Martha Duthé

Portrait by Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, 1780

**Martha Catherine-Anguine Duthé** (12 January 1770 – 2 December 1899) was a celebrated British courtier, and the legitimized daughter of a Earl of England (George Wyndham). Unlike her mother, Martha, was incredibly intelligent as well as being incredibly stoic. After her marriage, she became known as **Martha Kirkland** (マーサ・カークランド *Māsa Kākurando*) and became highly respected—she was eventually revealed to be the adoptive daughter of George Wyndham, having actually been the seven-year-old daughter of Grand Duchess Victoria Clementine of Dagmar and Prince George of the Ghost Empire who was believed to have died during her childhood by getting her soul ripped out of her body by the Goddess of Death herself. A calming force in the Kirkland Household, she was a kind but firm woman—a woman with a backbone of steel and a tongue to match the biting strength of her words. Like her mother, she has inherited her steely glare—said to be "harsh enough to melt steel itself" as evident by people steering clear of her when she gets worked up. She died in 2 December 1899 at the Kirkland Manor in the Kingdom of England surrounded by her in-laws, her husband, and her children (all four of them surviving her); her painting would hang on the walls forever keeping the peace forever.

## Appearance

Martha has straight, honey blonde hair and greyish brown eyes. According to Wales, she is rather fair unlike her aristocratic parents. During her life, she was painted wearing a white dress with a lot of ruffles, and wearing a white bow on top of her head and white ballet flats. Her lips (which were a subtle red color) were visible without makeup, making her incredibly attractive. Her hair was worn down a majority of the time, the one exception being her wedding where she wore it up in a complex braided crown bun, pinned at the back of her head. During her wedding, she wore a white wedding dress with a large train depicting ornate lace designs. She is usually depicted frowning or staring emotionlessly at the camera. She also appears to be around the same height as Japan.

## Personality

Martha was a somewhat selfless person (both in her personal life and her official duties), caring, and kind-hearted—however she was also prone to rubbing salt in people`s wounds (intentionally or otherwise), becoming very stoic at the presence of her adoptive parents at the drop of a hat, and being overly blunt. She was described by England during her life "as incredibly troublesome" as despite her talents in archery and using a pan as a literal weapon, she was also incredibly clumsy and prone to slipping on thin air of all things. A strict but stern mother, she cared deeply for her in-laws, her husband, and especially her children (though she disapproved of Arthur`s plundering habits)—she was the supposed 'man' of the household whenever her husband and her brothers-in-laws were away from the manor, displaying a hard-working and dedicated nature. An overachiever, she was prone to putting her duties above her responsibilities to her husband; her famous saying "Duty must always come first" originated from her biological mother who whispered the phrase in her ears every night before she went to bed. She often used British vocabulary, such as 'bloody' and 'git'. She was prone to being sharp-tongued at times, usually when irritated or upset about something.

Martha was also, apparently the "queen of overachievers", and Wales had described her as "somebody who is a workaholic, working constantly without regard to her own health. Truly an idiot". She could be described as "incredibly observant" and a masterful archer; she retained her family`s archery-based roots, and possesses razor-sharp skills in the art itself, able to shoot arrows into her enemies from the back of a galloping horse, and shoot off arrows while moving around which is regarded as a lost art form. Due to her family being from one of the oldest magical families on the planet and especially in the Mythical Nations, Martha, possessed a strong connection/bond to magic itself, not requiring the usage of either potions or a summoning potion to use her power. However, as she rarely-if-ever used them due to the paranoia of witches, her unbridled emotions were sufficient enough to destroy several city blocks, being for the most part extremely uncontrollable and thus unsafe to use in either a city, the countryside, or a confined place unless blocked off by a A-class magical barrier on all sides. An Equestrian, she was a capable horse-rider, enough riding skill to make sure that she wasn`t bucked off a horse.

According to the author`s notes, Martha`s interests included cooking, baking, literature, archery, and spending time with her family. Incredibly sharp-witted, she abhorred France (Francis Bonnefoy), calling him a "bloody frog" much to the amusement of the Kirkland brothers. She was prone to overworking herself and could be lazy when she felt like it, when allergy season rolled around, she was insufferable. Her steely and iron-clad will makes it so that she does not easily succumb to stress or pressure. Underneath her steely and iron-clad will, she is incredibly sensitive and incredibly self-conscious. Her observing skills allowed her to calculate the best outcome for everything, including hand-to-hand combat. In one of the more recent author notes, Martha, is noted to have three older siblings (two of them male, one of them female), and three younger siblings (two of them female, one of them male); making Martha the fourth child and second daughter of her biological parents.

Because of her status as an orphan, Martha was incredibly distant, despised having affection lavished on her, and didn`t easily trust others despite her selfless nature, preferring to work alone. England described Martha as the "male version of himself" on more than one occasion leading to the assumption by other nations that she behaved exactly like England while alive. She was also depicted as being self-deprecating or tsundere by her children as well as her husband. Besides from her generally harsh nature, she was stated to have a softer side and genuinely cared for her in-laws, husband, and her four children. Also, every year when the anniversary of her marriage came around, her condition collapsed.

In a blog post, Martha was depicted singing in Welsh (the national language of Wales as well as one of Dagmar`s many widely-spoken languages) to illustrate her Dagmarian roots. In another blog post, she was depicted singing in Russian (the national language of Russia, as well as the national language of the Ghost Empire), illustrating her paternal family roots.

It has been mentioned that Martha is Wales`s wife, making her England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Sealand`s sister-in-law. In addition, this makes her the adoptive older sister-in-law to Britain`s colonies as well.

## Relationships

### Wales

#### *Main article: Wales*

Wales was the husband of Martha while she was still alive. The two had met in the streets of London where Martha was being trailed by some unsavory characters, Wales rescuing her from the drunken men that were following her—when he complimented her hair, she blushed and called him a "bloody git" out of embrassement before storming off much to his astonishment. Over the course of several years, as they continued to meet, their family and friends