Post by manbehindthecurtain on Jan 23, 2018 3:11:27 GMT
Character Name: Andrzej "Andre" Konstanty Laska ["Andrew Constantine Laska"]
Character Sex: Male
Character Age: 18
Character Race: Demigod (half-human)
Physical Appearance: Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes, Pale Skin, Typically wears a black hoodie and blue jeans
Character Aspects:
Defining Aspect: Actual Social Justice Warrior.
Ambition Aspect: Teach Others To Defend Themselves
Background Aspect: Son of a Fertility Goddess
Convictions Aspect: Stand Up For Yourself and for Others
Disadvantage Aspect: Too Pretty To Take Seriously
Abilities:
Physical - Agility 3, Endurance 3, Perception 2, Strength 2 = 10
Mental - Craft 1, Knowledge 2, Reasoning 2, Willpower 3 = 8
Social - Deception 0, Empathy 2, Persuasion 3, Resource 1 = 6
Psychic - Manipulative 0, Metabolic 3, Sensitive 0 = 3
Specialty Aspects:
Exceptional Skill - Artful Dodger (Agility)
Exceptional Skill - Classical Education (Knowledge)
Exceptional Skill - ABSOLUTELY Beautiful (Persuasion)
Foes - Bigots Of Every Stripe (Persuasion)
Inferior Skill - Can't Turn Off The Bishie Sparkles (Deception)
Advantage Points: 6+3 (-2 Refresh)
Power Advantages: 3+2=5 AP
Demigod: Son of Ziva, Goddess of Fertility (AP 2 + 1 "Novice")
Novice Mana (P) - Stress 5
Channeling AP 2 - 3 techniques/rotes:
Based on a more generic Psyche style, modified to use either Chi or Mana.
Attack: Ranged Attack - Blast
Power Beam: WR 0, DC 6 *
Defense (Persistent Protection): Aura
Power Armor: AR 2, DC 5
Maneuver: Enhancement (single-use +2 Strength)
Power Boost: DC 3
Expert Advantages: AP 4
Grappler & Hard Style 1 (trained in a martial art based on Pankration)
Linguist (Polish, Latin, Classical Greek)
Fearless
Equipment:
Comparative Mythology textbook
Used Laptop
Can of Pepper Spray
Makeup Kit
Flashlight
Facility:
Motorhome (+2 Resource)
History:
Mother: Živa, Slavic Goddess of Life and Fertility. .
Father: Benedykt Ignacy Laska, Teacher of history, classics, and martial arts. "Benedict Ignatius"
Ten months after he had had a rather enjoyable evening with a beautiful woman of the name Živa, a man named Benedykt Laska found a basket on his doorstep containing a baby and a note stating that he was the father. He named the child Andrzej ("Andre"), and raised the boy as best he could in Gdynia, a port city in the unstable ex-Warsaw-Pact nation of Poland. By these standards, Gdynia was actually relatively peaceful - the corrupt city government and the local gangs mostly kept things running....if not well, then at least mostly functional. It didn't hurt Andre that his father was a fairly respected Classics teacher whom had also taught a martial art based on the Classical Greek Pankration - the latter more useful than the former. Some of his father's students even became friends. All in all, a loving if slightly strict father, enough to eat, and safe enough for an elder martial artist and his son/pupil....although there was an awkward conversation with his father when Andre realized who and what his birth mother was. Then Andre hit puberty, became rather pretty as opposed to handsome....and started taking an interest in other teenage boys.
Being gay and pretty doesn't exactly endear him to the various formal and informal 'authorities', especially since he'd never learned 'discreet', AND had a tendency to get into fights with people who harassed not only him, but also others who were in similar situations or were otherwise shunned (whether they were gay, transgender, or Roma)...fights during which he had begun to inadvertently hit harrassers with magic as well as fists, which made things even worse. Andre soon found himself getting into more and more trouble, worrying his father more and more that one day someone would kill the son that he had more and more difficulty understanding. This became especially problematic after Andre had a....friendly....evening with another teenage boy, who happened to be the son of a fairly prominent local gangster. Said gangster took offense at the idea that his darling son had been seduced by a depraved *ciota*, and did not believe (or publicly refused to believe) the boy had been a willing participant. Benedykt immediately ignored Andre's pleas to let him stand up to the gangster and explain, and put his son on a smuggler's boat heading for Sweden, telling him to make for the US Embassy in Stockholm and mention distant cousins who lived in California. While in Stockholm, he was tracked down by a couple of agents of Psyche, following reports of a possibly too-open Polish Akira, who more-or-less explained to him the realities of the world and offered to help him come to America and train his abilities as well as being just a *little* more discreet.
He came to America not knowing whether or not his father or any of his friends in Poland were still alive, angry at those who hurt people because they were *different*. He resolved to refine his skills as a martial artist, explore his abilities, protect others and help them protect themselves, and one day go back to find his father and his birth mother. A mysterious gift of unknown orgin (though possibly from said mother?) afforded him an old camper van which serves as both Andres' transportation and his home.
Personality:
Andre's not shy or secretive in the slightest. He almost always starts by being friendly, and at least puts in an effort at being genuinely charming...although sometimes it doesn't take given his inability to hide how he really feels. Insults get met with insults (be they flowery classical references or vile torrents of street Polish), and if you hurt others - particularly him, his friends, or anyone who is ostracized or already down - you may be tossed into a wall or hit with what amounts to a hadoken.
Character Sex: Male
Character Age: 18
Character Race: Demigod (half-human)
Physical Appearance: Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes, Pale Skin, Typically wears a black hoodie and blue jeans
Character Aspects:
Defining Aspect: Actual Social Justice Warrior.
Ambition Aspect: Teach Others To Defend Themselves
Background Aspect: Son of a Fertility Goddess
Convictions Aspect: Stand Up For Yourself and for Others
Disadvantage Aspect: Too Pretty To Take Seriously
Abilities:
Physical - Agility 3, Endurance 3, Perception 2, Strength 2 = 10
Mental - Craft 1, Knowledge 2, Reasoning 2, Willpower 3 = 8
Social - Deception 0, Empathy 2, Persuasion 3, Resource 1 = 6
Psychic - Manipulative 0, Metabolic 3, Sensitive 0 = 3
Specialty Aspects:
Exceptional Skill - Artful Dodger (Agility)
Exceptional Skill - Classical Education (Knowledge)
Exceptional Skill - ABSOLUTELY Beautiful (Persuasion)
Foes - Bigots Of Every Stripe (Persuasion)
Inferior Skill - Can't Turn Off The Bishie Sparkles (Deception)
Advantage Points: 6+3 (-2 Refresh)
Power Advantages: 3+2=5 AP
Demigod: Son of Ziva, Goddess of Fertility (AP 2 + 1 "Novice")
Novice Mana (P) - Stress 5
Channeling AP 2 - 3 techniques/rotes:
Based on a more generic Psyche style, modified to use either Chi or Mana.
Attack: Ranged Attack - Blast
Power Beam: WR 0, DC 6 *
Defense (Persistent Protection): Aura
Power Armor: AR 2, DC 5
Maneuver: Enhancement (single-use +2 Strength)
Power Boost: DC 3
Expert Advantages: AP 4
Grappler & Hard Style 1 (trained in a martial art based on Pankration)
Linguist (Polish, Latin, Classical Greek)
Fearless
Equipment:
Comparative Mythology textbook
Used Laptop
Can of Pepper Spray
Makeup Kit
Flashlight
Facility:
Motorhome (+2 Resource)
History:
Mother: Živa, Slavic Goddess of Life and Fertility. .
Father: Benedykt Ignacy Laska, Teacher of history, classics, and martial arts. "Benedict Ignatius"
Ten months after he had had a rather enjoyable evening with a beautiful woman of the name Živa, a man named Benedykt Laska found a basket on his doorstep containing a baby and a note stating that he was the father. He named the child Andrzej ("Andre"), and raised the boy as best he could in Gdynia, a port city in the unstable ex-Warsaw-Pact nation of Poland. By these standards, Gdynia was actually relatively peaceful - the corrupt city government and the local gangs mostly kept things running....if not well, then at least mostly functional. It didn't hurt Andre that his father was a fairly respected Classics teacher whom had also taught a martial art based on the Classical Greek Pankration - the latter more useful than the former. Some of his father's students even became friends. All in all, a loving if slightly strict father, enough to eat, and safe enough for an elder martial artist and his son/pupil....although there was an awkward conversation with his father when Andre realized who and what his birth mother was. Then Andre hit puberty, became rather pretty as opposed to handsome....and started taking an interest in other teenage boys.
Being gay and pretty doesn't exactly endear him to the various formal and informal 'authorities', especially since he'd never learned 'discreet', AND had a tendency to get into fights with people who harassed not only him, but also others who were in similar situations or were otherwise shunned (whether they were gay, transgender, or Roma)...fights during which he had begun to inadvertently hit harrassers with magic as well as fists, which made things even worse. Andre soon found himself getting into more and more trouble, worrying his father more and more that one day someone would kill the son that he had more and more difficulty understanding. This became especially problematic after Andre had a....friendly....evening with another teenage boy, who happened to be the son of a fairly prominent local gangster. Said gangster took offense at the idea that his darling son had been seduced by a depraved *ciota*, and did not believe (or publicly refused to believe) the boy had been a willing participant. Benedykt immediately ignored Andre's pleas to let him stand up to the gangster and explain, and put his son on a smuggler's boat heading for Sweden, telling him to make for the US Embassy in Stockholm and mention distant cousins who lived in California. While in Stockholm, he was tracked down by a couple of agents of Psyche, following reports of a possibly too-open Polish Akira, who more-or-less explained to him the realities of the world and offered to help him come to America and train his abilities as well as being just a *little* more discreet.
He came to America not knowing whether or not his father or any of his friends in Poland were still alive, angry at those who hurt people because they were *different*. He resolved to refine his skills as a martial artist, explore his abilities, protect others and help them protect themselves, and one day go back to find his father and his birth mother. A mysterious gift of unknown orgin (though possibly from said mother?) afforded him an old camper van which serves as both Andres' transportation and his home.
Personality:
Andre's not shy or secretive in the slightest. He almost always starts by being friendly, and at least puts in an effort at being genuinely charming...although sometimes it doesn't take given his inability to hide how he really feels. Insults get met with insults (be they flowery classical references or vile torrents of street Polish), and if you hurt others - particularly him, his friends, or anyone who is ostracized or already down - you may be tossed into a wall or hit with what amounts to a hadoken.
