Lisa Starshade

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Lisa Starshade
Full name Lisa Starshade of Waffel-Paine
AKA Elisabeth Asara des Vinandy
Physical information
Species Human
Gender Female
Skin color white
Biographical information
Father Cledwyn Starshade
Mother Clara Sundara Waffel-Paine
Date of birth 1674 AN
Place of birth ‘s Koningenwaarde
Residence(s) Hazelwood, Natopia
Nationality Natopian
Allegiance(s) Natopia
Occupation Student


Lisa Starshade of Waffel-Paine (née Elisabeth Asara) is the eldest daughter of Clara Sundara and Cledwyn Starshade. Clara and Cledwyn, young lovers, continued their on-and-off again affair throughout the duration of Clara's marriage to the king of Batavia, unbeknownst to him. Lisa was born while Clara was married to Arkadius IV. She and her younger brothers, Carl and Stav, were spirited away from Batavia following Clara's divorce. To protect herself and her children, at the time she announced her children were left in Batavia with grandparents, but it was soon revealed that when she arrived in Drak-Modan with 3 children of the same appearance and age, that the children left in Batavia were actors. Lisa was the presumed heir to her mother's former position of Supreme Judge of Drak-Modan. She is now the heir to the duchy of Hazelwood in Flaventia.

Paternity

The true paternity of her, Carl, and Stav is a subject of intense geopolitical debate. It is a debate that Clara hoped to shield her children from by claiming they were Modani orphans when she first appeared in Drak-Modan after her divorce. When she left Batavia she, in fact, denounced all claims to titles or lands for her in order to not disrupt the dynastic plans of her ex-husband. She legally changed her children's names when she arrived in Drak-Modan so there could be no chance of her children being dragged into the politics of the Vanic nations she fled from, hoping the surname Waffel-Paine would deter any claims on them. For several years the children were listed twice as her children on the Waffel-Paine family tree, further adding to the confusion. Her husband Cledwyn legally adopted them and so, for all intents and purposes, according to the laws of Drak-Modan, Lisa Starshade and her siblings are legally distinct from the Batavian children of Arkadius, who continue to reside in the Vanic realms. The Vanic nations maintain that the three children are Modani orphans and the anti-Vanic nations maintain that the three children are Batavian actors.

Lisa, Stav and Carl are legally, morally, ethically, and dynasticly forbidden from claiming titles or lands in Vanic lands. On advice of her mother and through a family lawyer, Lisa Starshade issued statements disavowing any legal connection with Elisabeth Asara: "There is a girl, named Elisabeth Asara, and she lives in Vanic Batavia. That girl is the heir to those Vanic lands. I am not that girl."

New Life in Hazelwood

Following the Drak-Modani Civil War her mother was asked to leave Drak-Modan, and so the Starshade family relocated to Hazelwood, Natopia. As Clara was the new Holder of the duchy, the Starshades moved into the ducal palace in Hazelwood City. Lisa was enrolled at the prestigious Rian Grass Institute & Country Day School with a promise from her mother and father that they would not move again for the time being. Cledwyn Starshade made arrangements for a large family dwelling in the Great Hazel Woods for his family to spend weekends, holidays, and summers. The Hazel people celebrate Lisa and her family's return to Natopia, as it meant that the duchy of Hazelwood would be held by Starshade Waffel-Paine family for a very long time, promising a resurgence in Hazel cultural pride and relearning the almost forgotten practice of hazkisi magick.

Departure from Natopia

On the morning of Lisa's 18th birthday, without any indication, she left Hazelwood on a flight to Drakorda. A large party had been planned for her in the ducal palace in Hazelwood City to celebrate the heiress to the duchy turning 18. When she never showed up a missing person report was filed and a search was conducted across southeastern Flaventia for approximately 5 hours until she announced on her Tweeter account that she was safely in Drak-Modan on her own now. She had been raised her entire life to her mother's expectations. First as heir to the Supreme Judgeship in the former republican government of Drak-Modan, and now as heir to the duchy of Hazelwood and druidess of hazkisi magick. She had grown up in Drak-Modan, felt a kinship to the people of Benacia more than her younger brothers who had no or few memories of the place. A few weeks prior to her decision to leave Natopia, she had secured a promise of protection from her cousin, John Hilding Waffel-Paine, King of Drak-Modan.

Lisa was tired of the expectations put upon her, embarrassed of the political entanglements of her parents, exhausted by the constant harassment from the tabloids. Lisa had been in correspondence with her cousin John ever since he fled to Drak-Modan and became its king against wishes of the Waffel-Paine avatar and patriarch, her uncle, Nathan II. Selected correspondence from the two:

16.X.1686 "John, I must admit I am a bit jealous of your bold departure from Natopia. To disobey your father like that... I wish I had the courage to disobey my mother. I was raised to be a scholar of jurisprudence, and then once she was kicked out of Drak-Modan, suddenly I had to become a hazkisi magick practitioner. What will I be expected to do in five years? A Goetic pirate? It's all too much for me cousin." - Lisa
30.II.1689 "Lisa, there is something you must understand about Nathan and Clara... it took me awhile to understand myself, because even though we are their direct family we are still under the spell of their public persona. They are not the gracious and loving parents they are portrayed to be. They are callous, calculating, stubborn, greedy, and power-hungry. They are single-minded in their goal of growing the power of the Waffel-Paine family, desperate to make the dynasty they claim is eternal to actually be eternal. They are opportunistic, that is why your mother shifted you around so much. When she had a chance to become Judge in Drak-Modan, she saw it as a way to keep the family in power there. When your family had to move to Hazelwood, it was only to solidify the family's power in a safe and friendly location." -- John
4.IX.1690 "I'm sick of it John, I don't want to be a judge or a duchess or the chief druidess of these dirty, smelly, tree-fuckers. I... I just want to be taken care of, I want a boyfriend, I'm sixteen years old! You know the unofficial family rule to never date until 18. The abuses your father and my mother endured during their childhood in Haraldsborg being exposed and groomed to accept hypersexuality in the Vanic realm obviously scarred them, and my mother was again forced to relive her trauma when her first husband turned into a Vanic sympathizer and apologist. So Uncle Nathan and Mother, as parents, totally overreacted by shielding all of us from any sort of romantic or normal sexual development. Their heart was in the right place, to protect us, but damnit I want someone to just hold me, kiss me, and love me. Some stupid boy to fool around with, fall in love with, and get heartbroken by three weeks later when he smiles at another girl in class. Like we see in TV and movies... I want that John, I want to be a normal young woman, I want to be taken care of, I want to be showered with gifts and titles and lovely little trinkets." --Lisa
 4.XI.1691 "Ya know, Lisa, life here in Drak-Modan is getting pretty interesting. We've purged the straights but we're quickly becoming very isolated. If you want to live here, you can move in with us at the palace and live like a Princess. There are many ruling houses out there that are keen on linking to the new royal house of Drak-Modan. Even families who have favor with the Waffel-Paines are inquiring of me how they can connect with the Drak & Waffel-Paines. Forgive me but you'd be a great trophy wife, family connections to emperors and kaisers. You can move here, formally join the royal house as a Princess, and live a carefree life. Meet princes and dukes, date any man or woman you want, and get married as soon as you want so you can finally relax in the luxury befitting a queen. Or you can stay there, waiting for your mom to die in 40 or 50 years, so you can inherit a mostly-empty, backwater, woodsy duchy full of tree-hugging weirdos." --John
24.I.1692 "You're right, cousin. Why follow a path decided for me by Mother? And a path that can be changed at her, or even my uncle's, whim? On the morning of my 18th birthday later this year, I'll leave this place and come live with you and your spouses in Drakorda." --Lisa