de'Cavalcante, Hope (NPC)

Hope is an average sized woman, though you'd never guess she was only 5'5" with those heels that she always wears. She has long, red hair that she usually keeps tied back, unless she has a hot date. Her eyes are a rich reddish brown. Hope is rather curvy, and she's more than proud of that fact. She weighs in around 140 pounds, but doesn't really see her weight as much more than just a number. She usually keeps her makeup darker around her eyes, and darker on her lips, but everything else is rather natural. She is very proud of the way she looks, and often uses that to her advantage.

On her normal days she can be found in practically anything. She likes comfortable clothing, but she also likes to look good. She has many pairs of shoes to match any sort of outfit she could think of. She dresses appropriately for any occasion. Hope has a tiny gold cross on a necklace that she usually keeps tucked under whatever she's wearing. She has it at all times, as it was a precious gift from her grandmother. She also has her wedding ring, but she usually doesn't wear it while she's working, at least her husband understands that.

Also on her person, she carries a knife at all times, and usually a small pistol in her purse, along with, provided her outfit allows, a holster with dual pistols. She also has a case for a sniper rifle in her closet.

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Hope is a rather proud creature. She has an air of confidence about her that most people would envy. She is very smart and rather crafty when she needs to be. While she's working, she takes basically everything seriously, never leaving room for error. She is very careful with her planning, and can adjust her personality to fit best with whomever she is trying to lure in.

But when she's being herself, Hope is sarcastic and witty, with a bit of a short fuse. Her seriousness flies out the window whenever she happens to be around her boss. She acts like the older sister that no one ever really wants, and thinks that anyone below the age of 30 is a total brat, though usually she's right. She does have a bit of a motherly side about her, even if she hates to admit it, and she often finds herself worrying about what her boys are up to. If they get injured, she reams them a new one while stitching them up, but she makes sure they're all nice and taken care of.

Hope was born into a family of assassins and loan sharks for the Italian Mafia. She was raised into it, just like her parents before her. By the time she was 8, she could already shoot anything that was asked of her, rather perfectly. She became quite the sharpshooter. By the time she was 12, she had already aided in assassinating 6 people. She was trained to be a hardened criminal, but only in front of others. Her parents both believed in raising their daughter to be herself, and that the job was just that, a job.

When she was 15, her parents were murdered, and she was dragged into a prostitution ring. She was bought and sold many times, drugged up and stuck out on the streets. She stayed that way for a few years, before she finally met someone who could get her out of it. At 20, Hope entered the military and trained to be a sniper. At 24, she decided to put her skills to use, and rejoined the Underground. She posed as a high end escort. But in reality, she was a properly trained assassin. She collected payment for the hit, along with payment for the escort service, and she quickly became quite the rich and powerful woman.

When she was 30, her life changed in a rather interesting way. She was working a target, just like she had been doing for years. But there was something different about this one. For the first time, the one that had put the hit out, was the target himself. He introduced himself, and pretended to know nothing about it, but as the night went on, she got a feeling in the pit of her stomach. When she tried to back out, he told her he wanted to offer her a much less risky position working for him. At first she thought it was a joke, but when she went down his list of aliases, she realized that he wasn't kidding.

She recognized many of his aliases as big bosses in the underground, as well as dealers, and smugglers. He gave her a smile and asked if she wanted in. She agreed.

It was after she started working as security for him that she met Elijah. The man was a healer, though not natural born, and he was studying to become a doctor. The two hit it off rather nicely, and after a year or so, they decided to get married. At 33, Hope was the happiest she could be. She was married to a wonderful man, had more than enough money to support them both, and was starting to leave her old life behind, taking a break from working with Kyrarei. The happy couple was expecting a little bundle of joy. Only a month or so short of the due date, Hope was targeted.

She awoke from a coma, months later, with both her husband and Kyrarei by her bedside. She had lost the baby, and needed an emergency hysterectomy in order to save her life. She was no longer able to have children. Hope withdrew and became rather hostile in her grief, but Eli stood with her through it all.

Within the last year or so, Hope returned to working for Kyrarei, as he had a special assignment for her, which she reluctantly took. Hope was to hide and protect one Akira de'Enguarde. She served as his guardian and they moved from place to place, all on Kyrarei's expense, trying to keep him away from some mad scientist that wanted him dead. It wasn't until recently that Hope found out why.

Hope had left Akira at school and went to go check in with Kyrarei when she learned about Luka. Kyrarei had him in a coma for a little while, as he had gone under some rather extreme brain surgery. Kyrarei filled her in on what his history was, and who he was. And Hope went back to protecting Akira with a new found fire. She vowed to protect those boys with her life.

After they had all gotten settled in their new lives, Hope went back to working as a professional hitman for Kyrarei bouncing between the states and Europe. Eight or so months went by and Kyrarei wanted her to once more be a body guard, but this time, for his daughter Bree. Since Bree still had family in the States, that's where Hope took her.

OOC Name: Akira
Face Claim: PERSONA 3, mitsuru kirijo - Hope de'Cavalcante
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