Age: 24
Birthdate: November 18th
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Abilities: -Can sleep anywhere: Its a skill, can be in a tree, on a warm rock, in a crevice next to a large spider. You name she can sleep there.- -Ambidextrous: She prefers to use her left hand for using her bow and her knife, but for butchering, skinning, other finer tasks, she uses the right- -Acute Time sense: What time is it? She will know within a 5 minute period without fail. Comes in handy when you are trying to utilize a day- -Proficient Huntress: Shoot a small high up, partially hidden bird with an arrow? She can do it. Catch a bear in a rope snare? She can do that too.- Animal Tracking: Paws, hooves, tree scratches,etc. she can find where the animals are at. -
Weaknesses: -Can’t fish: Has been taught many times, but can not seem to get a hooked fish out of the water to save her life- -Claustrophobic: Less with buildings more with crowds of people, has been set off by a group of 10 people before.- -Soft-hearted: She enjoys hunting, but hates the killing part. She prays for the souls of each animal she kills, which takes more time than she usually has- -Busy: She likes to cram pack her days, from dawn to dusk and back again. Every minute has a assigned task to it.-
Personality: Keenly observant, and logical. Ambitious and hardworking. Emotionally controlled, Ruxsa appears as a confident and capable young adult. Her initial read is that she is a stone face woman, passionate about her work. Aside from her solitary lifestyle leaving her more socially awkward, and rarely curious, as she would put it social world cautious. This said she is painfully honest with people, even if it hurts them. She understands emotions well, so even though she doesn’t get what she said was wrong she can tell it was.
Much like an animal, one would have to work for her trust, and loyalty. Ruxsa likes to think a lot before she makes big decisions.
Occupation: Farmer, Hunter/Trapper, Occasional Trader, and Survivalist.
Back Story/Character History:
Ruxsa was born and raised as an only child in the woods, northwest of the human city of Buin in Perina region. The only people that Ruxsa, knew most of her life up into her teens were her parents. Her parents taught her everything they could about living off the land, though they never really explained to her why they lived alone in the woods instead of in town.
The truth was that her mother was a runaway bride, that fled into the woods to avoid living with a man that she knew full well would treat her ill, in the light of his previous wife's death. Her mother, was able to live in the woods a day before falling ill, she was rescued by a reclusive man that hunted for the town. They in time fell in love, and raised Ruxsa together. Even though, she was not the Hunter's biological child.
But, Ruxsa was never curious about who else was out there, or what the truth actually was, she was happy with the life she had even if it was unknowingly limited and simple. Some of what her parents taught her was what could grow in the different soils, how to build a house, make a fire and how to hunt, including how to skin an animal for furs and meat. This existence worked for her, she never wanted more.
Her father started to give her hands on training for these things when she was eight. She started simple, using nets and traps to catch small game. Over the years she became a professional, even better than her Old Man her Father would praise. But she never came to town with him. Ruxsa asked once, at ten. Her father's reply was, "There some people who are not good. The only way I can really keep you safe, is to keep you away from them." She accepted this for years.
In her teen years she started to be get a bit curious, which was out of her comfort zone to seek answers and left her home in the woods. She came across a small church of Gen, and she attempted to become a priestess for a time. She was able to learn enough human interaction skills to be able to talk to people, yet finer skills like flirting and proper reactions to touches like handshakes. But didn’t get pass her social awkwardness enough to develop closeness to her other fellow priests and priestesses. Ultimately it ended up with her leaving but still having a strong connection to Gen as she returned to being a woman of the land.
Ruxsa returned home at sixteen, and not long after her parents urged her to go and live on her own.Since the man who was her birth Father had found out where the Hunter lived and that he had his lost wife. Ruxsa's interactions with the church had been enough to stir some query about where she had come from, meaning that it was now hard for her parents to continue living with her. It was a sad farewell between the three. Now on her own, she has built her own home on the other side of the forest from the home she had as a child with her parents as a child. Even though she doesn't speak to them much in those days.
It wasn't always easy for Ruxsa to live on her own, she made several attempts to reconnect with her folks over the years. But when she was 20 she had the horrible fate of seeing her parent's home ripped to shreds. Her birth father had finally made a move to reclaim his stolen wife. Her mother didn't want to go with him, and her Father wouldn't let her be taken away...it ended poorly with two people dead. And her biological Father yelling at her mother's body about what she did with their baby. She assumes he is still looking for her. But she not interested in whatever life he offered. Well dressed,and looking like a towny, she knows she couldn't thrive there.
Ruxsa retreated back into the woods and stayed there for as long as she could, so things could die back down. Now, she does her best to trade the meat she doesn’t use, and the vegetables she cannot begin to eat all on her own. But as of late seems that she has made more money off her knowledge of how to live off the land. Even if she has people anxiety through the roof.
