Paige Conleth

-Simple Information-

Name: Paige Conleth
Also known as: "That weird kid", "You know, that one", "The one with the flames", "the one who never pays", "troublemaker","dirty goddamn arsonist", "pyromanic psycho", and a lot more given to her by the population of whatever island she resides on, but most aggravating is the marine's inofficial nickname, "Spiderfang's little lapdog".
The only official one is "Amber", for the goggles she wears, which are almost iconic for her by now. She wears them every time there's a fire around, and sometimes when there isn't, because she loves how the world looks through them, all golden and sunny and bright and a little blurry.

Age: 22
Species: Human
Gender: Female

Loyalty: Pirate
Affiliation: At the moment, more of a loner
Occupation:
Arsonist/ Firebreather: If counted as an actual occupation, since it is definitely the thing she loves doing most. Arsony does not have any sort of mastery level, since it's usually just laying fire, which requires little practice, though she is good at it. As a firebreather, which requires more practice, though it's for show rather than combat,she isn't quite as good, thanks to an astonishing lack of talent. She still tries very hard though.

Athlete: As Paige grew up in a fitting environment and has been trained to be an athlete since early childhood, her mastery level of this is very impressive. Though mostly, the tricks she learned are circus stunts, she can utilize them in battle if she has to. Still, they are bound to not be of much use.

Bounty:
100 (petty theft and beatings), 50 (serving under a captain of bounty 3.000.000 or more), 1050(assaulting a marine), 6000 (damaging marine property) 3.000.000 (piracy) 6.000.000 (sinking a ship), 1.000.000 (murder)

= 10.007.200, Dead or Alive
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Specialty:
Arsony: Aside from laying fire the oldfashioned way, or, giving the profession that started it all, breathing it, Paige also has her ways of using it in combat. Complicated and hard to master, of course, but still dangerous, as fire has the tendency to be.

Goals:
To live life so that she won't have to regret anything once she's done

Though she'd never admit it, it would be nice to not be all alone anymore

Avoiding Veruca would be great...

Funds: 10.000.000
(Started out with a small fee from the mercenaries, from which she buys her equipment. Instead of ever owning a boat, she "hitchhikes", as she calls it, which is another way of saying she hides out on the ships she finds and just waits where they take her.) *

Level: 0^
Posts till next level: 10/20*

-Appearance information-
Physical appearance: (one paragraph minimum per category):

Body:
Paige isn't of impressing size, which always annoyed her a little, being barely 5'1'' (1,55 m), maybe reaching 5'2'' (1,57 m) when she stretches, which means she has to look up to just about everyone, which she got used to fairly quickly. She learned that snarcking up to someone is almost as good as spitting down on their heads, that headbutts to the stomach are mostly not expected, and that most people have trouble hitting someone who's small and fast enough to creep through even the smallest openings. Additionally to her small size, she's also very slim and doesn't show much of the large bust of wide hips her mother had, neither her tanned, soft skin. Not to say Paige's skin isn't soft... Or wouldn't be, if she cared. It's just that she's a bit on the pale side, and has oil, ash or dirt combined with bruises or scratches from smaller friendly fights on her at all times, so it's a bit hard to tell. People might think of her as an unimpressive littly tomboy when described like that. They're awfully wrong. Paige may look a bit less feminine when compared to her more busty female counterparts, but she is impressive in her own way. Let's say she has her way to stick in people's minds (more on that in personality). She's as light as she looks, though she possesses the well toned muscles of an athlete,which always have some tension in them, even when she's relaxing. It's as though her bones are filled with air, and she uses that for her stunts. Her legs may be a little longer than normal, or perhaps it just looks like that because her arms are a tad bit shorter. Who knows? If people don't pay specific attention to it, they won't even notice. Overall, she might well be cut out of a fairy book, all cute and petite, and somehow elegant.... If fairies wore trenchcoats and got into fights regularily, and not the elegant magic kind either.

Face:
Paige has a roundish, heart shaped face with a bit of a pointy chin, which she tends to push forward a little, making the smirk she always has on her lips even more mischievous and insolent. Those lips aren't especially full, and often chapped since she tends to bite them, but they fit the rest of her in their chaoticness. The smile they put on display always reaches her yellowish brown eyes, makes them sparkle in an impish, but not necessarily mean way. These eyes are by far one of the prettiest parts of her, almond shaped and big, and always filled with life. Though she doesn't know it, they are part of why people feel attracted to her, or find her generally likeable. The dark, curved eyebrows above them used to be burned off a lot, but not since she has gotten her protective goggles. Since she doesn't really care about plucking them (a friend used to take care of that for her), they tend to look wild, luckily they're naturally rather thin in shape. The entire bone structure of her face, as in the rest of her body, is rather frail, safe for the cheek bones, which are one of the most prominent features of her face next to her eyes. Nose and ears aren't as noticable when compared to them, but if paid attention to, one might notice that Paige has a snub nose and that her ears are a bit bigger and more pointy than normal.

Hair:
Paige used to have long, dark, flowing hair that made other girls pale with jealousy, but cut it (or rather, had it cut) short. And I'm talking boy short. Even in her neck, in which her hair is at it's longest, it barely reaches past her ears. In the front, it falls down to the middle of her forhead, at least when it isn't burned off or fried a little, in which case it is, of course, shorter. Those regular burnings are also the reason why her cut is very inconsistent and her hair is mostly wild. Luckily, it's naturally a bit curly, and so it looks passable at most times, except when it's very bad, in which case it could still be seen as... artistic. It's always at least a bit frizzy though (people wonder why she'd get so close to the fire when she has so much experience with it). Additionally to the burnings, Paige used to dye it (or have it dyed, rather) red. Her friends thought it would fit her job and fighting style better this way. She didn't really care, and so it washed out over time. It really is a miracle that her hair is still holding on this well, it looks very healthy for what it's been put through. Now, it's it's original colour, dark, dark black, though it seems to go over into red when seen in the right light, a remain from the former colour perhaps.

Non visual information:
Paige has a voice that can be both soothing and incredibly annoying. Though her vocal range only reaches from very high to slightly deeper than medium, she can use it in such a variety of tones that sometimes it's scary. She has a special talent for mimicking voices, though it's only done for fun and not ever professionally. What for, anyway? An arsonist doesn't really need a voice that much. In fact, an arsonist must be aware that being so close to smoke all the time is rather bad for the voice. As a result of her profession, Paige's voice is smoky in the best case, but coarse in most. When speaking, she tends to not only gesture a lot, but also changes the volume, tone and pitch within her vocal range constantly, always fitting the subject. She always smells of smoke a bit, sometimes of the things she uses, like petrol, but also, surprisingly, there's quite often a sweet smell underlying it all. It's sugary strawberries, actually, her favourite food, and if anyone would feel the dire need to lick her face, they would surely be able to taste a little sweetness under all the disgusting petrol and coal related tastes.

Extra features:
Aside from the smudges, scratches and the few freckles hidden under said smudges, there is nothing unusual about Paige's face. If she was, for some reason, to ever take her clothes off, one would get to see quite the collection of unusual features. The first and biggest things are the many scars, smaller and bigger ones. All of them, with only the slightest exception, are burnings caused from her not being careful enough when playing with fire again. The most prominent ones are the ones on her fingers, all ten of them. The tips got charred and burned so often in her life that they're basically made out of scars, the fingerprints are completely destroyed (yet she doesn't want to wear protective gloves, at least not those protecting her fingertips. Why? Maybe she likes the constant reminder that fire can bite, even her.). The second scar certainly noticable, situated on her back, just below her right shoulderblade, reaching down to her hip is a very big burning scar. It stretches to a bit over the middle of her back. But both of those scars, when seen in importance and consequence, pale in comparision to a much smaller, less noticable one. On her left shoulder, there's a small, very clean wound scar. Whatever caused it must have went right through her, as she has the same scar on the other side of her shoulder, and specialists will of course be able to tell it's from a gunshot right away. As for other rare features, she has some tatoos, one on her left wrist, a decorated, curved V, one on the other wrist, another decorated letter, M. They're normally concealed under her fingerless gloves and the bandages she has wround her wrists additionally, as she can't stand looking at them, but can't bring herself to destroy or remove them either.

Clothing:
When it comes to clothing, Paige has a strict style. A very chaotic strict style, which always futures two components: One is her long trenchcoat, made out of fire- proof material. It's a bit too big for her, as is especially seen on the arms, which she has to roll up a bit. It reaches the middle of her lower legs, and is very dark green in colour. On it, she keeps a small collection of buttons in all colours, about ten of them, six on the right side, four on the left side. Whenever she finds a new one she likes, she adds it to her small collection. The second component are her old flying goggles. Those don't have any use, they basically do nothing. But the glasses have been replaced with thin, very thin plates of amber. This is because Paige just loves the way fire looks through the gem.
Her usual outfit, of course additionally to the coat and goggles, consists of a black shirt, comfortable, ripped and washed out jeans of a light gray colour, and cowboy boots, always leather, with some decorations along the sides. They reach up to a bit less than half of her lower leg, and she wears them over her jeans, so that they world around may feast it's eyes on their dark red colour and overall flashyness. The shirt in this outfit is made of simple matter, it offers no protection at all and is basically a shirt anyone could buy in any shop, if it wasn't for the thing on it. On it is a jolly roger, almost cute with it's big eyes, though it does it's best to look evil. The blood splatters over it's surface and the small, spiderlike fangs certainly help. In it's teeth, it holds an ace of diamonds, bloodsplattered as well (the bloodsplatters really are part of the jolly roger, they almost look cartoonish), and there's a small, dark violet tophat on it's head. It's not her jolly roger, that'd be dumb, why should her jolly roger look like that? But it's the one of her old crew. The shirt has very, very short arms, it's almost more of a top, but it has enough to qualify as a t-shirt. She tugs the shirt into her pants, which isn't hard, seeing as it's a pretty tight garment and would probably be harder to wear over the aforementioned piece of clothing. To round the outfit off, she wears a leather belt around her waist, of the same colour her boots have, dark red. Sometimes, she also wears a dark gray hat, made of simple cotton, though it's flammable qualities have her only take it out when she doesn't plan on burning anything in the next few minutes, which is rare.
Though she barely changes outfits, there does come a time when even Paige has to admit going on in this one would be dumb. One of those times is in extreme heat. Now, any normal person would remove the coat, but Paige wouldn't, ever. Instead, she removes the shirt under it, replacing it with a much smaller, thinner and dark red variant with the same, though smaller jolly roger on the left side (it's mostly covered by the coat though), which shows her midriff. It's actually a top, but no one will ever know, since the nonexistant arms are hidden by the coat anyway. For such occasions, she also has shorter pants, only reaching the middle of her upper leg. They look as used and raggy as the other pair she has, even have the same colour, but hey, they're shorter. Boots and goggles stay, of course.
As for other, more special occasions, Paige has one single dress. She barely ever wears it, doesn't even know why she keeps it around. She supposes it's just one of the favourite things that were ever given to her. She likes the way it feels, smooth and cool, the absolute opposite of her normal self, but hey, everyone needs a little time off from who they are once in a while. As for the dress, it's made out of dark, black silk, the expensive, high quality kind, and is most likely the most expensive thing Linette carries around with her, as far as non burnable or burning things go. The seam barely reaches over her knees, and it's slit open on both sides up to almost her waist to allow her more freedom of movement, which was something she persisted to have. For the same reason, it doesn't have arms, and is usually worn with something under it, which Paige quietly ignored so far. It's high cut, asian style, and has red and yellow decorations on it. Though those are barely lines, and a few flowers at the lower left, those fiery colours are another reason why she likes the dress. Thing is, there is never, ever occasion to wear it. No one knows why she doesn't wear the thing if she loves it so much. Maybe it really is because she's afraid it might get burned.... It would explain why, the few times she's actually had it on, her trenchcoat went right over it.

-Personality information-

Personality Overview:
Entertaining people and picking fights with them... Hey, one and the same, right? Paige has always seen it that way, and doesn't really see the hostile part of punching someone in the face. She can be childish in the best way, joyful, outgoing, party loving. But she can also be very naive. She's quick to trust, and lacks understanding in how people feel or what they think, something that got her a massive amount of trouble in the past. Act first, think next: that is how she usually does things. She's very impulsive, and I mean very impulsive. And usually, she follows her first impulse, which, again, leads to a lot of trouble often. That's why no one would ever put her in charge of anything. It's not like she's stupid, she can be intelligent and even sly sometimes, but, well... plans aren't a big strenght of hers, common sense isn't a big strenght of hers, thinking isn't a big strenght of hers. Her attitude is much too mischievous, sometimes malignantly so, she loves her risks and her fun way too much to be anything close to dependable, and has been known to just disobey her orders when they don't strike her as fancy enough all of a sudden. This can even be in the middle of combat, when she has a sudden change of mind and decides that she actually doesn't really want to fight. Many an opponent has been left standing around dumbfounded by her. But she's an optimist, even in the darkest of situations, she remains cheerful and nice, even towards her enemies, two seconds before she tells them that she will now go on and burn them alive.
Her moral standards seem to be impressively low. The things she's done, she's never shed any tear about. And they were far, far from nice. Possibly even worse than that: They lack any kind of moral motive. Just two girls having fun in a very big way. But she was always loyal. Aside from the friendly backstabberies that were part of the game. She wouldn't actually ever go far enough to endanger people she cares about, but somehow, it's hard to make out who she cares about, she's even charming towards her worst enemies, and can be relentlessly cruel towards her friends, if she actually had any. Another problem with that is that she has a problem with telling when exactly she crosses a line, even if it's only something as simple as "hey, is kidnapping their loved ones fun to them or not?". The only thing that seems to get her out of this usual cheerfullness seems to be family. Not blood, family. Though she curses them often enough, and even after what happened, she'd still slay anyone without second thought if they dared lay a hand on them or even just badmouth them. Maybe because she cares, maybe because she wants to be the one to finish them. In that aspect, she is like a kicked puppy: a bit lost and confused, but still undeniably loving towards the master that set it out into the rain. Living in the here and now is of essence to her, because otherwise, she'd have to think about the past, and that'd only drag her down. Maybe inside, she actually really wants to have someone to show her the way, to give her life some kind of sense again... But she'd rather die than admit it.

Likes, Dislikes, Hopes and Fears:

Likes/Hopes: Do I even have to say it? You could say Paige likes fire. Okay, she's absolutely obsessed with it. So much one could come to think it's worth more to her than any human being. That's stupid. She knows fire isn't human. But wouldn't it be nice if it was?
Anyway, moving on, she also tends to collect things, though the things she collects are few. Mostly, she collects buttons. Those small things you put on clothes? Yeah. The crazier the better.
When it comes to food, she loves everything sweet, but especially sugared strawberries.
In humans... Oh well, she doesn't really seem to care. They're there, and they're her audience, even if it's only for one night, even if she burns their houses down the next day. Her life is a big party to her, she could be dead tomorrow after all. She doesn't want this party to end, ever.

Dislikes/Fears: There aren't many things Paige openly dislikes. She doesn't even openly dislike people who openly dislike her, mostly because she just cares too little about what they think. She's not one to hold a grudge, either, so all her dislikes are rather short timed and then turn into neutrals again. There are things she dislikes though. One of them is Veruca, who betrayed her. Another is people who dislike Veruca or Michael, excluding herself. Lastly, people who put fires out. Sooo annoying. It's like destroying a work of art! Imagine, you put your life into laying a fire, all your love goes into it and you just want to relax and watch that house burn down, but noooo, there are the firemen. But aside from that, almost everything is fine and dandy with her. Life is cool. It shouldn't have to end, not hers... Truth is, she's afraid of death, more than any usual person is. It's not so much the not being there that scares her, the being gone, but the fact that she knows nobody will come cry at her grave. If they'll even get her one. She comes, she sees, she leaves or destroys. Contacts, friends, she doesn't have. She used to, but not anymore. And if she was ever to find anyone new, she would be dreadfully afraid of losing them as well. But she doesn't show any of that to anyone, not even the persons affected.

-History information-**

1. The earliest events:

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2. Veruca:

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3. The beginning of something fiery:

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4. Why not go on an adventure?

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5. Making a name:

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6. The end of a world/The beginning of now and here:

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Relationships with other characters: *

-Stats-^

• Strength: 5
  
• Endurance: 10
  
• Speed: 25
  
• Agility: 25
  
• Skill: 30
  
• Tactical intelligence: 5
  
• Practical intelligence: 10
  
• Knowledge: 5
  
• Perception: 15
  
• Charisma and leadership: 15
  
• Talent: 15
  
• Devil fruit control: 0
  

-Equipment List-
Basic inventory
(two Batons-200 Beli
two liters of Petrol-2000 beli
Two penduli-100 Beli
One Butterfly Knife-100 Beli)

-Abilities-
Fire-dancing: weapon fighting style: 10 points
(10 more ability points to spend)

Passive traits:
Athlete: Right training and a light body come in handy. Mixed with the right environment, they make for a perfect growing ground for a quick, light, and agile person, who just so happens to be able to do stunts: an athlete.

Devil Fruit: None

Talents:
Firebreathing: Same as athleticness, firebreathing is something Paige picked up at her home. Though she lacked the talent she had for stunts when it came to this section, she wasn't one to give up and practises hard to be able to one day not burn herself during a trick.

Learned skills:
Circus tricks (athlete), firebreathing/ “Firedancing“, knifefighting (though this can barely be called a skill, more like the basic jabbing-slashing thing)

Techniques lists:^
Fire Dancing

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** = must be updated after every story ark

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Make sure you note you've still got 10 AP to spend on fighting styles, if you want them.

You've also got an additional 10 AP and 50% stats, due to the limited time offer.

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Sorry, you have 5% too much... sorry ^,^"

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Aw geez, I didn't even notice. Damn you maths, damn you...
Sorry, it should be correct now.

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