<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/98/Wcsnbtq3b8p01.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Phoebe</span><br/><br/><br/><strong>AGE:</strong>27<br/><strong>GENDER:</strong>Female<br/><strong>SEXUALITY:</strong>Women mostly. Given her patron she's not really that interested in matters of the flesh.<br/><strong>BLESSED BY:</strong>Artemis<br/><strong>NICKNAMES:</strong>None. She’s not the type to accept such a thing.<br/><br/><br/><strong>LIKES:</strong>Her own company, the great outdoors, drinking wine in the country that the grape was grown in, her companions, sunshine, swimming in open water.<br/><strong>DISLIKES:</strong>Cities and city dwellers, self indulgent consumer culture, Ares and his followers, cold weather, strong liquor, heavy metal music.<br/><br/><br/><strong>SKILLS &amp; POWERS:</strong><br/><br/>Apex predator. Predatory animals recognize one of their own and ignore Phoebe. Prey animals are less likely to notice or react to her.<br/><br/>Huntress. Phoebe is highly skilled in the art of tracking and hunting. She has learnt to move swiftly and silently through woodland and rough terrain and is skilled at trailing and stalking her prey. These skills do transfer to other environments, but she is less adept than in the woods and fields that are her natural home. Naturally given her patron she is an expert in the use of the bow and arrow and hunting knives.<br/><br/>Light step. Phoebe can choose to make her movements absolutely silent and slow enough not to reflexively draw the eye to her. The side effect is pretty obvious. She isn’t moving very fast when she does this.<br/><br/>Companions. Phoebe has been gifted a pair of hunting dogs and a buzzard by her patron. They will obey her every command. What they know, she knows. They are utterly loyal to their mistress. She has to focus to see through their eyes and whilst she does so is distracted and more vulnerable.<br/><br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong>Phoebe is tall for a woman at six feet in height. She has acquired quite a selection of tattoos, all aimed at carrying the favour of her patron. She has a stag tattoo on her left shoulder, Asphodel and Amaranth flowers on her right bicep and neck, an arrow on the back of her right hand and a bow on her left. Phoebe has long jet black hair that has been faded to a warm chocolate brown by the sun near the tips. It is either left unkempt, or plaited neatly, there is no inbetween. She is always casually, but practically dressed in dull coloured clothing, normally greys, greens and browns that help her blend into the woods. She often wears a green hooded hunting coat which she has daubed with words and phrases that are sacred to her patron. She carries her arrows in a quiver slung across her back. Her eyes are grey and calm, but it’s hard to read what is going on in the depths of them. She never wears anything as frivolous as make up and perfume would make her easier for her prey to scent, so she doesn’t wear that either..The overall impression of her is that she could be really quite pretty if she smartened herself up a bit, but she clearly isn’t interested in doing so.<br/><br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong>Phoebe is generally pretty quiet, calm and non confrontational, but that does not mean she is a shrinking violet by any means. She is more of an iron fist in a velvet glove than most people realize. She just chooses not to show this side of herself unless she has to. She is generally kind and helpful, but she’s also clearly not overly fond of being around large groups of people and is more comfortable in her own company. She is fiercely intelligent, but has not been formally educated to a high level and is uncomfortable about this. She has a violent and aggressive streak should she lose her temper, but generally has a pretty tight grip on it.Play nice and she will play nice back. Play nasty and you’ll reap what you sow.<br/><br/><strong>CHARACTER BACKGROUND:</strong>Phoebe’s parents were frequently out of work, so she moved around a lot and never had a proper childhood. As a result trouble found her early: fistfights in school, late-night graffiti, petty theft, and even setting a few fires. Fortunately for Phoebe it was at this point that she met  Kassandra, an elder of Artemis who she immediately identified with and who took the troubled young woman under her wing. Kassandra helped Phoebe straighten her life out, but at the cost of her withdrawing from formal education to do so.  For the first time ever though Phoebe finally had a positive role model and a sense of stability in her life though and in many ways she flourished. It was shortly after her nineteenth birthday that her blessing started to show and it was on her twenty first birthday that her companions arrived as gifts from the goddess herself. Sadly it was about this time that she also had a run in with a hotheaded, loud mouthed follower of Ares who didn’t understand the meaning of the word no. She did manage to get away before anything really bad happened to her. The guy needed a bunch of stitches, but he asked for it. Unfortunately the experience has unsurprisingly left a bad taste in her mouth about Ares and his followers in general. To help her move on from her experience and to continue to develop as a chosen of Artemis she moved to the village when the invitation was sent to her, even if it took quite a lot of convincing by Kassandra to get Phoebe to accept it. Phoebe may or may not be her actual name, but it is the one that she answers to.<br/><br/><br/><strong>FACE CLAIM:</strong>Jess Black<br/><strong>WRITER:</strong>Skyre