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Doing this for the three MCs of my WIP:

• Ivy wants to be heard (but doesn’t know how to make others listen). Because of magic and genetics, she looks significantly younger than she is, and when you combine this with the natural tendency of older sisters to forget that their younger siblings actually are growing up too, well . . . her older sisters aren’t neglectful, but they’ve never taken her as seriously as she wishes they would. And her current situation just makes things worse.
• Aster is (well, will be) torn between her love for her sisters and her chance at romance and a chance at a life she never dared dream of. Aster’s life, especially the last ten years or so of it, has always been defined by her responsibility to take care of her younger sisters. She loves them, and she’ll never complain about caring for them, but occasionally she wishes for a life that wasn’t consumed by their needs and wants. And when she visits King du Karel’s pavilon, she gets a glimpse of that life and, later, a chance to take hold of it.
• Poppy wants to protect her sisters, and is willing to do whatever she has to in order to accomplish that goal, but events of this story make her doubt her own strength. Poppy might not be the oldest, and she might not have the special giftings of Ivy and Pansy, but she’s bold and stubborn and a little bit impulsive. As a result, as the sisters grew up, she was almost always the first to face down anyone or anything who threatened her sisters. She, even more than Aster or Wisteria, was the one the littlest girls ran to when they were afraid. And she liked being her sisters’ protector; she liked the feeling of strength success at that gave her. So she didn’t mind the growing expectation in everyone’s minds that she’d keep protecting them, that she’d always be able to do so. But the introduction of King du Karel into their lives makes Poppy doubt her ability to protect her sisters, partially because she doesn’t know how to protect them and partially because the things she’s trying to protect them from are far greater than she.