Kellera

[&]Name/Alias: Tzezuko
[&]Age: 33
[&]Experience: I've been RPing since i was 13, mIRC, ICQ, Message Boards that I both modded or admined, MMO guilds that I was GL of or a moderator. Lots of RP experience, looking to come back to the place that sparked my passion for RP, Writing and Storytelling!
[&]How You Found Us?: A link from Embalaa on SoC
[&]Member Title: Tracker/Trapper
[&]In the event of unexplained inactivity, should we kill off or adopt out your character?: Give her a warrior's end please; let her die in a blaze of glory like any Go-Back should!



[&]Full Name: Kellera
[&]Soul Name: n/a
[&]Tribe: Go Back
[&]Age: young adult; 180 (Birthday Jan 13)
[&]Gender: Female

[&]List Of Personality:
Straightforward to a fault (she’s working on her tactfulness)
Pragmatic; “Keep your eyes and feet firmly planted on the ground else you’ll lose your head!”
Friendly but rarely lets others get close
Anticipates loss as a way of life but won’t waste time dwelling on it
Likes to pester Meridi to make her new gadgets or fix broken ones
Has a dry humor that appears as abruptly as it disappears
Hates showing weakness or vulnerability
Impatient; prefers to think quickly, and act on it.
Holds a grudge. Once on her bad side, it takes a while for you to get off her crap list.

((Kellera's personality and demeanor totally alter when she's pregnant and nursing. She's extremely moody, has bursts of rage, cries a lot and suffers from deep depression. She calls it "bearer's sickness" we call it  postpartum depression; this is her deepest shame and a very well hidden secret. Only Xander, Aleen and Rynn knew she suffers from this. It's why she stays away from babies like they are the plague! Also why she gave Jes away as soon as she birthed him; she was afraid she'd do something to harm him.))


[&]Skills other than Sending?:
- Trapping (Excellent)
    - Trap making (Good)
    - Trap repairing (Bad)
- Hunting (Very Good)
- Ice fishing (mediocre, long as she can set it and forget it, she's ok, but minding a line...booooring!)
- Tracking (excellent)
- Armed combat in general (Very good)
- Swords (Good overall)
    - Elven longsword(very good)
    - Troll Greatsword (ok)
    - Troll shortsword (good)
    - Sword and shield (good)
- Spears
    - Throwing spears (highly accurate)
    - Longspear (Ok)
    - Pikes (Ok)
- Bows
    -Crossbow (Good and getting better)
    - Longbow (mediocre)
    - Short bow (Good enough)
- Axes (Bad)
- Mace (bad)
- Flail (bad)
- Ingenuity (good)
- Sending (mediocre)

--Dancing (heavy-footed, but good enough to get a furmate's attention when she tries)
--Singing (Never in public! in private...maybe)
--Fawn-sitting (No! and NO!)
--Tending to others in general ("Aww, walk it off and get better already!" aka horrible bedside manner.)
--Acting (Nope! too straightforward)
--Being social (To those she likes, maybe. If she doesn't like you, she'll ignore you.)
--Being pregnant

[&]Likes/Dislikes:
+ A full belly
+ Warm furs
+ Willing companionship (who knows not to cling!)
+ Her siblings
+ Her fawn, (sorta…he’s almost old enough to be useful)
+ Tracking worthy prey
+ A good brawl or tumble in the furs
- Weeping and excessive shows of emotion
- Weakness in general
- Not living up to one’s potential
- Wasting time
- Feeling vulnerable
-- Snowcats
-- Trolls!

[&]Family:
Parents: Rynn and Vlig; second mother, Aleen
Siblings: Jok(deceased), Meridi, Sanera
Fawns: Jes(10 years old) Vhan (would be 29 now, male, deceased)
Friends: Meridi, Zeel (pst if interested)
Furmates: Xander(sire of Vhan, deceased) Zeel, Garech, Yarl (pst if interested)
Lifemates: (pst if interested)

[&]History:
Eldest daughter of the threesome, Rynn, Aleen and Vlig, Kellera is every bit the stereotypical go-back female. Sturdily built and fierce tempered, she can barely remember a time where she didn't have a blade in her hand. She devoted herself to learning sword, shield, bow and spear; throwing herself into her training with single-minded devotion. Being alive during the troll wars, Kellera didn't have what she considered the 'softer' life her younger siblings grew up in and never really had a childhood; though this is typical for all go-backs really. Still, Kellera has her own sense of humor, though it tends to be an acquired taste. Straightforward to a fault, Kel doesn't curb her tongue and has had more than her share of brawls over ill-chosen words or a jest taken as an insult.

Too used to losing those she cares about, Kel rarely seeks emotional attachments; the last time she allowed herself to grow close to someone was with her former lovemate Xander; sire to her son Vhan. His was a rare, whimsical personality, he often made her laugh with his sly words and antics; his stubborn streak kept him firmly by her side even when she tried to push him away. Clinging like a burr in a snowbear's fur, Kel eventually got used to Xander's presence and they shared furs.

When Vhan was born, Kel found herself with her own small family - a concept that frightened her. As much as she loved them, she also feared the day she would be robbed of this rare joy. When they were both killed during a hunting outing, Kell and her party hunted down the snowcat that had killed them and drove her spear through it's heart. She suffered extensive wounds but  she recovered. She sports a large series of clawmarks down her back and left shoulder. There's also a raking scar from temple to chin on the right side of her face.


One for routine, she wakes up every morning and continues weapon training and spars with her friends when they're up for it but since the death of her family, she spends a great deal more time trapping and hunting; a pastime her deceased family members liked doing. She likes to often wander solo through the wilderness, During one such solo outing, she ran across a lone troll who'd been separated from his party. Taking pleasure in killing him, she found his crossbow.

Taking her find back to her sister, Meridi, she had her inventive sibling retrofit it and added it as a part of her regular repertoire. Kel likes to pester her sister about her tinkerings, bringing her traps and troll creations to retrofit into useful items on a regular basis. She often brings the contraptions back to her sister for repair as Kel doesn't have the most delicate touch and is rough with the mechanisms more often than she ought to be. She's grown closer to her sister Meridi, but tends to keep everyone else at arms length. Of her friends she only counts a handful, Zeel being one of the few in this category.

Despite her desire not to let anyone get close ever again, Kellera has no problem with a fun romp in the furs and does her duty to replenish the clan when it's her time though she is really bad with the little ones. The old wound from Vhan hasn't completely healed yet either. When she became pregnant with her second son, Jes, she kept the pregnancy to herself until she was confronted about it nearly 2 years into it. As soon as she dropped the fawn, she handed him over to her overjoyed family members to tend to and made them promise not to tell the fawn she's the one that dropped him before she decided whether she wanted that connection or not. She won't say who the sire is though it's suspected she knows despite having many furmates.

Raised by her parents, Jes looked at Sanera and Meridi more like sisters. Kell kept her distance though she'd sometimes drop off a new pair of boots or tunic. By his eight turn though, his features were too strikingly similar to hers for anyone NOT to put two and two together. Though he was too young to be much use still, Kell's resolved that if he proved capable of wielding a sword or learning how to hunt, she'd train him up when the time came.

Jes begun seeking a connection to his newly revealed mother, and though she rebuffed him at first, she eventually relented after almost losing him to the troll poison. Since the death of her mother Aleen and the near death of her son, Kellera has made it a point to spend more time with her family. She and Jes have begun to grow closer and as he's past his 10th turn of the season and proves himself capable of sitting still long enough to learn, she's begun training him with basic weapons. Secretly, she delights in these sessions, seeing glimpses of his sire and also of her own long dead brother in Jes's demeanor and 'can do' attitude. The boy seems indomitable and will likely grow up to be a solid warrior if he keeps his head on straight.

It's been nearly two years since the troll war and though she was reluctant at first, Kellera's put in a concerted effort to try and learn about the trolls under the mountain. Grimjaw's clan don't seem half bad; they're solid allies and despite past enmity between their two races, Kellera is finding there's much to learn on both ends. Still, putting past biases aside is taxing work mentally and she still has a long way to go. Overall, Kellera is taking it one day at a time and pushing forward in hopes of securing a future where her siblings and son won't have to take up arms and march to war.


[&]Often seen wearing:
dark green leather pants and jerkin
dark brown overcoat trimmed with white rabbit fur around the lapel and bottom hemline.
High dark brown boots
dark green gloves also trimmed in fur
A long mostly white cloak, made from a snowcat's pelt
A leather sleeve that fits over her shoulder and left arm, this sleeve she wears at all times except for when bathing, it's usually hidden under her clothes - without it, the cold tends to make her scars stiff and her left hand less responsive.

[&]Complexion: pale-skinned with peach complexion undertones
[&]Hair: Blue-black hair that reaches mid-back when loose, usually tied in a high ponytail, tendrils escape and fall over her eyes and face.
[&]Eyes: Bright green eyes with a hard gleam
[&]Build: Sturdily built, muscular from years of weapons practice (think Xena warrior princess)
[&]Height: 4'2" Taller than average for a female Go-Back.
[&]Special features:
Kellera has a mole under her right eye
a scar that runs jagged from her temple, down across her eye almost down to her chin
right eye is a slightly lighter green than her other eye; the sight is poorer in it as well.
Three clawmarks down her back, a series of clawmarks down her left arm

[&]Picture:













[&]Bonded animal: Elk: Thunderhoof, 9 turns; large male stag with a wicked temper. He has a thick dark brown coat with a shock of white on his neck that fades to a dark grey; resembling an angry thundercloud about to downpour. Even more obstinate than his rider, he doesn’t let anyone other than Kellera ride him and has been known to buck and bully anyone who dares try. The SOLE exception being Ruska, who is the tribe's elkherder. He is friendly with her and might even let her ride him. He's possessive of 'his elves' though and dislikes seeing either female ride another elk.

Any other information:
Kellera looks are based off this character; especially her build.




((edit 12/11/2015:
- Adjusted height to be above average, added sending ability (mediocre)
- Also adjusted Jes's background to be more in line with family closeness))

((Edit 3/2/2015
- Added new pic
- Added Kellera's deep dark secret!
- Updated height and body build))

((Edit 3/5/2015
- 2 year jump additions made to bio and stats.))