Joanna Smythe
| Joanna Smythe | |||||||
| Female Human (Planar) | |||||||
| Player: Cold-Comfort | |||||||
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| General Information | ||||||||||
| Full Name: | Joanna Smythe | |||||||||
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| Age: | 22 | |||||||||
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| Occupation: | Wanderer, Go-fetch | |||||||||
| Faction/Rank: | Ciphers | |||||||||
| Place of Birth: | Macleod, Tir na Og | |||||||||
| Physical Attributes | ||||||||||
| Height: | Average | |||||||||
| Weight: | Average | |||||||||
| Eyes: | Blue | |||||||||
| Hair: | Blonde | |||||||||
| Complexion: | Fair | |||||||||
| Physical Build: | Muscular, rough-hewn | |||||||||
| Physical Features: | An angular face with a long nose, scar over left eyebrow. | |||||||||
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| Self-describes as "a warrior of modest skills and reputation." Ostensibly likeable. | ||||||||||
| Equipment and Items | ||||||||||
| Occasionally wears heavy plate armour. Rarely seen without a katana hanging off her hip. | ||||||||||
Physical Description
Joanna is about average height, with a broad-shouldered and hard-muscled build. She has blonde hair, usually tied back in a ponytail, and deep-set blue eyes. She smiles more often than not, although they tend to be lopsided smiles. A white scar splits her left eyebrow in two and runs up to disappear under her hairline.
She wears no ostentatious jewelry, favors simple clothes in leather or fabric, dark colours, and wraps her hands in linen strips, as if she's expecting a fistfight to break out at any moment. Wherever it's allowed, she carries a curved sword on her hip.
Personality
As you'd expect from her claimed occupation, Joanna is a risk-taker and wanderer who likes physical things, especially battle and exercise. Although not exceptionally bright or wise, she's well-centered and quick on the uptake, if a little predisposed towards throwing herself into potentially dangerous situations. She does not seem to overly mind the occasional resulting injuries.
For somebody who can crack a walnut in a bare hand, Joanna is suprisingly friendly and skilled with people. She's down to earth and agreeable by default, yet has enough backbone to not be a pushover, in turn tempered by enough diplomatic skill to squelch conflicts and smooth out ruffled feelings before they even take root. Her inexperience means she makes the occasional naive mistake, but she hasn't let it drag her down into cynicism.
Despite lacking easy markers such as a thorough knowledge of Sigilian cant or a massive chip on her shoulder, she has a few tells to mark her as Planar-born; the most obvious ones include such things as fascination mixed with a vaguely dismissive attitude toward such Prime concepts as spherical worlds, suns, moons, and stars, and having no trouble at all finding common ground with the more exotic races banging about the Big Donut.
History
Joanna has shared little of her history beyond a few basic points. Apparently she was born in the Outlands, in a village in Tir na Og, and has recently completed an long apprenticeship to a wandering swordsman named Munisai.
She must take debts of honor very seriously, because she claims that after this she has ventured out to Sigil to serve as an aide to Alea Arthyr, as repayment of for the elven priestess having saved her and her family's lives several years back.
Chant
Joanna's slowly beginning to make a name as a decent warrior - quite lethal with a blade, eager to spar, duel and fight, and sometimes actually winning. It's probably well-earned, as she has rarely been seen sparing herself working out, testing, or perfecting her body and reflexes.
It's said Viorel has agreed to tutor her and Di in learning languages, and she's occasionally off taking lessons over at the Gatehouse. She's made fast friends with Senna and Naaziira, the latter of which she refers to as 'mistress', and who is apparently helping her out with physical training.
She seems to have somewhat worse luck with men. Chant is there's some ruffled feelings between her and Seluil ever since an ill-advised wager over a duel, and even though certain Cager gossips had pegged her as good as paired off with Saevio Silverbludgeon, that seems to've gone awkwardly sour as well.
Joanna used to lounge by the Fulcrum for at least some time every day, smoking a single cigarette, ostensibly as an excuse for social interaction with the plane-walkers frequenting the area. It's been close to a year since she was last spotted doing this. Shortly after accepting room and board in exchange for security work at Dare, she seems to have disappeared from public life.