The Player
Name: Sam
E-mail/IM: MSN: magistiaqueen@live.com, AIM- Radleia Aeon
RP Experiences?: 13 years online. 5 years tabletop.
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The Character
Name: Joanne Cynthia Hays
Age: 24
Aesthetic Age: 21
Sexual Preference: Straight
Species: Human, imbued
Creed: Redeemer
Derangement(s): Insomnia
Power: Bluster, Respire
Triggers:
Bluster- Throws both hands up in front of her. Her hands cross, fingers open and yells "Stop!"
Respire- Places her hand over her mouth and takes a deep breath.
Misc: The only sort of gun Joanne ever keeps with her is a small stun gun.
Appearance: Joanne stands at about five foot four and a hundred and fifteen pounds. She has long strawberry blond hair with faint waves to it, usually kept in a low ponytail behind her head. Her bangs are thin and come down to her eyebrows usually feathered out. An oval shaped face compliments large, doe like brown eyes.
Her complexion is fair, with a light dusting of freckles over her nose and cheeks. More freckles come out when she is out in the sun too long. There are a couple faint pock marks on her neck and face from chicken pox when she was a child. There is also a scar next to her left eye that looks like it was a cut.
Fashion Sense/style: Joanne had never really considered herself to be 'pretty' at all. She dresses in a rather conservative manner normally sticking to a long pair of slacks, a solid colored blouse, and a variety of 'elementary school' vests that usually feature designs of school buses or apples. When not working, she tends to dress the same but without the vests.
As stated before, her hair is always in a low ponytail. She puts the most work into curling her bangs in the morning before she simply hairsprays it. She wears very little makeup, preferring to go with a more natural look aside from some concealer to cover up the dark circles that tend to form under her eyes.
Even her formal wear tends to be on the conservative side, usually opting for dresses with necklines that never go far on her chest. She likes to wear a lot of greens and the occasional dark blue. Heels are almost a constant for her.
Joanne wears little jewelry aside from a necklace Gail got her for her twenty-first birthday which depicts a small dove on a gold chain.
Personality: Joanne has always been a rather reserved person. In high school, she had the tendency to let people push her around, most of all her best friend Gail. After the incident with Todd however, Joanne began to find her own voice.
Still, she will only ever be as strong as the friend that stands beside her. Without someone supporting her, she has the tendency to go right back to being a push over. She isn't the flirty type more because she doesn't really consider herself to be attractive. All advances toward her are met with stuttering and awkward silences which has the tendency to drive others away. A lack of confidence seems to be her weak point in this respect.
Where Joanne really shines is when she is trying to help others. She has the history of going out of her way to make sure that others are taken care of. She believes that anyone can make their own lives better if they're just given the right boost to do so.
Her feelings about the 'afflicted' is that there has to be something in there worth saving. The afflicted are victims of circumstance and often don't believe there is hope for themselves. Joanne makes it her goal to make it clear that there is always hope for them and that no one is 'too far gone'.
History: Joanne was born to Loretta and Jason Hays in the small town of Meadowthorpe, Colorado. She lived a happy childhood unaware of the struggles her parents were having. She lived next door to her best friend, Gail. When they were younger, Joanne's father built a tree house in the large tree in between the yards. The girls would spend many nights up there, talking and giggling.
As she and Gail grew up though, Joanne began to notice a distance growing in between them. Along with this, she was beginning to notice that her parents really didn't get along. Some time during Joanne's eighth grade year, her parents finally got a divorce. Her father, as it turns out, had come to terms with the fact that he preferred men and so he moved away from Joanne and her mother to live with his boyfriend, a manager at the local fast food restaurant.
Unsure of how to cope with this, Loretta started to slack in her parental duties. She started going out at night and not even coming home sometimes. Often, Joanne would have to help her mother stagger into the house. Her mother seemed to be obsessed with living out the youth she had 'given up' in order to marry Jason. Joanne was forced to learn to take care of herself, make sure her own homework got done, and make sure her own meals were fixed.
The distance between herself and Gail was growing more noticeable. The more she was starting to need her friend, the less she was around. Gail had begun to physically mature when they reached high school and become one of the more popular girls in school. She made the effort to include Joanne in any social gatherings she could but she always wound up feeling like the third wheel. Still, Joanne was always the first person that Gail would come to whenever she needed to talk to someone. Joanne put her own troubles aside and met her friend in the tree house where she would listen to Gail go on about what ever bothered her. Joanne would sometimes try to discuss her own issues but somehow Gail always re-routed the conversation to be about her.
One of the girls in Gail's new social group, Tanya, had taken notice of Gail's attempts to include her and decided this outsider didn't belong. She began to plot a way to get Joanne to 'learn her place'.
There was a boy Joanne was starting to like named Todd. He was on the basketball team. She talked to Gail about it who gave a very vague warning that she shouldn't bother with Todd. Tanya, however, offered to set the two up. Joanne thanked Tanya profusely and two days before homecoming, she went on her first date with Todd. After food at the local fast food place, Todd offered to go to a drive in movie. Joanne considered it but decided against it. Instead, they played miniature golf. When they came home that night, Joanne's mother wasn't home. Todd asked if he could come in and Joanne allowed it. They sat in the living room watching a movie when Todd started trying to try to rape her.
At this precise moment, Gail walked into Joanne's house. After being a friend of the family for so long, the two girls had a history of both doing this without knocking. Gail had forgotten the shoes she was going to wear to homecoming at Joanne's house. Upon seeing who was on the couch with Joanne, Gail decided she would do something about it now and take the consequences later. She shoved Todd off of Joanne who ran to hide behind her. Gail picked up the hat rack by the door and hit Todd with it. Todd knocked it from her hands and punched her in the face causing Gail to stagger backwards.
It was then Joanne heard a voice saying "HE WEARS TWO FACES". Joanne looked back to Todd in time to see there were two faces where one should be. He walked toward Gail but Joanne moved to stand in between them. She threw her hands up and yelled "Stop!". There, Todd stopped, looking very confused.
As it turned out, Todd was possessed by the spirit of a rapist. Joanne began to talk to him in a calm voice while remaining in between him and Gail. After a while, she was able to talk the spirit into moving on and letting go of the dominance he sought through taking advantage of girls.
Joanne and Gail were closer after this though Gail never quite understood what happened. After they both graduated college, Gail went on into business and Joanne became a teacher. When Gail's job took her to Los Angeles, Joanne followed so neither of them would have to do without. Joanne rarely encountered someone she could help in Meadowthorpe but Los Angeles is a whole new ball field.
Joanne Hays
I really like what I'm seeing of your character, but there are just a couple of little tweaks she needs before we can unleash her on our world. 
