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❦ basics
name: Jane Porter
age: 25ish?
Gender: Female
Movie/series: Tarzan
year or position: Teacher
Non-Speaking Animal Companion(if any): n/a
Powers(if any): n/a
❦ In depth:
Personality: While occasionally clumsy and sometimes easily distracted, Jane carries herself with confidence and is most certainly not afraid of getting dirty. Not your typical Disney Princess, Jane marches headlong into jungles, swings through trees, and thinks on her feet and isn't afraid to use that parasol as a deadly weapon when the opportunity arises.
She's a curious woman and loves to learn everything about anything - her interest in anthropology and sociology tends to make her more aware of what's going on around her inn terms of social structures and the study of humanity as a whole. She tends to examine culture as a scientifically meaningful concept, and fully enjoys watching people interact, though she's more the type to join in and attempt to 'blend' in as best she can. She's usually not very good at this.
Jane can be brave, but she's prone to rambling bouts of utter nonsense when she's panicked or faced with something that she's afraid of. She's not without the emotion, and is, after all, only human. Jane isn't without her faults, and can be extremely persistent and sometimes pushy with her requests for knowledge. She will back off when asked, and in general blush and apologize profusely for overstepping boundaries. Impulsive and sometimes restless, Jane likes to be out and involved, in the field with everyone else.
Canon Background: here, but she's pre-movie.
AU Background: Despite some serious social constraints that London society can throw ones way, Jane Porter is an extremely educated and well versed Anthropologist. Earning her degree from Oxford University in England, she ignored protocol and what could be considered 'right and proper' for a lady and instead vested her time and efforts into her education. Fully supported in this by her father, Jane earned a degree in Anthropology and fully intends to travel the world.
Her first journey was to be to Africa, to explore the jungles with her father and do a full case study of gorillas; their nesting habits, social behavior and structures, how they interacted with one another, if there was any semblance of culture, group life, tool use, etc. It was really going to be quite the trip, though not without danger. Any excursion into the darkest parts of Africa could potentially be quite hazardous to ones health, and therefore protection must also be brought. This came in the form of a man named Clayton, a shrewd looking individual, but otherwise quite capable at handling a gun, even if he did seem a bit trigger happy in most cases.
It was the night before the ship was to set sail that Jane received a letter slipped under her door in their temporary lodging, and once she had read it, there was no way that she could turn the offer down. She immediately showed it to her father, and once the situation was explained, he bade her farewell, and wished her luck.
Appearance:
Classes: Introduction to Art
Clubs: n/a
Best Subject: n/a
Greatest Fear: Losing her father. He is the biggest support system in Jane's life, and even though she's coming to the Academy, he still figures very prominently into her life. He's the only parent that she has grown up with, since Jane's mother passed when Jane was younger, and she doesn't fail to realize that the older she gets, the more he ages as well. Losing him would be crushing.
Also, inexplicably - baboons.
How long have they been at the school(remember this school is from kindergarten on): New teacher
Relationships with other characters: none yet
❦ Permissions
Kissing/hugging/etc: Oh, yesyesyes.
Injuries: Speak with me first
Killing: Speak with me first
Mindreading/memory wiping/etc.: Speak with me first