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[melodyoftheabyss]

Player & Age: Tarei (22)
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Character & Canon: Mystearica Aura Fende Tear Grants (Tales of the Abyss)
District: Astralfield

Personality:

Tear doesn't show a lot of emotions. She often comes off as a cold and calculating person whose always prepared for any possible encounters. She's only looking at what her objective is and aiming for a way to fulfill it. Death has little meaning to her. She knows her role as a soldier and she will risk her life to protect others. If she should perish in the process she won't regret it. That and the art of killing is natural to her. If she wanted to live she had to fight for her life. She often forgets that she has a civilian traveling with her and that Luke was unable to kill people as she would easily. She can't expect the enemy to have any mercy. Thus it was either her for the enemy. She was trained to be an ideal soldier.

As said she displays little emotions at the beginning of the game, even though she was clearly concerned with Luke’s well being, she didn’t seem to be showing too much concern, only enough. She tries to hide her emotions and bottles them up as much as possible. It was due to Legretta’s training on how she could not show emotions to people. If she was unable to do that, she was unfit to be the ideal ‘soldier.’ Tear is obsessed with the fact of being an 'ideal' Soldier that Legretta wanted as well as to prove herself to her brother, Van. At that time she was naive and unable to understand his true goals, hence her determination to become useful to Van. Legretta was believed to be the main reason why Tear has trouble displaying her true emotions. Even with her own brother's death, Tear still bottles up all her emotions and only showed her distress but she never shed a tear for her losses. Instead she takes it as a lesson and slowly moves on from her experiences.

Tear puts up a strong front but she isn't really all that strong. She is quite vulnerable to her emotions and sometimes keeping her cold demeanor doesn't mean that is what she truly felt. Tear has a huge weakness for cute things and that includes animals, plushes, and anything that catches her interest. That includes clothes as well. Tear actually is quite fond of the way the maids are dressed and she even tried on one of the outfits herself. She was complimented for it.

Tear refused to cry no matter what, and throughout the game, she sees a lot of painful things and grows depressed from them, but never broke down even if it was her brother that was killed. Tear tries to be strong and holds up to her ‘ideal’ soldier face. Tear has a strangely growing affection towards Luke during the game, as you can see as the time progresses in Abyss. At first it was one of like a sister/motherly form of affection, but it eventually changes as the game progresses. Tear becomes less harsh with Luke and scolding him at times that he needed to be scolded for reckless actions. She is much nicer to him, when she realizes his situation and starting to understand him more as she watches him grow and mature. She promised to watch him as well. She had shown her pain and sadness many times near the end of the game, as said in the background, she is quite sensitive to things that involved Luke and his life. She was angry and sad at the same time, when Teordoro, King Ingobert, and Emperor Peony, considered that Luke should die to neutralize the miasma that was surrounding all of Auldrant.

Tear shows her affection for Cheagles quite often. Since they have one traveling them, she often defends Mieu against Luke in which causes a lot of interesting things to happen. She is also very modest about herself. Tear doesn’t like to talk about her body, or wear too much revealing clothes. When people crack jokes about her body. For example, the skit with Anise, where the teenager wanted to have a well developed body like Tear’s and Luke intervenes saying that she would never have a body like that and upon Anise’s words at wanting big ‘melons,’ Tear gets embarrassed and scolds them. Despite her strong front, Tear is quite innocent. She would get flustered at anything that involves her or even minour cases of teasing. She is very self conscious about herself in all ways and forms. She often becomes very embarrassed if anyone were to speak of her body.

On another note, Tear is easily scared by Ghosts. Anything nonexistence in body or form floats in a creepy manner or even a story about a crying woman in the mountains will make Tear freak out beyond belief. She will try to cover it up and remain serious about it, though it would only last so long before someone points it out to her that she's afraid of ghosts. Tear is also someone capable of killing a she is protecting. Tear has a sort of interest towards cute objects/animals/clothes. It's hard to not notice her reactions when it regards a cute animal or something that's cute. Tear will fluster up and make a strange expression, which would lead to a rather questionable thought about her interests and hobbies. Tear is a decent cook as well.

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