Post by jaztice on Sept 14, 2016 22:54:08 GMT
Name: Pepper of the Caravans (The Harrower)
Age: 19
Sex/Gender: Female
Race Name: Psionic Human
Race Description: N/A
Racial Powers: Telekinesis
Accurate Throwing - Pepper can throw things via her hands with incredible accuracy by controlling them with her telekinesis. She usually does this with cards (moderate), but she can also do it with other objects (light).
General Telekinesis - Pepper usually had to hide her abilities, and thus is not as skilled with the general “force shoving and lifting things with her mind” powers as your average telekinetic (light)
Communicative Telepathy - Pepper can have mental conversations with people within a small radius. She only uses this power to intimidate people (i.e. pretending she can read their mind) or to talk to friends she trusts (weak)
Consequences - not powers, but if she overuses her abilities, Pepper can suffer from headaches, nose bleeding, migraines, lightheadedness, and unconsciousness.
Description of Character:
Pepper is about 5'3" and lean, with slender fingers, wide hips, big thighs, and small breasts. Her black hair is thick and raggedly chopped short to about her chin. She has fairly dark skin and dark brown, almond-ish shaped eyes. Her teeth are a little crooked and she has dimples when she smiles. When she was young, Pepper lost her right forearm in an accident and it was replaced with a robotic one; it's connected to her nerves via a combination of science and magic and works just as well as a normal hand (although she needs to oil and adjust it every once in a while). she also has a few scars on her back, arms, legs, and neck.
Her usual outfit is a baggy short-sleeved blouse, a long patchwork skirt, fingerless leather gloves, a belt, and boots - when performing, she loses the gloves and adds a kerchief around her hair, some jewelry, and a sash or two. When trying to pass for a boy, she wears loose pants and a newsboy cap. She always wears a small medallion around her neck with a mysterious symbol on it, strung on a leather cord - she's had it since she was young, probably from her real parents.
Pepper is also followed around by a stray black cat she named Salt. He's very loyal and often helps her out if she's ever in trouble (check inventory for more information).
Character Personality:
On the outside, Pepper is a very quiet person who prefers to listen to what people have to say rather than talk. She is polite and kind, especially towards young children, but when talking to herself or to her friends she's incredibly sarcastic and sassy. Around other people, however, she's very reserved and has very little trust in those she doesn't know incredibly well; she's very good at telling people things about herself that seem important but really aren't. Her trust issues are mostly due to her having to hide many aspects of herself both before and after she joined the Caravans. Pepper is also very clever, witty, and wise beyond her years - many say that looking into her eyes is like looking into the eyes of a 90 year old woman. To her friends and family, Pepper is incredibly loyal and will protect them until the end. Though she is usually kind, Pepper can be ruthless when it comes to protecting or helping those she loves, and she has no qualms about using her powers to hurt others that try to hurt her.
She doesn't like rules, regulations, authority, or injustice, and she will often rebel against authority simply because she can or because she sees it as corrupt. She does like helping people, tarot reading, putting on card trick shows, and making people laugh. Because she had to learn how to fix her arm on her own, Pepper also dabbles in mechanical tinkering and some science. Her childhood fighting instincts were strengthened in the Caravans, and she can generally hold her own against a grown man or two by playing dirty with her punches. She enjoys reading and climbing things, and she hates needles and spiders.
Character Backstory: (if you want to find out her backstory through her, don't read)
~INVENTORY~
Powered/Magic Items
Normal Items
Age: 19
Sex/Gender: Female
Race Name: Psionic Human
Race Description: N/A
Racial Powers: Telekinesis
Accurate Throwing - Pepper can throw things via her hands with incredible accuracy by controlling them with her telekinesis. She usually does this with cards (moderate), but she can also do it with other objects (light).
General Telekinesis - Pepper usually had to hide her abilities, and thus is not as skilled with the general “force shoving and lifting things with her mind” powers as your average telekinetic (light)
Communicative Telepathy - Pepper can have mental conversations with people within a small radius. She only uses this power to intimidate people (i.e. pretending she can read their mind) or to talk to friends she trusts (weak)
Consequences - not powers, but if she overuses her abilities, Pepper can suffer from headaches, nose bleeding, migraines, lightheadedness, and unconsciousness.
Description of Character:
Pepper is about 5'3" and lean, with slender fingers, wide hips, big thighs, and small breasts. Her black hair is thick and raggedly chopped short to about her chin. She has fairly dark skin and dark brown, almond-ish shaped eyes. Her teeth are a little crooked and she has dimples when she smiles. When she was young, Pepper lost her right forearm in an accident and it was replaced with a robotic one; it's connected to her nerves via a combination of science and magic and works just as well as a normal hand (although she needs to oil and adjust it every once in a while). she also has a few scars on her back, arms, legs, and neck.
Her usual outfit is a baggy short-sleeved blouse, a long patchwork skirt, fingerless leather gloves, a belt, and boots - when performing, she loses the gloves and adds a kerchief around her hair, some jewelry, and a sash or two. When trying to pass for a boy, she wears loose pants and a newsboy cap. She always wears a small medallion around her neck with a mysterious symbol on it, strung on a leather cord - she's had it since she was young, probably from her real parents.
Pepper is also followed around by a stray black cat she named Salt. He's very loyal and often helps her out if she's ever in trouble (check inventory for more information).
Character Personality:
On the outside, Pepper is a very quiet person who prefers to listen to what people have to say rather than talk. She is polite and kind, especially towards young children, but when talking to herself or to her friends she's incredibly sarcastic and sassy. Around other people, however, she's very reserved and has very little trust in those she doesn't know incredibly well; she's very good at telling people things about herself that seem important but really aren't. Her trust issues are mostly due to her having to hide many aspects of herself both before and after she joined the Caravans. Pepper is also very clever, witty, and wise beyond her years - many say that looking into her eyes is like looking into the eyes of a 90 year old woman. To her friends and family, Pepper is incredibly loyal and will protect them until the end. Though she is usually kind, Pepper can be ruthless when it comes to protecting or helping those she loves, and she has no qualms about using her powers to hurt others that try to hurt her.
She doesn't like rules, regulations, authority, or injustice, and she will often rebel against authority simply because she can or because she sees it as corrupt. She does like helping people, tarot reading, putting on card trick shows, and making people laugh. Because she had to learn how to fix her arm on her own, Pepper also dabbles in mechanical tinkering and some science. Her childhood fighting instincts were strengthened in the Caravans, and she can generally hold her own against a grown man or two by playing dirty with her punches. She enjoys reading and climbing things, and she hates needles and spiders.
Character Backstory: (if you want to find out her backstory through her, don't read)
Pepper’s race isn’t really different from that of your average human psion’s. However, she’s from an alternate dimension of Earth during a steampunk time period, so culturally she has a different background. She’s seen most steampunk-era technology, but advanced sci-fi technology and modern day Earth technology will be fairly new to her.
Pepper was part of a clan called the Caravans, which was essentially a web of traveling circuses spread out across the globe. Members of the Caravans come from all ethnicities, countries, and backgrounds, giving the group an ambiguous, mixed culture. In this dimension, surnames are reserved for the super powerful and wealthy, so most people only have a first name, an "of the [clan name]," and maybe a descriptive title.
Pepper grew up in an orphanage in a busy city; as a small, quiet girl with dark skin and a penchant for reading, she didn't have many friends and was often bullied. When she was four, she lost part of her arm in an accident and was able to get a mechanical replacement from a pitying upperclass do-gooder. She picked up sleight of hand quite easily even with her mechanical arm, which was helpful in card games, picking pockets, and picking locks. When she was seven, she stole a deck of cards from a fortune teller and got caught - instead of turning her in to the police, the fortune teller adopted her and brought her into the Caravans, teaching her about tarot, palmistry, and anything else Pepper found interesting.
When she was nine, Pepper almost drowned after falling into a river. The traumatic experience awakened her Psionic powers, and she learned she had telekinesis and weak telepathy. The only other person who knew about her powers was her adopted mother, who told her to hide her powers. She was afraid Pepper might become a freak show exhibit or a mad scientist's experiment if her powers were exposed. Instead, Pepper used her powers to throw cards, pick locks without tools, trip annoying members in the caravan, and have mental conversations with her mother.
Pepper stayed with the Caravans and eventually started her own show booth, specializing in reading tarot cards and doing general card tricks. She earned the title The Harrower when she was thirteen, after doing a tarot reading for a particularly special client that predicted bad luck and death - and ended up coming true.
At eighteen, Pepper's adopted mother died of mysterious circumstances, and Pepper has been trying to find out why she was killed and who killed her ever since. She came to Rune by accident, following a lead to a seance master who lived and worked in an apartment in her old city. However, instead of finding the master, she fell through a portal in the floor of his seance chamber and ended up in Rune. For now, she's focused on surviving, but eventually she'll want to find this seance master and see if he can contact her mother beyond the grave.
Pepper was part of a clan called the Caravans, which was essentially a web of traveling circuses spread out across the globe. Members of the Caravans come from all ethnicities, countries, and backgrounds, giving the group an ambiguous, mixed culture. In this dimension, surnames are reserved for the super powerful and wealthy, so most people only have a first name, an "of the [clan name]," and maybe a descriptive title.
Pepper grew up in an orphanage in a busy city; as a small, quiet girl with dark skin and a penchant for reading, she didn't have many friends and was often bullied. When she was four, she lost part of her arm in an accident and was able to get a mechanical replacement from a pitying upperclass do-gooder. She picked up sleight of hand quite easily even with her mechanical arm, which was helpful in card games, picking pockets, and picking locks. When she was seven, she stole a deck of cards from a fortune teller and got caught - instead of turning her in to the police, the fortune teller adopted her and brought her into the Caravans, teaching her about tarot, palmistry, and anything else Pepper found interesting.
When she was nine, Pepper almost drowned after falling into a river. The traumatic experience awakened her Psionic powers, and she learned she had telekinesis and weak telepathy. The only other person who knew about her powers was her adopted mother, who told her to hide her powers. She was afraid Pepper might become a freak show exhibit or a mad scientist's experiment if her powers were exposed. Instead, Pepper used her powers to throw cards, pick locks without tools, trip annoying members in the caravan, and have mental conversations with her mother.
Pepper stayed with the Caravans and eventually started her own show booth, specializing in reading tarot cards and doing general card tricks. She earned the title The Harrower when she was thirteen, after doing a tarot reading for a particularly special client that predicted bad luck and death - and ended up coming true.
At eighteen, Pepper's adopted mother died of mysterious circumstances, and Pepper has been trying to find out why she was killed and who killed her ever since. She came to Rune by accident, following a lead to a seance master who lived and worked in an apartment in her old city. However, instead of finding the master, she fell through a portal in the floor of his seance chamber and ended up in Rune. For now, she's focused on surviving, but eventually she'll want to find this seance master and see if he can contact her mother beyond the grave.
~INVENTORY~
Powered/Magic Items
- Edison - Edison is a small, buffered, fluorescent rock shaped like an egg. She's also magical and has her own kind of personality (kind of like a pet rock that actually moves). Pepper usually keeps her in her pocket and can communicate with Edison via physical contact (can be through clothing). Having physical SKIN contact with Edison gives Pepper empathic abilities (light), which are helpful when doing tarot readings.
- Empathic abilities - reading emotions, may take emotions on as her own subconsciously. CANNOT control others' emotions. Easy to resist. WPP
- Loyal Black Cat - This black cat will follow you loyally. It's not very strong or anything but anyone it hisses at will have a Moderate Debuff to their luck and ability to dodge your attacks that lasts 3 rounds. The cat can hiss every 5 rounds. It can also scratch and bite at people for Weak damage.
- His name is Salt and he is adorable.
- Gotten in Trick or Treat Grabbag 2016
Normal Items
- Favorite tarot card deck - very worn, obviously well used
- 3 decks of playing cards - also very worn. A few have dried blood on the edges.
- Extra clothes - shirts, pants, skirts, socks, undergarments, sashes and jewelry, kerchief
- Book on tarot cards - paperback, dog-eared and well-thumbed through, a few bookmarks
- Book on palmistry - same as above
- Two adventure books - same as above
- Personal journal - thick, leather-bound notebook, lots of bookmarks, stray sheets of paper, and things pressed between or stuck to the pages.
- Writing utensils - a few cheap pencils and TONS of ballpoint pens
- Lock picking tools - all in a thin wooden box. A few are fancy, but most are bent hair pins.
- Small tinkering tools - for her mechanical arm
- Bottle of mechanical oil - also for arm
Stolen Items
Worn Items
- Pretty much any food she has on her
- Backpack - much sturdier than a normal leather backpack
- Weird rune stone - a rune stone carved with an ancient symbol, charged with magical energy. The symbol represents wisdom and power, and the rune stone is often used by magicians to enhance their abilities
- Glass gemstone - a glass gemstone she lifted from someone's pocket. She has no idea if it's special or not, but it isn't worth much
- A picture - she plans to return this
- All her pens (for now, she may actually buy some later if she has money)
Worn Items
- Normal outfit - white short-sleeved blouse, mid-calf length patchwork skirt, belt, boots, undergarments
- Fingerless leather gloves - colored black and definitely badass
- Belt pouches - on belt
- Mechanical arm - connected at elbow joint, mismatched metal plating (can still move even when disconnected from joint, but the arm on its own cannot use telekinesis when disconnected)
- Newsboy cap
- Aviator goggles - stolen from Market's Row, worn on newsboy cap
- Backpack (see Stolen Items)
Fun Items (gotten in grabbags and such)
- Snack O' Lantern - a pumpkin-shaped plastic bucket full of candy. No, literally. It's ALWAYS full of candy. No matter how many pieces you pull out, this thing seems to never run dry! Make sure to floss occasionally. (Trick or Treat Grabbag)
- Color Shifting Jack-O-Lantern - The candle in this jack-o-lantern steadily shifts colors over time and never burns out. Cool. (Trick or Treat Grabbag)
