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[warriorofdarkandgrace]

Stats
Name: Rhoda Judith Jones
Nickname: Zo, Zozo, Xon/Nox
Other name: Zoda Rhodes
Pronounced: Zoh-Dah

Manner of Being: Reincarnated Goddess of Grace and Dark, the Shepherd of the Lost, The bringer of Souls. Ravenshifter.
Gender: Female
Age: 19 / Timeless
Birthday: Telpecs 33rd (December 13th on a Earth based calendar)
Birthplace: Glasgow Scotland, United Kingdom, Earth.
Raised:
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, Earth until the age of 5.
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. Earth until the age of 12.
The Purple Grass Lands, The Silver City, Nam’o’las until current.
Nox = Nam’o’las - Since the beginning of time.
Political Alliance/Stance:
King Arai’don and the South Kingdom (Current)
The Julian Alliance/Robotica Rebellion (Former)
The Warriors of Nam’o’las (Current)

Appearance
Played By/PB: Rachel Dashae
Height: Five foot four
Weight: 85lb (abnormally light, feels more like 110 when Nox is gone)
Glasses: None
Eyes: Dark deep green, a purplish white when form changing.
Hair: Long and dark, almost a purplish black.
Face & Complexion: Rounded, pale but a light tan to her skin.
Build: Trim, sleek, athletic…
Dress Style: Light clothing, leather dresses, shorts, shirts, tanned and home cleaned. Striped stockings that are years old and only held together by tender care and mending. Generally bare footed. She has made herself feathered wings with leather straps, as a matching raven headdress and mask, able to hide in it and look like a over sized raven.

Appearance 2
Animal: Raven
Height: 26 inches tall (over two feet), 5 foot wing span,
Weight: 2lb
Eyes: Purple white
Feathers: Like her hair they are almost a purplish black.

Health
Eyesight: Sharp. Very sharp. Birds eye sharp.
Hearing: Nearly perfect and then some.
Left/Right/Ambi: Right is dominant but she is ambidextrous.
Disabilities/Handicaps: Mentally broken when she was young, she escaped to the Nam’o’las Lands somehow. Lost in the wilds for a few years, she was cared for by a flock of birds and one very tall ilf lad. Once in awhile her mind will snap and she will return to old manic speech patterns. But otherwise she’s sharp.
Physical Health: Physically fit! Scars around her neck from electroshock collar.

Psychology
Extrovert/Introvert: She tends to wear her emotions on the outside, though sometimes things are covered very well. If she looks happy, she is happy. If she looks mad she is mad.
Phobias/Fears: Cages. Electricity, Robotica, Leemera Roaches. To be caged or held under ground at all is a fear. To lose sight of the sky is a fear. To be held unwillingly is a problem.

Mental Health:
As a child she came from a poor family. With her birth her mother died, a sacrifice for her human body to be given proper life. Her father, informed by the Goddess being born in the child, was to take care of the child above all else, or destruction would befall him and everyone of his life. For five years the father took care of his so called daughter, disliking her so much that Rhoda grew up ignored, alone and unloved. This stunted her growth mentally for some time.

At five they moved to America, the land of opportunity. Rhoda grew up in Chicago, able to run around and do as she wanted, not at all placed in school while she was there. As nothing came to the father when he did lash out at her, he grew more and more abusive to her. This in turn left the girl alone and stunted in many ways.

In these ways it’s scarred her mentally. Generally she hates being alone but also hates being around too many people. to top it all off, the deity within her, Nox, can at times be a constant and huge pressure that she doesn’t quite understand at this early age.

When she managed to make it ‘home’ to Nam’o’las she faced many new problems, including slavery and electro shock collars. While enslaved and tortured the girl had a mental break, leaving her mind lost in darkness and Nox having to take over for a while. this all happens after surviving a huge Robotica war.

Because of all this Zoda will once in awhile break into her manic speech patterns and fidget more when in times of high stress or overly emotional complications. it doesn’t happen often, and if it does, Nox will sometimes shut her down and take over to help calm her.


Education + Abilities
Schooling: No real schooling. She had a bit of elementary school, but she was never really enrolled. As a child she learned a lot from TV as well. By 13 she fled to the new lands and she learned everything from Roony, her friend, and the elders.
Training: Rhoda has a few skills of her own, making her very street smart in most of the good and bad ways. Lots of freerunning and parkour moves. No formal training however.
Zoda however has learned, while in Nam’o’las, several survival skills, like hunting, tracking, fishing, weapon making, fire construction, cooking, a local form of martial art, hand to hand combat, defense, tactics, darkness control, gravity control through darkness, and control of flames through darkness. Most of these skills were taught to her by her best friend, Roony, the village elders or Nox herself. can change into a Raven thanks to Nox’s powers (this doesn’t always work unless Nox is awake enough to do it). Can read or feel the darkness within a person to know if it is someone she can control or not. If a person is of a dark alignment or has enough darkness in their hearts, there is a chance that Zoda can control that person for a short time, or at least influence them to do her bidding.
Languages Spoken: English, Gaelic, French, some German and Japanese, and all nine of the local languages and dialects of Nam’o’las.
Other Abilities: English


Personality
Goals/Dreams: Now that the war is over she has no major goals or dreams. for a while her biggest goal was to escape. Most of her friends are now dead or missing, settling down isn’t something she knows how to do. Hunting and fighting is how her mind is built now, so she has no set goals other than peace.
Quirks/Habits: She fiddles, twitches and fidgets with things to keep her hands and mind busy. She can be impatient at times and this drums her fingers on things or will pick at small objects while waiting. She sometimes can be seen chewing on random objects or weapons.
General Likes: Wide open spaces, blue skies, rain fall, angry clouds, birds, purple tobacco, oatmeal soap, purple, black, breads (especially flat breads), rabbit meat stew, blue pears, stars, reptiles demons, darkness, stillness, the sound of wind through the grasslands, wind through the trees, the moons (all of them), fall, winter, building things, sewing, leather, bird headdresses, masks, wars, fighting, ravens and crows and other black birds, stories, freedom.
General Dislikes: Cages, locked up, lack of control, lack of freedom, overly bright places, lights, Robotica, cyborgs, Leemera roaches, yellow, high noon on a clear day, summer, small reptiles, wars, fighting (huh, like and dislike, huh), spoiled food, large snakes, disoriented feelings.

Often…: ...chews on things when nervous or thinking hard.
First Impression: Depending on when you meet her. Sometimes she comes off as the dark brooding silent type, other times she comes off a bit flighty.
Philosophy of Life: “Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. ~Henri Frederic Amiel”
Basic Strengths: defence, speed, hand to hand combat, fishing, fast learner, grace, balance...
Basic Weaknesses: Lack of social skills, mental breaks, moody, flighty, not good in light or heat...
Best Personality Features (Virtues): Caring, loving, friendly, supportive, good leader...
Worst Personality Features (Vices): Easy to anger, mental breaks, possessive, believes she's a bad leader...
Sense/Lack Of Humor: She has a sense of humor, though it can come off a bit weird once in awhile. When Nox has taken over there is no humor at all.
Personality In General:
TBA


Family and Home
Father: Niall Waters - Originally a hardworking man who just wanted to provide for his family, he was brokenhearted by the loss of his lady. The day his daughter was born the goddess Nox came to Marian and told her that she needed form, and that her daughter would be well taken care of, if only she welcomed her in. Marian did, and a sacrifice had to be made to make it complete. When Rhoda was born her mother died upon the child's first breath. Niall has never forgiven his daughter for it. He doesn’t see a child in it at all but a selfish Goddess. He feels his child died with his love, so he does not treat her well. He ignores the child and gives her nothing. She stays with him but is left to be wild, to fend for herself. Niall drinks constantly, is rotating through construction jobs and seems to have sacrificed himself with his wife. When he moved to the states he took the child with him only because she was there at the time of his leaving. He would have abandoned her otherwise. On occasion he has been known to lash out and hit the child. When Rhoda went missing he cared not and has not bothered to look or her.
Mother: Marian Jones - A Pagan and follower of the old gods, when Nox, the goddess of Darkness came to her and asked for her child's form, Marian felt blessed. She gave her life as the sacrifice for the Goddess to take residence in her daughter's form. the promise that her daughter would have a safe and interesting life helped the choice. To be always protected by the Gods and Goddesses was a big deal to her. She said her goodbyes to her beloved Niall and died as Rhoda took her first breath. The child was meant to be Rhoda Judith Waters but was named Jones instead.
Siblings: None
Significant Other: None
Pets: None. She does not take pets, but companions. A young blind raven named Daley has become a close friend. There are others but they are all sentient creatures, where Daley is just a very intelligent bird that travels with her and her friends.
Family History: As stated above, her mother died when she was born, sacrificing herself to open her baby’s life to the Goddess Nox. Her father was a hateful man because of it, so her life as a child was rough. When she was 13 she found and escape, barely managing to save her own life, the Goddess within took over and transported her to her proper home, using enough energy to drop her in the forests, she was looked after by a group of Ilf Elders and given a real home for a change.
Occupation: Warrior of Nam’o’las, Reincarnated Goddess of Grace and Darkness, Watcher of the Elder Stones, Bird Whisperer, Ravenshifter, Hunter. She makes headdresses and leather clothing for people from time to time.
Education: Little to no schooling. home schooled after 13 in the Elders tribe.
Residence: The Purple Grass Lands, in Hope Tower, The Silver City, Nam’o’las

Romantic
Marital Status: Single
Relationships: Very few. She’s very socially unstable and hasn’t learned how to flirt or converse well relationship wise. She has had several people attempt though, including Gil, who she thought of as a good friend and almost brother, and Cern (who she thought of as a little brother) thought she was Mrs Right but realized Zoda had eyes for someone else. She might not have realized it, but her protector and best friend Roonie was her best interest. When he died she broke again, losing herself in her own darkness.

Sexual Preference: Bisexual, leaning more towards males than females, but she doesn’t discriminate (like most Gods...). She prefers things on two legs though, honestly, but love knows no bounds. Race isn’t a matter to her at all.
What she looks for in a mate: Someone caring, loyal and adoring, willing to give her attention, but also not smother her, as she’s not good with being smothered or mothered. Someone playful and tenderly rough but knows when to be serious. Emotionally, someone who puts up with her. Someone willing to fight, train and spar with her and won't hold back. Equals. Someone willing to take a punch and not break. Someone taller than her (not hard to do).
Turn ons: A great smile. Bright eyes. Strong arms. Sturdy. Brave.
Turn offs: Forceful people trying to assert dominance over her when the feeling isn’t shared. Unsafe feeling anything…
Top/Bottom/Switch: Switch.
Dating: Has never dated…


Background/History
Brief History of Nam’o’las:
Nam’o’las is a mythical realm hidden away in its own time and space. It is unknown how large the planet is but is made up of two large land masses and many of small islands. It rotates around a single sun and has three moons. The calendar year is slightly shorter than an earth year, having only 7 months but longer hours in a day. It’s orbit is nearly perfect in circumference, making the seasons light and change easily.

The main lands of Nam’o’las are made up of grasslands, plains, forests, high lands and a mountain in the center of it all. The landscapes seem to change abruptly when they do transition to one from the other. It has kingdoms in the North and the South. The north lands are colder and have fewer people, the South lands are warmer with a larger and more prosperous kingdom, though the towns are spread out in long distances. The South Kingdom is the largest of the two. There are several large and smaller clusters of islands scattered through the seas that are not ruled by anyone.

Creatures of all types can be found here, as well as humans, gods and mythical beings. This is a land where old Gods go to rest, New Gods are born and dispatched to the other worlds, and creatures, monsters under the bed, and hunted animals go to escape. Animals both talk and don’t talk, depending on their level of intelligence and birth rights.

There are many small town and villages scattered through the lands, most of which are simple with very little technology. Back in the early ages, technology was outlawed and most robotics, machines or other mechanical things were banned from all towns. Those caught with mechanical things that didn’t run off natural energy or had an AI were locked away and their properties stripped from them. Technology became such a lost piece of history that most people nowadays don’t even know what a toaster is.

That is until the Robotica Queen decided to return to the planet, descending on the world in order to raise up the machines and take back the lands. While secretly a group of Robotica have lived among the creatures in peace, hiding their robotic state with their new human appearances, with the Queen's return their minds were slowly taken over by her. Peaceful people suddenly turned deadly in every town. A war was starting, slowly. Not only was a War between the living and the Robotica beginning, but a battle between the Free Robotica, untouched by the Queen's control and those under her control, as well as those who didn’t believe in the Robotica.

In short, the war was a mess. Many villages were destroyed, thousands of lives lost. The Chosen Warrior was called from the Earth Lands, through the door with the ruby knob and brought to help fight. He was young and unknowing, escaping the tyrant of an abusive father. He thought he was running away but he was summoned, called by the oracles and the elders to bring peace to the lands. The Chosen one found friends on the way, building a team of warriors to battle the Queen and bring peace to the lands again.

Though the Queen was defeated, the people of Nam’o’las were still untrusting of the Robotica, thus leaving them to build their own city off at a distance, in the lands no one cared for. There the Robotica built huge technological cities, concentrated in one small location. When the location was all taken up and they couldn’t built out any farther in land, they built farther out into the waters and underground.

When the war was over, the Chosen one returned home to the Earth lands leaving Nam’o’las on its own. Time went by and the Chosen Warrior made a few trips back, but nothing was ever as messed up as it was that first time.

Major Characters
~Gil/Gilbert/Jack Odin Adams: The Chosen Warrior from Earth related to the All Father Odin. Comes and goes as he pleases. The prophesied one to take down the Robotica Queen. Some consider him actually a broken piece of Odin himself and respect him as the building of all of Nam’o’las.

~Snotwalla: Gilbert's best friend, a Purple Grasslands creature and one of the Warriors. Large, mole like and covered in long purple fur. A child like mind but a warrior's heart.

~Zoda/Rhoda Judith Jones: A young acrobat from Earth who is stuck here in the Nam’o’las lands. Roonie’s best friend. Gothic girl with attitude and an ability to control birds and darkness. Considered a Witch. Reincarnation of the Goddess of Darkness, Nox.

~Cern Allen Jacobs/Cernunnos: The reincarnated Cernunnos and one of the Warriors, an earth child stuck in Nam’o’las and happier for it. Trained fighter with most weapons as well as connection to animals and nature. Lord of the woodlands and the underworld.

~Roonie: A High Ilf from the forests who teams up with the Warriors. Wise and medically trained with Ilf healing abilities. Zoda’s Protector and best friend..

~Android Vee223/Andy: An escaped slave to the Queen, a prototype of his kind. Practically perfect in human form. Did not know he was a Robotica until part way through the war where he has to battle the Queen's control over him in order to not betray the others.

~Blion: Part Lion part bird part bear, Blion is a wise traveler through both realms and a good friend of Zoda’s. It can open the ruby handled door whenever it pleases, though it claims it can not.

~Squishie: Snotwalla’s mechanical koi fish, kept in a fishbowl. Useless, but it makes Snotwalla happy. He was bought by Gil for his friend in order to keep him happy. Feeding it peanut butter sandwiches is not a good idea and gums up it’s simple works.

~Daley: A hawkven bid and companion of Roonie. Messenger bird, blind however. Communicates with Roonie with telepathy but no one else. Adores Zoda and has bonded with her strongly.

~Crotter: A small otter like creature that talks, unlike most of his kind. A good thief and friend to the warriors. “Crotter is Crotter!” He talks in 3rd person often. Low intelligence.

~Queen Asmendalliea: The queen, ruler and creator of most of the new Robotica, exiled for hundreds of years before descending on the Nam’o’las lands. Believes in taking over for the Robotica kind and ruling over the creatures. She also believes she is alive, which to an extent, she is.

~Master Julian: Master Robotica Builder, Assisted the Warriors in their quest. He is almost as old as the Robotica Queen herself, immortal and a god, though he never lets slip which god. He takes responsibility for the Robotica Queen as he developed her, long ago.

~Athenia: Younger sister to Julian, Athenia died in a tragic way, upsetting Julian so badly that he hyper focused on building a model Robotica of her, bringing her to life by fusing her mentally into the robotica body. this later brought complications and is part of the issue with the Robotica Queen later on.

~King Arai’don: Ruler of the South Kingdom and where much of the story takes place. Gathered the Warriors together to help save the Nam’o’las Lands. An old man far past his prime and a heavy target to the Queen. Well loved by all his subjects.



Character's History in Nam’o’las: Rhoda J. Jones was born to a Pagan woman and her Lover, unmarried but deeply in love. When the Goddess of Darkness Nox came to the woman, requiring the body of her unborn child in order to achieve great things, Marian sacrificed herself to the Goddess, giving her life for the bond to her childs. Distraught over her lover's life, Niall, the father, because an angry and bitter father, drunk most the time and falling into hard times. He felt his love and his daughter died on the same day, and that the child born was a selfish creature of the night. he held no love for the girl, and only put up with keeping her because his love would have wanted it. Disliking her so much he refused to give his daughter his last name.

At a young age Rhoda was very wild and not cared for, being left on her own for the most part. She was very dark and unfriendly child, more likely to lash out at people then to befriend them. When she was still young they moved from Scotland to the Americas, taking a place in a small city apartment in Chicago, where her father found work in construction. Again, she wasn’t really cared for and only came with him because he had to take her. She kept the house clean without being asked and considered that her payment for living there.

When she was thirteen years old she got in a large argument with her father, taking the beating of a light time, she curled up in a corner and nearly blacked out. Nox, the Goddess within her woke up and ‘fixed’ the problem, leaving the father a mess on the floor, and opening the Ruby Handled door to bring the child to the home lands.

Deposited in the forest a young Ilf named Roonie found the girl, battered, broken and partly unconscious, her dark energy returning inside to leave her. The Ilf took her back home to the Elders who treated her wounds and cared for her. While staying with the Elders she was trained by the Ma’Su in fighting, and she had an affinity with birds and darkness. Her goddess within helping her grow into a stronger woman.

Unable to remember her proper name she jumbled together a few words and made up her own, calling herself Zoda while in these lands and leaving behind the girl she was before. She reinvented herself, becoming known as a witch of the Ilf Lands and later picking up an instructor in the hope Tower of Silver City, where she learned control of her darkness as well as assisted the high chief of the city.

Zoda was the leader of a small band of friends. Her, Roonie, Crotter, a dark bird and on occasion, Blion would go on adventures, save cities and people and had slowly come to be known as a group of Warriors around the lands. At times of great need the group was called upon to help.

Like when the Robotica Queen came to take over once again. In the Last Robotica War, Zoda and friends were part of a group of fighters that took on the Queen and her army, joining forces with Gilbert, Snotwalla, Cern, Andy and Julian. the group of them nearly lost their lives but triumphed over the war.

Winning the war was just the start though. With the Robotica Queen down, many Robotica were left to wander, their coding broken and honor code out the window. months after the war, while trying to help fix and rebuild different kingdoms and towns, Zoda, Roonie and Crotter were taken captive by several ‘savage robotica’. these near tribal androids were obsessed with regaining their human looks, kidnapping fleshbags and harvesting them for their skins, capturing creatures to use as hair and clothing.

Zoda, drugged, shocked and kept in a constant state of delusion was unable to call upon her other half, held in a cage and left to starve, to make it easier to reap her skin. She watched as her two friends were killed, breaking her heart and will. Enraged by the death of the ones she loved she engulfed the entire island of Robotica in darkness, devouring them slowly in madness. The young woman fell in the end, alone in a cage.

The explosion of Darkness got the attention of those at the Seaside Port, bringing Cern and Snotwalla to investigate. Finding only Zoda and not a single other form on the island, they freed her of the cage and collar, treated her wounds and brought her home. Cern, in many ways, was in love with Zoda, but knows her heart belongs elsewhere. He tried his best to care for the young Raven Mystic, but at this point she was completely and mentally lost.

The Goddess Nox does not seem come out anymore. Zoda does not comprehend things as well anymore. Her control is fine and pointed, but it seems to be all her, or perhaps she’s gone and it’s just Nox. At times she seems mixed up and backwards. Sometimes she goes by Xon (Zon) and is just both of them.

As she slowly heals, her friends trying to take her out into the world again, her brain mends slowly, but she’s not the same. In moments where she starts to completely lose it, Zon comes out, emotionless and calm and takes over for a while. the group of friends takes her hunting for her friends, as she’s determined to find them, deciding after a dream they aren’t dead. That they are out there, in the dark somewhere, and she can feel it.