[quote=@McHaggis]
I wasn't sure if I should have posted it here or in the tab. Also considering making a second character (because one just feels so lonely!)

[hider=Johanna Raske/Hermes][center][h1][color=71cec2]Johanna Raske[/color][/h1]
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[i]"There's coffee in that nebula,"[/i]
-[b] Captain Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager[/b][/center][hr][hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]Personal Information[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=71cec2][u]Name:[/u][/color]
Johanna Raske

[color=71cec2][u]Nickname:[/u][/color]
Joey

[color=71cec2][u]Birth Date:[/u][/color]
3rd of December

[color=71cec2][u]Age:[/u][/color]
19

[color=71cec2][u]Gender:[/u][/color]
Female

[color=71cec2][u]Sexuality:[/u][/color]
Bisexual

[hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]In The Mirror[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=71cec2][u]In Depth Appearance:[/u][/color]
Johanna has markedly normal features for someone from Norway. Light blonde hair, extremely pale skin and bright blue eyes are not unexpected. She is tall at 5'11" (and is mocked for it by her dad when he shows up, which hasn't resulted in a complex [i]at all[/i]) but is also long and lanky, with legs and arms that seem almost too long for her. Johanna's facial features are sharp with cheekbones that could cut glass and angular eyebrows that always give the appearance of anger – or surprise. With wide doe eyes and long eyelashes, she often looks a bit like a startled owl. Finally, Johanna does seem younger than her actual age from her face alone, though that is surely not helped by her choice in attire.

[color=71cec2][u]Clothing Style:[/u][/color]
Bright woolen hats and beanies in all the colours of the rainbow. Sneakers when the sun's shining and the ground is dry, and rubber boots (with flowers on them) as soon as it even starts to rain or snow. Johanna wears knitted skater dresses over thick tights or jeans and out-of-season Christmas jumpers. Her choice in clothing can be seen as a little eccentric, or at least completely anti-fashion. Johanna doesn't wear much jewellery and doesn't even have her ears pierced, though she makes an exception for a necklace from her dad – a cheap little rainbow-coloured snake on the end of a chain.

[hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]Delving Deeper[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=71cec2][u]Likes:[/u][/color]
[list][*] Running
[*] Her father
[*] Snakes
[*] Coffee
[*] Exploring[/list]

[color=71cec2][u]Dislikes:[/u][/color]
[list][*] Being slow
[*] Sleeping
[*] Hot climates
[*] Her height
[*] Spicy foods[/list]

[color=71cec2][u]Fears:[/u][/color]
[list][*] Being forgotten by her Godly parent and never seeing him again.
[*] Death in general after her mother's untimely demise – it doesn't matter whose it is.
[*] Blood – tends to get queasy or faint at the sight of it.[/list]

[color=71cec2][u]Habits:[/u][/color]
[list][*] Running or jogging everywhere, or otherwise refusing to walk at a snail's pace.
[*] Humming to herself.
[*] Talking to her snakes as if they're children.[/list]

[color=71cec2][u]Personality:[/u][/color]
[center][u]♦ Pacifist ♦ Absent-Minded ♦ Shy ♦ Carefree ♦[/u][/center]
Johanna gets nervous around people easily, which might seem counter-intuitive for the daughter of a God who is the patron of [i]merchants[/i]. She is more than a little eccentric, though never unkind – if her only friends end up being her pets, that's fine by her (or so she tells herself). Often Johanna forgets what's she's doing, or why she left the house in the first place, but as someone who believes that the journey is the best part about going somewhere, it doesn't bother her too much. She is, on the whole, easy to please and perhaps a bit childish in humour – pranks are a big thing with her, and she loves setting them up on close friends. Finally, if she didn't have mandatory lessons on combat, she wouldn't ever do it – Johanna prefers knocking people out peacefully and without bloodshed.

[color=71cec2][u]Background:[/u][/color]
Johanna's life has been, on the whole, decent. She was born in Norway to a mother still love-struck by a Greek God who liked to jump in and out of her life at will. Joey's memories of her father during her early childhood are fragmented, but she knows he appeared at birthdays and all that. She supposes now that she was lucky, as some never knew their godly parent whilst she had him around even at the most terrible times of her life: her awful school years thanks to bullying and her mother's funeral (as the woman had always been sickly).

When she was eight, she moved to live with her aunt, who was one of those people who believed in 'free-range parenting'. Johanna learned to cook for herself, and spend most of her time out in the freezing woods next to her aunt's home. Even so, her aunt did love her (and hated her father, who she had no idea was Hermes) and was filthy rich, so Joey wanted for nothing – except, perhaps friends. Still, she had snakes, though, which had to be worth something!

At sixteen, Hermes not-so-subtly suggested that she enroll in the Olympus Academy, and always eager to please her dad, she did. With an apartment set up to house her and her reptilian companions, all seems to be well, if a little lonely.

[color=71cec2][u]Extra:[/u][/color]
[sup][i]Hermes[/i]. Hermeshermeshermes. Consider me a fangirl.[/sup][hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]Godly Information[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=71cec2][u]Godly Parent:[/u][/color]
Hermes

[color=71cec2][u]Relationship With Godly Parent:[/u][/color]
As far as Johanna is concerned, she has a good relationship with her father, Hermes – even if it's not a particularly paternal one. He shows up now and then, sends gifts regularly (usually with a cute little card telling her to [i]stick in school[/i] or [i]cause havok![/i]) but otherwise is more of a fun, often absentee uncle than a dad. At times she wishes she saw more of him.

[color=71cec2][u]Godly Abilities:[/u][/color]
[u]Universal Communication[/u] – Johanna can understand most (if not all) of the mortal languages, even if she doesn't quite realise she's doing it. She likens it to the TARDIS in [i]Doctor Who[/i] translating for her. Also, she can speak to snakes and with a bit of sweet-talking can make them do her bidding. [i]Hiss.[/i]

[u]Speed-Devil[/u] – In exchange for not being particularly strong, Hermes being her father has made Johanna [i]fast[/i], so much so that it scares her sometimes. She runs faster than the average human and is more difficult to tire out, and her reflexes are unnaturally fast. As a kid she played a wicked game of baseball.

[u]Flash Step[/u] – Johanna is naturally inclined to using trickery in combat so end it... peacefully. She's not quite sure how it works, but she definitely has inherited her father's ability to be somewhere and appear somewhere else within a split-second – to an extent. It only works within a [i]very[/i] limited area, and she has only ever used it to appear behind someone for pranking purposes.
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First off, you did right by posting it here first. The Tab is reserved for accepted characters only. Secondly, I don't see anything wrong with this character, so you can go ahead and post it in the CHARS Tab.

About what you asked initially, there's not a lot going on as far as what you have to catch up on. We're wrapping up a kidnapping arc. Pretty much, if you just read [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/3088057]this post[/url], I think you should be able to get enough to form a good introductory post.

[quote=@McHaggis]
[@MiddleEarthRoze] Thanks! I'm called towards the son of Poseidon or the daughter of Artemis for a second character... hmm, gotta have a brainstorm (or use it as an excuse to go hunting for faceclaims...)
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There was a person that expressed interest in the Daughter of Armetis, but she has since retracted her interest, so you're free to go for that one for sure. :)

[quote=@LadyTale]
Son of Hera spot is still open, too.
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Aaaacutally, no it's not. [@Crimmy] was the one who submitted the sheet for that slot and was accepted. Although it hasn't been posted for yet, that slot is still taken.

[quote=@MiddleEarthRoze]
[@Wade Wilson]

Lookin' good!
And of course, [i]of course[/i] he's obsessed with SPN. If no-one else comes up to contest your place, I have a feeling Dylan and Roze will get on like a house on fire. XD
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I kinda get teh feeling that Roze and Johanna could also get along. Based on what I'm seeing from her, they're both sort of alike. xD