<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Retired</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatleft">(https://www.artwave.it/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/mariacarlaboscono5.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Cerise Jillian Pendleton</span><br/><br/><br/><strong>AGE:</strong> Twenty<br/><strong>GENDER:</strong> Cisgender female<br/><strong>SEXUALITY:</strong> Pansexual<br/><strong>BLESSED BY:</strong> Artemis<br/><strong>NICKNAMES:</strong> Absolutely hates being called Jelly.<br/><br/><strong>LIKES:</strong> Spinach, violin music, cherries, horror fiction, hunting, dark hair, dogs.<br/><strong>DISLIKES:</strong> Rats, brass instruments, the color yellow, being unable to exercise due to injury etc, cauliflower.<br/><br/><strong>SKILLS &amp; POWERS:</strong> Skilled at violin; archery; firearms; camp cooking; and chess.<br/>Powers from her Blessing:<br/>-She can turn into any carnivorous animal and back at will.<br/>-Once she has a trail, she never loses it as long as she remains on it.<br/><br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> She has Mediterranean features with light olive skin, dark hair, and brown eyes. She wears her hair long and loose, but puts it in a braid when she's out in the forest. She wears simple tunic-style shirts and jeans more often than not, with a vest or jacket that has lots of pockets - she doesn't like purses. Has multiple hiking packs of various sizes and colors. Favors greens and greys. Has a distinctive wolf's-head tattoo on her upper arm, and a lot of small scars on her arms, legs, and back.<br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong> Pleasant, but introverted. Has a tendency to lapse into melancholy moods sometimes, but is overall fairly cheerful most of the time. Loves dogs. Enjoys the hunt for its own sake. Has a playful streak that sometimes crosses the line into sadistic, though she only lets that side out with willing partners or when she's hunting.<br/><strong>CHARACTER BACKGROUND:</strong> Cerise did not have a happy childhood. Her parents were physically and emotionally abusive; her father was an alcholic, while her mother descended into heroin addiction when she was about nine. She was a troubled child, prone to acting out at school or taking her anger out on herself. She grew up in a small town, on the edge of the woods in rural New England. Once she was old enough, she started spending much of her time out in the woods, trying to hide from her abusive family. Her only solace was when she was out in the forest. Out there, alone with the trees, Cerise found a measure of calm that was sorely absent in her regular life. Her grandfather, the only family member who ever treated her well, taught her to fish, cook, and hike. She loved climbing trees and wandering along the slopes of the hills. When she was sixteen, he started teaching her to handle firearms, and then to hunt. It became her lifeline as her family situation fell apart further - her mother died from an overdose and her father went into a tailspin.<br/><br/>She moved out at seventeen, getting a job working for a local hunting store. Her life improved drastically - she never spoke to her father again. Her grandfather died later that year. She kept hunting, fishing, and hiking, spending days on backpacking trips - most of her spare money went to outdoors gear. It was a good life, at least by her standards.<br/><br/>Artemis took note of Cerise when the young woman was out hunting with a rifle at the age of eighteen. Cerise was hunting with a partner whom she didn't know well, a man, and she found him immensely grating. But she tolerated him, right up until he deliberately shot to wound a deer rather than kill it. Not only that, but he then tormented it, frightening and hurting it. Cerise was so upset at his disrespect for the prey, for the sacred cycles of the hunt, that she shot him in the neck. Artemis, pleased by Cerise's skill and respect for the hunt, bestowed a measure of power on her. She got the message telling her about the village shortly thereafter, and jumped on the opportunity. Since then, she has lived in the village, taking care of tasks that require work in the woods or other wild places. She enjoys it, enjoys the feeling of being a part of something bigger than herself, and does her best to make her patron proud. Of course, given that Cerise is a young woman with a high sex drive and her patron is THE virgin goddess, that can be...difficult at times.<br/><br/>Image is Mariacarla Boscono.</div></div>