Maris Rohan
Basic Information
Bloodline Ability
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Physical Description
Maris Rohan is the kind of person who looks exactly like who she is, warm, composed, and capable. Her dark hair is almost always pinned up in a loose wave, the sort of arrangement that looks deliberate from across the room and then slightly less deliberate the closer you get, because she put it up between appointments without looking in a mirror. Her eyes are a clear hazel-green, the sort that settle on you attentively without pressure, which unsettles people who are used to pressure passing for attentiveness. Her face carries a natural ease that most people mistake for contentment; it is actually confidence, she knows what she is doing and has known for long enough that the knowing has relaxed into something that looks effortless.
She dresses practically: an off-shoulder cream blouse, a fitted brown leather corset that keeps her sleeves clear when she is working, and a full skirt that moves well. A fine gold necklace carries a small pendant, a horseshoe, worn smooth, from the first horse she ever treated back in Bannon. Her hands are clean but not the hands of someone who avoids work; there are faint calluses along her right palm from years of holding leads, and she knows how to move quietly when quiet is what the animal needs. She smells faintly of hay and the cedar-resin oil she uses on the stable wood, which she does not notice anymore.
She is notably easy to find funny. Her humor is dry, quick, and unannounced, she will say something that takes a half-second to land and then be looking at you pleasantly while it does, neither waiting for the laugh nor rushing past it. People who meet her in a professional context occasionally come back the next day and tell her she is funnier than they expected from an equine veterinarian, which she finds only slightly funnier than they intended.
Personality & Temperament
- Sharp intelligence that reads as genuine attentiveness
- Patient without ever becoming passive about it
- Genuine tenderness toward animals and people alike
- Dry, observational humor that actually lands
- Reasonable by default; changes her mind on evidence
- Quietly competent whether or not anyone's watching
- Slow to trust assessments she didn't make herself
- Keeps her own concerns at a careful distance
- Carries unspoken scars from her time in Bannon
"Horses don't lie. They also don't ask me how my day was, which is honestly a point in their favor some mornings."
"I have six opinions about this and I'm keeping five of them."
"A horse will tell you exactly what's wrong with it, if you're willing to actually look."
- Her Six Horses (Non-Negotiable)
- Early Mornings Before Appointments Start
- People Who Ask Good Questions
- Finding a New City Still Has Room for Her
- A Stable That Smells Right
- Dry Weather and Open Ground
- A Conversation That Goes Somewhere
- People Who Treat Animals as Equipment
- Second-Hand Diagnoses She Has to Undo
- Being Underestimated Professionally
- Unsolicited Opinions About Her Life Choices
- Bannon (She Will Not Elaborate)
Background & History
Her Six Horses
She does not keep the horses for work. They are her horses, with names and histories and specific opinions about weather, and she treats their care as a daily obligation she is glad to have. Asking her about them in sufficient detail is one of the faster ways to get her to talk more than she usually does. She will tell you each one's name, what city they came from, what was wrong with them when she got them, and what is no longer wrong with them. She has not named the practice yet. The horses have opinions about the Goodberry land that she intends to confirm over the next few weeks before she decides what to put on the sign.