NAME, NICKNAMES; arabel halcyon victoria, 'ara'
NAME MEANING, ORIGIN; arabel is an english name of uncertain etymology. some sources define it as "eagle heroine" others as "yielding to prayer". halcyon is greek, meaning "calm". it is also the name of a type of tree kingfisher bird. victoria is the latin word for "victory" and is the female form corresponding with the name "victor".
TITLES, ALIASES; "the sniper" due to her immense skills in marksmanship. also "the little princess", as she is much younger than a lot of the other players and for how she acts.
SCREENNAME; risabel
GENDER, PRONOUNS; female, she/her
SEXUALITY, ORIENTATION; bisexual (heavy male lea, demi), demiromantic
AGE; 15
RANK; beta tester
CLASS; archer
WEAPON; she has a high-powered compound bow equipped with a plethora of specialized arrows. risa also has two handheld pistols that she has holstered in case she runs out of arrows. they look like this but in a cyanic blue.
RELATIONSHIP STATUS; single
LOVE INTERESTS; n/a, open!
BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND; n/a, open!
WIFE/HUSBAND; n/a closed for now :)
PARENTS; caralyn adamos x aleksander victoria ; caralyn died shortly after giving birth to arabel, so ara does not have any strong memories about her mother. she only knows what caralyn was like through the stories that her maid used to tell her as a child. arabel finds her mother to be a strong, kind woman, though she does hold a bit of "resentment" for caralyn's death. she wishes that she was able to meet the woman that gave her life. aleksander victoria, on the other hand, is still alive but arabel also does not have many memories with him. he is a powerful businessman who rarely has time to stick around for his daughter. in fact, he has practically delegated her care to the maids and live-in servants of their house, as well as to the nurses of the hospital arabel currently resides in. arabel doesn't mind her father too much, knowing that he has to work hard to keep up with her medical bills. however, she does hope that one day he will have a free moment to spend with her.
SIBLINGS; n/a
RELATIVES; arabel collectively has two aunts (merida and julie) and one uncle (samuel) from both her mother and father's side of the family. her mother's brother and sister (merida and samuel) are very close to her, despite living across the world. when they do travel to america, though, they never fail to visit her and to spend around a week or two with their niece. she loves them very much as they helped raise her after her mother died. arabel's aunt on her father's side (julie), however, barely visits at all. she, like aleksander, is a very busy person in politics. however, when she does visit arabel can expect to receive at least one overly expensive and unwarranted gift. although arabel loves receiving these gifts, she does wonder if there is anything more to her aunt than just money.
CHILDREN; n/a
FRIENDS; arabel's family has four main servants in her house: chester (52), the butler; sacha (46) the cook; simone (39), the driver; and marie (36) the head maid. these four have become the closest family she has, as they were the ones who took care of young arabel when her father was not at home. considering the nature of his business, he was rarely around.
arabel especially enjoys spending time with sacha and marie who co-mothered her after caralyn's death. they have always been her voices of advice, although marie, being younger, definitely advocates for more spirited decisions than the composed sacha. sacha and marie have guided arabel through playdates, relationship problems, and eventually the diagnosis of her heart condition. she is forever indebted to their kindness and have leaned on their support numerous times throughout her life.
chester, who was 37 when arabel was born, stepped in when aleksander proved to be unfit to be her father. he was the person who taught her how to explore the world and be dauntless. as a surrogate father, there have been many times where chester and arabel have fought over such father-and-daughter issues, but they always end up reconciling. arabel trusts chester with her life and has always secretly wished that he was her true father.
simone, around the same age as marie, has become like arabel's brother. he was the person who first introduced her to video games and played with her often when he didn't have to drive her father around to meetings. simone is still a child at heart and was always content with entertaining baby arabel with toys and games. he was also the first one to teach her how to bike, since he was the only one with enough patience (and experience) to teach a six year old how to get on a tricycle. arabel is very fond of her pseudo-brother and to this day still games with him.
when arabel was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, her life was upturned and she was restrained to the four same walls of a hospital room. as expected, she was highly distraught and rebellious, hoping to prove to herself that she wasn't as hopeless as her condition made her seem. after months of treatment, she eventually accepted what her life was going to look like. the only person who really made it bearable was her main nurse, valerie, who bonded with her over the first few months. valerie was assigned to arabel by chester, who, under the order of arabel's father, personally screened every nurse to find a fitting match for arabel. she became like an older sister to the then 12-year-old, quietly giving her the encouragement and love that arabel could no longer receive from her friends at home. she is usually quite permissive and allows arabel to do what she wants, but also displays a high amount of care and attention to her patient. arabel is very grateful to have valerie as her nurse, since valerie has always been her advocate first and her father's employee second.
ENEMIES; n/a open!
FACECLAIM, VOICECLAM; violet evergarden; naomi scott
WEIGHT, HEIGHT; 5'2; 110 lbs
SCARS, BODY MODIFICATIONS, ACCESSORIES; she wears a gold necklace from julie that has a bright jade pendant. arabel often has simple, understated gold rings on as well
PHYSICAL, MENTAL DISABILITIES; arabel suffers from systolic cognitive heart failure, meaning the walls of her heart are too thin to pump blood efficiently throughout her body. under high amounts of stress or overwork, she is at high risk of having a heart attack and undergoing cardiac arrest.
arabel is very sweet, almost selfless in the way she acts with her real life friends (and close TFO buddies). she doesn't wish harm on anyone, especially since she understands how life can be taken away so easily. however, when the time arises she can be extremely rebellious to show that she is not weak. her heart condition halted her life and threw her into a depressive spiral. she hates being given pity about her physical disadvantages and constantly tries to prove her worth. online, arabel acts very similar to real life in the way that she is charming. in her early years of gaming, she took her charismatic personality to take advantage of easily persuaded players. she oozed confidence and flaunted a facade of helplessness. many young male players took a liking to her, doing her dirty work like currency farming. she often swayed them by adding on a kind of childish love, exchanging faked "you are so strong!"s or "you're the best boyfriend ever!"s for expensive and overpowered accessories. of course, she never felt any true emotions towards her online partners, often ditching them when a better player came along.
the friends she has maintained over the years know the true arabel. it was this handful of gamers who gave her the nickname "little princess" for her age and ability to bend strong players to please her every whim. with these folks, arabel shows her true personality and deems them good friends. they are the only people she knows besides her step-in family and she trusts them incredibly.
i'll add to this if I think of anything else! a lot of her history has been sprinkled into the sections above.
playlist:
— tough, quinn xcii
— numb, carlie hanson
— scars to your beautiful, alessia cara
