Loraine Ludman

Personality
The first thing you’d notice about Loraine is her figure. With 20 strength Loraine Ludman is a mass of muscles, first impression confidence, and swagger. Loraine can always be seen keeping busy with something or other! Ask her for help with a job around town and she’s your gal. She’s a familiar face around the city for just that reason. It's either known for that or from annoyed parents having to over their kids ears when they hear her sailor mouth cursing up a storm. This towering beefcake warrior is a wall of protective energy that’s roaring to be let loose at the monsters surrounding the castle walls, the flames of a kitchen, the rustled sheets of a woman’s bed, and a hardy fist fight before dinner. Loraine fits the image of good-natured impulsivity. She’s the first to rush into danger, take risks her more careful party members won’t, and is the initial wave of tanking damage for her mage friends.

All this bravado has a limit though. Loraine’s confidence is sometimes a mask for a deep-rooted insecurity of worthlessness. Loraine feels as if she must be a provider and protector. If she cannot be of service to someone then surely she’s wasting her time and something horrid will happen. Loved ones are able to pull her from this mindset with some convincing, allowing her to savor the chance to take her time and finally relax. She also isn’t used to being called beautiful or smart because of how stone butch and stupid she is. Compliments about this does make for a rather flustered Loraine, especially if those words are leaving an attractive woman’s lips. She is also completely abstinent from alcohol and tends to ‘herd’ the intoxicated to safety like a nervous Shepard. Her experiences in the kingdom have been calming a lot of these fears though. Loraine may have the same body as before she came here, but she can breathe better now than she ever could before.

What You All Know
Loraine came from a village that got hit hard by the famine. She had to start working when she was just a kid to help her family get by. She also fought a lot of people who were trying to steal from her house. Loraine was a maid for the local noble among other side jobs back then. She got involved in some revolution to overthrow the noble so the town could relish in the spoils after. It worked! A few months after, Loraine decided to go to the kingdom to get a good paying job again so she could send money back to her family.

Backstory Details
Loraine’s got a lot of anger issues stemming from her childhood. She had to be a primary income earner alongside her brother after her father became disabled and her mother had to focus on taking care of him and the youngest child. She got into many street fights, had reckless one night stands instead of relationships, worked multiple jobs, and then further had to deal with her father’s alcoholism on top of everything. She loves her family dearly though. She just wishes the plague had never happened. They all would’ve been happier for it.

Grapple Claw
Loraine's trusty grappler claw was made of her first two monster kills. It's her signature weapon that her Kensai Ki flows through. With it she's choked out, swung to, and blasted through many a beasts body.

Paintings from Alyssa
Queen Alyssa had made Loraine a few paintings, all of which Loraine keeps well protected in her room. There's an oil brush sunset on the wall opposite her bed and a sunrise on top of her desk. Her favorite is a portrait of herself after she mid-flight murdered a Kezu that was terrorizing the castle dungeons.

Archmage Aria
“I really thought she was cool at first! She was teaching me how to be proper and disciplined and work professionally and do things that I’d never thought I’d get a chance to learn! Sure she’d make me push a boulder up a hill or do laps at dawn but I thought was just cuz she was a tightass noble woman. Now I know I was just fuckin’ jack off material for that sadist rapist asshole. Fuck! I wish I’d gotten to execute her myself. I’d been wanting to ever since Ro told me what she did to him. That shit was full on rape. I’m not budging on that.”

Captain Griffvan
“The Captain’s been through hell and back. It made him tough as steel. Problem with being built like stone is it’s hard to open up again, even if you really want to be. It’s why I gave the poor man a hug and told him that he’s not alone. You know, people just- they need to be reminded that. Otherwise, they get all stuck in their head and think they’re the only one who’s actually able to support their family- uh- Queen- kingdom- uh!! I’m not projectin’ onto him at all! Shut up!”

Dyzizka
“The Wheel of Fortune BLESSED me with Dyzizka, holy shit! What a bombshell babe! I won’t be too horny here but I left her shop one satisfied customer, whew. Her curse and hex thing is really cool too, plus she’s so confident and funny. The fact that Fenny is so suspicious of her annoys me. Dyzizka’s just a hot weirdo who owns a demon shop. What’s so wrong with that? She’s an entrée-pen-urh!"

Fenlienne Plumblossom
"I’ve been with Fenny since day one. I like her! She’s super friendly, a try hard in a good way, great cook, really kind… Odd thing is, I don’t feel super ‘close’ to her in a gritty emotional way. I mean, I trust her with my life! I have killed for her and will do it again- don’t fucking test me! Plus she spent so much time teaching my dumbass how to read so I love her for that right off the bat no question. Also, you know, I helped fix her brewery from the bottom up without compliant cuz I care for her a lot. But we’re too different or don’t click fully or something with each other. I can’t talk about deep stuff with Fenny like I do with ‘Lyssa or Ro. We tried it twice but I don’t think we did each other much good. She’s too soft, I’m too rough. It’s okay though. Some friends just aren’t talkers, they’re doers! I’m more than happy just keeping her company and bopping heads together.”

Mortiarti
“Without him I wouldn’t be with ‘Lyssa! So he’s got my eternal thank you’s for being one steller wingman. Also, he’s just a nice guy. Maybe a bit too old school for my taste but hey! He’s got integrity and grit. I support him all the way.”

Gwynn Berdkin
"We picked her up from the Berdkin's farm from a job. They had some dire racoon infestation or something, I don't really remember. Anyway, she's a good kid! Glad we got her out into the world. She's racking up monster kills last time I checked. Good for her!"

Queen Alyssa
"’Lyssa’s kingdom rebelled against her during a famine, her parents were murdered, her little brother died from some disease, she’s had to put together a city with people who remind her of what she lost, AND she was supposed to be all an unbreaking symbol of hope through everything. Nothing in the world can tell me that shit was ‘easy’ to get through. If that happened to me I have no idea if I’d be alive after that all. The more I learned about what she’d gone through the more I wanted to keep her company. So one day I just decided ‘fuck it’, I’ll get cozy with the Queen! Try and make her laugh, do errands for her, compliment her beautiful paintings… something to make her smile and relax those tense shoulders.

The plan ended up working really well cuz now we’re dating! No better way to make a woman happy than to be her loyal service top, you know what I’m sayin’? Jokes aside it’s weird dating her. She’s so fragile but so powerful and- and sexy, but also she doesn’t know what she’s doing when she’s being sexy so there’s all these mixed messages from it?! I mean, I ate her out pretty fuckin good on our first official date so they weren’t THAT mixed. HAHA! But, uh, yeah. She’s so good with the emotional side of dating. I’m not. I ended up crying when she painted a portrait of me for fucks sakes! G-ds, I love how artistic that woman is. So fuckin’ creative. I don’t know how she sees the world the way she does but it’s incredible. My own shit aside, I just want what’s best for her. ‘Lyssa’s worried about us in the long-term because I’ll have to go through the ‘public eye’ when the kingdom gets more people in it. I’ll try my damnest to get through whatever might happen there. It’s all worth it for her. I’d do anything for that woman, even if she’d never ask me to.”

Ro'aen Mordove
"Ro and I had a, uh… Rocky start to our friendship I guess. He’d say some racist or sexist bullshit, I’d snap back and yell at him, that sort of shit. We didn’t get along at all! Only Fenny kept us together. Then we started actually talking things out and saying what we really felt and then, well, it got better. I got real close to him after everything with Aria happened. Made me see a new side of him- that part of him that was actually HIM and not whatever machismo bullcrap he was trying to be before. He got to see my protective side in return! I got so pissed off when he was telling me about all the shit he went through that I broke my arm rest. Still need to fix that! Anyway, he’s a good guy. I love him a lot. He’s gonna fill those Archmage shoes perfectly- count on it.”