@Red Thunder

Red Thunder

A Warrior in a Garden
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Posting Speed
  1. 1-3 posts per week
  2. One post per week
  3. Slow As Molasses
Writing Levels
  1. Adept
  2. Advanced
  3. Prestige
Preferred Character Gender
  1. Male
  2. Female
  3. Primarily Prefer Male
Genres
Fantasy, SciFi, Modern, Magical
Unwitting Outcast
"Take what yah can; give nothing back."

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GENERAL

Name: Adrianna the Deft
Pronunciation: [ae-dree-AA-nuh]
Species: Halfling
Date of Birth: Summer - monthe 6
Zodiac: the Nymph
Age: 26
Place of Birth: Northlet, Arora, Orcosea

"The world's mean, honey. You don't gotta be mean yerself, but bein' gen'rous ain't doin' yah no favors."

APPEARANCE

Eye Color: Dull green
Hair Color: Sandy brown
Hair Style/Length: Curly hair spills down to touch her shoulders, full and generous, and it regularly holds itself up despite every effort to discourage it otherwise.
Height: 3'7"
Weight: 60 lbs
Body Type: Addy is for a halfling fairly narrow and thin, lacking much of any curve to her save for the characteristic full belly of her race.
Body Modifications/Accessories: N/A

Written Appearance: Adrianna is of an average height, tending toward the short, for a halfling, though her very exhuberant locks of hair push her up to 4 feet on more humid days. It's kept from falling into her face by a red band, tied in the back, across her forehead. A toned face house large green eyes, always curious and questioning, and despite her hardships in life, they reflect a humor that the upturn of her mouth communicates. Addy goes about barefoot, preferring the way it allows her to feel the running surface, her feet calloused from years of doing so. Tan leather breeches grip her narrow hips, a short cutless hanging from her right side and a pouch from her left. She wears a leather jacket of gray and red, it's shoulders reenforced by hardened leather as minimal protection.

PERSONALITY

Personality Traits: Adrianna is insatiably curious, oftentimes to the point of recklessness. A form of stubbornness, it has and likely will continue to get her into trouble. Yet she regularly finds her way out of it, her confidence, even if faked, convincing those that she runs afoul of that she either had reason to be present or that she was not one to be tangled with. Yet that confidence hides a distrust of people that she can't shake. After all, her own family disappeared, and though she repeatedly tells herself that there is a straightforward answer for it, Addy can't help but think the worst. This has seeped into her interactions with all others save Rhiannon, despite a firm desperation to find a friend worth her time.

Strengths: Addy is a skilled thief, long years of being involved in such work serving her well in such work as pickpocketing and breaking and entering. To similar effect, she has developed a fairly decent sense of direction, being able to find her way even among unfamiliar streets by noting the general flow of the city and its streets and buildings. Of course, such wanderings lead her to trouble, so she is a capable street brawler, having found that anything is acceptable, up to and including fighting dirty, something that her natural dexterity encourages.

Weaknesses: Having left her family at a relatively young age, Adrianna is relatively uneducated, her schooling abandoned in favor of mere survival on her own. Yet, she is at further disadvantage than other similar street rats: she is Unattuned, and where other's magic plays specific and regular roles in most lives, hers is utterly lacking. Because of this, in addition to many other factors, Addy is destitute, the little money she makes going to food and shelter. But even these she has to hide, as her lack of any real strength keeps her from ably defending them against determined antagonists.

Quirks: Because of a constantly changing environment chasing work and fleeing authorities, life has left her with a distinct and oftentimes difficult to comprehend accent, and Addy regularly used sayings and phrases from some locale that her present home does not.

MBPT: ENTP

D&D Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

DETAILS

Inventory: For defense, Addy wears a small cutless just the right size for her halfling frame. For direction, she has in her satchel a beaten and worn bronze compass, a holdover from her time as a fisherman's daughter. For purpose, she keeps the compass company with an oft folded map, upon which are marked with Xs several locations, indicating the places she has searched for her family; a small stick of writing charcoal accompanies it. For warmth, Addy keeps and usually keeps hidden a woolen cloak, cut to her size, that she received from an unexpectedly charitable individual.

Occupation: Thief, ne'erdowell, accomplisher of the odd chore, and some times would be pirate

Education: Formal - none. Informal - fishing, street living, and path finding.

Character Arcs/Plots:
1. Discovering the fate of her family
2. Reuniting with her family
3. Discovering her place within her family
4. Coming to terms with her family's perceptions

RELATIONS

Social
1. Rhiannon - Pixy, closest and only friend
2. Cid - former thieving boss; parted on good terms with Addy, and acts as a sort of purveyor of sage advice when she comes asking for it


Familial
1. Trimark - father (missing)
2. Kwene - mother (missing)
3. Kwadmark - eldest brother (missing)
4. Fainel - youngest brother (missing)

ARMAMENTS

Magic Tier(s): None

Attuned Element(s): None

Fleuntia: Luna

Main Weapon: Cutlass, sized down to suit a halfling


Secondary Weapon: Fists, knees, and other such things

HISTORY
Adrianne is the second child and first daughter of a fisherman and his young wife, Adrianna grew up helping support the family. Work was plentiful; money was not. So schooling was forgone in favor of labor, and young Adrianne was all too happy to help in any way she could, all too aware of the limitations her Unattunement brought her. But she was also filled with an insatiable curiosity, and the young girl would always seek and ask for the reason for her difference from her family. So in her 14th year, her parents contracted a Pixy, Rhiannon, one of the small group that lingered about their home, to lead her to keep Adrianna safe and sent their daughter to the Northwood for answers. But though she asked all she came across concerning her lack of Attunement, none could answer her with any amount of certainly. Dissatisfied and unable to sate her curiosity, the girl headed home. Yet she was not to see her family again. They were gone, leaving their house empty and unattended and their belongings picked through by robbers and scavengers. Distraught, she gathered what supplies she could and struck out on her own. And Rhiannon, for reasons unknown to the halfling, accompanied her. In the years since, Adrianna has become a talented and streetwise vagabond, taking what employment she could get, and always finding comfort in the occasional job aboard a ship, reminding her as it did of home. Her one companion has through these long years been Rhiannon, and a strong friendship has formed, built as it has been on trust, respect, and the occasional vague mutual annoyance.

WRITING SAMPLE

"Told yah I could. Darn goat sniffers didn't know what to make of it."

Adrianna examined the prize in her hand, admiring the way it glinted in the firelight, almost expanding the red cast to mirror that of brilliant sunlight. Small but expertly and carefully crafted, the sunstone was a beautiful thing. It was also one of a kind, and fencing it would be nigh impossible. At least, in their present location. Leaning back in his chair, Cid scowled.

"It'll attract too much attention. Dammit, Anna. When I told you not to, it was because we'd have no way of getting rid of the thing! Not because I doubted you could do it!"

"I did, though."

"I know!" The man sighed, a long line of smoke filtering out from between clenched teeth. A small pipe had been shoved into the corner of his mouth, and he muttered through it grumpily. "Now I've got to find a courier to take it out of city, preferably to a whole different island, in order to find a buyer without also finding heat! Anna, any funds the stone brings us will be offset by the cost of selling it discretely!"

"Yeah, I wouldn't know about all that." The halfling glanced up to the corner of the ceiling. A small blue green shimmer twinkled there, more an effect of the shadow on Rhiannon's natural tone than any kind of illusionary magic. The Pixy hovered impatiently, arms crossed. She'd not agreed with Addy taking even temporary employment with the man, nor with the way his particular line of work and reputation in it seemed to encourage her friend's already too eager mischievousness. And it had almost gotten Addy into trouble more than once. But as Addy always put it, Almost only counts in horseshoes. Whatever that meant.

Cid cleared his throat, drawing the young thief's attention. She shrugged, clearly only marginally interested.

"Look, I can look fer summat 'round here to sell it. I'll turn it about faster than a duck on a June bug."

"Uh, you do that." Cid ground his teeth together and waved her off dismissingly. "And please make sure you consider your targets more carefully next time."

Adrianna cast him a wink before turning and sauntering out of his hidden quarters, the flash of blue green that followed signaling her Pixy friend's exit as well.

"No promises, sugar."[/b]
 
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A Cool Head, though oft Unprevailing
"Everyone makes mistakes; don't spend your time lamenting it. Instead, learn from it and move on."

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GENERAL

Name: Rhiannon
Pronunciation: [ree-AAN-nun]
Species: Pixy
Date of Birth: Winter, monthe 9
Zodiac: the Horned Demon
Age: 96 years
Place of Birth: the shores of Northlet

Eye Color: Sunshine Yellow
Hair Color: Seafoam green
Hair Style/Length: There is a gentle wave to her hair, which falls generously down her back to end at her waist. With plenty of body, it is unrestrained and often wild, and depending on her manner of flight, can effectively obscure her motion as well as her vision.
Height: 3.5"
Weight: 0.25 lbs
Body Type: Bearing an obvious hourglass shape, Rhiannon is nevertheless skinny for her body type. Not one to exert herself needlessly, the Pixy does not have much in the way of defined musculature.
Body Modifications/Accessories: None

Personality Traits: Rhiannon has drifted far from the typical mannerisms and attitudes of her kind. In its place has taken root a cautious optimism: her belief in the best of circumstances is tempered harshly by an understanding that reality rarely works for the best. Yet still the mischievous nature lurks within her, and at times it will crept out unexpectedly with a smile. Particularly in the regular company of her friend Adrianna.
Quirks: Something of a shy creature, Rhi will sometimes sit atop Adrianna's head to hide in her curly locks.

MBPT: ISFJ

Inventory: None
Occupation: By generous interpretation of her Contract, guardian to Adrianna the halfling

Brief History: Rhiannon was on Pixy of dozens, living as a mere face in a crowd of her family about the home of a smalll family of halfling fishermen. For many years, they were content, and she saw parents and children and their children after them. Some would make Contracts with Pixys, yet she didn't care; life was fun and carefree, and she enjoyed it.

One day she was approached by the halfling patriarch. He spoke to her, wishing for a Pixy to guide and guard his eldest daughter through to the Northwood for a visit 'to find answers'. Rhiannon, excited at the prospect of seeing her ancestral home as well, not to mention being given reason to stay in such close proximity to an Unattuned, agreed to the Contract in exchange for a small bit of land in Northwood the halfling family owned.

It was a short trip, considering, and they spent little enough time in Northwood before returning. She'd grown to know and even enjoy the company of the young Adrianna, finding in her a curiosity and a joy that rivaled her own. But the Pixy's own joy was suddenly and harshly quenched; upon arriving back home in Northlet, they discovered Adrianna's family gone, every last possession of theirs missing.

In a moment of clarity, Rhiannon understood. Adrianna's father had seemed uneasy when he'd Contracted her, and the way he'd mentioned that his daughter wanted to find out why she was Unattuned was as if he'd tasted something bitter. And Rhiannon, leading the girl forth, had been the instrument for Adrianna's parents' abandonment. She was crushed, but she became determined to make recompense for her involvement. So as to abide by her people's traditions of Contract, the Pixy stretched its interpretation that she might keep Adrianna safe until she returned to her family once again.

Magic Tier: High / Middle
Attuned Element(s): Illusionism / Absorption
Main Weapon: Rhiannon carries no weapon save her magic.
Secondary Weapons: In a pinch, she, like all her kind, can and will use her poisonous claws in defense.
 
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