Realistic or Modern Fortune Amongst Hardship - CS Thread

[RascalRoadkill]

FORTUNE AMONGST HARDSHIP
"These are the end-times,
there was no hope of survival.
This is how you died."
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PLAYER CHARACTERS​

I will preface by saying that this will not be first-come, first-serve. It's not personal or a strike against your writing abilities; it's just because I prefer to pick out a group of characters that I think will mesh together in interesting ways. I know my limits, and I simply can't give a ton of players and characters the time and attention they deserve if there's too many people.

Faceclaims - I will ask for no very well known celebrities. I think it'd be pretty difficult to imagine our survival scenario with, like, people with the faces of KPop stars and major actors running around. I ask for no AI generated images either. Aside from that, anything goes, I have no preference between drawn, realistic, or just plain text description. Hell, if you forget one completely, I'm honestly probably not gonna notice. The substance matters far more to me than the appearance, though it is helpful for theatre of the mind.

Character Sheets - Freeform. There will not be a traditional character sheet. You can elaborate on your character concept through descriptive writing, a classic character sheet, or a mix of both. As long as it establishes the character's concept and gives me an idea of who they are, it's fine by me.

I only have one requirement for it. On the sheet, I would like answers to 2-3 of the following questions (your choice!) regarding your character. They are purposefully vague. Consider them "pre-RP"; these aren't intended to ask about what happens to your character during the initial conflict at the start of RP.

• What selfish thing did you do for your own survival, and what were its consequences?
• Who was the latest person to die because of you?
• What was your latest sacrifice?
• Who resents you for what you did, and why?
• Why were you forced to leave your old group before Fortune?
• What is the cause of your current grief?
• What secret have you never told anyone? Why are you terrified of it being revealed?

If these questions all sound rather despondent- good! That's the intention. I want flawed characters with histories that might come back to bite them. Surviving is a matter of skill, but it is also a matter of luck.

Your escape, after all, will mostly be a matter of good fortune.

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EXTRA INFO
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I’m looking for a group of at least 4-5 players, probably maxing out at 7-8 players total. There will be only one "active" character per person (in the sense you only have one PC at a time; if they die or otherwise leave the story, you are free to make a new character). You're free to post as many potential PCs as you want, but in the end, I'll only be taking one from each player for the PC survivor group (though you're certainly welcome to bring one of them into play if your active character Kicks The Bucket later on).

Feel free to make as many backstory characters as you like- some might end up having bigger roles as NPCs. In this case, I might ask about them in the future for more detail about certain dynamics, and I will play them as in-character as possible to your vision of them, if you have any key notes in mind.

I should note that the mortality rate/danger level will be just as high for NPCs, including ones you make to be part of your backstory. For the sake of keeping the stakes where they should be, they are not bound to the same injury/death permissions as I would exercise with your PCs. Please be aware when you make these NPCs/background characters: they are likely to come up in the future, and they are likely to experience tragic circumstances, injury, or death outside of you and your character's control on a narrative basis. This is not to say that you are unable to make suggestions/pitch ideas for their arcs, plot involvement, or when you'd prefer for them to come up.

Here's a summarized list of premise reminders, or otherwise relevant info:

• You are all from the safe haven "Fortune Amongst Hardship". Its destruction will be the inciting incident of the RP. You can have been here for as long as you like; years, months, weeks- hell, maybe you only found the place an hour before shit hit the fan.
• The settlement is built into a small town in Massachusetts, surrounded by forest on all sides. It is not nearby any coastline or other towns. Otherwise, its location will remain purposefully vague to allow you more freedom in character creation.
• The apocalypse started in 1990, and the year is currently 1995. The current season is around the beginning of summer.
• Speaking of the apocalypse- nobody quite knows what caused the outbreak in the first place, or where it originated from. There was talk of a general pandemic a few months beforehand, and just about every place in the country was hit about the same time.
• I would prefer for your characters to be, at minimum, 16 years old.
• I would like answers to 2-3 of the questions above. Please mark them somehow for the sake of clarity! Otherwise, the sheet is completely freeform and you can go about it as you'd like.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here or on the interest check thread. I do not currently have an estimate of how long these submissions will stay open; likely until we hit the maximum of 7-8, or we get far enough into the RP, whichever happens first. Still, that should be a decent amount of time. I'll end up PMing the Discord link to anyone accepted- I'll note when I start to send those out.

Happy hunting!

 

[sophiezaur]

Aubrey Patterson ✦ age ;; 22 ✦ gender ;; Female, she/her ✦ race ;; Wasian ✦​

basics
name ;; Aubrey Patterson
nickname(s) ;; none
gender ;; Female
age ;; 22
race ;; Mixed, White & Asian

appearance
height ;; 5' 6
build ;; Quite fit, not exactly super toned but still lean. Used to weigh a lot more but ever since the apocalypse started she lost a lot of weight.
hair ;; Thick wavy black hair. Usually up in a bun
eyes ;; Dark brown upturned eyes
face claim ;; Christina Chong


personality traits
abilities ;; Aubrey is a very skilled crafter, being able to make her own simple tools and utensils from wood. She got a lot of her wilderness skills from her father, who was labeled as crazy for believing in an eventual apocalypse. Although for a while she thought he was crazy too, she still loved him and learned a lot about survival living from him. She is also an alright cook, being able to whip up simple meals from little amounts of food.
flaws ;; Very indecisive, and dwells a lot on the past. Sometimes will come off as cold, but really she just gets lost in trying to figure out what to do. She used to be very spontaneous but now she tries to keep to herself, not really doing too much to help others or herself.
favorites ;; She loved movies, while she could still watch them. Will often also be singing songs that she remembered from before the apocalypse started, finding comfort in the songs that were popular while she was growing up. Loves kids, loves observing people.
dislikes ;; Mushrooms, even though they are fairly essential to a lot of diets now. She also dislikes harsh sounds, trying to stay away from any loud noises or scratching sounds, which is difficult given the circumstances. Hates shooting guns but deals with it anyways (prefers melee weapons but those don't fair too well in most situations)

character questions
What selfish thing did you do for your own survival, and what were its consequences?
When all of this shit started I had been at a summer camp, working as a counselor. The ages of the kids ranged from eight to fourteen, an overnight camp in the woods. I had been in the supply room when the infection appeared at the camp. The supply closet had two doors, one of them went to the area where the kids cabins were (this one had a deadbolt lock) and another door to the counselor's cabins, which was separated from the kids area. We had weapons locked up in the storage cabinet, so no kids were permitted in the closet. Everything happened so fast, with all the kids huddled together in their cabins, I'm sure things just spread like wildfire. I watched from the closet as chaos ensured, protected by a window and a deadbolt. I didn't move. I think I was frozen for a solid 10 minutes, watching in horror. Eventually I realized that what everyone's been talking about in the news finally spread to my life and went to grab a weapon, taking mental note of what my dad taught me about survival. While I was preparing to flee, a little girl starts running towards the door with maniac children, death in their eyes and their peers blood covering their hands starting making their way towards her. And me? I panicked. I was in so much shock that I made the decision I would think about for the rest of my life. As the little girl banged on the door, sobbing with fear, I ran out the counselor's door and didn't look back. I'm sure in some world I could have saved her. But fuck, is this not that world. I will never forget those sobs. I didn't know what to do. What if she was already bit? I take that mental image of that little girl with me, everywhere I go. That's the consequence.

Who resents you for what you did, and why?
Funny story. This whole thing started after I turned 17. I was still angsty and stupid. A couple of weeks prior to my 18th birthday, I found myself at a camp for teens, placed inside a mall intended to train us to protect ourselves with the apocalypse and everything. The place had generators that worked so there was still some power. This allowed us to have some luxuries like a VCR, which happened to be the last time I saw a movie (It was Tarzan in Manhattan. Unfortunately). Well, I was a little dumbass back then. My friend Sarah found a pack of cigarettes in the more dead parts of the mall, so we went away from the camp to smoke. From there, we got caught so while we ran back inside, we tipped over a bucket of water and poof. No more power. Who the hell puts a bucket of water next to a bunch of generators, anyways? After that, I ran. Far. A couple of weeks later I snuck back to the mall area and the camp was still there with no power. I don't know if they knew it was me who did it, but I'm guessing if they did, they hated my guts. That was the last time I was in an actual group of any sort, other than that I've been a lone survivor. I travelled for a bit with Sarah but we ended up getting separated.

 

[LadyOfStars]

Vivian Grand

Name: Vivian Grand

Nicknames: N/A

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Height: 5’10” Tall

Weight: 142lbs

Likes:
Junk Food
Cold Weather
Parties

Dislikes:
Arrogance
Greed
Bugs

What was your latest sacrifice?
When the apocalypse happens we all lose so much; hot water, friends, family. But most recently I had to say goodbye to my morals and that hurt me worse than sacrificing my dignity. But when your life is on the line you do what you have to in order to survive.

Who resents you for what you did, and why?
If my family is still alive somewhere I'm sure they more than anyone in the world have some negative feelings towards me. When this whole crap fest started I thought volunteering to help the military establish a base was the right thing to do. i didn't know that they would take us from our families and abandon for not having skills they deemed useful. I watched my family shrink in the distance, surrounded by the chaos that was unfolding while I was taken to somewhere presumably safe. They have every right to resent me.

Why were you forced to leave your old group before Fortune?
I try not to judge a book by its cover, so when raiders kidnapped a bunch of us from a military convoy I looked at them as people who needed help. But it became clear they were just avaricious barbarians spreading mayhem. They were starving us and forcing us to work to help them build a sustainable home. I was tasked with getting their garden up and running, but the soil was not viable and even the grass wouldn't grow. i knew they'd kill me or worse so I ran.

What secret have you never told anyone? Why are you terrified of it being revealed?
I started a building fire in my last group and used it as a distraction to escape my captors. I would be mortified if anyone found out because I don’t want people to see me as an arsonist or maybe even a murderer.

Skills:
Gardening - Vivian learned to garden very early in life as an attempt to bring some greenery to his family’s cramped apartment.
Medicine - Because he spends his time around plants, Vivian is familiar with some plants that have medicinal benefits and can use them to treat some illnesses or wounds.

 

[Lost Martian]

Name:
Joseph “Jojo” Blum

Gender:
Male (He/Him)

Age:
28

Height:
6’

Build:
Slim Athletic

Face Claim:
Casey Cott

Likes:
Jojo’s main love in life was comic books, having read many before the apocalypse started. Even now he will read any he comes across as there is still plenty that he has not read. Jojo also likes candy, which is good because it’s one of the foods that survived the apocalypse. Jojo also loves watching the sunrise as it just calms him down, which is useful in a world where he needs to keep his wits to survive.

Dislikes:
Jojo has had a fear of dogs ever since being bit by one when he was young. He is incredibly uncomfortable around them, even as they are viewed as an asset in this new world. Jojo has also never been much for coffee, preferring juice or even water over it. Jojo also can’t stand when it gets to cold, spending most winters indoors reading or watching television. Thankfully it is currently the summer so he doesn’t have to deal with the chill.

Skills:
Jojo put most of his effort into the arts, becoming an accomplished penciller. Unfortunately that’s not much use in the apocalypse, though he still does it when he does come across some paper and a pencil. Jojo did take mechanical courses in high school and helped his uncle rebuild an old muscle car. This practice has led to Jojo becoming good with fixing cars, which helps with whatever vehicles he comes across. The only issue is that fuel reserves are getting harder and harder to find, as now new fuel is being produced.

Weaknesses:
Jojo is unaware that he actually has bipolar disorder. Somehow Jojo had gone his entire life without being diagnosed, as he tried to avoid doctors as much as he could. As such he can go between high energy manic episodes, to low energy depressive episodes. This emotional instability can put off others. Jojo also has asthma, though he hasn’t needed to take puffers for it since he was a young teenager. However it could easily come back, Jojo getting an asthma attack at a terrible time. Jojo also has proofed to be a terrible shot every time he has used a gun. He’s lucky if one in ten shots actually hit the target.

What did they do before the apocalypse?:
Jojo, born Joseph, was born in a small town in the northeastern United States. Spending a lot of his youth at the one comic shop in town, Jojo would dream of becoming a comic artist. While he had a decent amount of skill with the arts, Jojo’s family wouldn’t have the funds to send him to college.

Jojo would then get a job at the comic shop he loved, becoming close to the owner. Things were going alright for several years as Jojo moved out of his parents’ home and got himself a girlfriend. However things would change when the comic shop owner would suddenly die. Without a proper owner, the store would soon close.

Things would also grow wrong with his girlfriend, as Jojo and her grew apart. Then the apocalypse happened. In only a few days everyone Jojo loved, his family and girlfriend, were killed. Jojo would then flee town with some of the other locals, looking for some kind of safe place for them.

What secret have you never told anyone? Why are you terrified of it being revealed?:
Two years into the apocalypse, Jojo was traveling with a decent sized group of survivors. While looking for supplies they were ambushed by a group of raiders. After killing several members of Jojo’s group, the raiders offered to let the survivors join their raiding party. Jojo would immediately accept. The few who didn’t were murdered.

Jojo would work with these raiders for quite awhile, committing several heinous acts with them such as robbing other survivors or even killing them. Jojo justified it in his mind by saying that it was all so he could survive. It would only be after the raiders killed a child that Jojo would feel remorse. Looking for a way to leave the raiders, Jojo would get his chance when a small number of infected sneaked into their camp. In the chaos of fighting them off, Jojo stole a car and fled the raider camp.

He would drive the car as far away as he could before running out of fuel. Since then he has pretended like that part of his life had never happened, never revealing his time with the raiders. Jojo is certain that others would see him as a monster if they knew what he had done to the other survivors.

Who resents you for what you did, and why?:
Following escaping the raider camp, Jojo would wander into a nearby town, looking for any remaining food. While initially having no luck, Jojo would run across a group of other uninfected humans. Fearing them to be more raiders, Jojo was surprised to learn that they were actually a family who had stuck together since the infection began. Jojo would also be surprised when the father of the family allowed him to travel with them.

For several months Jojo would travel with this family, the Rolands. During that time Jojo would grow close to the older daughter, who was in her early twenties. Eventually a relationship began, keeping it a secret from the rest of the family. One night they would slip away from camp to have sex, not fully checking the area in their rush to be together. A zombie would then sneak up on them, biting the daughter on the shoulder, before Jojo smashing its head in with a rock.

The two would then return to camp, where the daughter was freaking out about turning into a zombie. After a day of deliberation and sickness, the daughter would ask her father to kill her before she turned. The man then did the impossible task of shooting her in the head. Then the normally gregarious father turned to Jojo and asked him to leave. Jojo did so, believing to this day that the Rolands hate him for his actions that caused her death.

Who was the latest person to die because of you?:
Once again traveling by himself, Jojo would end up in Massachusetts. Struggling with depression, Jojo would consider suicide, as the world seemed so bleak and he hadn’t seen another living human in awhile. That all changed when he was standing on a bridge above a deep river. But before Jojo could jump, he heard gunfire. Spinning around he saw several humans, bulls-eying zombies in the head.

These survivors would claim that there was a safe zone to the east, and would convince Jojo to come with them. After several days of walking, Jojo and the others would be nearing Fortune Amongst Hardship. However, with the settlement in sight, the group would come across a zombie horde blocking their route. Deciding to risk it, the group went forward.

While Jojo had a gun, he was a terrible shot and not much good against the horde of undead. All around him, Jojo saw humans go down, becoming food for the infected. That almost happened to Jojo, but another man charged the zombie in front of Jojo, both of them falling to the ground. As Jojo saw the zombie rip out the man’s throat, he ran toward the settlement.

Jojo would make it into the safe zone, alongside three other people from the group. Ever since that day several months ago, Jojo has vowed that no one else would die for him. He had seen enough death.

 

[tieflinq]

(i might add more to this!! debating giving elaine some specific npc connections, but there's enough here to submit for now o7)

NAME: Elaine MacNamara
AGE: currently 31, was 26 at the start of the outbreak
PRONOUNS: she/her
ETC: Elaine was on vacation in America when the outbreak started, and has been stranded away from her family in London ever since. Her most valuable skill is her patchwork array of medical knowledge and practical skills, which she gained by being a carer for her elderly mother.

Elaine MacNamara was entirely unremarkable before the apocalypse - and she resented it. Plain-faced, uncomplicated, lonely, spending most of her days caring for her elderly mother in their gloomy house. Life was... nothing. She watched her mid 20s tick by without anything to show for them.

And then she entered a contest on the back of a box of cheap cereal. Obviously, she didn't win the first prize - £250,000, enough to leave behind her meaningless little life - but she won something that would become just as life-changing: a trip to Riverside Park amusement park, in Massachusetts. It was something. A break from her mother, a chance to get out of the house, an opportunity to be someone interesting for a week before she had to return to monotony. Elaine was optimistic when she boarded the flight to London, but obviously, things would go downhill within seven days.
After the initial quarantine deteriorated into chaos, Elaine found herself stranded in Massachusetts. She was miles away from everyone she'd ever known, away from her responsibilities, away from the smell of her mother's bed-pan, and it felt... invigorating. She threw herself into survival with a will to live that she'd never felt before. Her limited medical knowledge, gained from years of caring for her mum, were suddenly incredibly useful when the hospitals were overrun and the doctors were undead. Her bland face and mutable personality made her an easy fit for the quickly-forming survivor groups, and she found her way into relative safety very quickly. Elaine had waited twenty six years to make something of herself, and the chance had finally arrived.

Why were you forced to leave your old group before Fortune?

Elaine's survivor group roamed aimlessly for months, periodically returning to the amusement park at which they'd met to gather supplies and use the coasters as vantage points to scan the landscape for other signs of life. It took almost a year of transient life and scavenging before they finally settled and started to build a ramshackle community. Living with the arcs of the park's coasters on their horizon, the group quickly became known as Riverside, and their proximity to such a viewable landmark meant that wandering survivors were constantly stumbling into their community and deciding to settle. Elaine was... unhappy with the way the community had grown, to say the least. At the beginning of the outbreak, she'd been valued and appreciated, the one that people turned to for medical advice, but as their numbers grew, Riverside had gained people with real medical qualifications, and people lost interest in what Elaine had to say. She found herself being drawn towards a number of the founding members of Riverside who were unhappy with the community's expansion, all with their own reasons for their displeasure: paranoia, resource-hoarding, isolationist tendencies, all the natural fears that come with an apocalyptic community. Months passed with nothing more than covert gossip and night watches spent in bitter complaint, but, as often happens, their sentiments snowballed, and some of the more vocal members of the group decided to act. Before she knew it, Elaine was pulled into a messy attempt at a coup. The fighting went on for one long, brutal night, but the self-identified revolutionaries were vastly outnumbered. Both sides suffered injuries and losses, and a swathe of the settlement was destroyed. In the end, the surviving members of the 'revolution' were cast out of Riverside with enough supplies for a few days and nothing more.

Elaine was quick to separate herself from the others and hiked in the opposite direction, nursing a wound to her face that would slowly knit itself into a taut, liver-red scar that puckered her expression and finally gave her face something memorable. When asked, she tells people that she left of her own accord, feeling that her last community no longer needed her and that she could benefit somewhere else instead. However, the truth is that Elaine's petty insecurity got her exiled from the Riverside settlement.

What was your latest sacrifice?

On her quest to be considered a valuable asset to her community, Elaine has stretched her paltry medical knowledge to its limits - and surpassed them. It would be fair to say that half a decade of survival has taught her many lessons, and she is better equipped than she was in 1990, but she still falls very short of the abilities of a trained professional. Despite this, Elaine has volunteered herself on multiple occasions to treat injuries and illnesses that she has little understanding of. While it's often easy enough to botch her way to minor success, her desire for praise caused her to make a grievous error around six months before Fortune's destruction. Elaine volunteered herself to assist when a member of the settlement went into labour. It quickly became clear that things were not going smoothly, with the baby being twisted into an awkward position, but Elaine did nothing to seek help from more experienced people. Instead, she soldiered on alone, envisioning herself triumphant with mother and child both healthy and grateful. It would be worth a prolonged labour for the reward of recognition. By the time she acknowledged that she was in over her head, it was too late, and both the mother and her baby died. She feels cautiously optimistic that nobody was aware that it was at least partially her fault, and hopes that the devastation of the settlement has overshadowed her past mistakes.

 

[RascalRoadkill]

Okaaay, I’m gonna send some discord links soon people are still free to post CS’s though, just gna get a few people in to start

 

[Miaow]

Juno Belrose

• Basics
• Personality
• Background
• Questions
• Extra

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  FULL NAME:
  Juno Belrose
  
  NICKNAMES:
  June, Junebug
  
  GENDER:
  Female
  
  PRONOUNS:
  She/they
  
  AGE:
  Twenty
  
  HEIGHT:
  5'2"
  
  SEXUALITY:
  Pansexual
  
  
• From childhood, Juno was weirdly obsessed with bugs. Many kids had a bug phase, but Juno never grew out of it. She loves sharing fun facts about bugs and will stop while on walks to look at an interesting bug.
  
  Juno loves animals in general. She's the kind of person that would prefer to spend time in a room full of animals than a room full of people. She has demanded her group take in a stray dog on multiple occasions and was only successful once.
  
  In times of high stress, Juno prefers to isolate herself. She finds it hard to open up to people and finds social situations tiring, so would much rather hide away when she's feeling overwhelmed.
  
  Juno loves working with her hands. She rarely stops moving, always having to fidget with something to keep her mind occupied, but when she needs to relax, she turns to arts and crafts. Coming from a farming family, she became pretty handy.
  
  Juno has two modes, talking too much or complete silence. In stressful situations, she verbally shuts down.
  
  Juno is generally slow to trust but, once she befriends someone, she'll do anything to make them happy and keep them safe.
  
  Juno struggled to make friends growing up though, once her home environment improved, she found herself a small, close knit group of friends.
• Juno was too young to meet her biological parents and, to protect her from the truth, her first foster parents hid the truth. As she moved foster homes multiple times, the story became lost and she may never know who her real parents were. Her initial foster placement took her in in the first few days of her life, raising her until she was around 2 after the death of her foster father. She moved from foster placement to foster placement, including group homes, and never seemed to settle with any of them.
  
  Juno was 10 when she was placed with the Roberts family. They had three older boys. The mother, a psychiatrist, was far more equipped to cope with the "problem" behaviours other families had brought up. She wasn't giving them the "silent treatment," she simply needed space. She was praised for "talking too much," rather than shut down. Around this time, she began to come out of her shell, maybe two good friends at school which she clung to for the rest of her teenage years.
  
  In her new home, Juno's love for animals flourished. Her new foster parents had chickens which had shown useful in teaching previous foster children before her. It became a passion and she dreamed of studying Zoology at university. However, as she was only 15 when the outbreak began, she never had this opportunity.
  
  Being somewhat self sufficient due to their small farm, she and her family remained in their home for the initial few months until their supplies ran dry and they were forced to move elsewhere. Over the next few years as the family travelled on foot, their numbers slowly decreased, until only Juno and her eldest brother remained. The pair encountered a small group of survivors made up of strangers.
• Who was the latest person to die because of you?
  While travelling with the small group of survivors, they encountered raiders. When a member of their party refused to hand over their supplies, they were attacked with the aim to kill them and take everything they had. In the scuffle, a member of the group, a father and a husband, protected her and died as a result. Juno and his wife were the sole survivors, though his wife cut ties after this incident. Juno was left injured was taken in by Fortune Amongst Hardship shortly afterwards where she was treated for her wounds.
  
  What selfish thing did you do for your own survival, and what were its consequences?
  While Juno and her older brother were alone, they encountered an injured man. He wasn't quite on deaths door, but he certainly wasn't able to survive on his own. Rather than helping him, the pair took his backpack and went on their way. The two had considered putting him out of his misery, though neither felt able to kill him, instead leaving him to die. Juno has nightmares about this man regularly and what happened to him regularly.
  
  What secret have you never told anyone? Why are you terrified of it being revealed?
  
  Spoiler: Trigger Warning: Abuse

  Juno suffered abuse at the hands of one of her many foster parents prior to the age of 10. Afraid of not being believed and the consequences of speaking up, Juno tolerated it until she was eventually moved to a new placement.
• Weaknesses:
  Juno is far from combat trained and has never once killed an infected. In times where she has faced conflict, she has gotten injured or been protected by someone else.
  
  Juno has never been an adrenaline junky. In times of high stress, she can sometimes shut down.
  
  Skills:
  Being small, Juno is agile and can fit into small spaces, such as vents.
  
  Juno learned how to fix vehicles and tools with whatever was laying around on the farm, her mother was an expert at it.
  
  Juno is knowledgeable on keeping animals and cultivating basic crops and vegetables.
  
  Given her upbringing, Juno is physically fit and has surprising upper body strength, though lost some strength due to her injury.
  
  Other:
  Prior to the outbreak, Juno had a part time volunteer position at a thrift store. She most definitely gave more money to them than they ever did to her as she had a soft spot for random knick-knacks and trinkets.
  
  Juno kept multiple pets growing up, including fish, stick insects, an elderly tortoise, frogs, and mantises. Her family also fostered kittens on multiple occasions.

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