Janaleigh Marlowe

Janaleigh Diana Braxton (born Janaleigh Diane Marlowe, 6 March 600 K.C.), or "Jana" to those that know her, is an experienced human assassin and interrogation expert who is native to Gilneas City.

Janaleigh is currently affiliated with 7 and she has maintained her Agent status for nearly four years now.

She is married to Conor Braxton, the Director and second-in-command of Blackthorne. =Appearance=

Janaleigh stands at 5 feet, 7 inches tall. She is of an average size, her weight normally ranging anywhere from 115 to 125 pounds depending on how much training she does, and her body has an hourglass shape. She is physically fit with decent muscle tone, but she isn't extremely muscular.

Her skin is moderately tan and has freckles lightly sprinkled along her face, chest, and arms. She has captivating, green eyes and long, dark hair, though she won't hesitate to change her appearance if disguising herself becomes necessary.

She has six piercings. Both of her ears have the standard earlobe piercing, in which she wears a pair of small, diamond stud earrings. On the top of her left ear, she has a small, silver hoop earring that pierces the cartilage. On her right ear, a small, silver hoop earring pierces the cartilage halfway between the top of her ear and her earlobe. She has another small, silver hoop earring that pierces the tail end of her left eyebrow. Her remaining earring is on her nose, and it is a small, silver stud.

Janaleigh has four tattoos that were all done in black ink. She has one that is located on her left clavicle, one on her right side, one on the inside of her left wrist, and one on the top of her right hand.

The tattoo on her left clavicle is a silhouette tattoo of three birds, each of them representing her family members. Her father, mother, and brother are her only living family members. ((Please click here to see a reference photo.))

The tattoo on the top of her right hand is of a cog, which is the mark of the Defias Brotherhood. After the man she loved left her to marry someone else, she wanted to leave her life in Gilneas City behind. The Brotherhood offered her an opportunity that she couldn't refuse, so she happily branded herself with their mark. After she severed her ties with the Brotherhood, she began to cover this tattoo with leather gloves.

The tattoo on her right side is a tattoo of a dreamcatcher. She got this particular tattoo shortly after she severed her ties with the Defias Brotherhood. She struggled for many months, and she was willing to try anything to help numb the feelings she felt, including getting a tattoo of a dreamcatcher which she hoped would symbolize the dissolution of nightmares. It covers most of her side, beginning around the top of her breastline and ending near the top of her hip. ((Please click here to see a reference photo.))

The tattoo on the inside of her left wrist is of a zigzag-looking pulse line. This one holds the most importance to her because she can look down at it any time and be reminded that she is still alive and that she needs to live every day as if it is her last. It's her own personal way of accepting her fate for having chosen a life of crime. ((Please click here to see a reference photo.))

Janaleigh has experienced her fair share of torture, mostly consisting of starvation, waterboarding, and lashing. She has between ten and fifteen line-shaped scars on her upper and middle back, making it obvious that she had received some sort of thorough lashing. The scars are pink and slightly raised, suggesting that it has happened within the last few years.

More often than not, she will be seen wearing dark clothing and a mask that covers the bottom half of her face. She will normally pull down her mask and let it rest around her neck if she is in the company of friends or colleagues.

Janaleigh always has her custom made daggers equipped to her hips, which are her weapons of choice in combat. She also carries a knife, but its equipped location is not visible or known to anyone.

=Personality=

Janaleigh has what could be classified as a psycopathic personality. She isn't irresponsible or incredibly impulsive, but she does know how to charm people and how to say the right things to get what she wants. She can sometimes be overly confident and arrogant, and she is generally a selfish person unless it pertains to her Blackthorne Family and others whom she loves. If she's provoked, she will get irritable, sarcastic, and aggressive, and she may turn to violence to solve any disputes depending on the situation. She doesn't exhibit any guilt or remorse as it relates to her assassination or interrogation work, though she does have the ability to feel them in general with things involving those she loves. She isn't one to make a lot of plans, unless it pertains to her work life, as she often lives in the moment and day-to-day. She is sometimes hypersexual, meaning that she will sometimes feel the need to act out by having very frequent sexual encounters. As she is currently married and loyal to her husband, she seeks it only within her marriage.

Janaleigh is normally on the quiet side until she gets to know someone, mostly because she's automatically curious or suspicious of everyone's intentions when first encountering them.

Upon getting to know Janaleigh, though, one would learn that she is loyal, disciplined, and confident. Her friends and colleagues often confide in her because of her usual brutal honesty, and because she will drop anything and everything to help a friend or family member, including her Blackthorne Family. She is fiercely loyal, so betrayal isn't in her dictionary.

When she is on duty, Janaleigh exhibits professionalism and she never takes a situation lightly. She's not one to whine or complain because she feels as though it is a waste of time. She would much rather spend her time finding a solution to something instead of sitting around and complaining, and she highly respects those who feel the same way.

=Skills and Proficiencies=

Janaleigh is a highly-trained assassin and interrogation expert who is currently affiliated with Blackthorne and The Uncrowned. She has roughly ten years of experience in assassination and five years of experience with specialized interrogative techniques. She also has experience in bounties, thievery, and general espionage.

She trains daily to improve and maintain her flexibility, agility, and stealth. She frequents the training dummies in Stormwind City to enhance her skills with daggers. She also likes to maintain a certain level of proficiency in first aid in case she is ever outside of the city and needs to improvise with an injury. Her knowledge involves things such as bandaging, wound dressing, and collecting and processing herbs with healing properties.

=History=

Early Life (600 K.C. - 617 K.C.)
Janaleigh was born to Colin and Diana Marlowe on 6 March, 600 K.C. in Gilneas City. Her father, Colin Marlowe, worked as a blacksmith. He took great pride in his work, and he frequently created beautiful weaponry and armor for the nobles of Gilneas. Her mother, Diana Marlowe, would often bake goods for the citizens of Gilneas, especially for social gatherings and events. They had one other child, Jeremy Marlowe, who is two years older than Janaleigh.

Janaleigh was always a headstrong, independent child who was opinionated and outspoken. Despite her quirks, she usually always got along with her parents and brother because of how supportive they were of her.

Janaleigh became interested in bounty work as a young teenager. She saw the occasional "Wanted" poster in the city, and her eyes would light up upon seeing the rewards that were offered. One day, she decided to inquire about one of the posters and, even though she was young, she was allowed to team up with someone for the job. After their successful completion of the retrieval of a drug-addicted, petty theft, she was permitted to start doing small scale jobs on her own until she gained the experience required for larger contracts. While the money to be made was her initial reason for becoming involved with contract work, the thrill of the hunt for whatever or whomever she was hunting for was what hooked her.

On one rainy evening in Gilneas City in 616 K.C., Janaleigh was attempting to steal an item from someone's parked carriage when she encountered a young man by the name of Conor Braxton. Conor was born into nobility, though he didn't particularly like his status and often found himself hating the politics that were involved with carrying the Braxton name. He spotted her on top of the carriage, suspecting that she was not the owner of it, and he began to question her. He tried to convince her to come down from the carriage by offering her some gold coins, but she refused and became rude and insulting towards him in hopes of deterring him. Conor persisted, so she decided to stop and continue her search for the item another day. Finding her beauty and attitude attractive, Conor followed her and tried to find out who the woman behind the mask was. Despite her strong, initial objection to speaking with him, she eventually broke down and told him her name. Over the course of a few weeks, they became unlikely friends, and they were soon inseparable.

As Conor was a part of Gilnean nobility, he knew that his family would not approve of his friendship with Janaleigh. Not only was she not of noble birth, but she was also involved in various criminal activities. If they found out about her and who she was, they could have very easily had her executed. To keep their relationship secret, Conor would frequently sneak away from his parents' home to see Janaleigh, and they would often spend time together at her parents' home. They often spoke of running away, leaving Gilneas City behind so that they could be together.

In 621 K.C., Conor's parents became insistent on him marrying a young woman of noble birth, considering his age, so that their house name and bloodline could continued. The last thing that he wanted to do was marry a woman other than Janaleigh, but his parents spotted them kissing one day near the coastline of Gilneas City and used that as leverage to force him into a marriage with a noble woman of their choosing. They told Conor that they would have Janaleigh and her family executed if he refused to marry the woman of their choice, so he obliged to protect Janaleigh and her family.

Janaleigh was heartbroken over Conor's decision to marry someone else despite his reason behind it. Not only did Conor not keep his promise to run away and leave Gilneas City with her, but he also didn't tell her about the wedding beforehand. She decided to flee Gilneas City, despite being newly pregnant with Conor's child, unable to cope with the fact that she would never be able to be with Conor. She packed a single bag of clothing and supplies, left a note for her family, and boarded a ship with the intentions of never returning.

A year later in 622 K.C., while the Battle for Gilneas City was taking place, her parents decided to move away in order to ensure their and Jeremy's safety. They decided to purchase a nice home on some farmland in Elwynn Forest because it was a quiet area and in close proximity to Stormwind City. They were unsure of Janaleigh's exact whereabouts, but they hoped that she would get word of the location of their new home one day so that they could be reunited.

Working with the Defias Brotherhood (621 K.C. - 623 K.C.)
When Janaleigh boarded a ship to flee Gilneas City, she became acquainted with some members of the Defias Brotherhood. Seeing her as particularly impressionable because of her age and her current emotional state, they attempted to recruit her, offering her work and a home. She couldn't bare to stay in Gilneas City and be subjected to seeing Conor with his new bride on a regular basis, so she decided to join the Brotherhood in hopes that it would give her a new start away from Gilneas City. She pledged her allegiance to the Brotherhood by marking herself with their cog tattoo on the back of her right hand.

The Brotherhood trained Janaleigh in various areas, though she seemed to excel in most things that required agility. She was quick on her feet and quick to react, making her a valuable asset. The rigorous training that they required of her eventually caused her to have a miscarriage, only adding to the depression that she already felt after Conor got married.

The brutality of the Brotherhood against the people of the Alliance pushed Janaleigh over the edge, having detrimental effects on her mental health. She was doing the type of contract work that she sought out to do, but she disagreed with the violent treatment of people who didn't need or deserve to be harmed or killed, at least in the quantity they seemed to enjoy. After being a part of the Defias Brotherhood for two years, she decided to sever ties with them and go separate ways in an attempt to preserve whatever humanity she had left.

Period of Severe Depression (621 K.C. - 623 K.C.)
Janaleigh experienced a long stretch of severe depression after she left Gilneas City. The downward spiral of her mental state began after Conor's arranged marriage to a Gilnean noble woman, and it continued to worsen after she had a miscarriage and after seeing the brutality of the Defias Brotherhood.

After Janaleigh found out about Conor's wedding, she started to have feelings of brokenness and hopelessness. She thought that leaving Gilneas City would help her get her mind off Conor and give her a fresh start, but her depression never completely went away.

Janaleigh intended on raising her and Conor's child, as it would allow her to always have a piece of him, but the strenuous training and general lack of concern that she had to endure as a new Renegade of the Brotherhood resulted in her having a miscarriage. She had already been experiencing various symptoms of depression, but losing her and Conor's child further aggravated her symptoms.

After parting ways with the Defias Brotherhood, Janaleigh began traveling south along the coast of the Eastern Kingdoms, working simple theft or contract work on an as-needed basis as she traveled. She felt lost, and she struggled with her own humanity and purpose in life. She was often plagued with frequent anxiety attacks, night terrors, and suicidal thoughts. She tried anything and everything to overcome the pain and despair that she felt, and she even went so far as to research the superstition of dreamcatchers. She ended up getting a tattoo of one on her right side, hoping that it would help bring her some peace by "catching" her nightmares, though it wasn't as therapeutic as she had hoped in that period of her life.

Becoming an SI:7 Agent (623 K.C. - 626 K.C.)
Janaleigh eventually made it to Stormwind City as she traveled south along the coast of the Eastern Kingdoms. Her mental state improved slightly, but her depression was still very much present. She was a colder, harder version of herself, as she learned how to dissociate herself from her past. She was determined to never let herself be hurt like that again, so to ensure that she avoided close relationships with other people.

In an attempt to make life seem normal, Janaleigh started to pick up more contract work. While working a contract job one afternoon, an Agent of 7 approached Janaleigh and they began to engage in casual conversation. They eventually asked each other about their work, and the Agent told Janaleigh about his position with 7 and what it entails. Intrigued, Janaleigh asked him for more information and how she could become a part of such an organization.

Janaleigh officially became an Agent of 7 in 622 K.C. She received thorough training in all areas to make her a well-rounded Agent, but after assessing her skills and capabilities they decided to start focusing their efforts on her raw talent in assassination and interrogation by providing her with more specialized training. She excelled in both areas, especially interrogation, and she would soon be assigned regular jobs.

Her skill in interrogation became an extremely valuable asset to 7. When it came to extracting information, she stopped at nothing to get the information she wanted, even if it involved methods of torture. Her favorite methods of intel extraction were sensory and sleep deprivation, stress positioning, abdominal striking, lashing, waterboarding, and phobia exploitation.

During her time working as an 7 Agent in Stormwind City, she was lucky enough to be reunited with her family. She went to see them as soon as she got word that they lived in Elwynn Forest.

Janaleigh decided to resign from 7 during her third year of employment as an Agent. While she enjoyed the regular work, she had been feeling the need to utilize her talents elsewhere, possibly because of an ever-burning darkness that was within her.

Blackthorne and Reuniting with Conor Braxton (627 K.C.)
In December, 627 K.C., Renault Blackthorne, the crime Lord of Blackthorne, heard about Janaleigh's talents in assassination and interrogation and sought her out in hopes that she would be interested in either a temporary or permanent employment arrangement. On one afternoon in Stormwind City, he caught sight of her and approached her. Interested in a permanent employment arrangement, she signed an employment contract with Blackthorne and became an Associate of the organization.

Janaleigh got hit with the biggest surprise of her life when she found out that Conor, her ex-lover from Gilneas, was also a member of Blackthorne. She spotted him in Old Town (Stormwind) in the city and, even though it had been ten years since they last saw each other, seeing him brought back so many feelings that she wasn't expecting to experience all at one time. They talked for hours in the Pig and Whistle Tavern in Stormwind City and they, once again, have been inseparable ever since.

On the evening of 25 December, 627 K.C., Conor proposed to Janaleigh in Stormwind City on an overlook near the docks. They were looking out at the water and enjoying the cool breeze coming in from the shore when he kneeled before her, professed his love for her, and asked her to marry him. He felt as though fate had reunited them for a reason, and he wanted to commit himself to Janaleigh like he should have done ten years ago in Gilneas City.

Janaleigh has proven to be a valuable asset to Blackthorne in the short time that she has been affiliated with them. It didn't take long for her to prove her worth and earn her Family's trust because of her willingness to help her Brothers and Sisters as well as her performance on jobs and finding new talent for the Family. Renault promoted Janaleigh to Blackthorne's upper hierarchy, giving her the title of Intelligence Executive, and he gave her a silver-banded ring containing a single, spinel stone to show his appreciation for her contributions and to symbolize her prestige within Blackthorne. Feeling honored to have been given such a token, she always wears it on the ring finger of her right hand.

On 10, January 628 K.C., Janaleigh decided to resign from her position as Intelligence Executive in Blackthorne because she didn't feel as though her goals aligned with theirs.

Marriage to Conor Braxton (30, December 627 K.C.)
Janaleigh and Conor were wed on the Southern Savage Coast in the Cape of Stranglethorn, which is located near Booty Bay, on 30, December 627 K.C. Renault Blackthorne officiated their small, intimate ceremony. They shared beautiful vows and committed themselves to each other for the rest of their lives, until death do them part.

Working with SI:7 Again (11, January 628 - Present)
On 11, January 628 K.C., Janaleigh decided to begin working with 7 again, reclaiming her Agent Number #034, as she missed the frequent work that she did with them. While she originally felt as though she needed to utilize her skill set somewhere else when she resigned from her position in 626 K.C., she ultimately decided that her time in 7 opened up more opportunities. It is her overall goal to work her way up to Senior Agent.