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Previously, she was Faith Lehane from the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Faith grew up in South Boston with two alcoholic parents. She became a Slayer when Kendra was killed and, for the most part, enjoyed it. Her first Watcher was killed by the vampire Kakistos, and Faith ran, showing up in Sunnydale. After Kakistos found her there, and Faith managed to kill him, she stayed in Sunnydale. Faith and Buffy alternately got along and butted heads, and Faith's lack of trust in authority was repeatedly vindicated when her second Watched, Gwendolyn Post, turned out to be kinda evil, and her third Watcher, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, arrested her with the help of a special ops team that intended to take her back to England. (Though to be fair, at that point she'd accidentally killed a man.) She escaped and went to work for the Mayor, Richard Wilkins, who turned into a father figure for her. Buffy put faith into a coma the night before Graduation Day, and Faith stayed unconscious for eight months.
When she woke, she did her best to make a mess of Buffy's life before making her way to Los Angeles. She then tried to get Angel to kill her, not wanting to live with the remorse for her actions anymore. Instead, he helped her, and she turned herself in for her crimes. Faith only broke out of prison when Wesley came and told her that Angelus had returned. After helping Angel get his soul back, Faith went back to Sunnydale with Willow to help deal with the First, who had been sending its minions to kill all the Potential Slayers. A spell cast by Willow on a scythe meant for the Slayer empowered all the Potentials, making them actual Slayers, and spreading the burden and the gift that previously only Buffy and Faith held to girls all over the world. They still left Sunnydale as nothing more than a crater. Oops.
Now she's Nori Truman, 24. Nori was born to a mother who wanted her and a father who didn't. Her father took it out on her mother and her mother eventually started taking that out on her. She was removed from home a few times and sent to live with a foster family, but it was always brief interludes, trading one crappy home for another for six months at a time and then going right back home again. When Nori was 12, her father went so far as to start choking her mother; convinced her mother was going to die, Nori grabbed a baseball bat and started wailing on her dad. But when the cops came, the story suddenly changed--her mother accused Nori of attacking them both, and Nori wound up in juvie. She was there until she was 16, and there weren't a lot of foster placements that wanted to go anywhere near a damaged kid with a record of violence. In came Steve, her foster brother, who took her in without a second thought. Nori's lived with him since, first in the apartment and then in the purple house. She disappears every once in a while--sometimes she needs to get away so she won't take her shit out on the only people who care about her--but she always comes back.
Almost impossible to intimidate, Nori will step in if she sees you laying hands on someone in a way you shouldn't be. She has little to no respect for authority, especially cops and the so-called justice system. Most people don't notice how damaged she is--she's wickedly funny, likes to go drinking and dancing, and flirts up a storm when she's working as a bartender. But people who know what to look for can see it: she knows where all the exits are and exactly what objects in her vicinity can be used as a weapon if need be; she spends so much time hyper-aware of her surroundings that she sleeps like the dead, but only with a locked door and usually with a knife under her pillow; and she can overreact sometimes, thinking there's danger when there isn't. Nori usually prefers a crowd to being one-on-one, she hates feeling vulnerable, and getting her to open up can feel like it takes the jaws of life. But she's also relatively self-aware of her shit, so at least she's not spending her day throwing punches, if only to keep herself from ever, ever getting locked up again.
Nori is currently unaware.
When she woke, she did her best to make a mess of Buffy's life before making her way to Los Angeles. She then tried to get Angel to kill her, not wanting to live with the remorse for her actions anymore. Instead, he helped her, and she turned herself in for her crimes. Faith only broke out of prison when Wesley came and told her that Angelus had returned. After helping Angel get his soul back, Faith went back to Sunnydale with Willow to help deal with the First, who had been sending its minions to kill all the Potential Slayers. A spell cast by Willow on a scythe meant for the Slayer empowered all the Potentials, making them actual Slayers, and spreading the burden and the gift that previously only Buffy and Faith held to girls all over the world. They still left Sunnydale as nothing more than a crater. Oops.
Now she's Nori Truman, 24. Nori was born to a mother who wanted her and a father who didn't. Her father took it out on her mother and her mother eventually started taking that out on her. She was removed from home a few times and sent to live with a foster family, but it was always brief interludes, trading one crappy home for another for six months at a time and then going right back home again. When Nori was 12, her father went so far as to start choking her mother; convinced her mother was going to die, Nori grabbed a baseball bat and started wailing on her dad. But when the cops came, the story suddenly changed--her mother accused Nori of attacking them both, and Nori wound up in juvie. She was there until she was 16, and there weren't a lot of foster placements that wanted to go anywhere near a damaged kid with a record of violence. In came Steve, her foster brother, who took her in without a second thought. Nori's lived with him since, first in the apartment and then in the purple house. She disappears every once in a while--sometimes she needs to get away so she won't take her shit out on the only people who care about her--but she always comes back.
Almost impossible to intimidate, Nori will step in if she sees you laying hands on someone in a way you shouldn't be. She has little to no respect for authority, especially cops and the so-called justice system. Most people don't notice how damaged she is--she's wickedly funny, likes to go drinking and dancing, and flirts up a storm when she's working as a bartender. But people who know what to look for can see it: she knows where all the exits are and exactly what objects in her vicinity can be used as a weapon if need be; she spends so much time hyper-aware of her surroundings that she sleeps like the dead, but only with a locked door and usually with a knife under her pillow; and she can overreact sometimes, thinking there's danger when there isn't. Nori usually prefers a crowd to being one-on-one, she hates feeling vulnerable, and getting her to open up can feel like it takes the jaws of life. But she's also relatively self-aware of her shit, so at least she's not spending her day throwing punches, if only to keep herself from ever, ever getting locked up again.
Nori is currently unaware.
