Theme: Calling to the Night by Natasha Farrow
GENERAL
Role: The Chevalier
Gender: Female
Nickname(s): Mita
Age: 20 Years Old in Human Age
Race: Half-Elf
APPEARANCE
Height: 5'0"
Weight: 100lbs
Measurements: 34-25-36
Build: A slender, yet muscular hour-glass figure.
Hair Color: Golden Honey
Eye Color: Emerald Green
Description: To other elves, she looks like any other human, and to humans she looks like any other elf, but Daremita is of mixed race. Her light hair and green eyes compliment her petite pale peach colored skin. Her father often telling her as she grew older, that she looked as beautiful as her mother. Her smooth, golden honey hair flows down along her back all the way to her waist like thick molasses, and fringed bangs that end just over her brow. However, she prefers her hair tied back in a braid, keeping it away from her face.
Not ever considering, or willing, to block her face, Daremita's elven features are clearly visible, with her high cheekbones, sharp angled chin, and a straight narrow nose. Her soft full lips, is but one non-elven physical trait Daremita had.
Though Daremita has the slender frame of an elf, she is definitely a force to be reckoned with, due to staying in shape and somewhat muscular. While most elves do not have curves to speak of, Daremita has that of an average bust size of a human, a small waistline making her hips more notable. She has often been told by female humans that they envy her shapeliness. While she tries to maintain an upkeep on her looks and remaining presentable at all times, Daremita has learned that sometimes being covered in a bit of dirt or bruises can make one very intimidating.
Preferred Clothing: Daremita preference in clothing is her set of leather armor, or a simpler attire of solid colored tunics and trousers. Unfortunately Daremita often has to wear more plate armor than she feels she can possibly strap to herself.
She has never been one to don a dress nor owns any wardrobe that is expensive or fancy.
Oddities: Though Daremita is small in stature, she is strong and is more than capable of taking down a bull if that is what is needed to be done. She has always readily put herself in the way of danger without any regard of her own safety, and thus Daremita is never one to ask for help and is quite willing to do everything on her own.
Daremita has a habit of, when standing, always resting her hands behind her back, in 'at ease' position, even when she is off duty. And when sitting, she is often tapping her fingers on whatever her hand is resting on, leaving most people who meet Daremita, assuming that she is arrogant and conceited in due to her position as a chevalier.
She also has a weakness for rescuing and taking care of injured or sick animals. It goes so far as to Daremita rescuing even the smallest of animals, such as squirrels, and rabbits.
A trait most humans find odd about Daremita is how she always seems to know the direction she is traveling in. As well as the fact that Daremita does not 'sleep' as humans do, instead she 'rests' or mediates in a deep trance for approximately four to five hours. She also developed an odd habit of resting with her sword in her hand.
And while Daremita enjoys whistling and humming while she tends to her duties, she can not actually carry a tune.
Likes: Lawfulness, Fairness, Justice, Honesty, Helping the unfortunate, Forests, Plants, Animals, Rain, White fluffy clouds and Starry skies.
Dislikes: Corruption, Unnecessary bloodshed and death, Underhandedness, Swindlers, Selfishness, Liars, Cheaters.
Hobbies: Sparring, Honorable duties, Stargazing, Cloud watching, Sewing, Embroidery, Writing letters.
Phobia(s):
Thalassophobia – Fear of Ocean/Sea/Large bodies of water.
Arachnephobia – Fear of Spiders.
Pediophobia – Fear of Dolls.
Personality: Daremita is a quite stubborn, and moderately competitive type of woman, which she displays and exudes with her knightly confidence, discipline and pride. Even though she is competitive and admits to being talented in the battlefield, she is very modest about it. While her stubbornness has caused her to be resolute, and strong in both body and mind. She grew up being bluntly honest, always telling the truth even to her own detriment and is mentally unable to sugarcoat the truth. She also grew up with a naive and idealistic view that no one was above the law and that the law is always and always will be just and fair.
With all this she still has soft sides, such as the lack of ability to show her emotions easily, but they are simply seen through another manner, that being her compassion and gentleness with the injured, the ill, the young, or the weak; she is selfless and diplomatic, putting others first without regard of her own well being. When she is not on her guard, you can glimpse the prudish and charismatic side of her, flickering in the back of the careful life she has.
But with these comes flaws; though she may seem calm, she is angry and disappointed not only with herself but with 'justice' itself– leaving her to feel lost in her own ideals and confused with what it is she should do, because of being told to push her morals and beliefs aside. Now she is more alone then she ever realized, and there is not a single person who she feels trustworthy enough to lean on and retain a semblance of support.
COMBAT
Skills: Daremita's small size and rigid training have not only made her movements quick and accurate but also with tact and grace. From hand-to-hand to swordplay, from dodging to attacking, her moves flow together as if she were dancing across a stage.
Along with her battle training, she learned essential survival skills, such as hunting and fishing for food, skinning and plucking one's catch, making and setting various forms of traps, building a dry and sturdy shelter, and last but not least starting a fire and cooking one's meal.
Daremita is also well known for taking care of injured and sick animals, thus others have decided she is able to communicate with the animals on some level that the average person is unable to.
Weapon(s): Longsword and Shield, with a dagger tucked into her boot as a back up. She also has proficiency with longbows.
Fighting Style: While she is accustomed to using various weapons, she prefers a defensive stature with her Longsword and shield. Should those ever be knocked from her hands, she was trained as a child in hand-to-hand combat by her father, and while she could easily use the dagger she keeps sheathed and strapped to her calf, she considers it a last resort usage, as it once belonged to her mother, and so it is a precious memento to her.
Abilities: Like her elven brethren, Daremita has a great sense of animal empathy, and a minor ability in stealth.
Also like her elven brethren, she retains low-light vision, where she can see twice as far as a human in conditions of poor illumination, as well as the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.
BACKGROUND
Relationship Status: Single
Her mother was an elf, banished, when she was caught treating an unconscious and wounded human in the forest close to their campment. It was during her banishment and living amongst the forest, she came across a scouting team of humans who were hunting down a pack of wild wolves that had been attacking traveling merchants. Secretly she helped the humans by tracking the wolves, whom she found to be rabid, and it was after she had ended their lives and was about to leave, when she and the human scouting team arrived. It was thanks to the man of who’s life she had treated in the forest, that her life was spared, for he was the leader of the scouting team and though she did not know it at the time, he had seen her that day.
He had thought about her day and night, this elven beauty who tended to his wounds, though his mind was hazy due to hitting his head as he had fallen from a tree, he remembered hearing voices arguing in a foreign language above him, and so he opened his eyes to see Daremita's mother arguing with another elf.
Daremita loved hearing the stories of how her father and mother had met, but it always made her wonder; had her mother ever considered leaving the forest and living amongst the humans after her banishment? But with her mother having died during childbirth, and her father not knowing the answer either, she resided to never knowing that answer, yet still she thought about it occasionally.
Aside from not having a mother, Daremita grew up to be a proud and happy woman, and it was when she was assigned the task to being the hand of the law to a ruling family of nobles in an isolated town, her father had died in his sleep. Though she was saddened by this loss, she wiped away her tears and stood proudly, she would continue on in life, her life was only truly beginning, and even though her father and mother were now gone physically, the memories and stories would always be with her, in her heart, and in her mind. So even with not knowing what to expect with her task, she was eager to begin, and was over joyed to take on these tasks of dealing out an even-handedness to those who did wrong.
But this is when she learns a terrible truth, and finds nothing but disappointment and outrage at what was to be found waiting for her. The noble family she had been assigned to serve under, were nothing but greedy, pompous and corrupted nobles, who did nothing but exploit the weak and the poor, encouraging indecency, blackmail, and ruthlessness. Daremita tried her best to find ways to better the situation, to change the nobles corrupted behavior, but instead she gradually became sickened by what she was expected to do. Becoming disheartened by the degradation of aristocracy, she formed her own sense of justice, one that would be considered respectable, and fair.
Soon enough Daremita would cut her ties to this corrupted noble family that was assigned to serve under, and though her goals to even herself were not clear, she would find work as a freelance warrior, acting on her own will and volition. No one to condemn her morals and beliefs are wrong or foolish, she would take on tasks she chose acceptable and she would do them her way, with fairness and even-handedness, a lawful and just way.
OTHER
Daremita has a man who is yearning to be with her. They have known each other for some time now. His name is Al, and is indeed another Chevalier.
