Joy, Heart of Steel

"'I fucking love my job.'"

Overview
Joy (Formerly Joie-Hart) is a mercenary Lightbearer who - alongside lifelong friend Pike - sells her skills to the highest bidder. She has done work for the Vanguard, for the Drifter, for each of the three major factions in the City, for criminal empires - anyone willing to invest in the pair's services.

Unlike many Guardians, Joy makes use of her light-given abilities very rarely, preferring her physical weaponry and CQC skills - many of which seem to be muscle memory that she has had since she was reborn. Her usage of the light boils down mainly to her usage of titan grenades - frags, suppressors, flashbangs, stickies - all of which are extremely familiar to her for similar reasons that she was able to "pick up a gun and just kinda figure shit out." She makes very potent use of her immortality, essentially using herself as immortal cannon fodder; she will make "suicide plays" to turn herself into a bomb on a sparrow, for instance.

She has a strong affinity for heavy weaponry - shotguns, grenade launchers, machine guns, rocket launchers - she has a particular affinity for her Legend of Acrius (which she nicknamed Baldwin), which she acquired shortly after being risen at the start of the Red War. It quickly became her favorite weapon, and she sustained it using ammo from the cabal she'd turned the weapon against. By the end of the Red War, she had tallied "at least a few hundred kills, but I'm not good at counting."

Joy is a quick thinker, able to quickly take charge of situations, develop strategies and organize them on the fly. She is able to follow orders, so long as she sees the orders she's given as reasonable by her own standards.

Despite her tough persona of a hardened soldier, Joy is a sappy woman who loves her friends dearly, and often communicates this through friendly competition, teasing, and flirting.