Joanna Dark

Joanna Dark, nicknamed Jo by friends, is the top agent employed by the Carrington Institute, specializing in combat, espionage, and undercover operations. She is the main protagonist of the Perfect Dark series, and plays a pivotal role in the events of the games and novels.

In the Heroes Coalition fics, Joanna is currently a member of the Heroes Coalition as one of it's coaches and trainees.

Appearance
Joanna is a young beautiful woman with a red-orange medium-length hair with blue eyes. She wears a blue short vest over a black catsuit with white linings and black stiletto boots.

Personality
Joanna is naturally curious. She does not trust people easily, especially those whom are associated with the hyper-corporations. She craves praise, as noted by Jonathan Steinberg. She is remarkably well adjusted and content to live each day as it comes. Earlier in life, Joanna was capable of deep, destructive anger, and often lacked the discipline to keep her temper in check. This led her to undertake reckless, ill-advised actions.

Abilities
Joanna is a naturally skilled marksman, a lethal hand to hand combat fighter, and an expert pilot and driver. She has incredible reflexes and an ability to sniff out trouble. Her technical skills stretch as far as wiring up a charge, picking a lock or hacking a basic system. She also has an innate ability at 'being who people want her to be', which has allowed her to become an expert at keeping a false identity, suiting her for undercover operations. Joanna is incredibly enduring, in one case after being shot she continued doing her mission even though the wound worsened, haven been torn open several times and developing an infection.

Trivia

 * Joanna is an avid supporter and non-professional player of DeathMatch VR.
 * Joanna also enjoys a variety of adventure sports such as rock-climbing, free running, dirt-biking and grav boarding.
 * The name Joanna Dark was taken from the French pronunciation of Joan of Arc as "Jeanne d'Arc".