Mistress Odilia Cain

Brittany Murphy as Odilia Cain

CHARACTER BRIEF

Full Name:	Odilia Cain
Byname:	None
Age:	22
Date of Birth:	Dec 16
Kingdom:	Couviere
House:	t'Corbeau
Title/Profession:	Mistress
Position:	Assistant to High Councillor Thomas Breulliard/ Assassin
Place of Birth:	Three Rivers

FAMILY

Father:	Eugene Cain
Mother:	Ceanna t’Corbeau (nee t’Figgi) .d
Siblings:	Leo t’Corbeau (half sibling), and half sibling (bastard)
Spouse:	None
Children:	None

Background

The bastard daughter of Lady Ceanna t'Corbeau, Odilia serves in Pacitta as an assistant to High Councillor Thomas Breulliard. To most of the world, she is simply his charismatic and trusted assistant. To those in the know, she is one of House t'Corbeau's assassins.

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Born in 1854 to Lady Ceanna t'Corbeau (nee t'Figgi), and Master Eugene Cain, Odilia was the product of a brief dalliance between the two. Making her the first of Lady Ceanna's bastards. And while her mother would recognize Odilia as her child, as to be expected, it is with her father she spent the first years of her life with.

When Odilia was around seven years old, Ceanna brought her to live with her. Well that would be a slight overstatement, Odilia was brought to begin her training to become one of the House's assassins. To serve the House to greater purpose, should she survive the training.

It was a change that the young girl struggled with, more befuddled at first about the new direction her life was taking. Not that she was exactly happy living with her father, but it had been the life she knew and while they were few, there had been moments of warmth.

There was nothing remarkable about the first years of training, Odilia was not a standout candidate. Though she did survive where others did not, and managed to show that she could be cunning and nimble when pressed. And a thing that her father had once noticed, was rediscovered…that she had a higher tolerance for pain then many others. Something that would be truly tested in the later years of her training.

Life was purely repetition and training, a turn of drudgery in that sense. Even if training was certainly not exactly what one might call dull, particularly when one might die if not learning and succeeding at it. But something odd occurred in time, while most hit the point of being ‘broken' in order to be formed into the honed creatures they were meant to be, when most became outwardly hardned, even stoic, Odilia actually became more charismatic, more outgoing and…happy. There was a renewed energy that existed to her as she seemed to take to the training with a renewed vigor. A thing that puzzled some of the trainers, and saw them trying to ‘break' her further, but it only served to energize her more and push harder in the training. It was simply that Odilia had found that this was her purpose in life, that it was where she fit and could even thrive in time. She realized, she had a place and also if she didn't succeed in the training that was as it was meant to be, she had proven that she wasn't good enough. The realizations, true or not, freed Odilia in much the same way the training ‘freed' others…just the change and outcome in her was not the norm.

In Odilia's twelfth year, her mother was overcome with an illness. Given some added leave to spend more time with her when it was clear that Ceanna was not to survive. Not so much for her sake, but at Ceanna's request to see the child once more. It was then that the one memento from the time with her father was returned to her, by her mother. A small leather pouch that contained two unicorns and a dragon. In truth Odilia had very nearly forgotten about them. They had been a gift, tokens used in the telling of one of her favorite stories that he would sometimes tell before she went to bed. A rare treat. And he had gotten them made for her before she had left.

While her mother's passing did make Odilia sad, there was no deep and true mourning over the lose. She simply took back into the training, an added purpose of ensuring she did her mother's memory proud, to prove that the chance taken upon her by the House Ceanna had married into would pay off.

It was perhaps possible that when Viscount Andre disappeared in 1860 that Odilia was more affected. To lose the one she had been raised to serve as wella s one who had at times overseen that very training. Though it was a loyalty and dedication to serve that was quickly given on to his daughter who stepped into his shoes, for Talia was known from her own occasional turns at seeing over the assassin training. Plus from taking time to personally oversee Odilia's training with poisons.

During the later turn of her training, when small missions began to be included, there was another odd little turn that showed up…..Cookies. After a successful mission, a successful kill….There were cookies. Always cookies. A habit that still holds true. Death and Cookies.

When she completed her training in 1862, Odilia was sent to Pacitta. There she became an assistant to Thomas Breulliard, another recognized bastard within House t'Corbeau, one who served as High Councillor in Pacitta. At first she was simply a runner to carry messages around, and other low level task. A thing that allowed her to learn the lay of the city and begin to also form connections of her own, as well as learn what ones were already there, so she might better serve the family. Or when as needed, accomplish a task with the efficiency the assassins of t'Corbeau are known for.

Over the years, she has become more of a trusted assistant for the High Councillor as tasks have been added to her such as attending meetings and taking notes with him, or on rare occasion in his stead, generally when it is a meeting where a simple presence is needed and he need only know what occurred. But it is a position that afford her a ‘proper' daily life as well as cover enough to move about the city, or travel back to Three Rivers should her skills be needed there or elsewhere by the t'Corbeau.