OPHELIA RAINECOURT

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GENERAL
Name: Ophelia Malthace Rainecourt
Age: Twenty Five
Birth Season: Fall
Occupation: Princess
Citizen Status: Royalty

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PHYSICAL
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 140 lbs
Body Description: Ophelia has cartoonish hazel eyes with dark brown hair. All her life it has fallen past her shoulders, but since moving to Arynn Frey, she’s been cutting it shorter, as she thinks it makes her look older. In recent years, she’s been dressing in more elegant, mature dresses, so that she no longer looks like the “little princess” she’s always been. Her gregarious nature and generous smiles have subdued over the years, though when she does smile, she still lights up the room.

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PERSONAL
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Reputation: If you asked any Nevermeran, Ophelia’s greatest attributes are her grace and beauty. She is a natural hostess. Ophelia anticipates one’s every need and can make even her enemies feel welcome and cared for. She is the shining example for every Nevermerean that would see women return to supporting roles, where they belong.

In truth, Ophelia’s greatest strength is her power of observation. Having spent much of her time on the sidelines, she knows how to watch and wait before making her move. She is highly intuitive and highly secretive, storing information away into little compartments should they have future use.

Ophelia has been underestimated all her life, but that hasn’t stopped her from putting her skills to use on her family’s behalf.

Combat Experience: Ophelia began her combat training when she was only 7 years old and was trained by her father, King Julius III, along with a variety of excellent trainers. She continues with her training on a scheduled basis and excels more with a bow and daggers compared to large,r weapons, however she mostly focuses on using her magic combatively versus weapons training.

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MAGIC
Witch. 

Ophelia, as a royal and witch of Nevermere, is a diligent student of her craft. Potions are her strongest skill, followed by curses. She is a much more able witch than she lets on, but so far she is willing to have her skills underestimated.

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HISTORY
Family: Father: Julius Rainecourt III | Mother: Malthace Rainecourt | Brother: Cassian Rainecourt | Half Sister: Kennet Caern | Husband: Akagi Llewellyn  | Children: Girls - Lorelle (4), Boy - Kato (1)

Tale: When Ophelia was born, her destiny had already been decided. She and her brother, Cassian, were the first generation of the new Rainecourt dynasty. Cassian was to be a king, molded in the image of his father, and Ophelia a queen whose marriage would increase the kingdom’s power. To be a lady, a woman befitting a royal marriage, was not enough. Ophelia was to have it all; beauty, grace, wit, intelligence, talent, and anything else that would make her an asset to Julius’s ambitions. Cassian, Ophelia, and Kennet were the kingdom’s future, so the expectations were high and the goalposts ever moving.

While Cassian and Kennet seemed to keep pace, Ophelia struggled. She was quickly eclipsed by her half-sister’s success. From where Ophelia stood, both Cassian and Kennet had advantages that she didn’t. Cassian only had to look up to Julius to see what kind of man he was expected to be. Kennet could look to Brenna as a frame of reference for what a woman of Nevermere was supposed to be. Ophelia wanted what Kennet had: a loving family - however imperfect. She saw the strength that it could bring and thought she could create that for her brother and herself if she only tried hard enough.

Ophelia tried to draw their mother, Malathace, back from the brink. Julius tasked her with keeping up appearances and handling the queen’s business to hide the fact she was nothing but a walking shadow. Ophelia answered all her correspondence and managed the affairs that would ordinarily fall to a royal wife. Ophelia kept her alive, brushed her hair, helped feed her and clothe her, all to hide from the kingdom what Julius had done to the Ellis princess.

Through it all, Ophelia only had moments: a touch on the hand, a word or two rustling like the wind through her mother’s lips. They were traces of affection in what was otherwise a life devoid of it. Ophelia came to care for Malthace strangely, but at the same time, she resented her. Ophelia’s task isolated her from her siblings in a strange way.

Where the queen would ordinarily be the kingdom’s hostess, Malthace was incapable of doing so. Ophelia was forced to fill that void. While Kennet and Cassian were politicking, she was handling the social calendar, planning balls, and doing all the things a queen might otherwise be responsible for. It was work that needed to be done, but Julius began to believe it was all Ophelia was capable of doing. She was made to be a wife and mother, not at all the kind of shrewd operator that Kennet was.

When her marriage to Akagi Llewellyn came, Ophelia welcomed the escape from Malthace. She saw it as a fresh start to prove herself as something more than a diligent caretaker. But married life wasn’t quite what Ophelia expected it to be. She became pregnant quickly after getting married. It was a difficult pregnancy and even more difficult birth. This child was followed by another, then another, and another, each pregnancy more difficult than the last. Particularly after her third child, postpartum depression hit hard. When she found out she was pregnant for the fourth time, Ophelia cried and cried.

In Arynn Frey, Ophelia hoped to start over. She hoped that her marriage to Akagi would redeem her for the years of sitting on the sidelines, brushing her mother’s hair. But what Ophelia found in marriage and motherhood was not what she expected. Ophelia is at a crossroads: searching for purpose and meaning in a world that seems to have so little of either.

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OOC
Character Face Claim: Mary Navarro
OOC Name: Rigby
Gender: Female
Time Zone: EST
Discord ID: Rigby#3969
Other Characters: Magda Ivanova , Honora Allemeade , Ravin Tracey , Simon Mikaels , @evander , Regan Lassiter , Hadrian Usher , Isolde , @nikita , felix , @fallon , @bastian
Tagging: Eloell