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Independent and strong-willed, she is your typical Corellian, full of life and spirit. Easily angered, yet quick to forgive she has a knack for making herself the heart of any group she finds herself a part of. Restless by nature Alena finds it hard to sit still, always needing to be doing something, anything she can. While she is a fast-learner she was not the best of students in school, preferring to escape the confines of the classroom to visit her dad at his job. Alena believed she learned more about life from observing the denizens of the spaceport, and that there was nothing more that she need learn as she planned on following in his footsteps to become an inspector just like him.
Although she was an only child Alena's extended family gave her a strong sense of family and heritage. Her fathers family in particular spent much time with the young woman, sometimes even abetting in her escapes from school to visit with her father. While from her mother's side of the family she was given some very down-to-earth lesson's in the value of hard-work, and doing the right thing as much as one was humanly able to.
Like many other Corellian's one could say she had a bit of a temper, a temper that tended to get her out of trouble when faced with a situation she did not have the experience to handle. The older she grew the more she became none for her feistiness, to the point that her school officials would dispel her for fighting rather than her absenteeism. But her fights were always of the noble sort, always she fought for the underdog, the small kid being bullied, the plain looking girl being teased.
Free-spirited Alena was used to being allowed to do whatever she willed, especially as her father tended to turn a blind eye to his daughters antics. He would even go so far as to encourage her to set aside the normal, stereotypes of what a woman was capable of doing, or how a woman should behave or dress. While this might have seemed an idyllic situation to Alena's envious counterparts, it was extremely sheltering as her father often found ways to encourage the girl away from the boys of her own age, thus sheltering her form the normal teen-age romances.
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