Kiera Shakur

Name: Kiera Shakur

City of Dominion: Volk ( a sort of version of Victorian London)

Family: The Noble House of Shakur

Family Crest: A Crescent moon. Two swords

Age: 17

Rank: Companion to Aristo Dasciano

Description: Dark skin, dark eyes, dark hair. Petite and shapely but hides it underneath shirts and suits.

Since she is chosen as a Companion who is usually always men, her being the sole exception, Kiera had left all her feminine trappings, cut off her long hair and worn male clothing since she was chosen at the age of 10. 

Since then she has been treated as male and has experienced more freedom than other girls around her. But in exchange for that freedom she is also deemed an outcast and a peculiarity. She has to give up the future that girls of her rank hoped for: marriage and children since who would want to marry someone like her? A girl who is not really a girl; a girl who is trained in the art of war instead of the art of conversation. Who is taught how to wield a sword rather than a paintbrush. Who converses far too intelligently, and behaves far too freely with other men. 

Being a Companion, no one dares to give her a cut direct, or refuses her entry into their houses and offending her Guardian, but whenever the Guardians and Companions manages to drag her to one of the society parties or personal outings, she is whispered and stared at.

Frankly, though she often wondered how her life would be if Aristo didn't choose her as his Companion, she knew that the life she lived now is better than what her family would ever offer for her. And by family she meant her grandfather, the Patriach of the Shakur family. 

With both her parents dead, she is left in her grandfather's not so tender mercies. 

Kiera is the child from his son's second marriage to a woman who did not come from nobility, and her grandfather hated that and didn't bother to hide it. Cold neglect and vicious words were often her grandfather's choice of torture. And the situation only got worst after Kiera is chosen as a Companion rather than her two half brothers; her father's sons from his first marriage.