Harper Janssen

Name: Harper Janssen
Face/Model Claim: Jessica Rothe
Age: 32
Sexual Orientation: Undefined.
Nationality: Dutch.
Hometown: Amsterdam.
Relatives: Parents. Brother and Sister.

Job: Former Paramedic.

Skills: Medical training.

Height: 5'6" inches tall
Weight: 135
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Dark blonde with natural sun-kissed highlights.

Scars/Marks: Harper has a Japanese cherry blossom tattoo down the right side of her body to her hip. She also has a VCH piercing, the result of a drunken dare whilst she was in college - the advantage of which she chose to keep without any regrets.

Personality in Brief Prior to Rosemont, Harper was a lively and outgoing young woman who possibly enjoyed the recreational side of her lifestyle a little too much. A self professed social butterfly, the lure of Amsterdam Night-life was far too tempting to resist and there was no such thing as a quiet night in. After Rosemont, her vibrant and friendly personality changed entirely. In the past three and a half years she's become withdrawn and reclusive, avoiding the Town and the ever cycling number of inhabitants who dwell there.


Flaws: Harper suffers from insomnia due to the secluded conditions in which she lives. Although she regards it as unwise, she will at times self medicate with alcohol to numb the loneliness that comes with living alone in the forest surrounding Rosemont, drinking herself into a state of unconsciousness, if not just to get some much needed rest when she becomes too sleep deprived.

Other notes: She can speak several Languages. English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish. Despite her Nationality and growing up in the Netherlands. Due to her Mother, Harper regards her first language as English and speaks with a mild American accent.

History:

Before Rosemont.

Harper grew up in the Netherlands to an American Mother and Dutch Father. Her Parents attitude was lax to say the least and Harper was given complete freedom in which to explore both her sexuality and recreational activities. Though relatively bright, Harper was able to burn the candle at both ends which enabled her to scrape through school and college with reasonable grades. After college she went on to University to study Nursing and subsequently underwent additional training to become a Paramedic. Surprisingly, despite the impact to her social life, for several years Harper enjoyed both the responsibilities and rewards that came with her job. However her career came to a voluntary end when an incident involving a patient on a PCP high resulted in the death of a colleague and close friend.

Having a broad outlook when it comes to sex. Harper has dated both men and women and does not identify with any specific preference. She is unashamedly flirtatious, regardless of gender, however her variable preferences have caused issues with commitment in the past. One such issue arose during a relationship with a past boyfriend, Lukaz. Initially, Harper was open about her attraction towards women. At first, he was accepting of her encounters with women as long as she promised they were only casual and she that she never slept with other men. The arrangement worked for a couple of years until she met Lissa and things changed for Harper. She'd always managed to keep a tight rein on her feelings, except Lissa was different and Harper developed a deeper connection, turning something that was intended to be casual in to something more frequent.  It started causing frictions in her relationship and with Lukaz, understandably he grew concerned of her time spent with Lissa, leaving Harper torn between her developing feelings for the woman and her boyfriend. Harper made the risky  decision to bring them together, informing them she loved them equally, but in different ways and wasn't willing to give up on either relationship. Lissa was on-board immediately, Lukaz took more convincing and eventually he came round to the idea of a polyamorous relationship between the three of them.

Lissa moved in and Harper was in her element, spending every night with the two people she cared about ticked all the boxes for her. She insisted they were completely open to friends and family, so everyone was made to feel equal. At first it took some explaining. Few understood how such an arrangement could work, but strangely, it did. However it wasn't to last. After two years, Lissa fell pregnant with Lukaz' child, a child which had never been part of their plan. Ironically, the arrangement backfired on Harper herself and although the pregnancy was an accident, a baby was on the way. After much discussion and tears, Harper felt the best course of action was to step away. Lissa and Lukaz tried to convince her to stay, arguing that it could still work, but Harper tapped out regardless and subsequently, Lissa and Lukaz, although sharing custody of their child, went their separate ways too. Lissa was more forgiving and they remained friends, but Lukaz blamed Harper for initiating the arrangement in the first place, claiming he'd only agreed in order to keep her happy. After that, the only interactions Harper had were with women.  Regardless of their relationship coming to an end, she still loved Lukaz and felt a degree of irrational guilt whenever she slept with another man.

Rosemont Heights.

Like everyone else. Harper went to bed thinking she would wake up for work the next day as normal. Instead, she woke up in a strange town with nine other people, all equally confused as she was. The strange occurrences could not be explained. They never ran out of food or power. Any attempt to flee in to the forest surrounding Rosemont Heights always spat them out back to the town. The People grew fraught and panicked with frequent altercations occurred. Eventually, as the months passed, they came to the realization that there was no way out and nobody was coming to their rescue. They learned to Police themselves and fell in to a disjointed routine, having no choice but to make Rosemont their home, creating a community between them.

Then, one by one, each of them started disappearing without trace until the only person left, was Harper.

After a month alone. The second wave arrived, much like the first. Confused, angry and scared. Harper was relieved and able to advise them first-hand from her own expedience of the town, but nothing could explain the disappearance of those people who had come before them. She was met with suspicion and paranoia, leading to her incarceration in the cell below the Police house. She spent three months locked up. Being allowed out in cuffs for only an hour each day. When the first person disappeared, they suspected an escape. The second too. The third followed shortly after then the forth. But one thing was for certain. Harper couldn't be the one responsible. Those who were left interrogated her further, resorting to food and exercise deprivation until she confessed what she knew. Harper had no answers for them.  When only four people remained from the second group, they released Harper from her prison, finally believing her. Much like the first group, one by one, the rest of them disappeared, once again leaving Harper as the only remaining person in the town.

When the third wave arrived, Harper wasn't taking any chances. She hid away from them in the old Cinema Theatre and managed to evade discovery. But these people were different from the first and second group. Their panic more intense and violent towards each-other. They fought or fled for escape, either perishing to the sporadic unforgiving elements of the forest or at each others hands.  Within the first two weeks, there were only three remaining, two women and a man. For all intents and purposes, he was a Sociopath and Harper wasn't sure if Rosemont had brought on his instability or he had been like that before his arrival. Harper discovered he kept two women locked up in the very same cells which had imprisoned Harper for all those months. She could no longer hide away and do nothing. Not when the women needed her help. She devised a plan. Watched the man as he left the police house and armed with a fire axe, she crept inside after breaking a back window to gain access. She was too late. One of the women was already dead and the second was close to succumbing to her injuries. Unable to get to the woman, the man had the keys to the cell and his heavy footfalls sounded behind her on the stairs, blocking the only way out. Armed with the axe and the self-defense she'd received during her Paramedic training, Harper had no choice with to try and fight her way out. Double her size and twice as strong, she used the element of surprise to her advantage, she stood to the side of the doorway blocked from his view and immediately aimed to incapacitate him, swinging the axe low to his left knee from behind to take his leg from under him. He roared with surprised pain and tried to grab at her, but she dislodged the axe and swung wildly at is head, knocking him out. She grabbed the keys then dragged him in to the cell, locking him in securely. Despite Harper's best efforts, the woman lived only a day. When she returned to the cell, it was still locked but the man had disappeared, along with the body of the first dead woman. Likewise, returning to the medical facility the body was no longer present. They had disappeared like the others.

Shortly after, a forth wave arrived. Emotionally drained and mentally scarred by her previous experiences, Harper was at a point where she was beyond caring if she died, though she refused to let herself be captured and interrogated like before. Two years had passed since her arrival and she was still nowhere closer to finding out why she was there, or why she was always the only one left. She escaped in to the forest and like other attempts, any route she took kept bringing her back to the town, until a final attempt didn't. She stumbled across a cabin she had never encountered before. Although she felt she had passed by the area of forest before, nestled between the looming trees was the small wooden building. When she ventured inside, it was clean, well stocked and in good repair, appearing like it was almost placed there for her convenience. She hung back in the forest, sleeping rough for a few days and watched the cabin to see if anyone came, but nobody did.

In the first few months of using the building, Harper was on high alert. She barely slept and set make-shift traps, checking for tracks. She wouldn't start a fire in the stone fire place in fear of the smoke being seen from the town. Gradually, she grew more at ease, testing the theory she set a fire only to discover that the smoke rose no higher than the tree line. The new inhabitants of the town ventured in to the forest, but none found the cabin itself. When she started running desperately short of supplies, afraid she might not be able to find the cabin again, she had no choice but to venture back in to town. It took her a day and waiting until nightfall so she would remain unseen, she filled her backpack with as much as she was able to carry. Heading back in the same direction, it took her only a few hours to find the cabin again. Like with everything else in the town. It made no sense.

Harper has spent the last year and a half at the Cabin without discovery. She keeps journals when she can to help her keep track of time. Occasionally she will visit the Town to restock supplies. And at times, when the weather is particularly unpredictable the powers-that-be look kindly on her and she might discover that the supplies have been replenished. She has no doubt somebody is watching out for her and in control of her fate, and equally, she has no idea why they chose to keep her alive. She can only hope that those who disappeared, were sent back to the safety of their families and although she's never been religious, prays that one day, it might be her turn.