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Aresee Lily Ventu was born to Jarin Ventu and [[Tayler-Ventu, Matilda|Matilda Tayler]] in 2352. Matilda had been warned earlier in her life that she carried a genetic marker that made a neurochemical imbalance almost certain in any children she might have, and so the couple decided, early on in their marriage, not to have children. Lily's was an accidental pregnancy but, even knowing the risks, Jarin and Matilda went ahead with the birth. | |||
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''Although Lily's condition is a unique, familiar genetic condition, similar to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-alpha_Reductase_Deficiency 5-alpha reductase deficiency], its closest analogue in current medicine is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder bipolar disorder].'' | |||
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At age five, Aresee is first diagnosed after rapidly cycling through multiple moods, leaving her extremely hyper one moment and nearly catatonic the next. She is misdiagnosed as depressed and begins seeing her first counselor, by whom she is labeled bipolar. However, further genetic tests reveal that she (and her family) carry a unique genetic marker for the disorder. She is put on a daily regimen of meds and begins her "normal" childhood. | |||
[[Image:Lily10.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Aresee at ten]]When she's ten, Aresee experiences her first violent mood swing at school, destroying some property and breaking a boy's arm. She flees the scene and is found a mile away, curled and apologetic, having drawn so far into herself that all she can say is, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." She undergoes a three-week intense session of counseling, during which she's withdrawn from school at put on even more medications. She refuses, following the incident, to return to school, and is home-schooled until high school[[Image:Lily15.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Lily enters high school]], sometimes staying at home with her father, and sometimes traveling with her mother aboard her ship.<br> | |||
When she enters high school, Aresee eschews her first name, citing an inborn hatred for its forced ostentatiousness, and chooses to go by her middle name, Lily. <br> | |||
High school is mostly uneventful - Lily stays under the radar for the most part, achieving good marks but really living for after school, when she's left to herself. She doesn't make many friends, though this frustrates her - her operant thinking is not that she wants to be alone, but rather that she hasn't/can't meet anyone worth inviting into her life.<br> | |||
As graduation nears, Lily is pressured to choose what to do after high school. Her mother, who is nearly retirement, wants Lily to take over her merchant vessel, but Lily doesn't have much interest in doing that. Throughout her life, the only people who have been omnipresent, besides her family, are various counselors, and she decides in her senior year that she'd like to pursue a degree in counseling psychology. | |||
=Attending the Academy For the First Time= | =Attending the Academy For the First Time= | ||