BASIC INFORMATION

Full name: Jordan Harper
Gender: Genderqueer
Age: 24
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 133 lbs
Race: Human - Fae
Sexuality: Pansexual
Nationality: Serenian
Residence: La'marri


PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

A willowy beauty with long, slender limbs; Jordan has a body that is straight and narrow as a ruler with no curves whatsoever and a lot of leg. If the truth was told they are a bit on the side of being too thin and looking slightly underfed. They are not starving, but probably also do not eat or sleep enough and work too much which does affect their health negatively.

Jordan has delicate hands with long, boney fingers – palms usually lightly stained from the rich dark soil and mulch they work with daily. Their skin is naturally a soft peach, and despite their love of working outside or in the greenhouse, they never develop a tan.

Their body has an obvious thinness to it, their face is not. Jordan has rounded cheeks and while their mouth is small, they possess full, glossy lips with a tiny button nose resting above them. Huge baby blue eyes are very expressive and highlighted with black eyeliner and mascara. Like many fae, Jordan has slightly pointed ears. They have a very soft, gentle air about them that you can both see and feel. 

Perhaps Jordan's best feature, their crowning glory, is their hair. Jordan love the deep red waterfall of hair that cascades down their back, gloriously wavy with curls on the ends – if it was shorter and not weighted down it would be in natural spirals.


PERSONALITY

Jordan is very much the type to keep their head down, their nose clean, and not to cause waves – or even ripples if they can help it. Inquisitive, hard-working, and kind-hearted, Jordan loves to be working with their hands in the dirt, experimenting with new growing methods and showering their plants with affection. They are the closest things to friends or family they really have right now.

Most of their time is filled with running the shop and tending to their plants, at least twelve hours a day every day of the week. Late in the evenings when the shop has closed they love to spend their time reading books of every genre or taking walks through the beautiful Niahi Woods that surround the city.

Socially they are something of a dud. It isn't at all that they don't like people, but Jordan has very deep self-esteem and anxiety issues. They are different from most everyone else, and it makes them self-conscious.

Fun Facts:

•   Smells like orchids, which happen to be their favorite flower.

•   Has a soft, lilting voice that is great for singing, particularly lullabies.

•   Grows and blends the best herbal teas, essential oils, and natural remedies which they sell for reasonable prices in their shop.


•   Hasn't done more than trim the split ends off their hair since they were eight years old.


PSIONICS

Florapathy- This is Jordan's greatest gift, they are much better at communicating with plants than people. Not actual word conversations, mind you, that would require the plants to have human thought processes, but they can feel and understand each other just fine.

Faunapathy-  Like with plants, they mostly communicate with feelings and simple pictures and concepts. They can connect with some creatures much easier than others. Insects, while simple in their thoughts, are easy to communicate with, while the more intelligent the creature the harder it becomes – perhaps surprisingly.

Empathy- A fairly weak sense, but they can get feelings from people. It is little more than an uncanny ability to know when people are angry, upset, happy, or lying.


RELATIONSHIPS

The Harpers- This is their birth family; mother, father, two older brothers, two younger brothers, and two younger sisters.

Laura Dell- The older woman that took them in after their family abandoned them. She is deceased and they miss her very much.


BACKSTORY

Jordan has certainly endured their fair share of unfortunate circumstances and rotten luck in their still relatively short life, but they are grateful for the good parts of which there are enough.

From birth it seemed fate that they would not live a boring, unnoticed life. A bouncing baby born to a very conservative couple, they disapproved highly from the start of their child, the third born of seven. For starters, Jordan was born with flaming red hair, of the seven children, Jordan is the only one that inherited such deep red hair – the rest of the family is honey blonde or strawberry blonde. Their mother refuses to acknowledge her infidelity and blames Jordan's overly delicate and fae looks on the most innocent party – Jordan.

Their mother kept their head shaved bald rather than look at the damning color. A fact that always deeply troubled Jordan, who loved their hair.

As if the red hair wasn't bad enough, Jordan was always a strange child. Sure, most children are curious and like to play in the dirt, but Jordan was downright obsessed with everything to do with being outside and gardening. There is nothing wrong with wanting to nurture nature, of course, but Jordan was supposedly born to two human parents and his attunement with flora and fauna was unnatural.

It was shortly after Jordan's seventh birthday when it became apparent that they were communicating telepathically with not only the local flora, but the fauna as well. It was the final straw for the family, really. How could they expect to deal with a child that seemed so different and wasn't wanted in the first place?

They couldn't.

Jordan was abandoned in La'marri during a business trip. The rest of the family returned to Serendipity, but Jordan was told to wait in a shop while their mother grabbed one last thing they needed. It certainly hurt to be left behind and cast aside by their family, but they had always been different and disconnected from not only their family, but everyone else too.

They were taken in by a kindly older widow who ran an herbal specialty shop and greenhouse. She had four children of her own, but they were all grown and had moved all over the world.

The arrangement worked out wonderfully, really. Laura Dell got a new little one to fill her empty home, help with her shop and caring for the plants – uniquely gifted help – while Jordan received a home where they were loved and appreciated for what they were – imperfect but genuinely trying.

That was a lucky break for them; a turning point in their life where the unspoken dislike and resentment of their family gave way to acceptance and contentment in their new situation. Sure, everything wasn't perfect, but it was good. They got to really embrace themselves for the first time and it was very liberating to not have their every action called into question or criticized by their parents or teased by their siblings.

Jordan was twenty when Laura, their beloved caretaker, passed away from natural causes. Her children returned for the funeral, and Jordan catered to them in her home. They were surprisingly kind to them, and when it was made known that both the shop with a small apartment above it and the greenhouse had been left to Jordan they were not angry in the slightest.

The last four years have been bittersweet for Jordan. On the one hand they still sometimes miss Laura very much, but at least the plants and insects keep them from being too lonely without her. On the other hand, they now have their own business, a reasonably successful one at that. Yes, they will never be rich, but they have what they need to get by happily.