Alain's Description
A giggle here, a bat of eyelash there...so he doesn't exactly act like a normal boy. Okay, so maybe nothing about him is even masculine...from the cliched bow-shaped lips to the long, spice-tinted eyelashes which crown wide copen-lit eyes, to the thick ginger locks which are caught back in a single braid of length unprecidented on any other boys. Yes, his build is nothing short of slight for a boy, and his actions are most definitely unnaturally fluid for an adolescent boy. But if one looked really hard one may be able to find some hint of boyish exuberance somewhere about him...nah!

Alain was born in a small cothold near Crom where his parents were herders. Their main stock were porcines, though they kept the occasional bovine for milking. Alain was the last of five children, the elder four all daughters, and so naturally Alain was expected to inherit the animals and continue herding after his father died. But at a very young age is became apparent that Alain was interested in neither porcines nor herding.
Instead, he developed an affinity for the gaming table. It seemed that Alain had never heard the proverb, "a mark in the fist is worth two on the table." His gambling took a dire swing when, at the tender age of eleven, he bet against ten-to-one odds on a runner named "Flitter." He lost. His debt went from a few sixteenths to well over fifty marks and the bookie wanted his earnings immediately. Well, when a man is faced with such a challenge, the only thing for him to do is buck up and face the musick. Fortunately, Alain wasn't a man, yet. So with the help of his sisters, in the middle of the night, he snuck out under the alias of Alaine...heading south to avoid his troubles.
He did so successfully and finally found himself at the Smith Hall on Ista Island. He maintained his false identity until one night the headlady of the hold pried the truth out of him. To make a long story short, he agreed to drop the female pretense (managing to drop his skirt at the same time), and has begun to dress, and act like a boy...well, every now and again he does have relapses...but he's working on those.

LOGS:
The Young and the Skirtless Alain is forced to face the world as a boy, finds a magic carpet, and marries a goat princess. (Only one of those is true, by the way...)

OTHER SCHTUFF:
Alain's Top Ten Answers to Pernese Childhood Ails and Wails.