.+Get Thee To A Nunnery...+.

...come on, I had to. She's called Ophelia, I had to throw in a Hamlet reference somewhere! |D

So yes, this is Ophelia Keagra, mother of Ronnie and Rollostebanio III. She was born into the noble class and had wealth all about her for her entire childhood. Her mother did when she was very young, and so the young Ophelia was mainly brought up by servants whilst rarely seeing her father. The reason for this was her father was a big gambler, and was often away at casinos and gambling houses whilst the servants ran things at the house. Ophelia was therefore used to getting what she wanted whenever she wanted it, and this proved her biggest flaw in the end.

Her life passed in an aristocratic mundaneness until her sixteenth birthday. A great party was held in her honour, and it was then that she spied the infamous and illustrious libertine known as Rollostebanio II, or Nio. She immediately fell for his roguish charm as she watched him flirt with and seduce woman after woman as the night went on, and at the end of the party she set out to look for him. Despite being four years her senior, she was pleased to find that he seemed as interested in her as she was in him. Nio's talk was merely friendly, but with his gift it appeared to be a lot more serious, and Ophelia grasped that possibility whole-heartedly. She was a logical and sensible girl raised by a careless man, and here was the opportunity she needed to be reckless.

A few years passed until she saw him again, and by then she was a little more headstrong and confident. She met him at another party hosted by a family friend and the two got to talking. She divulged her affections to him, and Nio all but laughed it off, telling her to remember that he was a libertine and wasn't capable of bringing any kind of emotion into what he did. Ophelia however was not to be brushed aside; she demanded he love her, and Nio again replied calmly that he could not, except for one night. Ophelia took this information and thought about the consequences- and then it hit her.

She allowed Nio to seduce her, and they ended up going back to her family mansion and sleeping together. In the morning Nio gave his farewells and left, but Ophelia was not saddened by any means. She was now no longer a virgin, and though she couldn't claim she was pregnant (protection of some kind had been used-Nio's not stupid |D) she could tell her father she was no longer pure. When she did, her father went ballistic. When he found out who it was that had spoiled his daughter's chance of a good marriage, his mood improved somewhat however; he and a group of other nobles had wanted to bring an end to Nio's activities for a while now, and marriage was one of the ways he could do that. He called in for a visit on Nio and informed him that, having defiled his daughter, he would need to marry her. At first Nio refused, stating Ophelia's part in the seduction itself, but her father would not be swayed. With the pressure of the girl's honour, the nobles' desires and the looming threat of prison over his head, Nio felt compelled to propose, and when he did Ophelia couldn't have been happier.

They were married in the spring and Ophelia fell pregnant, giving birth to Ronnie nine months later. This secured her grip on her husband even further, because she now had two of Nio's weak spots in her grasp: financial gain and a child on the way. She knew Nio would never abandon her with a child in the picture. However when Ronnie was born Ophelia reacted rather strangely; she refused to hold the baby Ronnie and sometimes took great pains in not feeding her for as long as possible. Nio took it to be post-natal depression and was very supportive of her throughout Ronnie's infancy and childhood.

Ronnie was the spitting image of her mother, and there wasn't much to suggest that Nio was her father at all. The fact she was a girl also made Ophelia slightly suspicious of her own daughter's relationship with her father; she rarely allowed Ronnie quality time with her father and insisted that she needed to 'learn to be a wife', something that Nio detested with every bone in his body. That was, after all, why he had become a libertine; to free women, just for a little while, from marriages they had been pushed into.

Ophelia became a lot more content once she fell pregnant again and gave birth to Rollo. Rollo was her definite favourite, and she would spend hours holding him as a baby or playing with him as a toddler. Nio couldn't understand why she behaved in this way towards Rollo, and yet shunned their daughter. He was, however, happy that he had a son, and doted upon Rollo with all the love he had. He tried to spend as much time with Ronnie as possible too, and now Rollo had come along he could spend time with the both of them without much of a problem.

And so they lived relatively happily for a while...until Ophelia met Evelien. She knew that her husband had many female friends, but she found Evelien the most threatening. Evelien's streetwise nature and unclipped manners made her the exact opposite of the rich girl Ophelia, and the two often clashed. After a particularly heated exchange Evelien stormed away from Ophelia, and to the latter's horror, Nio pursued her. Consumed with jealousy and suspicion, Ophelia always bombarded Nio with questions every time he ventured out of the home without her, and their relationship soon turned frosty after Nio became tired of her constant accusations and demands.

The real problem was when Nio came home with Mercutio. Even though he said he had found the baby on the street, Ophelia could see through it clearly. What most riled her though was that, ironically, Mercutio looked more like Nio than any of her children. He was his father's carbon copy save for his eyes- eyes that, Ophelia claimed, were the 'eyes of the whore'. Nio pleaded with her to accept Mercutio as their own for his sake, and though Ophelia despised the boy with every bone in her body, she reluctantly accepted. It was clear though that she was liable to pin blame for anything and everything on the young Mercutio, and it was only until later that he could stand up to her.

Nio disappeared when Rollo was 16 and Mercutio 13. Ophelia's world came crashing down around her, and however much anyone tried to comfort her she gradually got worse and worse. She flew into rages far more often than before, and got very violent at times; one of Mercutio's many scars is from where she threw a glass bottle at him. Rollo too bore the brunt of her rages, particularly when he stepped in to protect his 'brother'. It all got too much for Rollo however and he left the house at 18 to live with Caiaphas, Arich and Polter. Ronnie was by then married, which left Mercutio alone in the house with a mother not his own that was slowly descending into madness. He took three years of it before he too abandoned her.

Tragically, Ophelia ended up drowning in the river near their home, though whether it was suicide or murder is unknown. There are accusations that Ronnie could have possibly been the perpatrator, but the case remains open, and will never be closed.

...however evil she may be, she is a pretty little thing I like to think of her not as evil, but as greatly flawed. She loved a little too loudly, and was used to getting her own way. When things didn't go her way, she would stop at nothing to put them on the right track again. Kinda sad, really...
Again, cookie for reading all that if you bothered, it is interesting honest!
Also, pretty dressss...someone who's girly from me, yay!

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