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Name: Jormy
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Other Characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Susan Delgado
Age: 16
Canon: Dark Tower (more specifically, Wizard and Glass)
Canon Point: Fresh from being burned at the stake.
Character Information: Here and here
Personality: The first impression any of us get of Susan Delgado is a pretty young girl in a daydream, singing about careless love and swallowing down her pride to do what's right by her family. It's easy to assume that's all there is to her, and many people have made just that assumption - that she's pretty, a romantic, and not much else. That's their mistake, because the truth is that as soon as you scratch the surface, the innocent romantic gives way to someone who's been hardened well beyond her years - and no wonder. She lost her father, who raised her and who she loved more than anyone, to a fall from his horse; she lost her happy home and most of her family's money to her abusive aunt; she lost her freedom and her lover and last of all her life. No wonder that she's not as sweet and romantic a teenage girl as she sometimes appears.
That isn't to say she's not a good person. In her way, she certainly is. She cares about what's right and wrong, what's honest and what's not - even if that's more out of respect to her father's memory than out of any fundamental beliefs of her own - and she isn't cruel or vicious. What she is, at the end of the day, is adaptable. Under that veneer of romance, she's a ruthless pragmatist, and while she has a pretty serviceable sense of ethics, she also has an even more serviceable sense of responsibility. That responsibility, since her father died, has been first and foremost to his legacy, and secondly to herself. If she has to bend her ethics to meet those responsibilities, then, dammit, that's what she'll do. Maybe once upon a time, when her father was alive, the sense of romance and honour went deeper; since his death, it's been superseded by the need to survive.
And, for the most part, she's done pretty well at surviving. She managed to cope with Aunt Cordelia's abuse and the scorn of the town, and while she certainly wasn't happy to be sold off as the mayor's private whore, she was willing to do what was necessary to save her father's ranch and her family - even if that family was Aunt Cordelia. It was what was needed, so she did it. She wasn't happy in her home town of Hambry, but she didn't much expect to be happy; from the time her father died to the time the gunslingers rode into town, she just expected to go on living and doing what had to be done.
Roland - or "Will Dearborn", as he first called himself to her - changed all that. Call it love, call it hormones, call it desperation: for the first time, she really let her heart outrule her head, and for the first time, her life in Hambry didn't seem like enough. Being a gilly to the mayor wasn't enough, staying in a town where she was scorned by most and hated by some wasn't enough - even keeping the ranch, which she'd put everything into and given everything for, didn't seem like enough any more. That might have been the case even if it hadn't been for Will Dearborn's real identity, and the discoveries he and his friends made about the town - including that her father had been murdered. As it was, she was drawn not only into a love affair but also into the middle of a war. She never really chose her side, because it was never in question - on the one side was her lover and her father's allegiances, and on the other side, the men who killed her father and the witch-woman she hated and feared. If she was pressed, she'd say the side was chosen for her - and that might have come as a surprise to the Susan of a few months before, who was making a concerted effort to stay out of the whole thing. Love can change a lot of things.
Some things, though, stayed the same. Like the arrangement with Mayor Thorin, which added one more complication to the situation; she'd been promised as a virgin, and by the time she and Roland had got far enough into their affair, that contract might have been broken a little. Things got worse when their romance was discovered, and used as part of a plot to frame Roland and his friends for the mayor's murder. By then, Susan was more desperate than ever. Rumours of her affair with the out-of-town stranger were spreading, her lover was in jail, and she now knew she was pregnant.
Unwilling to abandon him to the noose or the Reaptide fire, and unable to do anything else to free him, she found his guns in the cabin where he'd been staying, dressed herself as a boy, hid her face, and went to break the gunslingers out of jail. Again, if you'd told her what would happen a few months before, she would never have believed it; in freeing the three boys, she fired Roland's guns not once but twice, killing the sheriff and deputy, both men she'd known since she was a child. She wouldn't have thought it was in her to kill in cold blood, but it was, and she barely had time or space to feel remorse for it. It might still have ended well enough, if the four of them had fled, but the gunslingers had a duty to fulfil, fighting off the enemy soldiers who were trying to take a nearby oilfield. They left Susan in hiding, and went to fight.
She was found, and taken prisoner, taken back to the town. Even then, she might have been saved: two women from the town - the mayor's widow, and the maid they gave Susan as part of the arrangement - broke her out of the cellar she was being kept in, and made for the next town. But luck wasn't on their side, and they were met by another of the gang. This time, when she was brought back to town, there was nobody to save her. She rode back into town on the back of a cart, with her hands tied, and there they tied her to a stake on the Reaptide fire, and burned her.
Unsurprisingly, when she comes to Ryslig, she'll be a little traumatised by all that. She's capable of forgiveness - she even forgave her Aunt Cordelia, who made her life a living hell for years - and she's certainly capable of pretending to cope, but there are some things that aren't easy to manage, and being violently murdered by the people of your own town is one of them. At this point, she's lost everything, including a child that wasn't born yet, and the grief and anger are raw as all hell. Her temper, always liable to flare up, is on more of a hair-trigger than ever, and she'll be very determined not to let herself be hurt the same way again. She was already defensive, but she'll be more so than ever, quicker to judge and slower to trust.
At the end of the day, though - strange though it may be to say of someone who died before she was old enough to drink - Susan's a survivor. She'll do what she has to, and if what she has to do is swallow her pain and keep surviving, well, that's what she'll do. Whatever it takes.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
- Pragmatic
- Adaptable
- Sharp-witted
- Loyal
- Brave
- Hot-tempered
- Prideful
- Suspicious
- Judgemental
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Either
Opt-Outs: None
Roleplay Sample: TDM thread, with alternative threads here and here because I know they're all still quite short.
Name: Jormy
Contact:
jormandugrOther Characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Susan Delgado
Age: 16
Canon: Dark Tower (more specifically, Wizard and Glass)
Canon Point: Fresh from being burned at the stake.
Character Information: Here and here
Personality: The first impression any of us get of Susan Delgado is a pretty young girl in a daydream, singing about careless love and swallowing down her pride to do what's right by her family. It's easy to assume that's all there is to her, and many people have made just that assumption - that she's pretty, a romantic, and not much else. That's their mistake, because the truth is that as soon as you scratch the surface, the innocent romantic gives way to someone who's been hardened well beyond her years - and no wonder. She lost her father, who raised her and who she loved more than anyone, to a fall from his horse; she lost her happy home and most of her family's money to her abusive aunt; she lost her freedom and her lover and last of all her life. No wonder that she's not as sweet and romantic a teenage girl as she sometimes appears.
That isn't to say she's not a good person. In her way, she certainly is. She cares about what's right and wrong, what's honest and what's not - even if that's more out of respect to her father's memory than out of any fundamental beliefs of her own - and she isn't cruel or vicious. What she is, at the end of the day, is adaptable. Under that veneer of romance, she's a ruthless pragmatist, and while she has a pretty serviceable sense of ethics, she also has an even more serviceable sense of responsibility. That responsibility, since her father died, has been first and foremost to his legacy, and secondly to herself. If she has to bend her ethics to meet those responsibilities, then, dammit, that's what she'll do. Maybe once upon a time, when her father was alive, the sense of romance and honour went deeper; since his death, it's been superseded by the need to survive.
And, for the most part, she's done pretty well at surviving. She managed to cope with Aunt Cordelia's abuse and the scorn of the town, and while she certainly wasn't happy to be sold off as the mayor's private whore, she was willing to do what was necessary to save her father's ranch and her family - even if that family was Aunt Cordelia. It was what was needed, so she did it. She wasn't happy in her home town of Hambry, but she didn't much expect to be happy; from the time her father died to the time the gunslingers rode into town, she just expected to go on living and doing what had to be done.
Roland - or "Will Dearborn", as he first called himself to her - changed all that. Call it love, call it hormones, call it desperation: for the first time, she really let her heart outrule her head, and for the first time, her life in Hambry didn't seem like enough. Being a gilly to the mayor wasn't enough, staying in a town where she was scorned by most and hated by some wasn't enough - even keeping the ranch, which she'd put everything into and given everything for, didn't seem like enough any more. That might have been the case even if it hadn't been for Will Dearborn's real identity, and the discoveries he and his friends made about the town - including that her father had been murdered. As it was, she was drawn not only into a love affair but also into the middle of a war. She never really chose her side, because it was never in question - on the one side was her lover and her father's allegiances, and on the other side, the men who killed her father and the witch-woman she hated and feared. If she was pressed, she'd say the side was chosen for her - and that might have come as a surprise to the Susan of a few months before, who was making a concerted effort to stay out of the whole thing. Love can change a lot of things.
Some things, though, stayed the same. Like the arrangement with Mayor Thorin, which added one more complication to the situation; she'd been promised as a virgin, and by the time she and Roland had got far enough into their affair, that contract might have been broken a little. Things got worse when their romance was discovered, and used as part of a plot to frame Roland and his friends for the mayor's murder. By then, Susan was more desperate than ever. Rumours of her affair with the out-of-town stranger were spreading, her lover was in jail, and she now knew she was pregnant.
Unwilling to abandon him to the noose or the Reaptide fire, and unable to do anything else to free him, she found his guns in the cabin where he'd been staying, dressed herself as a boy, hid her face, and went to break the gunslingers out of jail. Again, if you'd told her what would happen a few months before, she would never have believed it; in freeing the three boys, she fired Roland's guns not once but twice, killing the sheriff and deputy, both men she'd known since she was a child. She wouldn't have thought it was in her to kill in cold blood, but it was, and she barely had time or space to feel remorse for it. It might still have ended well enough, if the four of them had fled, but the gunslingers had a duty to fulfil, fighting off the enemy soldiers who were trying to take a nearby oilfield. They left Susan in hiding, and went to fight.
She was found, and taken prisoner, taken back to the town. Even then, she might have been saved: two women from the town - the mayor's widow, and the maid they gave Susan as part of the arrangement - broke her out of the cellar she was being kept in, and made for the next town. But luck wasn't on their side, and they were met by another of the gang. This time, when she was brought back to town, there was nobody to save her. She rode back into town on the back of a cart, with her hands tied, and there they tied her to a stake on the Reaptide fire, and burned her.
Unsurprisingly, when she comes to Ryslig, she'll be a little traumatised by all that. She's capable of forgiveness - she even forgave her Aunt Cordelia, who made her life a living hell for years - and she's certainly capable of pretending to cope, but there are some things that aren't easy to manage, and being violently murdered by the people of your own town is one of them. At this point, she's lost everything, including a child that wasn't born yet, and the grief and anger are raw as all hell. Her temper, always liable to flare up, is on more of a hair-trigger than ever, and she'll be very determined not to let herself be hurt the same way again. She was already defensive, but she'll be more so than ever, quicker to judge and slower to trust.
At the end of the day, though - strange though it may be to say of someone who died before she was old enough to drink - Susan's a survivor. She'll do what she has to, and if what she has to do is swallow her pain and keep surviving, well, that's what she'll do. Whatever it takes.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
- Pragmatic
- Adaptable
- Sharp-witted
- Loyal
- Brave
- Hot-tempered
- Prideful
- Suspicious
- Judgemental
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Either
Opt-Outs: None
Roleplay Sample: TDM thread, with alternative threads here and here because I know they're all still quite short.
