Sarah Rhoda Stuven

[Incubus 12]

Sarah Rhoda Stuven is a twenty-one year old female Heartlander. She was born on the second of Snow's Maiden, 1570.

 

Raised in Sutica, Sarah was a very smart kid. Her father was a doctor and her mother an unsuccessful painter. When she was eight years old, a neighbor friend of hers was drowning in the ocean and she dragged him out. Saving his life barely, she set out from then on to become a nurse in order to help people.

 

Sarah struggled as a teenager when she realized that, despite wanting to save people's lives and help people, she also found pleasure in the pain of others. She would often get into fights with the local boys, knocking them down until they bled, before helping them to make sure they were okay. Those of her own age group had mixed feelings about her, but the adults, only seeing when she helped others, adored her.

 

When Sarah was sixteen, she began study to became a nurse. Her joy in pain had mostly faded with age, and she repressed it to become amazing at her "craft". Learning most of what she needed to know by age nineteen, she set forward plans to go to Johannesburg in order to continue her practice and go forward as a nurse. It was that year that her father went in to perform an exceedingly hard operation on a small child; the child died during surgery. The child's father, consumed by anger, assembled a gang of five men who beat and mortally wounded Sarah's father. The bird reaching her as she headed off on the road, she did not make it back in time to save him. She returned to Sutica to live and assist her mother for the year after her dad died.

 

After that time, she went off to Johannesburg to finally pursue a career as the nurse she had always wanted to, and knew she could, become.

 

Sarah's personality is quite complex, being both focused and cunning, yet very caring as well. This manifests negatively into obsessiveness in some cases. Her ambition is to become a recognized, successful nurse. She is incredibly "book" smart and a fully trained nurse, both assisting with her ambition. She is stunning, with flowing blonde hair and fair skin, with rare bright red eyes to complement her look.