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Name: Finley Badhan
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Height: 5'11" and still growing QQ
Facial expression: A little upset
Hair: Silky black, pulled back in a coronet braid. Loose, it hangs to her mid-back.
Eye color: Green
Skin color: A warm medium brown
Profession: Trainee
Military outfit:
• Standard (includes all pieces, button up shirt)

Personality:
Considerate-- If something bothers you, Finley drops it. It doesn't matter what it is she's doing or talking about that bothers you, she will stop talking about it or doing it as long as she's around you. She tries his best to help without making it seem like she thinks you're incompetent, thinking quite seriously about how to allow you to save face. Uncomfortable subjects are to be broached in whispers, privately, or not at all. Finley is a pretty empathetic guy, no lie, and his recent experiences with the kindness of others have really reinforced that in him. She knows the lives of others, their experiences and their identities, don't have to be convenient to him... mostly because her experiences and identity aren't even convenient to him.

Pensive-- Finley thinks about things. she thinks about them a lot. She mulls them over, writes down her thoughts in her journal, takes a break to write in a different journal or play some piano, and then she goes back and thinks about things some more. Eventually, she might even draw a conclusion. Or, if you draw a conclusion first, she will take this conclusion and turn that over a few times in her head too. And once one issue is resolved, she will think about something else. This means that she makes good decisions, usually; she gets all the information, thinks about the pros and cons, and then she decides. It's not the fastest way to go about things, and can really mess up her short-term decision making, but she usually manages to think up a good solution to most every problem, given enough time.

Humble-- Finley is a great follower. And this is because she knows exactly what she did right and exactly what she did wrong, and she will do her best to repair that for next time. She knows this sort of thing because she is pensive, and tends to review her actions over and over and over. In addition, this means in a team situation she doesn't try to countermand orders; she follows them, helping out with the other members where she can.

Quiet-- and how. She doesn't talk when she's stressed. She doesn't talk when she's afraid. Her thoughts are her own, and sometimes--a lot of the time--okay pretty much all the time--she is lying to you about what she's thinking about. She always has an inoffensive subject in the back of her mind, ready to be deployed on the off chance someone asks her how she's doing. And it's really, really hard to tell when she's considering how bad she is gonna hate herself tomorrow, precisely because she spends so much time being pensive and mulling things over.

Pensive-- As long as she has time, she'll make a good decision. But what about when she doesn't have time? What about when she has to make a lot of decisions in a very short about of time? Finley tends to panic and make the absolute worst choice, the kind of choice that comes from her heart rather than her head, if she can manage to make a choice at all. This isn't saying if you've planned to go out to lunch at a certain restaurant and you change your mind, she'll freak, because she won't. If you hand her three job applications, the deadline's next week, and she can only apply to one, she will agonize over the decision until the day before the deadline where she'll decide to run away and join the military because at least then she doesn't have to make decisions.

Doormat -- Finley'll let you walk all over her if you have half a good reason to do so. She doesn't even talk much; she mostly tries to be unobtrusive, to the point where it's really easy for others (and even herself) to ignore the things she needs and wants to be happy and healthy. If something makes her uncomfortable, even really uncomfortable, she won't say anything because she thinks it's not her place. She is the kind of girl who apologizes for having a panic attack. She's trying to work on this trait, but it's a long hard slog and she's not all that confident she'll make it.

History:
Finley grew up on a farm within Wall Rose: relatively safe from Titans but not completely so, by her reckoning. Her family was moneyed enough to hire people to help during the harvest and planting seasons, but otherwise they were solidly middle class. Finley, as the only child, was expected to pick up where her parents left off when they died. Except that didn't really work for Finley; every time she'd been left to make critical decisions, she made an awful mistake--usually due to not being allowed to make decisions as a child, and thus not having any reference points for how it was meant to work.

So she decided, literally to escape her life as a civilian, that she would rather join the military. Once she got there, though, she began to flourish. She relishes being told what to do and the military is basically a haven for that.

And by accepted I mean approved! Or accepted to the military, I guess!?