paradisaooc | A boot to the head is how you say hello

Hello Paradisa! I'm Jaina, and I'm not entirely new to the game—a couple of years ago I was here with Roxas from Kingdom Hearts. This time around, I've brought Maria Thorpe Thorpe from Assassin's Creed. She's English and spent the last eight years as a soldier in the Third Crusade (think Robin Hood-era) after temporarily pretending to be a man in order to join up. She was also the steward to the grandmaster of the Knights Templar (think The Bad Guys, at least in the AssCreeds), but a few weeks prior to her canon point she ditched them in a real "You can't fire me, I QUIT!" way.

Other notable Maria facts include: she's from the year 1191, so she's way behind on the technology front and I look forward to culture shock hilarity; she's very good at escaping kidnappers/jailers/etc., but kind of bad at avoiding getting captured in the first place; and she has the guts to kick philosophy-spouting master assassins in the face.

Like this!

For those more familiar with the AC series, Maria is specifically from a little bit after the end of Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines, so she knows more about the Assassins in general and is road-tripping with one as her travel buddy, but conceiving children on towers is a long way off.

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effervescible, but I'm happy to plot and chatter over PMs/AIM/whatever else works. I'm glad to be here!

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Hello to you new bff B)

I am legitimately debating whether or not to have her intro wearing her cloak with the Templar cross on it (look, she only has one cloak to wear on her road trip, she's not made of money) because it would be hilarious but could potentially delay this beautiful friendship.

Hidden blades to the throat do not make good hellos :'( and then the sadness that there aren't any targets in this damn castle! I don't know which is worse.