Ripple the Heron

Ripple, known as Jannet Anker, is the keyboardist of Octane Burnout and is widely regarded as the band's party animal.
== Looks and Attire ==
Ripple is rather tall and lithe due to her species. Her bangs are long and are parted to the middle of her face. The rest of her hair is slicked back saved for what she keeps in a ponytail. She's primarily a light blue with blues, whites, and teals making up the markings on her body, such as the blue feather around her eye and the markings on top of her head being dark teal in color.
Ripple tends to wear flashier clothes on her own, but in the band she keeps up with the theme by predominantly wearing a black faux leather jacket with teal tank top underneath along with blue jeans and black boots with green laces. The woman wears lots of jewelry, mostly gold and silver bracelets place her gold belt.
== Backstory ==
Ripple, born as Jannet, was born to an extremely wealthy family in Chunan with her father being a CEO to a large firm and her mother being his wealthy trophy wife. She was born as the middle child of the family, not having the same expectations foisted upon her like her strict but mostly overworked and stressed out older sister and immediately stopped being spoiled once her younger, mousy and quiet little sister was born. 
Jannet had one thing her siblings didn't have, Jannet was louder and much more bolder than her sisters who primarily wanted to keep a good reputation with their parents. The middle child didn't as she wasn't even getting attention anymore from the rest of her family, just from their maids and butlers. She promptly didn't care about making her parents suffer strange looks in public or having multiple tutors give up on the young girl after trying to teach her anything to no avail. 
There was one sole exception to this, however - Jannet would almost always pay attention and do well in one area and that was the piano. Her pianist tutor was the only one who never walked away from the young girl and had nothing but praises to sing about the heron. Her parents couldn't care less about this talent, despite it apparently being 'important' beforehand, since they never really cared about 'the arts', but let the tutoring continue since it kept the girl distracted. They figured they could pair her off to some wealthy boy when she was of age.
Except their plan went south and fast. They expected their now teenage daughter to quietly accept or at least fall falsely in love with the wealthy young man they set her up with, but upon Jannet finding his plans to cheat on her, the young daughter ended up getting with the young man's other planned partner instead. Her parents quickly shut the planned marriage down and tried pairing her off with another young man, but she ended up going after and wooing his sister. The worst part is she wouldn't stay with this girls afterwards either. Every arranged marriage that they had planned for their middle child went belly up and her shenanigans went well into her adulthood where they quietly disowned and gave her a lump sum of money to move far away the family.
With said money, Jannet decided to move far away to the city of Molitor in the United Federation. She figured she'd be able to fulfill her dream of being a pianist here. Things changed the minute she got to the city, however, and she encountered an instrument unlike any she had seen before - a keyboard. The young woman was smitten and her plans had changed. She wanted to be a keyboardist! Even though she still had bucket loads of money her parents had shipped her off with, the young woman wanted to save what money she had and found herself a roommate in another young woman named Rea, a practicing drummer. They quickly became friends over their shared love of music and had decided together they'd commission themselves out to local bands who needed a temporary keyboardist and/or drummer.
After a few years and becoming much more experienced with their instruments, Re a and Jannet decided they both should find a singer and guitarist and form a band. Sadly they couldn't find a guitarist, or at least someone who plays the guitar well, right away but they did find a younger woman named Teal who wanted to find a permanent band for herself. The younger woman joined on as their bassist and singer with the band playing a few gigs before being hired out by a woman named 'Gem' to be a permanent fixture at her bar.
Moving up in the world, Jannet became known as Ripple in her band, but she had gotten nostalgic for how her life was like when she first came to the city. Without telling anyone and completely unprompted, Ripple decided she would break into the old apartment she shared with Rea when they first came to the city. She had no idea a new tenant by the name of Kath was living there now and was almost arrested but the hawk dropped the charges. Noticing how depressed ths hawk looked, Ripple would come around to bug her out of curiosity. She'd even bring around Rea and Teal who condoned the behavior, but were also intrigued.
During this time, Gem wanted the three girls to find a permanent guitarist for the band and the condor went ahead with opening auditions for a guitarist for them. Of course, Jannet was still invested in the depressed hawk at the time, but discovered something interesting - the hawk was a guitarist. The heron told the young woman about the auditions who agreed to come out since she had nothing better to do. After the auditions, Kath decided to join on with the band and the rest was history.
Recently, however, the hawk has brought around an odd girl to the bar - a gryphon. Ripple does not know her well and has a big suspicion about the mythical being.
== Personality ==
Ripple is the definition of a party animal, the heron is loud, excitable, and always full of energy when she wants to show it, but at other times she can be a little laid back and chill. She doesn't always show it, but Ripple is very intelligent and rather observant. She's a curious girl and even though she knows she shouldn't, she sometimes likes to butt into other's problems (ie. Rott's). 
Ripple has the tendency to be rather flirty, but romance doesn't interest her since it was an idea foisted upon her by her parents who wanted to marry her off. Instead she's more friendly and more eager to have friends and have fun than worry about anything else. Ripple tends to mean well in most of her actions, although sometimes that's hard for her friends or others to see.
== Powers and Abilities ==
Ripple, oddly enough, inherited her mother's very weak Aquakinesis powers, allowing the heron to control water. However, her power works at it strongest depending on the type of body of water she's currently manipulating. She can't make any water on her own so she has to be somewhere near a large body of water for it to work and she's extremely powerful when she uses her powers in swampy or marshy areas.
Ripple is extremely graceful in spite of her personality, thanks again to her species. Very flexible and very fast, Ripple can easily dance her way around and outspeed most of her enemies to a point. 
While less of a fighting ability, Ripple is gifted at the piano ever since her parents foisted it upon her at a young age. The heron, having taken an interest in music and instruments, has went on to get herself acquainted with other ones such as the keyboard (her main instrument), the synthesizer, and the accordion.
== Relationships ==
=== Friends ===
==== Olivia the Rabbit ====
A very close friend of Jannet, Olivia thought the heron was cute which sparked their friendship. Both of them have a little in common and generally agree on the same things.
==== Vaivora the Zebra ====
Vaivora is another close friend of Jannet, both having a love of humor as well as a love for flashy outfits and electronic and dance music. They like to hang out whenever the two have free time away from their jobs.
==== Isla the Scarlett Ibis ====
Isla is actually a close friend of Vaivora's, one that Jannet has recently gotten to know. They have a little in common such as more relaxed but still boisterous attitudes and the fact that both can, however, Jannet is still getting to know the ibis better.
==== Rott the Hawk ====
Rott is a good friend of Jannet's and while the two don't hang out all the time, Rott is still her very close friend. Rott is part of Jannet's band and is probably her second favorite of her bandmates, but she wouldn't say it out loud.
==== Dive the Kestrel ====
Dive and Jannet surprisingly don't know too much about each other outside their shared love for electronic music, but the two still hang out outside the band from time to time.
==== Marrow the Bearded Vulture ====
Marrow is a very close friend of Jannet, being her original first friend in Molitor plus the first member of Octane Burnout along with her. Both still hang out outside the band much like they did when they were roommates.
==== Gem the Condor ====
==== Gulp the Cormorant ====
==== Reverse the Osprey ====
==== Foster the Fox ====
==== Orlando the Parrot ====
==== Altoros ====
=== Neutrals ===
==== Dusk the Owl ====
==== Jayanthi the Gryphon ====
==== Apollo the Wolf ====
==== Al the Cat ====
=== Enemies ===
==== Authurius ====
==== Jayanthi's Half Siblings ====
==== Enzo the Maine Coon ====
== Weaknesses ==
TBA
== Gallery ==
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== Trivia ==
* Jannet Anker is not her real name but a pseudo name that she changed upon coming from Chunan to Molitor, her real name is Leichu Xingyun, she chose to change it to further distance herself from her family
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