Donna de Hachette was born February 14th, 17XX, to Comte Sébastien Bombelles de Hachette and his wife Margueritte Tonnelier at their home in what is now Rennes, France. In the beliefs of Tonnelier Escapism, a large tree on the property was struck by lightning and burned down the moment she was born, but there is no historical documentation to corroborate this. Complications from her birth required Margueritte to undergo a hysterectomy shortly afterwards, so Donna was an only child and the sole Hachette heir. By all accounts, Donna enjoyed all of the comforts of a noble-born childhood; all academic endevors to evaluate her upbringing through the lens of the 18XX incident at the Bastille have provided no clear indication that something may have gone wrong. She was educated at home and reportedly had few close peers, though did not seem distressed by this, preferring to spend her time alone in academic or artistic pursuits. Notably, she was deeply hostile to her male relatives from an early age and often refused to associate with them.

Donna began acting out as she entered her teen years, her first brush with the law coming shortly after her father's death from a mysterious throat ailment now understood to have been esophegeal cancer. Donna had become fascinated with her mother's hysterectomy scar, and wrote numerous philispohical takes on how she imagined the operation having gone backed up by gruesome details from a medical textbook she had stolen from one of her father's doctors. With the help of her maid, she published this manuscript anonymously under the pseudonym Panakos. The book caused public outrage, and there was a call to find and arrest its true author. Signs started pointing to Donna, and her mother was forced to pay off local law enforcement in order to keep them from arresting her daughter. Horrified, Margueritte ordered that every copy of Donna's book be destroyed, and attempted to stop Donna from writing any further by forbidding her access to ink or paper. This did not stop Donna, who would simply steal these things from the house or elsewhere in town, and would write instead on the walls of her room or on the inside of her dresses. What this did accomplish, though, was creating a deep rift between Donna and her mother which would never fully heal. Following this incident, Donna became even more absorbed in her independent pursuits. In her writing, Donna became increasingly critical and pessimistic of varying institutions, specifically religion and the organized family. Much of her writing derided the constriction these institutions placed on women, drawing from her own experiences, her mother's experiences, and the experiences of the working women in her home that she would interview. She continued to publish anonymously, but did not ganer the same scandal her first manuscript had.

At 18, Margueritte sought to arrange a courtship for her to ensure the continuation of the Hachette line, which proved disasterous for everyone involved. Donna would refuse to engage with suitors her own age beyond the initial contact persuaded by her mother, and would actively retaliate and protest against men older than herself that her mother presented her to. After physically attacking and scratching out the eye of a neighboring marquis, Donna was placed on house arrest (once again a sentence lessened by her mother's money) for six months, and afterwards was sent to a rehabilitative school in the countryside where she could discreetly be educated in the proper ways of a young person in her social standing. It was here that she first met Prince Laurentin Mazarîn XIII, who had been been similarly sent to the school in secret because of his 'inverted tendencies'. Laurentin was frightened and fascinated by Donna's writings, and Donna was not disgusted by him as she was most men but instead pitied him, and tolerated him because of his decidedly more effeminate nature. They formed a reasonable acquaintanceship, which would later end up coming back to bite the two of them.

In the two years Donna was away at school, Margueritte was approached by the King of France out of desperation with his own situation in procuring an heir. Laurentin was his youngest child and only son, and was terrified of women in much the same way Donna was repulsed by men. Laurentin had written his father of his friendship with Donna, so the King had jumped at the opportunity and offered Margueritte considerable financial compensation and favor in the French court if she permitted Laurentin to impregnate her daughter. Margueritte accepted such an offer and arranged without Donna's knowledge for the event to take place once she returned from school. Donna was predictably horrified by this, and violently refused, even if the face of threats from the King if she did not comply. She held her ground and refused. Months later, the King had Donna arrested on fraudulent blasphemy charges, alleging that she had publically masturbated with a cross. Reputation firmly ruined, Donna was sent to the Bastille and informed privately that she would be free to leave as soon as she agreed to carry the Prince's son. Donna replied that she would prefer to rot in prison than do such a thing, and so remained in the Bastille for the seven years until the incident, writing all the while.

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