ‘reborn’ in the game's world. Yet even with these initial traits that would seem perfect for a servant, there's more to this than just a seemingly happy-to-serve servant-type of person. She is a determined girl who, for the first time in a long time, feels like she is in control over her life to some extent. So what if it comes with serving the nobility? So what if she gained fame for her culinary skills and expertise that had been ever more honed and sharpened over a new 16 years of life? Her position is a particular one that allows her access to what she desires at least, especially in working for the Haldblums (not that she had any choice in that matter), whether it be cooking ingredient or pay or even being able to make people both wealthy and common alike smile with her dishes. Then again, she has also come to embrace the selfish wish to learn magic as well on a personal note. She’s always found the magical fascinating, and to be in a world where that is real, it’s a dream she seeks to make come true as well with all her heart. She wishes to learn all there is to learn from it, just as much as she adores and wishes to continue with cooking, and to see her pursuits blossom into fruitfulness in this new world in their entirety. This is why serving her mistress, the strangely ruthless-seeming and selfish Serra, does have more than one potential benefit to get out of things by serving her at the Academy. 

Yet at the same time her knowledge of the game is something that has left her…suspicious of her mistress' behavior to a certain extent. Was she the only one to arrive in the world of the game? Because Serrica in the game was a kind and graceful girl, but the one she’d served all her life was nothing short of the opposite in some ways. In the end it did not matter for the most part, however, and she's kept to her role with a genuine glee. The future had potential for her as well, to be sure, whether that was further advantages from her position currently or even rising up the ranks of society one day.


[*][color=gold][u]Abilities/Skills[/u][/color]:

As someone raised to become a maid and kept around her mistress from a young age, she’s acquired the skills that would make sense for one in the employ of a big noble family such as the Haldblum. Manners, etiquette, presentation, how to mend clothes, how to manage things on short notice, running errands for her mistress Serrica and her mistress' parents, housekeeping, gardening, and so forth in this vein of things. Aka, the whole wide range of domestic skills needed if not outright required for a high-class maid such as herself. 

Meanwhile her old life’s passion, cooking, was something she took over into the new one with a continued passion that has brewed quite the results for her own personal reputation. Included in this is her dedicated how to prepare tea, and adding it to her repertoire of skills, which she's come to enjoy as just another part of her passion. However, from the start she was dubbed by her new-world mother and maid peers and even nobles she served as a ‘born genius’ at cuisine and cooking. Learning the practices and such of the new world, and taking everything she had memorized to an instinct before as well as game knowledge, she knew cooking would be a shoe-in area she could make work for herself. Not that this is all she knows of course, but it is her most standout skill thus far. 

Further the nature of being a ‘fly on the wall’, a snooping sneaky servant, and so forth has also come to be part of her skillset inevitably. Listening in on someone or following them by her mistress’ command, sneaking in and out contraband, stealing, moving undetected, getting into things she shouldn’t, and the like are among the things she’s also become rather experienced and well-versed in due to the nature of her role and job. Being a maid doesn't mean living a boring life, after all, and even she has had to admit to herself that this sort of thing is a bit of a bad guilty pleasure she enjoys to some extent. 


[*][color=gold][u]History[/u][/color]:

A child with a passion for cooking, who enjoyed the flavors and learning about the ingredients and so forth from a young age. She was always curious and seeking to learn, and on top of enjoying fantasy books filled with magic and wonder. Yet her parents would push her, once a talent seemed to bud up in her, to take this passion and make it professional. Whilst her life started off humble, she was pushed and advertised and such until she became a young TV cooking star in the end. She often missed the more humble life where she could just cook as she pleased, and where she could help people with her cooking, but now she was having to invent recipes for cookbooks or allow others to put them in there as if she’d made them herself, follow show formats set by those above her, and talk to co-starring faces from other shows and the like that came onto her own show or invited her onto theirs. Etc.

All of this to her was rather taxing and draining, the only initial comfort she had at first being the far more advanced and fancy and top-tier cooking classes she got to take. Famous chefs and avant-garde cooks and 5-star restaurant recipes would find their way deep into her cooking and mind, on top of things such as historical recipes and such she could now pursue with her newfound status and wealth as a mere child. Indeed her talents and skills would be hones further, but it still wouldn't be enough to get her through on some days. Ultimately it would be her discovery of otome games and other kinds of video games that gave her another outlet during this time as well, within which she’d find a small passion in ~Cross Heart Academy~ and the struggles of the heroine who was surrounded by other nobility and their antics. She would go through the routes, side characters, and all she could to get an idea of things and grasp the game’s world. It took her out of things as they were around her, and let her be someone else somewhere else who could do things she could only dream of. It let her in a sense also be more herself as she sought to master the cooking aspects in the game, but also indulge things she'd fantasized about doing like learning how to use cool magic spells and finding true love out there. 

Then came the day when her parents filed for divorce, after which came her being placed in the care of a middleman the day after as they bickered and fought in the courts to each get custody of her and her...everything. It was hard to sleep for days after that first day in court having to testify, during the nights of which she binged on playing ~Cross Heart Academy~ in particular to try to keep her mind off of things. Getting up to cook her own food during one of these following days, as per her usual, she would exhaustedly spill a small bit of oil after trying to pour some in a pan to cook her breakfast. Turning to grab a paper towel, her foot hit the spreading oil spill. She fell. CRACK. Her head hit the counter edge, and landed on the floor unconscious with a bad head wound. She would ultimately die of bleeding out on the floor before her 'neutral caretaker' that was living with her could get EMS on the scene. 

…She then woke up as someone different in a world far different from her own. Now once again she found she could find joy in her life, had a loving parent to fill her life with, and room to fill that empty void and make a name for herself by doing what she loved. Sure it came with catering to the tastes of nobility, and working as a maid, but her former life had lent her some experience to help her deal with that at least. Not to mention being raised to fulfill her future role for nobility to boot. Yet now even cooking for her fellow peers was a joy in terms of the much simpler food they had to work with. It was far better in some ways than her old life, and now she knew things about the world that no one else did! Well…in theory. Potentially. She had more time to do what she loved, and the chance to learn magic in that at least was a treasure to her indeed.

However, her ultimate fate was yet to come....and what it would hold in this case was going to be the biggest mystery of all to her.

[*][color=gold][u]Original Role and Background[/u][/color]:

Lydianna was originally a side character playing the part of the somber and dutiful maid of the Haldblum Family, being assigned in time specifically to the noble daughter of the family. Her mother and herself were always treated oddly well by their employers, which gained them some ire from a few of the other maids of the family's estate, but due to her struggles in performing some aspects of her job the beautiful girl found refuge in serving Serrica due to the other's kindness toward her. Only a year behind her charge, she would eventually assist in her mistress’ efforts to help the Heroine (in the applicable routes that is) when her mistress went to Starveil Academy. Here she would also assist her mistress in her actions, whether Serrica became a friend of the Heroine or not. 

Yet it wasn’t all so simple. In reality, Lydianna was born the secret daughter of Lord Haldblum's brother who had married Lydianna's mother (a girl from a lower but still noble family) some time back before getting her pregnant and then dying. Yet due to the danger said brother was in at the time, which caused his death, the mother and child were taken in as mere commoners and became maids to hide the truth until things were safe for them to come out of hiding. Lydianna was never told the truth, but her mother would remain in-the-know the whole time. Eventually the Heroine could uncover the truth about Lydianna's parentage during one of the game's side quests at the Academy by snooping about during a side quest, finding the truth spelled out by taking and reading a misplaced unopened letter for Serrica sent to her by Lord Haldblum.

[*][color=gold][u]Other[/u][/color]:

-Height: 5'6"

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