Johanna Taroketu (AU)

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	==Basic Character Information==		==Basic Character Information==
-	'''Name:''' Amethyst Ferem <br>	+	'''Name:''' Taroketu Johanna<br>
-	'''Caste:''' Chosen of Serenity (Sidereal Exalted)<br>	+	'''Caste:''' Chosen of Endings (Sidereal Exalted)<br>
-	'''Concept:''' Innocent joybringer<br>	+	'''Concept:''' Junior field agent<br>
-	'''Motivation:''' To make everyone in Creation happy! :D With raburabu. Possibly with cookies. <br>	+	'''Motivation:''' Protect Creation from its enemies, you know, the usual.<br>
-	'''Anima:''' A soft halo of deep blue light	+	'''Anima:''' A soft halo of deep magenta light
-	<center><font size="1"> "Knew you were born under a waxing moon<br>	+	<center><font size="1"> "Always I am mistaken<br>
-	Wide eyed and waiting for most the view<br>	+	I look for love, I find a stone<br>
-	Sharper than moonlight<Br>	+	Of all the seasons, winter befriends me<br>
-	All is one<br>	+	I come to you in friendship"<br>
-	'Heaven awaits you now... hope you find our door.'<br>	+
-	Eyes pressed tightly, waltz with stars<br>	+
-	The sweeter now must move on"<br>	+
-	- Claire Voyant, "Majesty"</font></center>	+	- Vienna Teng, "Momentum"</font></center>
	==Attributes and Abilities==		==Attributes and Abilities==
	===Attributes===		===Attributes===
	'''Physical:''' Strength 3, Dexterity 5, Stamina 3<br>		'''Physical:''' Strength 3, Dexterity 5, Stamina 3<br>
-	'''Social:''' Charisma 3, Manipulation 1, Appearance 3<br>	+	'''Social:''' Charisma 2, Manipulation 2, Appearance 3<br>
-	'''Mental:''' Perception 3, Intelligence 4, Wits 2 <br>	+	'''Mental:''' Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3 <br>
	===Abilities===		===Abilities===
-		+	'''Caste:''' Awareness 3, Integrity 3, Bureaucracy 2, Medicine 2, Martial Arts 5<br>
-	'''Caste:''' Craft 3, Dodge 3, Linguistics 2 (Native: Skytongue, Other: Old Realm, Riverspeak), Performance 3, Socialize 3<br>	+	'''Favored:''' Athletics 3, Archery 5, Performance 2, Dodge 4<br>
-	'''Favored:''' *Presence 3, *Lore 3, *Integrity 2, *Martial Arts 3<br>	+	'''Other:''' Linguistics 2 (Native: Riverspeak, Other: High Realm, Old Realm), Occult 2, Stealth 2, Socialize 2, Lore 3, Resistance 1, Survival 1, Investigation 1, Craft 4, Larceny 3, Presence 2<br>
-	'''Other:''' Resistance 1, Athletics 2, Melee 1, Investigation 2, Occult 3, Stealth 1, Awareness 2, Bureaucracy 2, Medicine 2<br>	+
	==Advantages==		==Advantages==
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	'''Salary 2'''<br>		'''Salary 2'''<br>
	'''Sifu 3'''<br>		'''Sifu 3'''<br>
		+	'''Connections 2''' (Seventh Legion)<br>
	'''Savant 3'''<br>		'''Savant 3'''<br>
-	'''Artifact 3''' (Starmetal fate rings, discreet essence armor)<br>	+	'''Artifact 4''' (Sun and Moon)<br>
	'''Backing 1''' (Bronze Faction)<br>		'''Backing 1''' (Bronze Faction)<br>
-	'''Familiar 3''' (Mr. Fluffers! Just a normal cat. ...Maybe.)<br>
	===Willpower, Virtues, and Intimacies===		===Willpower, Virtues, and Intimacies===
-	'''Willpower:''' 7<br>	+	'''Willpower:''' 6<br>
-	'''Virtues:''' Compassion 5, Temperance 2, Conviction 2, Valor 2<BR>	+	'''Virtues:''' Compassion 2, Temperance 2, Conviction 3, Valor 3<BR>
-	'''Intimacies:''' Cookies!, making other people happy, keeping Creation safe from those big poopyheaded demons and fae >:<, Mr. Fluffers, her family ^.^<br>	+	'''Intimacies:''' Creation, Lookshy<br>
	===Health and Essence===		===Health and Essence===
	'''Health:''' -0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/Incap<BR>		'''Health:''' -0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/Incap<BR>
-	'''Essence:''' 3<BR>	+	'''Essence:''' 2<BR>
-	'''Personal Essence Pool:''' 12<BR>	+	'''Personal Essence Pool:''' 10<BR>
-	'''Peripheral Essence Pool:''' 33<BR>	+	'''Peripheral Essence Pool:''' 28<BR>
-	'''Experience:''' 0 XP<br>	+	'''Experience:''' 40 XP<br>
-		+
-	===Merits and Flaws===	+
-	'''Flaw: Unbidden Oracle''' (-1)<br>	+
-	'''Flaw: Small''' (-3)<br>	+
	==Combat Statistics==		==Combat Statistics==
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	* Punch		* Punch
	** ''Standard:'' Spd 5, Acc +1, Dmg +0B, Rate 3, Tag N		** ''Standard:'' Spd 5, Acc +1, Dmg +0B, Rate 3, Tag N
-	* Starmetal Fate Rings: Moonflax and Serenade	+	* Orichalcum Flamepieces: Sun and Moon
-	** Spd 4, Acc +1, Dmg +3L, Rate 3, Defense +3, Attune 2m, Tag M	+	** Spd , Acc , Dmg , Rate , Defense , Attune 5m, Tag M
	===Charms ===		===Charms ===
		+	* Craft
		+	** World-Shaping Artistic Vision
	* Dodge		* Dodge
		+	** 1st Dodge Excellency
	** Absence		** Absence
-	* Craft
-	** 1st Craft Excellency
	* Performance		* Performance
	** Perfection in Life		** Perfection in Life
-	** Defense of Shining Joy	+	* Occult
-	* Lore	+	** Mark of Exaltation
-	** Methodology of Secrets	+	* Archery
-	* Investigation	+	** Generalized Ammunition Technique
-	** Auspicious Prospects for Serenity	+	** Opportune Shot
-	** Efficient Secretary Technique	+	* Presence
-	* Awareness	+	** Force Decision
		+	* Larceny
		+	** Thought-Swiping Distraction
		+	* Awareness
	** Prior Warning		** Prior Warning
-	* Integrity	+	* Integrity
-	** Compassionate Essence Replenishment	+	** Stern Essence Replenishment
-	** 3rd Integrity Excellency	+	* Medicine
-	* Martial Arts: Silver-Voiced Nightingale Style	+	** Peaceable Conclusion
-	** Inspiring Battle Hymn	+	* Martial Arts: Burning Scythe Style
-	** Terrifying Battle Shriek	+	** Throat-Ripping Grace
		+	** Dragon's Searing Bite
		+	** Burning Scythe Form
	===Colleges===		===Colleges===
-	* The Sorcerer 1 (Resplendent Destiny: Amethyst Ferem, the Sidereal Exalt.)	+	* The Sorcerer 1 (Resplendent Destiny: Taroketu Johanna, the Sidereal Exalt.)
-	* The Pillar 3	+	* The Crow 2
-	* The Rising Smoke 2 (Resplendent Destiny: Amethyst Ferem the girl, scion of House Ferem. Sweet, naive, and slightly addled.)	+	* The Haywain 1
-	* The Ewer 1	+	* The Rising Smoke 2
		+	* The Gull 1
	==Personal Information==		==Personal Information==
	===Appearance===		===Appearance===
-	A gentle, sweet-natured young woman with big star-filled blue eyes and a bright smile, Amethyst stands about four feet ten inches tall. Her frame is small and sparrowlike to match, giving her the appearance of a girl of thirteen or so (though she's actually closer to twenty). She is a scion of House Ferem - with the fair porcelain complexion of a Northerner and light bluish hair, worn loose to the middle of her back. Her clothing is always in some variation of blues, white, and purples, and she keeps her ivory-and-leather prayer strip case on her belt at her side.
	===History===		===History===
-	Amethyst was born in Cherak, the only daughter of five children from a minor branch of the Terrestrial Ferem bloodline. Two things became apparent early in her life: she was incredibly intelligent, and very strange. She could read and write before she was toilet-trained, but she also had the unsavory habit of knowing and saying things she shouldn't in polite company. This was bad enough, but she also seemed to have a touch of the seer about her, predicting future events with often-brutal accuracy. <br>	+	For someone who seems so open Johanna is remarkably closemouthed. What little people in the teahaus know about her are a few bits and pieces from her past, many of them which seem to conflict. She claims to have grown up in abject poverty, yet she also claims the surname of a minor Gens and a childhood guardian. She claims to have been too fragile to fight on a battlefield, yet she claims to be in the service's special forces division.
-		+
-	When she was only four years old, Amethyst predicted the death of her six-year old cousin. The fulfillment of that prediction was the straw that broke the camel's back, and her parents chose to isolate their daughter in her strange madness, effectively imprisoning her in their home. Because her father was a wealthy man, her education was seen to by tutors who came from Gethemane, Whitewall, and even as far as Arjuf to teach her. None of them lasted longer than two months, and all eventually left appearing either terrified or remarkably ill.<br>	+
-	Oddly none of this seemed to effect any change in the girl's baseline personality. She remained gentle-natured and selfless, never seeming to hold any grudge against her family for her confinement. Things might have continued in this way indefinitely had not Amethyst, in a rare moment of socializing with her family, dropped her spoon and looked at her mother blankly and said: "Papa isn't coming home."<br>	+	In point of fact Johanna lies and embellishes and selectively ignores many things, but when it comes to her background she has mostly been truthful. (Just very confusing.)
-	"What? Of course he is, child," her mother had said, glancing at her sons, who seemed as confused as she was. "He's a bit late, that's all."<br>	+	The full story is thus: She was born in the third-floor room of a tenement house in the metic quarter in RY 740, the only child to a widowed refugee of a nameless nation in the Hundred Kingdoms region embroiled in civil war. Jo never knew her father; a man of Northern origin, he had died while her mother was pregnant with her, prompting her mother's flight to Lookshy.
-	"No," Amethyst said sadly. "He's not late. He's just not coming, he'll never come home again."<Br>	+	Her mother was a seamstress who took in piecework from clients in the foreign quarter. Unfortunately she was also in poor health - she'd suffered from a heart malady since her childhood and the strain of childbirth in addition to the combined stress of her husband's death and her hurried flight west eventually took its toll. She died when Johanna was only seven.
-	Sure enough, within the next fifteen minutes a messenger arrived with an urgent summons for the lady of the house; Amethyst's father had been killed in an excavation accident on a warstrider, when a piece of heavy machinery had malfunctioned during activation and crushed him. Her mother was inconsolable, locking herself in their bedchamber after the funeral and refused to leave. Ironically, it was Amethyst who came upon her mother as she was about to commit suicide, and managed to save her life.<br>	+	Without any real options left to her (and an abusive landlady more than willing to use her as unpaid labor), she took to the streets for several years. Johanna begged for coin at first, at least until a war broke out with Thorns and the Realm and no one had charity to spare. So she learned how to pick pockets, and became quite adept at it.
-	The other Sidereals swooped in to collect the fourteen-year old girl, and not a moment too soon. Her mother, reason shattered by her husband's death, blamed Amethyst for what had happened and her grief and resentment were turning to hatred. In the guise of a tutor and dominie they convinced her mother of the necessity of furthering her education in the Realm itself. Her mother said only: "I don't care what you do with her, but take that wretched girl out from my roof. She's been nothing but a curse to me since her birth."<br>	+	Her mistake was in targeting a high-ranking officer of the Justice Directorate, and doing so in front of a friend of his. She was caught, of course, but the shozei's friend scouted her for the Legion. Instead of letting her go free to continue her life of petty crime her rights were signed away as a ward of the General Staff and she was conscripted into the Seventh Legion for training in the Tenth Talon. She did remarkably well, receiving several commendations, a sponsorship from Gens Taroketu, and other such awards.
-	Since then, Amethyst has been working in Yu-Shan in some capacity, in the Cerulean Lute mostly as a go-between and "trouble consultant," never having really left Heaven since her Exaltation and subsequent arrival. Most of her elders describe her as a kind little soul whose idealism could really use some tempering with real-life experience, and their personal opinions vary from tolerant amusement to outright exasperation. Her First Age predecessor was a peacekeeper and advisor of some note, and a member of the Bronze Faction's Inner Circle as well as a close confidante of Chejop Kejak. This is... rather too bad for both Amethyst and Kejak, as her innocence makes life in Yu-Shan very difficult for her. She's so compassionate she'd face down a Chosen of Endings to save a field mouse, and most of her superiors are doubtful as to how long she'd actually last if turned loose in Creation. ...then again, maybe it'd free up her shard for someone more useful.	+	Her Exaltation came when she was asked, as part of a special mission, to help hunt down a serial murderer who'd been troubling a region under the Seventh Legion's jurisdiction. Hearing that he mostly targeted prostitutes and street girls, she agreed, remembering her own past, and went on the prowl in disguise. Unfortunately for Johanna the man in question was a Day Caste Abyssal who had every intention of adding her to his collection. She Exalted in the midst of fighting him, and was quickly retrieved by the Fivescore Fellowship and taken to Yu-Shan for training.
	==Trivia==		==Trivia==
-	* Theme Music	+	===Character Notes===
-	** Lovesong: "So I Wait" - Serina Paris	+	* While she primarily operates on trickery and misdirection, preferring to present a cute harmless face to the world, much of it is an affectation. It's uncertain how much, though.
-	** Personal: "Rapunzel" - Emilie Autumn	+	* Her back is covered in old scars from beatings as a child.
		+	===Soundtrack===
		+	** Coming soon.

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Current revision as of 19:10, 7 November 2007

Contents 1 Basic Character Information 2 Attributes and Abilities 2.1 Attributes 2.2 Abilities 3 Advantages 3.1 Backgrounds 3.2 Willpower, Virtues, and Intimacies 3.3 Health and Essence 4 Combat Statistics 4.1 Defense Statistics 4.2 Soak 4.3 Combat Statistics 4.4 Charms 4.5 Colleges 5 Personal Information 5.1 Appearance 5.2 History 6 Trivia 6.1 Character Notes 6.2 Soundtrack

[edit] Basic Character Information

Name: Taroketu Johanna
Caste: Chosen of Endings (Sidereal Exalted)
Concept: Junior field agent
Motivation: Protect Creation from its enemies, you know, the usual.
Anima: A soft halo of deep magenta light

"Always I am mistaken

I look for love, I find a stone
Of all the seasons, winter befriends me
I come to you in friendship"

- Vienna Teng, "Momentum"

[edit] Attributes and Abilities

[edit] Attributes

Physical: Strength 3, Dexterity 5, Stamina 3
Social: Charisma 2, Manipulation 2, Appearance 3
Mental: Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

[edit] Abilities

Caste: Awareness 3, Integrity 3, Bureaucracy 2, Medicine 2, Martial Arts 5
Favored: Athletics 3, Archery 5, Performance 2, Dodge 4
Other: Linguistics 2 (Native: Riverspeak, Other: High Realm, Old Realm), Occult 2, Stealth 2, Socialize 2, Lore 3, Resistance 1, Survival 1, Investigation 1, Craft 4, Larceny 3, Presence 2

[edit] Advantages

[edit] Backgrounds

Salary 2
Sifu 3
Connections 2 (Seventh Legion)
Savant 3
Artifact 4 (Sun and Moon)
Backing 1 (Bronze Faction)

[edit] Willpower, Virtues, and Intimacies

Willpower: 6
Virtues: Compassion 2, Temperance 2, Conviction 3, Valor 3
Intimacies: Creation, Lookshy

[edit] Health and Essence

Health: -0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/Incap
Essence: 2
Personal Essence Pool: 10
Peripheral Essence Pool: 28
Experience: 40 XP

[edit] Combat Statistics

[edit] Defense Statistics

• Dodge: 6
• Parry: 6
• Mental Dodge: 6
• Mental Parry: 4

[edit] Soak

• Unarmored
  • Standard: -3B/-2L/-0A
• Discreet Essence Armor
  • Soak -8B/-7L/-0A, Hardness 2L/2B, Mob -0, Fatigue 0, Attune 5

[edit] Combat Statistics

• Clinch
  • Standard: Spd 6, Dmg +0B, Rate 1, Tags C,N,P
• Kick
  • Standard: Spd 5, Dmg +3B, Rate 2, Tag N
• Punch
  • Standard: Spd 5, Acc +1, Dmg +0B, Rate 3, Tag N
• Orichalcum Flamepieces: Sun and Moon
  • Spd , Acc , Dmg , Rate , Defense , Attune 5m, Tag M

[edit] Charms

• Craft
  • World-Shaping Artistic Vision
• Dodge
  • 1st Dodge Excellency
  • Absence
• Performance
  • Perfection in Life
• Occult
  • Mark of Exaltation
• Archery
  • Generalized Ammunition Technique
  • Opportune Shot
• Presence
  • Force Decision
• Larceny
  • Thought-Swiping Distraction
• Awareness
  • Prior Warning
• Integrity
  • Stern Essence Replenishment
• Medicine
  • Peaceable Conclusion
• Martial Arts: Burning Scythe Style
  • Throat-Ripping Grace
  • Dragon's Searing Bite
  • Burning Scythe Form

[edit] Colleges

• The Sorcerer 1 (Resplendent Destiny: Taroketu Johanna, the Sidereal Exalt.)
• The Crow 2
• The Haywain 1
• The Rising Smoke 2
• The Gull 1

[edit] Personal Information

[edit] Appearance

[edit] History

For someone who seems so open Johanna is remarkably closemouthed. What little people in the teahaus know about her are a few bits and pieces from her past, many of them which seem to conflict. She claims to have grown up in abject poverty, yet she also claims the surname of a minor Gens and a childhood guardian. She claims to have been too fragile to fight on a battlefield, yet she claims to be in the service's special forces division.

In point of fact Johanna lies and embellishes and selectively ignores many things, but when it comes to her background she has mostly been truthful. (Just very confusing.)

The full story is thus: She was born in the third-floor room of a tenement house in the metic quarter in RY 740, the only child to a widowed refugee of a nameless nation in the Hundred Kingdoms region embroiled in civil war. Jo never knew her father; a man of Northern origin, he had died while her mother was pregnant with her, prompting her mother's flight to Lookshy.

Her mother was a seamstress who took in piecework from clients in the foreign quarter. Unfortunately she was also in poor health - she'd suffered from a heart malady since her childhood and the strain of childbirth in addition to the combined stress of her husband's death and her hurried flight west eventually took its toll. She died when Johanna was only seven.

Without any real options left to her (and an abusive landlady more than willing to use her as unpaid labor), she took to the streets for several years. Johanna begged for coin at first, at least until a war broke out with Thorns and the Realm and no one had charity to spare. So she learned how to pick pockets, and became quite adept at it.

Her mistake was in targeting a high-ranking officer of the Justice Directorate, and doing so in front of a friend of his. She was caught, of course, but the shozei's friend scouted her for the Legion. Instead of letting her go free to continue her life of petty crime her rights were signed away as a ward of the General Staff and she was conscripted into the Seventh Legion for training in the Tenth Talon. She did remarkably well, receiving several commendations, a sponsorship from Gens Taroketu, and other such awards.

Her Exaltation came when she was asked, as part of a special mission, to help hunt down a serial murderer who'd been troubling a region under the Seventh Legion's jurisdiction. Hearing that he mostly targeted prostitutes and street girls, she agreed, remembering her own past, and went on the prowl in disguise. Unfortunately for Johanna the man in question was a Day Caste Abyssal who had every intention of adding her to his collection. She Exalted in the midst of fighting him, and was quickly retrieved by the Fivescore Fellowship and taken to Yu-Shan for training.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Character Notes

• While she primarily operates on trickery and misdirection, preferring to present a cute harmless face to the world, much of it is an affectation. It's uncertain how much, though.
• Her back is covered in old scars from beatings as a child.

[edit] Soundtrack

• • Coming soon.