ranger, alary etzel

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name alary alex etzel age twenty-three class ranger hometown cura village, kohaku personality POSITIVE NEGATIVE history Being one of the guys is easy. A statement that only applied to some cases. In this case, for Alary, the idea was most certainly true. From the very start her life was full of activity, in a way the most feminine of girls simply couldn't get into. She was born into a large family. The Etzel family was one that believed in the idea of large numbers of children to preserve their name, their line. So, when Alary was born she was only the eighth in a large number of children. Seven, five boys and two girls. The Etzel family lived in a quaint home, humble in its design and modest in its intricacies. The family followed suit. They didn't have any housekeepers or hired hands, everything for the family was done by the family. Each and every child had experience with everything from washing clothes to splitting wood, with various levels of enthusiasm. From a young age, Alary was one of the children that loved to work. She loved the feeling of a good hard day of work and the way her body would ache after a full day of chores. It was what made her feel alive and what she went to for relief. Around the time she turned ten, gender roles began to come into play. A traditional village had traditional ideals. This included gender roles. Naturally, Alary's family attempted to get her to become more feminine. To try makeup, wear dresses, learn things like "domestic duties", even if none of them really came into play when it came to their household. Equally as naturally, Alary declined and fought. How could she practice at the dojo in a dress? What good was make up if all it did was run and smear after a hard day's work? And why should she learn domestic skills if marriage wasn't even part of her plans for the future yet? It didn't take long for her resilience to pay off, and by the time she was fourteen all efforts to conform her had stopped. Throughout her teenage years Alary spent a lot of time exploring the surrounding wilderness. The mountains and the desert interested her, along with the pokemon there. She spent long hours just sitting along the edge of these landscapes and watching how they moved. Anytime she wasn't spending training her body in the dojo or performing chores around the house were spent outside, soaking in the fresh air and the usually bright sun. When she turned eighteen Alary stepped it up a level. She left the village seeking what many seek. Knowledge and experience. She wished to become more acquainted with the region, and so she spent a good four years exploring it and its wonders. She first left for the south, heading over the mountains and into the areas of Sol City and, slightly further, the Somnus Ruins (carefully and only along its borders of course). Then she moved up to the north, where her heart really found what it loved. Nature. All the wonders the areas past the desert had to offer! The Ceres Forest, Lake Pax, all of the landmarks so many knew. They made her heart sore and she found herself one of the few people in the region who became truly infatuated with the region's flora and fauna. Its landscapes and terrain. The pokemon. Then the Scourge hit. So much of Kohaku and its beauty was eaten up by the Scourge's infection. While her family was safe in Cura Village most of the region wasn't, and she found herself worried for the wonders she'd seen. Both the people she'd met and the great things she'd seen. When she heard word of a Ranger Association she made her way there right away. People who would be protectors of Kohaku's beauty and people. That was what she wanted to be a part of. She would fight back the Scourge, and return Kohaku to its rightful glory. tl;dr Alary grew up in traditional Cura Village. Gender roles required her to be more feminine but she rebelled, instead becoming very much a tomboy. In her late teen and early adult years she fell in love with nature, and now that the Scourge is threatening it she plans to enlist with the Rangers so that her love is not tarnished by the infection's wrath. ooc naoto shirogane: PERSONA 4, alary etzel

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