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I lost both of my parents no more than a few years within each other.
I was barely sixty years old when my father died. But it wasn't until my mother's accident that I decided to apply for Recon. She had spent her life saving creatures, so I swore to as well.
I have her face, you know. Cupid was my Great-Grandfather but I take after my mother; not only in looks but temperament-or so I've been told. Coral Short. She was a doctor with LEPmarine who patrolled the Atlantic, cleaning up after humans and protecting endangered species. She was fatally injured when a tanker she and her team were shadowing accidentally doused their submarine with toxic waste.
I had just graduated from Academy when I received the news.
Dirty radiation is poison to fairies. I felt a fraction of it while I was on a mission in Northern Russia, so I can't even imagine...
... It took my mother a week to die.
Isn't it just my luck that a few years later, I lost Commander Root? The closest elf I had to a father, and he was killed by my own gun.
[ooc; We know very little about Holly's father, except that he had, as stated, died when Holly was "barely sixty." I've always gone with the assumption that he was also with the LEP and possibly KIA but we'll never know for sure. However, everything about Holly's mother, Coral Short? Is canon.
BRB SCHOOL WILL BACKDATE ILU.]
I was barely sixty years old when my father died. But it wasn't until my mother's accident that I decided to apply for Recon. She had spent her life saving creatures, so I swore to as well.
I have her face, you know. Cupid was my Great-Grandfather but I take after my mother; not only in looks but temperament-or so I've been told. Coral Short. She was a doctor with LEPmarine who patrolled the Atlantic, cleaning up after humans and protecting endangered species. She was fatally injured when a tanker she and her team were shadowing accidentally doused their submarine with toxic waste.
I had just graduated from Academy when I received the news.
Dirty radiation is poison to fairies. I felt a fraction of it while I was on a mission in Northern Russia, so I can't even imagine...
... It took my mother a week to die.
Isn't it just my luck that a few years later, I lost Commander Root? The closest elf I had to a father, and he was killed by my own gun.
[ooc; We know very little about Holly's father, except that he had, as stated, died when Holly was "barely sixty." I've always gone with the assumption that he was also with the LEP and possibly KIA but we'll never know for sure. However, everything about Holly's mother, Coral Short? Is canon.
BRB SCHOOL WILL BACKDATE ILU.]