Jo Harvelle

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The Mun

The Character

Jo Harvelle (Alona Tal) is tiny, blonde and adorable... and stands a good chance of kicking your ass.

Defining Abilities and Attributes

Talented fighter, good with firearms, knives, and just plain bare-knuckle fighting. Knows plenty of random and creepy facts about how to fight and kill ghosts, demons, vampires, and a few other nasty things from her own universe - not that that will do her much good here, in all likelihood. Physically, she's 5'4", blonde and slender, and looks a lot younger than she is.

Personality

Jo deals with most people with a bit of caution, a lot of snark, and a desperate desire to prove herself capable and worthy of respect. She's fiercely loyal, and once you've got her on your side, good luck getting her to let you fight your battles alone. She latches onto people she respects quickly, but at the same time half-believes they'll abandon her eventually. She believes in protecting people who need it, whatever the cost - at the same time, she's vaguely annoyed with those she considers "civilians", but there are few places she won't go to keep them safe when she can. It's what her father would have done, after all, and that tends to be Jo's guiding light when in doubt.

Background

Jo is the only daughter of William and Ellen Harvelle. Her father was a hunter, and her mother ran the Roadhouse, a place for hunters to gather, exchange information, make connections... and as a result, Jo grew up knowing the truth about her world, that there were dangerous things out there that most people wouldn't admit existed, that men like her father and those who frequented the Roadhouse were the only ones protecting civilians from those things. She helped run the Roadhouse when she wasn't in school, and for some time, she wanted to be just like her mother when she grew up, helping the hunters the way Ellen did. That changed when her father died on a hunt, when she was ten, and she decided that she wanted to be a hunter too, just like him.

So she started talking with the hunters at the Roadhouse, learning everything she could, waiting for the day she could go out and put what she learned into practice. Her mother disapproved, naturally, not wanting to lose her daughter the same way she had her husband, but Jo kept at it - learning about the things her father did, seeing the world the way he did made her feel closer to him, and she wasn't going to be shaken from that. She wrangled the help of a few hunters who frequented the Roadhouse to give her a little more training, which her mother allowed because at the very least, it meant her daughter was able to defend herself.

When she was twelve, a young hunter named Gordon Walker started frequenting the Roadhouse. Jo developed a crush on him almost immediately, and he took a shine to her, telling her about his hunts, telling her almost anything she asked about. When she was sixteen, he took her on a hunt with him; when Ellen found out, she refused to let Jo out alone for ages, and banned Gordon from the Roadhouse.

Jo dated a hunter named Ryan, while trying to hide that information from her mother - Ellen only found out when Ryan dropped off the grid entirely, not because some supernatural monster got him, but because he chose to. Jo took that betrayal hard, and pressed on for a while before she finally decided to try going to college. That... didn't go well. Growing up surrounded by hunters doesn't lead to a natural ease fitting in with your average college student. She was the "freak with the knife collection", the girl more interested in kickboxing than clubbing, entirely out of place in that world, and so she dropped out before long and went back home, where at least the world played by the rules she was used to.

Not long after that, she met Sam and Dean Winchester, the sons of a hunter her father used to know. Young for hunters, and competent, they got her instant admiration. Not long after meeting them, Jo decided to try going on a hunt of her own again - when Ellen gave the case to the boys, she joined them in tracking down and trapping a homicidal ghost. Emboldened by that hunt, she left the Roadhouse without her mother's permission, to become a hunter on her own.

She was working at a bar in Duluth when Sam showed up to talk to her - only it wasn't Sam. The demon in Sam's body attacked her, tied her up, and taunted her with her father's death, saying that John Winchester killed him after he was badly injured on the hunt, a somewhat more damning version of the story than she'd heard from her mother. Dean arrived and got her free, but refused to let her help track down Sam, and so she moved on, to another city, another job, and whatever hunts she could find.

That's been her life for some time now. She exchanged postcards with her mother for the first few months after she left, until the Roadhouse was destroyed, Jo lost contact with her mother, and finally convinced herself that she had probably died along with everyone in the Roadhouse at the time. Stories keep coming up in hunter circles, about the Winchesters, but she never could track them down and isn't sure she wants to, so she just keeps going as best she can, doing her best to be a hunter who would make her daddy proud. And she always was a quick learner.

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