Mansa Danbelle

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=• History •= Mansa is the sole child to revered creator of a tailoring business once popular among the Highborn, Levin Sarantos and his wife, Adorna. Mansa's original name is Manius Sarantos, though once he was recognized as a proud Highborn Cassian, he now refers to himself as Mansa, as he felt it would not fit the theme of having a fancy sounding name in a poorer group of people. During his early toddler years, Mansa was introduced to the harsh reality that was the Cassian social classes. Being a Highborn himself, the child had the best clothing, education as well as toys.

During his childhood, Mansa was looked after by a Draken named Vresa that his father had beaten and hired as a protector for his son should he find himself in a situation that may harm him. The two got along fairly well, as Vresa watched the once infant mature into a toddler. Vresa is responsible for training the child in some combat situations from the age of 5, believing that it was better for her friend's child to become a great warrior like herself and his father. While he was not the best at swordplay, Mansa did enjoy spending time with Vresa.

Around the time the Cassian Civil War began, Levin Sarantos was visited by Dominion forces. They suggested that he alter his family business to create new types of armor for the military. Levin refused, stating that his family had owned the business for generations. After several hours of disputing, the forces left, promising that if Levin did not accept their "offer", the Sarantos family may face severe punishments. Dully noting the threats and seeing them as just angered verbal attacks, Levin and his family company continued producing specialty dresses and suits for the Highborn. Adorna was quite disturbed and had experienced many sleepless nights, fearing that Dominion military forces would barge into their home and threaten them once more.

When he turned 6, Levin pushed Mansa into learning more about fighting and war as well as business, hoping for his only son to take the reins of the family business when it was time for Levin to retire. Mansa's mother did wish for him to fill a more diplomatic position, one that ensured his safety as well as bring honor to the family name. Mansa, however, nearly failed every physical test he was given, save for finding a safe place to avoid enemy fire. His father become disheartened, wondering his his son could ever be a great warrior like himself.

Mansa's intelligence levels were abnormal for someone his age, leaving his parents as well as teachers quite shocked at his progress. Tests for the child to undergo training to become an Esper were planned, but no official tests were ever administered.

Several months after the initial threat, the Dominion came back during a dinner party the Sarantos family was having with an ultimatum: That Levin agree to step down and transfer control over the Dominion forces or be labelled as a traitor. Having Vresa escort Mansa and Adorna out, Levin continued to argue, trying to buy his family some time to hide or even escape before things got ugly. Shortly after, a gunshot was heard as the famed owner of Sarantos tailoring had been executed. The Dominion forces then searched the premises for his family while Vresa quickly shoved Mansa and Adorna to safety before facing the Dominion forces herself, being faced with another choice: Assist the guards in finding the Sarantos family, or die like Levin. Agreeing, but simply lying about her promise, Vresa took off to find the two.

Mansa and his mother lay in hiding in a lowborn Cassian neighborhood while Vresa managed to secure enough money to purchase them lowborn clothes. Once changing into filth covered clothes and some help from Vresa properly making them look the part of poor citizens, the trio began searching around to purchase a transport to a large fleet of ships that all ex Cassiens had gathered to secure a new home. It was quite difficult, as the majority of the ships had left months ago. There were still some ships willing to take them for a fee, though it would cost them every piece of money they had earned. After finding the pilot and talking him into lowering the price, the Sarantos family quickly rushed to the ship preparing to take off. Though the Dominion had caught on and thus began a chase that Mansa still hates to bring up.

With the help of Vresa again, Mansa and his mother had managed to lose the military forces chasing them and ran to get into the ship that would lead them towards salvation. Once arriving, Adorna quickly began to help Mansa inside, but was quickly shot in the side. Mansa cried while he shook his mother to continue on, Vresa rushing to help, but the military forces had beaten her there and gladly decided to let Vresa have the honor of killing the last of the Sarantos family. The female Draken stalled, unsure of which side to take before Mansa let out a scream that caused a large amount of projectiles to appear and then cowered in fear at the sight, sending them flying in all directions, scattering the surrounding forces. Seeing the opportunity in the break to escape, the pilot quickly grasped the child crying over the loss of his mother and flew off, sustaining quite a few hits while leaving.

After some time later, the ship had arrived at the Gambler's Ruin, to which people crowded over seeing a lone child stepping off and sulking. One red haired woman in particular comforted the boy the most, Kirune Danbelle was her name. The child was set to be cared for by Kirune, as the two then became acquainted, with Kirune teasing Mansa about his original name and calling him "Mansa" instead. Both were quite shy at the start, but as of recent, have come to become family to one another, Mansa taking on the name Danbelle, though not telling his adoptive mother about his once Highborn status.

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