Name/Title: Lailie Aldercy
Age: 17
Race: Passive (
galdor x galdor)
Place of Origin: Muffey
Backstory: Harper and Rasine Aldercy moved straight into Muffey from Brunnhold after completing their 10th year together. Both were well-known and remembered at the university for involvement at the school; Harper for his adeptness at learning spells, Rasine for her quick mind and school spirit. Neither of them ever imagined, nor would anyone had ever predicted, that their first child would be born defective, a halfsie; ill-fated to the life of a passive galdor.
While Harper and Rasine worked together mainly in academic research, they ran a small restaurant in Muffey, with the idea to profit from the tourism. They kept connections with old friends from school, as well as professors for whom they edited and conducted private research. One such prof was Maj Macaria, a Mugrobi galdor who was rumored to be in league with the SPE.
The Aldercies never conducted any sorts of complex spells on Lailie to reveal her magical ability. Rather, they waited until her tenth year, when they sent her off to Brunnhold for the grueling initiation test. Prof Macaria was passing her time observing the tests when she caught wind of a tester working with the young Aldercy child. As she passed the other children, she muttered a few congratulatory phrases, like
plum clean job you did!, along with the occasional
bang moony, eh? It was the little girl with eccentric blue eyes and dark brown hair that caught her attention: the only child who had consistently failed each test thrown at her. She approached as the bewildered child, on the verge of tears, was being interrogated by the tester, only to stop in front of her and ask:
"My dear, what are your parents' names?"The child sniffled before answering, refraining like a good little galdor from wiping her runny nose on the sleeve of her outfit,
"Harpah and Raseeeeen Aldercy, m'um."Before too much attention could be drawn to the results of her test, Prof Macaria offered to return her home, assuring her superiors that she knew the parents and would have the proper authorities alerted. She had every intention of bringing the child home, although she didn't plan on keeping her there. She did
not, however, plan on alerting the proper authorities. Maj knew as well as any self-respecting galdor that the law was blind to justice when it came to a passive child; a story to back whatever crime the child was to be charged with would easily be fabricated if she had no prospects...which was the usual case.
After Professor Macaria had returned Lailie home, she reported to the Aldercies the outcome of their daughters' test. Harper was too beside himself to speak, and while Rasine too was shocked and repulsed that this could have happened, she was willing to negotiate the well-being of her child by promising her to Maj as her handmaiden at Brunnhold, knowing full-well that at best, Lailie's life outside of the university would be condemned to the Soot-District, or a life of petty crime and discrimination.
When Lailie returned during the fall to Brunnhold at the side of Professor Macaria, after having been tattooed as a passive etc, she faced more grief than she anticipated. Many of the students who had been there during her initiation test recognized her as the stupid
halfsie. She even received a bit of adversity from one of the professors who had done her test.
The life of a handmaiden was strangely freeing to Lailie. Her good fortune in being handed over to Macaria, who was an exceptional galdor, functioned as a constant relief from the hardships she endured from others who were deemed to make her relatively easy lifestyle as difficult as they thought she deserved. In secret, when time allowed, Macaria taught Lailie how to read properly, allowing her to look over the spell books that she would never need. Of course, it was done in a very inconspicuous fashion, such as her leaving spell books around the room for Lailie to put back, or maps spread out across the cluttered desk and tables. And while she had grown up among the strife in Muffey that came from the constant threat of the resistance during her youth, at the time she had been too young to understand such things. It was Macaria who told her of the human resistance.
As Lailie grew up in Brunnhold tending to the prof, Macaria's career began to dwindle as rumors of her past came to light. It was suggested she was a passive sympathizer, as was evidenced by Lailie's presence at the university alone. After one typical night where Macaria usually departed extremely late from her room for unknown reasons (in reality they were meetings with fellow SPE members in confidence), the galdor did not return. The next morning her death was reported, written down as a victim of some unheard of mugging in the city streets. Before the other faculty came to clear out her room and box up the deceased prof's many possessions, Lailie managed to procure with the utmost secrecy one of Macaria's few maps, a journal, and two small pocket-books, along with an inconsequential, embossed silver ring.
Lailie was kept in her bunk until assigned to a new professor who was much less keen towards passives than Macaria, as was to be expected. She currently works tirelessly, although the previous years at the university have seemingly prepared her for the grief she gets without the protection of her old friend. At present, she has no option but to stay at the university, unless she wants to be sent to work in the Soot District, where certain galdori are more than willing to send her if she steps out of line. Either that, or the streets, which could very well be the case if she were to get unfortunately fired...
Personality: Despite the fact that Lailie was taken away from her parents by law, she never forgot what her mother did for her protection by allowing her to go with Macaria. Lee has developed a thick skin in response to the insults and slurs that she encounters on a daily basis at Brunnhold, secretly treating them with sarcasm and respite in replying.
Although a life at the university is better than anywhere else for a passive, unless she were to find a way out of Brunnhold, Lailie has developed a keen interest in working with the human resistance. She sees the humans as fellow underdogs, unfairly discriminated against like herself. Instilled with the open mind and fearlessness of Macaria, she would be more than willing to act as a spy for the humans at the university if such a thing were to be suggested for her. She is certainly not averse to getting fired from her position if she could find a way to run from Brunnhold and work with the resistance.
Description: Like her galdori descendants, Lailie has a typical small stature. Although she possesses the typically soft, feminine figure, she's acquired a good set of arm muscles and strong hands from the rougher line of work at Brunnhold.
Lailie inherited her parents' dark brown hair, a hue that is often mistaken for black unless she's out in broad daylight, where hints of red and bronze show through. Her eyes are the most prominent feature of her face aside from her rose-petal lips, holding a bizarre, eccentric shade of bright blue. Her eyebrows are equally as dark as her hair, and although small, are angled nicely. She has a beauty mark on her right cheek.
Also, I know my avatar doesn't exactly showcase this very well, but I pictured her looking a bit like Natalie Portman, except for the eye color XD And her hair is cut very short of course, as per the usual for slaves ;-; While she was with her old professor, Macaria let her keep her long hair as long as it was hidden under a wrap. once Macaria died, she was forced to cut it.
Inventory:Clothing•a set of fairly decent, stylish outfits in the typical blue of Brunnhold slaves, purchased by Macaria in the shopping district of Muffey before her untimely death
•a small silver ring embossed with the town insignia
•a pair of polished black shoes
Weapons•None
Mount•None
Misc• a tattered map of Anaxas, detailing the routes of Macaria's travels through the Headlands and abroad
•a small pocket-watch inherited from her parents
•two small pocket-sized books; one fiction, one historic
•a small leather-bound journal spotted with a few entries from Macaria herself
Career: handmaiden for female professor at Brunnhold
Goals:•learn more about and possibly get involved in the human resistance
•possibly get away from Brunnhold
•explore the lands she heard of from Macaria, at those which are detailed in her journal and drawn out on her maps, that she's read about in the few books she's been allowed
((Let me know if there's anything that's inaccurate or needs to be fixed 
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