Name of Creator: Sam (you know the drill, PM King Aedan)
Name of Character: Corby Kemp
Relation to Other Site Characters: none
Brief Outline of Personality, History, and Appearance:

Appearance: Corby is short and skinny, kindly described as thin, but in fact suffering from the aftereffects of childhood malnutrition. Her hair is a mass of wild brown curls. Her eyes are large, brown, and often sardonic in expression. She's practiced at postures of seduction, given her occupation. Her skin is pale and tends to burn in the summer--if she has occasion to be outside during the day at all.

History: Corby began work at eleven, when her father died and food grew short. Her mother was a servant for a merchant family, and had no spare time or coin to keep her daughter fed. Her mother was a bitter woman who never cared much for her daydreaming daughter. Corby never expressed interest in anything one might call honest work, and preferred to sneak off to the theater when she could.

At the age of eleven, already physically mature, and for all her smallness appearing older than her age, she took a job with the _____ family a maid. She did her work with only lackluster effect... but she did manage to catch the eye of the lord's son, ______. He deflowered her when she was barely twelve years old, and when her pregnancy became apparent, she was dismissed from the job in disgrace. Her mother likewise threw her out, and they haven't spoken since.

Corby was left out on the streets, making a living by selling rags. She had a stillborn child shortly before her thirteenth birthday, unsurprising considering she was living on the streets in desperate poverty, with food scarce on the best of days. The experience hardened her, and she turned to prostitution, deciding that if she had to experience the pain of being female, she might as well be paid for it. She was taken in by her soon-to-be friend, Catherine Drummond, who nursed her back to health after what had been a difficult labor. It was the only true kindness she'd experienced in her thirteen years, and was to be her last for a long time.

Corby turned to prostitution at the age of thirteen, and managed to scrape out a living for three years in that profession She always had the ambition to be wealthy, and dreams of somehow marrying a rich merchant or knight or whatever she can find. However, she customarily runs into the hard wall of class stratification.

She's never been in love (since the initial, delusion time), and doesn't, for that matter, believe in love. The several times she's been with child she used various medicines to get rid of it. Chiefly her goals encompass her next meal. She's had some close calls. A particularly bad encounter (or actually a string of them) and her friend's success as the new wife of an aging merchant soured her on the business of prostitution, but since she knows little else, she's kept at it. At the moment, she plans to make her way to the border garrisons to continue plying her trade.

She's currently 16.

Personality: Angry, acid-tongued and sarcastic, Corby has to rein herself in with her customers. She has few friends as a consequence of her temper, and little to say to anyone. She believes the world is essentially a cold and unfriendly place wherein people simply have to get what they can before anyone else takes it from them. However, at her core she is full of desperate hopes and wishes; despite her early entrance into the adult world, a part of her has never grown up.