Sarah Faust (Ascetic)

Honor:
Ascetic

Name:
Sarah Faust

Age:
39

Gender:
Female

Race:
Hylian

Place of Origin:
Hyrule Castle Guard

P/W/C:
3/2/2

Treasures:
Sense
Spin Attack

Height:
5’8”

Weight:
135lb

Equipment:
Sarah’s possessions are sparse, like most areas of her life. She carries a personal blade, simple and lasting, that she maintains diligently. A longsword sized for a person of her height, the blade is slightly curved and sharp only on a single side.

Appearance:
Perhaps the most flattering description for Sarah Faust would be to call her handsome. The woman, almost in her forties now, is slightly tall for a woman and tough as nails. With short blonde hair and cold, grey eyes, the woman is more intimidating than anything else. Her hair is light enough to look almost white, more often than not, and it frames a firm face with a strong jaw-line. A visage seemingly chiseled from stone, Sarah’s face has never really made her an object of desire for any man.

The rest of her form is more slim and muscular than anything else. As one of the few things that keeps her distracted, Miss Faust has stayed in appropriate shape for her job, though her body is aging nonetheless. With broader than average shoulders and relatively slender hips, the woman’s body is built for service and little else.

Covering her, the woman’s attire is usually formal, practically living in her high-necked uniform she wears as a member of the Guard. While usually avoiding armor when she can, sometimes chainmail is required for her profession, and she will wear the stuff accordingly. For the most part, the woman wears rougher fabrics in blues and browns, concerned more about function than form.

Backstory:
Forty-four years ago, it began. A joyful union between a young lawyer and a country woman was made, and Fineas and Andra Faust became a family under Hylian marriage. For the two of them, the marriage quickly proved to be a delicate balance between work and family, one with a quickly growing career and another with a deep desire for a simple, quiet lifestyle. To practice law, Fineas needed to live in the city, though, and so began the first of many compromises to suit his career. While certainly the more flexible of the two, Andra deeply longed for another lifestyle with a family and a quiet home, far removed from the city.

After three years of his wife losing the argument, Mr. Faust finally yielded the argument of children, and the young woman was overjoyed to finally be found with child. After nine months, a full four years since their marriage, Sarah Faust was born to the young couple. While a blessing and a joy to both parents, it would be Sarah’s birth that altered the family’s dynamic subtly but drastically.

While Mr. Faust was not particularly against having a family, his argument had long since been that he hardly had time for his wife, let alone a family full of children. As he realized how badly his wife wished for a full family, his hope soon became that the children would keep her happy, and he could continue to service the family simply by working. It was this attitude that truly broke Andra’s heart over their marriage, and in turn she found her hopes directed into her children as well, ironically.

After another two years, Linda Faust was born as well, making it a family of four. After two children, Mr. Faust held that their family was as large as it needed to be, and his wife begrudgingly nodded in acquiescence. Taking her mind off bearing children, Andra Faust more or less raised her children on her own as her husband often did not make it home before the children went to bed. It became a loveless thing, of sorts, and each adult found their attention fully devoted to their responsibilities rather than to each other.

Years passed, and each became complacent enough in their roles they’d risen to, but it was not long before Sarah began to sour her mother’s experience. In almost every sense she could be, Sarah Faust was the spitting image of her father. Headstrong and tomboyish as a young child, the girl escaped from home as often as she could manage. To a mother who simply wanted a couple of quiet girls she could teach to behave properly and grow up to live a life she’d wanted to live, Sarah proved to be her mother’s worst nightmare. While not necessarily rude or openly rebellious, the relationship between mother and daughter became abrasive at best.

Instead, much to her mother’s chagrin, Sarah practically revered the father she almost never saw. Despite her father’s apathy to the family, the oldest child often stayed up to spend time with the man, and the two actually managed to strike up a bit of a relationship between each other. By the time the girl was nine, she followed her father to work half the days out of the week, watching and learning what he did as a litigator. Much to her pride, her father was a noble upholder of the law, and the list of criminals he had detained grew monthly. It was from him that she would learn a thirst for justice unfamiliar to most people her age.

Disgruntled by yet another family member disregarding her, Andra Faust found her attention turning once more to her only hope—her last child. Soon the family was thoroughly split with the two sisters becoming pets to different parents. While the two children were actually quite close, despite different personalities, the parents became even more aloof with each other, as if it were possible. As Linda continued to grow as the clear favorite of their mother, Sarah continued to be increasingly uninterested in her mother, finding they disagreed about almost everything.

As she spent more and more time out of the home, the bridge slowly smoldered until it was all but gone, and Sarah spent the majority of days away from their home. It was on one of the days she stayed home, though, that fate would twist her life cruelly. One evening, when Sarah was hardly thirteen, her father did not come home. After staying up the entire night waiting for him, a sharp knock at the door barely before the sun rose admitted two men, neither of which were her father.

On his way home from his office the previous night, Fineas Faust had been murdered by a man he had put into prison some years prior. Upon his release, the convict had aimed for vengeance on his litigator and left Sarah without a father. While the man responsible for the act was summarily executed, it did little to fill the hole in the heart of his daughter—the only one who really knew him. World sufficiently collapsed, the girl found she didn’t really have a home anymore.

While Andra Faust attempted to reach back out to her daughter, hoping that without her husband’s influence she could get a member of her family back, Sarah wasn’t interested. Life at home became even more brisk and stressed, at the very best, and Sarah found she was more and more withdrawn with them. Despite a continued distaste for her mother, Sarah grew jealous of her sister’s relationship with their surviving parent as it always reminded her of her own loss. As they grew, the relationship the sisters had together became strained as well, and the oldest child looked for a way out from her family.

Even though her father had died, the desire for justice he had imprinted in her still lived. Only, grief and bitterness had convinced her that Fineas Faust’s profession was not the most efficient way to find justice. At the age of seventeen, the young woman joined the Castle Town Guard, dedicating her life to the pursuit of justice and the upholding of the law.

While not unheard of, Sarah Faust was a relatively rare phenomenon as a female guard. Thankfully, the woman’s rougher nature and straight forward thinking aided her greatly. However, more than that, it was her experience she’d spent with her father that truly made her new profession a reality. Able to look at evidence and even people critically, she moved away from simply being a patrol or sentry guard to more specific roles, tracking down groups and individuals instead of simply protecting the city as a whole.

As Sarah grew older, becoming an investigator of sorts for the guard, she continued to keep in touch with her sister. Unlike Sarah, Linda was perfectly content with the idea of simply finding a man to settle down with to start a family like their mother had, only with hopefully better results. At the age of 26, Sarah attended her younger sister’s wedding as she married a merchant of some sorts. However, in doing so she found that, despite all the years passing, she was still jealous of her younger sister’s happiness. The simplicity that she adopted with her goals and choices seemed to satisfy her so easily, and Sarah found that her younger sister was truly much happier than she was.

Certainly passionate about what she did, Sarah knew that her lifestyle did not really lend well to any sort of joy. She felt as if she were doing the right thing—the only thing she could be doing, really—but it was not enough to give her anything deeper than simple satisfaction. Defeated and jealous, Sarah all but cut the ties with her family, going months upon months without ever even talking with them. It worked well enough for a time, but one day Sarah found herself paired with a case to investigate a merchant scam that had been brewing for some months in the streets.

As she investigated further, it became clear that there was a high possibility of her brother-in-law being involved. Nothing was certain, but Sarah found that jealousy drove her to make it certain. With enough evidence to convict the man that made her sister happy, Sarah pursued the case and, despite her sister’s pleadings, single-handedly reached conviction for the man. Disgusted and infuriated, the remaining Fausts swore to have nothing to do with the oldest child, and Sarah found herself thoroughly alone in Hyrule.

Heart truly abandoned to the cold, the woman followed in the footsteps of her father and pursued her career relentlessly. Her demand for justice, to satisfy the blood of her father and much, much more, drove her into single-mindedness. She learned to deal with people more smoothly as she grew older, but it did little to revoke her loneliness, and the woman became known as intimidating, if not heartless, especially concerning matters of the law. Drawing coldness close to herself, she embraced the only degree of comfort she really knew, focusing everything into her duty to uphold the law.

Personality:
While fairly polite and good-natured on the surface, a little digging into her character reveals her true nature quite quickly. Cold and more than a little bit heartless, Sarah Faust has shored up her entire identity in the desire to meet and uphold the law, first for herself and then in the rest of the world. To deliver justice is her primary—her only—purpose she can stand to give herself in life, and such a preservation of moral code is worth far more than anything, even human life.

Harsh, brutal, and blunt, the woman cannot be challenged in her devotion for upholding the law, fully believing that the goddesses gave them life with the purpose that they be governed by justice, first and foremost. Her lack of regard for empathy and emotion sets her as a difficult woman to deal with, should a person end up on the wrong end of her scrutiny; furthermore, her inability to put rules and justice before anything else has cost her a lifetime of pain and broken relationships, though she counts it as a necessary cost for her cause.

These traits culminate to make her who she has, stemming from a lifetime of unhappiness and dissatisfaction. While not a particularly unpleasant to deal with while on the same side, people often may feel actively watched and judged be her, even in the slightest of things, though she may not speak it. The nature of her station may not always mean she is actively pursuing anyone but instead simply watching and observing, looking for breakers of the law and valid recipients of the law’s justice.

~And I'm JAVERT! SARAH! Do not forGET my NAME! Do not forGET me! 24601!~

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