Name: Erin Saunders
Nickname(s): None
Age: 9
Birth Date: August 30
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Occupation(s): None
Sexuality: Straight
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Height: 4'2''
Weight: 80 lbs
Body build: Slim, minimal build
Eye Colour: Amaranth
Hair: Long, light red-orange, straight
Clothing: Anything cute and comfortable. She loves skirts and dresses, anything feminine.
Other: None
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Personality: Around others, Erin is generally quite kind and gentle, until someone makes her angry, which isn't a difficult feat. She is still a child, after all. When first meeting someone, she is usually very polite, unless that person gives her a reason not to trust them. She loves peace and quiet, though, and is quite good friends with Mina because of Mina's tendency to talk too much. But in the blink of an eye, she can become the school's diva, earning her the nickname of "The Council Diva." Even addressing her by that nickname can make her give you the "evil eyes" for hours on end. She can brighten a room, but at the same time, her menacing aura when she's mad can turn practically turn anyone to stone.
When she's alone, she loves to read and garden, but harm her books or her flowers, and you'll soon be fertilizing her flowerbed. When she's bored, she likes to go pester Shin, even though he usually ignores her.
Likes:
♥Sunsets
♥Sweets
♥Baby animals
♥Caramel
Dislikes:
✖Spicy food
✖Rain
✖Dark colors
✖Bugs
Fears: She fears that her father may not return from the war he is currently fight in, or that she may fail as the school principal when the time comes. Minor fears include spiders, owls, creepy dolls, and frogs.
Motto(s): "What's the point of worrying anyway?"
Personal Belongings: A locket her mother gave her. She never wears it, in fear that she may lose it or break it. Inside, there is a picture of her mother, father, and her, with an inscription stating "Home is where the heart is." She finds this saying to quite painful though, feeling that her mother was her heart, and after losing her, she feels that she has no home.
Bio: Her father had always been in the military, so she had rarely seen him all her life. Erin was happy living with her mother, however, and it never gave her greater joy than to spend the day gardening with her. However, her mother was always ill, and they very scarcely ever got to even go outside together. Erin had to learn to care for herself because of her mother's fragile nature. Her skin was paper-thin and her bones would break like glass. No one knew why she was so ill; their only clue is that is started not long after she gave birth to Erin. Seven years of caution and gently caring for her mother passed like winter to spring.
After two years of not seeing her father, of course such a child like Erin would be excited to know that he was coming to visit for a few days. She spent all of her time in the weeks preceding his visit cleaning and practicing her baking so that she may make him a cake celebrating him return, knowing that her mother was far too delicate to manage with the oven.
Finally the day came when he was to visit, and all Erin could do all day was run around the house, making sure everything was in order and that mother would look beautiful for her husband. Noon came and passed. Then one o'clock. Then two. Hour after hour, Erin waited by the door as her cake slowly got colder and colder as the pendulum of the family clock swung back and forth. She stood there until it started raining late into the night, when her mother received a call. It was Erin's father.
"Sorry, Darling, but I don't think I'll be able to visit! There's an emergency with the southern troops! They're sending me down straight away!" he said, sounding like he was in a rush. "Send Erin my best!" was the last thing he said before he had to hang up.
Her mother reluctantly put down the phone and walked over towards Erin with a sigh.
"Erin, I'm afraid your father won't be able to make it tonight..." she said as gently as she could, trying not to upset the girl. She placed her hands on the girl's shoulders, trying to calm her.
But Erin sudden jerked herself away from the woman as soon she touched her. Tears were already spilling over her eyes.
"You don't think I know that already?!" she yelled, her words dripping with malice. Erin had never been so angry before. It was a new feeling, a sudden energy boost. She could practically hear her own pulse beating in her ears.
"You know there's nothing we can do about it, dear.." her mother continued, again reaching for her, but Erin was faster. She slammed open the doors and ran as fast as she could into the forest.
She ran all the way to her secret garden, an open field that she came across one day when she ran away from home one night, stumbling here. The field had looked so dull that she decided to plant a few flowers there, and before she knew it, she had an entire garden there. However, now that it was raining in the dead of night, it looked nowhere near beautiful as it did dreary.
Here, she stopped and looked around at all of her blossoms. It had been about half an hour when she cooled down and decided to head back, when the rain suddenly turned to a storm, and her walk turned into a run. Thunder echoed off the rolling hills, and lightning struck a few times, making her heart race with every bolt.
She soon reached the edge of the wilderness, though, but not before she ran into her mother. Apparently, her mother had run after her but had not made it very far into the woods before tripping.
Upon seeing her mother, Erin gasped and immediately ran to her side, trying to lift her up so that she may sit up, but she was too weak. Her mother coughed and look up at Erin with a weak smile.
"Ah, t-there you are, Erin.. I thought you would have found herself lost..." she admitted, but she had a relieved expression on her face, past her tears.
"M-Mother, you're going to be all right! I'll go call Doctor Jordan, and he'll fix you up all better!" Erin said, tears already streaming down her face at the sight of her mother so pale. Especially knowing it was her fault.
Her mother chuckled and closed her eyes. "I'm afraid not this time, dear.." She then winced, and Erin gently laid her back on the ground before running as fast as she possibly could, grabbing the phone, and dialing the doctor's number with her small, wet, muddy fingers as fast as her shaking body would permit. Every ring felt like an eternity. Her heart was pounding in her ears.
The phone picked up, and Erin quickly explained the situation. Mere minutes
later, an ambulance was there, and they took away her mother on a stretcher, quickly heading for the hospital. Erin jumped in the back of the ambulance with the others, all the time holding her mother's hand. But her tears wouldn't stop flowing. Only when she was waiting outside of the emergency room and she fell asleep did her tears subside.
She slept dreamlessly, and for a moment, she craved to never leave this comfortable darkness, where not even her mother's dire condition could reach her conscience. A place without worry.
But she was awoken before she would have liked to have been. A doctor gently woke her up before informing her that she may go in and see her mother now.
Tentatively, Erin entered the white room, as if she was too loud, her mother might die then and there. Her mother turned her head and looked at Erin with a smile.
"Erin.. Are you alright?"
Erin nodded softly before making her way over to her mother's side, placing her hand on her mother's. The silence between them was deafening.
"Mother, I'm s-"
"Don't start that now, Erin.." her mother interrupted, looking at her daughter a bit more seriously.
"But Mom, I-"
"I don't have much time left." Erin suddenly felt the onslaught of tears threaten to spill over. "I don't want to spend my last moments mulling over trivial things."
"Trivial things?" Erin said, feeling the anger rise in her voice. "How can you-!" She suddenly stopped when her mother looked at her with such a sullen expression that Erin found herself at a loss for words. She looked down at the cold floor, the tears now pouring down her face.
"Erin, you know you mean the world to me, right?"
Silence. Of course Erin knew that, but she still couldn't believe all that had happened. Instead, she nodded, and her mother smiled as she lifted her hand to Erin's chin, tilting it upwards to look at her.
"Good. I will always be with you." And with that, the doctors ushered Erin out of the room.
"M-Mom..." she sputtered as a doctor started urging her to leave, tugging on her sleeve to pull her out of the room. Erin reached out to her mother, but she was beyond her reach. She stretched farther, pulling with all her might against the doctor. "Mom!" she cried, fighting and struggling against the man. She escaped his grasp and began to run towards her mother, when suddenly the doctor grasped her by the shoulders and forcefully pulled her out of the room. Her mother simply smiled and waved goodbye to her daughter, small tears gathering in the corners of her eyes.
Erin kicked and screamed, but the doctor restrained her. He explained how she shouldn't be in there when her mother left.
"Yes, I should!" she insisted, kicking and punching the doctor, though it really did not affect the doctor. She eventually gave up and slumped into the doctor's arms, sobbing her heart out before she eventually fell asleep again.
The next day, her father arrived upon hearing the news on his wife's death. He met Erin at the hospital, but she wouldn't even look him in the eye. Even when he embraced her, she wouldn't even budge. She'd only begin to cry again. But even he couldn't stay long, despite his misery. He soon had to leave again, and even then, Erin couldn't look at him straight. She blamed him for her mother's death. She blamed him for everything.
After his departure, Erin was sent to Northern Star Academy to live with the head mistress, a close friend of her mother's. But she hated this woman. This is the woman who took her mother's place as the head of the school, and for her to act so welcoming as if all could be forgiven just made her even angrier. Over the next two years, however, she began to tolerate the head mistress, and they became somewhat of friends. However, she still addresses her as "Head Mistress Kimura," despite how much Miss Kimura dislikes it.
She has been making friends at the academy, though. She met Shin, a boy not much older than her, and although he denies any friendship with her, she still considers them friends. However, he just finds her annoying.
