Username: Annalysa Jones
Character Name: Mariah Shantel Brookes
Nicknames: Ry, Brookes (prefers to be called Ry, seeing as that's what her uncle called her.)
Group Preference: She could care less as long as they don't try and eat her.

Class: Brawler

Ability Scores:
Strength- 7 (+1 class bonus)
Perception- 5
Endurance- 8 (+1 class bonus)
Intelligence- 5
Agility- 7
Accuracy- 5

Skills:
Chef - Level 1
Powerful Melee Proficiency - Level 1
Handgun Proficiency - Level 1
Weapons Expert - Level 2

Appearance: She comes in at a height of 5ft, 8in She is more on the pale side of the skin pigment spectrum, though some would consider her to be abnormally white in coloration. Her eyes are a bright blue color, though the outer circle of the iris is an almost royal blue in color, as if it’s holding in the rest of the color in her eyes. Her face/jaw line is an oblong shape, while her nose closely resembles the shape of The Duchess. While her eyes are best described as Deep Set in shape.

She keeps herself in the best shape that she can, being as tone as possible while not putting in great effort to do so. Her body shape is more along the lines of a triangle, simply because the range of her hips is much wider than the range of her bust. Her height is equally distributed between the length of her torso and the length of her legs themselves. Her fingertips hit just about two inches below her hips, though her fingers aren’t much on the long side and tend to be a bit thicker than the average female hangs/fingers. She keeps all of her nails short except for her index finger and thumbnail, which she tends to keep a bit longer simply out of habit.

Her hair is a natural black coloration, and comes down slightly past her shoulders on the sides, though it tends to be shorter in the back. Her bangs part on the left side and she has dyed them green for no other reason than the simple fact that she likes green. Oddly enough, she keeps the longer side sections of her black hair in three different sections on both sides; holding the separate sections together with pointed, inch-long silver bead like clasps. Her eyebrows are a dark brown color and they can’t really be called thick or thin, seeing as they are somewhere in between. They are naturally straight with a slight curve in them, though it’s not very noticeable unless you truly pay attention to her face. Though you wouldn’t be able to tell by the way that her hair naturally lays, she also has a widows peak smack-dab in the middle of her hairline.

Her lips aren’t much darker than the rest of her skin; though her top lip is much thinner than her full bottom lip that she has. She has snake bite piercings on her bottom lip, both piercing with a medium sized silver ball in place. Her eyelashes tend to be the same length on her bottom and top lid, not very long, but not very short. While she always tends to have dark circles under her eyes no matter how much she does or doesn’t sleep, though they do grow darker if her sleep isn’t very long.

She has several tattoos, one on her right shoulder blade, one running up the outside of her left calve, one on her left wrist, and another on the back of her neck. The one on her right shoulder blade could best be described as a raven feather bursting into a swarm of ravens. The one on running up the outside of her left calve being a branch of flowers, while the one on her left wrist being of a blue crescent moon and star. Her last tattoo, on the back of her neck, being of a black ankh.

Personality: She has been different than most females since a young age, and that fact hasn't changed much during her years. She has always been an odd girl. As a child she always caused trouble when she was around her friends, though she would put up as innocent of an act as she could in front of teachers and most adults (as well as she could that is). Though after some time, her playful mischief turned more of a violent mischief.

She began to get into fights with other children; first throwing sand into their faces and scratching them. But it wasn't long until it turned into fist fights and throwing objects at other children her age. For years after the sudden change to violence, she just got worse. Though once she was sent to a therapist (read more about that in the history), she made herself able to control her own anger and violent streaks; replacing them with crazy comments and child-like burst of hyperness that slips out of her.

Though her violence had settled down a bit and she seems to just be a bit crazy and awkwardly happy all the time, the infection changed her. Almost sending her back into her true violent self. Though not completely so. But now, in this unfortunate time in the world, she finds herself growing closer and closer to her violent self with each passing day. though, she tries to only let it out when completely necessary.

Because of this, she tends to try and not get too close to many people, though that doesn't mean she won't communicate and work together with them. When she's not letting out her violent ways, she can be quite entertaining; if only because of the way she carries subjects and talks about things. She tends to not smile very much, though she doesn't really even notice that she doesn't, it just comes naturally for her. When her history is brought up or asked about, she tends to try and change the subject or lie and say she had the best life anyone could ever have and make up some story to prove a point.

History: She didn't really grow up in the best environmental for a child, or for anyone for that that matter. Her parents weer never really around her and when they were, all that would happen was yelling and fighting, making her time with them less than enjoyable. Because of this, she began to develop rather violent habits when it came to "playing" with other children her age. Her parents didn't really notice until one of her teachers witnessed her beating up another student and called her parents.

Though most parents would simply punish their child, her parents proceeded to fight with her constantly, blaming her for everything bad that happened in the house after that. This only continued until her high school years when her parents finally separated from one another. Because she couldn't decide which parent to live with; seeing as she truly didn't like either of them, she moved in with her uncle. Thus, she moved from California out to New York City to live with him.

Though, this seemed to make her violent streak become even worse, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't seem to control 99 percent of them. Thus, her uncle found the best therapist that he could, and once she finished high school, he moved her out to Colorado to get "treated" by said therapist. During her treatment, her uncle paid for her living situation and food and such, seeing as it would be hard for her to find a job in her current state of mind.

It took a while to get her "fixed up", but once it was done, she was able to get a job of her own. Luckily, her uncle still paid for her living situation while she went out working; seeing as being waitress at a road side gas station restaurant wasn't the best paying job on the planet. But it's not like any of that mattered once the infection started.

Once it did start, she urged her uncle to come down to Colorado and be closer to her so they could keep each other alive, seeing as she didn't really have anyone else to turn to. He did as she asked, though he was only there for a day before the infection got a hold of him. And if it wasn't bad enough, it practically happened in front of her eyes, and all she could do was attack him and run. But as soon as she did, something inside of her snapped and she began to go about killing any infected that got her way, only acting the slightest bit normal when she was around other none infected, which wasn't for long periods of time once the infection got worse. Now she just wants to be around other non-infected people, not for company or because of loneliness; but because it's easier to get revenge for her uncles death when there's more than one person around to help kill those bastards.

Weapons & Equipment:
- A silver men's nacklace that she ripped off of her uncles neck while attacking him once he became infected. Though now it hangs off of a plain copper chain and has the word "revenge" scratched into the back side of it.
- A plain ol' crowbar that she picked up from her job.
- A fire axe that she took out a building she had gone in to after her uncle died and she was left alone.
- A striped beanie hat that she wears at almost all times.
- She keeps a silver key in her back pocket of her pants at all times, though it's actually a locket. Of course, nobody would know that unless they took it and looked at it up close to see how to open it. It has no pictures in it.