SELTON REZNOR - N/A, CIVILIAN

As a child, Selton was barely distinguishable from her five older brothers. They all possessed the platinum blonde hair and pale blue eyes of the Reznor family, and bore wraith-like figures. Being the youngest and runt of the litter, Selton had no time for daintiness or passivity. She had to fight with her brothers on a daily basis, just to prevent them from pushing her around. As her mother, a hardy and salty woman would say, "A girl child ain't safe in a family of men" (timeline: her nose was broken at 8)

The scrawny girl sprouted to her full height at the age of twelve, obscenely tall like the other members of her family, but still somewhat shorter than her brothers. Selton toned her lean body by roughhousing or playing with her brothers and the other neighborhood children. They had very little in the way of toys, but the Junkyard made for a suitable playground. Although they lived in constant fear from attacks and struggled to live day to day, they did the best to make do with their situation.

There was only so much Selton could take, however. She was sensitive to the looks of pity outsiders gave her and her ilk, and tired of being the ugly truth that people liked to pretend didn't exist. She was done with being complacent and living in fear. Most of all, she was sick of watching her parents struggle to keep their children healthy and alive, even at the expense of eating very little themselves.

Her parents had reservations about her leaving, being only sixteen at the time, but were reassured when three of her brothers elected to go with her. The four siblings slowly made their way to Zöld. It was better than they expected, but finding a job and a place to live was not easy. While her brothers could only find odd jobs in the beginning, Selton was fortunate to apprentice as an herbalist, which was probably one of the best places to realize just how petty, simple minded, and oblivious people could be.

People were, from her perspective, more concerned with following their dreams or getting rich and moving to the city of Chrysós, when they should be more concerned about the forgotten city, and just how easily their wonderful little lives could be shattered in one blow. There were times when she couldn't keep her opinions to herself, and was often cuffed by her master, who would profusely apologize for his "ignorant and naïve" ward, whom he had claimed to take in as an act of charity. She grew to hate her job and her master, but could hardly walk out.

The years dragged on, eventually leading to the end of her apprenticeship, and a time where she could and her brothers could accommodate the rest of the family. Sadly, her parents never made it out of the slums, but the rest of her brothers and their families did. She was happy to be reunited with them, but could not shake the cognitive dissonance. On one hand, she was glad to have left a troublesome city, but on the other, she held much contempt for the people who did not realize the gravity of the situation, or those who only pretended to understand.

Things weren't always so bad, though. She found comfort in the form of another woman, a relationship that disrupted the monotony and loneliness in her life. It didn't stand the test of time, nor was it so easily replaced, but it gave her a sense of ease in her life. Mixing concoctions and tending to the ill did in its own way, as well. Bitter as she is at times by her stance in life, she wouldn't give it up to return to a fallen city.

TIMELINE

BIRTH
» Born as the sixth and only daughter to a poor family.

FIVE YEARS OLD:
» Began fighting back when her brothers harassed her.

EIGHT YEARS OLD:
» Started cutting her hair.

SIXTEEN YEARS OLD:
» Left home to seek work in Zöld.
» Became an herbalist's apprentice.

TWENTY-TWO YEARS OLD:
» Started her own business.

TWENTY-SIX YEARS OLD:
» Reunited with the remainder of her family.

TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD:
» Fell in love with a girl.

THIRTY-ONE YEARS OLD:
» Lost the girl.