Since she had never told anyone her name in an attempt to lay low, she began to become known as "the Mother" in slums. If you needed someone to help you, you went to the Mother. Jael spent a lot of time helping new additions to the slums, or sheltering people on their way out of the city. Eventually, Jael and her children found permanent lodging with a former doctor, who was the head of a resistance faction that was trying to overthrow Gerasimos' reign of tyranny.
When she was eighteen, Jael met an older man, Gavriil, a soldier of Gerasimos' who had run from the army to join the rebel forces. Despite their age difference, Jael and Gavriil became close friends, despite the protestations of her kids. Her kids were right to be wary of him, for he had infiltrated the resistance under orders of Kleitos, who had been in charge of finding Jael after her escape. They had found her not long after she started to make a name for herself in the slums, but he had held off instead of just charging in.
Soon after she turned nineteen, Kleitos made his move. Gavriil led her away in the middle of the night, saying that one of the rebels had been injured on a mission and needed healing. Leading her out of the slums, Gavriil led her right into a trap. But what Gavriil didn't know was that he was nothing more than glorified bait to Kleitos. Before he could reveal their plan to Jael, Kleitos killed Gavriil. In the almost two years she had been gone, Kleitos had taken the brunt of Gerasimos' anger and was taking his own anger out on Jael by causing her as much pain as he could.
Jael fought viciously, but the soldiers overpowered her and knocked her unconscious, and Kleitos returned to Gerasimos' citadel with her in tow. He tossed her in a cell and left her there to report back to Gerasimos that they had successfully captured her again.
4. Personality: Since Jael is unable to communicate verbally, she's learned to be very expressive, though she is capable of hiding behind a blank face if she doesn't want to worry someone. She's patient and kind, but living in the slums has taught her how to stand up for herself, even if she feels bad for becoming angry. Jael will heal anyone, even if she's the one who caused the injury in the first place, unless she thinks that person doesn't deserve to be healed. She is gullible and easy to manipulate with the right tone and story. The only thing that she hides is her ability to heal, since it often caused contention with the people who knew. She is easily hurt, but is only really emotionally crushed when someone betrays her trust or when someone close to her dies.
She doesn't anger easily, usually when someone insults her, her friends, or her kids, or when someone she considers a friend or family is threatened. She doesn't hate easily, and typically only people who think they are better than anyone, or willingly hurt other people for their own gain. Having been constantly seen as an object while growing up, Jael sometimes is offended where there was none intended, and can sometimes become upset at innocuous comments or remarks. She hates to talk about her own problems, and will usually try to steer the conversation away from herself and back on to whomever she is talking with.
5. Previous Game Developments: Jael was previously in ms_elegante, a horror game where the passengers of the Elegante were subject to the whims of a crazy captain on the way to a mythical location know as the Golden Shore. Jael managed to get herself into a lot of trouble while on the boat, managing to die once after having a run-in with a berserk passenger named Ganondorg, and getting horribly maimed on several other occasions.
But while Jael did have a hard time on the boat, she made more friends than she could have ever hoped for. She made friends with another mute, Jin, who became one of her closest friends/pseudo-protector while on the Elegante. She befriended a lot of overprotective men, namely one named Joe, who cooked her delicious food and helped her when she was emotionally confused.
Jael also had the bad habit of trying to make friends with people who were either terrible or just not friendly at all. The worst was when she made friends with a man named Jinx. She tried to help him be a better person, but he always messed it up and made things worse for himself, until Jael finally just gave up on him. Jael tried to work through her problems so she could be happy even with all the crazy things that happened on Elegante, but with all the traumatic events, never made much progess until she started dating a man named Matt. He helped her realize that she could be happy, even though he had more than enough of his own issues to work through.
6. Appearance: Jael is thin and physically pretty weak for a Kóri, and stands at 5'6". Her hair is dark brown and wavy, falling a little below the shoulders. Her eyes are blue, and like all Kóri, Jael has long, pointed ears. She has scars on her body from the times she was beaten, thin scars on her hands and fingers from the rough work she often did in the slums, and newer, larger scars across her back, arms, and shoulders from her time on the M.S. Elegante due to the various beasties that attacked her.
7. Abilities: Jael is much stronger than a normal human, even in her weakened condition, so she'll be nerfed down to only a little bit stronger. For example, instead of being able to lift 250 pounds, she'll only be able to lift up to 100 pounds with ease. She can hear much better than a human due to her long ears.
Jael's healing powers use the elements within a person's body to heal them (water, metals, etc.). She must touch the person she is trying to heal with her hands to be able to do anything, and her magic seeks out the injuries before coaxing the body's elements to return to their natural state. Foreign bodies like viruses cannot be healed, though their symptoms can be. Lost limbs cannot be regrown, but if the limb has recently been severed and is brought to her before the limb dies, then she can reattach the limb, but she can only restore minimal functionality. Broken bones can also be a problem. If the bone isn't set correctly, the bone will heal wrong and can cause later problems or a crippled limb.
The downside to her ability is that she cannot be healed by magical means. She can only use her magic through her hands, and not any other part of her body. The process consumes a lot of energy, leaving her weak if she heals too much for too long. Due to her never being fully-fed, healing is slow and can leave her barely able to move if she heals more than a broken bone. Healing fatal wounds can send her into a temporary coma if she doesn't consume lots of nutrient-rich food before or during the healing.
On the flip side, her healing magic can be used to cause harm. She can knock out a person by temporarily cutting blood flow to the brain, and can kill or injure them by doing the exact opposite of what her healing magic does. Instead of coaxing the body to heal, it can cause the body to tear itself apart for however long she is touching a person, in a process that resembles an extremely fast-moving cancer. Jael hardly ever uses this part of her power, still feeling guilt for the one person she killed in her anger as a child.
8. Languages: Common (which resembles English) and the Kóri language, Máel, though her knowledge of that language only goes as far as what she learned as a child.
As a note, the sign language she uses resembles American Sign Language.
9. Items: A leather string with a pendant that looks like a tree contained within a sun.
Jael had already checked on her kids three times that night and still she couldn’t shake the uneasy feeling that was twisting her stomach into knots. None of the children had moved all night but she couldn’t help checking them once again. Making sure to block the light this time so she didn’t wake anyone, she cracked the door to see them all asleep.
Jael sighed and shut the door, twisting her fingers together in worry. Usually she didn’t worry this much when the men went out on sorties, but this was one was the closest they had ever been to Gerasimos’ citadel.
Behind her, the door opened and then closed before she could turn around completely. Gavriil stood at the door, breathing heavily and splattered with blood. Jael gaped at him as he strode towards her, not resisting when he grabbed her arm and began to tug her to the door.
“Come, Evangelos was badly injured and needs your help.” Gavriil sounded impatient, but she stopped and tapped his arm to get his attention. When he looked at her, Jael pointed to her feet, then back at the table in the center of the room where her medical pack was sitting. Gavriil let her go almost reluctantly, watching her as Jael hastily shoved her feet into her boots and grabbed her coat and medical bag. Jael glanced back at the door leading to her children’s room as she shut the front door, but decided she would just deal with her angry kids tomorrow. Considering how Gavriil was acting, Evangelos needed her quickly.
Gavriil grabbed her arm again as soon as they were outside and started to run. Jael allowed him to lead her, ignoring the anxiety she was starting to feel again. As they reached the checkpoint gate separating the slums and the upper class homes, Jael automatically slowed, not wanting to go up the steps to the door that Gavriil was pulling her towards. Pausing for a moment at the bottom of the stairs, Gavriil shifted so he was holding Jael’s hand.
“I know you don’t want to go up there, but Evangelos needs you. Everyone else scattered and he’s all alone up there. If you leave, he’ll die before I can carry him back to Yannis’ house.”
Jael looked at Gavriil with wide eyes, holding his hand tightly for a long moment before nodding. He gave her a lopsided smile and squeezed her hand before pulling her up the stairs and through the unlocked door at the top. The clean, fresh air was so different from the slums and Jael took a deep breath as Gavriil led her a couple of blocks away and down an alley where Evangelos was slumped between the wall of a building and a dumpster close to the other end. Jael didn’t even slow as she fell to her knees beside him, ignoring the pain from scraping her knees on the concrete.
Jael reached out to touch Evangelos, freezing as she realized he wasn’t breathing. She looked up at Gavriil, who grabbed her upper arms and pulled her up into a standing position.
Jael covered her face with her hands and buried her head into Gavriil’s chest, not resisting as he pulled her away from the body. Suddenly, Gavriil grabbed her wrists and pulled her hands away from her face, “Now li-“
Jael flinched away from Gavriil as something wet splattered against her stomach and thighs. She looked up at him, and then followed his eyes as he looked down, only to see a broadsword sticking out of his stomach. Horrified, Jael barely managed to catch Gavriil as the person behind him shoved him off the sword and into her arms. Kneeling down with him, Jael looked up to someone she had never thought she’d see again.
Kleitos was casually wiping the blood off his sword, a satisfied look on his face, “Hello darlin’. Haven’t seen you in quite some time. You didn’t think you could possibly escape from me in this city, did you?”
For a moment, Jael just stared at him. Realizing Gavriil had stopped breathing, Jael carefully placed his body on the ground and stood so she could look Kleitos straight in the eye. The next second, two soldiers came out of nowhere and grabbed her arms. As she knocked the first two away there were several more surrounding her, grabbing her arms and legs. She kept struggling and had almost freed herself when something smashed into the back of her head, causing her to collapse a split second before everything went dark.
12. Writing sample - First Person:
...This is sadly familiar.
Where am I now? Last I remembered I was on that shore.
Matt? Matt, please be here. Jin? Joe? ...Jinx? Is there anyone else from the Elegante here?
If not, my name is Jael. Would someone be so kind as to explain what this place is and why I'm here? Or show me where I can get food and clothing? Any help would be appreciated.
13. Tattoo: Around her neck, right over her vocal cords.
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When she was eighteen, Jael met an older man, Gavriil, a soldier of Gerasimos' who had run from the army to join the rebel forces. Despite their age difference, Jael and Gavriil became close friends, despite the protestations of her kids. Her kids were right to be wary of him, for he had infiltrated the resistance under orders of Kleitos, who had been in charge of finding Jael after her escape. They had found her not long after she started to make a name for herself in the slums, but he had held off instead of just charging in.
Soon after she turned nineteen, Kleitos made his move. Gavriil led her away in the middle of the night, saying that one of the rebels had been injured on a mission and needed healing. Leading her out of the slums, Gavriil led her right into a trap. But what Gavriil didn't know was that he was nothing more than glorified bait to Kleitos. Before he could reveal their plan to Jael, Kleitos killed Gavriil. In the almost two years she had been gone, Kleitos had taken the brunt of Gerasimos' anger and was taking his own anger out on Jael by causing her as much pain as he could.
Jael fought viciously, but the soldiers overpowered her and knocked her unconscious, and Kleitos returned to Gerasimos' citadel with her in tow. He tossed her in a cell and left her there to report back to Gerasimos that they had successfully captured her again.
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She doesn't anger easily, usually when someone insults her, her friends, or her kids, or when someone she considers a friend or family is threatened. She doesn't hate easily, and typically only people who think they are better than anyone, or willingly hurt other people for their own gain. Having been constantly seen as an object while growing up, Jael sometimes is offended where there was none intended, and can sometimes become upset at innocuous comments or remarks. She hates to talk about her own problems, and will usually try to steer the conversation away from herself and back on to whomever she is talking with.
5. Previous Game Developments: Jael was previously in ms_elegante, a horror game where the passengers of the Elegante were subject to the whims of a crazy captain on the way to a mythical location know as the Golden Shore. Jael managed to get herself into a lot of trouble while on the boat, managing to die once after having a run-in with a berserk passenger named Ganondorg, and getting horribly maimed on several other occasions.
But while Jael did have a hard time on the boat, she made more friends than she could have ever hoped for. She made friends with another mute, Jin, who became one of her closest friends/pseudo-protector while on the Elegante. She befriended a lot of overprotective men, namely one named Joe, who cooked her delicious food and helped her when she was emotionally confused.
Jael also had the bad habit of trying to make friends with people who were either terrible or just not friendly at all. The worst was when she made friends with a man named Jinx. She tried to help him be a better person, but he always messed it up and made things worse for himself, until Jael finally just gave up on him. Jael tried to work through her problems so she could be happy even with all the crazy things that happened on Elegante, but with all the traumatic events, never made much progess until she started dating a man named Matt. He helped her realize that she could be happy, even though he had more than enough of his own issues to work through.
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7. Abilities: Jael is much stronger than a normal human, even in her weakened condition, so she'll be nerfed down to only a little bit stronger. For example, instead of being able to lift 250 pounds, she'll only be able to lift up to 100 pounds with ease. She can hear much better than a human due to her long ears.
Jael's healing powers use the elements within a person's body to heal them (water, metals, etc.). She must touch the person she is trying to heal with her hands to be able to do anything, and her magic seeks out the injuries before coaxing the body's elements to return to their natural state. Foreign bodies like viruses cannot be healed, though their symptoms can be. Lost limbs cannot be regrown, but if the limb has recently been severed and is brought to her before the limb dies, then she can reattach the limb, but she can only restore minimal functionality. Broken bones can also be a problem. If the bone isn't set correctly, the bone will heal wrong and can cause later problems or a crippled limb.
The downside to her ability is that she cannot be healed by magical means. She can only use her magic through her hands, and not any other part of her body. The process consumes a lot of energy, leaving her weak if she heals too much for too long. Due to her never being fully-fed, healing is slow and can leave her barely able to move if she heals more than a broken bone. Healing fatal wounds can send her into a temporary coma if she doesn't consume lots of nutrient-rich food before or during the healing.
On the flip side, her healing magic can be used to cause harm. She can knock out a person by temporarily cutting blood flow to the brain, and can kill or injure them by doing the exact opposite of what her healing magic does. Instead of coaxing the body to heal, it can cause the body to tear itself apart for however long she is touching a person, in a process that resembles an extremely fast-moving cancer. Jael hardly ever uses this part of her power, still feeling guilt for the one person she killed in her anger as a child.
8. Languages: Common (which resembles English) and the Kóri language, Máel, though her knowledge of that language only goes as far as what she learned as a child.
As a note, the sign language she uses resembles American Sign Language.
9. Items: A leather string with a pendant that looks like a tree contained within a sun.
10. Weapons: None.
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Jael had already checked on her kids three times that night and still she couldn’t shake the uneasy feeling that was twisting her stomach into knots. None of the children had moved all night but she couldn’t help checking them once again. Making sure to block the light this time so she didn’t wake anyone, she cracked the door to see them all asleep.
Jael sighed and shut the door, twisting her fingers together in worry. Usually she didn’t worry this much when the men went out on sorties, but this was one was the closest they had ever been to Gerasimos’ citadel.
Behind her, the door opened and then closed before she could turn around completely. Gavriil stood at the door, breathing heavily and splattered with blood. Jael gaped at him as he strode towards her, not resisting when he grabbed her arm and began to tug her to the door.
“Come, Evangelos was badly injured and needs your help.” Gavriil sounded impatient, but she stopped and tapped his arm to get his attention. When he looked at her, Jael pointed to her feet, then back at the table in the center of the room where her medical pack was sitting. Gavriil let her go almost reluctantly, watching her as Jael hastily shoved her feet into her boots and grabbed her coat and medical bag. Jael glanced back at the door leading to her children’s room as she shut the front door, but decided she would just deal with her angry kids tomorrow. Considering how Gavriil was acting, Evangelos needed her quickly.
Gavriil grabbed her arm again as soon as they were outside and started to run. Jael allowed him to lead her, ignoring the anxiety she was starting to feel again. As they reached the checkpoint gate separating the slums and the upper class homes, Jael automatically slowed, not wanting to go up the steps to the door that Gavriil was pulling her towards. Pausing for a moment at the bottom of the stairs, Gavriil shifted so he was holding Jael’s hand.
“I know you don’t want to go up there, but Evangelos needs you. Everyone else scattered and he’s all alone up there. If you leave, he’ll die before I can carry him back to Yannis’ house.”
Jael looked at Gavriil with wide eyes, holding his hand tightly for a long moment before nodding. He gave her a lopsided smile and squeezed her hand before pulling her up the stairs and through the unlocked door at the top. The clean, fresh air was so different from the slums and Jael took a deep breath as Gavriil led her a couple of blocks away and down an alley where Evangelos was slumped between the wall of a building and a dumpster close to the other end. Jael didn’t even slow as she fell to her knees beside him, ignoring the pain from scraping her knees on the concrete.
Jael reached out to touch Evangelos, freezing as she realized he wasn’t breathing. She looked up at Gavriil, who grabbed her upper arms and pulled her up into a standing position.
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Jael covered her face with her hands and buried her head into Gavriil’s chest, not resisting as he pulled her away from the body. Suddenly, Gavriil grabbed her wrists and pulled her hands away from her face, “Now li-“
Jael flinched away from Gavriil as something wet splattered against her stomach and thighs. She looked up at him, and then followed his eyes as he looked down, only to see a broadsword sticking out of his stomach. Horrified, Jael barely managed to catch Gavriil as the person behind him shoved him off the sword and into her arms. Kneeling down with him, Jael looked up to someone she had never thought she’d see again.
Kleitos was casually wiping the blood off his sword, a satisfied look on his face, “Hello darlin’. Haven’t seen you in quite some time. You didn’t think you could possibly escape from me in this city, did you?”
For a moment, Jael just stared at him. Realizing Gavriil had stopped breathing, Jael carefully placed his body on the ground and stood so she could look Kleitos straight in the eye. The next second, two soldiers came out of nowhere and grabbed her arms. As she knocked the first two away there were several more surrounding her, grabbing her arms and legs. She kept struggling and had almost freed herself when something smashed into the back of her head, causing her to collapse a split second before everything went dark.
12. Writing sample - First Person:
...This is sadly familiar.
Where am I now? Last I remembered I was on that shore.
Matt? Matt, please be here. Jin? Joe? ...Jinx? Is there anyone else from the Elegante here?
If not, my name is Jael. Would someone be so kind as to explain what this place is and why I'm here? Or show me where I can get food and clothing? Any help would be appreciated.
13. Tattoo: Around her neck, right over her vocal cords.
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