Bernadetta Von Varley

Bernadetta Von Varley is a skittish, timid, and reclusive lady, a result mostly because of the suffering she endured at the hands of her father for years. Her father, obsessed with money, only saw Bernadetta Von Varley as Crest-bearing bait for a rich husband instead of his daughter. To that end, he subjected her to years of "training", which included tying her to a chair and leaving her there all day, challenging her to stay quiet. This sustained mental torture badly affected Bernadetta Von Varley in many ways and developed her deep-seated fear of her father, other people, and essentially everything in existence. Bernadetta Von Varley suffers from a persecution complex: false beliefs or perceptions in which a person believes that they are treated with malicious intent, hostility, or harassment, hence the name of her personal skill, and she suffers from a compulsive need to run and hide whenever possible. She deeply fears other people and it is extremely difficult for her to trust them, even if they show her patience and kindness. It is common for her to fall into extreme panic and anxiety just by having someone approach her to talk, as she often thinks that people want to kill her. She can be so absorbed by her fears that she can freeze on the spot, lose all sense of her surroundings and, in extreme cases, faint. She often jumps to delusional conclusions about what people think of her, and she can even be suspicious of honest compliments. As her outbursts usually only serve to annoy the other person, combined with her low self-esteem, it often results in her apologizing for things she did not do and insulting herself in the process. As a result of her deep fear of people, Bernadetta Von Varley spends nearly all of her time in her room, pursuing her hobbies and interests while protecting herself from the outside world. If something requires her attention, she will usually speak through her door rather than opening it as a measure of self-protection. She can even feign illness when she doesn't want to talk with other people. She is also noticeably defensive about her lifestyle and how no one else understands her motives, though she acknowledges that she does need to go outside every once in a while. Bernadetta Von Varley suffers from a severe case of low self-esteem, a result of constant scorn from her father. She often insults and berates herself in third-person when she messes up something, and commonly calls herself useless, stupid, and unmarriageable. In addition, she has trouble accepting help from those who offer it to her, because of both her persecution complex and her being convinced that she is a lost cause and not worth it. Ironically, she's actually quite talented in various things such as drawing, playing an instrument and sewing. She also greatly admires her classmates, whom she views as fearless warriors compared to herself. Despite her innate fears and paranoia, Bernadetta Von Varley does truly want to make friends, though she often does so in very socially clumsy ways, a result of her constant shut-aways. Surprisingly however, Bernadetta Von Varley has a playful side to her, especially around flowers, carnivorous plants and typically intimidating certain people. And when she isn't panicking, shutting herself away or wallowing in self-depreciation, she can actually be quite gentle, sweet, even confident, and extremely easy to get along with. She is also fond of flowers, and particularly of carnivorous plants, as they are able to live in one place and wait for their meals to come to them, which she describes as her dream life. While on the battlefield, Bernadetta Von Varley often acts on compulsion, running and hiding whenever she possibly can rather than fighting. If she does have to fight, she prefers to do so from the backline, and can be very surprised and shocked when she actually defeats an enemy.