Eshtaol
Crimson On Her Side
Eshtaol Hyde
Name: Eshtaol Hyde
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Force-sensitive: Yes
Force-alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Rank: Apprentice
Appearance:
Not much can be said for Eshtaol's appearance, which is her intention; she's small and wiry from being underfed and is on the whole very unremarkable. Day-to-day, she will not go to great lengths over her appearance, because she lacks both the money and the motivation to look nice. Though she does her best to look presentable - nobody has any respect for a ragamuffin - she can't do much to fix her straggly dirty-blonde hair. When she can get away with it, Eshtaol favours casual and plain clothing, because they're both uninteresting and affordable. As is her habit, she holds herself in a very tense and closed manner from trying to avoid bumping into bypassers, and her grey eyes hold boredom almost constantly.
Personality:
If she had the money and resources at hand, Eshtaol would be a tough and wayward warrior; as it is, she's confined to being sarcastic but generally quite quiet, though will be more froward when she can afford to insult. If somebody does manage to make the mistake of engaging in an argument with her, however, she will not back down until she's had the last word, and will nurse grudges against all those who are deserving. She's smart enough, though, to hold her tongue when the time isn't ripe for vengeance, and can even lie convincingly in the right situations. Eshtaol is wary and mistrustful of people in general, and to people she doesn't know is sardonic without being unkind. Actually getting along with people is a challenge, and she's most likely to enjoy spending time with individuals who can keep up with - or even better, match - her dry wit.
Biography:
Born to two Corsucanti financers - who, unbeknownst to her, doubled as slightly Darksided Force practitioners - Eshtaol's life up till the age of fifteen was unexciting and for the most part, unenjoyable. Though she held a level of closeness with her father, Eshtaol had been born more or less as a way to reconciliate her parents' marriage, and the aura around the house was that she had failed in this task, which greatly affected how she perceived people in general to be. Still, she was brought up in a financially stable household and though her parents fought constantly, she was raised without neglect or mistreatment, and was well educated through an expensive private school that achieved the initial goal of teaching Eshtaol well enough that she needed minimal help from her parents. She was able to blend in well at school, though was disliked for her bluntness by many, and had a few sort-of friends formed from uniting against groups of bullies.
All this went on until Eshtaol's mother lost the will to sustain her marriage and through her connections was able to convict her husband and thus, Eshtaol's father was jailed. Furious, Eshtaol forgot that she had nowhere to go, and gathered her things that night and departed at once.
For three months, Eshtaol was literally homeless, living off of money she found on the ground and through manipulating bypassers, until at sixteen she was able to find a job at the only place available - a small, seedy bar that she managed to work for under the pretense of being eighteen. She remained living on the streets for a further few months until able to afford a small, derelict apartment, and has taken residence there, hoping that she'll one day make enough to start a proper life.