So here's some stuff about Tig. Some of it may still be subject to changes. It's not all done yet, I'm still working on quite a few things with AStarshipforAnts regarding a shared background. Most of the stuff regarding the twins involvement is still in development. I will edit additional stuff in from time to time.
I really like working on that char
Name: Tiger / "Tig"
Date of Birth: May 4th 2050
Metatype: Elf
Sex: Male
Description:
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At about 6’5” Tig stands quite tall. Like most elves he has a slender frame. Though he doesn’t have much in the way of raw strength, his body is toned and shaped, suggesting well above average fitness.
His skin is the first thing that immediatly catches a viewers attention. A strong reddish-yellow skin tone with horizontal black stripes all over gives the impression of a bengal tiger.
But what really shocks most unprepared onlookers is the tail. Colored the same as his skin, the furry tiger tail extends over a meter and is constantly in motion, balancing Tigs movement at every step. Because that tends to freak out strangers even more than the skin he often hides it by keeping it along his leg inside his pants.
He has bright blond hair he usually keeps in a short and trendy style. Sticking out of his hair are two cat ears, unconsciously turning and twitching to catch sounds.
His face has sharply cut features, high cheekbones and a thin nose.
His eyes invoke the impression of a predator, showing bright green irises in the typical slit shape of a cat.
In public, Tig hides his features most of the time. Usually he’s wearing a narrowly cut light brown leather jacket over a tight-fitting black hooded sweatshirt, always keeping the hood over his head. A low-cut jeans, a belt with a bronze buckle and boots usually complete his outfit. He normally wears gloves and sometimes even a scarf to hide the lower half of his face.
He often wears orange Sunglasses to hide the strange nature of his eyes should someone get a look under the hood.
Background History:
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The elf who would later be known as Tig was born in 2050, in Hollywood Hospital in Redmond, Seattle. His mother was a young SINless woman who left the hospital shortly after giving birth, not even bothering to give her kid a name. The personal information she gave the administering nurse turned out to be fabricated and she said nothing about the father. To this day, her motives remain as unknown as her identity.
The Hospital gave the baby a name, Ray Winters, and turned it over to a state-run orphanage in Auburn, St. Bernhadine’s Home for Children.
There Ray spent the first 8 years of his live. Despite growing up in a small run-down orphanage that was constantly short on money, Ray was a happy, optimistic child although he sometimes had problems bonding with the other kids, who found him a little odd.
Ray could be fascinated by the strangest things, but it never lastet long, there was always something new and interesting. One day he would be watching a street of ants on the wall for hours, just to spend the whole next day following around one of the other kids studying it’s every move. When called on his strange behaviour he showed such honest curiousity and interest, coupled with a complete lack of understanding why anyone would be mad at him for what he did, that he never got punished severely.
For Ray the world was an adventure in an adventure in an adventure. There was so much to see, to learn, to experience that he could seldom focus on any single thing for extensive amounts of time. But when he studied something, although only for a couple of days or a few weeks at most before something even more interesting catched his attention, he was intense, focussing all of his attention on the subject.
Ray possessed a deep desire to improve himself. Maybe it came from the fact that he blamed his own shortcomings for the fact that his mother left him in the hospital or maybe it just was a born character trait of him, but he was a perfectionist in regard to himself, though he did not seem to hold others to the same standard.
At the age of 5 he was sent to elementary school. The orphanage used what little money they had to get their proteges in a school, so they had at least a small chance of becoming something. Ray was ecstatic. He could finally learn something real about the things that always interested him. He was quickly famous among the teachers who were both appreciative of his curiosity and frustrated because he only learned things on his own terms. Often he was punished for not doing his homework because he felt that experimenting with fire and different flammable materials was more interesting to him that day than doing subtraction for math class, or he would rather watch a trid show about the lifecycle of the european wildcat instead of learning english grammar like he was supposed to.
The combination of a strong will, a need for independence and a desire to do things perfectly in his chosen fields produced a pupil that was very difficult for the teachers to handle.
In ’58, when Ray was 8 years old, an agent of Universal Omnitech visited the school, on a routine scouting trip to find promising progeny for the corporation. Like all students Ray was interviewed. His answers, a little odd but very knowledgable for his age, piqued the corporate man’s interest and he brought Ray in for an assessment center. There Ray was, among othe things, assensed, and the mage doing it noticed a strong untapped magical potential in the boy.
Universal Omnitech did not hesitate and took the boy out of elementary school and into a training program for awakened kids, designed to create magicians loyal to the corporation.
Ray was a little scared to leave his familiar surroundings, the people and places he had known at the orphanage and the school. But like always, he was excited to go on to a new adventure, more interesting than anything he had done so far. The magical progeny program had his own campus as part of a large Universal Omnitech office complex.in Downtown Seattle, where Ray lived from now on.
He was thoroughly tested to determine.his magical areas of competence. He showed a strong talent in combat-related spells so he was specifically trained in these areas to prepare him for a possible use in magical security.
Ray loved the new world of magic that opened up to him. It was the first thing in his life that did not become less and less interesting as time went on. Each day there new wonders and adventures to find. He realized that he had found his passion, the one thing on which he could focus all his energy , the one thing in which he wanted to be absolutely perfect. He focused intensly on his studies, suprising the teachers with unusually quick learning for a boy his age.
In the beginning Ray had a few problems, because he did not get along with the hermetic tradition very well. It was to rigid and serialized for his intuitive and spontaneous mind. He had his own thoughts and theories about the nature of magic, and as always, his take on things was unique and very much different from anything commonly taught..
Fortunately the teachers had experience with students of all traditions and they worked with him to show him a way to use his magic on his own terms, realizing that he could only tap into his full potential if he was comfortable using his magic.
With their help, he developed his own path of magic, using it in a way that was very different from traditional methods.
Seven years went by and the boy became a teenager. His oddness had diminished now that he had found his life purpose and did not feel lost anymore, and he had become relaxed, easy-going and friendly. He had a lot of friends among his fellow students, thoug none of them were very deep friendships. The teachers left the boys a lot of freedom in their studies to let them realize their own areas of competence. He did feel a bit uneasy regarding the constant preaching of Universal Omnitech’s glory, presenting the students with the image of a world-changing, life-saving corporation that had only the well-being of humanity at heart. His independent mind disliked the obvious manipulation. But he deemed it a small price to pay for the ability to pursue his calling, magic.
All was good, and Ray was content. He thought he was finally where he was supposed to be in life.
But things changed drastically. In ’65, shortly after Ray’s 15th birthday, an unexpected spike in manalevels occurred in Downtown Seattle. On the grand scale of things it didn’t do much, except setting of a few wards and disrupting the process of a couple of magical rituals. But for Ray it marked the day that would shape the rest of his life. The change in manalevels triggered SURGE in him, Sudden Recessive Genetic Expression.
When he did not show up for class, a fellow student who went looking for him found Ray’s room looking like a battlefield. It seems Ray, who was now lying as a crumpled heap on the carpet, had trashed around violently in some sort of seizure, destroying a lot of the furniture. If the thing lying in a pool of blood in the middle of the room was in fact Ray. It had the same athletic body and sharply-cut facial features, but that were about all of the similarities. Instead of Ray’s light-brown skin there was a reddish-yellow one, covered with horizontal black stripes in a pattern not unlike a tiger. At that wasn’t the only thing that made him look like a member of the big cat family. His formerly blue eyes now shone in green light and the iris had the trademark slit form of a cat. Among his blonde hair two cat ears had grown, unconsciously twitching and turning to catch sounds even as he lay unsoncious on the ground. Finally and maybe the most disturbing of all, a furry. tiger-patterned tail, about 130 cm in length extended from the base of the spine.
The student who found him was quickly mind wiped, while Ray was insolated in medical care, going through all sorts of tests and experiments to determine what had changed.
The doctors were suprised that the transformation had had mainly positive effects on Ray’s Body, increasing his physical and mental capabilities. In fact the improvement was so remarkable that Universal Omnitech was determined to extract the genes responsible for it, wanting to recreate them for use in genetic engineering. They needed to do extensive amounts of genetic testing and experiments on him, that would confine him to a lab for years to come, not being allowed to go outside for fear of contaminating the results.
Ray accidentally overheard that fact from a conversation that docotrs had in front if him while they thought him sleeping. He was in shock. First there was the painful and traumatic change in his body and now the corporation he had lived in for the last seven years wanted to make him a lab rat, a test subject to be imprisoned for an indeterminate amount of time. Of course the strong-willed teenager would not let that happen to him without a fight. He would not let them cage him in like the animals he now resembled.
Once he was able to walk again he tried to escape the medical facility, using his magic, that had become quite strong in the years of training, to shroud himself in a concealing cloak of mana and levitate out a window.
Unfortunately for him, Universal Omnitech of course had security mages and bound spirits on guard, quickly catching the young elf before he could get more than few hundred feet from the building.
Realizing that Ray would never willingly submit to being lab rat for experiments, the corporation decided that his agreement to the procedures was not necessary.
He was restrained and brought into a secret underground facility, where Universal omnitech was experimenting with cloning and genetic engineering.
His SIN was marked as dead, allegedly having died in magical accident during his studies. Since he underwent SURGE his biometric data did not fit the SIN anymore so there was no way the new tiger-like Ray could be connected to Ray Winters, the aspiring magician.
Sitting in his barren cell that had become his home, staring at the empty wall the teenager realized that Ray was, truly and for all purposes, dead. Everything from his old life was gone. He decided he would get out of this prison one day, and he would build a new life. For that he gave himself a new name. Looking at his new body, he decided to accept the change instead of loathing it and chose the name Tiger, which he shortened to the nickname Tig when talking to himself, like he often did to ease the loneliness.
As the months went by Tig found it harder and harder to keep up his spirit, his hope for freedom, as he was draggend from from one experiment to the next, from test to test to test.
He tried to resist, to flee or to fight a lot of times, but it never got him anywhere and at some point he stopped trying. He knew he had to wait for an opportunity.
Over two-and-a-half years later, during the year 2068 something happened that made his imprisonment slightly more bearable. Wenn he was braught into a testing lab room for one of the many experiments they did every day on him, he met another prisoner. Apparently somthing (or someone) had caused a mix-up in the testing schedules, with led to both prisoners’ tests being scheduled in the same room at the same time. (He didn’t know it yet but it was, of course, caused by the technomancer twin, Nosh)
He did not have the time to make more than short eye contact with his fellow inmate, a good-looking girl about his age with mediterranean features. But it gave him the feeling of not being totally alone.
Later that day he got the scare of his life when, lying in his cell, out of nothingness he was adressed by a girl’s voice, asking for his name. After the first shock he realized someone was talking to him through the hidden microphones in the walls normally used for surveillance.
At first he was cautious, suspecting some devious scheme or further experiment by his jailers.
But through conversation he came to see that the voice from the walls belonged to same girl prisoner he had met a few days earlier. She told him that her little friend, a little green dragon, had created this connection to him for her. She also seemed a bit strange, talking about lthe world outside the facility as if she had never been there and like it was some mystical place full of wonder and amazement.
Tig thought at first that she had gone crazy due to her imprisonment but after all the strange things that had already happened in his life, why worry about that.
After a few days, the girl introduced him to her friend, the little green dragon, and it actually spoke to him. It told him that it knew him and he was destined for more than to rot away in this prison.
From now on he talked regularly with the girl and sometimes with the little green dragon and their forming friendship helped him get through the next months in this horrible place. He learned that she actually had been in this facility her whole life and had never seen the outside world.
A few days later something markedly different from the usual day-to-day drudgery happened. Instead of guards coming to bring him to some experiment, the cell door opened on it’s own. Then the little green dragon’s voice came once again from the walls. “It is time to leave, Tig. You have to go and come find us. Enter the astral plane, where my brother will wait to help you.”
Stunned, Tig followed the dragon’s instructions. He wondered how somone could possibly help him on the astral, since his cell was build over a pocket of very strong background count to keep him from using his talents. But when he switched to the astral plane he saw an astral form, a dusky-skinned young boy with violet eyes and braided black hair. Amazed he watched as the background count of the anti-magic zone just vanished as the boy passed by it.
The mysterious boy looked at him and smiles. “Hello Tig. My sister has told me much about you. It is time to leave, using your magic to hide yourself and follow me. I will see that noone will disrupt your spell.”
With that he turned and slowly hovered along the corridor. Utterly confused, Tig switched back to the meat world and followed him using astral perception. Following the boy’s instruction he shrouded himself in a sheet of mana to make him invisible to living eyes and cameras both.
The boy kept his promise and somehow kept the magical security measures from detecting him. Tig couldn’t believe it as he passed bound spirits and experienced security mages without them noticing anything.
Tig did not want to leave without the imprisoned girl that had kept him company for almost two years now. But the boy just smiled againand said: “It’s not her time yet. Sis already has a plan for her escape and you will help. But now we need to get you out first.”
Since everything the dragon, who apparently seemed to be the boy’s sister, and the boy had said had been true so far, Tig trusted in his words.
They left the underground facility with an ease that was almost frightening to the young elf mage.
On the outside Tig knew that he couldn’t touch anything connected to his old lfe. It hurt to let his old friends continue to believe he was dead but he feared that Oniversal Omnitech would find out if he contacted them.
So he build a new life on his own, earning his money through mostly through illegal shadow work so he did not leave a data trail that could be picked up by Universal Omnitech.
Over the course of his first year he was repeatedly visited by the boy who appeared on the astral plane, but he also saw the dragon for the first when it appeared on his commlink.
In 2069 he and the Twins broke out the girl prisoner out of Universal Omnitechs facility, and helped her acclimate to the outside world that was totally new to her.
But the twins told him they were prisoners themselves. Of course Tig wanted to help them break out immediatly, but they said that some preparations were being made and they would to have to wait a while.
37 Questions:
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Where was the character born (City, State, Hospital Name)?
Seattle, UCAS, Redmond Hollywood Hospital.
What is the characters date of birth?
May 4th, 2050
What was the character's family life like?
His mother left him in the hospital after birth. The hospital gave him to an orphanage, St. Bernhadine’s Home for Children, where he grew up for the first 8 years of his life.
Has the character begun his own family?
Tig is way to light-headed to start a family right now. He wouldn't want the responsibility.
Where or how was the character educated?
He spent a couple of years in elementary school, before his awakening magical talent was discovered by a corporate agent.. He then spent seven years in a magical training program that evaluated his talents and trained him according to his strengths.
He continued his education on his own after escaping from Universal Omnitech’s secret underground facility.
Has the character ever done anything else for a living?
He never held a real job for any considerable amount of time. While he was in the corp they paid for anything, and after his imprisonment and subsequent escape he mostly earns his money through illegal shadowy stuff, since he can’t risk legal employment, out of fear that Universal Omnitech might find him.
What are the characters political and religious beliefs?
He doesn’t care much about politics. He neglected that field in his studies and doesn’t know much about it.
Describe the characters Moral code.
Tig is a friendly guy and tries to avoid fights if possible. If engaged he will try to disable instead of kill. But if it becomes necessessary to save his life or the life of someone he loves he can act with extreme violence and determination.
Tig can be very hotheaded and sometimes uses to much force when angry.
What are the character’s goals?
Tig’s main goal is to lead an interesting and fulfilling live together with poeple he loves and trusts. He also want’s to help the twins solve the mystery of their past, since he feels strongly connected to them and sees himself as their older brother.
Why does the character run the shadows?
Since he’s on the run from Univeral Omnitech and does not have a SIN he cannot take a regular legal job. He also likes the sense of adventure and the challenge that running the shadows provides.
What kind of personality does your character have?
Tig is an easy-going relaxed person who loves to have a good time. He is friendly and likes to help people.
He is a bit light-headed and tends to forget stuff and bring himself and other people into bizarre situations.
Unfortunately he also is bit hot-headed and sometimes his temper flares up.
What special qualities does the character possess?
He is a magician of his own tradition (a warlock).
Are their certain things the character can't or won't do?
He will not put another being into slavery or let that happen in his presence. He will not abide needless cruelty or torture. He will not let a woman be sexually harrassed or violated.
What things, people, or ideas does the character hate?
Tig hates people who form prejudices based on outside appearance. Due to his looks people often assume the craziest things about him, and he has often been hurt by their attitudes.
He now reacts with strong sarcasm and cynicism to people who make assumptions of any kind based on outside appearances.
Due to that he of course also hates any ideology or world view that is based on such prejudices.
What things, people, or ideas does the character love?
Tig loves the twins, J.D., good music, good food and the ideas of freedom and independence
What is the character's name?
Due to lack of ID, the orphanage who took him in gave him a name at random, calling him n Ray Winters.
Later after SURGE changed him so drastically, he decided on the name Tiger, for obvious reasons. Most of the time he shortens it to Tig.
Come up with a reason for why the character became a shadowrunner.
Since he’s on the run from Univeral Omnitech and does not have a SIN he cannot take a regular legal job. He also likes the sense of adventure and the challenge that running the shadows provides.
Does the character have a SIN? Does the character actually use it? Or is the character one of the SINless masses? This may be affected by the characters previous employment.
Due to lack of ID, the orphanage who took him in gave him a name at random, calling him n Ray Winters. Universal Omnitech gave him a SIN on that name. The SIN is no longer valid since it is flagged as dead and after SURGE his biometric data doesn’t match the SIN anymore
Is the character a full-time runner? Or does the character lead a Batman-like double existence?
He doesn’t really lead a double-existance, but he does do other things besides running the shadows, from small-time crime to occasional work as magical bodyguard or advisor.
What do you think is your characters best quality?
Tig is verly laid-back, tolerant und free-thinking. As long as you hurt noone he will generally accept other people’s behavior. (Of course he might make some mean ironic jokes about it, but hey, nobody’s perfect.)
What do you think is your characters worst quality?
Tig can be very light-headed and that tends to bring him and the people around him in all kinds of problematic situations.
What is the Characters current relationship with his family?
Tig doesn’t know anything about his real family. He has often tried to find out something about his real parents, but since he has no lead at all he hasn’t been able to get anywhere.
If the characters family is still alive, what do they do, and where do they live?
He doesn’t know.
Where did the character learn his Skills?
Mainly in a Universal Omnitech magical training program, but also quite a bit self-taught.
Does the character have a good luck charm? What is it, and why?
He doesn’t. Tig believies in himself and his own poer, not good-luck charms.
What type of music does the character like?
Tig likes relaxed music that makes him feel good, mainly jamaican reggae and ska.
Where does your character live? Why does he live there?
He lives in small apartment in the Redmond Barrens. He lives there because he doesn’t have much money and in the Barrens, nobody cares much that he runs around covering his face all day. He also has the least chance of running into Universal Omnitech people there
First-Person questions:
Which person(s) or group(s) do you love the most?
I have a strong connection to the twins. They are family to me. J.D. too. We went through a lot together.
Which person(s) or group(s) do you hate the most?
Universal Omnitech for imprisoning me and J.D. and doing fucked-up experiments on us.
Which person(s) or group(s) do you respect the most?
The twins, they are something special.
Which person(s) or group(s) do you fear the most?
Universal Omnitech, they are out to get me.
What is your favourite colour?
Red. It's the color of the inner fire that burns in everyone. Most people are to jaded to feel it of course.
What is your favourite food and/or drink?
I love chili and a nice cold beer with it.
What place would you most like to visit?
I’d like to see the rainforests some day.
Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?
The twins and J.D.
What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment?
Drinking a cold beer while listening to some jamaican reggae and talking to a friend.
What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?
I don’t do stuff I don’t enjoy in my free time. What would be the point of that?
Timeline:
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2050: Tig is born in Hollywood Hospital, Redmond, Seattle by an unknown SINless woman and is turned over to a state-run orphanage because she leaves him there after the birth.
2055: Tig joins elementary school
2058: Tig awakens and is discovered by an agent of Universal Omnitech, which leads to him being taken out of elementary school and brought into a corporate training program to educate awakened kids.
2064: 2nd Crash
2065: The 15 year old Tig SURGEs. The Universal Omnitech scientists notice a measurable improvent in his mental and physical attributes after the change and want to do intensive experimenting on him to be able to replicate the responsible genes for purposes of genetic engineering. The teenager refuses to be a lab rat and tries to flee. Universal Omnitech arrests him and puts him into a secret underground facility to proceed with it’s experiments. His SIN is flagged as dead, Tig allegedly having died in a magical accident.
2068: Tig, through the work of the twins, makes contact with another prisoner, J.D., who, unknown to him, is a clone created in this facility.
Later that year, Tig escapes with the help of the twins.
2069: The Twins and Tig help J.D. escape from Universal Omnitech’s underground facility
2070: Tig starts working shady jobs at first out of need for money, but he develops a taste for the excitement.
2071: Tigs gets deeper and deeper into the shadows as he takes more challenging work.
Word on the Street:
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Razzor, Ganger:
Tig? Yeah I know that guy. Lives near our turf. He’s all kinds of strange. Always wears a hood and gloves so I don’t get a good look at him. What little you can see from his face has a really strange color, man. Kinda light orange, some black is there too. Probably a tatto. Looks a bit like tiger skin you know. Maybe he’s one of those furry guys, you know the kind that does it with animals. But don’t tell him I said that. I heard he’s a spellslinger and I don't want no trouble with one of those. Especially not Tig, he gets kinda scary when he’s angry.
Eddie, Barkeeper:
He’s in here now and then. Mostly to buy alcohol. He always takes it home, in pretty large amounts. Seems to party a lot, but never here in the bar. Always keeps his hood on. Seems he's got something to hide, but what do I care. He always pays and never starts trouble. That’s all I need to know.
Iggi, Club-Monkey
Tig’s one awesome guy, dude. You ever been to one of his parties? Sometimes he invites a few people and they chill out. It's not your average party, none of that jacked up crazy shit. It's a place to hang out, calm your spirits, and just feel good. More jamaican reggae and weed instead of hectic synth shit, if you understand what I mean. You only get in if someone can vouch for you. I was lucky, I knew a guy who knew a guy. It’s all pretty secretive. I heard Tig’s always wearing a mask at his parties, noone knows what he looks like. And he did when I was there. Personally I think the guy just wants to seem mysterious, I bet he looks totally normal.
Romano, Fixer:
I’ve heard of Tig. If you need a mojo-man, he’s your guy. Supposed to be pretty good. A bit off a freak supposedly, but show me one of those magic types that isn’t.
Heard he sometimes partners up with that courier, J.D. Word on the street is, if you give these two something they’ll get it anywhere you want.
Rita, retired Secretary:
Of course I know him. He’s that sweet young man living next door. I’m so glad he moved in here. He always greets politely and he helps me carry my shopping bags up the stairs since the elevator broke. He’s a really good guy and I’m happy to see there are still people like him in this world. But I think the poor kid has some scar or deformity he is ashamed of. He never takes that hood off.
Silvio, Mob Enforcer:
Si, I’ve met him. The boss hired him once as magical backup. You don’t wanna fuck with that one. He got some problem with Francesco that evening, and the next thing I see is him looking at Francesco, and I swear, even though I couldn’t really see his face because he always wears that hood over his head, it was like the light was being reflected from his eyes, they seemed to glow. Then Francesco started bleeding everywhere, from the ears, the eyes, the mouth. It was brutal. The poor guy almost died, took him weeks to fully recover.
Contacts
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Ichigami Sakura
Metatype: Human
Sex: Female
Age: 26
Occupation: Talismonger
Currently Located: Seattle, Redmond (Touristville)
Awakened: Yes, a miko (female follower of the Shinto tradition), specialized on creating and enchanting foci, fetishes and other magical goods.
Description:
Sakura is a young japanese woman, with long black hair und brown eyes. Like most asians, she has a slender and delicate frame. She prefers to dress in traditional japanese clothing, mostly kimonos of various styles and colors.
Personality:
Sakura is reserved and polite in her dealings with strangers. She is also a very quiet person and dislikes people who talk excessively.
She is intelligent and often very insightful when asked for her opinion on a problem.
The Shinto religion takes a very high place in her world and she follows the shinto rituals meant to cleanse body and mind acutely and regularly.
History.
Sakura was born to a family that still upheld the old japanese traditions. Her parents died soon after her birth in a car accident and her grandmother took care of her. From her she was also introduced to the world of the kami when her magical talent showed, following the way of the Shinto tradition like her grandmother.
After she finished school, she decided to make her talent her calling and opened up her own small talismonger shop, where she used her magic to create and enchant magical goods.
Sphere of Influence:
Her shop is mostly known in Seattle circles connected to any kind of shamanic tradition. She is interested in all traditions that share similar goals and ideas with her shinto tradition, so she often socializes with traditional shamans as well as druids and followers of the aboriginal or nahualli traditions.
Connection to Tig:
After escaping the Oniversal Omnitech facility Tig is constantly working on improving his magical abilities. He needed contact to the magic community to do that but he had to be careful not to be noticed by his enemies. So he was looking for magic-users who were not interested in corporate politics and reward money.
He heard a lot of good things about Sakura so he cautiosly got in contact with her. Since then he has done business with her a few times and so far she seems to be trustworthy and competent. Though he isn’t a shaman and has his own way of practicing magic, he follows a concept he calls “the inner fire” and he and Sakura discovered quite a few similarities between their views of the world.
Important NPCs (WIP, More to come)
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Andrew Greyson
Metatype: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 50
Occupation: Orphanage director
Currently located: Seattle, Auburn
Awakened: No
Description:
Andrew is a human of average size, with a sturdy build. In recent years he has developed a little belly but it is clearly visible that there are some muscles under the fat. His brown hair, sharing it’s color with his eyes, has become gray at the temples.
He has a quiet and strong air about him and is very charismatic.
Most of the time he wears cord suits, tie inclusive and somehow he manages to not look ridicoulus in them.
History:
Born to a middle-class family in Renton, Andrew had a very normal childhood. He graduated high-school with average scores and, following his altruistic nature, became a state-epmloyed social worker.
He spent his days on the streets, trying to help people hat often didn’t want help no matter how much they needed it. What affected him the most during that time was the fate of the kids. He saw mothers sell their kids out to strangers to be able to buy their next hit, he saw fathers physically and sexually abusing their children, he saw all kinds of nasty stuff that imprinted itself in his mind. He couldn’t bear to see those kids being dragged into a swamp of misery without a chance of escape. He wanted to make a difference.
So, at the age of 29, he decided to build a home for street children. Through his connections in the government he manged to get approval for his petition of a state-founded orphanage, and two years later, St. Bernhadine’s Home for Children opened up, with Andrew as director. He’s had this job for over 20 years now and he still sees it as his calling.
Personality:
Andrew is something that is very rare, a truly kind and altruistic person with a strong sense of justice. He treats his proteges with respect and kindness, but also sows a firm hand when necessary. In his orphanage physical punishment is not tolerated and he is very well liked by the children.
He is politically active and is always trying to improve his government connection network to get his orphanage the funds it needs (but of course he never get’s enough).
He is a christitan with strong beliefs but is very tolerant and never preaches to the kids, preferring to lead by example rather than words.
Connection to Tig:
Andrew Greyson is the director of the orphanage in which Tig spend the first 8 years of his life. He took a liking to young boy, often talking with him for hours about every topic imaginable. He became a father figure and a mentor to Tig. They stayed in contact after Tig left the orphanage for Universal Omnitechs training program for awakened kids.
Andrew Greyson thinks Tig died in a magical accident, since that is the official story stated by Universal Omnitech.
Tig really wants to contact him and tell him that he’s still alive but it would be too dangerous, since Oniversal Omnitech knows about Tig’s past, including his connection to Andrew, and could possibly have surveillance on the orphanage director.
Elizabeth Stenton
Metatype: Ork
Sex: Female
Age: 22
Occupation: Magical Security Officer at Universal Omnitech
Currently located: Universal Omnitech enclave in Seattle
Awakened: Yes, mystic adept, specialized in detection spells and powers
Description:
Elizabeth Stenton is an ork woman about the same age as Tig. Unusually small and fragile for an ork, she is very beautiful, even by human standards. Long black hair contrasts sharply with her bright green eyes and her tusk are barely noticeable, while her body is every man's dream.
She is always impeccably dressed, usually following the latest fashion trend.
History:
Elizabeth Stenton has spend her whole life at Universal Omnitech. Born in their Seattle enclave she went through the usual corp education. Displaying a strong mind in addition to consderable magical talent, she was put in the same training program for awakend youths as Tig. She finished it with top scores and went on to become a valued member of Universal Omnitechs magical security team, specializing in the magical detection of threats.
Personality:
Elizabeth is an easy-going, fun-loving person who likes all the things typically associated with girls. Fashionable clothes, expensive shoes, exquisite jewelry and cute animals are all things she can get excited over as well as about anything connected to the color pink.
But one should not mistake that side of her for weakness or unprofessional behavior. She takes everything regarding her job very serious and is an expert on field of magical detection.
She is loyal to Omnitech since the corp has been the big constant in her whole life, but lately she got some doubts about them, which she isn't ready to admit to herself yet.
Connection to Tig:
Elizabeth Stenton was in the same training program as Tig, back when he was still called Ray, and since they were the same age and had similar character traits, they became very close friends after a while. For a short time it looked as if there could be more between them but then Tig allegedly died in an accident and Elizabeth had to continue her education, banishing the thoughts of Ray to the back of her mind.
Tig often thinks of her and of what could have happened between them had he not udergone SURGE. He has thought about contacting her, but he doesn’t know how she would decide when forced to choose between him and her loyalty to Universal Omnitech.
In addition he is afraid that she would reject him when she sees what he has turned into, even though he doesn’t even admit that fear to himself.
Tig's Mother
Metatype: Elf
Sex: Female
Age: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown
Currently located: Unkown
Awakened: Likely, though unconfirmed
Tig has often tried to find out anything about his family, especially about his mother, who left the hospital right after giving birth to Tig, not even holding her baby once. He has often wondered why his mother abandoned him and it took him a while to get over the feeling that he was somehow responsible for it.
Lacking any clue to her identity, he hasn't been able to get any results on his search so far.
Description:
The Hospital records only held basic information on her appearance. They describe her as a tall blonde elf woman with bright blue eyes and delicate features. She came into the hospital in formerly expensive and high-quality clothing which was dirty and torn and she had apparently not been eating enough for a few weeks given her physical condition. She seems to be awakened, as she was ordered special treatment for awakened patients by the hospital, but no details are known.
That’s all the Information Tig has on her.
