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[aufsassig]

Strengths/Weaknesses:

✔ Attractive — As discussed above, Meridiana is canonically exceptionally pretty, with (formerly) long blonde hair and lovely blue eyes. While not precisely a skill in and of itself, being incredibly pretty does tend to come with certain undeniable social advantages, and it's definitely something she's very proud of. She takes good care of herself, she keeps up on styles and trends, and in a bit of a Cinderella fashion, she can usually manage to achieve a level of personal appearance that lets her compete with girls from families with considerably more money and status than hers — kind of a big deal, given the time period she comes from.

✔ Determined — When the chips are down, Meridiana doesn't waste any time in setting her mind to a course of action and following through on it. Though her time period and social context influence her behavior in that she tends to be somewhat passive in the presence of men and she's not necessarily the type to leap to take initiative from the get-go, she's also not shy about taking action when it's clear it's necessary. When pushed into a corner, she's quite decisive, and she will act to attempt to mitigate harm to others, particularly if it appears as though they're going to be injured on her behalf. As she says before her death, she's tired of people being hurt on her account, and she's quick to stand up for herself when it looks as though she (or someone close to her) is in imminent danger.

✔ Fiery — When the protagonist inadvertently does something that risks impugning her honor (tripping and falling on her in a garden), Meridiana's response is to sit up and slap him across the face, accusing him of having no manners; as she is still suffering from amnesia about her pre-doll life at that point, this instinctive reaction brings her some surprise, and she recalls that "in the past...[she] really was this kind of a girl!" While in terms of taking action she often defers to the men in her life, she's certainly not unwilling to assert herself when she feels the occasion calls for it; she'll talk back, exercise a quick wit, or refuse to shy away from a confrontation without a few sharp words of her own.

✔ Charismatic — Before her lovers' suicide, Meridiana was the subject of many male admirers, and somehow even managed to snag enough of the attentions of a marquis's son (someone well above her own social station) to appear in pictures with him and spend a great deal of time together. She clearly knows how to conduct herself like a charming, engaging companion in accompaniment to her beauty, and when she tries she's fairly good at making people like her — or at least concede that she's a sweet and pleasant sort of person to be around.

✔ Mannerly — She's a well-behaved girl, and fitting in is clearly very important to her. She's therefore well-versed in societal conventions — albeit Victorian-era ones — and is fairly adept at handling herself in a social setting; once she gets used to contemporary manners and norms, she'll likely waste no time settling in and handling herself just as well as she would've in her own era: polite, courteous, and giving all indications that she's very well-bred, despite how some might think her social station would suggest otherwise.

✘ Undead — HOO BOY, WELCOME TO THE ISSUES. Quite possibly the most, uh, egregious weakness in her lineup is actually a series of issues all tied to the fact that she's a sixteen-year-old girl who committed suicide, was unwillingly resurrected from the dead, put into an artificially-constructed body that isn't capable of sustaining itself on its own, and kept alive through some pretty grotesque medical procedures including but not limited to receiving blood transfusions and organ transplants. The fact that these transfusions and transplants come from the corpses of innocent people that her own mother is murdering for the sake of keeping her alive is just kind of the icing on the cake, really. While the physical problems directly relating to being a Deadly Doll will naturally be mooted in Route, I would still like her to keep some of the more natural physical symptoms — frailty, anemia, a tendency to faint — and of course she'll still have the memories of all those past traumas to haunt her. Her first week in-game, therefore, may prove to be quite anxious for her if she doesn't realize she's not a doll any longer; a week is the maximum length of time she can live on her own without receiving a life-sustaining procedure, so she may very well spend the latter half of her first week waiting to literally fall apart and fearing the "hunger" that always accompanies the need for sustenance.

✘ Easily Manipulated — As discussed at length in her personality, Meridiana is frequently the pawn of the people around her. She doesn't always have the best judgment when it comes to people (as shown when she thinks Jezebel is in love with her, for example), and it's not all that difficult to provoke her into a course of action if one knows the right buttons to push. Though she does try her best, she's simply not particularly Machiavellian about such things, and she runs the risk of having someone she trusts take advantage of her because she simply doesn't see it coming.

✘ Impulsive — In classic Romeo and Juliet fashion, Meridiana does not always exercise good judgment when she's emotional or upset. If she feels as though she's been slighted, or something damages her honor or self-esteem, she'll sometimes let her emotions get the better of her. In its benign instances, it comes in the form of slapping a gentleman (and an earl at that — someone notably above her in social standing) across the face without a second thought; in its most horrifying, it leads her to consider a "romantic" lovers' suicide the optimal solution to receiving the news that she has no ability to marry the man she loves. Though canon shows that she has the potential to work past this particular flaw, having regretted many of her past impulsive decisions, her second death is still founded on the snap decision that it would be better for her to kill herself than to let the protagonist come to harm on her behalf, so...there's that.

✘ Vanity — The classic downside to Meridiana's good looks; because she's used to being thought of as pretty and charming, she can also be pretty vain about her looks and doesn't always take the thought of being slighted well. This also extends to more general instances of rejection not necessarily involving her physical apearance; she can't stand being laughed at or not taken seriously, and she's liable to have overly emotional reactions to her bruised pride if and when it happens.

✘ Old-Fashioned — There's really no way around this one; Meridiana's from Victorian England in a year that's somewhere around 1887. From context, it appears as though she was raised on the outskirts of London as opposed to in the city proper: she grew up in "a white house next to the lake, not far from which is a tower", which itself is in a forest and presumably somewhere near the Marquis of Rotterdale's land. Either way, she's definitely the product of her time period and all of the drawbacks that come with it — she'll know what a phone is, for example, but anything much more advanced than that is likely to throw her for a definite loop, at least in the beginning.


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