Name: Vesper Delvaux
Age: Forty
Birth Season: Spring
Occupation: Retired Naval Captain
Kingdom: Nevermere
Citizen Status: Noble
Height: 5'7
Weight: 145 lbs
Body Description: Vesper is of average height and weight with sharp, almost bony features in her face and hands. With hair as black as ink and distinct eyebrows, she is rather intimidating in both appearance and demeanor. She has a dusting of freckles which are most noticeable over her cheeks and nose and has grey eyes that seem to stare into your soul. She is nearly always wearing black and lines her eyes with coal which only enhances her eye catching appearance. She lost her right leg from above the knee in an accident and now has a fake leg which is almost never seen but almost always heard as it thuds ominously as she walks. People who know her have learned that she's coming by the sound of her steps. Step, thud, step, thud, step, thud.
Values: Loyalty, obedience to laws and directives, control over herself and the world around her.
Aspirations/Ambitions: Find ways to be useful in spite of her injury and retirement from the military, to improve that which she sees as faulty
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Reputation: Principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and a perfectionist. Vesper has a strong sense of right and wrong and tends to see things in a very black and white way. There are no shades of grey. She is always striving for improvement in herself and the world around her and fears making a mistake. She is organized, orderly, and fastidious which can cause her to become critical and a perfectionist. She struggles with impatience and can be resentful of those she believes are 'doing it wrong'. She hates being wrong and will adamantly defend and justify herself when criticized.

She has an innate need to be useful, which has made her early retirement a particular challenge for her. She cares very much about her reputation and often overthinks about how her actions might be perceived by others. She believes herself to be someone who acts based only on logic and truth rather than being guided by her heart, but deep down she has a need for acceptance and validation that she's doing well. She is seen as someone who is rigid and has no feelings while really she feels her feelings intensely and is constantly striving to keep a lid on them so that her feelings won't effect her work or her goals. Internally she is constantly berating herself for not being better as well as seeing all that needs to be 'fixed' around her.

Combat Experience: Vesper had looked forward to her mandatory military training as it seemed the perfect place for her. A place with rules and expectations that were black and white, a place where she could have a clear linear goal and excel. And she did. Her determination to constantly improve, to be better than the people around her, and her passion about the rules made her a favorite among her instructors as much as hated by her peers. Her skill and love of the sea had her joining the naval army when she completed her training and rose in the ranks, earning the respect of her superiors as she proved to be both skilled and loyal.

Eventually she found herself on a ship with Logan Delaney and Hadrian Usher, already having made connections with the two of them. She was on the same capsized ship as Hadrian before he became Captain and was one of the few to survive the incident. Remaining with Hadrian after that it when he became the Captain Commander that he promoted her to Captain and she remained there until about a year ago (early 827) when an attack on her ship resulted in the loss of her right leg. Though Hadrian tried to convince her to stay on, she resigned her position, feeling it wasn't right for her to continue when she couldn't ride into battle with the people she was responsible for.

Witch

Vesper spends time focusing on each kind of magic so that she can be efficient in all of them. Though summons tend to be a favorite followed by curses she has spent countless hours in all four areas so she’ll never feel like she can’t pull out a skill at a moment’s need. She is regularly exploring, discovering, and pushing her magic, trying to use it in new and creative ways that others may not have thought of before.
Family:
Francois Delvaux - Father
Lorelai Delvaux - Mother
2 younger siblings

Tale:
Vesper grew up in a household where things were disorganized and chaotic. With parents who weren't particularly present, wrapped up in their own lives rather than prioritizing their children, the kids were usually left in the care of a nanny and Vesper took on the role of 'mother' for her younger siblings. It was likely this kind of lifestyle that lead to her need for organization and control, trying to find some semblance of regularity in her life.

Vesper was 8 when the Rainecourts took over Nevermere and while she may have been weary of it at first, she found their strict military guidelines to fit right in with her personality. There were rules that were distinct and easy to follow and goals to make Nevermere better than it was before. She was eager to jump into her mandatory training and found the military to be the perfect fit for her personality. She did well, joined the navy, and rose in ranks until she was appointed to be Captain.

She was so focused on her career that she had not really put any thought or focus into her personal life. There was no time for romance or marriage or husbands and certainly not children when she had so much more she felt she both wanted and needed to accomplish. She was Captain for about 5 years before her terrible injury and she resigned from her position, feeling that could not give all that she had before.

The last year has been hard on her as she's tried to find a new focus for her life. Her leg, now having a fake one that she uses, gives her near constant pain that she is forced to endure and regularly has a potion on her person that is meant to help dull the pain. She tries to focus on other things instead such as her magic and her siblings who still view her as almost more of a mother than Lorelai but her situation has made her even more angry and snappy than she already was.

Face Claim: Segovia Amil
Tagging: Eloell | Rigby