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Nadia Verdon
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Name: Nadia Verdon (Na – D – Ah, Ver – dOn)

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Birthday: 17th

Race: Xitian

Appearance:

Concept art (Note the 'concept' part. Obviously this is not what she looks like entirely, but it is just some art I personally think Nadia may look like. Obviously changes in clothing, eye color, and other looks would be made
Nadia is a simple and plain looking girl with long brown hair that she buns up or puts into a pony tail when working or riding. She has bright red eyes which stand out from her normal appearance and very expressive facial motions. She has a more conserved body language that she holds in a noble pose. She’s not one to show with her clothes, often wearing her working gear as that’s the most simple for her. Other than normal work clothes with goggles, the only real thing to see from her is the chemical scars she has if she rolls up her sleeves. She’ll carry a bag or pouch with her to carry explosives in a safe container.

Personality: Nadia Verdon appears to be a simple and humble woman, perhaps of noble stature. She carries herself in a rather high and confident tone and will carry a calm and quiet tone to deliver her current feelings. She’s a bit soft on her voice which may appear to make her a shy character; however this is quite the opposite. Nadia quite enjoys conversation and entertainment with new friends and people as a way to familiarize herself with a new group. She will wear a pleasant smile during conversation and her facial expressions tend to stand out due to her more plain features which do not particularly draw attention. Most attention driven to her is naturally to her face as her red eyes and expression stand out over everything else. She will often show what she is feeling with her facial expressions as the subtle changes make large impacts. Nadia is someone who will make initial steps and not shy away when she wishes to achieve to obtain something such as knowledge. Nadia manages to do this without being in your face and being obnoxious about this, but she is bound to take the first step when it comes to getting something she wants.

Nadia is a brave girl who has dealt with dangers before from Mesalians, Lucins, and even fellow Xitians; she does not back down easily and often stands her ground on her beliefs. This bravery can also be a bit harmful as it can throw her into danger as Nadia can be rather radical in her beliefs until proven wrong directly. Such instances can also come from her to directly telling someone off if she is displeased or angered with them, anger is often the best way to break her composed stature. After all, Nadia grew up in a family of angry, temperamental Xitians. While used to tempers, Nadia has one of her own which she hides and pushing the wrong buttons at the wrong time can lead her to berate someone without fear. Nadia is hard working and often fights to get what she wants, but can often be pushy with others if they continuously fail. Leading her to prefer working alone. Nadia often finds herself feeling a bit lonely as such when by herself and feels a need to actively find others to converse with in order to remain happy. She has a terrible dislike toward being by herself in any given problem. Nadia is extroverted but often can push people away. If she snaps at someone and is then left alone, she feels a great deal of sadness and has a bit of trouble dealing with it.

Nadia is more or less confident of her abilities, very confident in fact. She knows very well that she is an intelligent young woman who can create materials which are often unseen to most: Explosives. Nadia very well knows that she holds the secrets in a great power so she treats her work as something with great care. No matter how trivial the job, Nadia is bound to put her all and her best into it and not slack off. She makes her intelligence well known as she is the calculating sort that looks at a problem and will in an instant look for solutions. Nadia is fantastic under ‘pressure’ as well, for explosives work is some of the most pressuring around. If trouble is coming quickly, Nadia is more than able to keep her cool and deal with it in the most efficient matter she can find.

Skills:

- Explosives* (Competent): Nadia is well versed in the one thing she has been taught to do in her entire life time. She is best versed in the creation of cherry bombs, smoke bombs, mining charges and shrapnel charges. Her main strength being in mining charges. Nadia is very able to handle explosives and knows what places are dangerous for the devices.

- Fire powers (Competent): Nadia’s main power, she uses fire to light fuses primarily. However she has often used fire to defend herself from attackers or as a light. She is very careful with her fire as to not harm anyone who is not an intended target or to recklessly use fire as a threat. This caution with fire is due to Nadia often carrying explosives and being reckless with such objects can lead to catastrophe.

- Chemistry* (Apprentice): Nadia often uses chemistry as a means to her work. However her only knowledge in chemistry outside of the basics is into explosives. You won’t see Nadia using chemistry to create anything other than something that goes pop.

- Runes* (Apprentice): Nadia uses runes to create explosives, however nothing else. She is very knowledgeable of how these objects work in her field. However creating a home, communication, or amnesia rune is was out of her field.

- Horse Riding (Apprentice): While never having used the horse as a means to attack or advance on targets, Nadia spent most of her free time riding her horse in the woods on extended walks. This was purely out of leisure.

*Skills that heavily relate to eachother

Knowledge:

- Xitian language (Advanced): Nadia is well versed in her own language. She knows how to read and write fluently and cohesively when using her natural tongue. She has spent most of her life speaking Xitian which leads her to be not as well versed in common.

- Common language (Novice): Nadia is able to understand most things in common but will have trouble keeping up sometimes, especially if the speaker has a thick and foreign accent. She has learned a thing here and there and is more than willing to learn more, but her reading and writing in common suffer a bit.

Backstory:
Relationships:

Goals:
-Learn to cook
-Learn to Garden
-Ask Koi about cooking
-Talk to Koi because he's nice and stuff
-Help Hector grow flowers and a garden
-Get a house
-Get a laboratory
-Convince Ike to get his bum in gear
-Form a proper mining team
-Find big burly miner men who aren't afraid of friggen explosives to form said team
-Avoid Chathra at all costs
-Seriously she's gonna cook Nadia into Xitian stew
-Send the letter to her father
-Obtain books from her father
-Spend more time off in the Town Square because it's pretty
-Learn more common
-Learn to read and write in common
-Convince people that explosives are not that bad
-Find a place to put her explosives where people will stop complaining about them being there
-Clean up the house and polish it up
-invite people over her house
-Obtain a horse for leisure rides
-Work with Bishop on explosives
-Talk with Lapis and get to know her more
- Improve her dress a bit
-Mine more coal
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Back story updates with stuff explaining Nadia's behavior and personal growth over time:

Childhood:

Nadia grew up shy and sheltered. Curious of the world, yes, but shy. She was raised in the isolated Xitian village with very few to befriend and the likes. The isolated behavior carried with her as she was more keen to observe the others in town rather than speak to them. Despite her curiosity, fear often got the best of Nadia during interactions with other people. Specifically adults other than her parents. However, this did not stut Nadia's growth in her own knowledge. As she had little interaction due to how shy she was, Nadia was able to focus on her studies with explosives. In a way, this knowledge and growth helped Nadia build confidence. She was aware that explosives were dangerous tools. So with handling such tools, Nadia felt a certain strength she never had from talking to others or handling fire.

During Nadia's childhood, she had to face the struggles with her Grandfather starting fights with the family. The fights and arguments often frightened Nadia which did not help for her confidence nor interactions with other people. The arguments caused her to be rather afraid, still mostly with other people around her. She had to brave harsh treatment but it was rather much for the young girl. Everything causing her to stray away from speaking despite some confidence found in the making of explosives.

Teenage years:

Following the death of her Grandfather, Nadia's life was far quieter. She continued learning explosives work and the like and she grew up finally experiencing a peaceful life. However, as most teenagers experience, she eventually grew to be bored. She was born at the wrong time and thus had most of her social interaction with adults and not the young children. Her teenage years were a time of learning, maturity, and self discovery as usual. But she grew restless. She watched others still for scientific reasons but had no real friends. She wanted something more than what was present in the Xitian village. This caused a late bloom in Nadia's personal development as she never had the same social interactions that most teenagers have. No first love or true friends. No heartbreaks or those to befriend. She was a rather awkward teenage girl to say the least. Once again, causing her to just focus on studies rather than interacting with other people such as the hermit man. This caused her arguments with her parents for simple things that did not matter in the long run of life. A moody behavior caused indirectly from a lack of proper teenage social interaction.

When Nadia was wounded after the accident, her growing stubbornness and anger swelled at the others. They out-casted her and the Verdon family for little reasoning. Her scars remained a permanent reminder of this and a rage that fails to trust others at times. In the end, Nadia may fail to trust others unless they give a proper first impression of good signs. Without that, Nadia is bound to distrust those around her. Sure she had scars from chemical accidents in the past, but these burns were different to her. Something of a big mistake.

Dangerous world:
Nadia finally had friends of her age to deal with. That late development bloomed out of her as she finally experienced knowing a variety of others like her. She was a bit awkward in the beginning, but once she settled into knowing these other people and their language, Nadia's awkward tendencies settled. For a moment, she grew to trust others again until her incident with Harold. That specific time severed as another reminder to Nadia as to not trust too quickly. Thanks to her friends, Nadia grew into who she is now. A less awkward girl who shows her outgoing behavior regularly despite some past trust failures.
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Reserved Post for songs, personal character stuff, and other misc things

Songs


Instrumental/Main theme

Picked this for it fast theme and upbeat tone. Not to mention how pretty it sounds. Just the general feel of the song fits Nadia well.

Writings


N/A


WIP until I can find more songs and stuff. And put in some writing that I sit down for a decent amount of time on and work with.
  


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