Conradine Regensturm

Conradine Griselda Regensturm is Ottoline's mother, and owner of Regensturms Naherin, Schneiderin, und Stoffe (Regensturm's Seamstress, Tailor, and Fabric, also known as "RNSS" pronounced as "rinse").

## Personality

Conradine is gentle, caring, and strong-willed. She believes staunchly in justice, perseverance, and the importance of playing by the rules, ideals she has instilled into her daughter. Conradine is incredibly generous, sometimes to her own peril.

## Backstory

Conradine Regensturm is born to parents Friede "Frauke" Regensturm (née von Quelle) and Dieter Regensturm.Her parents are 22 and 23 respectively at the time of her birth. The Regensturms live in their ancestral home, a small manor located close to, but outside of Mondstadt proper.

One year later, her younger brother Eugen is born.

When Conradine is 5, her youngest brother Jurian is born.

Conradine learns skills such as sewing, embroidery, and crochet from her mother Friede. She becomes incredibly skilled at making clothing, and this hobby persists throughout her life.

Conradine loves her brothers very much, and often playfully fights with her brother Jurian, half for fun, and half out of pure annoyance. Eugen is shy and reserved, typically keeping out of their fights and preferring the company of his father.

When Conradine is 16, her parents, age 38 and 39, both die within months of each other due to disease. Conradine, Eugen, and Jurian, due to their exposure to the disease, develop immunity. Young Conradine is then thrust into adulthood, having to manage her parents' estate, arrange for the funerals, and maintain the home. She becomes the sole caretaker of her brothers, aged 15 and 11, due to them having no living relatives and due to Conradine fighting to maintain custody of them.

When she is 18, the money runs out, and she can no longer afford to live in the family home. With no options left, she arranges for family friends, the Schäefer family, to adopt her brothers and care for them as they grow up while she continues to search for a job in the city. Eugen becomes deeply resentful for this.

She puts her skills as a seamstress to work, trying to scrape together a dressmaking business. Although she is well-received by her clients and very skilled, her business remains incredibly small. She is able to live between the houses of several friends, sleeping on their couches until she can afford an apartment.

At age 19, she meets the charming and handsome Milun Astucieux, a Fontainian businessman on a business trip to Mondstadt. The two begin a brief love affair, though their relationship is purely physical. Conradine gets very little benefit from this relationship, although Milun pays for her dinner on nights of their trysts and pays for breakfast the following morning. Milun pays attention to her in a time where she feels like she is nothing, and although she knows the attention he pays to her is only as an object, it still feels better to be treated like an object than to be ignored completely. Two weeks after they first meet, he vanishes without a trace.

A month later, Conradine discovers that she is pregnant. She manages to track down Milun, and writes him countless letters to beg for financial assistance for their child. All these letters go unreplied to. In her despair and depression, she throws herself down a flight of stairs in an attempt to end her own life. This doesn't work, and she decides that this must be a sign that she needs to keep working.

At some point, she visits her brothers at the Schäefer farmstead and confesses to them that she is pregnant. Jurian is mostly shocked, but otherwise doesn't react strongly. Eugen, however, is irate, calling Conradine's actions selfish and foolish, and disowning her.

When she is 4 months pregnant, a man named Absolon Astucieux arrives in Mondstadt to seek her out, introducing himself as Milun's father and explaining the situation. He offers to support her financially while she awaits the birth of her child, helping her find and secure an apartment and helping her better manage her finances and business. They quickly develop a father-daughter bond, seeing as Absolon had lost his own daughter and Conradine had lost her own parents. As her birth draws nearer, Absolon has her move into his new home in Mondstadt with him: he had purchased a 3-story building to use as his personal home and the headquarters of Fidelitas, and he offers to let her use the first story as the storefront for her business. She moves in with Absolon and names the business "Regensturms Naherin, Schneiderin, und Stoffe." As Conradine slowly comes to terms with Milun's betrayal, she comes to realize that she was never really in love with him, but convinced herself that she was to justify her anger and to cope with her guilt at "having used him" for free food and emotional validation.

Shortly thereafter, Conradine gives birth to a baby girl which she names Ottoline. Absolon and Conradine mutually decide to hide the truth about Milun's true nature from Ottoline. Unbeknownst to her, Absolon had contacted her brothers and convinced them to attend the birth, although they don't arrive until shortly after Ottoline is born. Conradine and Eugen make peace, and Conradine promises she will send them the money she makes from her business to them.

Ottoline fills Conradine's life with joy and light again. As a toddler, Ottoline is shy and frequently hides behind her mother and grandfather when confronted with strangers. As a young child, Ottoline becomes gregarious, energetic, and sociable.

7 years later, when Conradine is 26 and Ottoline is 7, Absolon takes on a client with a son named Alpheus, who is Ottoline's age. Ottoline and Alpheus become fast friends, and Conradine grows incredibly fond of him, especially after realizing that his mother has died. She empathizes with him and starts to take on a maternal role in his life. She quickly notices that Ottoline has developed romantic feelings for Alpheus long before Ottoline herself ever realizes, and figures out that these feelings are mutual. Although this becomes a source of distress in Ottoline's life, as she believes her feelings are not shared and that she would be rejected, Conradine enjoys poking fun at her lovesick daughter, but laments the fact that she can't give her proper romantic advice.

On Ottoline's 15th birthday, Absolon and Conradine, who is now 34, decide that she is old enough to know the truth about her father, and they confess everything to her. Although she is initially enraged, she comes to forgive them rather quickly. The next day, she vanishes for about two weeks on a "hunting trip," and returns home to deliver the news that Absolon has been reinstated as the chief executive of Fidelitas, with the former relinquishing his position and severing all ties to the company. Coincidentally, she comes home with a vision.

When Conradine is 36, Ottoline and Alpheus make their relationship official. Eventually, when Conradine is 40, Ottoline, aged 21, decides to move in with him. Two years later, when Conradine is 42, the two become engaged, and the following year, when she is 43, they marry. She is the one to walk her daughter down the aisle.

Conradine later witnesses the birth of her first and only grandchild, Friederike "Fritzi" Regensturm-Dubois, when she is 50.