Sorrow of the Wind

[Summerstream]

Summerstream Nimina / Xialiu Nimina


Full Name: Xialiu Nimina
Aliases/Nicknames (if any): Summerstream (Translation); Summer
Title(s): Shield of Yggdrasil
Age: 26 years (December 21)
Sex: Female
Skin Tone: Pale medium gold
Height: 5'3” (157.5 cm)
Weight: 129 lbs
Build: Mesomorph (Slim and well-built. She's fairly muscular.)
Eyes: Magenta
Hair: Brown, kept long, and held back with a red ribbon.
Clothes Style: When not in armour, she wears manly Chinese-styled dresses and shirts in either red or black. She has a blue dress that she wears for noble functions, a burgandy she wears at home, sleeve length dependant on season, and two black that she wears either while doing errands, or when she feels like it. If she doesn’t wear a dress, she always wears a red or black mandarin collar shirt, black pants, and black flats.
Tattoos, Piercings, Marks, Scars, etc: In the centre of her forehead there is a light green lotus-shaped mark. Her left eyebrow has a scar across it, and there is a scar on the right side of her jaw.
Appearance: [Summer’s too lazy to type this out]
Religion: She follows an old religion based around the worship of the World Tree, Yggdrasil. (It's considered heretical, so she doesn't talk/preach about it~)
Weapons (if any): Her late mother's jian (Preferred. Alternatives are rapiers or side swords), spear, shield.
Occupation(s): Officer of the Swordsman Association; Nobility
Special Abilities/Skills:
Minor/Supportive wind magic: She is able to throw objects with more force than expected, and she can jump higher than expected. Summerstream also channels her magic into her voice to produce a Gospel/ Battle Chant-like spell, although she cannot use this in combat.

Flight: Her wings allow her to fly. Often combined with wind magic for flying over long distances.

Activities/Organizations:
Swordsman Association: Summerstream is employed as an investigations officer, but she also takes on special contracts as requested, much like a mercenary. She also frequently investigates special topics on her own to keep herself busy between cases.

Nimina Family: She’s the successor to the family, and occasionally has visitors relating to matters at her family’s manor. Occasionally, Summerstream is expected to lead small groups into the Royal Tomb to check on the seals that keep the creatures inside at bay, and attend events where she is required to represent her family.

Interests:
Learning: She enjoys learning new things, which has more often than not resulted in her getting into awkward situations.
Swords: She wouldn’t be a swords woman if she didn’t enjoy looking at and using swords. She still prefers her inherited Jian, though.
Oranges and Bitter melon: Favourite foods~
Reading: The main source from which she learned Common, and one of the things she did as a child to pass time.

Personality and Habits:
Summerstream is cold and dismissive towards strangers or people she doesn’t know well, and is often closed off and distant. She is more warm, open and friendly to people associated towards her, or people she feels some sort of bond with.
She frequently comes off as rude, blunt or abrasive when conversing in Common. When conversing in Chinese, it is easier for her to be more eloquent and well-spoken.
She has trouble leaving someone injured behind, ally or enemy. When asked why she does this, she’ll comment that she imagines her adoptive father nagging at her.
When something important is being discussed, she will often take notes so she can look back on them later. This is due to poor memory from a combination of trauma and lack of sleep.
Summerstream leans towards being a pacifist, and will always look at non-violent methods of dealing with a situation before she will resort to violence.

Serious Problems/Flaws/Addictions/Disorders/Disabilities:
Trust: She finds it extremely hard to trust people who haven’t done something significant towards her. This ends up leaving her getting into a number of bad situations due to wanting to do everything on her own.
PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder): She was almost killed as a child, resulting in vivid memories of the incident. There are a handful of other incidents and events that are stuck in her memory and often frequent her dreams, and in rare cases, her waking moments. When she has an episode, she spaces out until she either snaps, or is removed from the situation causing her to relapse. (Triggers: Unruly crowds, having to lead large groups of people, social situations where someone she doesn’t know is verbally abusive towards her.)
Ochlophobia (Fear of mob-like crowds): Summerstream is fearful of crowds due to PTSD. This means that she won’t actively seek out a position here she is required to lead a large group of people, preferring smaller groups of, at the most, seven members including herself. When forced into a situation where she must lead or deal with a mob, she needs to have someone she trusts beside her.
Nightmare Disorder (Dream Anxiety Disorder): Summerstream has chronic nightmares, most often resulting in a visualization of memories that trigger her PTSD. She appears to have insomnia at times due to a developed fear of sleeping due to the nightmares she experiences, and her memory suffers due to her lack of sleep.

Citizenship: Rune Midgard, Independent Nation of Louyang
Place of Birth: Independent Nation of Louyang
Now lives: Geffen
Lives with: Her little sister Sophie, Sophie’s girlfriend, and her sons, Tyr and Freyr.
Current Relationship Status: “Do you REALLY have to know this?” (She's currently single)
Family:.Her biological parents are deceased. They were murdered when she was a child. All she has that shows that they lived are a picture, and the jian that belonged to her mother.
She was adopted by a pair of doctors who run a small clinic as a baby. They have a child named Sophie, who is roughly ten years younger than Summer is.
She has two twin sons, Tyr and Freyr, aged six. (September 23)

Other Biographical Remarks:
Summerstream grew up as an orphan that was taken in by a family of doctors. She was severely injured as a child by a group of boys that were older than her because of her bizarre eye colour, and was threatened with her life if she was seen outside after that day. Since this time, she sheltered herself inside, refusing to go out. Her adoptive parents taught her how to sing, and how to heal wounds with medicine. The next time she went outside alone, four months later, Summerstream was nearly beaten to death as a child, and ended up in a coma for two months. Fearing for her life, Summerstream ran away from home at ten, and ended up stumbling into a swordsman, who took pity on her and brought her home, teaching her a mix of hand-to-hand combat, swordsmanship, and spearwork. Summerstream remained here until she was nineteen, when she left to travel to Rune Midgard to join the Swordsman Association she heard so much about.

She took the time to learn Common from a book about Yggdrasil, going so far as to commit the tome to memory to learn the language. In Rune Midgard, she joined the Swordsman Association and was put on a team with a swordsman that she has worked with on a number of cases since then. She had just turned twenty when the pair and their boss went out for drinks, and ended up sleeping with him. The following year, she gave birth to twins that she named Tyr, and Freyr while on a visit to Louyang, and remainded there for some time to raise them. Eight months later, she returned to Rune Midgard to join the Geffen Church as a Paladin. She had a panic attack at her baptism, and ended up attacking the priests attending to the ceremony. Instead of being baptized, her wind magic was sealed. This seal was later broken by War Chief Cynbel.

A month after being sealed by the Church, she was critically injured taking a hook sword to the gut while protecting a man. She came to three months later in a strange land, being tended to by strange people who spoke a language she didn’t understand. It was later that she learned that she woke up in a Ninja village, and that she had protected the lord of the clan. Once she recovered, she ended up marrying the lord, and returned to Louyang to tend to her children. In exchange for being allowed to leave the ninja village, she was to help the members of the ninja clan get away with a number of crimes without any evidence connecting them to the crime, or else she was to be killed. Summerstream, if asked about this, will state that she’s not proud of the things that she was forced to do. She continued with these activities until Princess Lucretia attacked Payon.

The freedom that she experienced while assisting Lucretia gave her the strength and will to start to break away from the ninja clan.

Connections: [This needs a massive update and will be left mostly empty for now]
People she trusts or feels some sort of positive bond with: Ezekiel Stalker (Fazil) Reilinn, Sophie Meiling, Risette Van Helsing, Princess Lucretia, War Chief Cynbel