Applefield, Nadja

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Nadja Applefield is the protagonist of Ashita no Nadja. She is a cheerful, charming girl with a talent for dancing and making friends wherever she goes. Despite her young age, she handles responsibility well, often looking after the younger children at the orphanage. Conversely, she is impulsive to the point of recklessness and extremely trusting, which leads others to easily take advantage of her and even abuse her thoroughly if the right buttons are pressed. Her greatest dream is to be reunited with her mother someday.
Nadja was given to Miss Applefield to raise as a baby, with her only possession at the time being an elaborate heart-shaped brooch. Nadja grew up at the orphanage believing her parents were dead; in the days before her 13th birthday, she received a surprising gift in the mail: a trunk containing a party dress and a diary, both keepsakes belonging to Nadja's true mother. The gown was worn by Nadja's mother at her first ball, and the diary was her mother's colorful description of all the people she met and danced with at that ball. Nadja is amazed by this gift and stunned to discover that her mother might actually be alive out there somewhere. When bad men arrive to steal the brooch from Nadja, she leaves the Applefield orphanage and begins a career as a dancer with the traveling Dandelion Troupe. Along the way, she falls in love with a noble known as "The Lord of the White Rose."