Josie is a badass and sensitive woman from the wonderful mind of @ladynyxeris.
Backstory - Earthborn (Chicago).
Background - Sole Survivor.
Class - Adept, though she can biotically kick and punch like a Vanguard if needed.
Alignment - 70% Paragon, 30% Renegade.
Best Friend(s) - Also Garrus, though she’s also close with Tali, Wrex and Joker.
Some would say Josie’s worst enemy is Cerberus, but really it’s her own fear of not being good enough.
Josie was born in Chicago into a broken family. Her mother was a red sand user who never really got clean, not even when she was pregnant, so little Josie came into the world already addicted. It was a miracle she even survived birth. Josie's father instead walked out on her when she was too young to remember his face.
At 12 Jocelyn would lose her remaining parent to a red sand overdose, so she was sent to an orphanage run by nuns, but she soon ran away since the living conditions there weren't much better than her family home. Young Josie was a scrawny little thing and didn't think she could be anything different than a mouse surviving on scraps, always keeping her head down, always biting her tongue to survive. Now alone and without a place to go, she fell easy prey to the Tenth Street Reds, who mostly employed her as a working girl and a finesser to spy on rival gangs.
Jocelyn didn't know she was a biotic until her abilities awakened. It was a classic case of 'wrong place at the wrong time'. A local politician's son was trying to buy a huge amount of drugs from a gang member. After the deal Josie tried to sneak away without getting seen, but she accidentally knocked over a glass. The man was instantly on top of her, hellbent on getting rid of the only witness, but adrenaline and survival instincts did the rest. Jocelyn warped his head into a bloody pulp, and by her 16th birthday she was arrested for aggravated murder.
Anderson found Josie rotting in jail. Even if she was a minor during those events, money talks and it was unlikely she'd have gotten out anytime soon without his intervention. He got her a good lawyer, and after her release she got into an Alliance training program. At 18 she officially enlisted, trying to give back some of what Anderson gave her.
She had thought that would be a new chapter in her life, but then the Akuze tragedy happened, leaving her with physical and emotional scars.
Due to her being used and thrown away time and time again, Jocelyn is profoundly affection starved but afraid to pursue meaningful relationships at the same time. That's how she ended up in Garrus' arms. It was supposed to be just a casual thing, but she fell hard and fast for him, a sentiment reciprocated by the turian. And with the threat of the Reapers looming at the horizon, Garrus becomes Josie's main reason to fight.
