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Name Boudicca (Bo-dee-sah) AKA Bo
Age 25
Gender Female
NOTE: Unless otherwise worked out with RP partner, Bo is pretending to be her brother's male bodyguard of no relation (a la Shakespearean cross-dressing heroine)
Species Human (?)
Ethnicity Serenian
Height 5'6"
Orientation Bisexual
Occupation Bodyguard
Residence Jadenshine

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Physical Description
Bo has straight, deep red hair kept in a short bob that frames her face. Her skin is very pale, dotted with freckles that her brother and few close friends jokingly refer to as "skin constellations".

Naturally, her build is fairly average, not too tall or short, not really wide or thin, just...average. However, years of combat training have given her well developed muscle and a lean cast to her frame. For the most part, Bo wears practical "men's gear" to help her pass as a boy and facilitate easier movements in combat.

Personality
Bo is an incredibly single-minded individual, her sole aim in life being to protect her younger brother Coryn. She can be a little too serious, finding it difficult to make or take a joke and rarely smiling. However, she does loosen up a little in her brother's presence- when she's off duty; she doesn't exactly become the life of the party, but she does...soften a little.

Magic/Abilities
Bo is a creature of physicality- she prefers to use weapons she can actually hold in her hands. Magic honestly freaks her out a bit, and she's always been quietly grateful that she doesn't have the knack for it.

Her skill mainly lays with the longsword, though she's also a pretty good archer, her preference being a short bow. The sword she always bears at her hip is called Reaver, an odd name for such an elegant weapon: the blade is made of sylverite, a metal often used by Fae- according to legend- in place of iron, and the hilt is silver, inlaid with a white gold filigree design that curves down to an opal embedded in the pommel.

Relationships
Orrin and Camilla Sylvaren, father and stepmother: deceased

Coryn Sylvaren, brother: young lord of the Sylvaren estate, first cousin once removed of the Silinrul main family.

Byron Serasri, best friend: stablehand and groom of the the Sylvaren estate

History
The result of a rather torrid affair Orrin had before his marriage, Bo was kept secreted away from the world, raised as a servant in the Sylvaren household. She has no knowledge of her birth mother, who apparently left her with Orrin when she was mere hours old with only the words "She belongs with you".

So Bo was given to a maid in the manor who had recently had a baby of her own, and served as wet nurse. The woman, Natalia, was kind enough, but always a little sistant. Her son, however, adored Bo, and the two were very close as children. Byron was her first friend, and they spent practically all their time together from the first few weeks of their life onward.

When Bo was three years old, Orrin took a wife. Camilla was a lovely woman, and Orrin was madly in love with her. So in love, that he wanted to keep no secrets from his new bride; he told her the truth of Natalia's "twins", and while Camilla seemed to take the information in stride, she always treated Bo rather coldly (understandably, perhaps). Young enough to not quite understand, Bo nonetheless spent as much time around her father and stepmother as she could feasibly manage. Orrin was a very attentive father, all things considered, even after the birth of his heir when Bo was six.

Coryn was beloved by all the household, especially his older sister. She absolutely adored the boy, from the first moment she saw him. Despite dirty looks and cold shoulders from Camilla, she was determined to be around the baby as much as she could. Byron even started to become jealous of all the attention she lavished on him, and it put a bit of a strain on their young friendship.

When she was eight years old, things changed. Orrin and Camilla were out for a ride and Coryn's nanny had put the child down for a nap. Bo heard her brother fussing snuck into the nursery to check on him—and came upon a snake that had slithered in through the open window. A great deal of outdoor play helped her immediately recognize the breed as poisonous, and without thinking she sprang forward. With strength and agility almost unnatural for a child her age, Bo flung the snake away from the baby and snatched him from the cradle in process. Clutching her now wailing brother, she killed the snake by stamping down on it and cracking its skeleton in half--but not before it bit her.

Returning from the ride, Orrin and Camilla heard the commotion and rushed to the nursery. At first, all Camilla saw was the overturned cradled and a disheveled Bo clutching the baby to her chest. Shrieking, she snatched Coryn from the girl's arms, and Bo collapsed.

Luckily, Bo was given the care she needed quickly and made a full recovery. She woke to her stepmother's face. Before she could so much as blink, Camilla had snatched her up in a strong hug and was tearfully thanking her for saving her son. Camilla was a second mother to Bo after that- even more so than Natalia. She even asked the girl to call her "mother" when other people weren't around.

It was around then that Bo knew what she would aim to be: Coryn's guard, living to defend him always. Due to the secretive nature of her father about her origins, only a few members of the household staff even knew she existed, and Natalia was the only one who knew she was Orrin's child. It was fairly easy for her to under guard training--as a boy, just to be safe that no one would connect rumors of Orrin's illegitimate daughter with her.

Life was fairly mundane for a while. But then, when Bo was eighteen and Coryn twelve, tragedy struck. A fire somehow started in the east wing of the manor, near the lord and lady's bed chamber. By the time the flames had been doused, Orrin and Camilla had been lost.

Coryn inherited his father's title at the age of twelve, and Bo served as his personal guard.

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