Name: Ima IlyathanStage: Prentice
Race: Fire
Gender: Female
3 Base Traits: Playful, charismatic, spoiled
Personality:
Playful: Everything is a game with Ima. At least she makes it into one. She looks for any way she can to win her own game within her own set of rules. She likes to keep her mind sharp like this and it often pushes her to think outside of the box. However, this causes really bad complications when it's supposed to be a serious moment and she's still playing her games. It's largely due to the fact she would play with the house boys when she was young. Her father would give the boys a key or hints to where he's hidden a present. They would play together like this to keep her mind off of her mother.
Charismatic: Ima is usually very good with social cues, reading energies of the room, and knows how to keep the good vibes going. She can be goofy and tell funny stories with voices and faces. Ima tries to keep everyone smiling and it's often not hard. That is not to say she doesn't have her moments where she doesn't know what to do. When this happens, Ima tends to go fairly quiet and worries her hands together, picking at her fingernails.
Spoiled: She's a very spoiled child, being noble born. Ima is used to getting exactly what she wants and when she wants it. There can be major hissy fits if her mood is already bad and she's not getting her way. She can dissolve into this whiny, screaming mess of a teenager and really show's how immature she can be. If she doesn't want to do something, she'll dig her heels in like a dog and get very rude and snippy. It's got to be her way or no way at all.
History: Rasan and Soliea are Ima’s father and mother, respectfully. The family believes themselves to be noble, or of just more importance than the rest. The family’s fortune comes from the Aldabuk hair business. (When he was a young lad, Rasan’s family lived in Tale for a while before coming back to Oba with enough Aldabuk to start the business. They’d seen how well it had done in Tale and thought they’d try to do the same in Oba.)
Soliea’s parents owned several weapon shops through out Oba, and weapons always seem to be in demand. However, Soliea’s sister was quickly draining the money and her parents didn’t have the heart to just cut her off. They were faced with bankruptcy. Only then did they cut Ima’s aunt off from all funds.
With their money depleted and only having enough for a dowry and to live very modestly while their weapon shops did their job, Soliea’s mother was unhappy. She wanted more. She wanted her old life back and that’s when she found herself a rich man who could supply her with her every whim while her own money stayed safe and slowly adding up again. That’s when she talked to Soliea and told her she absolutely had to marry, and soon.
Soliea met Rasan at a party one night, at the bar there. She was getting another glass of whine when they started talking.
What Soliea didn’t now was that Rasan had to quickly find a wife. His family was threatening to cut him off if he didn’t finally ‘settle down’ and be ‘normal’ with a woman. So, as he found Soliea beautiful and funny, he decided to ask her to marry him after only a few months. Of course Soliea said yes because she believed a prince was coming to her rescue.
Soliea’s parents were pleased with the match because Rasan seemed like a weak willed, gentle son-in-law. Rasan’s parents were thrilled because Rasan had taken an interest in a woman.
Soliea thought her new husband would be obsessed with her. She thought, because her mother kept whispering into her ear, that Rasan would never leave her side for the first few months of their marriage. Unfortunately that wasn’t true.
Rasan left as soon as he finished his meal with his new wife. He went to a tavern every night and apparently was having relations with a man there. Soliea learned this through several maids who were talking too loudly next to her.
Soliea confronted Rasan about it, and he admitted it was true. She pleaded with him. They hadn’t consummated their marriage. She told him in order for everyone to be happy, including her, that they must have a child together. Her mother had been on her about it since they’d gotten married and Soliea reported nothing of a wedding night.
It took a lot of alcohol, but eventually they did conceive a child. Ima was born too early, however, and nearly died a few times. Since then, Ima’s father and nurses treated her as though she were a sickly child. She was never left unattended.
Rasan is a constant in Ima’s life. Soliea, however, took to drink as soon as Ima was born. She never breastfed. Ima was born the wrong gender, and Soliea knew that this was the only child she’d have. There were complications after the birth that left her unable to have more.
Ima’s relationship with her mother is rather odd. Soliea often tries to forget her life in the drink and just brushed Ima off as a child. Telling her: Oh go play with Nanny. The days where Ima’s mother isn’t drunk, she’s taught how to seduce men, taught that men couldn’t be trusted because they’re all liars. Unfortunately those days were never long, as with dinner meal, Soliea started drinking again. Then Ima gets called useless and sends her away.
In her younger days Ima knew more about the nannies and maids than her mother. More than once Ima was in the kitchen, learning to make pies and all the food that was served to her parents. She made her first breakfast all by herself under the supervision of the large chef, Tomin. This still continues to this day when she’s visiting her mother in the main house.
In the back of the main house, across a field, is her father’s house. Rasan and Soliea separated after Ima was old enough to understand what was happening. Rasan moved his male lover in, named Bash.
The only one who comes from the main house is Ima, so the main house servants have no idea he’s there. The little staff in Rasan’s house adore the pair of men they work for. They find Ima an absolute delight.
Ima is a sickly woman now. If she over exerts herself too much, she ends up in bed with so much pain in her joints. No one’s quite sure what’s wrong with her, but they all blame it on her being born too early.
Physical description: Like the reference, but with a face shape like this and those lips. Her nose is wide and flat and lips are very pronounced and puffy.
