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Vital Statistics
Name: Mariel Hougen
Birthplace: Sharp
Talon Ridge, District of Southwestern Broken Wing Lake, Tamaria
Height: 180 cm (5
feet, 11 inches)
Weight: 64 kg (142
pounds)
Hair color: Red Eye
color: Brown
National Origin:
Tamarian
Position in family:
Youngest child, only daughter
Keirsey / Bates
Personality: ENTJ
Handedness: Right
exclusively
Likes: Music,
travel, sex, study, creamy sweets
Dislikes:
Attractive women, dishonest men
Talents: Fluent in
seven languages, holds a doctorate in linguistics, exceedingly sharp in
combat analysis
Bio:
Initially, no one
expected great things from Mariel. She’d been born as kind of an
afterthought, an unexpected gift from the spirits, following five
brothers who exceeded her in age by no less than ten years.
Growing up in the rarified milieu of wealthy, established families wh o
owned property on Sharp Talon Ridge, Mariel seemed destined to live a
life of ease and luxury. Most Tamarian girls of her status
married into other wealthy families, had children whom they paid less
affluent women to raise, and spent their time either focused on
socializing, or in devotion to noble charities worthy of their esteemed
attention.
Because she didn’t look like her citizen sisters, having inherited the
ruddy complexion and lovely red hair of her Parsinnian mother, Mariel
didn’t fit well into the rarified social strata beyond the tightly-knit
Sharp Talon community. Instead, as a young girl Mariel lingered
in the orchards with workers from Kameron and their Vatheran
supervisors. She picked up their languages as quickly as she’d
learned Parsinnian from her mother, and Tamarian from her father, bu t
to her parents’ dismay, the content of Mariel’s foreign vocabulary
frequently reflected decidedly unladylike influences. Mariel knew
every slang term for male genitalia in Vath and Northern Kamerese
before she was four years old. She had a disturbingly precocious
attitude toward human sexuality that motivated her father to save her
from his orchard workers. He sent her up to Burning Tree, where
she attended an exclusive private school.
At the
request of her parents, who figured she would benefit from spiritual
study, Mariel learned to read, write and speak Lithian. Since
Northern and Southern Kamerese were nothing more than variations on a
theme, she picked up the latter language from classmates, and studied
the Azgaril Vulgate, as this tongue was a required subject in all
Tamarian schools. Thus, by the time she’d become a teenager,
Mariel could read, write and speak in seven different languages.
Though her
father wanted Mariel to use this linguistic knowledge to help open new
markets for his fruit in Kameron, the young woman quickly learned that
Kamerese society sustained a negative, oppressive attitude toward
women. The orchard workers, who treated her kindly because her
family supported them, warned the fifteen-year-old Mariel that she
would not be well received among the Kamerese.
Her
initial exposure as an emissary in Kameron went badly. Mariel had
an affair with an older, married Kamerese man who promised a big order
for her family’s fruit. After he’d had his way with her, this man
unceremoniously dumped her and tore up his contract. Mariel left
Kameron after several weeks, and in her bitterness, returned to Tamaria
and promptly signed up for the Junior Guides–a military training
program that was the girl’s equivalent of Junior Scouts–in order to
fulfill her requirements for national service.
In the
Junior Guides, Mariel attracted the attention of an officer with whom
she fell in love. This relationship created many tensions, yet as
Mariel began reasserting herself and grew in confidence again, the man
who said he loved her began exerting control to keep her to
himself. After graduating from the program, Mariel took a job
with the Intelligence Service and ended, what was from her point of
view, a dead-end relationship. She sustained no long-term love
interests after this.
After she
turned sixteen, Mariel went to Marvic under an army contract that paid
for her post-secondary education in return for a ten-year
enlistment. She spent seven years at the university, earned a
doctorate in linguistics and successfully completed officer training,
but her years of schooling limited her rise in rank.
Mariel
had been deployed to Burning Tree during the war with the Azgaril,
where she distinguished herself as an analyst. Senior officers in
the Tamarian military, anticipating a need for linguists, selected her
to assist the newly formed Expeditionary Forces in Kameron.
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