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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Jean
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! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Age (Birthdate):
| 21? (Unknown)
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! style="text-align:left" | Hometown:
| Giban's Caravan
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Green
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! style="text-align:left" | Class:
| Shadow Dancer
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! style="text-align:left" | Role:
| Drifter
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! style="text-align:left" | Bounty:
| 10,000 Gella
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! style="background:#FFCC66; border: 2px #228B22 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | <span style="color:#228B22">'''OOC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Theme:
| Lunar 2
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! style="text-align:left" | Groups:
| [[Vile Fiends]]
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Bel|Bel]]
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"No monster has the strength of the Shadow Dragon..."   
"No monster has the strength of the Shadow Dragon..."   


Until recently, the Jean lived with a travelling caravan of performers as their star dancer, always one step ahead of Althena's Guard and their crackdowns on simple joys.  When the caravan came under attack though, Jean showed her skills as not just a dancer but truly skilled practitioner of hand-to-hand combatMuch as she'd like otherwise, she was only able to help by acknowledging her past, and she chose to travel with Hiro and Lucia in order to face the truth about herself...She just hasn't been willing to share even with her new friends what that truth is, or how great a shadow it casts over her life.   
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|Profile=A talented dancer, Jean isn't shy when it comes to much.  She freely draws on her experiences living in a travelling caravan, on her numerous adventures just one step ahead of Althena's Guard and their crackdowns on simple joys.  She finds beauty in life in all sorts of places, from out of the way locations to the right sort of company, and can drink a staggering amount of alcohol and put away a serious amount of good foodOverall, she'd prefer people to think of her as a performer at heart, and to focus on bringing joy to peoples' lives, one way or another.  Even being on the run from Althena's Guard, branded a Vile Fiend for her association with Lucia the Destroyer, doesn't seem to bring her down.  This front is even true--but it's not the /whole/ truth.  Jean hides a great many worries under her carefree facade, and despite her efforts to hide it her past has been revealed:  Jean is a former member of the Shadow Dragon Cult, stolen as a child and trained extensively in the arts of death.  She was a ruthless assassin, a terrfiying force before she turned her back on that life, nearly dying in the process. She wanted to live without ever fighting again, but found she had to take up violence in order to protect those she cared for, and now she does what she can to use her skills in service to a higher purpose.  Is that just an excuse, though?  Can she ever really escape what she had to become?    


Jean lived with Giban's Caravan for a few years prior to leaving for her current journey, and is familiar with the crackdowns of Althena's Chosen through personal experienceThe truth is that there isn't even substantial rumor about where she came from before that; she was brought to the caravan, nursed to health, and has been one of them as family ever sinceShe even rose to become their star dancer.  For a long time, she felt she could ignore her past entirely, but not anymore.  
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|Background=The truth of Jean's past is that she was raised as a member of the Shadow Dragon Cult, taken as a child and thrust into a life of brutal indoctrinationMore than most, however, she had a true talent for the Cult's work; an extraordinary martial artist, Jean fought through grueling training and habitual injury to show herself as possibly her masked Master's greatest studentThe training alone would have been enough to leave blood on her hands, but she did more than train.


== Powers and Abilities ==
What happened to make her change her mind about her way of life is unknown, but she confronted her Master with her realizations, with the truth that the Shadow Dragon's heart was not strength, but death--and she was struck down for it, falling to what should have been her death... and instead was found by the people of Giban's Caravan, and taken in as one of their own.  They nursed her to health and accepted her regardless of her past, and they became the family she'd never had.  She swore that she would never fight again, and for years she could keep that oath.  She had time to heal, and to start a new life; she threw herself into the caravan once she'd healed, and became their star dancer in seemingly no time at all.  She got to know the travelling life, discovered music and love and Althena, and became adept at dodging the crackdown's of Althena's so-called Chosen.


Jean knows minor magic of the Shadow element channeled through her dances, but is hardly a sorcerer by any means.  Her primary abilities stem from pure physicality, from careful aim and use of leverage along with a bit of sheer muscleShe has other skills. Good luck getting her to talk about what the 'Shadow Dragon' means.
She couldn't run from her past forever.  After a fateful encounter with Hiro and Lucia, Jean broke her oath, and fought to save her family in the caravan from a terrible monster.  She'll always be grateful to Hiro for helping her to realize that, and she would quickly become friends with Lucia, Ronfar, Ruby, and soon enough Lemina.  This, because she realized that day that she had to go with them, to seek out the spectres of her past and confront them, once and for all:  not only to help Lucia's mission, but to put an end to the Shadow Dragon Cult and ensure that no one else would have to live as she had. 
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|Powers=Jean is a talented dancer, highly athletic and skilled in a variety of styles.  Her skill is such that she's learned to channel magic into her steps when she chooses, drawing on Althena's Blessing of the Shadow element to create illusions and other effects to hinder foes--magic she learned from others in the caravan.  She's not much of a mage, though.  In truth most of her combat abilities stem from pure physicality; she can leverage her grace in combat and even use dancing props like her fans as weapons.  ...But it goes beyond creative use of dancing.


== Logs and Cutscenes ==
The truth is that Jean's combat abilities stem from long years of training in the martial arts--in the arts of the Shadow Dragon.  It's a powerful style, one that draws on the whole body as a weapon; it favors powerful strikes and unrelenting advances, drawing on the darkness within its practitioner to ignore pain and sow terror and pain in her foes.  With it, she is capable not only of precise and devastating blows, but of directing her ki into distance strikes--or even in techniques that turn a foe's life energy against him, like the dreaded Shadow Dragon Palm.  It is a brutal art of death, and its true practice revels in its awful methods. 


=== Chapter 1 Logs ===
Jean once swore to herself that she'd never use its techniques again, but in the face of an awful danger that threatens far more than just herself, she has drawn on some of this power. Sometimes, she's drawn on more of it than she would like to admit that she still can. Maybe most frightening of all about the Shadow Dragon is that the level at which Jean practices now is nothing close to the power she brought to bear in the days before she left the Cult, and she may have been the best, but she was not the only talented student.  
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Revision as of 16:37, 31 October 2018

"No monster has the strength of the Shadow Dragon..."

Jean
JeanBromide2.jpg
IC Information
Full Name: Jean
Gender: Female
Age (Birthdate): Early 20s? (Unknown)
Hometown: ???
Hair Colour: Green
Class: Shadow Dancer
Role: Drifter
Bounty: 175,000 Gella
OOC Information
Theme: Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
Major Group: None
Minor Groups: Vile Fiends
Player: User:Bel

A talented dancer, Jean isn't shy when it comes to much. She freely draws on her experiences living in a travelling caravan, on her numerous adventures just one step ahead of Althena's Guard and their crackdowns on simple joys. She finds beauty in life in all sorts of places, from out of the way locations to the right sort of company, and can drink a staggering amount of alcohol and put away a serious amount of good food. Overall, she'd prefer people to think of her as a performer at heart, and to focus on bringing joy to peoples' lives, one way or another. Even being on the run from Althena's Guard, branded a Vile Fiend for her association with Lucia the Destroyer, doesn't seem to bring her down. This front is even true--but it's not the /whole/ truth. Jean hides a great many worries under her carefree facade, and despite her efforts to hide it her past has been revealed: Jean is a former member of the Shadow Dragon Cult, stolen as a child and trained extensively in the arts of death. She was a ruthless assassin, a terrfiying force before she turned her back on that life, nearly dying in the process. She wanted to live without ever fighting again, but found she had to take up violence in order to protect those she cared for, and now she does what she can to use her skills in service to a higher purpose. Is that just an excuse, though? Can she ever really escape what she had to become?

Background

Powers and Abilities

Jean is a talented dancer, highly athletic and skilled in a variety of styles. Her skill is such that she's learned to channel magic into her steps when she chooses, drawing on Althena's Blessing of the Shadow element to create illusions and other effects to hinder foes--magic she learned from others in the caravan. She's not much of a mage, though. In truth most of her combat abilities stem from pure physicality; she can leverage her grace in combat and even use dancing props like her fans as weapons. ...But it goes beyond creative use of dancing.

The truth is that Jean's combat abilities stem from long years of training in the martial arts--in the arts of the Shadow Dragon. It's a powerful style, one that draws on the whole body as a weapon; it favors powerful strikes and unrelenting advances, drawing on the darkness within its practitioner to ignore pain and sow terror and pain in her foes. With it, she is capable not only of precise and devastating blows, but of directing her ki into distance strikes--or even in techniques that turn a foe's life energy against him, like the dreaded Shadow Dragon Palm. It is a brutal art of death, and its true practice revels in its awful methods.

Jean once swore to herself that she'd never use its techniques again, but in the face of an awful danger that threatens far more than just herself, she has drawn on some of this power. Sometimes, she's drawn on more of it than she would like to admit that she still can. Maybe most frightening of all about the Shadow Dragon is that the level at which Jean practices now is nothing close to the power she brought to bear in the days before she left the Cult, and she may have been the best, but she was not the only talented student.

Logs and Cutscenes

Chapter 1, Act 1

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Chapter 1, Act 2

Logs
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Chapter 1, Act 3

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Chapter 1, Act 4

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Chapter 1, Epilogue

Logs
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Chapter 2, Act 1

Logs
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Chapter 2, Act 2

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Chapter 2, Act 3

Logs
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Chapter 2, Act 4

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Chapter 2, Epilogue

Logs
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Chapter 3, Act 1

Logs
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Relationships