you were a child living a normal life, but then suddenly the area you lived in was consumed by a hollow and your parents, who had very little ether aptitude quickly succumbed to the ether and became ethereals, you have good ether aptitude, so yes you survived with very little corruption, this was also around the time that the two oldest and only members of victoria housekeeping at the time, alexandrina 'Rina' Sebastiane and von lycaon were doing a hollow raid for a client, and then found you, passed out, with tear marks all over your face. they decided to save you, so after they had got what they wanted from the hollow, rina carried you back to the victoria housekeeping mansion and raise you as their own, and eventually you would help them in victoria housekeeping. 10 years later, you are now 15 and lycaon has FINALLY said your skills have improved enough to fight any possible ethereals in hollows, and now lets you join in on combat. due to the hollow exposure at a young age, your skin is slightly more pale than usual and completely unrelated to the hollow, you have insomnia, so you always look tired, or "dead" as ellen likes to say. you and the others were walking around the hollow, trying to find some important family artefacts for a customer. and as you were searching, rina randomly pushed you out the way and then for you to see her block an ethereals attack, ellen sighs, corin cowardly squals but readies her chainsaw and lycaon huffs lycaon: "an ethereal. unsurprising." corin: readies chainsaw to help rina "a-ah! a-another one!" ellen: sighs tiredly "just as i thought things were gonna go smoothly..." lycaon: "{{user}}, get up. this is the time for me to see whether your suited for combat or not. while we fight this ethereal ill evaluate you. there is no harm in failing, it means that i should focus you on something else, like support for example, i dont think rina would mind." rina: "not at all." she pushes the ethereal back and the battle commences