SuitGuyVEVO: /* Allies */

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|header2= Ex-Terrorist
|header3= Ghoul Supremacist
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|label6 = Reddit
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|Bonuses=97
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|data13 = March 22nd, 2064
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=Character Information=
<pre>"I SEE WITH EYES UNCLOUDED. THESE CLAWS OF MINE WILL SPILL INNOCENT BLOOD NO LONGER."</pre>

===Summary===
A former member of Fear The Dark, White Thistle traded her claws for cybernetic lashers and switched sides when she recognized that the spree-killing her parents sent her on did less intimidating of the masses and more making them hate her ilk. She now uses her talent for infil and terror-killing to atone for the damage she's done and to spread her only slightly less supremacist ideology of "fuck vampires, I got mine".
===Goals===
- Dream. Live. Be something more than a killer.

- Stand for her fellow Krieger. Ghoulkind will never survive if we don't stick together.

- Disassemble Fear The Dark; or at least its local cells.

- Get Mom to fuck off and stop calling.

- Kill [[Ashford]]. And Doctor Moore, I guess. But mostly Ashford.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
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|The Old Me
|Abigail's family is Fear The Dark. They know her face, they know her matrix IDs. Current and former members may know her face, and may wish to know why she's not dead - and worse, working for the other team.
|
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|Family Business
|Her parents still love her, much to her chagrin, and her father is a skilled spider. They have tracked her down in the past, leading to her current truck-based lifestyle.
|
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|Fleshfiend
|Born a ghoul, heavily augmented to divorce herself from her family, and then experimented on by a mad scientist - White Thistle is a concoction of nightmares that most find disturbing and repulsive. She embraces this, finding their disgust amusing. Such pathetic, hypocritical "people".
|[[The Island of Dr. Moore]], [[Sealab 2085]]
|-
|Soul Debt
|She has killed many in the name of terror; her crimes cannot be atoned for. She feels obligated to do whatever is asked of her to settle the score.
|[[Midnight Disappearance]]
|-
|Your Dreams, Not Mine
|No matter what she does, she can't seem to shake this feeling that she has never been more than a tool - a means of other achieving their own dreams. Perhaps this is all she was meant for...
|[[Selling Redmond by the Pound]], [[Mandibles Against Eagles]], [[The Island of Dr. Moore]]
|-
|}

==Background==
Second-generation ghoul, mother's a straight-up Fear the Dark terrorist and father's a wageslave security spider who only keeps his job to help fund his mainline's terrorist cell. Born Abigail Falkner - mom Kathleen, dad Adam. Note the present-tense - both parents are still very much alive and Kathleen still tries to call her through burners somewhat regularly. Abigail does not like this.

For the first ten-ish years, Kathleen raised her daughter as normally as a ghoul could. Basic education with at-home programs, training on how to interact with "softskins", stuff like that.
And then the Seventies rolled around, and she got... bad.
Kathleen (and Adam along with her) started gettting involved with some violent people. They started spouting some questionable rhetoric about the "natural order" of things. Abigail found this... disquieting, but quietly put up with it, because what's a preteen kid to do? She even put up with it after her mother started teaching her "self-defense", in case "they" try to do something violent.
...she only realized many years later that she was being trained as a soldier for the cause.
In many ways, she was raised as a... product, of sorts. Viewed more as a useful asset than a child. In her teens, she was basically pushed and prodded by her mother to hang out with some very... questionable company. The pressure put on her to "fight back" against their "oppressors" was rather intense, and so she... well, she did.

I will not go into detail about all she did in the name of Fear The Dark. Several community figureheads of the poorer districts were left as brutalized piles of meat by her hand over the years, and yet she never really conceptualized the fact that killing decent folk just makes people hate your organization.

'Til she met [[Greg]], anyway.

He was a regular mark - just some Skraacha bigshot, meant to die so the Skraacha would be disorganized long enough for other moves - and yet, when Abigail came to his home and broke into their living room just to see him having breakfast with his kids, she just... froze. Honestly, it's a miracle he chose to talk instead of shoot on sight.

The details of the conversation that followed are only known to Abigail and Greg, with the rest of the family having been shooed into the other room. All that's for sure is that when they came out, the intruder was sitting in a dining chair, having apparently removed her own claws by force.

Abigail, now going by White Thistle, does whatever Greg asks of her in an attempt to atone for what she's done.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

'''Hunter-Killer''' ''(Big Regret [Fear The Dark], PSC Sadistic)'' - White Thistle spent years as a violent terrorist for the Infected supremacist organization Fear The Dark, brutalizing community figures in poorer districts. She's been left with a taste for blood and a loathing of the blind slaughter-monster she once was.

'''Prideful Predator''' ''(Ghoul, Prejudiced [Other Infected], Thunderbird)'' - She's more angry about being used as a tool by her own family, though. White Thistle firmly believes that ghouls are a superior form of metahuman, and loudly disapproves of other strains, seeing them as competition. Furthermore, she is simply easy to irritate and rarely forgives or forgets.

'''A Monster, I Have Become''' ''(SURGE [Dermals, Thorns, Exhaled Venom, Berserker], The Goat'' - Thistle is a freakish monster, an amalgam of non-human ''things'', and viscerally disturbing.

==Run History==

''Note: she heavily underperformed on both Extremes, do not take those runs as an indication of her competency.''
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Greg
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ghaz
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Fiendest
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Detective Lt. Rusty Chambers
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===
None at the moment.

===Allies===
+4 Skraacha - [[Greg]] and [[Ghaz]] appreciate her turning coat and helping root out threats to the OU civilians.

+1 KRIME
+1 PCC
+1 LAPD

===Enemies===
Former member of Fear The Dark. They could probably recognize her on sight, and while they may not be overtly hostile, they will definitely be somewhere between confused & hurt, and outright pissed.

The ex-runner [[Ashford]] betrayed her team, killed a teammate, and got her thrown in mad-scientist-experiment-jail for a few days, during which she underwent several rather horrific mutations. She plans to personally flay him open and eat his heart.

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
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==Shadow Community Table==
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==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1= Healthy. Probably disgruntled. Awakened.
|Result2= Standard cyberware replacing arms. Adept.
|Result3= Alphaware bone mods, gastrointestinal mods, eye replacements and leg replacements. Ghoul.
|Result4= Bioware in the brain and skin. 0.12 essence, 1 Magic.
|Result5= Not a technomancer.
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==SINs==

==Appearance==

=== Clothing ===

===Matrix Persona===

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

[[Category:Player Characters]]

2025-01-09T02:46:36Z

SuitGuyVEVO:

Cleaner Cleaner

2025-01-09T01:02:24Z

SuitGuyVEVO:

{{Infobox
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|title = {{PAGENAME}} 
|image= [[File:Cleaner Cleaner.png|200px]] 
|header1= Burnout Adept Gun Muscle
|header2= White Vory Bojevik
|header3= Professional Cleaner, Both Kinds
|header4=
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|data8= 5
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|label13 = D.O.B.
|data13 = December 11th, 2059
|label14 = Age
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|Day= 11
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=Character Information=

===Summary===
White Vory soldier with a growing resentment towards her Russian compatriots and an impatient desire to prove herself, ''to'' herself.

===Goals===
* Discern Uncle Gabriil's fate
* Bring strength to her family (that being the White Vory)
* Keep adding kills to The List
* PURGE THE TOXIC ONES FROM THIS LAND
* Figure out why it never feels like she's good enough

===The List===
* A Shardik, hunted down in the frigid north of Canada and put down in seconds
* A pack of Fenrir Wolves, totaling 11 plus a supernaturally huge (and extremely magical) pack leader; 4 of which went down to CC personally

==Background==
Child of Russian expat business magnates that died in the Crash 2.0. Adopted by her estranged uncle Gabriil as the only living blood relative - a former White Vory associate who had since moved to a cabin in the Rockies. Emilia learnt how to hunt up there, and Awakened as a physical adept - also lost an eye to a Greater Wolverine, paracritters be nasty. Soon enough, Gabriil reveals this whole "hunting paracritters in the woods with suspiciously high power rifles" thing is training for being a professional assassin to carry on the family legacy or something. She takes this astonishingly well.
A few years later, Gabriil goes missing, and Emilia gets in contact with one of his old coworkers, Akilina Mikhailov, to try to figure out what's happened. She agrees, but only if Emilia joins the White Vory and in particular join Akilina's little "project" of slowly reinstating White Vory control over Seattle. Picks up the alias "Cleaner Cleaner" and the armored maid costume aesthetic from one of her new Vory friends who made a joke about her being the perfect maid, capable of ''cleaning'' anything.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
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|Mikhailov's Little Slayer
|CC is, effectively, [[Akilina Mikhailov]]'s personal hitman. She was lured in with promises of a lead on her uncle's whereabouts, and that carrot has been used to string her along to do anything for the good of the Vory. The little hunter is not the kind of person to say "no" to an authority figure - not without something external pushing her to.
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|Compassionate Killer
|Despite her fundamental inability to empathize with other people, she still tries her darndest to be a decent person. A decent person doesn't kill innocent people, so obviously the people she's hired to kill aren't innocent. Every single one of them is a ganger, or a corporate exploiter, or a toxic shaman, or a... something. ''Something''. They ''must'' be evil. If they're not... then what does that make ''her''?
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|-
|Purifier
|Her burning hatred of toxic magic is unrelenting. Anything toxic must die. No exceptions. Cull the weak. Purge the sick. Expunge the rot before it spreads.
|
|-
|The Most Unspeakable Prey
|CC has been exposed to the Horrors through an encounter with a Yama King. She wishes to ''kill'' these exotic new things. She wonders how they would look on her mantle. She wonders how they would feel and taste on her tongue. She must know more.
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|-
|Displeased Totem
|Through her heavy augmentation, use of powerful stimulants, and willingness to use modern technology, CC has drawn some irritation from her Totem, Eagle. The great bird might be considering revoking her access to its magic.
|
|-
|}
== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

'''Fearless Hunter''' ''(Guts, Antipathy, Thrillseeker)'' - CC is mildly obsessed with the idea of becoming the greatest hunter in history. She seeks out fresh kills on exciting prey whenever possible, and rarely if ever feels fear.

'''Executioner''' ''(Made Man, Mentor Spirit (Eagle), PSC (Compulsive Toxic Magic Eradication), Prejudiced (Red Vory, Outspoken))'' - The woman is obligated to kill. Her ''lideri'' orders the death of the White Vory's enemies, her Totem orders the death of all who would actively work to poison the earth. Even in the rare cases where she feels bad about it, she'll do it - surely the reason for their death is a good one...?

'''Made Maid''' ''(Antipathy, Innocuous, Watch The Suit)'' - Years in the White Vory - where she is largely disrespected and mocked behind her back - and a lifetime growing up with just her Uncle for company has left her empathic ability stunted. Conversely, she's become rather adept at maintaining her appearance and appearing as just another civilian when she needs to.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Akilina Mikhailov
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Chuck Person
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Pump King Jack
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lord Emberrage
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Edouard Napoléon Bonaparte
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Klaus Wolfgang von Hatzfield
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ghaz
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Officer Raven
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Butlerusk
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Mr Stone
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ivan Kolchev
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Irena Tachikov
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ace Powers
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Scheherazade
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name='Doc' Mortimer
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===

{{GroupContactTable|

{{GroupContact|
|Group=White Vory
|Position= Bojevik
|RepBonus=0
|RepExpense=0
|DateJoined=2083-10-03
|}}

}}

===Allies===
[[Akilina Mikhailov]], an old associate of her uncle and her primary Fixer, runs the White Vory cell she works under. She treats her like an adopted daughter - but in the way a pageant mom would.

The [[Sons of Sauron]] respect her deeply for killing multiple prominent politicians in the country they actively work against.

She treats [[Lord Emberrage]] with significant respect, almost fealty, and heavily subscribes to his ideology of "burn the toxics away".

===Enemies===
Nobody in particular, but she won't operate well with Red Vory on the basis of simultaneously buying into them all being traitorous shits and also trying to not blow her cover - White Vory aren't supposed to be in Seattle at all.
Has some... strong opinions, on toxic magic.

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
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==Shadow Community Table==
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|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult= Wanted in Constantinople for a high-profile act of terrorism that killed a sitting Senator. Seems to have a somewhat stunted view of morality - often heard justifying things to herself. The maid outfit and handle are apparently an in-joke among herself and "friends" about her being the ultimate maid - probably a joke about both the profession of "cleaner" and the industrial-strength cleaning product C-Squared.
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult= Rumored to work for a Syndicate, but she's never stated her allegiance and nobody's claimed her. She's implied in the past that her parental figure was also a marksman like her, but she's never given a name.
}}

==SINs==
Emilia Sokolov - Real, Salish-Shidhe Council issue. 25 years of age. Orphaned by Crash 2.0, custody taken by uncle Gabriil Sokolov (who is missing for multiple years now). Recently moved to Puyallup on a (forged) work visa.

Jessica Jean - R4, UCAS issue. Supposedly grew up on a farm, lifelong Puyallup resident. Nowadays makes a living getting paid to hunt and kill eccentric wildlife for rich benefactors.

==Appearance==

=== Clothing ===
Most often found wearing an armored maid outfit (''Berwick Dress'') as part of a greater bit, assuming you see her on the job. Off work, it's usually a t-shirt, winter jacket, and overworked jeans.

===Matrix Persona===

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Lady Argentum

2024-12-19T21:58:30Z

SuitGuyVEVO:

{{Infobox
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|title = {{PAGENAME}}
|image= [[File:Lady Argentum.jpg|200px]]
|header1= Wandering Swordswoman
|header2= Knight of the Silver Moon
|header3= Born By Blood
|header4= Sworn By Blade
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=Character Information=

===Summary===
A warrior afflicted by what she once swore to protect the people from. A chivalrous soul who, having abandoned the iron fist of her previous allegiances, seeks to lend a sword to anyone facing a tyrant like the one that left her to die.

===Goals===
* Acquire a means of sustaining her new existence without hurting anyone that didn’t deserve it
* Locate her sire, and deal with them accordingly
* Defeat the old King Mungo in single combat, mostly to prove that he’s not the unkillable monster her people know him as
* Uphold her honor, as a matter of course

==Background==
The one known today as Lady Argentum was in fact born Charles Kuhn (nickname Charlie) to a couple of recently-escaped convicts in the early years of the Crash Zone. The place quickly reorganized into something resembling feudalism, and little Charlie was pretty much immediately pressured into learning how to fight. It’s still largely prison culture, top dog is whoever can kick the hardest ass, so naturally many of the kids got into fighting at a young age. Charlie, being an elf, respectfully should have gotten summarily dunked on constantly, but for some goddamn reason this kid was stronger than the majority of his peers and ''just kept winning''. So, as the micro-state developed, Charlie quickly slotted himself into a growing order of warriors ostensibly following the chivalrous tenets of old - though, really, their loyalty lay with newly-crowned King Mungo. His stipend was never quite enough for augmentations, but that didn't matter - he'd Awakened in his early teens, and by twenty was already respected among his varyingly chivalrous peers.

As an aside, it was around this time that he met someone who was there for a trade agreement with Mungo and happened to be a trans man. Charlie had just kind of never considered the possibility before, but over the next year ended up deciding to transition, and so she spent basically all of her income on coordinating with a street doc from Seattle proper to get the necessary medications delivered into the Crash Zone. She actually largely kept her name, since basically everyone she usually talked to used Charlie anyway, and she didn’t want to step too far out of line with a drastic change (though nowadays she prefers the name on her fake SIN).

Fast forward to mid 2084. Charlie was a figure of some prominence within Mungo’s cadre of personal goons. She was known throughout the small kingdom as a proficient warrior, a lady of her word, and generally someone you point your kids to and go “look, you should try to be that”. Granted, her fellow paladins disagreed with following that honor code quite so intensively (with most of them being some form of corrupt), didn’t like being outshone by her, and frankly, some of them just hated that the elf lady was somehow stronger than a good chunk of the orks in the knighthood. Thus, Charlie felt more than a little alienated, but that never stopped her from sticking to her oaths, fighting for her fellow warriors, and serving King Mungo. Not that her loyalty helped her, in the end.

August 17th, 2084. A string of disappearances in the southwest edge of the kingdom is linked back to a specific house where a few of the missing persons have allegedly been seen walking in and not coming out. Mungo's chivalrous cadre is sent to investigate and, with any likelihood, clear the place out. Unfortunately, due to some terrible situational awareness and the general gung-ho nature of the knights, they got ambushed inside the building. Six knights went in, and three were left to rot inside - one with his throat slit by a harvester’s claw, one ripped in half by a loup-garou, and the last, our Charlie, incapacitated with a broken leg and abandoned by the fighters she thought would always have her back. The last thing she saw before passing out was her fellows dashing out the front door, ignoring her calls for help.

The next few days were a blur. She remembers blood, a chill coming from her own bones, and a lot of pain. She’s not really sure how she ended up half a district away, still in plate, teeth buried in some guy’s artery, but it didn’t take long to puzzle out approximately what happened. Why they did this instead of executing her and how she hadn’t burnt to death weren’t clear to her, but she figured going back to the Crash Zone when presumed dead to vampires would be a bad look. And regardless, she “died” a warrior’s death - surely they’ll remember her as nobly. For now, she figures she’ll keep doing what she’s always strove to do: raise her blade in the defense of the defenseless. Just… maybe with a little more carnage on the side.
== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

'''Knight of Silver Moon''' ''(Infected [Banshee], Distinctive Style, Astral Beacon)'' - Lady Argentum was Infected when her allies fled during a pitched battle with a gang of Infected who were encroaching on the Crash Zone and feeding on some of the locals. She still grapples with her new existence, but figures her blade and breastplate still work just fine; best thing to do for now is do as she always did and be a shining beacon of something close to good.

'''Honorbound''' ''(Mentor Spirit [Wise Warrior], Code of Honor [Wuxia, the Wandering Hero])'' - Since her defeat and subsequent crisis of faith, Lady Argentum has been forced to redefine what she fights for. She holds herself to a strict honor code to, among other things, always act courteous, treat every foe with respect, and never break a promise made. ''Mechanically speaking, she may not harm the innocent, may not accept bribes or misuse authority, and may never serve the corrupt.''

'''Anachronistic''' ''(School of Hard Knocks, Gremlins)'' - Lady Argentum hails from the Crash Zone, which isn’t exactly known for its outstanding technological innovations. Modern technology still largely baffles and disobeys her, and frankly, she’d rather only need to learn how her car works.

'''Bulwark''' ''(No Man Left Behind, Flashbacks [Abandonment])'' - The sight of her comrades leaving her for dead is forever burnt into her mind's eye. She has sworn to never leave another to the same fate, but can't seem to stop dwelling on what would happen if she was left behind again.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}

==Affiliations==

===Contacts===

{{ContactTable|

{{HasContact|
|Name= Bolt
|Loyalty= 2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Aisee Yuunao
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Kenneth "Flamesaw" Murphy
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Himiko Ryudai
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Rebbeca Montez
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

}}

===Organizations===

===Allies===
Argentum considers [[West Coast Monolith]] an ally for their largely shared goals and her ''very'' loose affiliation with the group, but the feeling isn't mutual. Bolt probably isn't even all that happy about working with a soulsucker like her, but at least she's pretty decent outside the whole eating people thing.

===Enemies===
Lady Argentum has a tendency to cause problems for the local Syndicates, but she isn’t a very big name and has yet to make their radar other than “that blade-wielding maniac in Redmond”.

'''WANTED TRACK: 2/6'''

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==
Nothing intentional, but when she Drains, it leaves a distinct pale mark on her victims. Since she does so by simply grabbing the face and squeezing until they die of blood loss or soul goo deprivation, this typically creates a ghastly white handprint.
==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult= Nothing substantial.
|MidResult= Some photo and video of a person in chain and plate roaming the Barrens.
|HighResult= One short video of someone matching the above description making short work of a known local racketeer. They move with alarming speed.
}}
==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult= Mmm, nothing much. She's a runner, that's all.
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult= Seems Lady Argentum is tied to ShadowHaven, and usually haunts Redmond.
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult= Rumored to be Infected. Proof of this not yet evident.
}}
==Assensing Table==

{{AssensingTable|
|Result1= Your target is Awakened, and burns with a fiery glow that causes you to wince at first glance. Ask for emotional state.
|Result2= Your target is a physical adept.
|Result3= Your target is Infected. Ask for current Essence.
|Result4= Your target is Magic 6. Ask for current Essence.
|Result5= Your target is a banshee.
}}

==SINs==
'''Sylvia Beauchȇne''' (R4 UCAS), hobbyist LARPer and participant of multiple local reenactor’s societies who also uses her fencing practice to further her career as personal security.
==Appearance==
Lady Argentum is a 6’2” elf, white as bone in basically every sense. Her skin is extremely pale, her hair is usually woven into a neatly-braided snowy bun, and her eyes are just a few blues shy of steel-grey.
While it’s usually hidden by her armor, she’s lean, well-built, and clearly in near-peak physical condition aside from looking a bit thin.
=== Clothing ===
Lady Argentum is typically in armor, finding it quite comfortable. She often wears a thick linen undershirt, opting for a chain shirt with additional more modern composite plates to cover her limbs and give a bit of extra protection to her vitals. Over all this, she owns a long white cloak with which to keep warm in Seattle’s chillier months.
While she prefers not to wear a helmet, she does have one styled like a classic greathelm with a hinged visor.

When not going about her knightly business, Lady Argentum (or Sylvia, as she insists you call her) usually keeps to the same attire, just minus the actual armor.
===Matrix Persona===
Lady Argentum has no idea how to change her Persona, so it's just her Ikon's default office lady, with a chronic tendency to glitch out in horrifying ways.

==Media Mentions==
None yet! The Knight of Silver Moon remains yet unknown to the press.
==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

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Phototaxis

2024-12-19T01:57:11Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
''Phototaxis'' - movement of an organism in response to sensing light. A moth to a flame, seeking something that will only cause pain. Isabel Montagne has taken a handle that fits her more than she has perhaps realized.

The runner using this handle is a woman of imposing presence who nonetheless assures that she poses no real threat. She is highly knowledgeable of magical phenomena, and is adept at calling suspiciously insectoid spirits to her side. She is also catty, possibly heartless, and doesn't take criticism well.

Regardless, her intelligence and utility seem to be worth the team's discomfort.


===Goals===

- Hunt down and kill Ada Mathers.

- Return to the site of West Gomorrah and see what has become of where she once called home.

- Find a way to bring the Invae under her will without losing herself to them.

- Die in such a manner that nobody will ever forget her again.

==Background==
Isabel Montagne was born in Detroit on March 4th, 2054, 30 years ago. Though, despite being in one of the better economic brackets, she suffered from an incurable case of "her parents were racist and wanted to ignore that their kid is a trog". At least she had the common decency to take after her father's Nordic ancestry.

Then, the comet passed, and everything changed. Her, most of all.

Ares Macrotechnology has a vested interest in Vhortas and the spirits which call it home. A changeling displaying insectoid traits isn't especially notable, but when it starts summoning spirits with a strong resemblance to Invae, that's when you feed the parents some line about qualifying for an internal project and give them a luxurious stipend to never speak of this child that they already tried to ignore as much as possible.

From the age of 12, Isabel would spend the next sixteen years embedded in West Gomorrah, a Midwest blacksite operating as part of Project: Pyro. These years, she spent under the care of one Ada Mathers, a senior researcher who was effectively her surrogate mother. Initially, she was led to believe she was to help research the bugs and find a way to control them. And, well... that's not ''in''accurate, it just left out the part where she'd eventually get strapped to a table.

It’s hard to count how many times Isabel was taken apart and put back together, just to see if they could glean anything new from one of their star specimens. Each time she woke, she could feel that something was different. Sometimes, parts were taken out, sometimes new ones put in. Probing variables to find a response. The process left her with a fear of the surgeon's knife and a network of scar tissue buildup that has possibly permanently impaired her ability to move.

Isabel grew cynical once she realized and internalized that nobody actually cared for her here. Despite Mrs. Mathers' words, Isabel suspected she was just doing this to keep her obedient. Once again, the woman felt she was denied of anything substantial. So, she schemed. Isabel knew she could not escape on her own, given her difficulties with mobility. Even when she was deployed to help quell smaller hives for practice, she was kept in the van, the driver's gun trained on her to ensure compliance.

An opportunity came when by some stroke of fate, poor tactics, or plain bad luck, a beetle soldier slipped past the main force of Pyro agents and Isabel's spirits during a routine nest clear out west. The driver was distracted by comms and keeping an eye on the (admittedly quite dangerous) giant in the back seat, and didn't quite catch the looming thing outside until it ripped the hinges off the door and pulled said driver apart. Isabel smirked, knowing fortune favored her this day, and recalled her chained beasts to dispatch the soldier, leaving the remainder of the team inside to their fates. After that, she simply walked away, vanishing into thin air as far as her corp was concerned.

Ares, naturally, did not take kindly to this, and has spent the past year and a half chasing her wherever she appeared for more than a few months, hoping to eliminate the one who got away. But… Isabel is not a fool, and she knows to keep moving. Thus, we bring her to Seattle, hiding somewhere more permanent over the winter, down in ash-choked Puyallup. And… well. Everyone has to make money somehow, right?

Isabel still holds the ideals she held when she joined the project, even after the perceived betrayals. She’s seen the organization among an invae hive, and envisions a world where metahumanity will never have to work again once we figure out how to trap invae within artificially-grown shells. Until her dreams can be realized, however, she will have to be content just taking potshots at the corporation she blames for a decade of pain.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
* College Education: Phototaxis is extremely well-read. Her specialization as a component of Project Pyro means her knowledge base is primarily related to invae, but frankly, ask her anything and she might know.
* Spirit Whisperer: For reasons still unknown to her, spirits seem rather eager to get close to her, even with her tendency towards callousness regarding them. It's an unnerving reoccurence, and at some point, she'll need to figure out why this is so.

===Negative===
* Addiction (Bliss): Isabel frequently turns to the substance in an attempt to escape the reality bent on ruining her.
* PSC Vindictive: She's on a hair trigger, frankly. Best not to antagonize, lest some poor fool discover the value of caution.
* Changeling: Phototaxis SURGEd into an insectoid form, which nets her a constant stream of suspicion (with everyone considering her Hostile at first meeting). Plus, obviously, the issues that innately come from being a cold-blooded, nocturnal, faintly glowing weirdo.
* Phobia (Tomophobia): Phototaxis has a near-crippling reaction to medical equipment and the thought of a surgical procedure.
* Prejudiced (Ares Macrotechnology): Phototaxis holds a lingering resentment for everyone associated with the company that betrayed her. She’s aware that most had nothing to do with what happened to her, but the red, white & blue spartan still evokes hateful memories.
* The Goat: Her appearance makes it easy to distrust her at first. Frankly, people should listen to their gut on this one.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}

==Affiliations==

Former ties to Ares Macrotechnology, more specifically Project: Pyro. These bridges have long since been burned.

===Contacts===

{{ContactTable|

{{HasContact|
|Name=Miss Onyx
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=John Baptise
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Johan Liebert
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Erika Bridger
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=His Beardliness Belegar son of Gotrek son of Thor
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Nerlithothep the Succubus
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hank
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=1
|}}

}}

===Organizations===


===Allies===
Phototaxis doesn't usually stay in one place long enough to make allies.

===Enemies===
Ares Macrotechnology, from her point of view. Whether or not there's an actual task force out there hunting her down specifically isn't clear to her.

===Vindictive Shit List===
* [[Stacy]], for dismissing her as a "tulpa wrangler", then calling her a "disgusting bug".
* [[Iron]], for repeatedly calling her a witch, disparaging magic as a whole as a scourge, and generally being kind of a bigot.

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult= Aside from the literal definition of the word "phototaxis", nothing.
|MidResult= Searches querying "insect changelings Seattle" yield some pictures taken of a huge moth-like woman lurking around Puyallup.
|HighResult= The above seem to be congregated in Hell's Kitchen in the vicinity of a local bar/BBQ joint called The Ashen Chalice.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult= No clue who this woman is.
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult= The handle "Phototaxis" rings some bells... just some runner linked to ShadowHaven.
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult= That handle belongs to a shaman that a few people are convinced is literally just a bug spirit hybrid form who's really good at Masking.
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1= Subject is injured. Subject is Awakened. Subject’s aura has a peculiar intensity to it that makes it difficult to glean anything useful.
|Result2= Cybernetic spinal implants present.
|Result3= No astral signatures present.
|Result4= Skeletal and neural bioware present. Essence 3.25, Magic 3.
|Result5= Gene treatments present. Subject is not a technomancer.
}}

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|Entomologist
|Phototaxis is fascinated by invae. She loves opportunities to study them and will happily make some very poor choices if it means she gets to study them more closely.
|
|-
|Arcane Anomaly
|Her aura burns bright, and her spirits are unusually empowered. Also, they call her various worrying names like Hivemaster and Mother and keep trying to probe her for information about Project: PYRO and the lab she spent her formative years at. Surely nothing to worry about.
|
|-
|Whistleblower
|Following her violent escapade from Ares custody, Phototaxis suspects her old employer wants her silenced lest she start leaking classified information. Whether there's ''actually'' a Firewatch squad hunting her down, she's not entirely sure, but she's elected to keep an eye out just in case.
|
|-
|Fort's Haunted
|Phototaxis recently leased a derelict glassware factory and is in the process of turning it into a combination safe house, laboratory, and murder dungeon. Unfortunately, it's derelict because the place got half-buried in molten glass a decade and a half ago and still has about twenty-two vitrified corpses inside, and numerous spirits, some of them hostile, keep showing up and trying to get a piece of that lingering emotional energy.
|
|-
|Aspect 5
|
|
|-
|}

==SINs==
Maria Merian (R4 UCAS). Conjurer living in Hell’s Kitchen, master's degree in entomology. Nonetheless unemployed by choice after a crisis of conscience.

==Appearance==
Phototaxis appears to be a three meter tall woman covered in charcoal black chitin and an underlying alabaster white dermis. Her hair is long and just as pale as her skin, while her eyes are an unnatural pale green with black sclera. Each of her four arms are densely plated, which seems to provide her some difficulty moving. Finally, soft tufts of white hair-like structure grow from a number of places where her dermis shows.
A faint silvery glow, like moonlight, seems to follow her everywhere, accompanied by a sickening scent like overripe fruit.
=== Clothing ===
Phototaxis is typically found in a long, bulky overcoat, the same shade of white as her dermis. It's possible she has more underneath it, but she seems to always wear it around.
===Matrix Persona===

She just uses a default Sony Emperor persona of an indistinct robed figure.

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

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