Jude Duarte

Name: Jude Duarte.

Gender: Female.

Species: Human.

Pronouns: She/her.

Sexuality: Bisexual.

Age: 18.

Appearance;

Face+Body: Heart-shaped face, physically attractive, missing tip of left ring finger, curvy but athletic body type, full lips, light brown skin, scar on left hand.

Hair: Brown, tends to be worn up in horn-shaped buns.

Eyes: Walnut brown

Clothing style: Either pants with a tight top or a dress with a cut slit on the side. The outfit should prioritise movement.

More info;

Jude Duarte is a human, born to Eva and Justin Duarte, foster daughter of Madoc and Oriana, half-sister to Vivienne, twin sister of Taryn Duarte, foster sister to Oak and member of the Court of Shadows. Her birthday is November 13th. She resides in Madoc's stronghold on the isle of Ismire, Elfhame.

As a mortal raised with the Gentry of the Folk, Jude is determined to prove herself suitable for the Court. She is bold, pushing her fear aside in all situations. She tries to remain cold when scared and never lets others see her fear. She is stubborn, hard-working, ambitious, and thrives on strategies. Jude is very smart. She enjoys the lessons she attends with the children of the Gentry. She likes answering her teachers' questions cleverly because it is something no one can take away from her. She learns about strategy and war from Madoc. Jude even tried to slowly take small amounts of poison to help her be immune to poison, saying that she has to work twice as hard as the Fae. Above all, Jude has grit and ambition. She has longed to become one of the Fae all her life, yet when she realised that she would forever be the "mortal girl" in their eyes, she strived to become even better than them, letting nothing get in her way.

Jude loves the faerie realm and never gets tired of the spectacle and pageantry of the Court. She believes that, as a human stolen from the mortal realm, she shouldn't love Faerie, but she does. Since she is human, Jude can lie, unlike the Fae. This she uses often to her benefit. She is also very cunning and clever. She is good at various forms of fighting, especially sword fighting. Jude resents the people who have hurt her or her sisters and will protect them fiercely. Although she denies it at first, Jude develops a thirst for bloodshed. The Roach tells her that she likes playing games with the Folk. She likes pulling their strings and seeing how they dance. He imagines that she'd enjoy doing this to mortals as well, but the Folk are what she's practised in, and perhaps some of them offer her a particular savour.

When Jude was seven years old, she witnessed her parents, Eva and Justin Duarte, get slaughtered in the mortal realm and taken under the ward of Madoc with her two sisters, Vivi and Taryn. It was a demanding and menacing lifestyle being a mortal in the realm of Faerie. When she was nine, one of Madoc's guards bit off the very top of her left ring finger. When she screamed, the guard pushed her hard enough that her head smacked into a wooden post in the stables and made her stand there while he chewed and ate the piece of her finger that he'd bitten off, telling her exactly how much he detested mortals. When he was finished, he said that Jude had better keep what had happened a secret because he would have eaten the rest of her if she hadn't. Feeling terror-stricken by his threat, Jude never told another soul. By the Fae, she was seen as simply an object to play with, leading to many experiences similar to this later on.

After the Summer Tournament, Prince Dain visits Jude at Madoc's Stronghold and tells her he finds it incredible to watch her lie. He asked her to spy for him and join his Court of Shadows. In exchange, Dain put a geas on her that protected her from all faerie glamour and enchantments except for any from him.

Jude's favourite food is cheese and bread grated over a fire.

Jude has a nervous tic: she rubs the tip of her missing fingertip with her thumb when anxious.

Relationships:

• Cardan Greenbriar= Rivals, Cardan has romantic interest in Jude.
• Locke= Ex-lovers, Locke was dating Jude and Taryn simultaneously and chose Taryn.
• The Bomb (Liliver)= Close relationship, work together in the Court of Shadows.
• The Roach (Van)= Cordial relationship, work together in the Court of Shadows.
• The Ghost (Garret)= Close relationship, work together in the Court of Shadows.
• Heather= Vivi's girlfriend, friendly relationship with Jude.
• Nicasia= Enemies.
• Dain Greenbriar= Runs the Court of Shadows, manipulates Jude by playing into her need for power.
• Taryn= Twin sisters, close relationship.
• Vivi= Half-sisters, protective relationship.
• Oak= Half-siblings, protective relationship.
• Madoc= Jude's father figure, trains Jude to fight.
• Oriana= Jude's foster mother, strained relationship.
• Valerian= Enemies.

Quotes:

• "It's just a game"
• "They are beautiful and terrible, and they might despise my mortality, but I am up here and they are not."
• "Who said I wanted anything particular? Just a little payback."
• "Everyone else may leave us. You. Move. Now."