Appearance

Physical Description

A bit on the thin side

Body Features

Has a multitude of scars on her back and one across her forearm from a stray whip all of which she goes to great lengths to keep hidden.
Has a brand running the length of her upper arm. "EC" and a crescent shape that's meant to be something like a sickle, but it doesn't really look like it.

Facial Features

Has a brand in the shape of a skull just above her jawline on her left cheek.

Identifying Characteristics

If that brand isn't enough. I don't know what is.

Special abilities

Healer - a curse that just happens to be useful sometimes. Though she can count the number of times it's been useful to herself on one hand.
Has the ability to only speak and understand one language when she's panicked. She has yet to find a use for this curse.

Mentality

Personal history

Was born in Ratlan and raised by her parents Kate and Douglas Buchanan until she was eight.
It was around this time that her parents began an attempted revolution, though Dawn picked up only on a plan to free prisoners from the fighting pits.
Due to her talkative nature when she was eight, this information wound up in the hands of the state. Her parents were immediately arrested and subsequently executed.
Afterwards, she was raised by a family friend, Madge Lawton, with whom Dawn lived until about 20 when Madge went missing.
Unable to keep up with bills on her own, Dawn found herself falling deeper and deeper into debt. Finally, her debtors demanded that her debt be repaid. Still unable to repay these debts and now under the threat of arrest, she sold herself as an indentured servant in order to repay these debts.
 
It has been three years since then.
Now she finds herself running from a kyton she's never met. To whom she has been sold.

Employment

Secretarial work at a hospital from the ages of fifteen to twenty one.
Has previous experience working as a healer at a church when it was necessary.
Has recent experience as a farm-hand; pulling tassels off of corn, pulling weeds, overturning fields, keeping fields free of weeds, etc. Admittedly, she wasn't very good at that.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Successfully alerted authorities to treasonous activity at the age of eight.

Failures & Embarrassments

Successfully alerted authorities to treasonous activity at the age of eight.

Mental Trauma

Successfully alerted authorities to treasonous activity at the age of eight. This resulted in her parents arrest and subsequent death.

Morality & Philosophy

Once you're on the 'them' side of us vs them it's hard to get back. And maybe sometimes you shouldn't try - maybe that's where you should be.
 
I'm a coward, but at least I'll admit that. After all, you should always be honest with yourself.
 
Helping someone 'out of the goodness of your heart' is a great way to get yourself killed. Always ask yourself what this person can do for me and is it worth the risk? You'll find the answer is usually no.

person.sexuality

Irrelevant

Taboos

The system works. It's not a problem. It. Works. This is fine. Why do people have a problem with this?

Known Languages

Common, Celestial

Personality

Motivation

Fear of death.
Fear of pain.
Fear of being discovered by authorities.
Fear of being found by someone by the name of Vitori - she hasn't actually met this person, but she doesn't need to in order to know that they're terrifying.
Fear. Fear is your answer.

Quotes & Catchphrases

"You can understand me!...Oh gods, you can understand me."

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Inept at speaking with people in authority.

Likes & Dislikes

Likes

Sleeping in a bed - doesn't need to be a warm bed, it doesn't need to have sheets on it or even a mattress, just as long as it isn't the floor.
Food is good - cold food, warm food, doesn't matter

Dislikes

Herself
The situation she finds herself in

Virtues & Personality perks

Prefers not to draw attention to herself and instead keep it on anyone else.

Vices & Personality flaws

Doesn't always feel like the person in control of their own mind.
 
Despite the attempts of her guardian to make her understand and see this magic she uses in a positive light, Dawn hates this healing magic and everything that it brings with it. Instead seeing it as just another curse.

Hygiene

Keeps herself cleaned up enough to not be noticed.

Social

Contacts & Relations

If any of them are still alive:
Alissa Becket - lived on the same street as Dawn and Madge in Ratlan
Blythe DeLong - A dock worker in Ratlan, met when Blythe had come into the hospital with a serious gash.
 
Recent:
No recent connections as she didn't try to make friends at her more recent places of work, instead preferring to keep her head down and get her work done.

Honorary & Occupational Titles

You there.
Yes you.

Wealth & Financial state

Only what was given to her from the caravan driver on whose caravan she stowed away.

Religious Views

In the recent past she's followed Asmodeus if only to avoid drawing attention to herself.

Social Aptitude

"Yes, my papers say Striphmore, sir, but I'm here because *ringing bells*"
 
Always makes a conscious effort to turn the conversation away from herself.

Hobbies & Pets

Her research into magic may be considered less of a hobby than a mad obsession. She hopes to one day find a way to scrub this stain from her soul, but so far hasn't found a way to do so, nor many leads.
Though given her social status and rank she hasn't had much time to research in a long while.

Speech

Sometimes slips into Celestial when panicked.
Speaks quietly and relatively slowly, carefully thinking about each word that's said.