Alice Rosica

**Alice Rosica** is the current Belle, last of the Kaiser female nobility line, and a blacksmith. She is the daughter of Graves, an infamous pirate that terrorizes the shores of Benitoite, and Revna, the only daughter of the Kaiser noble family. Before moving to the capital of Rhodolite she lived near the border in Mining villages causing her to join Anti-Mining and Anti-Border factions throughout her early teens. After a certain incident she moved to the capital of Rhodolite and started working as a blacksmith.

## History

### Early History

Born to Graves, an infamous pirate, and Revna, a former noble, Alice grew up in a small forest shack with a leaking roof, a constant breeze running trough the rooms, and a patch of roses outside the window. Her father for unnamed reasons, later revealed to be for the safety of his wife and child, left both of them to return to his life of pirating and sailing leaving Alice to be raised by Revna and partly her godfather and Graves' childhood friend Henry who would from time to time visit the two. Alice grew up not knowing of her mother's former status as noble and was relatively content with her life, she grew up near the border and a mining village.

When she was eight her mother started falling ill with Alice mostly taking care of her from then out. There would be days where her mother was seemingly fine followed by coughing fits and fainting, one day it got particularly bad when she wouldn't stop coughing up blood. Because of a recent mine collapse Henry had been too busy helping the people of the village look for survivor's as such Alice went to go get him to ask for help. Upon returning to the shack, her mother was already dying, she muttered something to Henry before telling Alice that there was strength in kindness and unity, and telling her that no matter how hard it got to always keep her heart open.

### After Revna's Death

Alice's mother died when she was eleven followed by her moving in with Henry in the mining village and being thought the basics of Blacksmithing, becoming a Blacksmith apprentice for Henry. She spent her free days as a young teen working around the mine and ore deposit areas to make extra money and save up to move one day. After several more mining accidents and heavy tax rates Alice became radicalized in her early teens and joined anti-mining factions together with anti-border factions. After a fight with several knights of Obsidian camping out near the border Henry made Alice promise to drop the radical idealization. Telling her no one wins in war and that fighting won't solve her problems.

Shortly after this argument Alice would run back to the shack and stay there overnight, Alice tells that during that stay she ended up searching trough her mothers belongings before finding a hidden compartment behind the wall with several papers, drawings, and items linking back to the famed Obsidian Kaiser Family, shortly after this Henry would tell her the truth about both who her mother had been and who her father was.

At one point in her life before she turned eighteen Alice and her father met which ended with Alice punching him in the face and Graves' crying with joy.

Shortly before moving to the capital when she was eighteen, Alice had an accident that left her with several scars on her body, a limb in her right food, and what seemed to be signs of PTSD. Later this accident is revealed to have been a group of Obsidian Terrorists getting into battle with Rhodolite soldiers, hiding beneath the floors of Henry's forge, Alice was the only one home at the time and refused to give away the location of the soldiers causing the Obsidian men to torture her for the information, this went on for hours before help finally came and Alice was saved by a few villagers and the soldiers of Rhodolite. Upon her request she asked the five soldiers not to reveal her name or who she was to anyone, wishing to remain out of the public eye, they respected her wish, but even trough that she would become a local hero without a name or face.

### Moving to the capital

A year after the incident Alice moved to the capital to take a job as a fellow blacksmith under George, whose son she had found wounded near the edge of the forest and carried back to town. She lived there keeping her head down as much as possible while getting into short fights with several men bothering women, and visited brothels fairly often. One of the girls, Eloise, notes she was well liked by everyone for paying too much and being good with her hands.

## Relationships

* Rio Ortiz

 While sometimes seemingly aloof to Rio it's revealed that Alice is quite depended and clingy towards him, as when Rio is forced to leave the castle for a few days on a mission for Sariel, Alice spends all of those days walking around aimlessly with a pout, all the brothers point out how sad she constantly looks with Clavis comparing her to a lost puppy looking for its owner. When Rio returns she immediately brightens up and spends the next week in such a good mood she doesn't even get angry when Clavis switches the sugar and salt when she's making a cupcake for herself.

## Trivia

* She likes sugary things, her favorites are chocolate truffles and hard candies, Henry used to tell her she'd get cavities one day, but Alice boasts this never happened.
* Alice has a special talent of getting lost wherever she goes:
	+ Because she gets lost so often she's grown used to asking Rio to walk with her to certain places and come pick her up.
	+ One time she got lost on the way to her bedroom and ended up at a bar in town.
	+ Rio once stated that he thinks the reason Alice gets lost so frequently is because she's quickly distracted.
	+ She got lost in the castle so many times Sariel considered putting up plaques.
	+ Once Clavis pointed her the wrong way on purpose and she ended up in the right place.
* She has a pet canary that she befriended during her jobs around the mines.