User Profile

BASICS
Name: Jace
Class: Rogue [promoted from thief]
Weapons: Swords [C]
Country: Kanemoria
Age: 16 17 18 19 20 21
Birthday: June 10, 606
Zodiac: Gemini
Blood Type: AB+
Family: [Unknown]
Languages Known: Trade [A], Dentorian [A], Old High Dentorian [C], Atsirian [Listen/Speak C; Read/Write D]



HISTORY
Kanemoria; the country of merchants, run by commerce and ruled by trade. While many of its denizens are wealthy, or at least well off, successful due in large part to Kanemoria's advantageous location and its cultural emphasis on the lucrative life of the merchant, none can deny that there will always be those few that slip through the cracks in even the most well founded civilization. Of course, Jace has never considered himself unfortunate or even the least bit unlucky for his lot in life; from his earliest days, he's delighted in the thrill of surviving through the barest merit of his own skill. He lives for the life he's constructed for himself, and even if he were given an opportunity for riches and wealth, he'd never chain himself down to something as mundane as a stuffy profession, least of all in Kanemoria as a merchant trader.


No, for Jace, the merchants are nothing but easy targets, the wealthy are his own personal shopping malls, rife with free merchandise, and even those in his own situation are merely rivals he's more than willing to sabotage if the mood strikes him. He feels no loyalty toward the other thieves he's come across, and no comraderie with the poor. Aloof and distant, Jace depends on himself and no one else, using his clever wit and well honed charms to his advantage at every turn. He owes no loyalty to anyone or anything, and the concepts of honor and chivalry are nothing more than moral chains holding back the foolish majority in his estimation -- not that he's complaining, considering the advantages it allows him.

His life, then, has been more than a little interesting, full of close shaves and thrilling escapades, pilfering from the rich and poor in equal amounts, sneaking across Kanemoria, constantly seeking new challenges. He steals to survive, but he also steals for pleasure, for recreation, for a thrill, whenever the mood strikes him (which is often.) He's very good at what he does, but he doesn't want or expect any infamy for it -- he'd much prefer to remain anonymous, and thus never stays in one place for long. Still, he never has left Kanemoria for long... he's not adverse to travel or seeing the world, but he's quite comfortable in Kanemoria, where the pickings are as easy as he wants them to be, the cities are familiar and the chances of success and survival are high.


If he has a family, he can't recall who they are; he's assumed them dead long since. He holds no sentimentality for blood or the faceless shadows in his memory that might have been his kin. bonds aren't something that Jace is remotely interested in upholding. He's a drifter, thriving off of excitment and challenge, and always pushing himself to the brink of the impossible for reasons not even he can entirely comprehend.


Near the start of his 17th year, after an impulsive decision to stowaway on a ship bound for Dentoria, Jace fell in with a group of displaced travelers lead by a man calling himself Lord Kail of House Franel, a Dentorian House that everyone swears does not -- cannot -- exist. They traveled from Kanemoria to Northern Dentoria, to an empty hill Kail, his siblings, and their retainers swore they once called home. From there he accompanied the supposed Lords and Lady of Franel across Megam and the southern ocean, driven first by his own curiosity and later something more.

Despite his efforts not to think too hard on the subject, his growing fondness for (most of) his traveling companions and the Lady Celeste in particular became increasingly more difficult for him to deny, and he found himself thinking less of the situation as nothing more than a distant, fascinating puzzle with each passing week. As the group made their way back into his homeland, where a cataclysmic storm took place central to the plight of those from Franel, he cautiously acknowledged some of those around him as friends, realizing eventually that he'd just possibly started caring, somewhere along the way. The thought that he could always pick up and leave was no longer a source of comfort, but rather a sour, unrealistic lie he knew for what it was. With these things on his mind and more, he accompanied Lord Lawrence and Lady Celeste, along with a select few of their company, on a long journey up the mountains of Kanemoria to locate Lord Kail, who had gone missing near the end of the storm that levelled the city of Norey and left the entire country reeling.

It was near the end of this leg of their journey that the increasingly worrisome situation between him and Celeste exploded, their relationship undergoing a rocky series of heated fights and petty arguments, neither willing to admit how the other hurt them (and what it meant that the other could have such an effect on them, besides.) This culminated on the difficult journey by sea from Kanemoria to Atsiria, where a particularly vicious disagreement abruptly became something else entirely, ending with them sharing a bed and each other against reason and his better judgement, besides.

Following this, they began a cautious and often tumultuous relationship, facing challenges from both outside and in, not the least of which proved to be Celeste's elder brothers. They've so far managed each challenge they've faced, though not without difficulty. Now in Atsiria, their group caught firmly in the midst of political intrigue and a religious revolution, Jace has mostly resigned himself to knowing that he plans to stay with them until the end, whatever that might be, and meticulously avoids thinking on what might happen after the end, almost as insistently as he avoids thinking on what exactly is happening between him and Celeste in the meantime.



PERSONALITY
A drifter by nature and necessity, Jace is aloof, but not cold -- he likes to make positive impressions, and though he never associates himself with anyone for long, he's smart enough to know when allies are useful. He's also fairly skilled at manipulation, lying, and general deception; of course, by the time most people realize these things he's already long removed himself from their reach.


He's a joker and quite witty, and almost prides himself on his ability to win people over with relative ease. He's not a very trusting person, for obvious reasons. He has a certain disdain for people that chain themselves down to a profession or particular path of life; this includes the vast majority of people in the continent, needless to say. Even those with nomadic natures like his own, who live doing what they enjoy instead of what the perceive is expected of them, rarely earn his respect -- as far as he's concerned, everyone is a potential target -- the only differences between them are priorities.


Jace is intelligent, analytical, and very well read. He is quite disdainful of religion, and delights in harassing the devout.



APPEARANCE
Jace is rather thin and of average height, standing at roughly 5'8". His skin is fair, though it sports a slight tan, indicative of the fact that he lives the vast majority of his life outdoors. He has green eyes and short black hair. The clothes he wears are patched and simple; he makes it a point to dress as unremarkably as possible, outfitting himself in faded and loose fitting clothes that allow for mobility, comfort, and anonymity.



[Jace is played by lzn64 for himitsu_sensou]
[His PB is Ferio, from Magic Knight Rayearth.]