Jezerai Silvermoon - Character sketch

[Jezerai]

XO was good enough to show me this old questionnaire when I asked about it.



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Vitals: Jezerai Silvermoon, aka Jez

1.   Gender, age, place of residence of the character: Female.  Jez doesn't know exactly how old she is, but guesses she is somewhere between 21 and 25 years old.  She does not have a permanent residence, but does have a variety of inns she stops over at while traveling from job to job.
2.   Birthplace. All cities/towns of residence from birth to current.  Jez was born in the streets of Tanvu.  She lived there until joining the Imperial Army at the age of (she guesses) 12.  Since that time she has resided in too many cities and towns to list.
3.   Occupation, if any. Most and least favorite job ever.  Jez is a sellsword.  The only other jobs she has had were begging and stealing when a child, which she hated, and later joining the Imperial Army and becoming a trained assassin.  While in the army, she took pride in her skills and the notice that she received from those above her.   It was not until after she left the army and received training from the Jin monks that she realized that using her considerable skill to harm the innocent was not what she wanted from her life.
4.   Religion. Educational level (and schools, if any). Political leanings.  Jez follows the ways of Jin and, both because of her culture and her personal leaning, does not believe in gods.  She does honor and revere heroes of past ages and she believes that the gods that others worship are really great men and women from their culture's histories.  She can accept the value of these people as well as the heroes of her own culture, but she does not worship them.   Jez grew up in the streets and has had no schooling beyond the disciplines she learned among the monks in the short period she remained there.  Born with a keen mind and trained as she has been, Jez does not appear to others to be uneducated, but there are great gaps in her understanding. Jez does not trust or like government or those in authority.  She believes that all leaders are corrupt.
5. Number of brothers and sisters and relative ages. None that she is aware of.

Physical Description:

6.   Height, weight, race.  Jez is 5'6", lean and well-muscled, and a half-elf.  Her mother told her when she was young that her father was a high-elf, but she doubts that this is true.  Her mother was Komani human.  Her father is unknown.
7.   First thing a stranger would notice about C.  Her pale silver-blonde hair and almost dainty appearance, which disguise her strength of mind and body. 
8.   Describe C's hands, whether at rest or at work.  Jez has been trained in Jin and as an assassin.  When she is still, she is very still indeed.  She rests her hands on her upper thighs when she is at rest, she rarely fidgets unless she is uneasy or embarrassed.  Jez's hands are callused and hard from her training as a disciple.

Favorite Things:
10. Time of day, time of year, type of weather.  Evenings, whether it is by her campfire or holed up in a local tavern.  Fall, when the weather turns cool and crisp.  She finds that she enjoys the cold weather in Thestra better than the constant rain of her homeland.

11. Singer or musician, song.  She particularly likes to listen to the song of bards while sipping Cinnamon Boza at the Tradewind in Khal.
12. Types of pets, types of nonpet animals.  Jez has no pets and no place for them.  She is fond of her horse though, and has named it Coppers for its coloring and in a tongue in cheek reference to her profession.
13. Sexual activity (if applicable, but no extreme details. This is about their views on sex, are they a prude or are they a flirt.). Flavor of ale. Sleeping position.  Jez avoids intimacy because she does not like to feel vulnerable.  She is guarded and would not rest easy with a companion unless the person was highly trusted.  She rarely allows any person to be that close to her, though. She jests easily with others and, because of her beauty, she receives a lot of male attention but only rarely does that result in anything more intimate.  She sleeps on her back, lightly and ready to spring full awake if danger threatens.
14. Color, and why, and how does C include this color in his or her life?  Jez enjoys bright colors.  One of the things she loves about the desert is the bright colors to be seen there.  She wears dusky purple armor and likes to wear brightly colored clothing when she is in a more relaxed setting.

Behavior:

15. In general, how does C act around guards? Vendors? The dying? His or her mother?  Jez avoids the guards with an unconscious wariness left over from her childhood.  When she must deal with them, she is nervous, though she does not consciously know why.  This carries over in her dealings with other authority figures as well.  She is both drawn to and wary of paladins, for their upright bearing and virtue are attractive to her while the very same qualities awaken her childhood wariness of authority figures.  She adored her mother when she was a child, but her mother is now dead.  Although her view as an adult has been much more harsh, her impression of her mother is likely no more rational than when she was a child.  This dual image of her mother is something she has a hard time reconciling and she tends to vacillate between adoration and contempt when she thinks of her now.
16. How does the character unconsciously show irritation? Satisfaction? Lust?  When Jez is irritated, she purses her lips and frowns.  When she is thinking through a problem, she tends to tap her teeth with her forefinger.  When she is happy, her eyes sparkle and she laughs easily, a deep throaty laugh. 

17. How, when, and why does the character lie to others?  Jez tells people that she would not lift a hand to aid those who do not have funds to pay her.  But Jez acknowledges that she will help people if the mood strikes her or if she finds the request amusing.  Jez believes that she has no strong desire to be "good" although she does desire not to be "evil."
18. How, when, and why does the character lie to him/herself?   Jez thinks that she is sufficient unto herself, but in fact she does need the society of others and so has built herself friendships all across Telon.  Jez thinks that she does not care about being "good" and tells other that, but in fact, she often does good deeds and passes it off as a whim.
19. How and what the character sings if he/she thinks no one is looking.  Jez is partial to romantic ballads, but is embarrassed by this. 

Activities:

20. What is C doing at 1 pm Sunday? At 6pm Tuesday? At 4pm Friday?  Nearly every day Jez is fighting.  She is a sellsword and completing martial jobs for various people is how she earns her way.  When she is not fighting, she is often to be found in the local taverns.  She rarely drinks much, but she seeks these places out for the company to be found there.
21. Does C have a lover or partner (D)? Three reasons C is with D, two reasons they aren't perfect for each other, and one thing about D that C doesn't know. (If D is not a lover, let D be a best friend or caretaker, or you decide).  Jez does not have a lover or a partner.  While she craves the society of others and spends time with others where she can, her shame at her past and the lessons that she learned as a child in self-reliance, make her uncomfortable in any more permanent relationship.
22. Does C daydream? What about? Does C worry? What about?  Jez does not daydream or worry.  She pretty much takes each day as it comes, without much expectation and without much disappointment.  She has recently become enchanted with sailing and, when she is able, will get her own boat.  If she daydreams at all, it is about the joy she found when sailing and the wish to do so again soon.

Possessions:

23. Number of keys on key chain. What do they open?  None.  Jez has no home to lock.
24. One thing in bedroom C would be sure to point out to a visitor.  Jez does not have a bedroom, anywhere.  Jez normally sleeps beneath the nighttime sky in her bedroll and would likely talk to a visitor about the stars.  Watching the stars and tracing patterns in the way they lay is one of her more enjoyed pasttimes.  Jez rarely sleeps in inns because feels uncomfortable with the proximity of so many strangers when she is sleeping and vulnerable.
25. Five possessions or talents the person treasures but never uses.  Jez has a small wooden box with mementos in it from her mother.  These are things left which she could not bring herself to sell for food and shelter after her mother died.  The wooden box contains a ring which Jez' mother told her belonged to her father.  The box also contains a lock of her mother's hair and a lock of Jez' baby hair. 

History:

26. Three childhood events that C thinks shaped his or her personality.  Her life growing up as a street brat; her decision at the age of approximately 12 to enter the military, and her being removed from the military to study the ways of the Jin monks at the age of approximately 20.
27. C's first love and how it ended (if it did). Tell me one heartbreaking detail, too.  Jez has never allowed herself to be open to love another person or to accept love from them.  Jez has come close a few times with men that she admires and respects, but in the end she turns them away rather than risk being vulnerable to them.  Jez both craves love and cannot accept it when it is offered.
28. The last time C cried was when?  When she told another of her past and the shame she feels over the evil acts she committed.