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[strawmaiden]

PLAYER

CONTACT: PM
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: CST, relatively fast tagger
BRACKETS/PROSE: Either? I like prose, but can match
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS:

IN CHARACTER

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Sure!
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Also sure! Janest has abilities that allow her to be much more formidable than a simple farm girl from a tiny village might be expected
RELATIONSHIPS: Sure!
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: There is some resistance to psychic intrusions due to her nature. Let's talk OOCly and figure out the most fun way to resolve it.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: The chosen of a low-ranking harvest god named Ten Sheaves, Janest is a powerful woman. Those from D&D or adjacent fandoms might register her as a Celestial Warlock. Those with a sense for auras may note that Janest’s anima is a riot of verdure, blazing in the gold of grain but also in the rich blacks and browns of soil, the greens of rain-fed fields, and the white of the noonday sun. She has several Cool Magic Abilities called Charms, details of which are in a comment below.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Very healthy! Like, peak human condition.
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OUT OF CHARACTER

BACKTAGGING: I am not particularly good at backtagging. If you know you're going to be away, or if you want to jump back into something after a couple weeks, please reach out.
THREADHOPPING: Ask first
FOURTHWALLING: No thank you.
NOT INTERESTED IN: Smut without previous CR

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

VISUAL: A blonde woman in homespun clothing, pieces of wheat in her hair even when that would be unseasonable. She may be dwarfed by the green jade scythe she carries, and when she uses her Exalted abilities, her anima flares in spectral plantlife.
AURAL: A 'country bumpkin' sort of accent; regardless of setting, one gets the impression that she's a bit of a hayseed.
OLFACTORY: There's always a bit of an aroma of fertile soil and hay around her.
DEMEANOUR: A naturally warm, friendly personality, she's the friend to all 'little people', and eager to help out in any village or community she visits. She sticks out in larger cities as someone who just doesn't belong here.

☆ code by kimmiserate ☆

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Backstory (short version)

[strawmaiden]

Janest grew up among the field-maidens of the town of Kolisz, deeply entrenched in her community, but when threats like raiders and attacking Raksha forced her village to use their scythes as weapons, the harvest god Ten Sheaves who was the village's patron called for her to be brought to his temple. He had determined she would be the key to the survival of Kolisz.

She walked with Ten Sheaves through fields of golden wheat, listening as he spoke of the gods, and Heaven, and a field-maiden’s duty. Though some of her sisters had stronger arms, or were better tacticians, Janest’s dedication to her people made her a worthy champion in his eyes. So she was gifted a spark of divinity that Ten Sheaves had petitioned the Unconquered Sun for, becoming Exalted. Awareness flooded into her, that of the fields and farms throughout the valley, the soil and the streams that nourished them. The god gave her one last gift before he faded away: a massive grimscythe. The god-weapon’s black blade glinted in the first light of dawn.

She used it to protect her village, rallying the field-maidens with divine strength, cutting down the Raksha nobles who would have destroyed Kolisz. But in the aftermath, her brothers and sisters turned to her like she was now their leader, instead of their lifelong friend and fellow worker. Realizing that it would be far too easy for her to set herself above everyone else, to be worshiped just as much as her god, Janest made a choice: to leave Kolisz and travel the world, offering aid to any small community that needs the gifts of the Strawmaiden.