Merim Tser

About
Merim Tser is the younger daughter of the Tser family and the long-lost little sister of Captain Ruberan. Born in a poor household in the econimically unstable Helman Empire, her parents were unable of sustaining the whole family and Merim was eventually sold as a slave to the Aristocrat Golch Family, being separated from her older sister as a result. As the personal slave of Bitch Golch, Merim experienced a lot of abuse and mistreatment. She was used to serve him and his family as a maid, a sexual outlet and experienced heavy torture due to the family's sadism who enjoyed whipping her.

Despite all these horrible things she went through with the Golch Family, she was given the opportunity to study and learn a lot of things about archeology, history and mechanics, becoming a great explorer and archeologist due to her natural talent and enthusiasm for learning. She was taken along during Rance IV for her knowledge of archaeology and ancient artifact in order to help the Helman expedition in Ylapu that was led by Bitch Golch. With Bitch's death during the events of the game and Rance's help, Merim became free and has been living a happy life as an explorer doing what she loves.

Personality and Appearance
Merim is a slim and short girl with a brown hair, rounded glasses and distinctive freckles. Due to her status a slave, her clothing is humble and cheap, but it's still specialized for adventuring and exploring uncertain locations. She's often seen carrying a heavy bag with all sorts of equipments, artifacts and encyclopedias. As a standard in the cold country of Helman, she is usually completely covered by layers of clothing but behind it, her body is covered in scars  from the abuse she suffered from Bitch's family.

Merim is a kind and surprisingly naive girl with a largely positive dispotion. She keeps hopes up all the time and is optimistic most of the time despite the misfortunes she goes through, always looking the positive side of every situation and looking forward to a better future. She's in debt with Rance for freeing her from Bitch's possession, allowing her to live the life as an archeologist that she longed for. While she's sometimes slightly scared of him and is aware of his brutish personality, she thinks of him as a good person and enjoys his company.

She's a naturally humble and agreeable person that usually inspires feelings of pity from others due to her harsh and miserable life, as even Rance feels bad for her. Despite this, contradictorily, she's also described as someone that is amusing to bully and tease. She's an essentially pure girl with no ill-thoughts and that remains optimistic all the time. She does, however, have some periods of being slightly depressive when she talks about her misfortunate life, though she never attempts to portray herself as a victim. She has a deep love for exploration and archeology, and is very cheerful of the idea of exploring dungeons. She's seemingly unafraid by whatever dangers might be within a dungeon, and even after she's been wounded, she will still attempt to return in order to continue exploring. She loves reading about ancient history, and investigating all sorts of artifacts from different civilizations. After being freed from her life as a slave, Merim has been able to work doing what she loves as an explorer, but she regularly requires the aid from adventurers when venturing in more dangerous locations. She's stubborn, failure doesn't depress or discourage her at all. She hopes with re-encountering with her older sister Ruberan one day.

Abilities
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Appearances in the Rance Series
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Trivia

 * She's a classic character archetype designed by TADA. In most of his games there is one girl with glasses that goes trough abuse and misfortunes.
 * She's 21 years old by LP0006 and was born in December 13th.
 * In Kichikuou Rance, she also had a Thief Lv1 skill but it was retconned from her.