PERSONALITY
If one could choose only a single (polite) word to describe Hanna Trevelyan the best one to use would be irreverent (hedonist would work if not quite as well, but it wouldn't be entirely untrue either). Simply put, she goes through life shrugging. While she doesn't go out of her way to rebel, she doesn't care much for rules, authority, propriety, or anyone else's opinion of her.
That wasn't always true, of course. Nearly every child is desperate for approval, and Hanna was no different. But she learned fairly early in her youth that there was no pleasing anyone: not the parents that wanted an obedient little lady instead of an unruly tomboy, not the tutors that couldn't cope with her incredibly short attention span and smart mouth. And since gaining that approval was impossible, well, fuck it: she'd be who she was, and anyone that didn't like it wasn't worth her time.
It's a great outlook in theory. In practice, it doesn't work quite so well. Even the youngest child of Bann Trevelyan had responsibilities and expectations that couldn't be shrugged off completely. That didn't mean Hanna wouldn't try; she bucked her parents at every turn, made choices she knew were poor because they were the very opposite of what they'd approve of.
Of all the people one would want leading the armies of the faithful, she had to have been ranked very near the bottom, and Maker, did Hanna hate it at first. She treated it the same way she treated nearly everything else: like a joke. And then she watched Haven burning around them, and barely escaped Corypheus and his pet dragon with her skin intact. Needless to say her viewpoint shifted. She still didn't care for it all, she would still have preferred to whittle her hours away at the tavern with good company, good drinks, and good stories rather than shoulder the future of nations--but she started trying. She paid attention at the war table, she listened to her advisors--she even stopped making quite so many snide remarks.
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flailsatrifts) wrote2015-05-18 06:26 pm
