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#''there's an obvious distinction between disabled people who need benefits and able-bodied people who are lazy''
coockie8 · 4 months
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Yeah if you need an entire board of doctors and advocates to tell the difference between two things, then the distinctions between said things are not "obvious". If they were, you'd be able to tell the difference on your own, regardless of your knowledge base, as that is sort of what "obvious" means :/
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juniper-rose-blower · 6 years
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Character Sheet: The Botanist
((It’s been quite some time since I updated Juniper’s character sheet, so here’s a freshened version for everyone. She even has had major growth in her moral alignment, which is always cool to see!
The following is a combination of the Character profile sheet, the About the Muse prompt, two Moral  Alignment tests, the Self-Knowledge test, the Archetype test, and the Flower Personality test [I’ve included links to each one, if anyone wants to try them out; they’re creepy accurate!].))
NAME:  Juniper Rose Blower
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(( Art above done by the wonderful @rookuthelock - who you should definitely check out if you have not already! - show’s June in her two best elements: being an herbalist, and moving about in her travel form. ))
FACE CLAIM:  Amanda Seyfried NICKNAME:  June, Rose CODENAME: ‘Lark’ AGE:  21 HEIGHT:  5′6″ SPECIES:  Human GENDER:  Female BIRTHDAY:  March 17 SUN SIGN:  Pisces RESIDENCE:   SKILLS:  botanist, alchemist, healer DRINK:  Gilnean Ambrosia FOOD:  Meat Pie (usually beef or venison) DAY OR NIGHT:  Day SNACKS:  Pandaren Peach cobbler SONGS: Assassin’s Theme composed by Lorne Balfe [click link to listen] PET:  none COLOR:  earthy tones - brown or green FLOWER:  Azsunian Aethril lilies EYE COLOR:  Pale Gray HAIR COLOR:  Light Sunshine / Platinum Blonde BODY TYPE:  slender, swimmer’s build, modest curves BODY CLAIM:  Candice Swanepoel
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MORAL ALIGNMENT:  Lawful Neutral / Lawful Evil You’re motivated by tradition; you strongly believe in law and order, but you also recognize possible exploits for your own gain in the system. You put a good deal of faith in process, and you’ll follow orders without questioning them, as long as it doesn’t cause you to act immorally in your own mind. While you have the ability to feel empathy for others, you don’t always care about the rights of anyone other than yourself, and you’re not above throwing others under the bus to get what you want, whether that be to protect someone you care for or to simply better your own position.
ALIGNMENT:  Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. She is devoted to helping others. She works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because when it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.
[ SOCIETY ]
$ Financial : wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty. ✚ Medical : fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged. ✪ Class or Caste : upper / middle / working / slave / unsure. ✔ Education : qualified / unqualified / studying ✖ Criminal Record : yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / has committed crimes, but not caught yet.
[ FAMILY ]
◐ Marital status : married - happily / unhappily / engaged or betrothed / partnered / single / divorced / separated / widowed ◒ Children : has a child or children / has no children / wants children. ◑ Relationship with Family : close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings / sibling(s) is deceased / Has cousins and is close to them ◔ Filtration : orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parents mother
[ TRAITS + TENDENCIES ]
♦ extroverted / introverted / in between. ♦ disorganized / organized / in between. ♦ close minded / open-minded / in between. ♦ calm / anxious / in between. ♦ disagreeable / agreeable / in between. ♦ cautious / reckless / in between. ♦ patient / impatient / in between. ♦ outspoken / reserved / in between. ♦ leader / follower / in between. ♦ empathetic / unemphatic / in between. ♦ optimistic / pessimistic / in between realistic. ♦ traditional / modern / in between. ♦ hard-working / lazy / in between. ♦ cultured / uncultured / in between / unknown. ♦ loyal / disloyal / unknown. ♦ faithful / unfaithful / unknown.
[ BELIEFS ]
★ Faith : monotheist / polytheist / atheist / agnostic. ☆ Belief in Ghosts or Spirits : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care. ✮ Belief in an Afterlife : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care. ✯ Belief in Reincarnation : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care. ❃ Belief in Aliens : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care. ✧ Religious : orthodox / liberal / in between / not religious. ❀ Philosophical : yes / no. / in between
[ SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION ]
❤ Sexuality : heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual. ❥ Sex : sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable. ♥ Romance : romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable. ❣ Sexually : adventurous / experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious. ⚧ Potential Sexual Partners : male / female / agender / other / none / all. ⚧ Potential Romantic Partners : male / female / agender / other / none / all.
[ ABILITIES ]
☠ Combat Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none. ≡ Literacy Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✍ Artistic Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✂ Technical Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none.
[ HABITS ]
☕ Drinking Alcohol : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ☁ Smoking : trying to quit / never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ✿ Other Narcotics : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ✌ Medicinal Drugs : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ☻ Indulgent Food : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. $ Splurge Spending : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ♣ Gambling : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
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[ MOST NOTABLE PERSONALITY TRAITS ]
TENDERNESS
You are not afraid of the sufferings and sorrows of other people, even when they are acted out in unappealing ways. Beneath even defensiveness and self-righteous behaviour, you know that deep down people need nurturing and consolation. One danger is being naive about people’s dark sides. But at your best you know you can be mean yourself, which helps you to sympathize. You bring strength and forgiveness where other people might panic.
RATIONALITY
You like clarity and intelligent simplicity and you get frustrated at messy thinking. This can make you seem unreasonably pushy to some, but it is actually a virtue: you are motivated by a horror at pointless effort and a longing for precision and insight into how things and people work. Your ability to synthesize and bring order is essential in producing thinking which is truly helpful.
INDEPENDENCE
You don’t set out to be different for its own sake; you are more easily guided by what interests and moves you. You are more concerned about what is right for you than about the pressure to fit in. In sex you are more aware than others of impulses which are not entirely conventional. You know the value of selective irresponsibility, of forgetting occasionally about being ‘good’.
Your archetype is the doppelganger.
Traits: manipulative, self deprecating, intelligent, knowledgeable, ambiguous, caring
The doppelganger is most commonly used to symbolize the divide between two egos, or the grey line between good and bad. Doppelgangers are extremely intelligent, and are able to manipulate a persons thoughts and feelings for their own benefit. While they are seen as a darker character, they are closer to being morally ambiguous, if not someone who has been forced into a position they never agreed upon. Doppelgangers wish they could do better, and often find themselves regretting not doing something. While they are capable of manipulating others, they are vulnerable, making themselves susceptible to being manipulated as well. Although many of their traits are negative, they crave attention, validation, and wish they could be a better version of themselves. If you can get under their hard exterior, you’ll find a true friend, and a loyalist.
FLOWER PERSONALITY Juniper is:
Fennel
You Are: You’re quiet, sometimes shy, with a tendency to be reserved. You have a humble, kind nature and often find yourself taking care of others. You can be known to hold things in, and you don’t always speak up for yourself. This tendency to hold things in can lead to disturbances.
Fennel is soothing and supportive, helping to ease digestive upset. For feelings of fullness and bloating, fennel is the friend to call on to help.
Sweet and mildly bitter, with a distinct licorice-like taste, fennel was revered by the ancients for its charming properties. Attributed with the power to bestow long life, courage, strength and even to ward off evil spirits, we modern plant people highly regard fennel for its capacity to ease uncomfortable feelings of fullness, bloating or gassiness, or as an all-around promoter of healthy digestion.
Nettle
You Are: Truly a nurturing and supportive friend, you’re the kind of person that just isn’t for everyone. But those who take the time are rewarded with your gentle disposition, and the kind of friendship that does a person good no matter the difficulty they’re facing. When out of balance, you can become more prickly than supportive or nurturing, though—a sign that you need to shower yourself with the same kind of nurturing you so freely give to others.
Nettle is a deeply supportive herb that has been used for centuries as a tonic to support your body’s well-being. A traditional springtime tonic whose alluring “green” taste is a reflection of the rising green of spring, nettle gently nourishes the whole body.
Nettle’s genus name, Urtica, comes from the Latin urere, meaning “to burn”, an obvious reference to nettle’s nasty sting. Nettle is widespread around the world, and evidence of this very old plant was even found in Neolithic stilt dwellings in Switzerland dating back to the third millennium B.C. It has long been enjoyed for its gentle support for the whole body, as well as for its refreshing, green taste.
Peppermint
You Are: Unflappable. You are cool in the crisis, calm in the storm, collected amidst the chaos. You’re a breath of fresh air, a waft of inspiration to the down-and-out, a refreshing, inspiring, uplifting person to be around. Of course, even a cool cucumber like yourself can run into trouble. You may try to take on too much, which can leave you feeling weighed down and not quite yourself.
With its comforting breath of fresh air and the peppery, sweet familiar scent that tingles your nose, peppermint is a classic candy flavor. But there’s herbal wisdom hiding in those after dinner mints—peppermint oil also has the power to relieve occasional indigestion and soothe your stomach when your digestion needs a little help.
Long before mint became the go-to flavor of everything from gum to candy to toothpaste, the Greeks, Romans and ancient Egyptians were using mint leaves as a digestive aid. Peppermint’s characteristic minty-ness comes from menthol, an important part of its essential oil that, when present in high enough quantities, will be felt in a tingle in your nose and a strong minty scent that carries across a room.
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juniper-rose-blower · 7 years
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The Botanist
((So, it’s been a while since I updated all of her info. As I’ve played her, some things have blossomed slightly differently than I originally thought they would, her interactions have varied from person to person, and I’ve done a number of tests and alignments and things for her; so I’m doing a re-post of all the information. Enjoy, give her a follow, and spam her with asks! Pretty please! ^_^
The following is a combination of the Character profile sheet, the About the Muse prompt, the Moral Alignment test, the Self-Knowledge test, the Archetype test, and the Flower Personality test [I’ve included links to each one, if anyone wants to try them out; they’re creepy accurate!]. It also includes a visual breakdown of June and her gear.))
NAME:  Juniper Rose Blower
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(( Art above done by the wonderful @rookuthelock, which I’m still OVERTHEMOON in love with, show’s June in her two best elements: being an herbalist, and moving about in her travel form. ))
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FACE CLAIM:  Amanda Seyfried NICKNAME:  June, Rose CODENAME: ‘Lark’ AGE:  20 HEIGHT:  5′6″ SPECIES:  Human GENDER:  Female BIRTHDAY:  March 17 SUN SIGN:  Pisces RESIDENCE:  Swamp Castle SKILLS:  botanist, alchemist, healer DRINK:  Gilnean Ambrosia FOOD:  Meat Pie (usually beef or venison) DAY OR NIGHT:  Day SNACKS:  Pandaren Peach cobbler, or Osprey’s apple pie SONGS: Assassin’s Theme composed by Lorne Balfe [click link to listen] PET:  none COLOR:  earthy tones - brown or green FLOWER:  Azsunian Aethril lilies EYE COLOR:  Pale Gray HAIR COLOR:  Light Sunshine / Platinum Blonde BODY TYPE:  slender, swimmer’s build, modest curves BODY CLAIM:  Candice Swanepoel
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ALIGNMENT:  Lawful Neutral /  Lawful Evil You’re motivated by tradition; you strongly believe in law and order, but you also recognize possible exploits for your own gain in the system. You put a good deal of faith in process, and you’ll follow orders without questioning them, as long as it doesn’t cause you to act immorally in your own mind. While you have the ability to feel empathy for others, you don’t always care about the rights of anyone other than yourself, and you’re not above throwing others under the bus to get what you want, whether that be to protect someone you care for or to simply better your own position.
[ SOCIETY ]
$ Financial : wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty. ✚ Medical : fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged. ✪ Class or Caste : upper / middle / working / slave / unsure. ✔ Education : qualified / unqualified / studying ✖ Criminal Record : yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / has committed crimes, but not caught yet.
[ FAMILY ]
◐ Marital status : married - happily / unhappily / engaged or betrothed / partnered / single / divorced / separated / widowed ◒ Children : has a child or children / has no children / wants children. ◑ Relationship with Family : close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings / sibling(s) is deceased / Has cousins and is close to them ◔ Filtration : orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parents mother
[ TRAITS + TENDENCIES ]
♦ extroverted / introverted / in between. ♦ disorganized / organized / in between. ♦ close minded / open-minded / in between. ♦ calm / anxious / in between. ♦ disagreeable / agreeable / in between. ♦ cautious / reckless / in between. ♦ patient / impatient / in between. ♦ outspoken / reserved / in between. ♦ leader / follower / in between. ♦ empathetic / unemphatic / in between. ♦ optimistic / pessimistic / in between realistic. ♦ traditional / modern / in between. ♦ hard-working / lazy / in between. ♦ cultured / uncultured / in between / unknown. ♦ loyal / disloyal / unknown. ♦ faithful / unfaithful / unknown.
[ BELIEFS ]
★ Faith : monotheist / polytheist / atheist / agnostic. ☆ Belief in Ghosts or Spirits : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care. ✮ Belief in an Afterlife : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care. ✯ Belief in Reincarnation : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care. ❃ Belief in Aliens : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care. ✧ Religious : orthodox / liberal / in between / not religious. ❀ Philosophical : yes / no. / in between
[ SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION ]
❤ Sexuality : heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual. ❥ Sex : sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable. ♥ Romance : romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable. ❣ Sexually : adventurous / experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious. ⚧ Potential Sexual Partners : male / female / agender / other / none / all. ⚧ Potential Romantic Partners : male / female / agender / other / none / all.
[ ABILITIES ]
☠ Combat Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none. ≡ Literacy Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✍ Artistic Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✂ Technical Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none.
[ HABITS ]
☕ Drinking Alcohol : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ☁ Smoking : trying to quit / never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ✿ Other Narcotics : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ✌ Medicinal Drugs : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ☻ Indulgent Food : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. $ Splurge Spending : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ♣ Gambling : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
[ MOST NOTABLE PERSONALITY TRAITS ]
TENDERNESS
You are not afraid of the sufferings and sorrows of other people, even when they are acted out in unappealing ways. Beneath even defensiveness and self-righteous behaviour, you know that deep down people need nurturing and consolation. One danger is being naive about people’s dark sides. But at your best you know you can be mean yourself, which helps you to sympathize. You bring strength and forgiveness where other people might panic.
RATIONALITY
You like clarity and intelligent simplicity and you get frustrated at messy thinking. This can make you seem unreasonably pushy to some, but it is actually a virtue: you are motivated by a horror at pointless effort and a longing for precision and insight into how things and people work. Your ability to synthesize and bring order is essential in producing thinking which is truly helpful.
INDEPENDENCE
You don’t set out to be different for its own sake; you are more easily guided by what interests and moves you. You are more concerned about what is right for you than about the pressure to fit in. In sex you are more aware than others of impulses which are not entirely conventional. You know the value of selective irresponsibility, of forgetting occasionally about being ‘good’.
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Your archetype is the doppelganger.
Traits: manipulative, self deprecating, intelligent, knowledgeable, ambiguous, caring
The doppelganger is most commonly used to symbolize the divide between two egos, or the grey line between good and bad. Doppelgangers are extremely intelligent, and are able to manipulate a persons thoughts and feelings for their own benefit. While they are seen as a darker character, they are closer to being morally ambiguous, if not someone who has been forced into a position they never agreed upon. Doppelgangers wish they could do better, and often find themselves regretting not doing something. While they are capable of manipulating others, they are vulnerable, making themselves susceptible to being manipulated as well. Although many of their traits are negative, they crave attention, validation, and wish they could be a better version of themselves. If you can get under their hard exterior, you’ll find a true friend, and a loyalist.
FLOWER PERSONALITY Juniper is:
Fennel
You Are: You’re quiet, sometimes shy, with a tendency to be reserved. You have a humble, kind nature and often find yourself taking care of others. You can be known to hold things in, and you don’t always speak up for yourself. This tendency to hold things in can lead to disturbances.
Fennel is soothing and supportive, helping to ease digestive upset. For feelings of fullness and bloating, fennel is the friend to call on to help.
Sweet and mildly bitter, with a distinct licorice-like taste, fennel was revered by the ancients for its charming properties. Attributed with the power to bestow long life, courage, strength and even to ward off evil spirits, we modern plant people highly regard fennel for its capacity to ease uncomfortable feelings of fullness, bloating or gassiness, or as an all-around promoter of healthy digestion.
Nettle
You Are: Truly a nurturing and supportive friend, you’re the kind of person that just isn’t for everyone. But those who take the time are rewarded with your gentle disposition, and the kind of friendship that does a person good no matter the difficulty they’re facing. When out of balance, you can become more prickly than supportive or nurturing, though—a sign that you need to shower yourself with the same kind of nurturing you so freely give to others.
Nettle is a deeply supportive herb that has been used for centuries as a tonic to support your body’s well-being. A traditional springtime tonic whose alluring “green” taste is a reflection of the rising green of spring, nettle gently nourishes the whole body.
Nettle’s genus name, Urtica, comes from the Latin urere, meaning “to burn”, an obvious reference to nettle’s nasty sting. Nettle is widespread around the world, and evidence of this very old plant was even found in Neolithic stilt dwellings in Switzerland dating back to the third millennium B.C. It has long been enjoyed for its gentle support for the whole body, as well as for its refreshing, green taste.
Peppermint
You Are: Unflappable. You are cool in the crisis, calm in the storm, collected amidst the chaos. You’re a breath of fresh air, a waft of inspiration to the down-and-out, a refreshing, inspiring, uplifting person to be around. Of course, even a cool cucumber like yourself can run into trouble. You may try to take on too much, which can leave you feeling weighed down and not quite yourself.
With its comforting breath of fresh air and the peppery, sweet familiar scent that tingles your nose, peppermint is a classic candy flavor. But there’s herbal wisdom hiding in those after dinner mints—peppermint oil also has the power to relieve occasional indigestion and soothe your stomach when your digestion needs a little help.
Long before mint became the go-to flavor of everything from gum to candy to toothpaste, the Greeks, Romans and ancient Egyptians were using mint leaves as a digestive aid. Peppermint’s characteristic mintiness comes from menthol, an important part of its essential oil that, when present in high enough quantities, will be felt in a tingle in your nose and a strong minty scent that carries across a room.
A breakdown of June’s gear:
The Botanist’s outfit consists of olive green dyed cargo capris, a brown corseted and multi-pocketed vest, a dark green hooded over-vest, a reinforced pair of leather fingerless gloves, a leather belt holding a large journal pocket, and a set of deep green leather boots given to her by Kestrel and Osprey after extensive refurbishing. She also carries a one-strapped knapsack and a shoulder satchel.
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There are a total of 20 outside pockets adorning the capris, vest, and over-vest. In each of these pockets, June regularly changes out batches of seeds / leaves / flower petals from various herbs, depending on what she finds is useful for certain situations.
The journal pouch attached to her belt carries her purple leather-bound Botanist’s journal, which she fills with sketches, notes, research, and pressed samples of the plants she researches; she also keeps the Herbs of Argus book that Mal gave her there, occasionally flipping through pages to gawk at the beauty of the alien plantlife. If one were to remove these books from said pocket, they’d also notice a set of pencils, charcoal, and a quill and inkwell at the bottom of it.
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The shoulder bag has 3 outside pockets, and is large and open on the inside. In the first outside pocket she stores 3 rolls of silk bandages; the second holds 3 long rolls of linen; and a small kit - which includes a pair of pruning clippers, a seemingly endless spool of thick weave twine, a flint and iron, and a steel flask - rests in the third. On the inside of this bag, Juniper keeps a large collection of herb pouches and vials, her small collection of books gifted to her from Winter’s Veil, an assortment of empty phials, and a hinged wooden latchbox. Inside the box, held in perfectly shaped niches of worn velvet for protection, is a collection of ten different colored carved stoppered phials. Each appears handcarved from crystalline stone types, like jade or amethyst or quartz. Each is lovely. She also keeps a modest wooden mortar and pestle and a wooden cup.
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Finally, June keeps her main water skin tied to her belt, on the opposite side from her journal pouch. She also sometimes wears a timber-colored cloak with a mantle of dire wolf fur - she managed to get ahold of this item in Elwynn from a bandit, and added the fur from a local wolf she took down. Most often, unless it’s wintertime, this cloak remains in her newer satchel with her sherpa-lined black leathers. The soft items help the bag make a great travel pillow.
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