Boudeccai (Saga, EQ2)

[Jezerai]

Um, I started this when it was the long questionnaire.  Rather than delete it, I left it all in.  Hope you can bear with me.  I know it's long.

Character Description - Detailed
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Vitals:

1. Gender, age, place of residence of the character (C)
   Female, 26 years, A small apartment in South Qeynos.
2. Birthplace. All cities/towns of residence from birth to current.
   Icewind Dale, Everfrost
                   - Resided there from birth to 17 years of age.  (Complete story
                     set out in Boudeccai's Tale)
   Queen's Colony
      - From 17 years of age to 23 years of age: After travelling from her
                     childhood home, Bou found employment in Queen's Colony working
                    for room and board and a small stipend.  She supplemented her small
                    income by hunting and doing odd jobs for local citizens there. 
                    Ultimately she discovered her vocation as a Fury and sought out
                    training in this profession.  As she honed her skills, Bou became
                    employed guarding ships, met and married Bahladar.
   Greystone, Queynos
       - Moved to Greystone with Bahladar
   17 Lucie Street, South Queynos

3. Occupation, if any. Most and least favorite job ever.
               Adventurer primarily.  Bou also earns significant income selling crafted items made by her friends, Missa and Dulcette (alts), who enjoy crafting but dislike the hassle of selling their work.  Bou is also a provisioner, but does this primarily for her and Bahl's adventuring and for her friends.  Favorite job ever: Bou has never loved anything more than the adventuring she does now and doing jobs for people around Norrath.  Least favorite job: Unpaid drudge for her stepmother before deciding to take off on her own.

4. Religion. Educational level (and schools, if any). Political leanings.
   Bou is not very religious but was raised in the traditions of the Tribunal.  When she thinks about religion, she realizes that she does believe in the gods, but her major concern is that they leave her alone.  The whole destruction of the world thing has left a decidedly bitter taste in her mouth and, while she does not curse the gods she is very wary of their intentions.  Bou's mother was a human priestess.  Her mother was educated and took care of her early teaching until she died in childbirth when Bou was 12.  Her father, a Barbarian, was less worried about niceties like reading and writing.  However, Bou was taught the skills she would need to run a small estate.  She knows how to run a household and search out the best markets and prices for the things their farm produced and the things they needed to purchase.  She knows how to perform most of the chores needed to keep a farm running.  Bou does not have any particular interest in politics unless they are having an immediate impact on her.  She does not have aspirations towards greatness in society and no desire to better her social standing.

5. Number of brothers and sisters and relative ages.
   -  None.  Bou's mother died in childbirth and her baby brother died within days of her mother's death.  Bou tends to blame herself for her mother's and brother's death.  Bou does have a stepbrother, who she despises with a passion.  Bou does not consider him to be her relation in any sense and would get very angry at any suggestion that he is her brother. 

Physical Description:

6. Height, weight, race.
   - Because of Bou's mixed heritage she is small for a Barbarian, at 6'1".  Bou feels keenly that she is not an adequate size for a Barbarian.  She weighs 200 lbs of solid muscle.  Bou is solidly built, though not heavy for her height.  Her body tone is developed through the efforts she makes in working her craft and adventuring. She tends to have more muscle development in the body parts that she uses to do these things. She does not make any particular effort to keep in shape or work out otherwise.

7. First thing a stranger would notice about C.
   Bou exudes the charisma of a healthy animal, completely unaware of her physical impact on others.  Bou's dark red hair gleams with health and is long, though she keeps it pulled back in a warrior's style.  Her blue woad covers half her face and her lips are tatooed blue as well.  The woad extends over her back in a beautifully intricate pattern.  Bou is without artifice or guile and is bluntly honest.  She is direct and forthright, even where that is not polite or socially acceptable.  This often leads her to blurting out statements that give offense.  She is softhearted and hates to hurt people's feelings.  When she inadvertently does, she is immediately contrite.     
   
8. Describe C's nose. Describe C's hands, whether at rest or at work. 
   Bou's nose is straight and tips up at the end.  Her hands are callused and rough from the adventuring she has done.  She does not think about protecting them from the elements or trying to make them feminely beautiful, except that she likes to paint her nails in bright colors.  They are capable looking hands with sturdy, squarish fingers.  Her index finger on her right hand was broken during training exercises.  It was not properly set and healed crooked. 

9. Describe C's body in four words, two from personal ads (slender, athletic, voluptuous) and two surprising words not commonly applied to the human body.
   Muscular - Bou's body is well-toned and very muscular.  Although she has not consciously worked to make it so, she would fit in fairly well in a body building contest.
   Voluptuous - Bou is very curvy (This is EQ after all, where all female toons were drawn by adolescent boys with overactive testosterone.)
   Animalistic - Bou carries herself like the wild animals she can shape shift into.
   Spontaneous - Although she keeps herself neat, there is no impression that Bou is making any particular effort to make any particular impression.  She is simply Bou.

Any distinguishing features or marks?
   Her woad, which is in the intricate Wind style.  Bou's is very proud of her woad and has it added to from time to time.

Favorite Things:

10. Time of day, time of year, type of weather.
   Bou's favorite time of day is the evening, when she can relax with Bahl.  She enjoys the coolness of the evening air, when she can clean and oil her leather armor.
   Bou's favorite time of year is fall, when the air is crisp but before the winter rains and shortened days set in.
   Bou loves storms and runs out into the middle of one whenever possible, reveling in the power of nature.

11. Singer or musician, song.
   Bou's favorite music is ballads about the days before the world was destroyed.  Although those old songs may be a bit out of step with fashion, they were the songs her father sang when she was little.

12. Types of pets, types of nonpet animals.
   Bou loves pets of all types and often tries to bring home various animals she comes across on her adventures, even if the animal in question has no particular desire to be coddled by a Barbarian!
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.
   Bou is not particularly flirtatious, except with Bahl.  She does enjoy men, though and can be a bit frank in her admiration at times.
   Bou likes all ales, though the halasian stouts of her youth are still her favorites.
   Bou's favorite sleeping position is curled in Bahl's embrace.

14. Color, and why, and how does C include this color in his or her life?
   Perhaps Bou's mother was part gypsy.  Bou loves color, the more vibrant the better.  She brings this color into her life by painting her fingernails and toenails with bright colors, wearing brightly colored underclothes, and including what brightly colored armor items she can find. 


Behavior:

15. In general, how does C act around guards? Vendors? The dying? His or her mother?
   Bou is direct and forthright in her dealings with others.  She has a tender streak and it shows both in her dealings with the "family" she has picked up in her travels (i.e. her alts) and in her care for the sick and dying.  She takes her vocation as a healer very seriously and, despite her generally brusque nature, she is very good with caring for those in need.  Bou's mother died when she was young.  She hates her step-mother with a passion.

16. How does the character unconsciously show irritation? Satisfaction? Lust?
   Bou is hot-headed and quick to anger, but equally quick to forgive and forget.  She is not particularly discrete and, her emotions are readily apparent to others.

17. How, when, and why does the character lie to others?
   Bou does not lie to others and will tell the truth even when politeness would dictate that she do otherwise.

18. How, when, and why does the character lie to him/herself?
   Bou may misunderstand a situation, but does not lie to herself either.

19. How and what the character sings if he/she thinks no one is looking.
   Bou sings the songs that her father sang to her.  She sings loudly and off-key when she is fighting, though she herself is unaware that she is singing.

Activities:

20. What is C doing at 1 pm Sunday? At 6pm Tuesday? At 4pm Friday?
   Almost certainly she is adventuring or preparing for an adventure by preparing the foodstuffs to take with her.  She may also be curled up at her home with her pets or her "youngsters" as she calls her young charges that she has picked up in her travels.

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).
   Bou is married to Bahl.  They have similar outlooks, are physically attractive to each other, and have a strong love of adventure.  However, Bahl is a bit thick-headed at times and lets Bou rule the roost.  This unequal partnering leaves Bou vaguely dissatisfied.  Bou is overly bossy and Bahl is in danger of becoming a hen-pecked husband.

22. Does C daydream? What about? Does C worry? What about?
   Bou is not much given to self-reflection or daydreaming.  If she is worried about something, and she can determine the cause, she will take steps to address the issue.

Possessions:

23. Number of keys on key chain. What do they open?
   Bou has a key to her apartment, a key to her house vault, and a key to her trunk.  Bou also keeps the key to her childhood home, which is tucked away.  Although not terribly sentimental about most things, Bou cannot bear to part with this memorabilia.

24. One thing in bedroom C would be sure to point out to a visitor.
   Bou loves color and would be sure to point out the brightly colored paintings and red bedclothes on her bed.

25. Five possessions or talents the person treasures but never uses.
   The key to her childhood home
   A lovely gown she purchased for formal occasions and has tried on but lacks the courage to actually wear in public
   A lipstick that her friend, Kiaria, gave her, which she loves but would never use because she thinks it's silly to wear lipstick
   A soft woolen blanket that her mother made her but she would never use because she is used to cold weather and is always too warm
   A locket that her father gave her when she turned 16 with sketches of her mother and father inside

26. Most oft-worn shoes. Longest-owned piece of clothing.
   Her leather armor, including boots

History:

27. What does C think now of Mom and Dad?
   Her vague memories of her mother are colored by the fact that she lost her when still young.  She adores her father, though she vows she will never see him again.  She unconsciously models herself on him and shapes her decisions in life on what she thinks he would do.

28. Three childhood events that C thinks shaped his or her personality.
   The death of her mother, the marriage of her father and step-mother, and her first pet

29. C's first love and how it ended (if it did). Tell me one heartbreaking detail, too.
   Bou married her first love, Bahl.  The only other person she was ever engaged to was her step-brother.  This was a match arranged by her step-mother to keep her father's assets.  Her father endorsed the marriage, thinking it would keep Bou close to him and provide for her future.  Instead, Bou fled to escape this fate.

30. The last time C cried was when?
   The last time Bou cried was when she was trudging down the road that led from her home.  She did not know what to expect from her future and could not imagine life away from her father.

31. The best unexpected thing that will happen to C today.

Other:

32. What does C really want, though he/she doesn't think about it?
   To see her father again.

33. Come up with three questions you'd ask about C and answer them.

34. C's name. Did you decide this before, during, or after answering questions 1-34?
   Boudeccai is a form of the name of a warrior queen of ancient Britain who took on the Romans and almost won.  Her reknown was such that the Romans remembered her and wrote about her in their histories.  Although her actual name is not known, I think she would like the fact that the Romans named her after the Celtic goddess of war.