Lady Arina Penley Carison

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Character Basics
Name: Arina Penley Carison
Alias(es)/Nickname(s): Choni
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Race: Human
Status/Title: Lady Arina of Archenland Court
Affiliation: Narnia

Character Appearance
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Distinguishing marks:
Portrayal: Jessica Brooks

Character Personality
Likes: (at least 5)
-Swimming
-Horseback riding
-Freedom
-Boys
-Having new clothes made
-Taking trips to visit Narnia
-Running away to Narnia
-A good debate. (Well, more like arguing.)
Dislikes: (at least 5)
-Arranged marriages
-Parents
-Tattletales
-Walking on foot
-Being referred to as 'weak' or 'afraid'
Strengths: (at least 5)
-Archery
-Quick wit
-The ability to lie
-Thinks fast on her feet
-Can usually talk her way out of situations
-Very basic swordplay
Weaknesses: (at least 5)
-Swordplay in battle
-Survival
-Her big mouth that involuntarily blurts random things that could get her into trouble (such as insults)
-Cute boys (while starting out strong, after a little while, a cute boy could probably talk her into anything)
-Easily influenced by people she trusts
-Shopping (when you have the money...)
-Curiosity

General Personality: (at least 3 paragraphs)
Arina is used to getting what she wants. She's not afraid to talk back and thinks she's better than others- to a certain extent. She treats others with respect, even if she does feel superior to them. She loves having new clothes made for herself with the most exotic and exquisite fabrics. Usually, she goes on the ships heading out to other countries or islands to hand pick them herself.

Because she's so used to having many things done for her, such as hunting, cooking, gardening, Arina could not possibly be expected to survive on her own. While she enjoys archery and is quite proficient at it, she has never killed anything before. She often jokes that she will eat anything as long as she doesn't have to look at it before it's dead and cooked.

When confronted with a person who seems to think they know everything or seeks to prove their superiority over her, Arina has no problems proving said person completely wrong. She is well educated and quick to react. She has left many a man speechless and looking foolish after a debate, argument, or a particularly nasty remark.

While she doesn't like to feel second rate to any man, one whom she finds particularly attractive will find he has caught her attention by one of two ways. The first is that she might become uncharacteristically nice and pleasant to him. The second is that she would automatically attack him verbally with any number of things from the part in his hair to the quality of the material used to make his tunic.

Despite her many defenses, a person whom she has come to trust could easily influence and manipulate her. This is because she spends so much time keeping up a barrier that when someone is lucky enough to get through, she's blinded by them. It would be inconceivable to her that said person would lead her astray.

Character History
Parents: Lord Biron and Lady Demoina of Winding Arrow Castle
Siblings: Karth (twin brother)

General History: (at least 3 paragraphs)
Arina was born and has lived in Archenland all of her privileged life, near where the Winding Arrow Rivers pours into the sea. She has grown up with servants waiting on call and almost everything done for her. She began her education at the early age of three and started soaking up the histories and legends of Archenland and the surrounding countries. Learning the legends of Narnia is how she came to love visiting the country to the north, in the hopes that she might run into the magical folk said to roam there, though she hasn't met anything of the like as of yet. Her visits are usually brought on by invitations to parties and banquets at the King's castle. Other visits are purely spur of the moment shopping sprees.

She would always hear travellers talking of rumors and news from all over. At the age of nine, she was once quizzed by the upstart son of a visiting Baron about the on goings in Calormen and was made out to be a foolish girl who knew nothing of the world around her when she replied that she hadn't the slightest notion what he was talking about. Since then, she designated a servant boy to gather information and news of current events so that she was always well informed and never to be made a fool of again.

A couple years later, at age eleven, her brother began combat training and accompanying their father on his hunting parties. Soon after, he teased Arina about being a weak girl who could never compare to his strength or bravery. Not one to stand for being made fun of, Arina immediately set forth to participating in combat training. Her father forbid it, but after both Arina and her mother speaking to him, he came to a compromise. Arina was allowed to train for one weapon at a time and he would say when she could move on. Archery was what she was allowed to learn first. For the next five years, Arina trained with short bows, long bows, crossbows, shooting one arrow, two arrows, and shooting two arrows to hit separate targets. Long after she had far surpassed Karth in skill, Lord Biron finally let her move on to swordplay. She's had a month of training.

Most recently, Lord Biron announced that Arina was to be married to the future Baron Thulgis Errynl, the very same son of a Baron from seven years previous who had made Arina to look a fool. Outraged, Arina argued with her father, using every trick she knew to make him change his mind, but to no avail. Thulgis began visiting for courtship purposes. He had been cute when they were children, but he had become a gluttonous fool. Arina never attempted to hide her disgust of him.

One night while Thulgis and his father were visiting, Arina's parents stayed up late, entertaining their guests. Arina feigned illness and went to her room early on. Once there, she began to pack clothes into a sack that she hung around her shoulders. She dressed in the plainest dress she owned and even ripped it in places and rubbed it in the dirt to make it look more peasant-like. She slipped down to the kitchen to steal two days worth of food and water before going to the armory to retrieve the long bow and quiver of arrows made especially for her after she mastered the weapon. She slipped both into a plain carrier and took a short sword that she tied to her pack.

Making sure that her parents and the Baron were still busy, she went to the stable to find her chestnut colored horse, Tyber. She cut his tail short to make him look more like a farmer's beast and then mounted him, riding towards the shoreline. She paused there and had to make a decision- if she ran North to Narnia, she ran the risk of being recognized by those of King Miraz's court, but if she ran South to Calormen, dressed as she was, they might easily capture her and make her a slave. She turned left and headed North for Narnia. She would be safe there as long as she stayed away from the castle.

When first asked what her name was in a town on the border of the two countries, she gave the name Choni, the name of one of her servants.

(This part I would like to play out on the Forums, but to answer the question of why Arina is sided with the Old Narnians, while travelling the country side to the West, she came across the campsite of Prince Caspian and the Old Narnians. Her love for the legends and myths of the country and her fascination led her to side with them.)

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Sample
RP Sample: (at least 3 paragraphs long)
Choni dismounted her horse and tied his rope to the trunk of a tree, near a stream, so that he could freely graze and drink. She had come to call herself just Choni, as if she truly believed it was her real name. This way, she reasoned, she would not get confused. She stroked Tyber's mane before kneeling before the stream and splashing water onto her face to refresh herself.

She had underestimated how far away she lived from the borders of Narnia, or the nearest town in Narnia, for that matter. After the first day, she had begun to eat her food as sparingly as possible and refilled her water skin whenever she came across a fresh water stream, such as this. Sighing, she dunked her skin into the cool liquid so that it would refill once again.

She wasn't quite sure when she had lost sight of the shoreline. She had come across a thicket of undergrowth not long after she had made it past the borders. It seemed easier to just ride around it, but the undergrowth soon became a forest, barring her from the sea. Why would anyone let something so ugly block something so beautiful? she wondered. She loved the water.

After sufficiently filling her skin, she jumped into the stream, staying close to the grassy banks in case the current was too much further out. She wet her hair and basically bathed with her clothes on and no soaps or scented oils. Afterwards, she lay on the grass, next to Tyber, to let the sun dry her. "How long must I travel," she spoke to herself, "before I reach civilization?"

"Just a little further down stream," a voice whispered over the bubbling water.

Choni sat upright and looked around, seeing no one near. She frowned and gazed absently into the water until she realized a face stared back. Before she could react, it had disappeared. She wondered whether or not she had truly seen the face or not.