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Jordan Harper; Herbalist Shopkeep
« on: October 23, 2017, 11:32:30 am »
BASIC INFORMATION

Full name: Jordan Harper
Gender: Genderqueer
Age: 24
D.O.B: May 9th
Height: 5’ 7”
Weight: 133 lbs
Race: Human
Sexuality: Pansexual
Nationality: Edani
Residence: Tynova, Edanith


PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

A willowy beauty with long, slender limbs; Jordan has a body that is straight and narrow as a ruler with no curves whatsoever and a lot of leg. If the truth was told they are a bit on the side of being too thin and looking slightly underfed. They are not starving, but probably also do not eat or sleep enough and work too much which does affect their health negatively.

Jordan has delicate hands with long, boney fingers – palms usually lightly stained from the rich dark soil and mulch they work with daily. Their skin is naturally a soft peach, and despite their love of working outside or in the greenhouse, they never develop a tan.

Their body has an obvious thinness to it, their face is not. Jordan has rounded cheeks and while their mouth is small, they possess full, glossy lips with a tiny button nose resting above them. Huge baby blue eyes are very expressive and highlighted with black eyeliner and mascara. They have a very soft, gentle air about them that you can both see and feel. 

Perhaps Jordan’s best feature, their crowning glory, is their hair. Red might culturally be an unlucky color, but they love it more than anything else about themselves. It isn’t like redheads are even terribly uncommon in Edanith – their parents were crazy fanatics that needed something to hate. They looked for anything at all to hate about them. Maybe that makes Jordan love the deep red waterfall of hair that cascades down their back, gloriously wavy with curls on the ends – if it were shorter and not weighted down it would be in natural loose spirals.

They were made for the cooler weather of Edanith. Jordan loves all things cozy and warm – sweaters, scarves, beanies, toboggans, boots, mittens – they are the best clothes! Earthy colors, mostly browns and greens, are their typical go-to on anything.


PERSONALITY

Jordan is very much the type to keep their head down, their nose clean, and not to cause waves – or even ripples if they can help it. Inquisitive, hard-working, and kind-hearted, Jordan loves to be working with their hands in the dirt, experimenting with new growing methods and showering their plants with affection. They are the closest things to friends or family they really have right now.

Most of their time is filled with running the shop and tending to their plants, at least twelve hours a day every day of the week. Late in the evenings when the shop has closed they love to spend their time reading books of every genre or taking walks around the countless gardens of Tynova.

Socially they are something of a dud. It isn’t at all that they don’t like people, but Jordan has very deep self-esteem and anxiety issues. They are different from everyone else, and even though it is impossible to simply point a finger at them and yell they are a psychic upon first meeting, they know and it makes them self-conscious.

Fun Facts:

•   Smells like orchids, which happen to be their favorite flower.

•   Has a soft, lilting voice that is great for singing, particularly lullabies.
 
•   Grows and blends the best herbal teas, essential oils, and marijuana which they sell for reasonable prices in their shop.

•   Has a small petting zoo in their apartment, with animal cages, terrariums, and aquariums taking up any space not dominated by bookshelves.

•   Hasn’t done more than trim the split ends off their hair since they were eight years old.

•   They run a gardening blog focused on providing tips for getting the most out of your garden with posts promoting their business peppered in as well.

•   Is absolutely terrified of Aedolis and anything to do with it. Their family constantly warned them that the Aedolians were going to come kidnap them and force them to be a dragon slave if they ever did anything bad. Yes, they know their family was terrible and it probably will never happen. No, that does not stop them from occasionally having vivid nightmares about it!


PSIONICS

Florapathy- This is Jordan’s greatest gift, and also the reason they will never fit in well with the rest of Edanith society. Psychics are just not trusted among the Edani. Also they are much better at communicating with plants than people. Not actual word conversations, mind you, that would require the plants to have human thought processes, but they can feel and understand each other just fine.

Faunapathy-  Like with plants, they mostly communicate with feelings and simple pictures and concepts. They can connect with some creatures much easier than others. Insects, while simple in their thoughts, are easy to communicate with, while the more intelligent the creature the harder it becomes – perhaps surprisingly.

Empathy- A fairly weak sense, but they can get feelings from people. It is little more than an uncanny ability to know when people are angry, upset, happy, or lying.


RELATIONSHIPS

The Harpers- This is their birth family; mother, father, two older brothers, two younger brothers, and two younger sisters. They moved to the frontier without them when they were just a child and to this day they have no contact with them.

Laura Dell- The older woman that took them in after their family abandoned them. She is deceased and they miss her very much.


BACKSTORY

Jordan has certainly endured their fair share of unfortunate circumstances and rotten luck in their still relatively short life, but they are grateful for the good parts of which there are enough.

From birth it seemed fate that they would not live a boring, unnoticed life. A bouncing baby born to a very conservative couple, they disapproved highly from the start of their child, the third born of seven. For starters, Jordan was born with flaming red hair, and everyone knows that red is an unlucky color. In fact, of the seven children, Jordan is the only one that inherited such deep red hair – the rest of the family is honey blonde or strawberry blonde.

Their mother kept their head shaved bald rather than look at the awful color. A fact that always deeply troubled Jordan, who loved their hair.

As if the red hair wasn’t bad enough, Jordan was always a strange child. Sure, most children are curious and like to play in the dirt, but Jordan was downright obsessed with everything to do with being outside and gardening. There is nothing wrong with wanting to nurture nature, of course, but Jordan was no mage – that would have been a fantastic honor!

It was shortly after Jordan’s seventh birthday when it became apparent that they had no ability to manipulate the growth of plants with magic, but instead that they were communicating telepathically with not only the local flora, but the fauna as well. They had spawned a psychic child with the abilities of florapathy and faunapathy; a psychic, like those imperialist Aedolians that were the enemy of everything Edanith. It was the final straw for the family, really. How could they expect to deal with the kind of shame and scrutiny a non-Mordecai psychic in the family?

They couldn’t.

Jordan was left behind in Tynova while their family took up an opportunity to move to the frontier on a government stipend. It certainly hurt to be left behind and cast aside by their family, but they had always been different and disconnected from not only their family, but everyone else too.

Psychics are not regarded very highly in Edanith unless they were Mordecai, but Jordan was just a child who had been abandoned. They were taken in by a kindly older widow who ran a herbal specialty shop and greenhouse. She had four children of her own, but they were all grown and had moved out to the frontier to help settle the planet with their own families.

The arrangement worked out wonderfully, really. Laura Dell got a new little one to fill her empty home, help with her shop and caring for the plants – uniquely gifted help – while Jordan received a home where they were loved and appreciated for what they were – imperfect but genuinely trying.

That was a lucky break for them; a turning point in their life where the unspoken dislike and resentment of their family gave way to acceptance and contentment in their new situation. Sure, everything wasn’t perfect, but it was good. They got to really embrace themselves for the first time and it was very liberating to not have their every action called into question or criticized by their parents or teased by their siblings.

Jordan was twenty when Laura, his beloved caretaker, passed away from natural causes. Her children returned for the funeral, and Jordan catered to them in her home. They were surprisingly kind to them, and when it was made known that both the shop with a small apartment above it and the greenhouse had been left to Jordan they were not angry in the slightest.

The last four years have been bittersweet for Jordan. On the one hand they still sometimes miss Laura very much, but at least the plants and insects keep them from being too lonely without her. On the other hand, they now have their own business, a reasonably successful one at that. Yes, they will never be rich, but they have what they need to get by happily. Even the regular visits by government officials and knowing they are being kept an eye on don’t get them down much.

 

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