Delaney Rose Norell
Lady Delaney Rose Derrason- Norell (a.k.a. Lani)
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Delaney, despite, or perhaps because of the abuse she has taken all her life, is extremely strong. She has a very deceptive appearance of daintiness, often looking smaller than she really is.
Facial Features
Delaney wears an expression of stoic stupidity when she is in public and even most of the time when she is in private. She has a very hard time showing emotion, for she learned long ago that hiding them made her father less angry.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Lady Delaney was the daughter of the Earl of Terraton. At the age of two years old, her mother passed away from a horse accident. Her only sibling, Blaine was eight years older than her and left for school when she was three years old, leaving her alone with her increasingly abusive and overbearing father.
Her father, who kept up appearances in public and had a reputation for being very generous and kind, took out all his frustrations on his young daughter. An expert at hiding his indulgence with drink in public, he would come home angry over every petty annoyance that he'd gathered throughout a day. Not even the servants were aware of the abuse Delaney put up with throughout the years. The abuse fluctuated, he sometimes leaving her alone for weeks and sometimes beating her multiple times a day. He never hit her face, and encouraged the servants to leave her alone.She grew up, slinking into corners and staying out of sight. By the time she was five, she had perfected her appearance of utter stupidity. To her, it was an action of self-preservation, as it caused her father to leave her alone more often.
When she was seventeen, her father, decided to bring her out into the marriage mart and brought her brother Blaine home to help. Blaine whom she hardly remembered, but who was kind to her, was someone she quickly learned to trust. Three weeks into her introduction into society, she married the Duke of Montague after a particularly large scandal. Around the same time she was married, upon the recommendation of her new husband, was offered a place in the Royal Protection, which she accepted. The offer of learning self-defense was particularly appealing to her.
She and her husband carefully portrayed a public image of a very unhappy marriage, partly to keep a semblence of privacy for themselves and partly because her husband's sense of humor was extremely silly. Delaney blossomed in her marriage, giving birth to ten children, two of which died at birth. The eight children spent their years in the privacy of their home, the public not showing much interest in them, mostly because only the three oldest were even know to exist.
Education
Mental Trauma
Delaney spent much of her life, even after she was married learning to trust after the extensive physical abuse from her father throughout her young life.
Intellectual Characteristics
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