Disciplinary Action/Characters/Orphans/Aeris
- Name
- Aeris
- Age
- 15
- Birthday
- ???
- Grade
- Tenth Grade
- Description
- A teen girl who looks a lot younger than her real age due to malnutrition hampering her growth.
Family
WIP Suggestions accepted.
Biography
Aeris is a skinny malnourished girl who does not get enough to eat due to always sharing her food with the younger kids. Her short skinny stature with a lack of obvious breast growth has her looking closer to 12 than her real age of 15, and she could easily pass for a 7th gradder.
She has a really motherly personality which she learned from being made to care for all the younger kids, including her actual daughter Katherine.
Aeris was originally brought to the orphanage at age 7 because she was precociously pubescent and pregnant as a result of being one of Victor Owen's victims. He had gotten her pregnant when she was only 6 years old, and it was when she was 7 that her parents noticed her growing belly.
Her parents did not even try to figure out who it was that raped and impregnated their daughter. They immediately put all the blame on the 7 year old and didn't even try to find out anything about the father of the child, and immediately abandoned her at the orphanage.
Despite this rough start, Aeris actually comes off as an incredibly happy and dutiful girl, and almost a perfect image of saintliness among the orphans. After giving birth, her daughter Katherine was simply recognized as a child of the orphanage, not as Aeris' daughter. Also by orphanage tradition, Aeris was also never pregnant and never gave birth, at least on paper.
(Note: This tradition was started because one of the earlier directors was aware of the fact that a lot of the pregnant young girls in the orphanage did not become pregnant by their choice and a lot of them were raped and then dumped here under circumstances similar to the unfair treatment Aeris received. It is a way to absolve them of the 'sin' of under-age sex, saying they are cleansed of that sin and are even treated as virgins for all the orphanage is concerned. This is also the reason why the orphanage director and any orphanage assistants are trained as mid-wives, so they can handle all matters of childbirth "in-house.")
While Aeris is aware that Katherine is the daughter she gave birth to when she was only seven, she has accepted the orphanage's teachings on this matter and does not actually regard Katherine as her daughter or herself as Katherine's real mother. She does not treat Katherine badly, in fact she treats her quite well, but it is really no different from how she would treat any other child of the orphanage.
(It is possible this could have something to do with why she has become so motherly to all the orphanage children.)