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Player name: dai
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Character Information
Character Name: Jo Harvelle
Canon: Supernatural
Canon Point: 5x10: Abandon All Hope
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: dead!
History:

Born April 7th, 1985, Joanna Beth Harvelle was the only child to hunters William and Ellen Harvelle. While Bill was out on hunts, Ellen ran The Roadhouse, which acted as a headquarters for hunters out on the job such as John Winchester and Bobby Singer, who quickly became as close as family to her. Jo was raised as normally as she could, given the circumstances, with the occasional lesson in weaponry by her father whom she idolized. However, when Jo was "still in pig-tails" her father never came back from a hunt. Jo didn't learn until much later that he had died on said hunt, and it was even later than that when she found out who he'd been parterned with, but when she did it hardened her resolve to follow in her father's footsteps and become a hunter.

With Bill's death, Ellen became very protective over her daughter, keeping her as close as she could and as far away from the hunter life. This, of course, backfired on Ellen when it meant that Jo spent more time at the Roadhouse, around hunters who were just like her father. Her curiosity grew with each drunken tale, and while Jo put together a lot of cases on her own, her mother forbade her from going on hunts and therefore caused the teen to want to leave even more. Her crushes on hunters started early on, falling for a particular Gordon Walker, who eventually betrayed her and manipulated her into following him on a hunt and putting her life in danger. Ellen came to the rescue, but the experience left such an impression on Jo that even though she had almost died (and had fled the scene because of it), she decided then and there that she wanted to be a hunter. However she could.

Jo tried out college because Ellen wanted her to, but she never really managed to fit in, known as "the freak with the knife collection". After a year she returned home to work at The Roadhouse with her mother. This didn't help with her want to become a hunter, nor did it do anything more than support her tendency to crush on other hunters. One of which she met when he and his brother tried to break into The Roadhouse - a certain Dean Winchester. Ellen welcomed the boys, talking about how their father had been like family once, and Jo very quickly began to harbor feelings for the older of the two. Especially when he, very obviously, gave up on trying to flirt with her and tended to blow her off whenever they would stop by the bar. Jo continued with her attempts to get out on the job, going as far as to put together a nearly full-proof case to which her mother forbade her from going on.

Which, with Jo being Jo, meant that she just had to sneak off to do the job herself. Dean and Sam met with her on the case (having been put on it by Ellen to keep Jo off of it), and they teamed up to put an end to the ghost of Henry H Holmes. Jo was very thorough with putting the case together, impressing even Dean, and her enthusiasm carried over into the actual case itself, planning to go as far as to use herself as bait. With a few hiccups, the three managed to enclose the ghost in a concrete tomb, and despite the fear Jo felt, she explained how in the end, it was worth it if they could save at least one life. Ellen had tracked Jo down (it wasn't the first time) and came to bring the three of them back, explaining to Jo the reason for her adamant refusal to let her hunt, especially with the Winchesters, because of her father's death on a hunt with John. While it did change Jo's feelings towards the brothers (though not for long), it did nothing to keep her from the job, and not long after she ran off to hunt on her own.

For the next few years, Jo continued to hunt, collecting and creating cases for herself as well as for other hunters close to her. Sam tracked her down while possessed by the demon Meg, and even though Dean came and saved Jo from what could have been a very drawn-out and painful death, he refused to let her join him in the hunt to free Sam. Even after she basically saved his life by pulling him out of the water and bandaging up his shot-out shoulder. She was still out hunting when The Roadhouse was burned down with Ash inside a few months later, and it wasn't long after that when Jo decided to team up with her mother to continue hunting. They run into Dean and Sam in Colorado a little later, in the midst of a war-zone created by the horseman, War, but they are able to work together to free the town.

During the Apocalypse, when Dean and Sam decide that they are going to confront and try to kill the Devil, Ellen and Jo decide to help, joining Bobby and Cas and the boys. The night before, while all six of them are celebrating their last night on earth, Jo turns Dean down when he comes to her with "the last night on earth" speech. That next day when they ride into Carthage, Jo goes off with her mother and Cas to try and find survivors, and when Castiel leaves the both of them to investigate the presence of hundreds of reapers, the two Harvelles go back to the Winchesters and decide to go look for the Devil together. When Meg sets a group of Hellhounds on the four of them, Jo ends up sacrificing herself to save Dean when he's overrun by them, suffering a lethal attack. Dean carries her to a near-by hardware store, where the hole up for a bit and try to get Jo into a more movable state. She's the one that points out their situation, that she's not moving and if they want to finish the job, they need to go on without her, and she comes up with the idea to create a bomb and kill off the rest of the Hellhounds so they can't follow the rest of them. Despite the fact that Ellen, Dean and Sam don't agree with her, they don't really have a choice, and go about creating the bomb.

At the last moment, Ellen makes the decision to stay with her daughter, claiming that someone needs to let them in, and Jo isn't moving. The two Harvelles die together, in a blaze of glory, killing off the Hellhounds and opening up enough of a window of opportunity for Dean and Sam to confront the Devil.

Personality:

Had Jo been born into any other family, she most likely would have grown up to become some innocent, blonde-haired-blue-eyed beauty. She would have gone off to college, gotten married, and lived a happy, long life. But her luck would have it that the Harvelle family was anything but normal, with her father a hunter and her mother running The Roadhouse, which served as a sort of 'base' for hunters. A place where they could congregate, get a beer, talk the job. Jo loved The Roadhouse, loved hearing stories about jobs just like the ones her father worked. Jo was a happy child, bright-eyed and bouncing, curious and loving life, part of a strange, but happy, family.

That was, until the day her father didn't come home. Jo didn't learn the details of her father's last job until years later, but what she did know was that it was the things her dad hunted that killed him. The same things all the other hunters killed. Jo's life was very different after that - she started to notice just how much she didn't fit in at school, how her mother wouldn't let her go much of anywhere except school and The Roadhouse, and she wanted to know more. Jo spent the following years working at the bar, helping her mom with drinks and tables and making conversation with all types of hunters. It got harder to hide her curiosity, but her mother refused to tell Jo anything, which left her to stories and research. Even with Ellen's overprotective streak, it was only a matter of time before Jo was out in the field. Once she got her mind set on hunting, there was no turning back.

Jo is confident, smart, and quite capable. Due to her mother's reluctance to let her in on the hunter life, she learned to be stealthy with her research, and thorough. If she was going to pull together a case, it would be full-proof, complete. And she put together her fair share of cases, despite being denied the chance to see most of them through. Growing up in The Roadhouse, surrounded by (more often than not drunk) men, Jo learned how to handle herself early on. Sarcastic and quick-witted, Jo made quite a name for herself at the bar. She's a a damn good hustler, a pretty believable flirt, great with a shotgun and better at poker, draining many a hunter dry with a simple hand of cards. And, of course, there's her attitude - stubborn, for one. If she sets her mind on anything, it's a good bet that she will get it done. No matter what. It is this stubbornness that has led Jo on a few of her own hunts, running off to tag along with hunters and gain some experience, the Winchester boys only one example. She might not be the bravest - every person, hunter or no, has their limit - but she is determined enough to make up for it, and will see anything she starts through to the end.

After facing the consequences from her mother when she returned home (from a successful hunt, might she add), Jo decided she was old enough to be on her own. To hunt on her own. Hunting is the one way she feels closest to her father, and she was not going to give that up. Jo spent much of her life trying to chase that idea she set for her dad - the idea of what a hunter should be, how they should act. Because he died when she was so young, Jo never really got the chance to know him, and therefore spent her life chasing men like him, in a life like his. All she ever wanted was to know he was proud of her, and if she could get the job done, if she could prove her worth to other hunters, maybe that would be enough. And she never gave that up, even up to her death, when she followed the same Winchester boys into a fight against the Devil himself. She paid the price when a Hellhound got a hold of Dean and she dove right in for the rescue. But even faced with death, Jo wanted to see it through, see that the job - that Sam and Dean - made it out alive. It was Jo's idea to create a bomb, use herself as bait, and to kill the Hellhounds once and for all. Jo refused to be worthless, a dead-weight, and if she was going to go out it would be with a bang, literally. If she can save someone, anyone, then it would be worth it. Especially if it was someone she cared about.

Jo's life was always about saving people - herself, innocent civilians, anything she could do to get out there and make a difference. Her mom always wanted to save her, and Jo appreciated it, but she needed to do it on her own. She craved action. After being brought up a hunter, despite Ellen's attempts otherwise, she would die a hunter, loyal to the job until that last breath.

Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:

☑ HUNTING
From a very young age, Jo was picking up on the little details that came with hunting. Not just the actual hunt - the search and the kill - but everything that leads up to it. Because of that, she's very used to planning ahead, doing extensive research and putting together cases and plans, as well as following through with them. Her mind runs like a hunter: start from the beginning, learn as much as you can, create a step by step with back-ups on back-ups, and follow through until the end. growing up in the Roadhouse also meant that Jo heard stories of other hunters and the things they say and did, leaving her with a vast knowledge of just about every creature that old, drunk hunters thought were important enough to tell stories about. But it's not just stories - Jo has been out in the field, knows how to go undercover, ask the right questions and get the right answers, all the way down to the hunt. She may not have been doing it for as long as some other hunters, but her drive and stubborn nature makes up for it. From the paper trail to the knife in the heart, Jo does it because she loves it, because it makes her feel closer to a father she never really got the chance to know. Hunting isn't just a job for her, but a way of life.

☑ WEAPONRY
From an early age Jo was learning her way around weapons. On her eighth birthday, her dad gave her a bow and arrow set, teaching her how to use it. She took an early interest in knives, carrying her father's around with her everywhere and known at school as "a freak with a knife collection". She can take apart and put back together just about any kind of shot gun and rifle, is more than just comfortable with using them, and has made her fair share of salt and silver bullets. You'd be hard-pressed to catch Miss Harvelle unarmed, but she's also very creative, and will use just about anything as a weapon if she gets in a pinch.

☑ HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT
Just like her knowledge in weapons, Jo started learning self defense just about as early as she could walk. It didn't help that she had two hunter parents, both who knew how dangerous the world could be, with their one and only daughter. She might be small, relatively, but she can pack a punch, and knows just where to aim to take down any enemy. It also helps that most of the men she deals with are hunters, who really just need a good punch in the nose to take her seriously. The last thing she needs is some man thinking he has to take care of her on a hunt, and keeping up with her close combat allows her to feel that much more confident in her own skills.

☒ PRIDE
Probably Jo's worst trait, here, but when it all comes down to it, she's got one hell of an ego. This stems partially from growing up in the Roadhouse, where she constantly has men trying to father her, look after her, keep her safe; but also from deep-rooted daddy issues, in that her father died before she ever got the chance to impress him. For him to be proud of her. Jo will do just about anything to prove to everyone (herself included) that she is competent and well-equipped to handle any task. Back home, this was mostly related to hunting, but it extends to just about everything in Jo's life. If she finds the need to prove herself, she will go to great lengths to make sure she does so, sometimes even doing fairly stupid things if it means being taken seriously.

☒ LOYALTY
As it is with most hunters, Jo's trust is hard-won. It takes time, serious situational experience, and past that she has to actually like the person, to a point. But once her trust is won, and you've passed her tests, it's a deal made for life. Jo learned early on that feelings got in the way of survival, and when she nearly got herself killed because of a crush (and a need to prove herself), she closed off her heart just a bit more. If you've managed to worm your way into that spot, Jo will do just about anything to keep you safe. And that anything extends to sacrificing herself, as seen with one particular Dean Winchester. Her friends, and family, mean more to her than her own life, and she will do everything in her power to keep them safe.

☒ MORTALITY
It's always the simplest things that hit the hardest, and when all things are said and done, Joanna Beth is human. Mortal. And the human body is the most fragile of things. All it takes is one well-placed blow, a rip and a tear, and everything ends. This is how Jo died, once already, and she knows just as well as anyone how easily it can happen. How you can spend your whole life thinking 'it won't be me', and then suddenly it's over.

Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample: sample one - might be a bit old, will write one if this doesn't work!
Prose Log Sample:

She's waiting for the boom.

I will always love you, baby.

That was it. That was all she heard. She was waiting for the barking, the thrashing, the sounds of Hellhounds breaking through and then the bomb. Jo has prepared for that since she mentioned her plan, and now was the moment, the chance. If she couldn't go with Dean and Sam to the end, she could buy them some time. Give them precious seconds that could turn this all around, that could save the world.

Mom

Ellen had looked at her then, and Jo just knew. She knew she wasn't going to convince her otherwise - convincing her to go along with the plan at all had been hard enough. But now? Now Jo panics.

She was right there, right with her. Jo can still feel the warmth of her shoulder against her cheek and no matter where she is - Heaven, Hell, some other freaking dimension - her mother was with her just a moment ago and should be here too. Right next to her. Right here. And if Jo knew anything, it was that if Ellen was awake anywhere near here, she'd be raising Hell looking for her. Once she found her, the two of them could start figuring out what was going on. How they got there, where 'there' was, and where Dean and Sam went. If they survived. If they stopped the Apocalypse.

They must have, because she was there, alive, awake, but Jo tried to keep herself from assuming too much until she could get some kind of handle on things. Needs to find her mother.

When Jo's eyes open up, her mind's going faster than anything else. Mom, Dean, Sam, Cas, she doesn't know why her eyes are opening but they're opened and she can feel. Her waist, her legs, everything. She can feel and she can walk and before she even really registers where she is, she's sitting up. There's a sharp pain that scores through her side, but that's it. Just pain. Her fingers trace over what look like stitches, and seems to be an already healing wound. She's alive which means her mother might be too. Has to be. She just has to find her.

"Mom?" It comes out as a crack at first, before Jo shakes her head, shakes herself out of whatever daze she might have been in. Sitting up goes to jumping up as she gets to her feet, her knees and legs a little loose and unsteady, but functional. She can do this. "Mom!"