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I didn't expect you to. Most people are just focusing on their own characters. I'm not insulted.
*sulksulksulk*

At least I finished my bio.

Name: Kharan Sha'aen

Gender: Female

Clan: Life

Class: Marksman (markswoman?): Specialization in mid-close range combat with her crossbow

Element: Vision

Personality: Cold, distant, and arrogant as hell. She sees all people (including herself) as simple pieces moved around by their emotions and other set forces. The Vision has given her the ability to read people like books. Thus, nearly nothing surprises her. People are books. People are predictable. People are worthless. Probably the best way to describe her is condescending. She will look down on you. I guarantee it.

The one real exploitable character quirk is her deep seated self loathing. She knows that she's no better than anyone else, and she hates that. She hates the merest idea that she's like them. So she hides all of that behind her jaded arrogance. She never lets any of that show, but beware if you ever stumble across it.

History: Unlike many people, Kharan’s always had access to some form of her magic. Ever since she could remember, the Vision has allowed her to see the forces driving people. She’s been able to predict their dialogue, their actions, their mistakes. She became jaded very early on. She had no friends, since she always saw the hidden intentions in their eyes. In short, she considered everyone in her home village to be no better than beasts. When she got old enough, she left at the first chance.

The rest of the world proved no better. They were just as easy to read in action and thought. This didn’t please Kharan that much. She wandered aimlessly for a few years. Using her vision, she began to train herself in the use of the crossbow. This wasn’t her first weapon she tried to learn, but she soon discovered her particular form worked remarkably poorly with a longbow. Her Vision allowed her to predict some actions of foes, providing her with some advantage in combat. She trained to be able to be in the thick of a fight and still be able to avoid attacks and kill a target. Thus, most of this training went into targeting weak points and using Vision to preemptively avoid the enemy’s attacks. Up to around 15 feet, her aim in targeting vulnerabilities is strong. Beyond that, her aim tends to drop off. She can still shoot, but not with the same precision that marks her close range fighting.

She then spent three years as a bounty hunter. Her mind and vision enhanced her ability to track her quarry based on the traits they demonstrated and personality quirks known to those who had seen them. She did well and had no regrets. As a matter of fact, she’d probably be doing that now if she hadn’t happened upon Lumitae. When she had been about to complete the contract on a certain target (a rapist who literally fell into her hands when he tried to target her. She’d already taken out his legs), Lumitae had stopped her from delivering the killing blow. She’d never met him or heard of him before, but she’d seen his type. She listened bored to his speech on good and life. After around two minutes, she had learned enough to begin muttering the same words under her breath.

Then she missed a word.

Given, it had been small, he’d said “greater good” rather than “justice”. However, when Kharan knew as much about a person as she’d gathered from Lumitae’s actions and speech, she never missed a word. This had been the first time in nearly 6 years. This shouldn’t have happened. When Lumitae was about to leave town, she came with him. Now Kharan, Lumitae, and his other newly recruited retainer, Eradiel, began working together.

That was a little more than three years before the current game. Kharan is 21 now. Even she is a little befuddles as to why she’s stuck with them so long. For whatever reason, the two of them were less boring to her than the rest of the world. She hadn’t missed a word of Lumitae’s since then. She owes neither he nor Eradiel much allegiance, but not much can come up that’d sway her from them.

Appearance: The first and last thing anyone notices when talking to Kharan is the bright green color of her eyes. Besides the color, they seem both penetrating and bored at the same time. It is a mark of those with Vision that their stare seems particularly intense no matter what. Beyond the eyes, she wears simple clothes; a plain shirt with leather armor fitted over it, leather arm and leg bracers and a leather skirt. Her crossbow, when she’s not using it, is slung over one shoulder. Along the sling and her belt, many extra bolts hang, easily accessible. A braid hangs down her back, reaching the lower back at the very end. Three more bolts are hidden in this. They’re not very accessible usually though. Her body doesn’t look like it’s built for strength. It seems more like the body of a tumbler or an acrobat than a huge muscled warrior. Her armor is also made to accommodate the flexibility to use her particular style of crossbowery.

Other: Vision takes up little energy, which is a good thing because Kharan literally cannot turn it off. She’s stuck always seeing with the heightened perception. In combat, she may see what’s coming, but she won’t always be able to dodge it. However, in pure role-playing segments, it’s vital to her attitude that Vision allows her to read people. Those in other clans, she may not be able to read as well as her own clan (as least, not till they’ve met a few times). So she will be a know it all, predicting actions and dialogue. Also, she’s going to tread nearly everyone as if they’re worthless, including Eradiel and Lumitae. So don’t take it personal. She herself almost never gets angry. The one thing that gets her honestly infuriated is if someone comes across her insecurities. Also, very little will surprise her. You want to surprise her, you either discover a chaos element or do something way out of character.

Oh? I was making Lumitae out to be an orphan, too. xd *Goes back to the drawing board*

Must... not... be... lazy... Must... read... bios... gonk xp
Yeah, as you can see, I'm suffering from extreme lack of motivation/energy. In other words, I need someone to kick me and get my creative juices flowing. >.< Right. The bio will come... eventually... ninja

No worries, Elexa. Just try to have it up a day or two after we start.

Guys, I hope you don't mind if I don't read all of the bios, it's just too much for an old man like me crying Although I will try. ALSO: Fen, put the bios in the "Life Clan Bio" post in the announcement thread (edit them in) so everyone can see them.

Guys! We can post in the Role-Playing threads! xp Neato. I say we start, I do need to work on a bio though. I promise to have that tomorrow night. I'm home from college on fall break and my notebook with all my character information written in it is back up there. But when I go back tomorrow I'll get right to work on it. So, where are we going to role-play?

(It's 'a'. it's because of the wa sound, One of the many tricky little parts of the english language. neutral )

ninja *was stalking* You can't be in Barton...so will the Death Clan...oh, the ever more interesting it shall be...The Death Clan calls West Barton!