Hysteria

Hysteria

Mind-Shattering Sorceress
"The self, the inner enigma that every living being spends the entirety of their existence attempting to unravel. Some find the illusion of satisfaction with age, others shelter their feeble minds with dogma and religion, most die never finding a satisfying answer. The brave few shatter the thin glass of identity and exist as fragments, pieces of a greater, unknowable whole that can never be truly understood. For that is the true depth of the soul..."
Discord	lheisse
Reddit	Competitive_Snow1989
Wiki User	Juice
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	8
Folder	[Drive URL Link]
Priority	Metatype - D Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - C Skills - A Resources - E
#Max IGs/Ascension	1

Character Information

Summary

Hysteria is a specter that haunts Seattle, a walking mystery and enigma whose intentions and identity remain inscrutable. What is clear, however, is their power over perception and the mind. Hysteria, as their name implies, is capable of altering the perceptions, thoughts, emotions, and actions of people with their sorcerous power. When they are near, nothing is to be trusted, not even one's own thoughts. They constantly keep their identity concealed, employing several layers of defense against detection. Illusions, technology, magic. If all those fail, their last lines of defense are to either kill whoever ascertains their identity or worm their way into their mind and leech the memory from their mind. While most mages concern themselves with flashy powers and dangerous spirits, Hysteria wields powers that are as insidious as they are potent, infiltrating the minds of their enemies before they even realize they are their enemies. Hysteria will stop at nothing to ensure the Black Lodge's will be done, shifting through identities as easily as a mundane changes outfits, all for the purpose of their inscrutable schemes.

Goals

• Manipulate mundane society from the shadows
• Achieve a society that holds awakened above mundanes
• Rise within the ranks of the Black Lodge
• Enlightened the awakened of Seattle with the "truth"
• Maintain complete anonymity

Background

Before Hysteria submerged herself in the depths of their multifarious identities, they were once a she. A young human girl living in the slums of Pallyup. Her frail body left her unfit to survival within the devastated streets of the impoverished district and, to make things worse, racial tensions made the streets even more unsafe for her. In the rugged streets, crime pays, and her parents and siblings were all to eager to follow in the family business of organized crime, joining gangs and making their daily bread with violence and force. Naturally, the frail girl stood out as the family runt, and she endured a childhood of shame and abuse at the hands of her mother and siblings. She raised on the principal that she was weak, inferior, and worthless, simply a burden. So... the young girl dreamt of being other people. She dreamt of being a pop star, a corpo big wig, a scary Lone Star officer. Alas, she could not escape her life as it was, and for years she endured, her festering rage and resentment building within her. This would all erupt one fateful day when her eldest brother decided to kick her around for fun. For once in her life, the girl decided that she was done begging, through with pleading. The girl stood and demanded her brother stop. Suddenly... he froze. He was paralyzed, much to both of their suprise. Not content to stop their, the girl let her hatred consume her. She ordered her brother to take out his knife, and, while her siblings watched on with fear and horror, her brother was soon on the floor, bleeding out. This singular moment of control, of catharsis unlike any other overwhelmed her. Her other siblings made the stupid decision to draw their weapons. They only succeeded in hastening their own doom as those weapons were soon made to turn on their weilders. The girl left behind the corpse of her former life, and lived as a vagabond, exploring her newfound powers. She would flit from tradition to tradition, searching for something that could satisfy her spirit, something she could resonate with. But in each tradition, she only found a cage. The hermetics caged by logic, the spiritualists and zealots caged by dogma, and the shamans caged by superstition. She would not bind herself to any of these comfortable ideologies, but rather she would explore the depths of her magic alone. With raw willpower and ego, she would bring magic to heel, not through logic, dogma, or superstition, but through her own insular might as a magician. When she made this discovery, that magic is not caged by the rules of tradition and the fickle frameworks of modern mages, she caught the attention of something... something ancient. They came to her in dreams, whispering to her dark truths, showing her everything she could be. All those dreams where she envisioned herself powerful, in control, feared, loved... they were all her, and she was all them. She had that power, and she was meant for something far greater than rotting in a slum, wasting her talents like so many others. She had gleaned a truth, the most basic and rudimentary truth, but one that most mages are blind to. She had proven herself worthy of their attention, but now... she had to keep it. And so... the girl sunk into the darkness of her psyche, lead into the depths by a dark hand, leaving behind all she thought she was. What emerged was Hysteria, a shadow, one that flickered, growing and shrinking, warping and changing. She was reborn, the perfect tool for her hidden masters. She was now what she always wanted to be: everything she never was.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Negative

• Faceless
• Prejudiced (Radical against Mundanes)
• Driven (Bringing about Awakened supremacy)

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Downstream Liability	Speckgespenst		Medium	5 August 2086
Bonesaw Opera	Asmodeus		Medium	28 June 2086
Shopping Spree	Xaytan		Medium	23 March 2086
Reds & Compressors	Asmodeus		Medium	2 March 2086

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In Character Information

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Character Plot Hooks

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