'''Name:''' Lucia Roanoke
'''Age:''' Twelve
'''Race:''' Human
'''Place of Origin:''' Old Rose

!!!Backstory
Luce's family was originally from a rice-paddy farm somewhere near Virthmore. (Or perhaps ''in'' Virthmore. Luce doesn't remember what her parents said about it.) Her father, shortly after wedding her mother, made their long way up to Old Rose in hopes of striking some kind of financial security (as much as humans can get at any rate) and to be free of at least some of the ridiculous taxes the galdori imposed on them in food supply. They weren’t aware that it was really just as bad in the cities.

Luce was born in Old Rose where she lived for the first few years of her life. She has since decided that her father is dead and that a bird killed him.

When Luce was eight her mother fell ill. Without much money to support them and not nearly enough for the medicinal treatment needed, she died. Luce stayed with her mother's body in their home until hunger forced her out. She has been on the streets since.

Luce doesn't linger on this though. Lingering on the past only gives her less time to feed herself in the present. When she does recall it, she essentially sums up her life with, "A bird killed papa and mama's water ran out."

On the streets, Luce mainly makes out by stealing from the processions of traders in the hustle and bustle of the merchants that make their way through the shores of the river. She tends to keep her sticky fingers to things that are not currently in the pockets of others. It was only recently that she stepped up to 'pick-pocketing' and actually got away with it. She lifted a chipped die from a man's pocket; as this was her first success, she constantly keeps it with her as a good luck charm.

But, due to her years of poorly picked pockets, she has learned to be very quick on her feet. She is an agile and limber climber, jumper, and generally fast child. While she's not able to perform some of the amazing stunts that the street performs can, and probably never will, fear and practice have helped her to thus far evade angry human men and women, and the occasional galdor.

(For the most part, however, she stays away from stealing from galdori if possible. She's scared of them and their magic.)

On the occasions she has been caught, she's taught herself to breathe quickly and erratically and force herself into hyperventilation (although she does not know the term). With that, she's thus far been able to earn the sympathies of her captors by 'playing opossum'. She tries not to depend on this if she doesn't have to. The feeling of being ill isn't something she enjoys.

!!!Personality
Luce is a 'go-getter'. From the bits and pieces she does remember about her parents, she remembers them as both being very hard workers. With only the memory of them to guide her, she tries her best to be like them. Even if her version of 'hard-working' isn't entirely legal. (Granted, her father’s probably wasn’t either.)

For someone in her position, or anyone's position really, she is a terrible liar. Her mother had never been very good at it and, as she spent most of her remembered time with her mother, Luce never learned how to lie convincingly.

She also has a tendency to speak without thinking. Whatever she believes to be truth comes out of her mouth. Even if she ''was'' a good liar, she wouldn't tend to have enough forethought to use it.

Luce has a terrible fear of birds. Hawks, whice, sparrows, moa, you name it. All she remembers about her father's ''disappearance'' in Old Rose was the mention of some kind of bird. She relates all birds to death now. Hawks tend to be the worst her mind, though she has not connected the dots as to why.

She also picked up some pretty foul speech patterns. Luce curses and generally uses strong language unfit for a child thanks to her language forming years in Old Rose.

Not everything from Old Rose was bad, though. Luce still relates the smell of water, mainly ocean water, to family and the safety of being with her parents.

Luce is not very devout about religion. She takes most religion at face value: It's real because everyone says it is. She does, however, remember hearing about both the Circle Gods ''and'' Vita from her parents. This has led her to form the misconception that the two are somehow related. This has yet to get her into any trouble, as she doesn't usually talk about religion; only listens.

Luce is illiterate. She prefers to rely on visual cues when navigating around areas and listens when other people appear to be reading something aloud (such as a posted notice or something from one of the publications).

Regardless of her life on the streets, she’s a generally good-natured and positive person. She’s loud or intentionally rude when she’s scared and doesn’t see any place to run.

!!!Physical Description
In all honesty, Luce’s structure is not ideal for running. She is short, and is genetically built better for birthing than for the cross-country she’s essentially trained herself for. Or, at least, she ‘’would’’ be if she ate more and wasn’t so scrawny.

Her wide, round eyes are brown looking rather like dark polished wood when in the sun. Her hair is black, but might possibly bleach brown if she ever took off the red ratted scarf that she wears around her head. Her hair is cut brutally and sloppily short. She cuts it herself with various sharp objects when she has the chance. While it certainly keeps her hair short, it looks quite horrible. It might be called ridiculous if I weren’t coupled with the sour look on her face whenever someone points it out to her.

Luce’s face still has the roundness of childhood in her cheeks, but it’s coupled with taut skin along her arms and legs from hunger. Her cheek bones are low. The corners of her lips are curved upwards, as much out of genetics as her general positive personality.

Her clothing generally consists of whatever she can find. It’s over-sized, haphazardly thrown together and generally as make-shift as can be.

!!!Inventory
Clothing:
*A loose and yellowed man’s shirt.
*A woman’s old brown ripped pants.
*Sandals.
(But she doesn’t usually wear them. They are too big for her and slide around on her feet as she walks, which only makes her feet hurt more. She wears them if she’s going over particularly painful ground.)

Weapons:
*Boomerang
*Sling shot

Misc.:
*Small bits of bread
*A chipped die

!!!Career
Pickpocket
*Pick-pocketing
*Running
*Forced Hyperventilation

!!!Goals
*Mainly, Luce is just looking to have enough to eat every day. A few shiny things wouldn’t hurt, but she’s not really into concords. (She would only use it to buy food anyway, and she would rather just steal that and bypass the middle man, so to speak.)
*Luce would like to live in a house again, like she did when she was little. She hasn't had any forethought about actually trying to rent one when she gets older. She's under the impression she'll find someone who will just let her sleep there one night. And the night after that. And the night after that.
*She'd very much like not to have to steal anymore. While she's getting better at it through trial and error, she'd rather not deal with the 'error' bit anymore. Being shoved forcefully out of shops and threats of calling Seventen, and other various goons, on her is not her idea of a good time.
*If she was able to get a job, she'd like to work inside somewhere. She's had enough of being outside.
*Luce figures life might be easier if she could read, but it isn’t currently high on her to-do list.

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Just a couple of edits and you'll be all set!

1. It's galdori, not gladori! XP
2. Is your character living in Vienda now? It seems to imply that in your personality section. You'd probably have a good time in Old Rose, though, if you wanted to stay there.
3. As for reading in the dark...In Thorns there's a sort of braille called 'bumps', that your character could have learned to read instead.
4. If you could take care of the double asterisks in your inventory we'd be grateful. Just add the extra stuff in with parenthesis.

You're so close! Post here when you've done the required edits and you'll be approved straightaway!

1. I spent so much time making sure I didn't accidentally capitalize it that I didn't even spell it correctly! Der-hey. That's been fixed.

2. I wasn't sure which place would be easier for her (as a child) to be role-played in. Old Rose it is!

3. She isn't blind and I only put that in because of the bit in the Wiki about human's learning to read in the dark. I thought that was an interesting concept and wanted to throw something in about it. Looking back on it though, I'll just scrap the whole thing and make her illiterate. To read: One more goal for Luce!

4. The double asterisks weren't that important anyway. I'll cut them out and just role-play them in when it comes up. =]

Edits made! Thanks!

Edit: I edited one more line out because I didn't notice it until now. My apologies.