Description and Background
Description:
Mila was a small young woman, shy at best, and some had even described her as mousy. She was unusually pale and thin., only enhanced by her raven black hair and her mismatched eyes; one dark green and the other a vibrant blue. Her clothing hung on her appearing a couple sizes too large on her bony frame. Long slender fingers were rough from the labors of peasant life, but had the look of the hands of an artist as well. He hair was cropped short, looking more practical than stylish. Her overall look was ragged, her clothing heavily tattered though it showed much care in all the patches and stitches, it may have been a 4th or 5th generation hand me down dress. Still, her appearance was of one that at least tried to take care of themselves.
Background:
Mila had grown up in the farmlands near the Forrest where her family labored just to survive. Her family had scrapped by a meager existence through sustenance farming. Her brother had left soon as he was old enough to join a passing army, leaving her to help her parents on her own until the day a local lord had come to collect long overdue taxes.
His eye had fallen on her quickly and he had made an indecent proposal to her father. He would have none of it and the men began to argue. Arguing lead to fighting and her father was stabbed when the landlord had pulled out a dagger. She and her mother buried her father that night. The following morning the landlord came with the sheriff and laid claim to the farm and meant to have them both arrested. Mila had managed to get away, when her mother put up a struggle. Her mother's final act of love sealed her fate. She would later be found guilty of various charges in the courts and was sentenced to a lifetime of labor. She never made out of the jail. Mila was convinces she had died of a broken heart.
Mila, in the meantime, did what she could to survive, scavenging for food and avoiding authorities. The past weeks had been hard, somehow a brutal mirror of her life before. Her life before had been hard, but it had also been full of love and happiness with in that struggle. Now her life simply seemed like a living hell.
However, hardship had queued a few unusual abilities she still didn't completely understand. Things her parents had referred to as her 'quirks' seemed to be manifesting in new ways that she was just beginning to explore. |
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