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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:08 pm
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● Updates ●
6/12/2017: Jacline was attained! Began setting up her journal.
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:14 pm
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Name: Jacline Tallart
Stage: Prentice
Race: Yaeli
Gender: Female
Sex: Female
Class: Prentice > Healer > Monk > Scholar (Book)
Orientation: Bisexual (Heavy preference for women usually.)
Likes: Morning, gentle music, fresh bread, fur, warmth in winter, books, the smell of paper and ink, calligraphy, jewelry, fine dresses and shoes, praise, birdsong, peace and quiet, prayer
Dislikes: Loud noises, chaos, cold, darkness
Strengths: Hard worker, loyal, patient, imaginative, disciplined, faithful, honest
Three Base Traits: Meticulous, Puritanical, Prudish
Personality:
Meticulous: Everything has a place and must be put there. Jacline notices small details and will not settle for calling something finished until it is finished right in her mind. She expects this of others and becomes irritable when her expectations are frequently disappointed.
Principled: Living comes with standards, set out by the gods, that should be followed absolutely. Jacline has a firm set of beliefs that, for better or for worse, she sticks by rigidly. People who she considers to be morally 'wishy washy' or unprincipled are repulsive and confusing, weak in spirit and destined to fall victim to sickness, bad luck, etc., befitting their lack of proper attention to duty and respect for the gods.
Serious: Life is not a joke. Jacline has difficulty relaxing and taking anything in jest. Her seriousness has advantages, of course, but can be difficult to get around for anyone trying to bring a little light to life through humor. She is as such slow to pick up on jokes, sometimes (often) resulting in her being the butt of them, and can easily take offense when none was meant if the 'humor' slips past her.
Disciplined: A minute wasted can never be regained. All of her rigidity in other areas does pay off in terms of getting things done, and Jacline, once set to something, is good at keeping her mind on her work and sticking to it until the job is done. She is also 'disciplined' in the sense of self-deprivation when it comes to not 'giving in' to common indulgences, including (in her later years) recreational (or otherwise) pleasures of the flesh, intoxicants, and lavish food or finery.
Intelligent: The world is blind as it is stupid. Jacline is not. Although she carries with her many strong opinions which a great many would (perhaps rightfully) disagree with, she does have a quick mind under it all. She learns quickly, listens well, picks up on things that might slip past others, and (when she does speak) likes to apply her wit to a stinging tongue if she can manage to summon the gall to speak up in the first place.
Prudish: The body is a temple; it should not be despoiled by hands seeking only selfish gratification and indulgence, nor should it be dressed so as to be looked upon in lust. Among Jacline's 'principles', a very rigid sense of modesty rests, strongly influencing her dress, mannerisms, and approach to others. She expects that she may remain celibate her entire life (when she is old enough to understand such things) and die pure in the eyes of her gods.
Dutiful: What must be done, must be done. Jacline does not hesitate in doing what she assumes to be her duty, and sets high standards for herself in this area. To shirk one's duty is a high shame and will not do in tailoring one's life to honoring the gods.
Cowardly: That said, living another day to serve the gods is crucial (or, such is the excuse she gives herself). In truth, though she would never admit it, Jacline is, on no uncertain terms, a coward. As one might imagine, this can clash with her sense of duty and principle, and as a result of her cowardice, sometimes she will feel she has failed to uphold her own standards. Usually, however, she will come up with personal excuses, and place the blame elsewhere, stewing in the wrongness of others and hiding away from actual confrontation. When it comes down to it, Jacline is willing to risk very little when it comes to not only her life and safety, but even general comfort or personal pride.
Puritanical: Lurin is the Light and Dafiel is the Darkness. Honoring the gods is pivotal to a life well lived. Jacline is fervently religious, and this defines a great deal of her attitude towards many things, shaping her and serving as the framework for her approach to life.
Petty: Little things really are big things. No slight is too small to be noticed, and though she wouldn't recognize it as such, Jacline can be incredibly petty, holding on to small grudges and inconsequential disagreements like small stones weighing down her mood and attitude. She will later on occasion throw these 'stones' back at people to sate her sour humor when she is feeling particularly cross about something.
Repressed: One really shouldn't stray too far; there is no telling what might happen. In line with her prudishness, Jacline is, overall, quite repressed, especially sexually in her teens and rising years, but also in terms of general emotional attachments, friendships, and casual 'day to day' luxuries like laughing, loosening up, and enjoying life.
Description: Plain. Jacline is not remarkable looking in any way, other than her notable pallidness. She is a twiggy, narrow bodied young girl that will eventually grow into a thin, lanky woman. Palest lavender hair straight as a ruler; palest Yaeli skin tone. She wears small silver spectacles.
Clothing: Simple, modest, straight laced clothing befitting a girl of middle class who takes herself far too seriously, brown, cream, and dark, dull/de-saturated purple please. Full-length dresses only, no pants. She has small, round glasses. Specific hairstyle is CC, but please have it anywhere between chin and shoulder-blade length and simple if styled (it can just be loose if desired).
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:45 pm
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● History ●
Jacline is not clear on her early history. Her closest confidant and father figure, Master Theodall Tallart (after whom she takes her surname), has raised her for as long as her memory spans in a modest home in Pajore which doubles as the bookshop where he works. He binds and sells texts, as well as taking on occasional commissioned scribe work, and tells her that she was born of of a wealthy bloodline, but that her parents, sacrilegious and impure, abandoned her as a small babe, her mother having carried her illegitimately as the child of another man to whom she was not wed. Theodal, however, being the kind and righteous soul that he is, took her in despite her background due to being a friend of the father, and raised her as his own because he saw good in her and did not want to see her fall into an orphanage. A child destined for a higher path than her blasphemous parents.
In truth, Jacline is the daughter of Theodall’s brother, and thus his niece, sired under illegitimate circumstances which prevented the man from being willing to raise her himself, and pushing her into the relative ‘safety’ from suspicious eyes by having her cared for by a more trusted and stable figure (Theodall) who had no wife at the time and no intention to marry, such that he was willing to raise his brother’s child as his own.
Her father was wealthy but not a very good man who married for wealth and strategic purposes but really enjoyed his exploits. Her mother was a lover of his that he lead on until she became pregnant, at which point he wanted nothing to do with her, wanted his wife not to hear of her, and tried to turn her away, but she was most insistent and her behavior became increasingly erratic/forceful the closer she came to due.There was an extended period of tension there where, even after Jacline was first born, her mother would come threatening him, showing up at his house and work, saying she was going to tell everyone everything, who the girl's father was, never leave unless he at least paid to take care of them. Instead he eventually utilized his position to see to it that she was silenced indefinitely.
Meanwhile Theodall and his brother have always had a tense relationship where Theodall has never approved of his brother's wild and self-serving behavior, but nor did he like his brother's 'crazy' lover, and when it came to drastic measures, he decided to take the girl himself. At the time it surprised everyone, including Theodall, but he felt compelled to take in this particular child and decided not to question the impulse (do a 'better' job and fix his brother's mess). Her mother was consistently much more keen on the reputation and pretty things that came with being with Jacline's father and not so much on Jacline herself. When Jacline was an infant she was a tool/threat/bargaining chip, and she was not interested in raising an infant without support, so even if she is still alive somewhere she would not be risking coming back for the girl. As for her father, he wanted nothing to do with the child to begin with, but was fine enough with Theodall adopting her on the down low.
Such things may or may not be revealed in time, but in the meantime Jacline herself feels entitled to the personal 'secret' of being born initially to persons of reputed power and destined to follow a better path than they. A large chip for a small, growing girl to tote about. Theodall is incredibly religious, a Holier Than Thou sort with his nose in the air who believes in rigid adherence to the gods' will and has instilled this in Jacline. He has taken her to church every sabbath and felt (and conveyed to her as he did) that such education, worship, and attention to faith would help fix the messiness of her past and turn her into a good girl in the eyes of the gods. He has been very strict with her on this.
In all of her remembered history, Jacline has lived in Pajore, ever under Theodall’s watchful eye. As a young girl, she rarely left the home and did little more than clean and try to stay out from underfoot. As she grew, Theodall saw to it that she learned to read and write that she might one day study basic spellwork and, above all else, the word of their gods. By age fourteen, she will have long since learned her letters and be a capable scribe, maid, and errand-runner about the city when she is not tucked away indoors with a book.
Though she is allowed out, Theodall quickly becomes uncomfortable with her straying too far, which only exacerbates her pre-existing wariness of strangers. As such, if possible, she prefers to work and stay near to home with ‘lofty plans’ of perhaps one day serving the local library, counting office, or taking up Theodall’s business and running the bookstore.
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Likes: Morning, gentle music, fresh bread, fur, warmth in winter, books, the smell of paper and ink, calligraphy, jewelry, fine dresses and shoes, praise, birdsong, peace and quiet, prayer