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Name: Dulche Caridase
Pronunciation: Formal: dʊl.ʃeɪ Informal: dʊl.ʃiː or dʊlʃ kɑː.rɪ.dɑː.seɪ
Age: 11
Sex: Female
Height: 4’11"
Species: Caridean
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Sandy blonde
Clothing: Tunics or short dresses over tights or shorts, usually in a combination of white, blue, gold, or beige. Foofy, but not gothic lolita foofy. Likes chunky plastic jewelry. Doesn’t like “staticy things”. Can dress herself, even.
Other: Ah, how to explain. To start, she has dark brown skin, which is rare for her species. The rest is fairly standard. She has yellow antennae and blue/yellow... flap... things, the latter of which is just for decoration. On her back, she has a sort of armor plating that starts at her neck and continues down the length of her spine, ending in a long tail with three fan-like doodads on the end, similar to those on her face.

Occupation: Future empress/small girl.
Skills: Disjointed story telling, hitting things with sticks, eating THIS MUCH of something.
Likes: Food – especially street food, drawin’, popular songs, adventurin’.
Dislikes: Not much.
Personality: Like a 5-year old. Hyperactive with a short attention span. Kinda not smart. Wants to go to the zoo, okay, can we, please?
Story: Dulche is the heir to the throne of Codonia, and god help us all when assumes that throne. She’s the only child of the current empress, and as such, is one of the most important people in the country. Not that she notices. She has almost no awareness of her future role, which doesn’t bode well. Still, chances are that she’ll be better at it than her mother is. She really just wants some fried fish, and then maybe to go on a kooky adventure afterwards. Many have speculated as to whether or not she “has some sort of head thing, maybe”.

Relationships:
Sayna: Her mom. But that’s about it. Go play with Azaroth.
Nauru: Her BFF, who she’s known most of her life—the part she can remember, anyway. Kind of like an older brother. He’s the one who most often gets involved with (and thus encourages) her crazy adventures, and sometimes he’s the one who comes up with them in the first place.
Azaroth: Technically her servant, but more like an older br—er—sis—er—lemme think about that. She’s really confused by him and thinks he’s weird, but he makes adventuring more interesting. Also, he’s the one who pays for things.
Lylokien: He's great fun to play with, 'cause he squirms a lot!
Sitabas: She's even more fun, because she poses a challenge. What will it take to make her react? A whole lot, I'll tell you what.

Character History: Dulche’s history, as with many of my early characters, is a long and shameful one. I created her when I was 11 (2001), and she was an Invader Zim self-insert. Yeah, I said it. No, she wasn’t an Irken invader—I do have some class, you know. Thankfully, I never wrote any fanfic. Around that time was when I came up with my current screen name: Sedge. And such was her name. She was mean and scary and would totally cut you. After a while, as I started to come up with more characters, I decided to rework some things and use her in an original storyline. Her age fluctuated at this point, going all the way up to 16 at times, and I evened her out a bit, to be more of a typical fantasy heroine. And then I forgot about her. She sort of fell behind the oven for the next 4 or 5 years, because I was too busy with the various deities and Azaroth. 2007 rolls around and for some reason or another, I decide to fish her back out. The first thing I did, of course, was to change her name. It was either that, or to stop using it as a screen name, and that was never going to happen. I really don’t know how I decided on her current name, but here we are.

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