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Description

Jo is 5'8" with a compact build, lean and wiry like she has seen hard work for turns. Lean muscle is covered with deep tanned skin, almost olive in color. She has an angular build with little softness her and there - her body seeming built for running and some heavy labor. Eyes are almond in shape and a deep, soulful brown that doesn't waver, and she has a long sharp nose. Lips are full and almost pouty, being the only soft-looking feature on an otherwise plain and weathered face. Stringy black hair is kept short and pulled away from her face.

She wears a long and thick brown wherhide coat over a light brown woven top with thick cross-stitching at the collar. Pockets cover her deep grey trouser pants, held up and in place by a belt that holds the hilt of a knife attached to her left side and within easy access. Wherhide boots finish off the ensemble, thick at the soles.

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• People have seen Taikrin drop her off in the Bowl. The two could possibly know each other.

• There's a look about her that will suspiciously lump her in with the rest of the convicts already at the Weyr. There's only speculation for her origins, for now. Despite what she says. Can't really tell what's fact or fiction with convicts.

• Recent: These past turns, Jo's been keeping her head down and 'seeming' to be with the program (that is, going through the motions of a dragonrider). However, things don't seem to add up with our former convict - like when she's not doing duty, she's gone. She's gone ALOT. All anyone has these last few turns of this is speculation. Has Jo been going back to her dirty-handed ways?

• Jo is not one these days that speaks a lot. you may have seen her on the rare occasion about the Weyr, or doing drills with her wing, Glacier. Whatever the case may be, she is one where her reputation and the stories that blew in with her turns ago, precedes her. Few have been known to breach her tough-as-nails exterior, and no one really knows what she was convicted of to go to the Mines. One can only guess.

And she likes a good brawl, especially when drunk.

History

Jolie was born into a family of guards in Keogh Hold with her mother not in the picture. Raised by a strict father and four older brothers, she was brought up by a tough code like she was a guard-in-training rather than a family member. Also brought up like her brothers, she often found herself in scuffles and the like - especially in defense of someone she considers a friend. Such loyalties eventually came back to bite her, however; she befriended a travelling trader that awed her with his travelling stories and adventures - things she herself have never experienced since she's always remained in Keogh. When this man got accused one day of filching one of the runnerbeasts from the Hold stables by one of Jolie's brothers, she went to the defense of the trader rather than taking her family's side. As much as she tried to explain and mediate the situation, the rift that tore through the family structure was too firmly present. With the brothers promising to alert their father of this situation as soon as he returned to the Hold, on impulse Jolie sought out the trader and found him preparing a hasty getaway with the stolen runner. Realizing that her brothers were right, she was struggling to turn the man in when he offered her a chance for a taste of 'adventure' and to get away from the drab and rigid life she had. With trouble in the form of her father coming, Jolie convinced herself she had no other choice. She'll just return when things calm down, right?

The trader and Jolie ended up meeting up with his friends - a small group that seemed a lot more hardened and not at all like the charming trader. It's through them that Jolie got involved in theft - starting out small with pilfering travelers to bigger targets. It's through one of these targets - a traveling smithcrafter on his way to the Weyr in Ista - that things got bad really fast. The smithcraftsman was quick and fast, managing to injure one of them and got Jolie in the leg before he was killed. With murder being a huge offense, the group panicked and left with what they could take - leaving behind the dead smithcraftsman, the mortally-wounded group member, and an injured Jolie. The guards came to the scene, the mortally wounded man pleaded his case with dying breath that Jolie was the one that injured both him and the smithcrafter, and Jolie was far too stunned to get rid of the bloody knife she held.

Jolie was sent to the mines since no other witnesses were present to clear her name, the woman fuming at the betrayal. For months she planned her escape, biding her time as her anger for the offenses against her mounted. When the time came, Jolie used her influence with befriending one of the guards and made her escape into the night. Since the window was a narrow one before both she and the guard that let her free were found out, Jolie was holdless and on the run to find safety. That's how, through frequenting passing bars and eavesdropping on conversations, Jolie first picked up info about the Greenfields criminal gang.

Stealing to get by, Jolie makes her way to Greenfields and to the gang in question with hopes that they could help her out. They offered to keep her out of the mines and away from the guards' notice in exchange for favors done for them. Since it was stuff she had some experience in by this point - theft, smuggling, gambling, and some things even shadier than that - they found Jolie easy in agreement. Now, a turn later, 19 turn old Jolie is being asked to join a few others in infiltrating the Weyr in the Reaches in order to be 'searched' with the possibility of riding a dragon for them. With Jolie in no position to refuse (or otherwise possibly lose the protection afforded her), the Keogh woman is more than willing to accept.

The Greenfield bosses sent Taikrin to pick Jo up and drop her and a few others at High Reaches Weyr so that she could be Searched. It was a bid to get their criminal elements on dragons - a bid that actually worked. Jo Impressed to a tough blue by the name of Tacuseth, and thus began the push and pull relationship between convict rider and dragon. They survived through weyrlinghood, keeping their head down as per orders, and once they were knotted for Glacier wing, the pair were free to continue the work that Jo was meant to do.

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