Desmera Tyrell

The youngest child of Gareth Tyrell, Lord Paramount of the Reach, and his late wife Leona, Desmera Tyrell is a sweet young girl, and a current resident of King’s Landing. The grief she brought into the world with her mother’s passing after her difficult birth was quickly erased by the pure glee that the child seemed to exude – it’s no wonder that those who are closer to her know her as “Merry”. Now a woman of nineteen, Merry resides in the manse of her half-sister, the Lady Gael Targaryen, seeking a courtly education and the chance to find connections and a proper match amongst the courtiers in the capital. A companion to both Lady Gael and Queen Visenya, in the short time she has spent in the Crownlands she is proving to be a popular member of the court and a pleasant entertainer.

Appearance and Character
A youthful and kind face is crowned with curls of a dark, warm brown, perfectly matching her eyes. Desmera has so much of her late mother's modest beauty, but some amount of vanity and frivolousness manage to make her more beautiful than Lady Leona ever was. Often wearing the light and soft colours that she so loves, Merry is not excedingly tall and is endowed with a thin, willowy body and narrow hips, the source of her Septa's mysery.

Lady Desmera's is always cheerful and blunt - sometimes irritatingly so - but her good humour easily conquers strangers.

History
Though her birth was followed by the chaos and grief of Leona's death, her childhood turned out to be quite peaceful and uneventful - as that of most children of Highgarden. Growing up in the cares of septas and nursemaids, Merry found excitement in games and music, growing to be quite different from the mother she never knew. She shared a healthy relationship with her brothers and always had a great admiration for Lady Gael, her older and exotic sister who lived in the capital. After months of pleading she was finally sent to live at her manse in King's Landing – a dream come true.

Still enchanted with the court and its denizens, Desmera is making as many friends as possible and keeping an eye open for suitors under her half-sister's careful eye.

She lives with Lady Gael, her son Maekar, a couple of Septas and Lady Taena Zalyne, her mother's cupbearer and Queen Visenya's oldest daughter.