Character Intro ~ Queen Allisa
Appearance ~ Tall and thin and pale. She has long blonde hair and blue, watery eyes. She looks physically frail and older than her years. Her expression is almost always blank and lifeless. A marked contrast to before her marriage, when she was pink cheeked and healthy looking and was known to laugh often.
Background ~ Allisa is from one of the newer noble families of Valikon who spent years trying to ingratiate themselves with the monarchy. To this end they spent a great deal of money educating their daughter to the highest degrees in the hopes her accomplishments would capture the king’s eye. Allisa spent her youth being prepared for marriage, and found consolation from her lonelieness in her studies with her tutor, who was the only one who valued her mind over her beauty.
Characteristics ~ Allisa was once a cheerful child who loved to read and play with her friends, but years of isolation in her preparations for marriage left her lonely and despondent. She is intelligent, but easily manipulated and put down. She longs for recognition and the freedom to act as she wants and be seen as more than a pretty doll. She has learned to close off her emotions in order to avoid being hurt by those around her.
Likes ~ Books. Knowledge. Her old tutor. The feeling of being valued.
Dislikes ~ Her husband. Her life in the palace. The unfairness she sees in the world.
Details ~ Allisa became the King’s fourth wife when she was eighteen, and was the only one able to bear him a son, which saved her from being sent away in disgrace as the others were. She has no fondness for the King, nor even her own son, seeing them as the things which bind her to a life of oppression. She is tired of being used and manipulated by those around her and longs to break free.
Allisa’s desperation grew and grew, easily stoked by the whisperings of the manipulative Lord Blackforce, until she takes drastic action to rescue herself from her miserable life. But she soon finds that she is as ensnared in the machinations of others as she ever was ...
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