18 Years Old

168cm

48kg

Being a daughter from a very well-off and affluent family, she had no freedom over herself. From twelve years old, she had to obey each and every of her fathers's commands, without failure. Even if one command was disobyed, she would receive a harsh punishment. Kaeun had to do daily household chores, and mind you, a well-off family house isn't small, so it is not hard to imagine how much work she had to do, keeping the place clean every single day and other stuff. There were maids tending to the house of course, but they were all favoured over poor little Kaeun. Life was so much better for Kaeun when her mother was still around...

One very fine day, fifteen years old Kaeun decided that she had enough of this slavery, this unfariness. She hid herself inside her room for an entire day, not willing to do her duty. The maids tried to convince her to come out of her room and do her duty but no matter much they persuaded Kaeun, she would not budge, the maids were talking to a brick wall. Kaeun closed her ears and ignored the banging of the door by the maids, she even ignored her parents' calls when they came home from work. She wanted freedom, a chance to roam the world, a chance to be her own life, a chance to do anything she wants. Not long after, Kaeun cried to sleep, crying because of the life she experienced for the past six years and now.

"KAEUN, WHY DID YOU DISOBEY ME?" Her father shouted from across the hallway, Kaeun stood rooted to the ground due to the sheer terror that she can feel from her father's words. She looked down onto the marble floor, hoping that the punishment her father is going to administer is not as severe as previous times. Slight trembles can be felt from the floor as Kaeun's father stomped towards her young little daughter, the maids tried to stop their master but they were pushed off aside, nothing can stop this angry and mad hulking father and no one can imagine what will come next.

Her father took a thin long bamboo stick, which is usually the weapon for Kaeun's punishment. Kaeun gasped as she was very afraid of the bamboo stick, something which made her tremble with fear. She shook her head and kept on crying out "Sorry, Sorry!" But the father paid no attention to Kaeun's cries, he continued to walk towards her with the large bamboo stick in hand, he raised his hand up high, as high as the statue of liberty. He looked like one who was ready to strike an enemy down, but it was Kaeun who he was going to strike. As his hand went down with tremendous force, Kaeun tried to dodge the stick, but got hit at her right elbow instead.

 

"AH!" Kaeun jumped up from her nightmare. She was profusely sweating and her heart was beating fast, she thought about the event that had happened a few seconds ago, but could not recall it entirely. Kaeun looked towards the window and was immediately blinded by the morning rays of the sun, she then realised that she had slept through the night crying as she felt dried tears on her face. She pulled down her right side of her shirt and felt the long mark on her elbow, the one her father gave her half a year ago. She immediately pulled her shirt back up as she did not want to recall the nightmares of her father beating her, it was horrific. 

"Click" The door opens, and there stands Kaeun's father. Kaeun thought that her father was going to punish her for not doing her duty yesterday, but instead her father said "I had enough of this Kaeun, It will be best for you to not stay here anymore, and to be sent to Hayde." Kaeun felt relieved and shocked at the same time, relieved because she was not going to receive a beating from father, she was shocked because she is leaving this place forever, and have to survive outside? This was not the freedom Kaeun desired and wanted.

The maids quickly pack Kaeun's belongings and clothes into a suitcase, while one of the maids escorted her to the front door. Her father was waiting for her at the front door and did not look sorry when she was leaving. Kaeun gave one last glance towards her father, trying to find a hint of remorse or guilt, but none was to be seen. Kaeun loaded her suitcase onto a small carriage that her father had hired and she went into the carriage, leaving the dreadful place forever.

Kaeun arrived at the harbour, and boarded the ship to Hayde. Upon arrival of Hayde, she did not had a clue of where to go, she was a stranded girl on Hayde's port. She tried to look for anyone that is familiar to her, but being locked out from freedom at her old home, there was no way she could find someone she know on Hayde. Kaeun strolled into a nearby dark alley, beside a street market of Hayde, bringing her suitcase along and sat down by the edge of the dark alley. From where she was sitting, no one can see her due to the shadows concealing her body, but in Kaeun's point of view, she had a clear vision of the street market. Suddenly, there was a ding sound made by a piece of metal dropping onto the floor. Kaeun turned her head to the source of the sound, to see a coin by the entrance of the dark alley. She scrambled to the coin and looked around the street market,  waiting for someone to pick it up. To her joy, no come came back for the coin, from the moment she "stole" the coin, she had already step foot into the shadows of stealth. Becoming a bandit for the next two and a half years, stealing to survive and robbing someone in the night without anyone knowing. She nicknamed herself  as "Raven".