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Mina Tyrell
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[color=forestgreen]Age:[/color][color=forestgreen] Four and Ten Years Old (Born 27 AG)[/color]

[color=forestgreen]Appearance: 
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[i]"Young Lady Mina can climb like a squirrel, fight like a wildcat, swim like a fish and track like a hound." - Ser Arlo Flowers, Man-at-Arms of Highgarden 

"True, the only thing she can't do is act like is a proper lady." - Reply, Lady Falia Oldfowers, etiquette teacher and governess.[/i]

[color=darkgray]The third child of house Tyrell has been both a blessing and a vexation for her parents. From her earliest childhood Lady Mina has rebelled against almost all of the expectations and pursuits of a young noble lady in favor of more lordly activities. While other young maidens learned needlework and gossiped, the youngest Lady Tyrell would run from her lessons to join her Lord Father on the hunt, climb trees or tend to the horses. Her etiquette teacher all too often abandoned her lessons in a huff after Mina responded to attempts at polite conversation by repeating the off-color jokes of her older brother and her family's Men-At-Arms. With dancing her instructors found passable success and were elated, that was until it came out that she had only put in the effort after an offhand comment from her father compared the steps of a dance to footwork with a blade.

Encouragement from her eldest sister and indulgence from her father have turned her into a vivacious, quick-witted and strong willed girl, frequently clashing with her mother over her role and responsibilities as a young noble lady. She's taken up regular archery and dagger-fighting training since the age of ten, a compromise after her father's multiple refusals to train her as a page resulted in a months long sulk.


With her two younger brothers, Mina is free to be herself without judgement and loves them both all the more for it. Garret is probably the person she's closest to, a constant playmate who she gets into trouble with and helps in equal measure. At eleven and six respectively she shot an apple off of Garrett's head to the horror of onlooking servants. When she was twelve and Garret seven, she sneaked him out of the house on a 'private hunt' to avoid their lessons, then protected him from an angry boar they found by distracting it and climbing up a tree while he went to fetch help. Most recently when local lordlings were bullying him because they thought their fathers deserved to be Lord Paramount of Highgarden, she coached him on how to fight back then secretly helped send them on their way by dropping a beehive on their heads with a well-placed throwing knife.

More importantly now that he's old enough to start in on the knightly training Mina was denied, Mina's become determined that with her help he'll one day be the greatest knight in Westeros! To that end she's been watching his training and trying to pick up as much as she can to advise him, along with challenging him to improve his dagger fighting and equestrian skills.

She spoils little Lorent constantly, sneaking him sweets and cheese when she raids the kitchens, reading to him from books of stories, comforting him at night if their Lady Mother can't be reached and overall being the picture of a loving elder sister as best she can manage. That's not to say she doesn't still have her rough edges. She's been forbidden from riding double with him on her horse on more than one occasion when she thought leading him slowly on his little pony was too dull and taught him to repeat jokes and words she really ought not to have known herself to the horror of their parents. 

Her relationship to her older siblings is a little more complicated, however.

Bertrand has always been relatively nice to her and tolerated her eccentric behavior, even finding it amusing at times. It was Bertrand who gave her the half-mocking, half-affectionate nickname of 'Thistle of Highgarden' after Mina pantsed a boorish associate of Bertrand's at a party and gave the first boy to approach her at King's Landing a particularly humiliating verbal lashing when he laughed at her challenge to 'prove his worth against her in a contest of skill' in the same week. Bertrand used to take her hawking and sailing, sneak her sweets and sips of strong wine and teach her things to scandalize their parents. More recently, she's started to become aware of Bertrand's darker side and fouler moods, especially after Vittoria's mysterious injuries and her parents cover-up. Still, she loves her brother and has been doing her best to shield Garrett and Lorent from any knowledge of his faults.

Vittoria is the sibling she knows the least, but also the one she loves the most. In her youngest years, she followed her sister everywhere like a little shadow, doing her best to copy what she did and actually reigning in her most tomboyish behaviors in her desire to be more like Vittoria, her rebellious trouble-making only worsening after the older girl left for Oldtown. 

For Mina, her eldest sister's presence always means life is going to get more interesting. It was Vittoria who showed her King's Landing, inspired her with stories of her tactical victories and gave her the Dornish recurve bow she so treasures. During their stay at the Arbor, Mina was aboard the ship with Vittoria and their cousins when it came under attack by pirates, though she didn't fight apart from running arrows to the defenders and once backstabbing a man who boarded during the clash. To her frustration she was left out of the subsequent pirate hunt, but still talked about 'her first real battle' fervently for days. Best of all, when Vittoria returned from her trip to the Free Cities, she brought with her a Braavosi Water Dancing instructor for Mina. While she couldn't fight like a knight, she could finally learn to use a sword. Their parents were less than pleased about this at first, until Vittoria convinced them that given how much trouble Mina gets into regardless, she had best learn to defend herself.

Now traveling with Vittoria as part of her retinue and out from under her parents eyes, Mina feels more free than she ever has before. In spite of being there to attend some stuffy conference of Maesters and Septons, she's in high spirits and excited for the adventures to come. [/color]
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