Post by Marabell Ambersong on Feb 14, 2010 0:27:22 GMT -5
| Name: | Marabell Ambersong |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age: | 19 |
| Species: | Shrew |
| Eye Color: | Black |
| Fur Color: | Her fur is a darker brown except for the light brown fur around her belly. |
| Attire / Jewelry: | She absolutely loves wearing bright colors like pink, red, yellow, and shades of green and blue. The maid tries to wear as many colors as possible, without looking like a walking disaster. She keeps a scarf wrapped around her head, which is a family tradition, when she's working. |
| Physical Description / Tattoos / Markings: | As a shrew, Marabell is pretty short. She looks closer to a 13-year-old instead of a 19-year-old. She's thin and appears fragile, but don't let that fool you. She grew up with three elder brothers and she's bested all three in a fight more than once. When the situation calls for it, she's a tough little maid. |
| Weaponry: | The only weapons she really knows how to use are a dagger and anything that she can swing that's close to paw. A suggestion, never frighten her if she is in the kitchen using a rolling pin. |
| Desired or Present Occupation / Goals: | Assistant Healer |
| Goals, Hopes and Dreams: | Marabell hopes to one day be a wonderful healer. She doesn't want the fame that some healers of the land possess. She just hopes that she can save creatures' lives. She also would like to stop being such a clumsy maid. |
| Weaknesses, Fears and Dislikes: | Marabell fears failure as well as hurting other beasts by accident. She's very clumsy and has caused more than a few catastrophes. At times she can seem rather hesitant because she doesn't want to get in the way, or she's afraid she might do something wrong. Marabell, having lived a sheltered life, is also rather inexperienced. |
| Strengths, Talents and Likes: | Marabell has a very motherly personality so she's good with dibbuns. When she puts her mind to it, she's a very good healer, she just needs a little confidence in herself. Unlike quite a few creatures she knows, Marabell is a very positive maid, always struggling to look at the good sides of life. |
| Personality / Mental Description: | Marabell is typically a very quiet shrew. Eager to learn, she prefers to sit off to the side and listen rather than speak. She'll ask questions, of course, but she'd rather not interrupt her mentors while they're instructing her in the art of healing. She's timid and often afraid of the world since this is her first time living away from her family. It takes a while for her to warm up to new creatures, which is a bit of a flaw for her since she has to deal with new beasts everyday. When she's comfortable, though, she's a fun-loving maid. She has a very bright personality and she's eager to tell stories about her family or her antics with her brothers and sisters. She likes to play games as much as the next beast. When she's not working, she's often found sitting next to a window with a book in her paws and a nice cup of tea at her side. Some creatures jokingly say that she doesn't know how to act her age. When she's with dibbuns, all her nervousness vanishes and she swoops down to play with them. Marabell has motherly instincts but it's not unusual for her to get in trouble with the dibbuns. So long as they're safe, she doesn't mind helping them pull tricks on the elders. It reminds her of being with her siblings. As a protégé of healing, Marabell is slowly learning just how dangerous the world can be. She's lived a relatively sheltered life and has yet to experience a major death due to something other than sickness. This worries some of the elder healers that she's worked with. They don't know if she'll be able to cope under pressure. All they can do is wait and see. Marabell is quite aware of their concerns but she trusts herself to know what to do in a tight situation. |
| History: | Marabell grew up along the outskirts of Redwall with the Guosim. She's the second youngest of five children with three older brothers, and one younger sister. Her father was a sailor and a tough shrew with his sons when they were growing up, but his heart softened after Marabell was born. She lived happily with her family for quite a few years, learning under a few of the elders how to heal. When her parents realized that she had a natural talent for a healer's touch, they decided to send her over to Redwall to learn under the more learned healers. One of her brothers followed her. She first became an apprentice to Flashpaw Brighteye, a squirrel resident that had been a healer there for nearly 30 years. He taught her the basics of how to heal but would rush her out of the room if he had a severe case to work with. Flashpaw was a good teacher, but when he went into healer mode, he would forget his student was standing there and that wasn't a good experience for either of them. So, when his daughter, SilverRose returned to Redwall with her family for a brief time, he asked Marabell to train with her. Marabell took a liking to SilverRose from the very beginning. She thought that the squirrelmaiden had a very kind way of teaching and she learned a lot in a short while. Unlike Flashpaw, SilverRose would allow Marabell to stay in the infirmary when she treated more life-threatening cases so that Marabell could see that a healer was able to work under pressure. SilverRose even let her help when the squirrel thought that Marabell was comfortable enough. Marabell heard the calling for healers at Black Arch Fort before SilverRose. Marabell’s family decided that, because she was learning so quickly, maybe it would be a good idea if she tried to work in a fort under a few more experienced healers. Marabell was not eager to leave home, but Redwall was often so quiet that she really didn't know what it was like to deal with extreme cases. She would find that knowledge at a fort. After bidding farewell to her family, Flashpaw, and SilverRose, she headed off with her eldest brother to the fort. He left her there and went back home so that she could learn by herself. After spending a couple of years at the fort, she decided she needed another change and chose to travel to Fort Emerald Bay. SilverRose had spoken so warmly about the place that Marabell assumed that she would fit right in. Now, she hopes to find a position as an assistant healer, and to learn a little more about the world as well as herself. |
| Companions and or NPCs: | NA |
| Faction: | Fort Resident |
| Troop or Ship: | Fort Resident |
| Black Knights Interest (Secret Calvary): | No |
| Family: | Mother: Beatrice Ambersong Father: Avon Ambersong Brothers (eldest to youngest): Nuro (nickname: "Wave Hopper"), Tango, Keplo Sister: Ivy May |