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Name:
[indent]Joy Carter[/indent]

Age:
[indent]20[/indent]

Gender:
[indent]Female[/indent]

Nomadic or sedentary:
[indent]Nomadic[/indent]

Weapons:
[indent]The Ruger 10-22 (a pistol), Cold Steel SRK (a knife)[/indent]

Skills:
[indent]Lying, sneaking, shooting[/indent]

Any unusual traits? Does it show physically?:
[indent]Her vocal chords have been altered by the radioactivity, giving her more vocal range. Because of this mutation, Joy is able to mimic almost any human or animal noise. It shows as a small lump on her throat, almost like an adam's apple.[/indent]

Brief Personality:
[indent]Joy is the very definition of rough. Her scratchy voice paired with her crass, sarcastic words and general dislike for everybody makes her easily the bitch. However, when someone first meets her that’s not what they expect. She usually changes her voice to sound honeyed and sweet, is polite, and acts bubbly until she feels like revealing that she is anything but. Joy gets a kick out of tricking people into thinking things about her and can take on multiple personas. Her moral code is low and she is not afraid to kill others without a single thought or prostitute herself to a man in exchange for a gun or food. She uses people, even though she knows she shouldn’t, to get what she wants and never feels guilty. She doesn’t care about anyone else but herself. One time, she even made a man fall in love with her so she could take his gun in his sleep! However, she is not without her merits. Joy is extremely intelligent and prefers to use logic over emotion, making her someone to rely on in a pinch – or not, if she decided to sacrifice you to live. She is patient, her patience seeming unending and hardly ever gets mad. [/indent]

Background:
[indent] Joy Carter had never known the world before its fall. She was born into a cold, moral less world and, as such, came out cold and moral less herself. She was born to a young couple, but that is all she remembers due to the fact they abandoned her in woods, now not having to worry about what people think of them. She almost died from the cold until she was found by another survivor that went by the name of Trey. Trey raised her to survive in the big bad world, keeping Joy at a distance, never allowing herself to become emotionally attached to the young Joy. As such, Joy didn't value intimacy as much as the people in the previous age had. She taught Joy to use others and to never regret it, to abandon guilt, and to manipulate.

Joy didn't know much about Trey; she didn't know her age, where she came from, what her real name was, who she was before. For awhile, Joy would ask about her life, but when she did, Trey would slap her hard on the wrist and Joy learned not to ask questions. Around the age of nine, Trey began to leave Joy for an hour or two and, by the age of ten, Trey started leaving for days. One day, Trey never came back. Joy knew this was going to happen eventually and didn't dwell on it. She immediately left with all the supplies she could find and begun to search for someone she could use. 

When Joy was sixteen, she was a part of a band of bandits and helped them steal right out from others noses. She stayed with them until she was nineteen, until one day, they decided to cut their losses in order to keep the supplies to themselves - they tried to kill her. Joy barely escaped with a bullet in her arm and stumbled around, trying to keep the wound from festering, when she came to a survivor at least twenty years her senior. His name was Steven and Joy entered into a sexual relationship with him; he eventually fell in love with her. Joy found his affection for her disgusting, but she allowed him to love her, using him to get what she wants. 

When she came across Maria, a woman willing to mentor her and help her survive, Joy was quick to dump Steven and leave...in the middle of the night...with some of his things.
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Alone or with someone?:
[indent]With Someone[/indent]