#I based her on drakenguard don't kill me

[jonahswife]

Gardenia Reed

Here she is! Mostly copied directly from my notes lmao picrew link

“Bold of you to think this sword is just for decoration.”

General

Full Name: Gardenia Reed

Reason for name: She’s as pale as the actual flower

Nickname: Nia

Reason for nickname: Gardenia is too long so Nia replaced it for use in training, combat, whatever. Shorter and Sweeter.

Age: 24

Sex: Female

Gender: Female

Place of Birth: Red Territory

Birthday: September 21st 

Species/Race: Human

Blood Type: O-

Occupation: Soldier

Sexual Orientation: Asexual

Social Status: Regular Citizen

Relationship Status: Doesn’t Matter

Status: Alive

Appearance

Body Build: Small but muscled

Height: 5”2

Skin color: Pale, literally a ghost

Hair style: Pigtails or Down, In a braided bun for combat

Hair color: Lavender

Eye color: Red

Distinguishing Features: Her red eyes, freckles,birthmarks that resembles a tree on the base of her back and one that looks like a splotch on her inner wrist

Preferred Clothing: Anything really, from dresses to suits she’ll wear anything so long as it’s not too revealing. Greatly enjoys wearing coats and boots, however, and will almost always have a new pair of boots for each day.

Accessories: Hair Ties, her stud earrings, a backup pair of gloves to handle her sword, a pin of a swan.

Health

General health: Extremely Healthy

Posture: Proper with her higher ups, lax and casual with the other lower ranking soldiers and friends.

Any physical illnesses?: Bold of you to assume she lets herself get sick

Any mental illnesses?: Anxiety.

Mental/Emotional State

Archetype: The Orphan

Act before thinking/Think before acting?: Acting Before Thinking

Emotion-wise, generally: Feelings? Fake. She feels very intensely and is prone to understate how she’s really feeling a lot, a lot of white lies.

Conversation

Way of speaking: Extremely formal to superiors and informal to her friends and people in the same class, however she is prone to forget formalities if she’s surprised or extremely tired.

Common conversation starter: “So, what’re you up to?”

Swears?: Sometimes

Likes/Dislikes

Likes: A good night’s sleep, sunny beaches, petrichor, pianos

Dislikes: Smoke, sour foods, the smell of blood, not working

Hobbies

Humming Playing Music Dancing 

 Habits Stretches a lot Biting her nails Tapping her foot

 Strengths/Weaknesses

Strengths: Quick, dexterous, Kind-hearted, Strong-Willed

Weakness: Easily surprised, Average Strength, Dishonest, Stubborn

 Secrets

An extremely talented songstress, Gardenia is able to use magic. However, while she can use magic in its regular form she is rather unskilled. She, like her brother and sister, is skilled in vocal magicks. By using specially made instruments or their voice they are able to influence peoples’ emotions/feelings/thoughts and ultimately their actions. Gardenia’s older sister still sings, but Gardenia had sworn it off after her father’s death.

Fears

Becoming Mute Her family dying Fire Snakes

Dreams/Goals

To sing for the happiness of those around her To be able to do so freely Having a nice garden to read in A pet bird, honestly.

 Favorites

Food: Arctic Roll

Color: Navy Blue

Animal: Birds

Number: Fifteen

Holiday: Christmas

Season: Spring

Time of day: Midday

Type of art: Paintings

Genre of music: Opera, Classical

Genre of literature: History, Romance

History

Born as the youngest of three, Gardenia Reed was the last child in the family and one of the most treasured. From the start she was gifted with magic potential rivaling her father, and she quickly became a favorite of the family. However, their entire existence would be kept a secret from her father’s employer, their real family name is a secret left only to the three siblings. As the favorite of the family, Gardenia would perform duets with her older brother Raphael, leading them to develop a close relationship. Things grew tense years later, however, when their father met an unfortunate end in an “accident.” This led to Beatrix fleeing to Black Territory for unknown reasons, leaving Gardenia and Raphael alone. Gardenia and her brother both soon agreed to continue to withhold their talents and enlist in the Red Army as soldiers, as a sort of method to divert themselves from the tragedy.

Personality

 Gardenia wants to be known as little as possible. Thus, she never actually gives a lot of information away. The biggest fan of white lies, Gardenia will only give enough to sate the base of their response and will get defensive if pushed further. All of her antics however, stem from her constant anxiety that someone will find her and her family out, which greatly influences her regular interactions. When she is not being prodded, Gardenia is very amicable, and shows no cruelty to others. While many pin her as someone who looks unapproachable, she tends to drift into making friends easily, but greatly respects differences in power. Gardenia tends to value work above all else, and holds a fierce reputation for wanting to visit the infirmary as little as possible, if at all. This overworking sometimes leads to fatigue, but she is always making sure it is covered later on, as she greatly values her health. In her eyes, as long as she is doing something, then she is happy. When playing, however, is when Gardenia is most truthful with her emotions, and never shies away from sharing herself through song- the problem is getting her to actually play/sing.

Family

Emilie Reed (Mother)

Alexander Reed (Father)

Raphael Reed (Brother)

Beatrix de la Lune (Sister)

Trivia

Beatrix took the family heirloom (a harp specially made for conducting their form of magic) with her to black territory.

If they sing too much they can quite literally sing themselves to death, and it had happened to Gardenia’s great grandfather once before.

Since they are not taught how to use magic normally, the Reed family is unable to use magic in combat except for their songs. 

Gardenia claims all of her unique traits stem from albinism, this is fake and she’s a filthy liar.