Aleyn Casteel

ISTP. 6w5. Natasha Romanoff. Marc Spector. Jessica Jones. Mystique. Melinda May. Brock Rumlow. Dagger. Katniss Everdeen. John Wick. Raya. Thomas (Maze Runner). Cassian Andor. Jasper Hale. James Bond. Jason Bourne. Arvin Russel (Devil All The Time). Kang Saebyeok. Yoon Jiwoo (My Name). Michonne. Emma Swan. Gendry Baratheon. Bobby Singer. Do Hana (Uncanny Counter). Mickey Smith. Dwight (TWD). Dylan Massett. Ruby (Supernatural). Brianna Randall. Weeping Monk. Kit Herondale. Gabriel Lightwood. Mara Jade Skywalker. Fenris. Renn. Nathaniel Howe. Leske. 
Tired of her violent and bloodstained life, feeling the pain of those she killed, which became too much for her. Became a nomad. Never lost a fight. The scars scream "dangerous", many have tried to kill her, and the same number died in the attempt. . Completely in love and acts more open around her lover. Would do anything to protect her family, sometimes a bit overprotective with her lover, trying to be everywhere at once to protect him when they are in battle together. A good southern gentlewoman. Natural scholar. Avid reader. Shrewd mind in business and battle tactics. Has the least control over her bloodlust, uncomfortable around people, finds it irritating when people try to help her. Feels smug when someone else has the same struggle with bloodlust as her. Eventually began to expect more control of herself. Has a hard time with his bloodlust. Very interesting. Charismatic, able to influence those around her to see things her way. Becomes very connected to someone with a constantly joyful mood. Able to sense the emotions of others. Good at calming people down and ending situations peacefully. Emotionally damaged. Found killing the only way for survival. 
Married. Somewhat on the fringe of her adopted family due to her insecurity about her self-control, and warlike upbringing. 
== Biography ==
Stood by her father until she was able to prove his misdeeds herself. Maternal half-sister. Edgy outsider from her family, found herself drifting back into the troubled lives of her family. Her mother paid more attention to her younger brother and so the siblings did not grow up to be close. Takes a coworker to the hospital. Worked hard to be able to pay for a friend's surgery. Texan. Major in the army. 
== Physical Appearance ==
Her skin is absolutely covered in scars. She is an attractive young woman, with a rugged look, muscular but lean. She stands at around 5'11" or 6'3", with pale skin, and dark shadows under her eyes. She usually has a stance exuding the barely contained violence of an angry lion. She is handsome with inhuman beautiful, with sharp and angular features, with her cheekbones being especially angular. She has tousled curling dark honey blonde hair that falls just above her collar. She is tall and slender, with a watchful expression. She looks like she is in pain. She has large bright and blazing eyes. She has pale marble-like skin or tan-ish skin. She has brown/blue eyes. She has green eyes and brown hair. She wears baggy-ish jeans, sneakers or boots, a leather jacket, and a t-shirt. The scars are on her body, face, neck, and jaw.
She is 5'3", 122 lbs, with an hourglass figure. She has a curly dark red bob, pale skin, a slightly upturned nose, and green almond-shaped eyes. She wears smoky eye makeup, and wears black pants, a short leather jacket, and crew-neck tight short-sleeved shirts, and tall boots. She is very fit, with a delicate chin, arched eyebrows, and prominent cheekbones and a lean jaw.
== Personality ==
Confident. Arrogant. Short-tempered. Loyal ally. Sharp-witted. Sarcastic, especially when uncomfortable or anxious. Confident when comfortable, such as black markets. Persuasive, observant, picking out details easily, to study people so that she can figure out whether they can be tricked, what they are about, and what makes the person tick. Unconsciously eager to please. She attempts to live up to the ideals of those around her. Kleptomaniac. Restless. Does not like feeling trapped. Puts the needs of others before her own. Cares a great deal about her younger half-brother. Under the guise of being tough, she is a nice person. Lost soul. Very kind, polite, gallant, and simple a good person. Sometimes seems cold. Very militaristic mindset.
== Relationships ==
=== Reputation ===
=== Spouse ===
Her husband is her true love. She met him after a long depression. She was taken aback by him knowing her, and apologizes sheepishly when he teases her. For the first time in a long time, she felt hope. They fell in love and he helps her regulate her bloodlust. Her connection to her husband is quite remarkable, as meeting him completely changed her way of life. Whenever they were together, she would be filled with powerful happiness. Very protective nature towards her husband. It is obvious that she is in love with him and would do anything for him. Not as flamboyant about their relationship as others. Very committed and protective of each other. They have a special, somewhat private relationship, and were never fully complete before they met each other. They have a distinctly understanding love.
== Skills & Abilities ==
The best fighter, second fastest and second strongest. A fierce fighter and difficult to defeat. Power and speed and death rolled into one.
== Quotes ==
== Trivia ==
Likes rocky road ice cream. Fiendish sweet tooth, likes pain au chocolat and candied moonflowers.
Believes that only the living know victory. Thinks magic spoils everything it touches. 
* (About "evil" magisters) "I have no doubt that some are good and noble men, strong enough to resist temptation. But how many temptations do you wish to offer a man before he will give in?"
* (To Merrill's defense of demons) "'Ignore the tiger. Not its fault that it's going to eat you.' Sound advice."
* (To Anders questioning origin of the Darkspawn) "Is it so hard for you to believe the magisters would be arrogant enough to challenge the Maker? You need to meet more magisters."
* "Am I supposed to forgive, no matter how many times they hunt me down? Am I supposed to forget all the things they've done to me?"
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* Orana: Everything was fine until today!
* Fenris: It wasn't. You just didn't know any better.
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* Hates fish but likes apples. Never yells during combat. Has a soft spot for dogs. She plays cards regularly, hosting a weekly game at her home. Gets into a friends with benefits relationship. She names her hpets something functional and cute, the functional part so she can pretend not to care.
* Is a former slave and thus never learned how to read.
She is kind to innocents, especially elves and slaves, dislikes mages, and is ruthless to slavers, she dislikes being coddled when taking about her problems, preferring to be understood.
== Romance ==
Fenris can be romanced by either a male or female Hawke. Due to his strong aversion to mages and blood magic, a Hawke looking to fulfill a friendly romance with Fenris must either follow his views on magic, or leave him behind on missions where the player will be siding with or aiding mages. If the player would like to pursue the rival romance, it doesn't matter if Hawke clashes with Fenris. In spite of his opinion of mages, Fenris will be no less attracted to a mage Hawke.
When her future husband said he would help her, she gave him a pleasantly surprised genuine smile.
Fenris is waiting for Hawke in Hawke's mansion after killing Hadriana during the quest A Bitter Pill. He apologizes for leaving and follows up with a dialogue that leads to the option of letting/asking him to stay. If the Questioning Beliefs quest has not been completed, inviting him to stay will result in him saying that it's best for both of you if he leaves. If the Questioning Beliefs quest has been completed and the flirt option is chosen, they kiss and the scene dims to Hawke's room. If he will not stay and Hawke completes Questioning Beliefs after that or if the flirt option is not chosen, once Hawke leaves and returns to the mansion, Fenris will be there waiting again to initiate a romance scene.
Fenris always leaves after the romance scene. He tells Hawke that during their night together, he experienced flashbacks to his life before lyrium was burnt into him. He sorrowfully claims that he is in no place to be with someone else (or that all he wanted was to be happy for a little while). If the player has romanced him successfully, he will be wearing a red band around his wrist and the Hawke/Amell crest on his belt.
She appeared at her lover's home to comfort him, acknowledging that he needs her. Her love defended her, but as she lamented that she was now definitely alone, he told her that she has him.
In a Rivalry romance, Fenris will be pacing in front of his fireplace restlessly when Hawke enters the room. After angry words about his revenge "tasting like ashes", he will ask Hawke what he should do next, and after that ask for Hawke's forgiveness for ending the relationship in Act 2. Hawke has the option to forgive him, thus continuing the romance.
In a Friendship romance, Aveline and Varric will be there if you haven't spoken to Isabela yet, if not she will be there, trying to convince Fenris to find a better place to live. However, unlike Merrill and Anders, Fenris does not have the option of moving into the Hawke manor. Hawke can console Fenris at this point, and the option to state that he/she does not care what Fenris does as long as he is by their side will be available. Like in the Rivalry romance, he will apologize for walking out on the relationship in Act 2, and the option to forgive him is available.
She worries over her lover's safety when he was captured, and grew irritated when he flirted with another. She got lost in a dungeon trying to rescue him and was fatalistic. She was eager to get rid of her love's pursuers, and awkwardly thanked him for letting her come along to help. An elven warrior. Fugitive escaped slave. Extremely distrustful of mages as she thinks they will do anything for power. More than happy to help her fellow slaves. Bisexual. Averse to being touched as it causes her pain. Lost all her memories. Hunted by her former masters. Enjoys killing slavers.
She cursed her father for his idiot ambition as he lost everything for them. Thinks what her father did should not harm her entire family. Those of her family are left are pariahs now. She likes people that console her and tell her it is not her fault her family name was dishonored, and those that are open-minded. Has little interest in ruling and preferred the life of being a wandering knight. When she was young, she idolized her father and grew up hearing stories of his heroic exploits. She took great pride in her family's noble history, and spent many hours in the trophy room as a child, fantasizing about the day when she would be big enough to wear her great-grandparent's armor, or strong enough to wield her father's swords. Over the years her relationship with her parents worsened, and the trophy room became a refuge where she could escape from her miserable life.
When Nathaniel was in his early 20's, Rendon decided to send Nathaniel away to be trained in the arts of war. In a rare turn, Rendon actually agreed with his wife when she suggested Nathaniel be squired under Ser Rodolphe Varley, who was her cousin. A trained chevalier, Ser Rodolphe was often seen at the court of the ruling Vael family of Starkhaven. Nathaniel argued vehemently against this decision, wishing to stay at his father's side like his younger brother, Thomas—whom Nathaniel suspected Rendon favored. His arguments were futile, however, and he spent the next 8 years in the Free Marches, serving under Ser Rodolphe.
Ser Rodolphe was a harsh taskmaster with a serious demeanor, who had no tolerance for laziness or mischief. Nathaniel quickly learned that any jokes about his master must be said well out of earshot. Ser Rodolphe's manner caused this to be a dull time for Nathaniel, with little chance for levity or fun. Nathaniel's training as a squire consisted of daily drills, chores, and history and military lessons, which he found extremely boring. Despite Ser Rodolphe's great disapproval, Nathaniel also took up archery, learning the discipline from one of Ser Rodolphe's watchmen. Nathaniel found a much-needed reprieve in archery, and practiced daily.
Two years after becoming a squire, Nathaniel accompanied Ser Rodolphe to Tantervale to attend the Grand Tourney. It was an elaborate event that Nathaniel had only ever read about. The city was bedecked in blue and gold, and the finely dressed people danced and sang in the streets. Nathaniel joined in the grand melee at Ser Rodolphe's request, joining over a hundred warriors in battle against each other. Nathaniel did quite well, managing to beat several knights before being defeated. Though he was disappointed with his performance, Ser Rodolphe was greatly pleased and awarded Nathaniel with a purseful of gold. He promptly spent almost all of it on ales and cake, saving just enough money for a replica of Hessarian's Sword of Mercy and a tiny wind-up toy bronto that played music.
In the years that Nathaniel spent serving Ser Rodolphe, Nathaniel came to love the Free Marches and its people. Had it not been for the events of the Fifth Blight, he likely would have stayed there indefinitely. News of his father's murder at the hands of the Grey Wardens reached him in Kirkwall, and although the details were vague, the story was clear: Grey Wardens had broken into the Howe family estate and slaughtered Rendon Howe for his treachery, and Vigil's Keep had been seized by the crown and granted to his father's murderers.
Around 5'9". Sandy brown hair. She has always been inquisitive. She has a habit of being frustrated when answers are kept from her. She began as timid and somewhat aloof but steadily grew bolder and more sociable. She does not give up on anyone and would rather rush back to help them than leave her friends behind. Curious. Quick-thinker. Able to solve puzzles and problems, and improvise her way out of sticky situations. She can talk her way out of danger. Natural leader. People have a tendency to listen and follow her and do as she says, despite how young she is. Charismatic. She wants to do the right thing and cares very much about all the friends she makes, sometimes more than she realizes. Compassionate and empathetic.
* Determination: This can also be read as a weakness, as stubbornness can often get people into trouble and Thomas is definitely not exempt from this, but his determination gets him through a lot. He's willing to do things he is reluctant to, even things that downright terrify him, for the sake of his friends, and if he feels that it's the right thing to do. For example, he runs out into the Maze just as the doors are about to close, even though he knows how dangerous it is, and he does it because he recognizes that Minho and Alby need his help. From the Maze to the Scorch to WCKD and Denver and beyond, his determination to survive and help his friends do the same keeps him alive and sane through some pretty horrible and life-threatening situations. Thomas was able to remember everything about his life of childhood, his parents, being taken in by WCKD, and working for them through dreams which were fragments of his memories regrowing back slowly due to the device known as the Swipe that WCKD had implanted in his mind. His determination also aids his physical strength to be at peak human potential, allowing him to throw/exert immense force capable of breaking through harden objects with minimum effort and without the need of any assistance. In Death Cure film, when Teresa was being held at gunpoint by Janson, Thomas, even with his injury of being shot, was able to use all of his willpower to throw a microscope towards the containment chamber hard enough to shatter apart and allow the two Cranks held inside of it to break out and kill Janson which saved Thomas and Teresa.
* Due to living in hard environments and being on a healthy diet, she has peak human strength, speed, durability, and metabolism.
** Peak Human Strength: Thomas is shown to be an athletically strong muscular boy both physically and mentally. His muscles are able to lift opponents who roughly weights more pounds above his own height and size, in the Maze Runner film, when going in a match against Gally, he pushed him to the ground while being dragged by him. During the Scorch Trials film, he kicked a Crank several feet from his position down an escalator and caused another to fall off from a platform, saving Newt, then after outrunning a group of Cranks in a broken building with Brenda, Thomas attempted to rescue her from a Crank trying to kill her by pulling out a rebar and using it to break the glass window with ease causing the Crank to fall several stories to the surface, and Thomas held Brenda in his arms saving her from falling. In the Death Cure film, in rage over Gally having survived being impaled in the chest with a spear by Minho, Thomas punched him in the left side of the face with ease and would have beaten him to death if not for Newt intervening. Newt, almost becoming a Crank, used his knife to try to stab Thomas, but he managed to keep it off with his grip strength before it could cut deeper into his chest, then when Teresa was knocked down by Janson, Thomas, in rage, ran towards him, to pick him up off his feet through glass to the floor, and threw punches strong enough to have blown him up against the wall causing him a brief concussion.
** Peak Human Speed: Thomas was shown to be able to run with above average speed faster throughout the Maze Runner trilogy. In the Maze Runner film, when Minho was carrying Alby, who was stung by a Griever, Thomas sprinted his way into the Maze as the doors began closing in on him and makes it through. On the night inside of the Maze, Thomas, who was being chased by the Griever, jumps towards the edge of the wall onto the vines, then leads the Griever to a trap where the wall nearly closes on him, but he made it back alive into the Glade the next morning along with Minho and Alby, and the other Gladers watched and came over to support and comfort them. The next day, Thomas goes back into the Maze with Minho to find the way out but as the section changed, they ran back to the Glade through deadly obstacle courses and avoided being crushed or trapped just in time. In the Scorch Trials film, when Thomas and the others escape from the WCKD compound, Janson contacted the security to shut the main vault door, but just as it started to close, Thomas was able to slide under it before it did, then outside of the Scorch, he was able to outrun a group of Cranks. When following Brenda to head for the exit of the warehouse, the WCKD soldiers chased after Thomas and her, but Thomas walked on the edge of a reel quickly with great balance and made it through. Then in the Death Cure film, when Thomas and his group arrive near the gate of the WCKD base headquarters known as the Last City, Janson had ordered the guards to activate the remote gun turrets and fire them at everyone in sight, but Thomas was able to run with his group to move towards a safe corner surviving from the shootout where Gally and his Crank crew rescue and take them to a hideout. Then in a deleted scene, Thomas outran a speeding train in the tunnels with Newt and Gally just in time to make it to the secret entrance of the city.
** Peak Human Reflexes: At the age of 16, Thomas' reaction speed is at the peak potential granting him greater reflexes over many incoming attacks around him. In the Maze Runner film, when a Griever got caught in vines, it pulled out its stinger which almost impaled Thomas, but he moved his head away, then in the Scorch Trials film, after Thomas and Brenda jumped down to the basement after the warehouse exploded, he saw rubble pieces about to fall on them, but he and Brenda got out of the area just in time. In the Death Cure film, when Newt was changing into a Crank, he brought out his combat knife to use against Thomas, however, he was able to manoeuvre his body from all strikes which didn't cut him, and upon getting into a duel with Janson, he had dared Thomas to take another strike on him, and Thomas' body's quickness was incredible that he performed fast enough paste to get back up and hit Janson across the face.
** Peak Human Durability: Thomas's mind and determination had been shown to possess a remarkable resilience for his pain tolerance to allow his muscles and bones to withstand worst hits and great impacts without giving out any signs of weakening towards his agendas. In the Maze Runner film, when Gally, in rage, stormed up to Thomas, he punched him in the left side of the face, but he got back up stabled with a bruise. In the Scorch Trials film, Thomas attacks Barkley by headbutting him in the face, hits a WCKD soldier who was wearing a helmet in the face with his elbow and has even taken punches in the stomach and right side of the face from Janson, but he still showed no complaint to neither one. In the Death Cure film, when escaping from the WCKD building with both his friends Newt and Minho, Thomas and them attempted to jump out of the window of the 20th floor from Janson and his armed men, they immediately leaped off the floor and landed safely in a pool feeling no limps or cripples. When defending himself against infected Newt, he was slightly punctured in the shoulder but was still able to move his arm, then after getting in a fight against Janson, Thomas gets punched in the face and kneed in the stomach, but gets back up and punches him back, and is then shot through the right side of his lower back. But he was durable enough to carry his own weight before the need of having support from Teresa to carry him up the rooftop.
** Peak human immunity system.
* Peak Human Thievery: During the Scorch Trials film, Thomas was very professional at stealing valuable items without getting caught, he drew attention to himself after Janson's announcement for the selected subjects who were called up to the restricted door. Once Thomas approached it, the security guards ordered him to return to his seat, but he ended up attempting to forcibly sprint pass them, but was pushed and held back by his friends, then Janson ordered to have them taken to their room. Upon their escort, the others question Thomas if he thought they were going to let him through, but Thomas reveals he snatched one of the security guard's keycard ID to grant him access to the door with Aris Jones.
** Stealth Mastery: Thomas was proficient in using stealth tactics to infiltrate high secured facilities without giving notices of his appearance or attacks and successfully had the advantage of blending in. As shown in the Death Cure film, when going into the Last City's headquarters, Thomas was disguised in a WCKD uniform armed with the same equipment and was able to walk through the front entrance and passed many WCKD guards to meet up with Teresa, Newt, and Gally with ease. Then when sabotaging the WCKD security system, he makes his way to the room the Immune children were being held in, and once the door opened, Thomas, Newt, and Gally start shooting every single one of the guards before freeing the children from their prison cells.
* Peak Human Accuracy & Weapon Proficiency: Thomas was shown to know his way in being proficient at using spears, explosives, and projectile weaponry with great feats and benefits in far to close ranged combat. In the Scorch Trials film, he grabbed a Kel-Tec KSG (Launcher) and shot an incoming guard down to the floor stunned, and then aimed off scope to fire the last few rounds of the ammo left directly at Janson but misses. In the Death Cure film, Thomas honed his aiming skills with excellent accuracy as shown when using the P226 pistol at far range distances while being on the train fending off against the WCKD soldiers in the Scorch. He managed to shoot one soldier through the left side to his heart killing him and shot two others in the right side of one’s shoulder and another on the left while standing on the platform of the cargo container leaving him wounded while being carried by the Berg. Then while infiltrating the WCKD lab in disguise, Thomas shoots many enemies with a Launcher tasing them to their knees, and before taking cover with Newt, he used some of the ammo he had left in his pistol to fire at a couple more of the guards in the heart and the next in the neck killing both personnels. When wounded from Janson's firearm, Thomas used all his full strength to aim a microscope at the containment cell holding the two Cranks, causing them to break free and attack Janson saving both himself and Teresa.
** Skilled with using a spear in combat. Incredibly skilled with using lethal explosive bombs and grenades as well as preventing them going off while carrying it.
** Martial Artist: Thomas seemed to possess defensive skills in brawling. In the Maze Runner film, he was able to shove Gally to the ground and push a Griever down off the edge with some assistance from his friends along with another swarm approaching them, In the Scorch Trials film, when a Crank comes in front of Thomas, he kicked it off the escalator to the ground on its back, then kicks another one off his friend Newt and causes it to fall below the platform, then when being held at gunpoint by Barkley, Thomas held the gun away from him and headbutted his face which caused him to back away with a brief concussion while bleeding through the nose. Then when WCKD ambushed the Right Arm headquarters and started loading up all the immunes, he hit the WCKD soldier behind him with his elbow. In the Death Cure graphic novel, Thomas has been alongside of the Right Arm who are heavily trained in CQC which assumes that he learned some proficient skills of Defendu from them, it was first shown in the novel when silently intruding a WICKED warehouse, he used his knee to kick a fully armed WCKD soldier in his stomach with support from Newt tripping him over. Then six months later in the film, Thomas demonstrated Jujutsu, when Newt was infected by the Flare and tried to attack Thomas with his combat knife, however, Thomas was able to use dodge and counter techniques deflecting from every strike swung from him. Then when Janson, in rage, attempted to take the serum from Teresa, Thomas, with effort, charged towards him and started a duel against him. After he was punched by Janson, he used techniques of boxing on him by punching him back twice, Janson puts Thomas in a chokehold, but Thomas managed to lean Janson to the back of the wall escaping the choke, then gets back up quickly striking him in the right and left side of his face and gut using heavy blows of brute strength with hooks and one bolo-punch.
** Has a sharp sense of perception and sixth sense. Able to sense danger and when something was wrong or wasn't in place. Can tell when people are who they say they are and when people are enemies or keeping information from her. Able to hear incoming aircrafts and hide before being spotted. 
She felt like she needed to save everyone to redeem herself. She did not panic, whine or cry, and never seemed scared, despite being in a scary and confusing situation just a few days. Just a few days after arriving, she went out into a dangerous area to save two people she hardly knew. Incredible willpower and strength. When she saw someone give up on another, leaving them for dead, she questioned it, despite them being a veteran with more experience and knowledge. Despite being warned with frightening tales, she went out into a dangerous are that is even more deadly at night, only caring that two people needed help.
Aggressive. Manipulative. Deceitful. Black sense of humor. Strong religious faith. Spent two years on an undercover mission. Considered herself the best and most loyal of followers.
Ruby insisted that she was different from other demons in the sense that she remembered being human although she wished she didn't, and that these feelings compelled her to want to defend humanity; Lucifer Rising revealed that at least part of this was a lie but whether or not she did remember some part of her life as a human is unknown. Notably, she did not tell the Winchesters that she had once been human right away. Astaroth implied that Ruby did not want the brothers to know because she was "embarrassed," and Ruby did seem upset afterwards, though she quickly recovered. Once her origins were exposed, she began using her former humanity in her favor to paint herself as a demon who remembered and embraced her past.
Although Ruby sought to earn the Winchesters' trust by helping them and saving their lives if necessary, she did not always present herself as an accommodating ally. She frequently insulted or belittled the brothers, particularly Dean (requiring Sam to mediate between them). This came to a head in No Rest for the Wicked: when Dean tricked her into a devil's trap and stole her knife, she finally lost her temper and screamed that she wished she could see him being tortured in Hell. Ruby confessed that she lived "back when the Plague was big" and that after being in Hell was not able to remember who you used to be. She was also impatient and ill-tempered when her suggestions were not used, as seen when she simply left the brothers to fend for themselves against an onslaught of demons when they refused her plan.
After returning from Hell in Season 4, and reappearing in a different body, Ruby's personality seemed to change. Less sassy and overtly bad-ass, she seemed more to work in the background behind Sam and actively manipulate him from there. She also appeared to grow fond of Sam, seducing him and eventually having sex with him to distract him from the grief he felt for Dean's first death, showing that Ruby has a sexual side to her and much like other female demons, enjoys having sex. Even to the point that Sam cutting her to drink her blood turns her on. When the depths of her betrayal was revealed in "Lucifer Rising", she tried to comfort and reassure him with promises that he had done the right thing, even when she no longer needed to pretend she was on his side (though this may have been to ensure that he said 'yes' as Sam would cease to exist if he were to be possessed by Lucifer). She was so certain of her control over Sam that she is shown to be shocked when he held her in place so Dean could kill her.
Ruby feared angels because she believed that they would smite her in an instant; upon learning that an angel had saved Dean from Hell, she spent less time around Sam because she didn't want to risk encountering Castiel. She was also unsettled by Castiel and Uriel's presence in I Know What You Did Last Summer and the revelation that Anna Milton was an angel in Heaven and Hell. However, Ruby was even more frightened of Alastair, who called her "a devious, cowardly little slut". Regardless, she proved herself to be quite committed to her cause; she risked (and eventually lost) her life by allying with hunters who doubted her motives and were often willing to kill her, she made herself an outcast to be hunted by her own kind, and confronted both angels and Alastair multiple times despite her fears of them, even allowing herself to be captured and tortured by Alastair in Heaven and Hell for Sam's plan.
Following her death, Ruby is shown to retain much of the same personality and displays what appears to be a genuine fondness for Sam though this may also have been an attempt at manipulation. Stuck in the Empty where she, along with all demons and angels, relives their regrets over and over for eternity, Ruby is desperate to get out, but also somewhat more agreeable than she was in life. In return for the location of the Occultum, Ruby simply requests that Castiel promise to try to get her out rather than force him to do so and then give up the location once she is alive again. Ruby insists that he can trust her to keep her word if he does the same, though she fails to tell Castiel that she left hellhounds to guard the abandoned church.
Black pants, leather boots, red or black leather jacket with a thin top. Tightened her hold by being useful and 'helping', addicting him and being there through his grief.
Abundance of grim stories. Was a cobbler, but joined a legion as a lieutenant to pay off her father's debts. Her organization keeps the enemy out of her city, and they are very good at it. Veteran during a large war, but she waves of the notion, since she was a new recruit and never met the hero personally, though she maintains a healthy respect for their order, saying they are a good bunch, fearless, and good to have in a fight. Reputed to be one of the Legion's finest commanders. Three years ago she was tasked with protecting a scholar in search of relics, and the two developed a mutual affinity, though she was skeptical of her theories. When the food riots started in the city, the scholar made sure her mother and brother were safe. 
She's a girly girl in appearance. Discarded woman. Bitter. She has a certain kind of attitude, an alertness, an awareness of what's going on. She has a dancer's figure, red hair, and green eyes. She has both an emotional and intellectual component to her personality. Her personality makes her a heroic character, as she doesn't always like what she's doing but does it anyway because it's right. She has emotional baggage from her past. She also has a desire for people she can trust, even though she has a hard time connecting with others. She is definitely willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done, and let the chips fall where they may. Her loyalty and desire for justice remained. Warrior spirit. She was taken by the enemy leader when she was very young and trained to be his servant.
Just as her personality was diverse, so were the talents that Mara Jade Skywalker utilized throughout her colored career. She was known to be a skilled slicer, breaking into secure files with relative ease, though she was not on the same level as Zakarisz Ghent. During Grand Admiral Thrawn's campaign against the New Republic, Talon Karrde was captured by Imperial forces, and Jade Skywalker took it upon herself to rescue the smuggler leader. Jade Skywalker was able to sneak aboard Thrawn's ship, Chimaera, and used her slicing abilities to hack the Star Destroyer's computer, eventually reaching the detention block and freeing Karrde. Jade Skywalker was also a skilled user of multiple types of weaponry, including blaster pistols and rifles, melee weapons, and heavy weapons. She often used blaster pistols, including a small hold-out blaster, which she carried in a sleeve holster. She was well trained in unarmed combat, and was also a skilled tactician who could quickly analyze a situation for dangers and traps and then formulate a means to secure her objectives. Jade was also capable of rewiring electronic devices with some proficiency.
During her life, she became an experienced pilot who flew a variety of ships in a number of situations. 
During her time as an Emperor's Hand, Jade Skywalker became skilled in the arts of disguise and infiltration. In 0.5 ABY, she used her skills of disguise to infiltrate the court of Moff Glovstoak, posing as Countess Claria. During that mission she discovered that Glovstoak had been skimming the top off tax returns to the Imperial Center. She managed to sneak through Glovstoak's palace and found that he was in possession of six stolen paintings which were worth millions of credits, and the Emperor was provided with the proof he required of the Moff's treason, summarily disposing of Glovstoak. After the destruction of the first Death Star, she employed her spy abilities against Darth Vader, recording his actions and delivering reports to the Emperor. In the months prior to the Emperor's Palpatine's death, Jade Skywalker was sent to Tatooine in an effort to infiltrate Jabba's Palace. She disguised herself as the dancing girl Arica, and set her plans in motion while she awaited the arrival of Skywalker.
Following the death of the Emperor, Jade Skywalker found herself on the run from Director Ysanne Isard; however, she managed to escape, disguising herself as a refugee. During her days as a smuggler, Jade Skywalker often employed her spy abilities for Talon Karrde—she participated in a mission for Karrde to track down Jorj Car'das, where she maximized her infiltration skills to complement her spy abilities. Jade Skywalker's colored life reinforced the skills she needed to be a successful spy. During the outbreak of the Confederation-Galactic Alliance War, Jade Skywalker's son Ben would brag about her abilities as a spy to Jedi Knight Nelani Dinn. During the Confederation-Galactic Alliance war of 40 ABY, she used her talents as a spy to track and watch Jacen, eventually following him to Hapes, where he was visiting his lover Tenel Ka and his daughter Allana.Beginning with her training under Emperor Palpatine, and culminating with her ascension to Jedi Master, Jade Skywalker continually proved her reputation as an accomplished lightsaber duelist. During the Thrawn campaign, Jade Skywalker and her future husband encountered the crazed Jedi-clone Joruus C'baoth and the dark clone of Skywalker. While being strengthened by Skywalker through the Force, she was able to defeat the clone, Luuke, and then confronted C'baoth. She dodged a bolt of Force lightning that C'baoth threw at her, and managed to stab him through his chest with her lightsaber. During the Yuuzhan Vong war, the Skywalkers traveled to the ExGal-4 outpost on Belkadan and began an investigation into what had occurred there. During their search, she was confronted by the Yuuzhan Vong spy Yomin Carr, and the two proceeded to engage in a violent duel. Jade Skywalker was evenly matched in skill by the Yuuzhan Vong warrior, who fought with a viciousness she had rarely encountered—she was startled by her opponent's lack of presence in the Force, his seemingly impenetrable armor, and his strange weapon which could resist a lightsaber's blade. However, she was able to defeat Carr by slicing both of his legs off at the knee and stabbing him through the chest.
She was known to use the Ataru form. As the war progressed, she began to worry about the safety of her son, and decided to hunt down his enemy and finish her off for good. 
After years of training and battle, Mara Jade Skywalker's skills with manipulating the Force were well developed. Even Skywalker relied on his wife's danger sense more than his own, since Jade Skywalker had required it to survive as an Imperial agent. Her keen danger sense provided her warning of imminent danger and saved her life on numerous occasions. As the Emperor's Hand, she was able to hear Palpatine's voice through the Force—and just before her marriage to Skywalker, she discovered that they had gained a similar telepathic ability. By the time of her ascension to Jedi Master, Jade Skywalker had became a powerful member of the New Jedi Order. During the Yuuzhan Vong War, she successfully used the Force to keep her disease from attacking Ben inside her womb. She was able to imbue her weapons with the Force to increase her accuracy and damage. By the time of the Second Galactic Civil War, Jade Skywalker's talents as a Jedi Master had progressed and she was able to levitate herself across an open area on a bubble of Force energy while keeping the air around her stilled and her heat emissions minimal to avoid setting off any sensors.
She was adept in immediately reading and assessing any situation or individual. She was also talented enough to secure a number of odd jobs while on the run, including as a mechanic.
== Personality and traits ==
: "Sometimes I think you can be spooky just singing nursery songs."
: ―Elassar Targon to Mara Jade Skywalker
Mara Jade Skywalker was an extremely proud woman, who always gave her best at everything that she did—that could be seen in her time as an Emperor's Hand. During her investigation of Moff Glovstoak, she showed efficiency and skill in bringing down the corrupt Imperial. However, she did not let Glovstoak's fall, or the Emperor's approval, end her mission—she continued by delving deeper into the conspiracy, eventually following the clues directly to their source. She refused to serve the warlords who seized power after the Emperor died, feeling that they were beneath her.
Additionally, Jade Skywalker was also extremely devoted, serving what she viewed as Palpatine's will even after his death. She would later display loyalty to Talon Karrde and his organization even at the cost of total alienation from the Empire, and was furious that Thrawn forced her to betray Karrde. She later displayed the same commitment to her husband, Luke Skywalker, and her son, Ben Skywalker, even at one point refusing to participate in the defense of Borleias in order to protect Ben.
Due to her upbringing under Darth Sidious, and also to the training she received from the Sith Lord, Mara Jade Skywalker learned how to maintain a calm and collected composure in almost every situation. During the First Corellian Insurrection, and though she harbored a vendetta against Luke Skywalker, she was able to prioritize the severity of the situation and place her differences with Skywalker aside—she proceeded to warn Leia and the Senate about the recently uncovered plot to destroy the New Republic. During her brief tutelage under Kyle Katarn, Jade was forced to face Katarn in an ancient Temple when he fell to the dark side. While he was fully engaged in the dark powers of the temple, Jade was forced to defend against Katarn's attacks, managing to fend him off each time. Eventually, Katarn and Jade found themselves deep inside the catacombs of the temple, and Jade voluntarily turned off her lightsaber and surrendered, maintaining her calm composure as she realized she could no longer fight her one-time friend. Due to Jade's self-control, Katarn was eventually redeemed and brought back to the light.
Even though Jade exuded a toughened exterior, she was a warm and compassionate individual. Even as an Imperial assassin, Jade had a merciful side, particularly when it came to serving the greater good. She allowed the rogue stormtrooper unit Hand of Judgment to survive after seeing they were good men and after they aided her on one of her missions. She also allowed Governor Bidor Ferrouz to survive despite admitting to treason, since he had been forced to collaborate with the Rebel Alliance to save his kidnapped family. Jade was willing to make allowances using her official position in order to save the lives and careers of people she thought were good, though she had no qualms about using people as tools on her missions.
Through her love and marriage to Luke Skywalker, Jade Skywalker realized that her life of constant conflict had not provided her with everything she needed. However, through her experiences and relationship with Skywalker, she came to acknowledge her love for him and understand what his companionship offered her life—she realized that it was acceptable to let him past her defenses. A small way in which she showed Skywalker her love for him was through the playful nickname which she constantly called him—Farmboy. Jade Skywalker's love and compassion also manifested when she gave birth to her son Ben during the Yuuzhan Vong War. The war caused Jade Skywalker to develop a strong, and somewhat overprotective, demeanor towards Ben, constantly fearing that the war would find him and take him away from her and her husband. After watching the devastation that Anakin's death caused Leia, Jade Skywalker had no wish to experience that type of emotional pain. Later, during the Second Galactic Civil War, Jade Skywalker's love and protectiveness of her son was still evident. She was constantly worrying over Ben and his actions within the GAG, and even up until her death, her love for her husband and Ben was present in her mind.
Deeply damaged and conflicted. A survivor, used to being a loner, a sucker for the underdog. Against her better judgment, she will compromise herself to fight for what is right and to help those in need. She is strong and aggressive, but her brokenness and emotions are not buried far beneath her tough exterior. Her first reaction to most things is anger, but she has spent her life trying to manage her temper. She is rash and calculated. She does not believe she is capable of mothering. A very beautiful woman with wavy blonde hair and hazel olive eyes. Pale skin. Black tank top, red leather jacket, blue jeans, boots. She is a list of contrasting qualities. She is hard and soft, intense and easy going, strong and vulnerable, safe and dangerous, logical and impulsive. She used to be mistrustful. She does not like being lied to. Is enraged and hurt when her loved ones refuse to take responsibility for their actions, and try to justify doing bad things to others believing it is for her benefit, and she becomes cold towards them, though she is a forgiving person.
As a child she was lively and optimistic. Wished to be a dancer. Loved and was loved by her family unconditionally. A fighter. Ballet as a child. Skilled in theft, especially pick-pocketing. Clever. Excellent investigator. After the death of her father, her life crumbled apart for her and her mother, with her mother turning to drugs to cope with the aftermath and financial trouble. Aleyn became pessimistic, emotionally distant, and felt that the world owed her for her pain, which is her excuse for stealing. Turned to Xanax and developed an addiction. Became a good liar. Whenever she is faced with a problem, she solves it by running away. Cannot commit to relationship as she looks out mainly for herself. Very vengeful. Takes her frustrations out on the rest of the world by robbing those she thinks deserve it. After the battle, she began to resume a more normal and grounded life, but misses being a hero and finds ways to resume her duties of saving people. Regressed back to a life of petty crime after discovering a dark secret of her father, abandoning her pursuit of avenging him. Became very depressed, and she takes out her frustrations on anyone she meets, including her friends. She eventually snaps out of this state, but the revelation still troubles her. She has no qualms about terrorizing or hurting abusers.
An extremely skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, having trained in the Marine Corps. Her fighting style includes Boxing, Krav-Maga, Jiu-jitsu, Wrestling, Taekwondo, Karate, Kung Fu, Kali, Escrima, and Muay Thai. Fluent in Arabic. Highly intelligent. Specialized in spycraft. Great strategist. Able to formulate different plans to assassinate her targets, infiltrate different locations, and escape from her enemies. Global mercenary. Highly skilled assassin. Secret agent. Highly skilled in parkour and freerunning. Fractured and broken mind. Master marksman. Skilled at using axes in combat and throwing them with great accuracy. Skilled with knives and spears.
Marc Spector used to be an incredibly happy person as a child, who was confident, smart, and not afraid to face his fears. However, over time due to his extreme guilt over his brother's death, the extreme childhood neglect and beatings he used to receive from his mother, Spector started to develop a fractured mind, resulting in him developing dissociative identity disorder. Wanting a happy life, and a happy childhood, Spector developed his alter, Steven Grant, a socially oblivious man who lived a happy life with a loving mom, in order to guard himself against the pain of his life.
Spector eventually managed to get some form of control over the system after moving out of his family's house to become a US Marine as soon as he could. However, despite this, due to his extreme trauma other alters continued to show up at some points of his life, which forced him out of the Marines. He was so ill due to his trauma that it was even acknowledged by the likes of Khonshu, who used his moments of weakness to manipulate him into becoming Moon Knight, the avatar of Khonshu who serves vengeful justice.
Due to the nature of their system, Spector is highly prone to aggression and is internally anguished to the point of being driven to tears after being asked by the gods, about his pain due to the system and Khonshu. As a result of his psychological rifts, Spector became a bitter, rageful, and ultimately lonely person who had developed anger issues over time, as shown when Spector shattered everything around him after Grant started fighting against him. Despite all of his pain he had gone through, Spector is a brave and courageous man who is able to think rationally in high stress situations, as he was able to talk and explain to the panicked Steven what he should do while the latter was being followed by the jackal. Spector has a tendency to be brutal and ruthless with his enemies as he had brutally killed many of Arthur Harrow's men with his hands and weapons, which attributes to him being trained as a mercenary.
As a result of his trauma due to the various events in his life, Spector became a very pessimistic and socially inept man, who always hesitated to communicate his emotions against the world because he always feared the worst out of people, as shown when he was unable to express his feelings of love towards even his own wife Layla. This resulted in him becoming a dishonest person who tried to hide from tough situations, despite having noble intentions. This was demonstrated best when Spector chose to abandon Layla rather than communicating to her about his tough past with his mother, his dissociative disorder, and his situation with Khonshu, in fear of endangering her or hurting her feelings.
Nevertheless, despite all he had gone through, he continued to possess a strong moral code, such as refusing to punch or kill a child who was part of Arthur Harrow's cult, slapping him instead. He does care about the well-being of others such as his wife Layla. Spector displays incredible resilience as he chooses to do the right thing to help others, through continuing to deliver out his justice, regardless of what his actions has given him. Due to having committed extreme acts of violence, under the name of Khonshu's vengeful justice, Spector was deeply pained by the burden that his actions had placed on him, feeling extreme feelings of guilt due to his actions, as shown when he remembered each and every person he was forced to kill as a servant of Khonshu and his vengeance.
Despite managing to gain a form of balance after finding love in the form of his wife, Layla El-Faouly, Spector continued to develop a greater self-hatred over time. When Spector had discovered that his mother, the woman whom he had hated for being abusive to him, had died after years of not talking to her, Spector became absolutely devastated as he blamed himself for causing his mother's pain, falsely blaming himself for his brother's death. His pain grew to be so severe that Spector was unable to stay in control, which brought Grant out, in order to shelter himself from confronting his mother's death's effect on him. Only this time, his self-hatred grew so big that he lost nearly all control over the system, making Steven Grant the host for a while.
Very loyal, has initiative, able to see things that are of a greater importance than herself.
He loved Rose, despite her lack of reciprocation, and remained faithful to her even when she left to pursue a relationship with Jimmy Stone, possessing virtues of patience and forgiveness, and was uncomplaining. (PROSE: Meet Rose [+], Alien landing confirmed [+], etc.) However, after a while, he became conscious to Rose's lack of reciprocation and the fact that even after that he was still loyal to her, which made him feel worthless, so he later claimed to be going out with Trisha Delaney to get at Rose, though they seemed to reconcile (TV: Boom Town [+]) and he accepted that he couldn't keep waiting for her. (PROSE: World Saved. Who Cares? [+]) He was known to be the "heart" of the band No Hot Ashes. (PROSE: Rose [+]) He also had an interest in cars (PROSE: Winner Takes All [+])[additional sources needed] and football. (PROSE: The Doctor's Companions [+])
Despite being greatly shaken after his abduction by the Nestene Consciousness and Rose's departure from the 21st century to travel with the Ninth Doctor, (TV: Rose [+]) he remained hopeful for her safe return, (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+], Rose sighting confirmed [+], etc.) and took it upon himself to prove his innocence in Rose's disappearance, in spite of frustration and fear caused by the false arrests by the police and baseless accusations by Jackie Tyler, Rose's mother. (PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed [+], Alien landing confirmed [+], Mickey's Blog [+], etc.) He also found it to be an "honour" to take on Clive Finch's mantle of proving the truth about the Doctor to the world, as well as embracing the fears that he faced during the "Dummy Massacre" despite everyone else's willingness to forget and move on. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]) He was also shocked by the lack of coverage of the attack in the news. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+], Mickey's Blog [+]) Mickey did, on occasion, begin doubting the evidence, although he always came around. (PROSE: Hoax This! [+])
Mickey speculated the Doctor could've been involved in the Dummy Massacre, (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]) and began resenting him. (TV: Aliens of London [+]) Despite initially believing the Doctor to be exactly as dangerous as Clive described when the Doctor returned in 2006, (PROSE: Alien landing confirmed [+]) he began trusting the Doctor after they stopped the Slitheen from destroying the world. (PROSE: Hoax This! [+], Mickey's Blog [+], etc.) At that point, Mickey showed his bravery, by attempting to hold off a Slitheen to give Jackie time to escape. The Doctor changed his opinion of Mickey and invited him on board, which he declined. (TV: World War Three [+]) Although still unwilling to travel in the TARDIS, Mickey later changed his mind, inviting himself along, unwilling to just be "technical support" (or the tin dog) any more. (TV: School Reunion [+])
However, Mickey didn't consider himself to be brave, (PROSE: Hoax This! [+]) not wanting to make choices that could result in people's deaths (PROSE: Winner Takes All [+]) feeling that, if he did, he would have become a doctor or a soldier; he felt as if he had never been given a choice in being responsible for saving the world, believing that he would've actually refused if given the choice, but since he was already involved he couldn't back away, like any decent person, despite him feeling it was unfair. (PROSE: Winner Takes All [+]) He also didn't want to follow the Doctor's instructions to release a computer virus given to him by the Doctor, as he felt that the Doctor shouldn't make decisions on humanity's behalf. He also didn't consider himself to be strong or even particularly open-minded, but was steadfast in the fact that he wasn't a liar, regarding the information he spread about the Doctor on the Internet. (PROSE: Hoax This! [+])
Mickey's loyalty didn't just extend to his feelings about Rose, (PROSE: Meet Rose [+], etc.) as he was willing to fight a Slitheen with a baseball bat to protect Jackie despite her having made his life Hell following Rose's disappearance, (TV: Aliens of London [+], World War Three [+]) and refused to leave the Doctor, Rose or Pete behind in a cyber-factory that was about to blow up, knowing full well he and Jake would die too if the Doctor, Rose and Pete didn't get to the roof in time and their zeppelin went up along with the factory. (TV: The Age of Steel [+])
At first, Mickey and the Doctor did not get along at all, (TV: Rose [+]) the Doctor constantly teasing him and calling him Ricky, and Mickey in turn resenting the treatment he had received when Rose was away for a year travelling with the Doctor, who showed no guilt or regret for what had happened as a result. (TV: Aliens of London [+]/World War Three [+]) Following the defeat of the Slitheen, a mutual respect began to develop between the two, (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]) and by the time of the battle between the Cult of Skaro and the Cybermen from Pete's World the two were on very good terms. (TV: Doomsday [+])
Mickey held a rigid dislike towards the Ninth Doctor, who was much more aloof and callous towards Mickey than his more sociable successor. While the Ninth Doctor grew to respect Mickey and invite him on board the TARDIS, (TV: World War Three [+]) and briefly bonded over video games, although he quickly resented the Doctor for his better performance of them, (PROSE: Winner Takes All [+]) Mickey believed that the Doctor regenerating improved their relationship, and was upset to learn he summoned the wrong Doctor for help in 2016 San Francisco, even willing to turn down the Ninth Doctor's offer to help. The Doctor, in turn, realised how little Mickey thought of him when Mickey believed the Doctor would think to joke about his wife's transformation into a gargoyle, and earned more of the Ninth Doctor's respect by helping him close the wormhole causing the transformations. (COMIC: The Transformed [+])
Mickey reached a turning point when he met Ricky and witnessed his death at the hands of the Cybermen. Shown a version of himself that was braver, he rose to the challenge. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]/The Age of Steel [+]) He played a crucial part in the Cybermen's defeat and chose to help rid the alternate Earth of their threat. (TV: The Age of Steel [+]) When the Cybermen found a way to cross over to the other Earth, Mickey was the first to pursue them. (TV: Army of Ghosts [+]) When all of reality was threatened, Mickey again crossed Earths, this time with Jackie in tow. They faced Daleks and Mickey held their creator, Davros, at gunpoint. (TV: Journey's End [+]) Choosing to return home, Mickey found love with Martha Jones; they became freelance alien hunters. Far from his shock at the existence of aliens, Mickey now actively pursued dangerous aliens. (TV: The End of Time [+])
== Other information ==
=== Skills ===
Mickey was skilled with computers, once using this talent to save the world from the Slitheen. (TV: World War Three) Mickey once told Jake Simmonds that he was good with computers, and managed to override the control to the earpieces, henceforth saving thousands of lives. (TV: The Age of Steel) He considered himself to be Rose and the Doctor's "technical support", likening himself somewhat reluctantly to being their "tin dog" (referring to K9). (TV: School Reunion) After spending some time on Pete's World fighting the Cybermen, Mickey demonstrated skill at using guns. (TV: Army of Ghosts, Doomsday, Journey's End)
Mickey Smith was a self-dependant resident of a South London housing estate who, for much of his early adult life, was in a one-sided relationship with Rose Tyler. Despite his loyalty to her, she never truly reciprocated his feelings towards him, and she soon began travelling with the Ninth Doctor, leaving Mickey the prime suspect for her year long disappearance. While their interactions were initially terse, with the Doctor thinking little of Mickey and Mickey being suspicious of the Doctor's true motives — taking to the Internet to research the conspiracy theories about the Doctor — he and the Doctor eventually grew close after saving the world together several times, being thrust into this responsibility with little choice. Mickey later came to befriend Sarah Jane Smith, Captain Jack Harkness, Jackie Tyler and another world's Peter Tyler.
After travelling with the Tenth Doctor and Rose, Mickey chose to remain in another world to care after the grandmother of his parallel counterpart after his death at the hands of the Cybusmen. For a while, Mickey and his counterpart's grandmother lived together in the mansion belonging to that world's Tyler family, and Mickey joined the Torchwood Institute, however his counterpart's grandmother eventually passed peacefully. After several years, he was able to return to his home universe, where he stayed and eventually married Martha Jones and became "freelance" alien fighters together.
When she was five years old, her mother committed suicide. Her father stayed around for a while then wandered off. She grew up with her grandmother. Began dating her boyfriend when she was 16, though he thought it was nothing special, his mother was delighted. Played bass guitar for a local band. Five months after he dumped her and ran off with another girl, she was still waiting. She was unimpressed with his choice. Was the heart and leader of the band.
By age eighteen, (PROSE: Rose [+]) in late 2002, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]) he got a flat, 90 Powell Tower, though Rita-Anne told him that he was "a pain and a nuisance and she wanted him out." The first thing Mickey did when he got his flat was make sure his friends were welcome inside. (PROSE: Rose [+]) Rita-Anne was described by Rose Tyler as having "brought up" Mickey until her death. She died after tripping and falling over a tear in the stair carpet, which Mickey never got round to fixing; this left him with feelings of guilt. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]) Over three-hundred people attended Rita-Anne's funeral, and Waterton Street was closed off for the night, where people "danced and wept" until 5am. At the end, Mickey was carried on "the crowd's shoulders like a king". (PROSE: Rose [+])
She was still waiting for him, patient and uncomplaining and forgiving.
After the loss of her family, she withdrew into solitude, becoming a dark and ruthless warrior. Left when she sensed the leader could not be trusted. Met a new group, and though she and their leader were initially distrustful of each other, she assimilated into the group, becoming a core member and right-hand woman.
Six years after Rick's assumed death, Michonne is now the adoptive mother of Judith Grimes and mother of R.J. Grimes. She was also the leader of the Alexandria Safe-Zone. After making a deal with Virgil to help him get back to his family on a naval base, Michonne goes on a one-woman mission to bring back to the Coalition much-needed weapons for the battle against the Whisperers. Although the weapon rumors turn out to be false, Michonne discovers evidence of Rick still being alive. After a conversation with her daughter, who convinces her to go, she embarks on a journey north to find the man she loves.
== Overview ==
Michonne is both a tough and a good hearted survivor. She tends to work alone and keeps much of her past secret, even towards Andrea, but possesses a keen sense of intuition. Michonne once said that she "trusts her gut" when it comes to other survivors. After the loss of her boyfriend, she suffered from hallucinations in which she would talk to him. It was revealed that she likes art and/or sculptures as she looted a cat sculpture and claimed that it was "too damn gorgeous" to leave behind. When she first comes to the group she is very quiet. As time goes on, however, she gradually opens up to the group, specifically Rick and Carl, and becomes accepted by the whole group.
Toward the end of the fifth season when the group is presented the offer to join Alexandria, unlike most of the group, Michonne is confident of Aaron's good faith, showing an optimistic attitude contrasting with Rick's irrational distrust. Michonne assures Rick that they can't let that opportunity go if they want to stay sane, and encourages everyone to try and integrate in their new lifestyle, arguing that spending so much time without a sense of safety had nearly stripped the group out of their humanity. As part of this, she decides to "live again" and in response, hangs up her sword on the wall.
When she next goes outside the walls again, for the first time in days, she starts to feel uncomfortable and is internally struggling with the want or need to be on the outside, and at the same time, finds solace the the fact that she did not reach for her sword. When she later sees Rick having his tantrum after beating up Pete, she quickly steps in and knocks him out to avoid the risk of the group being kicked out. Later, Michonne reluctantly agrees with Rick in the fact that Deanna's leadership approach puts the community at risk. After Pete finds her sword and tries to kill Rick with it, ending in Reg's death, Deanna allows Rick to execute Pete, tacitly admitting that killing is necessary in some cases. Due to this, Michonne debates putting the sword back on the wall. She decides to put it on her back again, indicating she's reached a balance between wanting to try and never wanting to forget.
Eventually, Rick decides to confront the tyrannical rule of Negan and The Saviors, resulting in Alexandria's subjugation, Glenn and Abraham's deaths, and Rick's complete loss of confidence and hope. Upon his decision of obeying Negan's abusive rules, Michonne tries to make Rick understand that that kind of life is no life at all, and that they should fight the tyranny to give everyone a better future, showing her optimistic outlook once again. Rick undestands Michonne's vision once Aaron is nearly beaten to death due to a simple misunderstanding with a Savior, making him admit that his judgement was clouded by the guilt, and starting to plan their insurrection against Negan.
Later adopted a more peaceful and democratic way of leadership and tried to unite all the communities and rebuild a civilization for the future.
Six years later after Rick's supposed "death", Michonne has started to be hardened, colder, distrustful and cautious to newcomers, and is distant from other communities, mostly Hilltop. She is extremely suspicious of outsiders such as Magna's group, refusing to let them settle in Alexandria but relenting to take them to the Hilltop at the insistence of Judith. Michonne's attitude towards Magna's group softens overtime and she later tells Daryl that while she started helping them because Judith vouched for the group, Michonne is now willing to vouch for their trustworthiness herself. Due to the events of Jocelyn and her kids, Michonne has become distant from her oldest friends who treat her coldly to the point that Michonne feared what Maggie would do to her if they met again. She also refuses to mend bridges with the other communities in the way that people would like. However, the threat of the Whisperers has helped Michonne begin to reconcile at least somewhat with her friends, expressing her appreciation for Daryl's search for Rick's body and earning her the warm thanks of Tara for Michonne's help with the situation that had erupted. While initially angry at Aaron for his stance of keeping up communication with the other communities, Michonne later apologizes to him for her reaction.
Experienced bitterness and hatred when her loved ones died from being high. Morally broken from her losses, spent her time aimlessly surviving alone, keeping low and avoiding all contact with other people. Middle-class academic family, keen interest in modern art and literature. 
Her only family is her younger sister and her mother. She would do anything to protect her sister, even dying. Her mother is a skilled healer and her sister is her assistant. With the exception of her sister, there is no one she loved more than her father. Her best friend and his family are like family to her, though he loves her romantically. Her father taught her to hunt, swim, and live off the wild, skills that served her well. She inherits a beautiful singing voice from her father. He taught her many songs. But after her father's death, singing reminds her too much of her father so she only does it rarely. The rebellion drove her family apart. Devastated by the death of her sister, the trauma leaving her unable to speak. Her and her boyfriend relied on each other while recuperating from the war and rebuild their relationship. Started a family, got married to him and had two kids. Olive skin. Major Depressive Disorder for a time after the death of her sister. Like the Greek warrior Theseus. Incredible amount of self-assuredness. Knew exactly who she was. Has a certain maturity and power. Can memorize a song after hearing it once or twice. Musical talent. Knowledge of herbs. Good singing voice. Weighs 122 lbs. Likes the color green, and lamb stew with dried plums served on grain. Born May 8th. Like Joan of Arc. Struggles with knowing her heart. Long black hair in a long braid, grey eyes. Small in stature and thin for her age, generally malnourished due to poverty. Due to her outdoor life she is strong for her size. Fierce personality. Not very image-conscious. Scars from years of hunting. Unconsciously projected an image. A lot of boys like her. She wore worn-out clothes with hunting boots, and sometimes wore her father's old hunting coat. She wore her mother's blue dress. She wore a hooded black jacket that fell down to her thighs and reflects body heat, tawny trousers, a sturdy brown belt, and a green button-up shirt. Flowing black pants made of a thick, warm material. A comfortable white shirt. A sweater woven from green and blue and gray strands of kitten-soft wool. Laced leather boots. She wore a plain grey shirt and pants. Black body armor. It had a helmet that can turn into a hood, a chest plate to protect vital organs and had special reinforcements over her heart, short sleeves that reach to her elbows, and white folds under her arms. She had hidden weapons in her boots and belt. She has strong and independent survivalist instincts due to her difficult past and is good at thinking outside the box. She is not socially adept and has a hard time making friends due to the emotional strain on her life which has made her hard and cold. She is more concerned about feeding her family than being social, making her awkward around people. Though she can be rather blunt, misanthropic, sarcastic, bitingly cynical, and cold, she has a very vulnerable side which she only shows around her family, and she has a natural maternal instinct. She is not very good at acting for the camera and comes across best when she is herself. She is usually very logical except for times when her emotions get in the way. Stubborn and good with a bow. Bites her nails when nervous. Aleyn is very strong, stubborn, and determined. Often, she will react first and ask questions later. She will do anything to survive. This independent streak did not go well in the regimented confines of her home and she largely did what she wanted and ignored her daily schedule. She had to discipline herself to undergo military training in order to prove that she could be sent into combat, and her unwillingness to take orders was perceived as her greatest weakness. This was targeted during her individual exam, but she was able to realize this and pass. Even though she can sometimes be a bit self-centered and self-reliant, she does have noble traits, protecting those she loves. For example, caring for her younger sister, and ending and enemy's life mercifully even though he caused her so much pain or when she shields her friend to keep him from being whipped, even when it means a lash for herself. She has an instinct to protect those who are weak. Unlike her younger sister, she is not a natural born healer, squeamish. Instead, she is more like her father, being skilled at hunting and gathering. Similar to her father, she had a rebellious streak. She was a fiercely determined and resourceful fighter and was reasonably easy to underestimate. Due to this, she was almost always in disagreement with authority figures and liked to use her own resources when it came to survival (the instincts of a true survivor). She was loyal to no one and had issues when it came to trusting others, but this grew to be her one of her greatest strengths. PTSD. Frequent nightmares and night terrors of those she killed and those that tried to kill her. Avoids others and isolated herself. Irritable. Favors the wilds of the forest over human contact. Dislikes being a pawn and hates having the weight of the country on her shoulders. She is a highly skilled archer and hunter, which she learned from her father. She could draw an arrow and strike several targets with a good amount of speed and flexibility due to her good reflexes. Gains enough proficiency with a gun to be selected for a sharpshooter unit, she demonstrated exceptional lethality during combat. An exceptional hand-to-hand opponent. Reasonably good spear-thrower. Some experience with wielding and throwing a knife. She is a very clever woman and a quick learner. She possessed the ability to quickly process multiple information streams and rapidly respond to changing tactical situations. She added fishing and trapping to her skills. Can make snares. Watches others to analyze their abilities. She had to educate herself on the edible, medicinal, and poisonous plant life of her home. Hunting and gathering on a daily basis have given her a highly skilled sense of woodcraft. Moreover, she is a skilled tree-climber and a fast runner, which has benefited her in hunting. Good singing voice. Volunteered to take the place of her younger sister. Turned a nation of slaves into an army, small town girl. Her father was a miner and illegal hunter who traded in the black market. Her mother was a healer, the daughter of the town apothecary owners. Her younger sister was four years younger. When she was a child, her father would bring her out into the woods, to teach her how to hunt with a bow and arrow, as well as how to forage for edible plants. He would sometimes bring her to a lake far into the woods where she learned how to swim. She was close to her father and shared his appreciation for music. He was a good singer; he was so good that the mockingbirds in the woods would stop to listen to him and copy his tunes. When she was 11, her father died in a mining accident, causing her mother to fall into a deep depression and sadness. She became still and weak, refusing to listen to her daughters and becoming jobless. Unable to stir her mother from her bed, she became the head and primary breadwinner of the family. In order to be resourceful, she made their rations last as long as possible. Feeds her family by hunting game deep in the forest. Her mother got out of her depression, but she could no longer trust or rely on her. Her and her best friend and hunting partner look out for each other's families. Their fathers died in the same mining accident. He taught her of snares and traps. Unsure of her social skills and uninterested in making friends. She has one friend at school who thinks well of her and cares about her safety.
=== Abilities ===
: "I have found her extremely effective, formidable... unwavering. Underestimating her would be a mistake."
: ―Jeri Hogarth to Gregory Sallinger[src]
* Master Investigator: Jones is a highly skilled investigator, using a multitude of questionable methods to achieve her goals. She often impersonates other people's voices on the phone to advance with her cases, and is able to easily connect evidence that other people may overlook. She is not afraid of using methods that could be considered illegal, such as stealing things, or breaking into private places, often using her superior strength to break doors and padlocks, in order to obtain clues and advance in her cases, often using her powers as a means to an end. She was able to successfully locate Hope Shlottman and Antoine Grier when she was hired to do so, and is often offered different jobs by Jeri Hogarth, despite her law firm hired their own private investigator, a position that was first offered to Jones, but that she refused.
: "I'm no black belt, but you let me know when that hurts."
: ―Jessica Jones to Hand member[src]
* Expert Combatant: Jones has basic combat skills, often using her superhuman strength to overpower and rag-doll her opponents, throwing them several feet. Despite being the only member of the Defenders without any formal combat training (Daredevil and Iron Fist trained in the martial arts from a young age and Luke learned from the Marines, police and underground fights in prison), she, alongside Luke Cage was able to defeat a group of men led by Andre. She successfully fought off multiple people that Kilgrave took over, though she did not want to harm them and held back her strength. Also, she managed to gain the upper hand in fights with other combatants that had strength and resilience similar to her own, such as Luke Cage or Will Simpson on Combat Enhancers. Despite this, Jones lack of other fighting styles aside from using her strength has put her at a disadvantage, such that she was unable to withstand attacks from Elektra and was easily overpowered by Murakami before taking aid from Daredevil. Although she struggled against more skilled and experienced high-ranking members of the Hand, Jones was able to defeat subordinate members of the organization, who are also trained in martial arts, without much effort. She later took on Pryce Cheng, a Marine Corps captain and quickly subdued him. While Luke Cage was being controlled by Kilgrave and sent to attack Jessica, Jones displayed adept combat skills, notably in boxing. She could dodge, weave and block defensively, and she could land jabs, hooks, and crosses in quick succession. She is also knowledgeable in rudimentary judo throws, which she demonstrated to a crowd of children when she wrestled with Sallinger.
* Marksman: Jones knows how to use pistols and shotguns. She used a police shotgun to shoot a brainwashed Luke Cage in the head, held her mother at gunpoint with a pistol and unloaded a robber's weapon at a liquor store. Her skills expand beyond firearms as well. She was able to flick a cockroach from her wall into the sink after a brief time lining up the shot.
* Frequently says "fuck". Has ten lbs of muscle. Very rough around the edges, dry and sarcastic, a total asshole sometimes, but at her core she is a good person. She has real problems with a number of things that she abuses. 5'9". During her teens she was a fan of rock, like Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction.
== Personality ==
: "They say everyone's born a hero. But if you let it, life will push you over the line until you're the villain. Problem is, you don't always know that you've crossed that line. Maybe it's enough that the world thinks I'm a hero. Maybe if I work long and hard, maybe I can fool myself."
: ―Jessica Jones[src]
She could easily come off as being distant, serious, rude, ironic, brutal, snarky and sarcastic. Towards others, she is nothing less than disdainful and blunt, carrying herself and her opinions out loud with little forethought or regret to insulting or showing disrespect to anyone. If aggravated or extremely annoyed by someone in her disfavor, she could become an intimidating figure. According to her childhood neighbor, she had been an introvert since she was a girl and only opens up to a select few of people, and even those she has difficulty expressing to openly and truly. Beneath her hard-bitten demeanor, however, lies a more vulnerable side, plagued by self-loathing and deep-seated insecurity. In spite of her flaws, she is a good person at heart, choosing not to waste the gifts given to her at the cost of her family's lives and becoming a hero to help people. Preferring to keep a low profile as a private investigator. Though she openly refused to identify herself as the sort, she does show signs of heroism as she is deeply sympathetic towards other individuals who have been hurt and controlled like she was. 
However, the combined trauma of losing her family and experience with Kilgrave has also made Jessica a somewhat unstable individual. She suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress and Survivor's Guilt, occasionally undergoing hallucinations and flashbacks of her time in Kilgrave's grasp. These hallucinations usually involve Kilgrave either whispering to her or being otherwise intimate while she is surrounded by purple lighting, referencing the purple lighting in the back of the restaurant Il Rosso, where Kilgrave always had their table. In these instances she can act out more erratic and violent such as punching the window of a subway train after remembering one of Kilgrave's commands. After the death of her family, no matter how close she bonded with a person, Jessica had great difficulty fully forming emotional connections to a person as she couldn't even tell Trish Walker, her adoptive sister and closest friend "I love you." After killing Kilgrave, however, she appears to have put several demons to rest, acting more affectionate and possibly closer to everyone than before.
Due to her trauma, she developed a tendency to rely on alcohol as to deal with her problems. Frequently, she is seen drinking various types of liquor, to little effect. She states that most of her money goes directly to booze. She has a high alcohol tolerance, being able to quickly drink an entire bottle of wine during dinner, then nonchalantly asking for another one. When inebriated, she can become more violent.
Jessica is a highly independent woman and shows no interest in being in a serious relationship, likely due to being forced into one with Kilgrave. For a short while, however, she did engage in sexual and later romantic relations with Luke Cage, bonding over their similar super-strength and troubled backstories. Ultimately, she refused to allow herself or her friends be disrespected by anyone, especially men. To the few people she cared about, such as Trish, she defended them fiercely, but also kept her distance from them so as to not have them become collateral damage. Trish also implies she's had relationships before in the past, but none that are long term.
: "Don't try to be a hero. It's a shitty job."
: ―Jessica Jones[src]
Jessica Campbell Jones is a private investigator from New York City. After becoming orphaned at a young age, Jones was taken in by Dorothy Walker and developed a deep friendship bond with her adoptive sister, Trish Walker. Shortly after being adopted, Jones discovered she possessed superhuman abilities due to the fatal car crash that took the lives of her parents and eventually decided to pursue a career as a superhero. However, a fateful encounter with Kilgrave, a vicious man with mind controlling powers, derailed her superhero career and she spent a torturous tenure as Kilgrave's sex slave before finally breaking free of his control. The experience left Jones suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, prompting her to hang up her secret identity and open her own detective agency.
Trying to remain an average person and keep a low profile, she would take on minor cases for cash, while caught in a spiral of despair and destructive behavior. However, the return of Kilgrave and the victims he left in his wake on her behalf forced her to put aside her trauma and stop him. Jones had multiple grueling encounters with Kilgrave, but with the help of Walker, Jeri Hogarth, Claire Temple, and fellow superhuman Luke Cage, Jones finally killed the maniac, conquering her demons and prompting her to continue her superhero career.
While on the job, Jones received a case which ended when John Raymond was driven to suicide by the Hand, prompting her to continue the investigation and her being recruited by Stick to join Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Daredevil, to destroy the Hand, ending with the apparent sacrifice of Daredevil. With her victory over both Kilgrave and the Hand, Jessica was held in considerable notoriety by the New York community and her detective business' success skyrocketed.
As her job was going full throttle, Jones' life took another unexpectedly dark turn when she began investigating IGH, the organization responsible for giving her her abilities while she was comatose following the car crash at her adolescence. Focusing on her investigations, Jones soon realized that her mother, Alisa Jones, was actually alive and had undergone experiments that gave her powers similar to her daughter's, but also left her dangerously unstable. Once Jones turned over her mother over to the police and attempted to secure for her sentence, Jones met Alisa after her escape and the two flee north in order to avoid being fugitives. At Playland, Jones witnessed her mother's death at the hands of Trish Walker and cut ties with her.
After meeting Erik Gelden, Jones found a lead on Gregory Sallinger. Reconciling and teaming up with the newly enhanced Trish Walker along the way, Jones tracked Sallinger and realized that he was able to outsmart her. After a cat-and-mouse game, Sallinger was finally exposed, only for Jeri Hogarth to step in and defend him, causing the public to turn against Jones and other powered individuals. When Jones was finally able to corner Sallinger, he retaliated by killing Dorothy Walker, sending the already unstable Walker into a downward spiral. While Jones put together the last pieces of the puzzle to put Sallinger in jail for life, Walker entered a killing spree, ending by killing the now in custody Sallinger, and forcing Jones to chase and imprison Walker for her crimes.
== Personality ==
: "I'm realizing it's impossible to ever know who you really are. I mean, to me, you're a turncoat assassin, but then you go and save the world when the world wants to lock you up. It's simply impossible to know whose side you're on."
: ―Thaddeus Ross to Natasha Romanoff[src]
The entirety of Romanoff's character was hard to distinguish based on how she tricked and lied to people for a living. She was capable of convincingly portraying friendly and flirtatious, timid, vulnerable, and scared. For the most part, she was a level-headed, strong-willed, and independent woman. Romanoff normally maintained a controlled, almost emotionless persona to keep whatever she was thinking a secret unless she was around people she absolutely trusts. Although she was more than willing to rush into deadly battle and other unnerving missions for S.H.I.E.L.D., she was not completely fearless, as she was visibly frightened of Hulk. However, she was no longer afraid of him due to falling in love with Bruce Banner.
Though a very serious agent, Romanoff was by no means stuffy and has a sarcastic sense of humor, which mostly surfaces when she was with Captain America or Hawkeye, both of whom she was comfortable around. Romanoff was very smart and loyal which was displayed when she made good on the debts she owed Barton and Rogers (saving the former from Loki's mind control and trying to protect the latter during a highway assault). While tough and at times ruthless, she was still a good person and can be quite heroic in her own right. These qualities are usually brought out by her other Avengers, mainly her missions with Steve Rogers. And no matter how injured she was in battle, Romanoff will go out her way to make sure bystanders are out of harm's way (keeping several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents away when Banner was transforming into Hulk, helping Hawkeye evacuate civilians when the Chitauri attacked Manhattan, and risking her life to make sure innocent people weren't shot by the Winter Soldier when he was chasing her). Her close loyalty to both Rogers and Barton was shown in the Avengers Civil War, as she was willing to aid their faction despite being forced to go on the run from the United Nations afterward. As a result of her childhood, she considered the Avengers her family, being desperate to keep them together when the Sokovia Accords were due to be signed and was affected when Tony Stark denounced her as a friend and made it clear he would not help her in the future. She was further shocked and saddened when Barton following the loss of his family became more ruthless and violent when she encountered him in Tokyo.
Romanoff was also very close with Clint Barton's family, especially with his and Laura Barton's only daughter, Lila, being the only member of Avengers who knew of their existence. Romanoff was genuinely affectionate with the child, hugging her the moment they reunited and sweetly commended the little girl on the drawing she made. They originally named their youngest child after Romanoff before them discovering that it was, in fact, a boy, thus naming him Nathaniel instead, with Romanoff humorously referring to the unborn child as a "traitor." This was further proven in Vormir where she refused to let Clint sacrifice himself, knowing how much he meant to his family and vice-versa, and sacrificed herself instead because she believed she had less to lose.
She was sterilized, which deeply affected her.
Despite her lifestyle of espionage and operating within the shadows, Romanoff's adaptability influenced her opinions on the Sokovia Accords. Realizing the difference between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers with many of their activities seen in the light of day amongst the public, Romanoff wanted to appease public opinions by signing and also that she didn't want conflict with her close friends and teammates like Barton and Rogers. This care for Captain America eventually caused Romanoff to betray Stark's team and assist their escape so they could clear Barnes' name, eventually becoming a fugitive because of this.
Despite her harsh and traumatic upbringing, she retained a kind, caring and compassionate side of her, she was able to keep her heart after all she had been through. For years, she harbored deep resentment and guilt towards herself due to the damage she had caused during her time with bad people, and spent most of her life attempting to make up for her actions. She tearfully apologized to her adoptive sister for not coming back for her.
== Abilities ==
: "Natasha, not just a spy, not just toppling regimes, destroying empires from within, but an Avenger."
: ―Alexei Shostakov to Natasha Romanoff[src]
Natasha Romanoff was one of the most talented spies and lethal assassins in the world. She was said by her instructor Madame B. to be the best student in the Red Room, never failing a single test. Both the KGB and S.H.I.E.L.D. considered her as one of their most dangerous operatives. Romanoff was highly skilled in martial arts, armed combat, espionage, infiltration, disguise, manipulation, evasion, hacking, and assassination. Romanoff's extraordinary skill-set made her a core member of the Avengers. Romanoff also displayed impressive endurance and durability, being able to withstand being shot in the shoulder by Winter Soldier, being hit and flung away by Hulk, being launched into a car by a powerful kick from Taskmaster, falling from a building and hitting several metal structures on the way down, and taking many blows from several Widows, all of which failed to render her so much as unconscious.
: "Why am I back? How'd you get him out?""Cognitive recalibration. I hit you really hard on the head."
: ―Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff[src]
* Master Martial Artist: Romanoff was an extremely skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, having trained from a young age in the Red Room and S.H.I.E.L.D. in her later life as a top operative, making her one of the most dangerous fighters on the planet. During her time in the Red Room, she was seen using her martial arts to defeat a grown man by swinging his head into the corner of a desk, proving how formidable she was even when she was young. She was extremely skilled in the field of martial arts, having mastered arts such as sambo, hapkido, Lucha libre-style wrestling, Krav Maga, multiple styles of kung fu, wing chun, Taekwondo, and kali with her batons. Romanoff has efficiently taken down many enemies, such as a squadron of armed soldiers after being ambushed in a hotel room, multiple Hammer Industries security guards, Georges Batroc's armed pirates, several members of STRIKE, Chitauri aliens, Ultron Sentries, and Outriders. She was skilled enough to be able to defeat a mind-controlled Hawkeye, maintain the upper hand against Ant-Man, and even hold her own against the much stronger Winter Soldier, though he was able to bring her down in the end. Black Widow also managed to compete with Proxima Midnight alongside Okoye, even managing to disarm her with her baton, holding her off long enough for Wanda to kill her. In addition, she had enough skill to stab Corvus Glaive using Proxima Midnight's Spear. Romanoff was able to hold her own against many Widows at once, fight the similarly trained Yelena Belova to a standstill, and managed to engage Taskmaster in combat for a prolonged period of time, though Taskmaster had the upper hand throughout the fight.
* Staff Mastery: As a Black Widow, Romanoff was extremely skilled at using a staff or batons in combat. She was able to use a Chitauri staff to battle the Chitauri, killing several of them simultaneously. During the Battle of Wakanda, she was able to use her batons to fight evenly against Proxima Midnight with the help of Okoye, using it to defend and attack simultaneously.
: "You should know I'm a better shot when I'm pissed off."
: ―Natasha Romanoff to Taskmaster[src]
* Master Marksman: Romanoff was an extremely skilled marksman specialised in sharpshooting. During the Battle of Washington, D.C., Romanoff would have shot the Winter Soldier through his eye if he had not been wearing his protective goggles. She had also been trained from a young age in the art of sharpshooting, as she was seen practicing on targets, making several headshots in quick succession.
* Master Acrobat: Romanoff was an extremely skilled gymnast, acrobat, and aerialist, often incorporating gymnastics and acrobatics into her fighting style as she fought opponents. She had numerous complex maneuvers and feats throughout her battles. During her fight within Hammer Industries Headquarters, Romanoff used these skills to defeat the guards with ease. During the Chitauri Invasion, she got to ride a Chitauri Chariot by using her acrobatics to commandeer it.
: "You are mind-blowingly duplicitous. How do you do it? You just tear things out? You're a triple imposter. I've never seen anything like it. Is there anything real about you?"
: ―Tony Stark to Natasha Romanoff[src]
* Master Spy: Romanoff was a dangerous secret agent highly skilled in espionage, stealth, disguise, infiltration, and demolitions. Her talents and years of experience have enabled her to reach a high ranking as a special agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Romanoff is well versed in internal destabilization and was soon deemed a threat to global security because of this. In addition, She was an expert in the field of seduction, often resorted to seducing men to obtain her goals while working undercover, such as when she posed as an assistant to evaluate Tony Stark for the Avengers Initiative. Romanoff was also able to bend many men to her will and sometimes even get them to do her bidding for her, and would continue deceiving them through different means necessary if she still had a further use for them. Moreover, she displayed an uncanny affinity for psychological manipulation and could mask her real emotions perfectly. Romanoff's skills were so legendary that Nick Fury created a lie detector that he hoped she wouldn't be able to deceive. Her incredible talents for deception also enabled her to detect when others were lying, such as when she was able to discern that Captain America was lying to her about not knowing why Nick Fury was at his apartment. Councilwoman Pamela Hawley even stated that she was unaware Romanoff was Russian due to her complete lack of an accent, stating she sounded perfectly American.
: "You both have killed so many people. Your ledgers must be dripping, just gushing red."
: ―Alexei Shostakov to Natasha Romanoff[src]
* Master Assassin: Romanoff was notorious in the art of assassination, considered to be one of the most dangerous assassins in the world. She was known to have killed many people during her time serving the KGB and S.H.I.E.L.D. During her time in the Red Room, Romanoff was trained to kill without remorse and was seen demonstrating her sharpshooting skills on a live captive, showing no emotion as she killed him.
* Gifted Intellect: Romanoff's intellect seemingly put her on par with Steve Rogers and Clint Barton. She possessed the ability to quickly process multiple information streams like threat assessments and rapidly respond to changing tactical situations. Romanoff also possessed a vast knowledge of human anatomy, displayed by her often using joint locks and hitting enemies in the weakest parts of their bodies; for example the crotch, stomach, armpits, and the head. Her prodigious skill from her years of training also allows her to predict her opponents' plans of attack as well, such as when she was able to save herself, Captain America, and Falcon from being shot by the Winter Soldier by predicting the order in which he would shoot at them through the roof of their car. Victoria Hand has even stated that Romanoff does not usually require extraction teams on S.H.I.E.L.D. missions and is resourceful enough to make her own escape.
* She never has an extraction plan.
* Expert Tactician: Romanoff was a very effective strategist, tactician, and field commander, being able to lead the Avengers and even S.H.I.E.L.D. on one occasion. Romanoff was able to trick Ross and his entire S.W.A.T. team thinking that they had tracked her down to a train station in Albany using the tracker on her suit, but she already knew and deliberately left them there in order to lure them to the wrong place and thus buying herself more time to go to her hiding place. Moreover, Romanoff, in conjunction with Yelena Belova constructed a plan to successfully break Red Guardian out of prison. She later collaborated with Melina Vostokoff to construct a plan to bring down the Red Room and kill General Dreykov in a short amount of time before Red Room soldiers arrived.
* Master Interrogator: Romanoff was able to trick Loki into telling her about his plan to use Hulk against the Helicarrier to bust him out of his cell. She was able to do a "reverse interrogation"; while she seemed to be in danger, in truth, she was getting all the information she wanted to know. Romanoff utilized this technique once again to goad Dreykov into revealing the key needed to access his console.
* Expert Hacker: Romanoff could hack into most computer systems without tripping any firewalls or security. She used this talent to hack into Hammer Industries mainframe and help James Rhodes regain control of the War Machine Armor and enabled him to help Stark fight the rest of the attacking Hammer drones, and again to access the location of Camp Lehigh from the USB Steve Rogers received from Nick Fury.
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* Fluent in Russian, English, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin, Norwegian, and Japanese. Knows Morse code. Skilled pilot.
==== Hawkeye's Partner ====
: "Barton, Romanoff, they never have an extraction plan.""They know that going in."
: ―Victoria Hand and Phil Coulson[src]
As part of her induction, Romanoff had to inform Fury of her training from the Red Room Academy. Following her defection, she formed a lasting partnership with Clint Barton, becoming best friends with him. Together, they had tactical missions in many other locations. The pair grew so close that Romanoff was the only other person Barton told about his secret family. She became a good friend to Barton's wife, Laura, and adopted an aunt-like relationship with their children, Cooper and Lila. Romanoff even trusted Barton enough to talk about Yelena Belova and how much she loved and missed her.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
==== Taken during Infancy ====
: "You were selected by a program that assessed the genetic potential in infants.""I was taken?""I believe a bargain was struck; your family paid off."
: ―Melina Vostokoff and Natasha Romanoff[src]
Natalia Alianovna Romanoff was born on December 3, 1984 in Stalingrad, Soviet Union. As an infant, she was deemed by the Red Room to possess genetic potential, and was purchased from her birth family. However, Romanoff's mother was not in agreement and proceeded to search for her, until General Dreykov had her killed to prevent the Red Room Program's existence from being revealed. Romanoff was brought up within the Red Room Academy, where she endured both an education and indoctrination into the world of spy-craft. Romanoff became the star pupil in in this strict training environment. As part of her training, she was taught to compartmentalize her feelings. As she grew up within the Red Room program, she heard stories about the legendary Captain America.
: "I used to have nothing. And then I got this. This job. This family. And I was better because of it. And even though they're gone... I'm still trying to be better."
: ―Natasha Romanoff to Steve Rogers[src]
Natalia Alianovna "Natasha" Romanoff (Russian: Наталья Альяновна "Наташа" Романов) was one of the most talented spies and assassins in the entire world and a founding member of the Avengers. As a child, she was indoctrinated into the Red Room by General Dreykov, and briefly lived as the surrogate daughter of Alexei Shostakov and Melina Vostokoff while they were undercover in the United States of America. After the Destruction of the North Institute, she underwent extensive psychological conditioning, before graduating from the Red Room as a Widow. Working as an operative for the KGB, she was targeted by S.H.I.E.L.D., before given the chance to ultimately defect to the organization by Clint Barton by assassinating Dreykov. Romanoff succeeded, although having to use his daughter Antonia Dreykov's life as collateral damage would haunt her for the rest of her life.
Having extensive mastery in martial arts and armed with her Widow's Bite, Romanoff became one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most efficient agents, using the title given by her former organization as her codename, Black Widow. During one mission, she was sent undercover into Stark Industries as Natalie Rushman to watch Tony Stark due to the fear that he was dying. During this mission, Romanoff assisted Stark with defeating Ivan Vanko's terrorist plots against him.
When Loki declared war on the Earth, Black Widow was recruited into the Avengers after Hawkeye had just been enthralled by Loki. Romanoff assisted in recruiting Stark and Bruce Banner into the team while they tracked down and attempted to capture Loki, eventually saving Barton from his grasp. Once Loki's entire plan had been uncovered, Romanoff joined the team during the Battle of New York and was instrumental in destroying the portal over the city which had been created by the Tesseract, effectively ending the entire invasion while Loki was defeated and deported back to his homeworld by his brother Thor.
In the wake of the Avengers successfully defeating Loki, Romanoff continued her work with S.H.I.E.L.D., this time working with Captain America. While working together, Romanoff and Rogers uncovered a conspiracy following an assassination attempt on Nick Fury, which had eventually led to them discovering that HYDRA had been infiltrating their entire organization since its foundation. Despite the efforts of the Winter Soldier to stop them, Romanoff helped expose Alexander Pierce's evil schemes to the world, which also resulted in all of her own morally dubious history being revealed. As a result, Romanoff was forced into dropping off the grid again and began rebuilding her cover.
Romanoff eventually rejoined the Avengers, working to bring down various HYDRA cells across the world and assisting in the capture of Baron Strucker. However, before she could form a romantic relationship with Banner, the rogue artificial intelligence Ultron was created by him and Stark, forcing Romanoff and the rest of their team to join together and defeat him. Despite being captured, Romanoff was able to inform the team of Ultron's location on Sokovia, resulting in a final battle in which the Avengers had defeated Ultron once and for all, though Banner fled into self-exile. Along with Captain America, Black Widow remained a member while forming the second incarnation of the team.
As many of the world governments demanded the Avengers to sign the Sokovia Accords in the wake of their recent battles, Romanoff agreed to their terms and signed the Accords. She later joined Iron Man in a fight against Captain America due to his disagreements with the Accords and his criminal activities with the Winter Soldier who Rogers was attempting to protect. As the two Avengers' factions fought against each other, Romanoff betrayed Iron Man's team to assist Captain America in finding the one incriminating the Winter Soldier, inherently violating the Sokovia Accords.
As a result, the fugitive Romanoff worked with Rick Mason to escape the government for aiding Rogers. In the process, Romanoff intercepted messages from her former surrogate sister Yelena Belova about the Red Room's resurgence. In possession of the Red Dust, Romanoff and Belova were relentlessly pursued by Taskmaster, who worked for Dreykov, who was believed to have been killed. Reuniting with her surrogate parents, they worked together to bring down the Red Room once and for all. Upon learning Taskmaster was actually Antonia, who had survived all these years but was mind-controlled by Dreykov, Romanoff freed her from Dreykov's enthrallment, and put an end to Dreykov's plans for world domination. Romanoff soon joined Rogers in freeing the incarcerated Avengers.
With the Avengers broken up, Romanoff, Rogers and Wilson went on the run for two years as international fugitives, working alone to stop terrorist cells in Syria. When the threat of Thanos approached Earth, Romanoff, Rogers, and Wilson protected Vision, who had the Mind Stone, which Thanos was after. They later defended Wakanda from the attack, but were ultimately defeated when Thanos destroyed half of all life with the Infinity Gauntlet, where Romanoff emerged as one of the survivors. Romanoff was part of the Ambush on Thanos in an effort to retrieve the Infinity Stones and undo the Titan's snap, with no success.
Five years later, Romanoff led the Avengers alongside Captain America, now formed by Okoye, Rocket Raccoon, Nebula, War Machine, and Captain Marvel. With an opportunity to undo the Snap presented by Ant-Man, the remaining Avengers split up into teams to retrieve all Infinity Stones from several alternate timelines in the Time Heist. Sent to retrieve the Soul Stone on Vormir with Barton, Romanoff, against Barton's insistence, willingly jumped off the Vormir mountains into the abyss below, sacrificing herself in the process in order to obtain the Soul Stone for the Avengers.
Fluent in Japanese. She was born at night. Her favorite singer is Joni Mitchell. A paranoid bastard. A hunter of evil, but stays fairly stationary. Truckers hat and flannel. The go-to person for research. Has amassed quite a bit of knowledge over the years. House is full of bookcases and stacks of books. Became like a father to a pair of brothers, very loyal to them and cared for them deeply like they were her own. Enjoys pedicures and reality TV. In times of stress, she often drinks and throws brutal, sarcastic remarks at people. She has often been described as a "barely functioning alcoholic." Her brutal experiences during childhood have made her often belligerent and judging of others and is very prone to standing up to people and telling them like it is - or at least, how she sees it in her own cynical, maladjusted way - to get them to grow up. She doesn't enjoy people being lazy and will often complain. She is shown to be very dedicated to her work, willing to sacrifice a lot of her own time and energy to help anyone in need. She was willing to spare certain monsters if she could be assured they would not cause anybody harm. She wasn't the type to dive head-first into the unknown, preferring to do research or ask questions first; she would only resort to extreme measures like torture during life-and-death situations involving someone she cared about. With years of experience as a veteran hunter, she was one of the best hunters in her lifetime, well-known and respected. She is an extremely capable marksman, able to shoot a moving target with her eyes closed. Skilled knife thrower.
Master Combatant: Having decades of combat experience as a veteran hunter, despite his old age, Bobby proved himself to be still physically fit enough and considerably proficient in close-combat when needed to. He was able to hold his own against a reluctant Dean when believing he wasn't real with a knife, breaking out of Dean's hold the first time he tried to restrain him and punching him back before eventually getting restrained, and overtake Dean in order to save Sam when they were mind-controlled by the Siren Nick and Dean was off-guard from being in the middle of swinging an axe down, swiftly stabbing Dean in the shoulder with the Demon-Killing Knife before he could react. His skills were presumably much sharper in his youth, but even in his old age, he proved fit and skilled enough to fight and overpower supernatural creatures, as he easily killed two demons with the knife in a matter of moments, single-handedly overpowered and eventually forced an Okami through a wood chipper and even knocked down a Leviathan with a crowbar.
* High-level Intellect: Bobby has amassed an immense wealth of knowledge in his years as a hunter, frequently seen as an information broker to the supernatural hunting community, as shown in Weekend at Bobby's. Despite his appearance, he is extremely intuitive and cunning. He was able to tell that Sam was possessed by Meg almost at first glance and was able to spike her drink with holy water without her noticing. He was also able to stay one step ahead of "Soulless" Sam during his attempted patricide, even luring him to a trapdoor without him realizing it, despite Sam running on pure logic and even claiming he was smarter than he has ever been. Bobby was also the only person to see through Castiel's lies and deduce that he was working for Crowley from the way he acted when it was revealed Crowley was alive. Sam also explicitly contacted Bobby in Heaven in order to have him help Castiel break Metatron out of Heaven, expressing confidence he was smart enough to pull it off, which he did succesfully, managing to swiftly cause chaos by opening the door to the other Bobby Singers and then causing an uproar by pitting them against the Angels to distract them so he can open the door that activates the Heavenly Portal and he also showed his intuition by easily deducing from Castiel's reluctance when talking about Dean that Dean doesn't actually know about their attempt to save him. Bobby has been shown to be fluent in several languages including Japanese and several dead languages.
* Possesses incredible willpower: Despite the many horrors she has seen through her years of hunting, she remained fully active in hunting to protect innocents from the supernatural. Despite being crippled and going through many depressive moods, she did not give up, resisting the temptation of committing suicide by drawing strength from her love and loyalty. Despite not being a witch or a regular with spells, she proved to be very proficient at using magic. She was especially familiar and skilled with warding spells and magical means capable of countering violent supernatural creatures and objects.
She is a quiet person who was once described as "warm", "fearless" and unafraid to break rules. She was a veteran pilot and soldier until she was 'damaged' from a mission that ended with her needing to kill a child, as she wanted children, this broke her. She doesn't discuss her past with her teammates. She has an unwavering respect for her boss and follows his orders even when it conflicts with her desires. She was deeply hurt when she heard he had died, she holds affection for him. She is fiercely protective of her teammates. She is very secretive and will often answer questions with a look, using few words or none at all. Despite her protectiveness of them, it took her a long time to bond with her team. She acted like a robot, as everything for her was just "Target- acquired. Threat- eliminated." She puts up a cold and stoic front but inside she is kind and selfless. She uses her own experiences to connect with other people. Despite being able to use various types of guns with high proficiency, she displays constant reluctance to resort to such weaponry, instead relying on her tremendous fighting abilities to take down her enemies. She only uses firearms when it is absolutely necessary. She is an extremely skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. She is the most lethal agent her organization has ever seen, having been training since she was 12 and possessing more black belts than anyone. For one, she practices tai chi. Her sense of fighting is so instinctive that she does not even need to think. She has been overcome in physical combat on very few occasions. She is highly skilled at using staffs in combat. She is highly skilled at using a sword in combat. She prefers not to use firearms during her missions unless strictly necessary, generally preferring her melee combat and improvisational skills. If forced to use them, she usually chooses handguns as her weapon, even when the agents that accompany her equip assault weapons. She has displayed high accuracy, being able to kill most of her enemies with a single shot. She is also skilled in throwing knives. She is exceptionally athletic, and can be seen using her acrobatic skills to her advantage. Her reflexes, quickness, and coordination are remarkable enough to flip through active gunfire while returning accurate shots of her own. She is regarded as one of the best spies in her organization. She was the leader's right hand during his directorial days. She was able to get into the building swiftly and sneak around to take soldiers quietly and stealthy. She has been able to disguise herself as well. She was able to effectively give her input on situations. When the leader was on assignments, Aleyn was often the leader. She is a highly proficient pilot, able to perform such feats as flying through the eye of a storm with a large plane. She, as mission commander, is usually in charge of piloting. She hates coffee and high heels. Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Spanish. Despite being well-trained in the use of all kind of firearms, she prefers the use of her martial arts skill and unarmed combat unless the situation requires it. In case she needs a weapon, she prefers to use small handguns even while her teammates are using high caliber weapons. She was always quiet, she was just... she was warm. Fearless in a different way. Getting in trouble, pulling pranks, thought rules were meant to be broken. Was a talented ice skater as a child. She used to be different. May eventually joined an agency, believing them to be the best defense of the country and the world against any possible threat. During school, she took a dance class which she dropped two weeks later so that she could graduate and get actual field assignments. She became an ace pilot and a weapons expert, a soldier who could perform above and beyond the call of duty. She often dated several men at this time, but ended the relationships constantly as she found difficulty in dating civilians, due to the secretive nature of her job. Thinks life isn't meant to be lived alone. A highly-skilled operative. A veteran pilot and soldier with years of experience. The unofficial deputy. Helped her friends deal with the situation as best they could. On the council of advisors. Retired to teach and be there for her friend in his final days, and was there when he passed peacefully.
Adopted after her home was destroyed. Worked as a skilled sky, assassin, soldier, and pilot. Human. Remembered as a hero after her sacrifice. Accomplished spy and assassin, well-respected within the rebellion. Trusted with leading intelligence missions. Everything she did, she did for the rebellion. Every time she walked away from something she wanted to forget, she told herself it was for a cause she believed in, a cause that was worth it, and could not live with herself if everything she did was for nothing, and so did not give up. Was a captain for the intelligence, has a droid companion. Instructed to complete a secret mission, so she kept her real intentions to herself and lied to her new ally. She embraced her friend in their last moments. A good rebel agent who held dark secrets. Dark brown hair, brown eyes, and fair skin. Reputation for striking good looks, which she used to lure in the unsuspecting during her service as a spy. 5'8". She does not look like a killer, and has the face of a friend. Kept her origins close to her chest, but did trust some close friends and lovers with the truth. She did not tell many, but did not keep track of everyone she did. Had to leave her brother behind years ago, but never forgot him and actively searched for him. Prone to owing various people money. Reputation for being somewhat of a womanizer. Eventually developed into a selfless woman, which set her apart from other more extreme agents that blurred the same lines as her. She was a committed, steady, practical, and by-the-book intelligence officer with a fair amount of combat experience, but that experience grew from missions that sometimes blurred the line between what was morally wrong or right. Despite her selflessness, she was cold and distant to others. She often kept quiet and reserved, a trait she had acquired due to her experience in war. Although fighting on the side of the rebels, she'd been hardened by war to the point that she did not hesitate to commit morally questionable acts when necessary. During the days of the early rebel movement, she relied on the excuse that she was following orders to justify what she had done. Although she displayed some degree of remorse and regret after some of her actions, it was never enough to convince her to seek redemption. One of the most capable agents. Able to handle a wide range of missions, from reconnaissance to assassination and sabotage. Capable of analyzing intelligence and acting on that intelligence without the need to contact superiors. She worked for the rebellion since childhood, so they were like her family and her loyalty was unwavering. Asked to do terrible things in the rebellion's name. Many of her missions were morally questionable. Had psychological damage inflicted by her actions. Comprising on her morals in the name of victory was dreadful for her emotional health. She had been driven to the extremes she carried out by the anguish she carried inside her. Selfless devotion to the cause. Wanted to bring a new hope to the world. Willingly gave her life to ensure the war could be won. Regrets her past actions. Internal anguish. Followed orders she thought was wrong. Lost everything she had in her life. Was able to hold back thinking about her morally questionable actions for a time. She is a pilot, she can shoot, she can lie, she speaks three languages, has steady nerves, and is not afraid to kill. She found that gathering intelligence required more than spying alone. She used espionage, sabotage, and assassinations throughout her missions. She was a committed soldier and fighter, rebelling against various regimes over the course of her life. Although sometimes she questioned her actions, she accepted that she did what had to be done in the name of a good cause. She was prepared to double-cross allies to get the job done. On one occasion, she killed her informant instead of risking letting him be captured. Often an unassuming woman that her opponents would underestimate. She changed from a nihilist into a selfless martyr. Started off being selfish, rash, impulsive, and childish, unaware of the consequences of her actions. Can disappear by hiding in her clothes but is still compelling and has some swagger that people are drawn to. She later shed her layers bit by bit and her silhouette became more tailored with longer lines and her shoulders more square. Has a darker side of her psyche, and is nuanced and complex. She was forced to run due to outside pressures, but decided to stop and make a stand. She was imprisoned and felt the governments oppression in a serious, sustained, and inescapable way. She learns from her mistakes. She is a survivor in an oppressive world with no sense of justice. She stopped pretending she was not affected by the government and chose who she was going to be. She had been in a rebellion since she was six years old.
Fought in the front lines. Incredibly brave. Developed great observational skills. Disciplined, lacking self-indulgence. Grew up having to work for a living. Generally humble and polite. Working-class blacksmith. Did not grow up rich in a castle. Brave and capable fighter when called to do so. Protective instinct. Defense a small boy when she sees others pick on him, and holds him back from danger on several occasions. Extremely pragmatic and practical. Able to understand how social standing benefits those unlike her. Fought and survived for other people and is not arrogant or temperamental. Surprisingly self-reproachful about her own actions. Polite and deferential to ladies, worried about her behavior and addressing them with formal titles. Still somewhat self-conscious about being a commoner with a commoner's lot in life. Terrified and subservient when encountering nobility, while resenting the great lords for oppressing the lower classes and tearing the country apart with their wars. No formal combat training but is remarkably skilled with a hammer as a weapon and a tool. After learning her true parentage, she started to take some pride in her blood. Apprenticed to a master blacksmith. Immense sense of compassion and care. Blossoming friendship and protective of her new friend. Does not love fighting. Incredible strength and stamina. Resembles her father in his youth so closely that it is blatantly obvious to anyone who knew him that she is his daughter. Is mistaken for her aunt who also greatly resembles her father, and she has her aunt's eyes and hair but not her build. In her mid-teens. Powerfully-built and a strong lass who shows great promise as a blacksmith. Knows very little about her mother, she died when she was young and sometimes used to sing to her. Stays with a mercenary company after her friend runs away. Formerly asked to join a mercenary company, providing her services as a smith. Was later knighted. Is her friend's only true friend, and they form a particularly close bond after he entrusts her with his true identity. She becomes jealous when a prostitute offers to have sex with him, which he rejects. And he in turn became jealous when another man showed interest in her. They playfully wrestle in the forge. He was one of her true friends and she is pained when he chooses to stay behind with the mercenaries. Sturdily attractive. Jet-black hair. Deep blue eyes. Bastard of a king. Idolized her father, thinking him to be an invincible warrior. She is a good lass, poor, from the slums. Thinks that if she and another's fathers trusted each other, then there is no reason why they should not, too. Thinks the poor are not really people to the nobility, just a million different ways for them to get what they want. Thinks she is just a bastard. Is not a soldier, but is a fighter. Warden of the South, inherited all her father's lands. Was unaware of her lineage throughout her childhood. An unknown lord paid for her apprenticeship, and he worked forging high-end armor and weapons for the nobility. Became very skilled in her own right, and the heavy manual labor built her into a strong young woman. Apprenticed to her master for ten years.