Estella Sunderland

Dianna Sunderland

Arianne Sunderland

**Estella Sunderland** is the first-Born daughter of Lord Cecil Sunderland. She is lady-in-waiting to her cousin Zhoe Arryn alongside Alys Corbray and her twin Helen Sunderland. Though her and her sister are the same age, Estella is far more mature and reasonable and is in all regards the eldest. While the nominal lady of the Sisters due to her father’s recent death, she has yet to assume the role in person.

## Appearance and Character

Estella is a slender brown-eyed young woman of 20 years. Standing at 5’10”, her long flowing light brown hair falls down to her elbows, and while some may regard her as pretty, Estella’s strongest charms lie in her wise tongue and cunning mind. While Estella isn’t nearly as much of a cheerful spirit as her sister, she knows when to smile, and it only heightens the effect. She and her twin share much the same looks, and if it weren’t for a difference in hairstyle and personality, one couldn’t be blamed for mistaking Estella for Helen.

Though Estella and her twin were born at the same time, Estella is by all regards the eldest, being far more reasonable and mature than Helen. Estella is a solitary and reclusive character, though she is by far not shy, she is a capable speaker and knows her way through a conversation, and to get on top of it, whether through feminine charms, persuasion, or educated reactions, sometimes even appearing as a completely different person when she chooses. Despite this, Estella tends to withdraw herself from others when needing to study, locking herself away with nothing but books and her clingy sister (by Helen’s insistence), fostering a know-it-all mentality where Estella can become obsessed with understanding what she can, her twin sister one of few capable of awakening her from this obsession. This mentality also makes her quite cynical of those she does not trust, and she spends sizeable amounts of time filtering new information through known logic and knowledge.

## History

Estella Sunderland was born in 78 A.C. to Cecil and Melantha Sunderland. Just a few moments later her twin sister, Helen, was born. Being the eldest daughter to the Lord of the Sisters, and her elder brother Davos born a bastard, Estella was raised from a young age on the idea of becoming a lady. Her mother went to great lengths to teach both her and Helen ladylike manner, though Helen often found it frustrating and constructive while Estella was more interested in other things, placing a wedge between Estella and her mother from a young age.

Estella spent much of her free time in the early parts of her life studying in her room, utilizing even the skills and values her mother taught to learn things that might later help her as a lady. This was not done in shyness or distaste for her mother but merely as Estella prefers to be left undisturbed and alone for when she is in study. During these times her greatest contact to the outside world was clingy Helen, who much of the time read and studied alongside her, although Helen’s endurance was tragically behind Estella’s, and Estella spent long swathes of time alone.

It was around when she turned 15 that she was put under the service of Zhoe Arryn, a girl about a full year younger, as a lady-in-waiting, an arrangement by her mother to get Estella to actually do something with herself before reaching the age of majority. During her early time in the Eyrie, Estella put much of the knowledge she had learned in those bedroom study sessions to the test, practicing her diplomatic manner and charm, soon learning how she could use those mannerisms to her own ends. Though this failed to make her any more trusting, Estella has if anything heightened her skepticism of everybody who tries to enter her life, especially as the need to marry has become a presence in the young lady’s life.

When her father died in 96 AC, unlike her sister, Estella took it with a numb gentleness, her somewhat lacking closeness for her father and affection for her sister melting Estella’s shell of strength into a caring and happy side of her that rarely comes out in even the most trust-filled and relaxed environments. Sometimes a snippet or piece of this may slip through her facade in the presence of her trusted friends or companions, especially her sister, but she usually appears as the stern and untrusting lady of The Sisters.

## Family

Her father Cecil is about a year dead, and Estella and her mother have been at odds for years now. As for the rest of her family, while Estella certainly remembers them, she is barely close to few of her siblings or cousins save Helen.

Family Tree

### Close Family

Cecil Sunderland (deceased) - Father

Melantha Sunderland née Arryn (Born 50 - 48 years old) - Mother

Davos Stone (Born 68 - 30 years old) - Half-brother

Helen Sunderland (Born 78 - 20 years old) - Twin Sister

Dianna Royce née Sunderland (Born 79 - 19 years old) - Sister

Clarisse Sunderland (Born 81 - 17 years old) - Sister