Sure thing! This might read a bit like a hybird history + personality section in order to tie events together -- I'm sorry...!
Based on Meredy's sunny disposition and upbeat attitude, it would be easy to assume that she had a carefree and relatively loving childhood, but the reality of her situation was much harsher than that. Born to Balir and Shizel, Meredy was the product of the union between an Inferian and Celestian, and to top it off, one that possessed the Dark Aurora of Nereid (the "god of destruction" in many in-universe stories), like her mother. From a time when she was very young, we learn through flashbacks that Meredy was often the subject of various experiments and research into the Dark Aurora, Fibrill, and everything else that the power entailed. Her relationship with her mother, based on this -- was not exactly a loving and nurturing one as Meredy, confessing to Reid, claims that she is unsure exactly what good memories of loved ones even are. However, as he speaks and explains his feelings to her, she is able to relate one memory in particular, in which she and Shizel gaze upon the sky, with her mother holding her close... There may have been other rare, soft moments in her childhood like his, but she does not seem to recall many others. Perhaps because of these events, she especially treasures the time spent with her new friends, wanting to make more "warm and calm" feelings to reflect upon.
Although not outright stated, there is a good chance that due to the nature of her and Shizel's relationship, Meredy found it difficult to trust others when it came to information about herself, or open up to them even when the time calls for it. When the truth of who is behind the Grand Fall is revealed, Meredy reluctantly tells the party that it was Balir that was heading the operation, she seems almost ashamed to admit to them that she is their child. It was as though she purposefully hid the information, even though she claims that she wanted to tell them (and just didn't know how). In her ultimate fear of not being trusted, she wound up looking worse off for it when everything sort of snowballed on her.
If anything, her belief in her parents involvement with the Grand Fall, and the fall of Luishka, was perhaps the greatest force that propelled her forward, as she felt a responsibility to stop it on her own, through whatever means necessary... including shipping herself off to an alien world. Even though she felt they had committed a great sin, it can be easily believed that up until the very confrontation (and subsequent end, though that's beyond Meredy's current canon point--) she was ready to forgive both Balir and Shizel of their transgressions... despite the terrors she had been put through for all those years. We see this first hand when as the party confronts Shizel for the first time, where they discover a mummified Balir in front of a distressed Meredy, who perhaps had been holding out hope all that time that things would somehow work out...
Before Meredy had come of age, which is ten by Celestian standards, she was able to escape the confines that her mother had set out for her with the help of an engineer that came to her rescue, Galenos. The old man became something of a parental figure to Meredy as well throughout the subsequent years of their living in hiding, who was obviously a great source of knowledge over the next six years, and eventually took on the role of the one helping her to travel to Inferia. He encouraged and taught her many things, perhaps more than anyone else, shaping her into the young woman she became.
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Based on Meredy's sunny disposition and upbeat attitude, it would be easy to assume that she had a carefree and relatively loving childhood, but the reality of her situation was much harsher than that. Born to Balir and Shizel, Meredy was the product of the union between an Inferian and Celestian, and to top it off, one that possessed the Dark Aurora of Nereid (the "god of destruction" in many in-universe stories), like her mother. From a time when she was very young, we learn through flashbacks that Meredy was often the subject of various experiments and research into the Dark Aurora, Fibrill, and everything else that the power entailed. Her relationship with her mother, based on this -- was not exactly a loving and nurturing one as Meredy, confessing to Reid, claims that she is unsure exactly what good memories of loved ones even are. However, as he speaks and explains his feelings to her, she is able to relate one memory in particular, in which she and Shizel gaze upon the sky, with her mother holding her close... There may have been other rare, soft moments in her childhood like his, but she does not seem to recall many others. Perhaps because of these events, she especially treasures the time spent with her new friends, wanting to make more "warm and calm" feelings to reflect upon.
Although not outright stated, there is a good chance that due to the nature of her and Shizel's relationship, Meredy found it difficult to trust others when it came to information about herself, or open up to them even when the time calls for it. When the truth of who is behind the Grand Fall is revealed, Meredy reluctantly tells the party that it was Balir that was heading the operation, she seems almost ashamed to admit to them that she is their child. It was as though she purposefully hid the information, even though she claims that she wanted to tell them (and just didn't know how). In her ultimate fear of not being trusted, she wound up looking worse off for it when everything sort of snowballed on her.
If anything, her belief in her parents involvement with the Grand Fall, and the fall of Luishka, was perhaps the greatest force that propelled her forward, as she felt a responsibility to stop it on her own, through whatever means necessary... including shipping herself off to an alien world. Even though she felt they had committed a great sin, it can be easily believed that up until the very confrontation (and subsequent end, though that's beyond Meredy's current canon point--) she was ready to forgive both Balir and Shizel of their transgressions... despite the terrors she had been put through for all those years. We see this first hand when as the party confronts Shizel for the first time, where they discover a mummified Balir in front of a distressed Meredy, who perhaps had been holding out hope all that time that things would somehow work out...
Before Meredy had come of age, which is ten by Celestian standards, she was able to escape the confines that her mother had set out for her with the help of an engineer that came to her rescue, Galenos. The old man became something of a parental figure to Meredy as well throughout the subsequent years of their living in hiding, who was obviously a great source of knowledge over the next six years, and eventually took on the role of the one helping her to travel to Inferia. He encouraged and taught her many things, perhaps more than anyone else, shaping her into the young woman she became.