Character Sheet: Maureen Goodwin
Character’s full name: Maureen Clara Goodwin
Character’s nickname: Siren, Songbird, The Bun
Physical appearance
Age: 28
How old does he/she appear: 28
Weight: 165lbs
Height: 5'4"
Body build: Fit. Slightly curvy.
Eye color: Jungle Green
Skin tone: Fair-skinned.
Hair color: Burgundy
Hairstyle: Getting very long these days, but ever wavy.
Voice: Singing Voice is Robyn Adele Anderson, but speaking voice is still undetermined.
Overall attractiveness: 8/10 visually. 10/10 Charm as long as she's trying.
Physical disabilities:
Usual fashion of dress: Varies heavily. Not very comfortable in dresses, so she avoids most of them unless she's on a date.
Favorite outfit: ???
Jewelry or accessories: Her wide variety of headbands, in many colors, and a thick locket she wears around her neck at all times. More recently, a set of cuff-like silver bracelets, encrusted with onyx and emeralds has been added to her daily attire, as well as a crescent mood necklace.
Personality
Alignment: Solidly Chaotic Good.
Good personality traits: Loyal, Charismatic, Witty, Caring
Bad personality traits: Impulsive, Defensive, Anxious
Mood character is most often in: Happy
Sense of humor: Loves jokes. All jokes. Just not to diffuse a situation. That will only make her more angry.
Character’s greatest joy in life: Singing is her truest love in life.
Character’s greatest fear: Losing more people she cares for.
Why? After witnessing her parents' slaughter and being unable to do anything about it, the slightest thought of someone she knows getting hurt or disappearing sends her into panic.
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil? If Maureen was unable to protect someone she cares for and they were seriously injured or killed, especially in front of her, she would most certainly be lost.
Character is most at ease when: Relaxing, playing her music in peace, without a care in the world.
Most ill at ease when: She feels she's done something wrong, or that she is at fault for something. Guilt eats her alive.
Enraged when: People are judged pre-emptively.
Depressed or sad when: Thinking about her parents.
Priorities: Music, the people she cares for, and making enough money to be ready to run at any time.
Life philosophy:
"There's a fire burning in our souls. If we put it out, then we'll all run cold. So cut yourself down from that noose that's swinging, and reattach your arms so we can get gun-slingin'."
Essentially, Maureen knows there's a lot of reasons for her to be sad. But if she lets herself be sad about it all, she's going to begin losing that passion that drives her. So she has to cut herself away from the sad stuff and "get gun-slingin'", or, for her anyway, so she can keep pushing and having a good time. I'm not sure how else to explain it.
Greatest strength: Her wits usually save her from bad situations that her impulsiveness puts her in.
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: Her impulsiveness tends to get the better of her when she's angry.
Past
Hometown: Born in Lakeshire, Redridge, but has travelled all over to perform.
Type of childhood: Nomadic. Full of warmth, love, and good times.
First memory: Watching her Mama and Papa perform together on the street in Thelsammar, Loch Modan.
Most important childhood memory: Watching her parents be slaughtered by a death knight.
Why? It has affected her to this day. She wanders endlessly, trying to move past it, but there are wounds that cannot be healed. She covers up the sadness with a clever smile, catchy tunes, and a joke or two, but she's deeply scarred by it. She's trying to move on enough to at least be comfortable around Death Knights, as she has found they aren't bad company.
Present
Current location: Arathi Highlands
Currently living with: Technically, living alone, but has a rather frequent visitor.
Pets: Morji the Frostwolf Pup
Religion: It's been five months since I wrote this character sheet and it's still questionable.
Occupation: Bard first, Professor of Choral Music and Bardic Studies second.
Mother: Rose Goodwin (Formerly "Rose Johnson")
Relationship with her: She's dead. But Maureen holds close in her heart. Rose was the more popular performer between her parents. She was often the most busy. Maureen has always wanted to be as beautiful and skilled as her mother was.
Father: Reed Goodwin
Relationship with him: Reed was the back-up, sitting on the sidelines with a flute or a drum, backing Rose up and further elevating her performance. Maureen once asked him why he didn't perform as much as Mama. "You don't always get to be the lead character, Maureen. Sometimes you get to be a supporting role, and that's just as important." He smiled and patted her head.
Favorites
Color: Jungle Green
Least favorite color: Frost Blue
Music: Yes?
Food: Food is food, and food is good. She isn't really picky.
Literature: Legends and stories- fiction or otherwise, she likes a good tale!
Form of entertainment: Music. Performance. Yes. That stuff. Predictable Bard :P
Most prized possession: The locket around her neck. It has a small picture of her parents and a string from her first guitar inside.
Habits
Plays a musical instrument? Guitar, Banjo, Flute, among others.
Plays a sport: She keeps herself rather fit, but sports aren't her thing overall.
How he/she would spend a rainy day: Working on music and practicing with her void abilities.
Spending habits: She's become a touch looser with her funds since being hired on, but still prefers to remain frugal. You never know when you'll need it, after all.
Smokes: Not even once.
Drinks: Yes, and rather heavily if she's been stressed out.
Other drugs: NO.
Extremely skilled at: Music, of course. Playing instruments, singing, and really any kind of performance. She prides herself on these skills above all else.
Extremely unskilled at: Maureen struggles to navigate professional settings frequently. She's not at all used to them, so it's very hit or miss for her. Her default charm doesn't always save the day, either...
Nervous tics: Toys with her locket and/or cuffs when she's nervous or thinking. If her right hand starts to twitch, she likely feels threatened or anxious. This is when her void levels tend to increase.
Usual body posture: Fairly straight posture, relaxed shoulders, feet about shoulder width apart, maybe slightly less. Always prepared to sing.
Traits
Optimist or pessimist: Maureen tries to be outwardly optimistic, although inside she's already imagining the worst case scenario.
Introvert or extrovert: Ambivert
Daredevil or cautious? Depends on the situation. On the whole, she's fairly carefree, but certain situations call for caution, and she can recognize that.
Logical or emotional: Incredibly emotional.
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat: Think average teenage bedroom level of order.
Prefers working or relaxing: She prefers to relax, but works very hard when it's required of her.
Confident or unsure of himself/herself: Confident in her performance abilites and absolutely nothing else.
Animal lover: She generally likes animals. Her frostwolf, Morji, is about half of her whole world, these days.
Self-Perception
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic? Maureen loves her jungle eyes, and considers them her best feature, despite being rather fit and attractive outside of that.
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic? Maureen is actually very confident in her body. If anything bothers her, it's that outward tick from her right hand when the void energy spikes within her, but that isn't necessarily a 'physical feature.'
How does the character think others perceive him/her: Maureen feels like people think she's reckless and a touch on the dull side when it comes to intelligence. She also feels like the people around her at the university think she's weak.
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: Because of consistently being surrounded by people more powerful than she is on campus, especially her fellow faculty and even her boyfriend, she's developed a bit of a complex. She wishes she could be more powerful.
Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: Maureen tries to see the good in everyone, believing that there truly is no such thing as a purely bad person. Everyone deserves their fair chance.
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others: Maureen struggles frequently to hold her tongue, so her actual opinions and emotions get word vomited out.
Person character most hates: She doesn't hate any one person, really.
Best friend(s): Currently, none. She considers most of her fellow faculty to be her friends, but she's not close enough to consider any of them her 'best friends'.
Love interest(s): Sevatstien Steele
Person character goes to for advice: Usually, she goes to Caniell because she's trustworthy and easily accessible.
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: Everyone she cares about. (As of updating the character sheet, you all STILL don't need it, you magical crazy people.)
Person character feels shy or awkward around:
Person character openly admires: Caniell Lyca, Evandre Steele
Person character secretly admires: Undetermined.
Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Well... it WAS her parents. But, once they died Maureen didn't really have someone to be near.