Dorea Martell

== Personality ==
=== Personality Description ===
Dorea is a profound fighter and utilizes a double-bladed polearm as her weapon of choice. While she may look captivating, her personality isn't all impressive to those close to her. She isn't a good committer and often is often too careful and reserved in situations that don't require it. Around her siblings, she's introverted and often wishes to speak her mind with only one other person. Though outside of her flaws, she is sane and smart with her decisions which is where her cautiousness comes in. She, unfortunately, has no ambitions and always falls flat when trying to think of one as she's too conflicted about what she likes. 
Where many fixate on a skill to distinguish themselves from others, Dorea has none of it. Her skills are spread out from wielding a double-bladed polearm to cooking, and rock climbing. Her life was relatively calm and nothing really traumatic made her soft and highly empathetic. Yet this kind of peace has come at a cost as she’s far too divided in her priorities and has since indulged in lustful desires to expand herself. 
When talking, Dorea tends to be more submissive in nature as she wishes to hear whoever she’s willing to talk to first. Her voice is tender and adheres to a clear Middle Eastern accent. Some might say she tries to get under people’s blindspots to pick out who they really are which made her a tough case for those wishing for her hand in marriage as she always figured out their true sides. 
=== Goals and Motivation ===
To live faithfully to her family and find something meaningful in her life. 
=== Reputation ===
Dorea is well-known to be a charming Princess who has little ambitions of her own and is very open to trying new things. Her family knows her as an oddball who can’t commit to one thing for long periods as she gets bored fast. 
== Backstory ==
Princess Dorea Martell of House Nymerios-Martell was born in 225 AC in a cold spring season just before the summer. It was the 9th day of the 9th moon conveniently as her birth came just two years after Larra’s as she was surrounded by family and maesters. But the room at the time was less exciting than her older sister due to their past experience. 
Her life and everything in between would be known as a joke to her later down the line according to her.
Dorea was taken to Water Gardens, the private residence of the Martells where she and the rest of her lovely siblings were kept. She was the shyest Sibling of them all who suffered from a speech disorder that stunted her social abilities. But in turn, she was much more observant and people often described their Princess as a "nightcrawler" as she stayed up at night every time she was tucked in by her mother. 
Larra was perhaps her closest sibling and friend, they played and laughed. The two of them would even craft their own slingshots to fire at fruits whenever they were served. And yet, she never felt the same way as Larra or her other siblings when they played. She just felt strange. By the time she began her tiresome education at the age of 6, she already found herself having trouble with priorities. She was a procrastinator and desired to try new things that can satisfy her adventurous spirit. But it wasn't all bad as she had extensive help from her mother who took time away from her other sisters to ensure Dorea wasn't falling behind. In doing these adventures, she learned much about the wilderness outside their palace.
It was fear, Dorea feared that she would be left behind so she cringed hard at her older sister Larra in almost every adventure she went on. She wouldn't care if she were reprimanded, all that mattered was the joy of being there for the finest moments. But when she was 8 years old, Dorea followed an old route outside the residence and bribed a few guards to see the shoreline at night. But it took a sharp turn when she slipped off a small ledge separating the sand and the ground and slammed her right leg on a rock. Dorea screamed and cried in pain as she had to limp back a mile. To her horror when she got to the palace, a snake bit her other leg and left her having to crawl back. Luckily for her, the snake wasn't venomous and was a baby. Her parents scolded her and took away the money she stole as well as hiding their own. Her leg took 6 months to heal and she spent her time reading about their great ancestor, Princess Nymeria.
Except it would soon demoralize her as she didn't know what to do to make things thrilling without getting hurt. But once she turned 9 years old, she was trained by her father in grueling combat lessons that strengthened her commitment, in fact, it's one trait she seems to be good at fighting. She fought against the fear inside her heart, the fear of herself and her future. She feared many things but fighting numbed it, she found the sword to be impractical while spears and polearms just had the right taste of range and lethality. 
Dorea has gone from an odd child to a "lady awakened" as her courtesy and discipline reached new heights. She would continue to follow her older sister Larra wherever she went, to the Shadow City and beyond even if she refused. At this point in time, her disorder was kept in check with continued support. Where others would be mocked, she was praised as she wouldn't be a good talker yet she was scholarly. Her reading proficiency far exceeded that of her siblings for a time and had written a diary at one point detailing her adventures, and fears. 
Yet at one point when she was 15, she met a Wyl in a brothel she snuck into and for a while, she spied on the man and watched as he indulged in the debaucherous moments with women and men alike. She wasn't impressed and when he eventually caught onto her, she decided to interrogate him in private on his business in the shadow city to which he humbly replied in clear sincerity, that he was interested in her and that he knew she was there the entire time. He was 7 years her senior and was hoping she'd be interested in coming to the Red Mountains. As curious as she was, she accepted and with the permission of her parents, she took off and spent 2 months forming a romantic bond before she became so homesick that she was forced to go back by her retinue. 
Over time, she had grown more and more aware of her surroundings and welcomed the freedom she had when she was not 16, but when that came, it all changed. Dorea had grown up and it fell on her to decide whether to marry another house to secure House Martell or to enjoy life. During this time, she had spent much of her time either in the Shadow City or in Water Gardens with her family trying to find some semblance of joy but she started to lose commitment to everyday things. She had become lazy and indulgent in romantic affairs that some people called her a “love snake that doesn’t bite” as they say much to the annoyance of her parents who then cut down on her travels to the Shadow City. Instead, they decided to pair Lord Allyrion’s eldest son with Dorea in order to potentially wed them together to ease recent tensions between the two. So they spent time both at Godsgrace and then at Sunspear before Dorea eventually slapped their son when he attempted to bed her which she had no interest in at the moment. From that, she instantly cut herself off from everything and ran into the Shadow City once more to clear her head. 
Her parents eventually settled the dispute privately to where no one knows what was discussed, was it a threat posed by one of the houses, or maybe allowing Dorea to decide later on? It didn’t matter as she soon became stricken with jealousy of her sisters who seem to be achieving more than her in politics. That’s where she said,
“I’m done with it all. I’ll just live it out and hope for the best.” 
Life continued thereafter till she met with the heir of House Allyrion after years apart from one another. In an action to rectify her unfortunate circumstance that night, she fully embraced him, and together they shared a whole week alone sending each other into the bliss that erupted during the starry nights, and the days being a clash of the spear against scimitar. For months they remained together, traveling across Dorne and even to Essos on one occasion to enrich themselves with the culture and compete together in a local fist brawl. Even though they had great chemistry together, they both never asked the simple question: “will you take my hand in marriage?” In Dorea’s case, she felt it was fine where they were while the Allyrion wanted Dorea in debt for dumping him that one night. 
She had just turned 20 when her father died, she and all her sisters shared their tears and sorrows but like all her sisters, she moved on and continued to have no ambitions outside those around her. Dorea just didn’t have it in her to come up with one that she could pursue for a lifetime. And her love for the Allyrion heir, she doesn’t the courage to do the courteous thing and ask for his hand.
And despite all of that, she still continues to serve her family, her house, and Dorne under the premise of being there for anyone who needs her assistance till she finds her own path. With her older sister buried in papers and stress, she would follow her anywhere and share her annoyance with the Yronwoods and House Blackfyre as she calls “parasites” in Dorne. They can try rebelling, but she would not bend, break, or bow to a house that has tried to tear itself into Dorne thinking no one would notice.
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