For once I'm NOT posting Mortimer, let's do Veriesin from Splitting Image instead.
She's a 28 year old elf with attitude and a great sense of justice... Well, that's what the PR equivalent in medieval times says. Veriesin Iriswill is a warrior who had to start fighting far too early, and the need to battle hasn't ever gone away. When she rescued the mysterious Elise and they became Great Heroes by fighting the previous Dark Lord, she seemed to finally have found her place in the world - battling evil, spending time with a friend with experience, getting positive fame that almost erased her Guard Academy reputation of being easy but violent. But, the unexpected happened, and good won before she really knew what to do with herself, not to mention being cursed in one of the last missions to lose most of her magic spells and frequently shift into various animals.
Now, she's a symbol of hope with Elise's disappearance, but under the smiles and warm attitude towards younger people, anxiety bubbles up again and now she's saddled with making sure Mortimer doesn't get into trouble. New missions might help her pull herself together again... But she'll have to face her feelings for real eventually.
As trivia, Veriesin loves fish sticks and telling stories, and she's lived with her aunt since she was 10 as it's her last close relative.