Pepper Lynch

Name: Pepper Lynch
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Birthday: 03/03
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Special Characteristics: If someone takes a long look at Pepper's right eye, he or she will eventually notice that the pupil doesn't move quite like the one in her left eye. In fact, he or she might notice her right eye isn't even a real eye but a glass one. With her right eye missing from a stab wound, she prefers to use her glass eye rather than an eye patch to hide the otherwise bare eye socket. The glass eye itself is much like her real eye in terms of color and is only slightly heavier than a marble of the same size. The glass eye was crated by magic (her mentor's magic specifically) but does not have any magical qualities itself.

Personality: Pepper is not what you would call a sociable person. It is not that she is shy or reclusive by choice but that she possesses a bitter attitude that puts people off. Although no one could really put a finger on it, it's always clear in a conversation that Pepper is annoyed and resentful of something. Her moments of being annoyed, unfortunately, is most often during her interactions with others. She gains no joy from acting this way of course, but it is not something Pepper has learned to control. She's naturally distrustful of people which leads her to become rude at times, which creates a vicious loop by only making her more cynical of people when they've decided they don't like her and act aggressive in return. In a very weird sense, Pepper tests how far people can stretch their kindness before her own hatefulness wins out.

Considering herself a perfectionist, Pepper is not one to cut corners nor one that likes to do things more than once. She doesn't like to rough drafts, avoids working in times of tiredness to avoid smaller mistakes, and tries not to mettle with people who would damage her (fraudulent) perfection. While this trait his its perks, it also has some setbacks. Pepper can take tremendous amounts of time to choose her words and plan out what she is to say and do. It makes her look to be a slow and steady person in contrast to her more fiery emotions. Although, this does maker her for a poor conservationist, it does make her for a great strategist. She can carefully lead a good number of people into combat—making her a great leader in that aspect—but is prone into panicking when unforeseen loops are thrown into her plans.

Despite her first impressions, Pepper does have a soft spot, specifically for victims of crimes. While she couldn't honestly shed a tear for someone whose mother just died from a disease, she could be absolutely heartbroken if the mother was murdered instead. A boy losing his teddy bear would not provoke a reaction from Pepper but a stolen teddy bear definitely would. The pattern persists in every tragedy. The reason for this lies in the fact that it's one of the few times she can actually empathize with people outside of her own bubble. Her own life's troubles have usually been caused by the breaking of the law, so it follows that she could be understand someone's emotions and personality after they've suffered at the hands of a criminal. Consequently, this makes rather vengeful toward the criminals themselves. She can think of them as a safe place to unleash her own emotions in the form of draconian law.

Pepper prefers to enter into combat alone, trusting in her own abilities more than that of others. When working with someone, however, she tends to be domineering and not too sympathetic of her allies. After all, she doesn't think of combat as time to learn or grow with someone but as a time when someone will inevitably die. It's either her and her allies or the opponent(s) at hand. Her attitude toward working with others can change immediately when there's an explicit leader in charge. She holds loyalty, order, and hierarchy in high regards, so it follows that Pepper would be more than willing to follow the orders of a designated leader. She considers the position of an official leader to be so important, that she would follow directions even into a suicide mission.The underlying point is that it's very easy to use Pepper when one has even the slightest authority over her.

Likes:

• Order | Order is a sign that everything is in its place and nothing is awry. A quality like order goes well with someone like Pepper who would consider herself a perfectionist. The forms of order that Pepper prefers are the kinds that denote peace as well as individual order which denotes a healthy mind and body. The type of people that would disrupt any kind of order are usually vilified by Pepper.
  
• Legalism | Legalism occurs when someone follows the letter of a rule but not the spirit. It completely ignores the reason for the rule and instead focuses on the rule alone. This is just the sort of thinking that Pepper can appreciate for its simplicity and (sometimes) practical applications.
  
• Nationalism | Pepper is the type of person who loves her country mindlessly. Fiore is the best everything, no matter what with no exceptions (in her mind anyway). She believes every action the nation takes should be one in the best interest of herself, not in the interest of other nations nor in the interest of the people themselves.
  

Dislikes:

• Criminals | While it's not hard to get on Pepper's hate-list, the only way to get to the top of that list is by breaking the law. She considers criminals to be parasites on society, ones who can throw an entire civilization into disarray if they are not handled appropriately.
  
• Tactfulness | When in a conversation, Pepper does not appreciate subtly; that is, she prefers people to be direct with her instead of playing with words and making their true intentions into a guessing game. This includes trying to fish her into a deeper conversation.
  
• Legal Guilds | Pepper considers legal guilds to be an unruly compromise in FIore's way of dealing with wizards. She considers the guilds to not be much more than mercenaries who have no true allegiance to the Magical Council. Were it her choice, she would disband the guilds and draft them into the Rune Knights.
  

Motivations:

• Patriotism | Pepper's a poster child for patriotism in that she works and strives to expand Fiore's influence and "greatness" across the globe. The woman even sacrifices much of her freedom and alone time to continue her work for her country. Consequently, she does not much care for hurting what is good for other countries, as long as it is for the good Fiore.
  
• Law | Pepper's idea of a utopia is one where crime is swiftly punish with harshness without regard for the trivial circumstances (draconian law in a sense but not as extreme). It is her goal, then, to carry out the work of this idea and stop criminals with a special zeal.
  
• Closure | Pepper is a hotbed of emotions. To quell this fire, she needs special closure from a very particular foe that has done wrong to her. This closure might be in the form of justice, vengeance, or an explanation. She just has to find the man.
  

Fears:

• Occupation | One of the greatest shames Pepper could experience would be the foreign occupation of her own nation. Her own sense of being apart of something great would be in jeopardy after all.
  
• Disability | Someone like Pepper, who is so reliant on her own abilities, would naturally feel fearful about losing an arm or being unable to walk. The worst prospect of losing one's ableness for her would surely be the part in which she becomes dependent on another person.
  
• Wavering | Pepper dreads the day that her own loyalty and faith in her causes will waver and become mauled by time as she abandons her goals. She feels it would inevitably be accompanied by a spinelessness.
  

Height: 5'8"
Weight: 140 lb
Hair: Long pink hair, going down to Pepper's upper back.
Eyes: Green
Skin Tone: Light
Appearance: Pepper's prime choice of clothing for her field of work is a dark purple suit. The suit's coat is rather simple in design, being-long sleeved with a linear line of three buttons from the bottom to the collar.Two smaller buttons can also be found on sleeve cuff to give its wearer more wrist space, though Pepper tends to keep them all buttoned to prevent any unlucky snagging. Pepper also wears a white blouse under the coat and often wears the cuffs out and over the coat's cuffs. The blouse's collar is also worn over the suit's collar and tactfully hides Pepper's cleavage. The white blouse is usually tucked into the suit's matching purple pants while the coat is left untucked. The pants themselves have two pockets, one on each side, and the cuffs of the pant legs hang (not too) freely over her short, dark heels. In terms of accessories, Pepper often carries a small pack of cigarettes as well as a lighter in her pant pockets and wears a pair of gloves.

Overall, Pepper possesses a slim figure with a thin waist, small wrists, and gaunt shoulders. Her legs, however, are long and give her an almost lanky appearance. Her head's shape is oval-ish and has a pointed nose with thin eyebrows and full lips. Although she would not admit it, Pepper annually plucks her eyebrows to keep them as they are. Even though she does now wear much makeup, she usually wears a distinguishable brand of lipstick.


Guild: Rune Knights | Special Operations Corps
Tattoo: Purple | Right Shoulder
Rank: D

My my.

Intruiging.

'Tis approved~!