Relm Arrowny

Relm is best described as a little brat; she is never afraid to speak her mind and uses her quick wit and sharp tongue to dish out whatever insults she finds necessary when people are acting stupid. She's easily frustrated by people who she thinks are acting in such a way and her Grandfather bears the brunt of her attitude due to his senile behavior. Having said that, her actions are never without cause or with malicious intent, rather chiding in nature. She only insults people to get their attention and point out mistakes they're making. She only ever has the best intentions at heart, it's just that she's harsh in her methods. She also tends to use insulting nicknames to refer to people in an affectionate way(she refers to her Grandfather as "An old bag of bones" and commonly "Old man", but he finds her attitude endearing as a result of understanding this is her way of showing affection. It's very likely that if she commonly refers to you by some demeaning phrase, she's on better terms with you than she is with someone who she's on a first name basis with.

Towards Men, such as her grandfather and certain other members of their group, Relm shows her fondness of them by giving them attitude and playfully insulting them. However, she's much more typically nice towards women, especially older ones, lacking her usual attitude when talking to them.

One thing that really gets on Relm's nerves is looking down on her for her youth; like most children her age she thinks of herself as very mature and doesn't like being treated as anything less than an equal by adults. Despite this, she's well aware of her own faults and reckless attitude, so sometimes it is necessary for people to step in and tell her to step back and chill out. Even if she acts indignant towards people doing this, she'd probably realize they were right later on and appreciate people stepping in from time to time, even if she'd never openly admit to it. However, even if she openly dislikes being treated as a child, she's in no way above acting like a child to guilt trip people into feeling bad for her. Crocodile tears and taking on a more childish demeanor are two of her greatest weapons in this respect, using them to get her way if the situation calls for it.

She shows knowledge of things you wouldn't really expect to hear from a ten year old, often making uncomfortably racy remarks should anything around her appear even the least bit romantic, often just to get a rise out of whoever she's speaking to. If the person she's speaking with becomes flustered by this, she's likely to continue doing it to provoke and embarrass them further for her own amusement. On top of that though, for her age, she is surprisingly wise and mature(when she wants to be) and much of her ability to identify mistakes people make and rebuke them for them tend to be spot on. The only problem is she tends to use her cleverness to be up to no good.

She's a very creative person who enjoys painting and loves animals, specifically dogs.

All in all, a real piece of work.

Relm was born to a man named Clyde, who during the course of the story is in fact the Mercenary-for-hire Shadow, though she never learns of his identity, and an unnamed woman hailing from the town of Thamasa. Clyde was one half of an infamous pair of robbers known as Shadow. Following their greatest heist yet, Clyde's partner in crime, Baram, is fatally injured. Baram asks for Clyde to finish him off so he won't die suffering, but Clyde finds he is unable to do it and flees, leaving the injured Baram to die. He winds up in Thamasa, where he falls in love with an unnamed woman(Relm's mother) and fathered a Child with her. However, fearing his past would one day catch up to him and put his family in danger, Clyde leaves Thamasa and Relm in the care of a man named Strago, Relm's mother having already passed away at the time.(It's never confirmed whether or not he's her adoptive Grandfather or her real one, but I'm sticking with the idea he's the former.)

Thamasa was the last place in the World of Balance full of people with inherent magical abilities. In the past, their ancestors had fled to Thamasa and isolated themselves due to the fear the world at large had of their abilities, essentially causing them to be hunted down and executed without so much as a trial beforehand. To keep their abilities secret, the use of magic was forbidden in Thamasa, but the children of the town didn't really care for the ban and practiced it anyway. Up until the point of the story the party meets Relm, she lives a normal and peaceful life, albeit boring. Once the party shows up, Thamasa being unused to visitors, Relm immediately interrupts a discussion between Strago and the party, asking who they are and if they can use magic too, causing Strago to panic and hurry her out of the room, then fiercely deny not only their ability to use magic but also the existence of magic itself.

That night, Relm is caught in a burning building while visiting a friend, so the party along with Strago end up going to save her. It's during this event they find out the whole town can use magic, as they attempt to extinguish the flames with some sort of spell. Strago reveals the town's past and the social stigma they gained that came with their magical abilities. He agrees to help the party on their quest and Relm offers to go with them, only for Strago to tell her she isn't allowed and has to stay in the village. A little while later, the party encounters a recurring boss character, Ultros, and halfway through the battle Relm shows up. She uses her sketch ability to create a duplicate of Ultros and upon seeing how hideous he is, he flees. Relm is then allowed to join the party. Once the Party find the group of espers(magical beings that fled to a mountainside near Thamasa) they arrange peace between them and the Espers return to the village with them, at which point General Leo, a representative of the Empire that had preformed hideous experiments on the Espers in the name of world conquest, apologizes for everything that has happened and promises peace between humankind and espers. Unfortunately another of the Empire's generals shows up, Kefka, who captures the Espers in the name of the Empire, murders General Leo, injures the whole party and raises a large portion of the world into the sky(The Floating Continent) which he and the Emperor plan to rule the world from. Seeing this, Relm and Strago permanently join the party.

Stuff happens, the party attacks the floating continent, Kefka murders the Emperor and assumes complete control, initiates the apocalypse, turns the world into a Barren Wasteland and scatters the party across the dying planet he now rules over as God.

After the Apocalypse, the party encounters Relm in the house of a Rich Man named Owzer, who hired her to paint a portrait of the Esper Starlet. However, the painting becomes possessed by the Demon Chardarnook, who obsessively haunts the painting claiming the woman in the painting is so beautiful that he wants her forever.(This wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that him haunting the house fills it with dangerous monsters and brings paintings to life, which are also dangerous.) Relm attempts to rid the painting of the Demon, but to no avail, so the party intervenes and defeats the demon, releasing the painting from his influence. At that point, Relm joins the party, telling Owzer that once the world is saved, she'll return to finish the painting for him.

The party then heads to the cultist's tower where, believing all of his friends to be dead and his granddaughter having perished, loses all hope and becomes one of the cultists who worships Kefka as god. If the party tries to speak to Strago without Relm present, he ignores them, but if Relm is with the party, she convinces Strago to snap out of his depression by being her usual charming self(insults him a lot and tells him to get over it, which funnily enough works.) Strago then rejoins the party.

With Relm and Strago in the party, if they return to Thamasa they discover that Strago's oldtime friend, Gungho, has been badly injured by a creature named Hidon, a powerful monster Strago and Gungho spent their youth hunting obsessively. Strago decides to go and defeat Hidon in order to avenge his friend. After defeating Hidon, Strago spends the night in Thamasa, telling Gungho of how he singlehandedly defeated the monster(exaggerating a lot along the way, especially since he had Relm and two other party members with him). After Strago falls asleep, Relm confronts Gungho about the situation and admits she knew he was faking his injuries, and that only someone as foolish as Strago would ever fall for such poor acting skills. It was actually a ploy devised by Gungho to give Strago more confidence in his abilities, but Relm promises not to say anything.

In the ending, Relm and Strago have a few conversations, and Relm says she would like to paint a traditional, non-magic painting of Strago using a real canvas.