08-07-2021, 02:33 PM
Name: Keynestra ‘Ujay’ Darvo
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Race: Half-Lucin
Elemental Abilities: Aether: Novice
Culture: Provencian
Hair Colour: Dyed Blonde, Natural Brunette
Eye Colour: Blue
Skin Tone: Tan
Height: 5’ 2”
Weight: 115.0 lb
Appearance Description: Keynestra, called by her close friends as Jay and called by most others as Keys, has shoulder length dyed blonde hair. She has a rather lithy build, appearing as someone who hasn’t done a lot of physical labor. She has two outfits she switches between, one more traditional Provencian female wear, a well-made and fashionable blue dress
Personality: Adaptable, Charismatic, Selfish, Ambitious, Troublesome, Manipulative
Known Flaws: Kleptomania, Lack of loyalty, Strong Envy of others, Short-Temper on certain subjects
Main Profession Skill: Business Management: Apprentice, Cooking: Novice.
Hobby Skills: Thievery: Apprentice, Gardening: Novice.
Default Skills: Reading, Writing, Numeracy.
Backstory: Keynestra was born in Provencia with only her single mother to look after her. She took her mothers maiden name as they didn’t know who her father was, but her middle-name was given by her mother to remember the man who saved her life around the time she was conceived. Her mother started working at a brothel instead of freelancing for Keynestra's early years, managing to become a madame in proxy for the actual owners of the establishment by the time Keynestra was old enough to have memories. Keynestra from an early age had access to numerous educational sources, tutors, and professional experts to learn from since her mother had access, knowledge, and the ability to pawn favors from the brothel to convince them to help her daughter. Keynestra learned how to read and write fairly young, and was quick to start learning what her mother guided her to, the art of manipulation and business. Keynestra enjoyed the lessons at first, using the basic points to make friends with local ‘trouble-makers’, but started to resent the lessons when she learned why she was being taught this. Keynestra’s mother planned on Keynestra taking over the brothel when she got old enough to handle it and wasn’t letting Keynestra have much of a say otherwise. This is when she started developing some bad behaviors in response. Learning from her ‘low-life’ friends, she started to get into the thieving and grifting game in order to feel some sense of control. Starting off slow and meaningless at first, but slowly the thieving became a compulsion that she couldn’t resist. Keynestra’s mother was not happy to catch her stealing repeatedly, punishing her by making her work with the brothel’s cook to help feed the girls. The cook, Paulie, made sure to teach her how to cook while she was being punished since she was being punished quite a lot. It slowly became that Keynestra was just a part of the kitchen as she spent more time in trouble than on good terms with her mother.
As she reached an older age where she was expected to start doing work, Keynestra decided she didn’t want to work. Manipulating the good nature of the cook Paulie to still handle most of the responsibilities while she went out with friends to perform small cons, steal trinkets, and mess with the tourists that aren’t the wiser to their scams. Eventually Keynestra’s mother caught on and stopped her from working in the kitchen to instead working at the front of the brothel, managing the girls and directing men and women to their options. Keynestra still found a way to perform trouble, often pick-pocketing the clients and over-charging them to pocket the difference. Her mother knew of some of it, but decided that she had no way of really stopping her daughter and just made sure that she never did anything that would cause more trouble than it’s worth.
This went on for a couple of years before Keynestra did something that wasn’t so easy to sweep under the rug with a few favors and careful words from her or her mother. A drunk man visited as wasn’t out of the ordinary. Keynestra did her usual, asking some questions to distract while fleecing his coat when she offered to take it, standard thieving actions. What she took out however was more than she expected from a random drunk citizen. A gold necklace with a shiny ruby as a center focus. Keynestra was shocked, but slipped it away into her bag and figured he would be none the wiser. It wasn’t long for the man to notice and with a keen enough eye to notice that Keynestra would have had ample opportunity while taking the coat. When confronted, Keynestra handled it like any other con gone bad, denying until someone comes in that she can manipulate into being on her side. This didn’t go so well however, as most of the brothel knew Keynestra was a light-fingered thief and let it play out instead of helping her. Keynestra panicked as the man started to get more violent, threatening her life if she didn’t talk. She soon had her back to the wall near her front podium and took a panicked action. She grabbed a letter-opener and thrusted it forward blindly yelling at him to back-off. The man with a letter-opener now in his shoulder stumbled back and was going to retaliate until some of the brothel workers and visitors decided that what was going to be a just-desert just escalated too far. The man ended up not being just a random tourist, but worked for the Martillo family as an enforcer of sorts. As he was forced out he threatened he’d be back and that Keynestra was going to pay. Keynestra’s mother was told of the events and knew that she wouldn’t be able to sweep this one under the rug, that man would want blood. She knew a few sailors and captains that she had some favors with and decided that Keynestra would have to leave until they forgot about this. Keynestra was furious that she had to leave, figuring that her mother would be able to solve it some other way, but that night she was forced onto a boat by her mother and some helpful sailors, as she sailed elsewhere. The captain assured her that he knew a place that they wouldn’t go looking for her, a settlement that didn’t even have a name yet.
Family: Mother, Keynestra Darvo who she was named after. Loves her greatly but resents her tutelage to run the brothel in her mothers stead one day. Father is unknown, but seemingly of Ko’Ban origin given how tan Kenystra ended up compared to her mother. (Hint, Ujay.)
Birth Realm: Middle Realm
Continent: Mainlands
Items: Small leather bag with a chain attached, Multi-purpose knife from kitchen work, Extremely ornate gold necklace with medium-sized ruby.
Posted early to give ample time for review and revision as needed. No rush.
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Race: Half-Lucin
Elemental Abilities: Aether: Novice
Culture: Provencian
Hair Colour: Dyed Blonde, Natural Brunette
Eye Colour: Blue
Skin Tone: Tan
Height: 5’ 2”
Weight: 115.0 lb
Appearance Description: Keynestra, called by her close friends as Jay and called by most others as Keys, has shoulder length dyed blonde hair. She has a rather lithy build, appearing as someone who hasn’t done a lot of physical labor. She has two outfits she switches between, one more traditional Provencian female wear, a well-made and fashionable blue dress
Personality: Adaptable, Charismatic, Selfish, Ambitious, Troublesome, Manipulative
Known Flaws: Kleptomania, Lack of loyalty, Strong Envy of others, Short-Temper on certain subjects
Main Profession Skill: Business Management: Apprentice, Cooking: Novice.
Hobby Skills: Thievery: Apprentice, Gardening: Novice.
Default Skills: Reading, Writing, Numeracy.
Backstory: Keynestra was born in Provencia with only her single mother to look after her. She took her mothers maiden name as they didn’t know who her father was, but her middle-name was given by her mother to remember the man who saved her life around the time she was conceived. Her mother started working at a brothel instead of freelancing for Keynestra's early years, managing to become a madame in proxy for the actual owners of the establishment by the time Keynestra was old enough to have memories. Keynestra from an early age had access to numerous educational sources, tutors, and professional experts to learn from since her mother had access, knowledge, and the ability to pawn favors from the brothel to convince them to help her daughter. Keynestra learned how to read and write fairly young, and was quick to start learning what her mother guided her to, the art of manipulation and business. Keynestra enjoyed the lessons at first, using the basic points to make friends with local ‘trouble-makers’, but started to resent the lessons when she learned why she was being taught this. Keynestra’s mother planned on Keynestra taking over the brothel when she got old enough to handle it and wasn’t letting Keynestra have much of a say otherwise. This is when she started developing some bad behaviors in response. Learning from her ‘low-life’ friends, she started to get into the thieving and grifting game in order to feel some sense of control. Starting off slow and meaningless at first, but slowly the thieving became a compulsion that she couldn’t resist. Keynestra’s mother was not happy to catch her stealing repeatedly, punishing her by making her work with the brothel’s cook to help feed the girls. The cook, Paulie, made sure to teach her how to cook while she was being punished since she was being punished quite a lot. It slowly became that Keynestra was just a part of the kitchen as she spent more time in trouble than on good terms with her mother.
As she reached an older age where she was expected to start doing work, Keynestra decided she didn’t want to work. Manipulating the good nature of the cook Paulie to still handle most of the responsibilities while she went out with friends to perform small cons, steal trinkets, and mess with the tourists that aren’t the wiser to their scams. Eventually Keynestra’s mother caught on and stopped her from working in the kitchen to instead working at the front of the brothel, managing the girls and directing men and women to their options. Keynestra still found a way to perform trouble, often pick-pocketing the clients and over-charging them to pocket the difference. Her mother knew of some of it, but decided that she had no way of really stopping her daughter and just made sure that she never did anything that would cause more trouble than it’s worth.
This went on for a couple of years before Keynestra did something that wasn’t so easy to sweep under the rug with a few favors and careful words from her or her mother. A drunk man visited as wasn’t out of the ordinary. Keynestra did her usual, asking some questions to distract while fleecing his coat when she offered to take it, standard thieving actions. What she took out however was more than she expected from a random drunk citizen. A gold necklace with a shiny ruby as a center focus. Keynestra was shocked, but slipped it away into her bag and figured he would be none the wiser. It wasn’t long for the man to notice and with a keen enough eye to notice that Keynestra would have had ample opportunity while taking the coat. When confronted, Keynestra handled it like any other con gone bad, denying until someone comes in that she can manipulate into being on her side. This didn’t go so well however, as most of the brothel knew Keynestra was a light-fingered thief and let it play out instead of helping her. Keynestra panicked as the man started to get more violent, threatening her life if she didn’t talk. She soon had her back to the wall near her front podium and took a panicked action. She grabbed a letter-opener and thrusted it forward blindly yelling at him to back-off. The man with a letter-opener now in his shoulder stumbled back and was going to retaliate until some of the brothel workers and visitors decided that what was going to be a just-desert just escalated too far. The man ended up not being just a random tourist, but worked for the Martillo family as an enforcer of sorts. As he was forced out he threatened he’d be back and that Keynestra was going to pay. Keynestra’s mother was told of the events and knew that she wouldn’t be able to sweep this one under the rug, that man would want blood. She knew a few sailors and captains that she had some favors with and decided that Keynestra would have to leave until they forgot about this. Keynestra was furious that she had to leave, figuring that her mother would be able to solve it some other way, but that night she was forced onto a boat by her mother and some helpful sailors, as she sailed elsewhere. The captain assured her that he knew a place that they wouldn’t go looking for her, a settlement that didn’t even have a name yet.
Family: Mother, Keynestra Darvo who she was named after. Loves her greatly but resents her tutelage to run the brothel in her mothers stead one day. Father is unknown, but seemingly of Ko’Ban origin given how tan Kenystra ended up compared to her mother. (Hint, Ujay.)
Birth Realm: Middle Realm
Continent: Mainlands
Items: Small leather bag with a chain attached, Multi-purpose knife from kitchen work, Extremely ornate gold necklace with medium-sized ruby.
Posted early to give ample time for review and revision as needed. No rush.