Robin Ravenswood

Guardswoman Robin Ravenswood
royal guard
picrew
race	human
pronouns	she/her
age	unknown
affiliations	Stellar Cavalry Centralia Honor Guard
post	Dame Adorabelle's Academy Havensborough, Centralia (part-time) Palace of Serenity Queen City, Centralia

• For the radio presenter, see Carly Ravenswood.

Guardswoman Robin Ravenswood (code name Round Strawberry) is the Centralia Honor Guard officer currently serving as the personal bodyguard to Princess Alice.

Appearance

Ravenswood is a young woman with pink hair, usually worn in twintails, and thick-rimmed glasses. She almost looks too young to be a member of a military service, let alone an elite royal guard, but the Princess assures us that she is qualified for her role.

In her capacity as a security officer for the Princess, Ravenswood typically wears the standard Centralia Honor Guard dress uniform, consisting of a pink military tunic and a white skirt. In place of the standard rank insignia, Ravenswood's uniform features a small emblem of a strawberry. When asked what this emblem denotes, Ravenswood simply responded "I like strawberries."

On some occasions Ravenswood can be seen wearing hot-pink body armor featuring patches of the Centralian national flag and her name, R. RAVENSWOOD. Nobody has yet been able to observe a pattern as to when or why she chooses to wear this "tactical" gear instead of her usual attire.

Some have noted that Robin Ravenswood bears a startling resemblance to Akiba FM presenter Carly Ravenswood. Ravenswood herself says "Eh, I don't seee it."

Personality

Ravenswood demonstrates extreme hyperactivity, often rapidly jumping from one activity to another. By her own admission, she find it difficult to focus on a single subject unless she personally finds it interesting.

Ravenswood is also known for her impulsive behavior, frequently making decisions with no consideration for future consequences, as demonstrated when she went "window shopping" at Ante Meridiem Electronics during a trip to Edge City and returned with a top-of-the-line gaming rig, two vintage CRT TVs, and a broken 1990s telephone.

Ravenswood has a strange manner of speaking, often quoting song lyrics, repeating phrases from common signs ("Right lane must turn right, bub!"), and even forming outright nonsense sentences ("Sell my gloves to an unmarried florist or Dave will rent a mausoleum!"), sometimes including non-words such as "brazeeb'd". Somehow, the Princess manages to understand her perfectly, though nearly everyone else does not.

Relationships

Princess Alice

Guardswoman Ravenswood first met Princess Alice during the Princess's public appearance at the opening of a new children's hospital in Sunset Valley, where she was assigned to a minor patrol post. The Princess, while waiting backstage, got into an argument with her personal bodyguard over smartphone case stickers, culminating in her "dismissing" him and demanding to assign a new guard to his position. The Princess selected Ravenswood to fill the role, on the basis that she was "the cutest one here, besides me."

The Princess quickly took a liking to Ravenswood, calling her "my new favorite plaything." The Princess went on to retain Ravenswood as her new de facto personal bodyguard, though this arrangement has never been formalized.

Peter Pomeroy

As the royal guard assigned to protect Princess Alice at Dame Adorabelle's Academy, Guardswoman Ravenswood has been tasked to work with Peter Pomeroy, the academy's security guard, to coordinate the Princess's personal security. Ravenswood tends to let the Princess run free and essentially do whatever she wants, prompting Pomeroy to ineffectually intervene, such as when he attempted to follow the Princess into a crowded city street only to lose sight of her within two minutes. Ravenswood often reminds Pomeroy that Princess Alice, as an unfathomably powerful construct of pure magic from beyond the stars, needs little in the way of physical protection, but Pomeroy nonetheless seems to feel an obligation to at least maintain a pretense of shielding the Princess from outside threats.

Ravenswood tends to regard Pomeroy as a nuisance. On several occasions, he has knocked on her door at strange hours of the morning, waking her up, to insist that she meet with him to discuss "strategy". During these meetings, he tends to scold her for looking at for phone or not taking notes, despite her attempts to explain that she can easily focus on a face-to-face conversation while browsing Blathr, or that she doesn't need to take notes because she has an exceptional memory. Ravenswood learned that Pomeroy attempted to complain to her superiors about her conduct, though they rightfully told him to buzz off because obviously anyone who works under the direct supervision of the Centralian head of state must know what she's doing.

Living quarters

In her capacity as the Princess's personal bodyguard, Ravenswood resides part-time at Dame Adorabelle's Academy in Havensborough. Despite the Princess having attended Dame Adorabelle's for as long as anyone can remember, the school is not equipped with permanent living quarters for her royal guards, so Ravenswood stays in a stock student room in West Dormitory, adjacent to Princess Alice's own room. Because Princess Alice does not need to use a toilet and rarely takes a shower unless she is nagged to, Ravenswood has informally "taken over" their shared bathroom.

Weapons and gear

Ravenswood's service weapon is a hot pink bubblegun. A bubblegun is a pistol that shoots gumballs instead of bullets. They splat into a sticky mess of bubblegum when they hit somebody. It's totally a real thing. No, don't look it up.

When in her "tactical" garb, Ravenswood sometimes carries what appears to be a large rifle. For some reason, her totally real rifle has an orange tip. (When this was pointed out to her, she just shrugged and said "Sometimes the underwriter of the urban legend really is a carousel operator" before turning her attention to a nearby vending machine.)

Notable incidents

Trapped in the toybox

While patrolling the palace on a stormy June evening, Ravenswood noticed the Princess's toybox had been left open. Upon peeking inside, Ravenswood fell into the toybox, which somehow latched, locking her inside. Ravenswood would remain trapped in the toybox for several hours, entertaining herself with the Princess's die-cast cars. Eventually, the Princess, returning from a playdate, found Ravenswood and set her free.