<div align="center"> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Lydia</span></div><br/><div align="center">(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Bronze_young_girl_reading_CdM_Paris.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Role:</strong>Slave<br/><strong>Age:</strong>24<br/><strong>Origin:</strong>Lycia (present-day SW Turkey, east of Rhodes)<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Bisexual, mostly leaning towards women - she can bé powerfully turned on and committed to men too, but her relationships to men are sometimes more ambivalent because of her past experience of being beaten, raped and abused by males.<br/><br/><strong>Measures:</strong>5' 7", 130 lbs. Body shape curvy, well proportioned body; well-rounded butt and breasts but not overly large.<br/>Fair skin, almost black hair, chestnut eyes.<br/><br/><strong>Blemishes:</strong>no major ones on her body. Her hands are sturdy and a bit boney, not delicately feminine, and sometimes look slightly rough - she had big hands to begin with and has done some hard manual work, also she's sometimes been punished in ways that were straining on her hands, but they are agile, finely tuned and eager for work. On the inside of her right knee, a branding mark from an earlier owner, which is now smudged and looks like a faint nest of welts.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>The younger of two daughters of a shipbuilder and merchant in SW Asia Minor, Lydia grew up in some comfort; she was taught to read and write Greek (her native language) and read and speak Latin, though she doesn't write in Latin beyond simple, short messages. The family were Roman citizens, which brought social and legal privileges (remember Paul being one?) and her father traded in wine, tools, spices and slaves. But everything changed when Lydia was fifteen and her father took part in an attempt to make the Roman procurator recognize some pre-Roman city rights and make him and the soldiers work in more understanding with the local middle class and farmers. After heated negotiations and protests, the situation erupted into urban riots, city fighting and a smear campaign against the procurator. The protests were clamped down by the invincible Roman legion and Lydia's father was executed together with dozens of other leading men, her mother and the children sold as slaves and the family soon scattered out across the empire. Lydia was called on to teach and take care of the children of a family in northern Africa but after about two years fell out with the father, having been in a secret liaison with his wife; she was flogged and sold off to northern Gaul where she had to do tough farm work and was branded by her new owner, who also raped her and occasionlly let his other male slaves use her.<br/><br/>Having been raped and abused a couple times, but still looking very good, Lydia is more orientated towards women but she also realizes to herself that she sometimes gets off on being treated rough, something she knows she has to hide, especially when she is with those who have no trouble acting that way.<br/>After one or two more owners Lydia has landed at the gladiator school, where she has been doing work both helping to cook and sometimes serve and perhaps do some secretarial work for the lanista when he needs someone with fluency in reading/writing Greek (although many educated Romans had some knowledge of Greek and the really educated men were taught it). She is also sometimes employed as a dancer during breaks at "showcases" of the school when it stages days of show fights for rich buyers and so on, and has been requested for sex a few times by some of the gladiators, with the blessing of the lanista.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Strong and intelligent, longing for love but also sometimes for sex. She has a strong survival instinct and is able to take some beatings and trouble on the way to reaching a goal; she is also a caring young woman but she has seen it turn against her a few times of course. Sometimes melancholic and locking in on her own feelings: the cruel, violent downfall of her family and some of her friends and the loss of contact with her mother and siblings have left a mark on her. She has dreams of becoming a free woman again. but realizes that's not very likely to happen here at the Ludus.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>TURN-ONS AND LIMITS</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Positive sexual:</strong>Sex in general and any kind of penetration, especially giving oral and double penetration (no double-overs right in the opening of the story though).. Lydia is bi but more attracted to women than to men. Bondage, including being gagged, is a major on, and non-con treatment is okay of course, see below.<br/><br/><strong>Negative sexual ("hard limits"): </strong>Scat, serious watersports, bestiality except occasional mild encounters with cats and dogs (if you want to do this, we'll discuss it privately some in advance). Mutilation/circumcision/vore.<br/><br/><strong>Positive non-sexual:</strong>Lashings, spankings, suspensions, rape (listing it here because it is clearly not a turn-on of Lydia, but of me as writer, and also it's only half sexual: rape is much about being violently overpowered and objectified rather than about sex). Being spoken of (in passing or with some emphasis) as property.<br/><br/><strong>Negative non-sexual:</strong>character getting killed or executed, blinded, mutilasted or her tongue torn out,  made to engage in conspiracy against the life of her owner or to help gladiator/s escape.