Name: Rhedara Shannon
Age: 18
Birth Season: Summer
Occupation: Soldier, she hopes to be witch-paired in the future.
Kingdom: Nevermere
Citizen Status: Commoner
Height: 5'1"
Weight: 120 lbs
Body Description: Rhedara would be considered striking rather than beautiful. She has pale skin with long black hair and black eyes. When she is on duty, she wears her hair in either plait. Off duty she wears the finest clothes she can afford.
Values: Stability, power, money, the finer things
Aspirations/Ambitions: Rhedara wants power. She wants prestige. She wants to be able to take a bath in water that is scented with flower petals. She wants anything that will give her the kind of life she knows she was meant to have.
Alignment: Neutral evil
Reputation: She has a...neutral to good reputation? People generally see her as tenacious and goal-driven, so probably pretty typical for a citizen of Nevermere. Some of her peers will say that she is generally pleasant to talk to, however she is vain and perhaps a little uppity. Before her military training, some would argue that she was a hothead. Some would say that she still is a hothead, but the military training conditioned her to suppress her temper for the most part. Usually smiles with just her mouth, can't fake a smile.

Combat Experience: She trained in the Nevermerian military from age 12 to 18, and then she decided to join the military as a career. She has not seen real combat yet. As with every other citizen of Nevermere, she knows how to use a sword, and she continues to master her magic.
She is a witch. She has a particular talent with potion making and would like to be better at cursing (Her first and--so far--only curse happened when she was training in the military. There was to a boy that she found particularly vexing and he spent 24 hours constantly having his socks rolling into his boots. She thinks her curses ought to be more spiteful and less comical.)
Family: 

• James Shannon - Father (Dead. Fell out of a fishing boat during a freak storm and drowned)
  
• Isadora Shannon (Nee Hawthorne) - Mother (Dead. Kitchen accident)
• Tate Shannon - Older brother (Dead. Fell out of a fishing boat during a freak storm and drowned)
• Maternal grandmother - status unknown to Rhedara
• Paternal grandfather - status unknown to Rhedara

Tale:
Rhedara's parents were from two different worlds. Her mother was once a noble and her father was from a family of fishermen. They met while training in the army and--to the displeasure of her parents--eloped as soon as they were old enough to get married. Neither of her parents stayed with the military. Her father continued on to be a fisherman and her mother occasionally sold potions when more money was needed.

There were times that money would be tight, but her parents always said that they were comfortable and happy. Rhedara thought otherwise. As she got older, Rhedara grew to resent her mother for marrying her father. It wasn't that she hated her father or that he was cruel to her, quite the opposite. Her resentment stemmed from Rhedara's desire to be somebody important. As was the custom in Nevermere, her mother lost her status as a noble as soon as she married her father. Rhedara never understood why her mother would be willing to lose her station for something as insignificant as love.

Short of seducing a noble and marrying him, she saw the military as her only way out of working on a fishing boat. She worked hard during her training years so that they would have no reason to not let her stay on when her training was complete. After she turned 18, she naturally stayed on with the military with the goal of gaining military prestige, or perhaps eventually being granted the status of nobility.

Face Claim: Molly Ephraim
Tagging: Eloell | Rigby