Boadicea Ó Donnchadha

Nicknames: Bo, Iceni

Personality: Boadicea definitely lives up to her name sake. She's a strong, independant woman who refuses to put up with anyone's shit. Her mother says that she's been a fighter since the day she was born, and her fighting spirit has only grown larger since then. Then again her mother also says that she came out screaming and hasn't shut up since. This can be seen in the fact that she will argue her point until she's blue in the face, or the person that she's arguing with gets tired of listening to her non-stop talking. She strongly believes in standing up for the under dog, and will always do whatever necessary to protect those who cannot protect themselves.



History: Born as the bastard child of King Risteard O'Maoduin and a commoner woman, Boadicea was raised to fight for everything that she wanted in her life. With that sentiment drilled into her head from the time she was old enough to understand words, she took to finding many different ways to get what she wanted. In fact the first example of her capabilities in that area came when she was about ten years old. She met a retired soldier living on a small farm outside of the town that she lived in with her mother. The old man became a sort of idol of hers, and she could more often be found pestering him than tending to the chores her mother had set for her. After several months of pestering the man, he finally agreed to train her to fight.



Over the next several years she trained as hard and quickly as she could possibly force herself to. Once she mastered hand-to-hand combat he taught her to fight with weapons. As she mastered one, he would move on to teaching her to fight with another. By the age of seventeen she was proficient enough with the majority of the weapons that he'd taught her to fight with that she decided it was time fight for what she wanted out of life once more. With the help of the retired soldier Boadicea managed to become a soldier herself. At first it seemed that life as a soldier would not be a very interesting thing, but then the King started ordering his noble men to send soldiers on crusades and the like. When, finally, she was able to join one of these crusades she found that being a soldier was better than she had once imagined that it would be.



Yes, it was difficult, yes it was miserable at times, but considering the life that she'd come from, it was actually pretty great in her mind. It gave her life a purpose that it had previously been lacking, and eventually introduced her to the fact that she was actually the daughter of the King. At first that news excited her with the possibilities that such a thing could open up for her. However, when she met Risteard for the first time and realized what kind of person he was, that excitement died. She never ended up telling him who she was, and was actually relieved when he died such a short time after she first met him.



Now she has been the Queen of a kingdom she once was a nobody in for two months, and life is..interesting. She doesn't particularly care for all of the politics involved in being the Queen, but the war that's been brought to Ireland's shores definitely has her excited.

Most of her friends would likely consist of males and the soldiers that she fought along side from the age of seventeen up until a couple of months ago when she became the Queen. That said she cannot stand people who don't at least try to stick up for themselves. While she's all for protecting the people who aren't capable of protecting themselves, she refuses to 'help those who won't help themselves.' Anyone that she considers a real friend would likely have to be relatively silent in terms of conversation; mostly because she talks..a LOT, and extremely sarcastic when they did speak.

While there are people that she dislikes, those that she considers true enemies are those who take advantage of other people or are abusive. (Verbally or physically, it doesn't matter.) Actually she has a bad habbit of losing her temper and letting fists fly with people like that. She also strongly dislikes people who are disloyal and dishonest.

She isn't exactly experienced in this area. In fact this might be the one aspect of life that she could be considered "innocent" in. Since she met the retired soldier who trained her when she was a young girl she's had a pretty one-track mind as far as her life was concerned and rarely ever took time out of that to actually pay much attention to the men around her in a more than friendly way. It would take a hell of a man to gain any real attention from her.