Leona Jarnefeldt

ShadowZero wrote:Name: Leona Jarnefeldt
   Gender: Female
   Age: 18
   Birthday: 8/4
   Sexuality: Straight
   Special Characteristics: N/A

   Personality:

Leona is an adventurous young woman who likes to travel anywhere her feet can carry her. She has an easygoing personality and does not have enemies unless someone deliberately antagonizes her to the point of becoming an enemy. She likes to be straightforward in her dealings with others. If they treat her with respect and courtesy, she will readily reciprocate. If they treat her with disrespect and contempt, she will return it. Leona likes the simple things in life. She likes good food, good drink, and good company. She works hard and plays hard. She likes hearing tales of faraway places and likes reading books about travel. She likes feeling the wind in her hair and she likes sitting under a starry sky at night. She always travels with a pack full of supplies for both herself and others she may find in need of a helping hand.

When in a fight, Leona likes to switch between bursts of close-quarters aggression in order to put pressure on opponents followed by periods of hanging back and using distance attacks. She also tries to find an environmental advantage to use, such as elevated places and uneven terrain. She tries to stick to this plan... most of the time. If sufficiently angry, she tends to forget about "hanging back" and stays in the opponent's face. This unfortunate tendency to reckless behavior can make her predictable and easy to counter. However, should Leona find herself in a night battle, she gets what amounts to a home field advantage. As a child, she was used to traveling long distances over uneven terrain at night. Her advantage is only compounded by the unexplained power boost that she gets when the moon rises. It is harder to surprise Leona at night because her senses somehow improve to an extent that she does not experience in daytime. However, she does not bank on fighting all her battles at night for two reasons. First, she is aware that there are likely others who share her gift and share her affinity for night fighting. Second, she also does not want to be a one-trick pony because she would be even easier to counter. Leona likes the free lifestyle of a Guildless, but she is able and willing to work with others if the situation calls for it. Unless she is badly injured or otherwise incapacitated, she will stick with a job until it is complete. Leaders who earn her respect will find that Leona can be inspired to go to even greater lengths to ensure a job's completion. Leona has few command ambitions of her own. Since she was never trained to be a leader, she has not developed any leadership skills. If pressed into a leadership role, she behaves more like a frontline presence than a "proper" leader who gives orders from headquarters. Furthermore, she is not adept at bureaucracy. Leona may never be a leader since she lacks both leadership skills and any serious ambitions of attaining a leadership position. That is fine with her.
   
Likes:

• Water- Having grown up in a desert environment, she appreciates it more than most people do.
  

• Nighttime- Leona likes nighttime because finds it relaxing. She has spent many a night beneath the starry sky in the wilderness.
  

• Freedom- Leona likes being able to do her own thing.
  

   Dislikes:

• The desert- Despite having grown up in a desert environment, Leona has grown to heartily dislike them. She can survive in them, but she does not like to be in one any longer than she has to.
  

• Politics- Having been on the wrong end of village politics, Leona despises politics in every form.
  

• Cold Weather- Leona is accustomed to hot and dry climates. She is unaccustomed to cold climates and is not fond of them.
  

   Motivations:

• Travel-Leona likes to travel. She wants to see the world beyond the desert she grew up in.
  

• Irreconcilable Differences- Leona's village threw her out of home when she turned 16 because of a "misunderstanding" between her and the chief's son. She has no desire to revisit the place.
  

• Adventure- Since Leona was kicked out of her home, she figures that she might as well go on a lifelong adventure.
  

   Fears:

• Snakes- Leona is wary of snakes because she had a near-fatal encounter with a poisonous one when she was younger.
  

• Heights- When she was eight, her older brother grabbed her by the waist, swung her around and jokingly threatened to throw her over the side of a mountain on a mountain trail they were walking on. Due to his foot slipping on a rock, he very nearly carried out the threat by accident. Ever since then Leona has been deeply afraid of heights.
  

• Vultures- Leona is not so much "afraid" of vultures as she is wary of them. Seeing them circle around in the sky and feast on dead travelers who got lost in the desert has left an indelible impression on Leona.
  

   General Appearance

   Height: 5' 4"
   Weight: 130 lbs.
   Hair: Blonde and short, hangs down just past ears
   Eyes: Green
   Skin Tone: Light tan thanks to a desert upbringing
   Appearance: Leona has short blonde hair that hangs straight down and looks at the world with green eyes. She stands 5' 4" tall and has a physically fit appearance. She tends to wear a white t-shirt with "chocolate chip" desert camouflage shorts and tan hiking boots. She has other outfits she carries in a brown backpack that is always on her back, but the tan camouflage shorts are among her favorite clothing because they were a gift from her parents before her exile.

   Guild/Council

   Guild: Guildless
   Tattoo: N/A (Should she join a guild, it would be colored blue and located on her right arm just below the shoulder)
   Rank: D
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