Post by Jo Harvelle on Jul 15, 2011 12:07:38 GMT -5
joanna | beth | harvelle
24, Hunter, Bartender, Alona Tal
Jo is a loyal girl, but only to those people that she trusts. Upon first meeting her, she is very distrustful of strangers and she will have to warm up to you first. Until then she is very cautious, and full mockery with her answers to personal questions. She doesn’t like to be treated as a child, and wants to earn and prove herself capable of being worthy and earn the respect that feels she deserves. Once she feels that she can trust someone, she attaches herself to them. She does this as she has a fear of abandonment that possibly stems from her father dying on a hunt when she was 12. She also thinks that people who do not ‘hunt’ should be protected, and she will leave them in a place she feels is safe if she believes she will put them in danger. She is trying her best to model herself after the father she had adored, and what actions she takes during her hunts she first thinks of what he might do.
Born on April 7th 1985, Joanna Beth Harvelle was born to Ellen and William Anthony Harvelle and would be the couple’s only child. She is of course only called Joanna Beth by her mother, but everyone else calls her Jo. Her father was a hunter, a person that hunted and killed anything. He was often gone on hunts and her mother looked after her. Her mother was a hunter like her father before Jo was born, but she had to stay behind to watch their daughter whenever a hunt came along. So of course Jo grew up with stories of what actually went bump in the night, as her mom told her these things. Just so that her daughter would know what to do in case she actually ever had the misfortune of coming across one. What Ellen did not know was that she was actually started to peek her daughter’s interest in the world that she shared with her husband. However, the interest only started to became a path when she turned 12. Her father had died while on a hunt, and that made her realize that she wanted to be a hunter like him. To feel connected and close to him.
So when her mother built the Roadhouse, a bar joint for hunters to go and gather as well as exchange information in addition to create connections, in memory of her father, she began to work with Ellen when she was not in school. While she was working, she was actually gathering information that she did not already know about hunting. She was learning what her mother simply refuses to teach her. Her mother of course disapproved of this, as she did not want to lose her only child the same way she had lost her husband. But with Jo being as stubborn as she is, she refused to stop training. During this time most of the hunters that came through thought that they can get in her pants with some pizza, a six pack of beer, and side one of Zeppelin IV.
When Jo was 22, a pair of hunting brothers came to the Roadhouse after hours looking for her mother. The brothers soon split up and she surprised the oldest one with a rifle to his back. He had muttered that he hoped it was a rifle, and she cocked the gun in answer with a snaky remark that she was happy to see him and warned him not to move. He then said that she shouldn’t pull a rifle on someone she didn’t know before turning and taking it from her before cocking it himself. She punched him square in the nose and took the rifle back from him just before her mother came in with a handgun in the younger man’s back. It was soon after that she had warmed up to them, after talking some she admired the older brother and spend some time talking to him one on one. These brothers turned out to be Dean and Sam Winchester.
It was about two months later when she had researched a case and begged her mother to go on the hunt alone. But fearful of her daughter meeting the same fate as her late husband, she called the Winchester brothers and made her daughter give over the case she had worked so hard on. The boys left to go hunt what ever it was that she had researched, and against her mother’s wishes she snuck out and went on her own with a resident hunter, Ash, covering her tracks for her so her mother doesn‘t find out. She is flush with cash after winning it from hunters that were foolish enough to play poker with her at the Roadhouse. The thing turned out to be the homicidal ghost of Dr. H. H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer, and was executed at the very spot where the apartment building that blonde girls are disappearing. While Jo and Dean search for a hidden room in the building, Jo is taken by Holmes as she fits his ‘type’. Her mother calls him while she is missing, and Dean confesses everything to her. Ellen promises to be on the first flight out, and the brothers work harder to find Jo. They find her as well as the last victim in an old sewer system under the building. She acts as bait to trap the spirit in a salt barrier and then encase the whole thing with cement to keep the ghost from harming someone else. When they return to the Roadhouse with Ellen, she is angry that her daughter went hunting with the Winchesters. It was then revealed that her father had died on a hunt with John Winchester, Dean and Sam’s father.
Shortly after this incident, Jo left and went hunting on her own. She would send postcards to her mother when she can just so that the older Harvelle would know that she was okay and alive. When she wasn’t hunting, she would work in bars to pass the time. It was something she knew besides hunting. She was working in a bar in Duluth when Sam showed up out of the blue. But it wasn’t Sam. It was a demon possessed Sam, and it started to talk to her, and then attacked her before tying her up. The demon inside her friend then taunted her with her father’s death by saying that John Winchester killed him after being badly injured on his last hunt. It was a darker and meaner version of what her mother had told her. Dean arrived just in time before anything bad could happen, and freed her. She offered to help track the possessed Sam down, but Dean refused her help. She did so any way and found Dean shot and badly injured from Sam. She got him back to the bar and patched him up.
By the middle of the summer, her home, the Roadhouse, got destroyed and her mother was the only one to survive. Then she had lost contact with her mother for a bit, but she had somehow managed to get back in contact with her. Not really having a home any more, Jo drifts from town to town taking cases and working at local bars when she can.[/center]
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