Hannah Durante (Updated)

[Hannah Durante]

Songs:  Since I adore music and making playlists, I have a playlist for dear Hannah here, which applies to both series:

Hannah's new playlist


Nickname: Reckless- a nickname she was given during the Polarian war by some of the soldiers who found her class strategies to be downright insane at times.

Hometown: Valencia (either Cadiz, Floreniza/whatever its name is, one of the major cities we haven't yet been to)

Race: Human

Age: 27/28

Gender: Female

Trademark colors: Hannah's trademark colors fall in line with the Armada, although this is usually either something others don't realize or just attribute to many of the rumors that have been spread about her.

Trademark flag/logo:  N/A.  Hannah either tends to fly without flags, or if she feels the need to, utilizes one that is typically a Valencian rose with crossed sabres underneath it.  There are other flags she could fly, but she usually only does these back home.

Voice: Hannah's voice is on an attractive spectrum for a woman, though she herself is fairly oblivious to this fact. And though I may not make it super obvious in writing, Hannah, like most Valencians seem to, possesses an almost Neapolitan dialect when she speaks.

Appearance tidbits:  

Hannah's skin has an olive complexion thanks to the climate she and her parents grew up in, while her eyes and hair retain lighter qualities from ancestors who lived in different, more Northern climates.  Her eyes are a seafoam-blue, and her hair is blonde; actually long enough to read the middle of her back, when left down.  Many times Hannah wears her golden locks up in a ponytail with a black ribbon, or for more special occasions some other sort of up-do or fancy wear she learned from her mother and various friends back home.  When she does wear it down it tends to be wavy.

Hannah has a large scar on the left side of her face that starts underneath her bangs and ends just shy of her chin.  She likes to make up various stories on how she obtained it, some meant to garner respect and/or sympathy, when in reality the scar was caused by a pirate she later killed catching her by surprise- and is a source of shame for her for the simple reason it was a surprise attack that she should have seen coming and deflected.

As far as clothing goes, Hannah can walk around in imitation battle angel armor that was made specifically for her back in Valencia for her purposes during the great war, exactly the same as it is in the game, which she will quickly assure people she stole as part of her grand escape from Valencia.   With the rumors, it doesn't bother people too much and instead inspires confidence, which is what she's going for...though some of course are leery about that uniform attracting too much attention, and so for the sake of blending in, Hannah will wear more normal clothing, the sort of things you would see from a pirate, complete with a captain's hat she bought off a dog in Port Regal she does very much like.   She doesn't enjoy wearing what she finds to be 'pirate' clothing, but she deals with it when necessary.   She also has Valencian fashions she will wear at times, but she tends to keep those in her ship and only drag them out when she's either back home or around people who won't be uncomfortable with it.   When I say Valencian fashions, I mean much like what you see the female unicorns in Silvella wearing.

Hannah is an attractive enough woman by human standards, though this isn't something she is inclined to take advantage of...mostly because she isn't sure where to start on the nature of seduction, and growing up around a lot of anthros she isn't certain where she falls on her species scale of attractiveness anyway.

Class:
 
Hannah is a buccaneer, despite the fact her appearance isn't overly muscular to suggest her capable of being a She-hulk.  While it means she lacks grace and finesse in a lot of situations, as well as is truly terrible when it comes to understanding and properly using magic, she balances these weaknesses out by what she is good at- taking and dishing out hits.  As a buccaneer Hannah has a high tolerance for pain, so her endurance allows her to outlast many who don't understand this about buccaneers or who cannot find a way to incapacitate her as quickly as possible before their own energy wanes.  She can take quite a lot of punishment before buckling, especially since her class tends to be used to wearing and fighting in armor too heavy for those unused to such a thing to deal with.   She also hits very hard, a front-line fighter who charges forward with the intention to overwhelm her foes with brute strength, if not intimidate them with such displays.   If that doesn't work, her strategies are to wear her enemies out and keep coming at them, forcing them into corners she can take advantage of, or tire them out into buckling or running with one relentless assault after another.

That being said though, as a soldier Hannah was taught that can't always be the way you fight people, so given the fact she survived the greatest war the spiral had recently seen thus far, it's obvious Hannah also has learned to adapt in certain situations.  There are some enemies that can absolutely give her a run for her money with strategies built with toppling buccaneers in mind, but Hannah can and will adapt to situations.   Her fighting style is instinctive as it is, but adaptation became another instinct grained into her thanks to the Polarian war.  This isn't to say she's a genius at adapting, and there are plenty of times she'll have a hard time doing it- she won't be able to take on a witchdoctor, musketeer, privateer, or swashbuckler's usual strategies or learn things she can't in game after all.  But she can do it better than many people who believe in buccaneer stereotypes believe from her, mostly by reading weakness in the body language of others for the perfect place and means to strike.


Weapons:

As a buccaneer, weapons are certainly Hannah's forte- particularly large, intimidating ones.  She has quite a collection of various tools of destruction on her ships she alternates between, but she is most often seen with an Armada officer's ornately-decorated halberd, and a shield that bears resemblance to the ones the clockwork marines carry, save for the fact there is a golden rose embedded into the center of the cogwheel; the symbol of Valencia, which all the living soldiers and guards bear in their weapons in some regard.  Those who fought in the Polarian war recognize the icon as one all of Valencia's living soldiers bore, so it usually doesn't raise too many eyebrows.



Occupation:

Hannah will tell people outside of Valencia that she's a former Valencian soldier turned member of the resistance, who escaped the blockade, but it's a lie. [s]she was allowed through for reasons[/s] While she does lend her services in Port Regal for a brief time, building a legitimate persona for herself with allies of her home power who can share a distaste of pirates, the background she feeds to everybody she meets stops being true after she says she is a veteran of the Polarian war.  That much is true, but the rest is lies with an occasional kernel of truth sprinkled in there.   In reality Hannah is something of an indentured/debt servant- having signed and made an agreement in desperation to obtain things her family and herself needed, in exchange for several years of service.  It was hard for a young soldier to adjust to normal life again after the great war, even harder when difficult times fell upon her family and her father was met with horrible circumstances, so she turned back to the one thing she knew how to do well- taking orders from the military and powers she had once served.

Her tasks have ranged from menial things all the way to more...excessive, bloody tasks.  She doesn't like to discuss what she has done with those who do not serve the Valencian powers in some way, for obvious reasons.  Were any members of the resistance or pirates to know about them, that would make some tasks more difficult for her, not to mention the fact she would be high on their list of enemies for it.


Companions:  


Right now, Hannah doesn't have any companions.  She's not a Captain despite the fact she's actually decent at handling and steering a ship, nor is she a pirate or privateer looking for a crew.  She knows leadership is a responsibility she cannot handle, especially the way she is trained, and so Hannah is more of a follower.  If anything, she is more of a companion to people who want her services, trained to follow orders and usually content to do so.  Provided you're on 'the right side' and have power in Valencia, or aren't a pirate or resistance member.



Personality:

Oh, I have to retype this up when I'm not feeling so lazy and can find the best words to put her personality in. xP

For now though, Hannah is still a woman conflicted between many things.  She is a practiced liar to those she makes friends with, though not out of pleasure or some truly wicked intent to deceive them.  For pirates this changes because she holds them in contempt for where she's wound up.  They're responsible for what happened to her father, and while she knows the fault in the contract she's trapped in is her own, she has a hard time accepting it to the degree she is graceful about it.  While she might seem graceful on the surface about it to non-pirates, just wait until she's in a scrap with a pirate who isn't smart enough to work with the Armada, she'll lash out at them with a bloody, often times unrestrained vengeance.   There are times she can hold herself back, but she loses her temper and patience with pirates so quickly there will likely be moments other characters have to be the ones to hold her back from completely maiming, every so often even killing pirates- especially any who had a hand in what happened to her father, or were around the Valencian smuggling and pirate circles enough to know anything about her and the fact she has and will work with the Armada.

She certainly has her vices, make no mistake.  But she also has virtues too- Hannah does feel guilt for a lot of what she does [s]so long as it's not involving pirates[/s], and holds the Marleyboneans in high regard due to her experiences with their soldiers during the Polarian war.   She does also respect proper, non-pirate adversaries, enjoying those with strength and extending a warrior's code of honor to them- at least, when and where she can.   She also grows to truly care for those who become their friends, becoming emotionally attached to them.  Which in the case of those who stand against the Armada, will become a serious problem for her.   For them, she will do everything in her power to remove them from danger, to push or convince them away from the Armada, afraid of the terrible things the clockworks could do to them as well as not wanting to ever be asked to do terrible things to them herself.  If push comes to shove though, she would much rather be the one to hurt a friend enough they couldn't get in the way but heal eventually, even if they would hate her forever- she does not wish to see friends be so brave in the face of the clockworks they would rather be killed then surrender.

*insert more later, need to find a better way to write this up as well* xP




Bio:


For a while, Hannah had a relatively normal life; born to two human parents- her father a royal guard and soldier for the unicorn royalty, while her mother was an opera singer on the Valencian stage.   Neither of them were the absolute top of their positions, but they weren't the lowest either, so her family enjoyed a fairly average, middle-class life, with connections in the higher end of society thanks to her parent's posts and the friends they made.   She took after her mother in terms of her abilities, showcasing a high pain tolerance, endurance, and strength from an early age that made it clear the buccaneer style of fighting was the way for her.   However, she had to learn from various buccaneer crabs and guinea pigs, as her father was a swashbuckler and her mother could only teach her so much.  Hannah was very much a daddy's girl nonetheless, and her father made sure to teach her at least the basic swashbuckling concepts she could learn, in the hopes of helping his daughter out with her dreams of becoming a royal guard soldier just like him.

At some point when she was in the later end of her 17th year, the Polarian war reared its ugly head, and Hannah found herself drawn to it.

*insert moar later, lazy now*