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Nicole Shepherd - RiverKelly - 27-04-2013
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Name: Nicole Julia Shepherd
Current Mood: Overjoyed! I feel happy again for the first time in months!
Age: 19 (21st)
Description:
She is nineteen years old, she stands at about sixty-five inches tall, has a fair and pale skin complexion with lots of freckles, periwinkle eyes, and long frizzly jet black hair.
Personality:
Nicole is very down to earth, loving of her environment and honest work. She keeps to herself most of the time, generally a quiet person. Once she gets to know someone she is more likely to show a free and kind spirit, and display more confident behavior around them. She reacts positively to affection, encouragement, and kindness. She reacts negatively to aggression, most authority, and any violence.
On the negative side Nicole is very shy towards most people at first and has trouble projecting her voice. She doesn't get along easily with people who try to take authority over her or directly give her orders and downright refuses to put herself in a position of debt to anyone. She can easily lose her temper around violence and violent people finding most fighting to be selfish, childish, and pointless. She is vulnerable to attention and encouragement and can be led astray by those who would use her with those. Lastly she is easily distracted by things from nature such as animals or flowers or mineral veins.
Interests:
Nicole is very interested in working with the earth and other people who do so. She has interest in keeping animals and gardens with her spare time rather then spending too much time with people. One thing that draws her out of her shell is music and festivals; whenever there is an opportunity to dance she will be there in seeming stark contrast to her usual shy nature.
Skills:
She was raised on a farm so she knows a lot about agriculture and basic farm life. She knows how to raise potatoes, wheat, barley, cotton, and how to tend to fruit trees. She also knows how to guide a plow and use other farming tools, and take care of work animals. She has a basic knowledge of baking, mostly breads.
She knows the basics of mining as well from a few years spent working in one to pay her family's tax debt. Mostly how to handle the tools and keep them in repair, and how to identify ores.
In summary,
-Proficient wheat, barley, potato, and cotton farming.
-Competent ability to use and care for farm work animals.
-Competent baking, mostly bread.
-Novice mining work, mostly digging and basic prospecting.
-A knowledge of handling the tools related to her work, and basic upkeep of those tools.
Skills learned since moving to Ravenna:
-Bandaging. Arua taught her how to do a basic bandage.
-More experience farming learning under Rook and Spy.
-Very novice archery. Learned from Caine.
-More practice mining.
-Very basic sword stance.
Goals:
-Learn to use the sword
-Get new clothes
-Obtain sword
-Open the Reading Corner with Daniel
-Continue to build relationship with Daniel
-Help Drake fight his demons
-Get over mood swings and dissociation problems
Completed/Failed Goals:
(Cleared out)
Relations:
Daniel:
He is everything I could ever ask for. There is no compromise in my love for him. There is no doubt. I would give every fiber of my being to him gladly and I know he would do the same for me. I just can't believe it took so much looking to find him, he was always there, always supporting me. Always encouraging me. Always the one. And I never even noticed.
Drake:
He is probably my best friend, and he is always looking out for me. He needs someone to look out for him though. I am getting really worried about him.
Margretha:
I really like her. She is nice and comforting, gives good advice. Lately I feel like I've been letting her down, but she never gives up on me. She is like a spring of endless encouragement. She reminds me so much of my mother, I really do love her.
Arua:
She is very understanding and nice.. Being near her is very comforting. I am starting to feel really good about Arua. I want to say she is a good friend but I think she might not feel the same way about me. She is just such a good person and nice to everyone! Why can't more people be like her?
Dusken:
She is amazing! She has so much energy and kindness, I want to be around her all the time!
Alex:
He is a good man. And I think he is looking out for me. I hope we can be good friends.
Bishop:
ADORABLE! I just wish I got along better with his parents, I miss making him laugh.
Ezri:
She is violent and selfish. She can be a good woman I think.. But I can not stand her violence. I learned to keep my distance after all the things she has done.
Rook:
He hates me. He tells people horrible lies about me. And I don't like him very much either. He is a crass bastard, but you know what? I am learning to not care. Because everyone else seems to know better then listening to his lies.
Missing / Dead:
Caine:
There are no words.. He doesn't trust me and I don't trust him. We both really hurt each other.. And he's gone now..
Theme Music:
Main Theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-K_xgxrL4s
Bastion Theme: (Tig made me pick one.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYaFbFLAQlQ&list=PLE92A345D7C2A1B2D
Your Character Biography:
Nicole Shepherd was born on a well-established farm. She had a loving family with several brothers and sisters, and her mother never let her go without what she wanted. She never asked for much, usually only asking for her favorite foods or new clothes. Her favorite past time was climbing the apple trees and playing hide and seek with her siblings in the tall grasses of the fallow fields. By the time she was six, she was learning to help her father in the fields. She loved all the work her parents gave her on the farm, never complaining about the long days managing the fields and animals. She loved watching as heads of wheat shot up from the ground and over the season changed color from bright green to a beautiful gold that matched the sunny horizon. By the time she was twelve she learned to manage the crops and raise wheat, barley, potatoes, and even cotton. At thirteen she was taught to guide a plow and take care of the oxen. She loved spending time with the great big beasts, enjoying even tedious tasks such as brushing them daily. Her mother taught her and her sisters how to grind the wheat and barley into grain, and bake the warm crunchy bread that sustained the family. She loved how if she gave the earth her love it would yield her good food and beauty. Everything she needed to be happy.
The purges never reached the farm. Nicole never once met a lucin or a xitian; no one really had a reason to go out to such a small farming community. Until the civil war. When the civil war finally reached her family farm, no one was allowed to do what they loved anymore. Instead they did what the soldiers told them to do. Nicole was taken from her family when the farm didn't make enough money to pay the taxes, and she was put to work in a mine at the age of fourteen. She worked the earth like before, but now she worked under people who didn't love her. And she didn't get to enjoy the sun on her skin and the bounty of nature in her fingers. The stone was not like tilled earth. It did not yield itself to her love; instead it yielded to strength and anger. So she grew angry. She pummeled at the rocks each day until her freedom with sadness and rage in her heart. Two years later the time finally came for her to be set free and she promised herself she would get far away from the war that took her from her family. Far away from the anger it put in her.
When she returned to the farm it was little more then an empty shell. The family was scattered and the property sold to some wealthy noble. Her father gave her some food and money; and she used it to join a group sailing to the forbidden lands. They found a path of beacons when they got there. Some settled immediately at the coast, ignoring the lights. Some died on the journey. Some strayed from the path to settle elsewhere. After a year of traveling in a group Nicole was alone. But she had faith in the path. A hopeful instinct. So for a few more days she followed it. And she reached the path's end.
Re: Nicole Shepherd - RiverKelly - 28-04-2013
Re: Nicole Shepherd - RiverKelly - 03-05-2013
It has been reformatted in a few places. I promise I will add goals, more updated personality stuff, and descriptions in relations soon!
Re: Nicole Shepherd - RiverKelly - 05-05-2013
Re: Nicole Shepherd - RiverKelly - 12-05-2013
Small update to goals and relations.