Hasha

Second Character (First one is Austin)

IC Information

Character name: Hasha

Race: Half Orc

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Character Description: A 7ft tall half orc with dark turquoise skin. She has long, very fluffy but tangled brown hair with small trinkets (feathers, beads, etc.) and bright blue string braided into one side. She generally has her hair tied up in a large bun. She has icy blue eyes, she is also incredibly near sighted. She has small tusks which can and sometimes do protrude out when she’s comfortable but she has spent a while practicing hiding them. She has a septum piercing made out of bone and a dangling earring on her right ear with a small fang on it. She has a ratty shawl that might have been a cloak at one point pinned to her shirt with simple bone pins with purple painted flowers on the end. She wears a ratty sleeveless tunic, some trousers that are covered in patches  and soft heavily worn leather boots. She has several scars across her arms and one across her face. And she has a purple scarf made out of a baby blanket of hers. She also has several scars littering her body. The bigger ones on her arms and torso are from ‘being trained’ to fight. The smaller ones on her hands are from defending herself in bar fight style fights or bullying. The one above her eye is from being hit with a glass bottle. The knife and burn scars on her thighs are self inflicted. The small ones on her back are from punishments.

Character Occupation: She was once a guard for a merchant but is currently unemployed. She has good enough fighting/defending skills. She loves to make trinkets out of bits of wood and/or bone and paint or draw flowers.

Character Personality/Traits: She is incredibly shy, she barely speaks full sentences in common out of nerves. She is however an attentive listener. She will pretend to be confident and keep up a strong appearance in front of people. She likes to hum to herself while painting or drawing. She doesn’t like talking about her own experiences or feelings due to anxiety. She also is quite scared of men. She also walks slowly as to not bump into things and has had to learn to rely on other things like hearing and touch more than sight. That being said she flinches when being touched without warning.

Character Biography:
Pre-Hasha: Her mom was an orc who came to the kingdom in search of peace and more of a calm life. Spent her time bartending where she could trying to make money where she could. She worked as hard as she could to make herself a good life. It just went wrong when she stayed late one night at work to clean up after a brawl that had broken out. One of the men in the fight was a constant source of annoyance towards her. A retired mercenary who would go on and on every time he was in there about how horrible orcs are and how they were violent and killed anyone for no reason. She was followed home by that man, he was absolutely wasted, and hit her over the head with a bottle when she cut through an alley on her way home, knocking her out and then taking advantage. She was too tired to realize she was being followed until it was too late. She still worked her hardest to take care of herself once she started to feel worse. When she realized she was pregnant, she didn’t stop her efforts to keep working and to try and give the child the best shot she could for their life. One of her only gifts to the child was a purple striped blanket made of yarn.

Childhood: When Hasha was born her mother decided she was going to help her child the best she could until the child could walk and talk well enough, teaching her both orcish and the bit of common she knew. She didn’t want to think about what happened to her but wasn’t going to leave the child to die. Then she left Hasha in a town at an orphanage and never turned back. Hasha has been quiet and ‘shy’ since she was a child. When she was about 5 she was picked up by a human travelling merchant because she was spotted as someone who would be strong and a useful tool even as a small kid. She was trained to help move cargo around and fight to protect him despite her young age. She wasn’t treated that great because of a) racism and also being a living being and b) needing food to survive and not just a tool who could work. Many of the people the merchant would work with or sell things to would also not be that great. When the year long winter hit she was even more restless than 6 year olds usually are, they were forced to stay in one place and she didn’t like it. In the town/village they were staying in was where she became embarrassed of speaking. She was made fun of for having a slight stutter and sometimes struggling with words in common. She also got into ‘fights’, trying to protect herself and get people to leave her alone (she was not successful in getting away without injury or bruises at the least). 

Late Teens: When she was around 18 the merchant decided she could ‘help him’ through the loss of his wife because she was unfortunately very gullible. The wife didn’t die, she just left him due to many circumstances but two of them being that the merchant couldn’t support her and their kid enough monetarily because of the three year long winter, which was making it very hard for him to travel to sell or trade anything, nonetheless send money home, and that he was never home. Hasha unfortunately thought this was normal having been taught and ‘raised’ by this man. So she thought she wanted to help. But she felt awful. She pushed it aside constantly. Until one night when they had stopped at a tavern, she met a lovely and kind woman (who worked in a pillow palace type job, not at the pillow palace, im but bad with words) with whom she opened up to. Telling her about what little childhood memories she had, her life with the merchant, how she was trained and used as an employee/guard from a very young age, how she never felt safe around people or felt scared to talk to anyone, and how now the relationship with the merchant had changed, to a different type of use. Hasha had a little bit more than usual to drink (she never drank) and hadn’t realized she had started crying. The woman had listened quietly and gently had taken her hand to comfort her, eventually telling her that the sort of treatment she had gone through wasn’t good or right. And also that the change in relationship dynamic she had dealt with the merchant wasn’t normal or good either. She had given the sad and crying Hasha a hug and would tell her that she would be okay, trying to tell Hasha how to stand up against her treatment. But Hasha couldn’t find it in herself to stop him. She however became colder, more distant, and secretly more scared of the world. In which the merchant became harsher, and trying even more to make her instead of respecting him, afraid of him.

Now-ish: When she was around 22 she was ‘let go’ from the merchant because she became too intimidating according to him. She was too tall and always looked at him with “a murderous look” according to the pitiful short fuckass man. She spent time travelling and trying to be hired again. Struggling to find work or only getting a job for a few weeks. She also struggled with her mental health and took it out on herself. She finally landed in Falkvard when she was about 24 almost 25, trying to find work and making small trinkets and decorative bits and bobs to sell. When the cult attack happened she did some fighting to try and help but she got some injuries but nothing too bad, at least she has some cool scars now. She has also found some safety in occasionally going to the pillow palace not for activities but just to talk and because she finds the environment safe and comforting. Gerran being basically the only man she isn’t afraid of (anymore). Now she’s back to trying to make little art pieces and make ends meet. 

Other/Extra (Images, notes, etc.): She’s always wanted to have a pet bird and hopes to maybe have a family one day. She also wants to be a guard again.