[td width="15.7839%"]Age[/td][td width="84.1041%"]47[/td]
[td width="15.7839%"]Species[/td][td width="84.1041%"]Weasel[/td]
[td width="15.7839%"]Gender[/td][td width="84.1041%"]Femme[/td]
[td width="15.7839%"]Height[/td][td width="84.1041%"]Tall side of average for most female weasels[/td]
[td width="15.7839%"]Weight[/td][td width="84.1041%"]
Dancer's physique[/td]
[td width="15.7839%"]Skill Ranks[/td][td width="84.1041%"]Professional spy, Professional performer (dance and violin), Experienced close-range combatant, Experienced in various world languages, Rookie parent, Rookie thief[/td]
[td width="15.7839%"]Rank (official)[/td][td width="84.1041%"]Landlubber (for now)[/td]
[td width="15.7839%"]Alignment[/td][td width="84.1041%"]Chaotic Good settling into Neutral Good with age[/td]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Now definitely an adult and approaching middle age more quickly than she'd like to acknowledge, Bezine D'Oiravere has adopted a more mature look, trading in the colorful dresses of her childhood and the more rebellious profusion of piercings and torn masculine clothes for well-kept shirts, vests, and trousers, primarily in fall colors of orange and purple. Her brown fur is well-groomed, all signs of previous dyes allowed to fade away, and the only jewelry to be found a golden band on one pawfinger.
INVENTORY AND REAL ESTATE
A deck of playing cards made from stiff, sturdy paper, useful for card dances
An old violin, lovingly kept in good repair
One dagger for self-defense
A worn metal badge, antiquated, from the old Ministry of Misanthropy, kept in a battered leather flip case with faded identification labeling the carrier as 'Duskwatch'
Only slightly less worn badge of the Unsmudgeables, also antiquated design
PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS
Once a spitfire and contrarian in her youth, Bezine has mellowed with age and experience. She still has an unshakable sense of resentment for those who allow suffering in the name of the status quo, and is quick to anger, though less quick to swing a fist than she might once have. As she has learned that the world is more complicated than her ideals once led her to believe, and as she has seen numerous personal idols fall from their pedestals, she has embraced a philosophy of doing the most good she can on the small scale, focusing especially on protecting her family. She is quick to identify with young rebels and orphans, in whom she sees a reflection of herself at their age, and can still get herself into trouble when her inner rebel for a lost cause comes out to play.
STRENGTHS
Bezine's travels have taken her country to country over the years, mostly fleeing the disastrous sociopolitical upheaval that came with the Revolutions of 1748 and the subsequent regime changes across the world, and thus have imparted a decent competency in most world languages, though her Vulpinsulan, being her second language, has never quite reached fluency and her accent is still clearly audible. While the training she received first as a member of the Duskwatch, a failed attempt at a 'moral' alternative to the Director's Beasts, and later as an Unsmudgeable, has made her an talented spy and agent, most of the last decade has instead been spent earning a living through more prosaic means, entertaining with her signature 'card dance' or as a violist, supplemented with various menial jobs to provide for her family.
WEAKNESSES
Bezine has been burned too many times before by lofty promises and mentors who let her down, and has difficulty in trusting such now. Many of those she trusted most were involved in the disastrous downfall of the old Vulpine Imperium and did not survive the upheaval that followed. The corruption and destruction of the causes they fought for have left her jaded, and her temper flares dangerously in response to the hypocrisy of those in power. She is generally inclined to side with the underdog in any conflict, putting her on the disadvantage. Since she has no little to no experience in ranged combat, she is easily pinned down by such.
On a personal level, Bezine returns to the Imperium with a great deal of social baggage. She and her now-wife, Ailin "Eirene" Liu, have been married in secret for fifteen years, though across numerous countries they have been forced by prevailing attitudes to pose as war widows cohabiting for economic security and companionship. Their adoptive daughter, Morgan Liu, is claimed to be Eirene's child in such scenarios. Due to her own hardships in the Imperium as a youth, Bezine is suspicious of the new claims of a stable and more accepting Empire, and has come herself to survey it as a possible relocation opportunity for her family.
HISTORY
Bezine D'Oiravere was born in the Imperium, but never considered herself an Imperial. She was raised in caravans by the nomadic Erlani, moving from town to town, and as her caravan fell apart, she found herself in Bully Harbor alone with her last remaining guardian, Gian, when he took a knife to the chest and left her orphaned. For a time she fell in with a mercenary named Kaden, but her trust issues left her bouncing around between various groups of criminals before she eventually settled into the trust of an idealistic minister of misanthropy who sought to reform his ministry of its sinister reputation. In this regard, he made a teenage Bezine a part of the Duskwatch, which found itself embroiled in a fight with a shadowy group calling itself Verfolger. In this capacity, Bezine developed a rivalry that would change her life.
By chance, Bezine happened to fall into frequent confrontation with a ferret Verfolger agent. After being assigned a mission to a distant land that ended with her fleeing a Verfolger base via a drop from a mountain into a roaring river, she was forced to spend several months recovering in a small, secluded village of ferrets, wherein she met Eirene Liu. During her recovery the pair slowly fell in love, even as Bezine realized that Eirene was the Verfolger agent with whom she'd been fighting for so many months. When both were forced to leave the village to keep it safe, they agreed to keep seeing each other in secret at night, even if they fought by day. Eventually this went badly; Bezine and Eirene were exposed, and the resulting scandal brought down the Duskwatch and the minister who founded it. Bezine followed him to his new post in Niceties and became an Unsmudgeable, but ironically, the tarnishing of her reputation led her to quit, seeking employment as a freelancer instead.
When ecological disaster struck and political calumny followed, Bezine and Eirene fled the Imperium together, and spent the next two decades moving from country to country, staying a few years before relocating to avoid another upheaval. Along the way they adopted Morgan, a ferret orphaned by the disasters, and have muddled their way as best they can through the challenges of parenting. With Morgan now seventeen seasons of age, the pair are loathe to uproot their daughter's life once again, but have heard that the Imperium may finally have recovered its former strength and order. Given Bezine's history with and suspicion of the Empire, Eirene and Morgan have agreed to stay behind while Bezine goes ahead to learn the situation on the ground. She has now returned to the Empire, skeptical that it can change, but drawn by the dangling lure of perhaps rediscovering the purpose she felt in her youth.
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