Jean

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Jean
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IC Information
Full Name: Jean
Gender: Female
Age (Birthdate): ??? (20s?)
Hometown: ??? (Carnival)
Hair Colour: Green
Class: Ex-Assassin
Role: Drifter
Bounty: Dead or Alive (Althena)
OOC Information
Theme: Feature Character
Groups: Vile Fiends
Player: Bel

"I will always be the adversary of evil. And now that I know who you are... You must be stopped."

Jean is a vivacious, fun-loving woman who always seems ready with a smile, a joke, or a drink. Once she was the star dancer of a traveling caravan, and she still treasures the memories and family she made there--but that is not what the world at large knows her for. She is known as a Vile Fiend, one of the companions of Lucia the Destroyer, and as a student of the vicious Shadow Dragon Cult, whose terrible martial arts she is said to use to terrorize Althena's faithful. The truth is a little more complicated; she left the Shadow Dragon and ran from her past for many years, but moved finally to start to confront it... only to find that the other student she'd tried to break through to has broke free herself, and killed their former Master. Now she operates tirelessly to root out the remnants of the Cult and ensure no child is stolen again like she was. ...But can she ever really face her past without the full truth of her brutal martial art? And is her quest really so close to over?

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 indoctrination. More 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 student. The training alone would have been enough to leave blood on her hands, but she did more than train.

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.

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.

Chapter 1, Act 1

Chapter 1, Act 2

Chapter 1, Act 3

Chapter 1, Act 4

Chapter 1, Epilogue

Chapter 2, Act 1

Chapter 2, Act 2

Chapter 2, Act 3

Chapter 2, Act 4

Skills, 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.


Relationships

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Soundtrack

Logs and Cutscenes

Chapter 1, Act 1 Logs

Chapter 1, Act 2 Logs

Chapter 1, Act 3 Logs

Chapter 1, Act 4 Logs

Chapter 1, Epilogue Logs


Chapter 2, Act 1 Logs

Chapter 2, Act 2 Logs

Chapter 2, Act 3 Logs

Chapter 2, Act 4 Logs

Chapter 1 Cutscenes


Chapter 2 Cutscenes

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