[center][h2][color=#690000][b]Frances of the Serpents[/b][/color][/h2]

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[h2][color=#690000][b]Man of the house? Over there - the redhead.[/b][/color][/h2]
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[u][b]NOTE:[/b][/u] This is exclusively a character for [i]Dragon Age[/i] roleplays

[color=#690000][b]Name:[/b][/color] Frances (fake name)
[color=#690000][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Female
[color=#690000][b]Age:[/b][/color] 24
[color=#690000][b]Orientation:[/b][/color] Heterosexual
[color=#690000][b]Race:[/b][/color] Human
[color=#690000][b]Class:[/b][/color] Rogue assassin
[color=#690000][b]Nicknames:[/b][/color] Spitfire, Boss, Bitch, Miss Angry Pants, Red
[color=#690000][b]Occupation:[/b][/color] Head of the Serpents of the Rocks

[color=#690000][b]Keywords:[/b][/color] Sarcastic, empathetic, passionate, Chantry-hater, introverted, alcoholic, haunted, depressed and friendly (sometimes)

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[center][h3][color=#690000][b]Frances and the Serpents[/b][/color][/h3]

Nobody knows from where Frances actually came and why she insisted on attacking a group assassins in the middle of the night, but what men and women of the underground assassin organization know is that Frances wanted to die in a fight, but her skill and vigor in battle made the Head Serpent stop the fight and spare the poor fool. He recognized the pain and exhaustion in her eyes and took her in, especially after he learned of her deeds in the past. It wasn't long before Tobias, a man close to retirement of his position, loved the girl as his own daughter. She reminded him so much of his child that he's lost to Blight that he was ready to leave everything to Frances. Not only because he loved her, but because he knew she would not abuse the power of this organization and the resources.

The Lair of the Serpents is a convenient web of tunnels made by one of the dwarves in the group with the help of other hard working men. Except from the many passages that lead out to different locations of the Hinterlands, they have a direct passage to Redcliffe where they send spies and the place from which they transport their resources.The Serpents' interest was to bring justice to the innocent and Tobias took in people who were talented and had nowhere to go. Not only that, but they would adopt the children who lost their parents during the Blight and have them do minor things, such as spying, gathering information and finding their place among their new family. Frances loved children as if they were her siblings and they loved her back just as much. She showed fierce protection over them, especially given her past and why she's so determined to give her life to them. And she did not want them to end up with the Chantry, due to her terrible experience with them when she was a child.[/center]

[center][h3][color=#690000][b]The Nightlaws and Julienne[/b][/color][/h3]

Before Frances officially became the member of the Serpents, she was sent to spend three years with the infamous group of Orlesian pirates, known as Nightlaws, but loosely called [i]Phantasms[/i] by the Orlesians. There Frances perfected her skills and became a force to be reckoned with, but developed a new persona that is very well known as Julienne Bechard, the seductress and daughter of the terrifying pirate Demon's Grin, the leader and captain of the Nightlaws - Florian Bechard. If one has been in Orlais, they'd hear the bards sing of the cold-blooded killer and seductress, a very dark intrigue with which Orlesians are obsessed with. Julienne is not seen often, but when the masked assassin does make her appearance, some watch in awe, others clear the path and disappear from sight. It was one of the rare things Frances enjoyed. But learning Orlesian came naturally to her, as if she was meant to be one of them.

Frances finds it hard to resist and tends to work with Nightlaws from time to time. She adores sailing, the sea breeze and the songs of one of her trusted companions, William has a soft and melodic voice that flew in harmony with the sound of waves. In order to escape her ghosts and all the suffering she's silent about, she'd become Julienne and enjoy being a different person, for a little while.[/center]

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[center][h3][color=#690000][b]Recent events[/b][/color][/h3]

Tobias has died under very suspicious circumstances, but it was very quickly dismissed as weak heart. Both Frances and Tavros, her trusted friend who was loyal like a dog to Tobias, knew that something was up. But if it wasn't enough for Frances to lose the only father she ever had, many of the Serpents disagreed to accept her as the new Head Serpent and it didn't end with a vocal disagreement - they wanted to kill both her and Tavros. But the two of them weren't alone and it ended up with many deaths among the Serpents. 

She never wanted any of this and if she didn't love Tobias so much, she would've abandoned the organization. Instead, she took it upon herself to lead these men and offer them the same shelter Tobias did, she accepted knowing that there were traitors in their midst.

Aside from doing what Tobias has already done, Frances wanted to spread the influence of Serpents, but still keeping a [i]very[/i] low profile. To this day, little to no one knows who they are and even if they do, the Serpents misled them into thinking that their boss Frances is actually a man, purposefully giving false information so people know [i]as little[/i] about them as possible, for that is their strength and why they prospered for so many decades.
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[color=#690000][b]Hair:[/b][/color] Fiery red, wavy and curly, reaches down to her waist
[color=#690000][b]Specific features:[/b][/color] Faint freckles over her face
[color=#690000][b]Eyes:[/b][/color] Green
[color=#690000][b]Height:[/b][/color] 5'7''
[color=#690000][b]Body type:[/b][/color] Hourglass, stronger in the hips, but very athletic and flexible. 
[color=#690000][b]Fighting style:[/b][/color] She's trained, incredibly quick and light on her feet. She's not necessarily strong, but she's very slippery and easy to miss. Daggers are almost like the extensions of her arms and dances around her enemies while cutting them little by little. She's been spotted jumping on top of the ogre quite literally to get face to face and stabbed him in every eye. While some may consider her fearless, any normal person would say that this is a stupid bravery and that she will get herself killed. Perhaps that's the point.
[color=#690000][b]Style:[/b][/color] She wears black all the time, not exactly because of her taste, but because its practical. If she cared, she'd wear dresses, but she thinks most of them are ugly. She's seen very often in leather, fur, wrapped in scarves, and sometimes a corset, so she can effectively hide her throwing knives. As her alter ego Julienne, its an entirely different case. She dresses to get attention to herself, hiding her true personality.

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[center][hider=Outfits]Typical Serpent outfit, it only includes a facemask to cover the lower part of the face

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A well familiar image of Julienne Bechard, the infamous daughter of Florian Bechard, a seductress and cold-blooded killer.

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[center][hider=Tavros]A man who's been there from the start, a man who guarded Tobias and now kept his promise to the dead man and keeps Frances in check. Tavros is a man who's seen many things in past three decades, but still a very proud fighter.

Tavros in appearance has a scarred face. Cuts, bruises and stitches, he's proud of having that many battlemarks. His head is roughly shaved and sometimes grows a dark beard. His blue eyes look predatory and piercing when his face is completely covered in blood. Though he has all the skills as an assassin, in reality he's a Reaver and fights with two waraxes that he carries on his back. He is tall and terrifying, uses the blood of dragon as warpaint, but usually draws Andrastian symbols. Believe it or not, Tavros believes in the Maker and Andraste, despite his disagreements with the Chantry.

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[hider=William]A boy or commonly mistaken, a man who's been following after the Serpents every so often as a bard and a messenger, when he has time to get off the Nightlaws' ship. He is one of the rare people Frances trusts without even questioning and because of her understanding and empathetic nature, he was there whenever she asked for him.

William is barely twenty years, though he looks like a middle-aged man. It's what the world has done to him, the cruelty of being an orphan and a slave. But the biggest reason to why William has aged so quickly is because he's the part of Nightlaws. He's a coward, he doesn't like fighting and death and prefers to stay away from it, but he has his virtues. And as Frances once said: "If you're going to be a coward, you better be a lucky and smart arse." William has lived to those standards. Just like the redhead herself, it's a miracle that William lives after everything. William is loved for simple things, such as his singing, lute playing and story telling, which he does almost every day on the Nightlaws' ship. 

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[hider=Nightlaws and Florian]Nightlaws consider themselves free men, they're the extension of the Serpents, however they do not fight for a cause, they fight for the sake of fighting. This put Frances in a tough position, but this is where she has learned everything she knows. They set some records straight all over the world and where they dock, the decks are usually empty, the moment the people see the familiar black sails with a purple masked skull on it. This is where the best of the best are and its usually the lords and those with money who get to pay them in order to get something done. Nightlaws don't always hold on to the deal - many of their clients died by their hand. Nightlaws don't have a hiding place of their own - their home is the sea and they rule it.

Florian, the man of the Nightlaws himself, is a big and terrifying man, cold-blooded killer and horrifying tales of the [i]Demon's Grin[/i] were about him and his terrible deeds. But, in the eyes of the people who don't understand the full story, this seems like criminal injustice, the truth about the Florian's actions are simple. He tracks down traitors, leeches and thieves who do not deserve to be rich, but innocents tend to be in the way and it doesn't end well. In Florian's eyes, it needs to be done. He's the killer of lords and with Serpents on his side, they managed to paint the golden walls of Orlais red after some of the lords tried to cross them.
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Nightlaws are left alone.... For now.[/hider][/center]