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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 1087485" data-attributes="member: 5203">But... I'm a gamer... I have no women in my life... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Understood, and agreed.  The only reason it's really there is to establish why she's unaware of who her parents are - I could have done it a different way, admittedly, but I guess that in my mind's eye I didn't see Myndrila's mother as a cruel person, but just one who couldn't handle the emotional burden attached to this child.I suppose I could also have Myndrila be the product of a consensual, but brief fling with a wandering adventurer (one of those lusty characters that show up in taverns trying to seduce the barmaids) and have her given up just because her mother couldn't support her.  But overall the important aspect is that Myndrila has to appear to be unwanted - this is the basis for her being tormented by her peers (kids can be cruel, you know).  Thus the 'loving parents killed when she was a baby' theme wouldn't work - now she's an object of pity, not ridicule.(And for the record, I'm not saying it's okay to make fun of children who've been abandoned by their parents.  I'm saying that it seems more likely that the child's peers would make fun of them for it, especially when you're dealing with what are essentially a bunch of traumatized war orphans.  In situations like this, establishing a power hierarchy isn't uncommon, and, well, someone has to be on the bottom.)I have no intention of turning Myndrila into a paranoid freak who gestures at every man in town with her magic missile wand to keep them away.  And my GM is not the sort of person to incorporate an in-character rape scene into the game - nor would I want him to.If this aspect of the character comes out at all, it will be in very slight ways.  One of these is her use of nararoot, which really stems more from her fear of having a child (she doesn't think she'd be a good parent, and couldn't bear the thought of turning her own child over to an orphanage).  She'd probably be a little more cautious around, say, strongly inebriated men, but wouldn't do anything extreme like run away or attack them.Terwox pointed out that she's an intelligent person first.  I agree, but she doesn't quite see it yet.  She's pretty down on herself, and has never been given a chance to prove her capabilities.  Once she's been 'in the field', she'll become a stronger person and more confident.</blockquote>

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