Christmas

Christmas

Archetype
Dr. Doolittle Drake (Mage Support / Off Face / Animal Handling)
Discord	@bright_morning_snow
Reddit	[1]
Metatype	Elf (Eastern Drake)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	6
D.O.B.	December 25, 2064
Age	20
Folder	[2]
Priority	Metatype - C Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - C Skills - C Resources - E
#Max IGs/Ascension	1

Character Information

Summary

Fresh off the freighter from Japan, a broke young elven mage with only a few off-scene runs to his name arrives in Seattle, sister in tow. He has a penchant for animals of all kinds, especially beast spirits, and they also like him.

Goals

• Send his sister Chiyo to college at her dream school, MIT&M. He’d like to go himself but knows that’s not likely. He has three years to save up enough to get a usable SIN for her and enough to cover her tuition and other costs for four years at a top-ranked university (she dreams of going to MIT&M)

• Get a better lifestyle for him and his sister and make a life for them in Seattle (with a backup life just in case)

• Get good at magic so he can hide and protect his sister

• Get good at running, especially hooding, so that he can survive while still helping others

• Learn who he is as a runner, and solve the puzzle of what the hermit Feizang said to him before helping him come to Seattle: "Your nature will show soon, and here is not the place for that to happen. When you find out, and you'll know what I mean, do not tell anyone. May we meet again some day. Fly free."

Background

Born in Japan as a Shiawase corporate SINner to two parents who were middle-management supporters of the Three Orchids (Empress Hitomi, Mitsuko Shiawase-Yamana, and Reiko Shiawase-Shimada). Hiro, his parents, and his kid sister lived a good life until Hitomi was forced out and her supporters removed, one way or another. It didn’t help that his family were Kanuki elves. Hiro’s father was framed for theft and told that it was assumed his whole family was in on the crime – they would be branded with criminal SINs, and the daughter sent to Yomi island unless he confessed and committed suicide. After his death, the rest of the family was let go, their corporate SIN revoked, bank accounts frozen, and evicted from their high-life home in Tokyo. Newly Awakened, Hiro was 18 and about to enter college.

Instead, he tried to support his family with his odd jobs. They squatted in an abandoned building next to the least popular portion of Meiji Jingu, a 172-acre forest surrounding a Shinto shrine.

Hiro would come to talk with an old hermit who lived in a secluded portion of the park, and Hiro befriended the various animals there. Eventually, the hermit taught Hiro how to perform magic according to the Red Magic tradition. He also told Hiro stories of ancient mighty dragons wielding terrible magics to protect the world against demons (but told him not to repeat them).

His mother died a year to the day after his father died. Hiro did milk runs and the occasional low-level run to support his sister and himself. He honed his skills for a year this way and had just started doing riskier runs, doing well until his luck ran out a month ago. Some ghoul go-gangers had cornered the siblings in a large alley, choosing them as their next meal. The outlook for the siblings looked bleak until Hiro transformed into an Eastern Drake. The ghouls ran, and Hiro went to the hermit with his sister. The hermit greeted Hiro, blinked, and smiled with great sadness. “I know. You must run now and tell no one what you are.”, he said.

The hermit called in a favor from Wuxing, and Fan Yang smuggled the siblings from Japan to Seattle on a sea freighter. They arrived recently in Seattle and will live on the street until he can get more runs from Fan Yang. He has only been on one run here, where he got the handle ‘Christmas.’ He got lucky with a cast of Analyze Device on a Decker’s deck, maxing the bonus. The drain hurt, but the boost was so good that Decker exclaimed, “This baby is working almost twice as well as it usually does. It must be Christmas.”

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• Animal Empathy - He likes animals, and they like him

• Spirit Affinity - Beast Spirits like him

• Jack of All Trades, Master of None - The past year has meant doing a little bit of everything to survive

• Laten Dracomorphosis (Eastern Drake) - Hiro doesn't know yet

• Magician (Red Mage) - He believes in the power that ties all living things

• Mentor Spirit (Moon reskinned as Tsuki no usagi, the Moon Rabbit) - He likes to talk first if he can.

• Focuses Concentration 2 - He's learned to place sustaining a spell on the back burner, but only low force ones for now

• History Is Not As Certain As We Are Taught - The hermit told him fabulous stories of something called the 4th world

Negative

• Dependent (Inconvenience) - His sister is 15 and lives with him, at least until she goes to school

• Lack of focus - he gets distracted by animals (Squirrel!)

• Prejudiced (specific, bias) - Shiawase - Shiwase messed over his family

• Social Stress (Shiawase) - he gets nervous around anyone from his old corp because they could be the ones responsible for his parent's death, and because they remind him of what he had

• Driven - He's determined to get his sister to a good college

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
You to You	Fangblade_		Medium	3 November 2085
Monster Mashing At The Daze	Dawnfire		Milkrun 🍼	28 October 2085
White Stone Black	Fangblade_		High	13 October 2085

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Fan Yang	6	1	Fixer	Wuxing Shipping Overseer	Shipping Overseer, Passenger Line, Triad Connections, A Hidden Place, High Society Production, Awakened Goods, Dockworkers, Work!	Even
Alias	5	2	Gear	SIN Forger	SIN Forger, Police Contacts, Disguise Enthusiast, Hacker, Infiltrator, College Educated	Even
Hideo Masamune	6	1	Custom(G,K,N,A)	Talismonger	Enchanter, Talismonger, Arcane Blacksmith, Moshi Moshi, Sushi Chef, Guardian Of Horrible Secrets, Tattoo Artist	Even

Organizations

Contact	Position	Connection	Faction Rep	Archetype	Health	Location

Allies

• None yet, beside his sister, but she doesn't run the shadows (as far as he knows)

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1
3
6

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	Recent SINless mage from Japan
3	Likes animals, often seen with one or more beast spirits
6	He is a Red Mage who supports his team loyally and prefers non-lethal methods of removing obstacles. He has a sister.

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Emotional state, awakened, health checkup
2	Mage - no ware
3	mag 6, essence 6 - you know relative to yours.
4	Accurate read above. Still no ware
5	He has an affinity for beast spirits.

Appearance

Clothing

Goodwill clothing, with an armor jacket over it. He will be getting better threads soon.

Matrix Persona

Default

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.

Aspect	Information	Related Run(s)
Aspect 1	Wanted	He's a drake, and ghoul go-gangers in Japan put out a reward
Aspect 2	Spirit Affinity	He loves beast spirits and they love him. Sometimes they ask him for favors.
Aspect 3	Lack of focus	He loves animals and can be the epitome of "Squirrel!"
Aspect 4	Fascination with magic	Especially old magic - he wants to know it all
Aspect 5	Ghouls, he doesn't like them	He's biased because of his past in Japan