The basic character concept is this: elf in her early twenties who was orphaned while on vacation in manhattan as a child. Took to the streets, learning to steal and defend herself, until recently last couple of years) landing a part-time job as a coffee shop barrista. Most of that (in her case) 40,000:nuyen: has gone to some decent B&E tools plus a good fake identity (Manhattan being so anal about ID, she doesn't want to skimp there).
I actually forgot about my laser sights above, oops. Since posting this, I've shuffled things a bit to boost Agility higher and specific skills lower, putting me now at 8/9 dice for fighting, before Attribute Boost power, which seems a bit better
Attributes: counting Elf agility bonus
Body 3
Agility 5
Reaction 4
Strength 3
Charisma 3
Intuition 3
Logic 2
Willpower 2
Edge 4
Magic 5
Skills:
Stealth (Group) 2
Unarmed Combat (Martial Arts) 1
Locksmith 1
Pistols (Tasers) 1
Con 1
Negotiation 1
Powers:
Improved Reflexes 1
Attribute Boost 3 [Agility]
Killing Hands
Penetrating Strike 3
Traceless Walk
Nimble Fingers
Memory Displacement (she's been caught before, so this seemed prudent. She can make herself forget about any extra hiding places/stashes she has until she's been released)
The GM's magic restriction really only applies to magicians, and involves having them not very magically "complete" due to limiting factors like not finding good teachers.
For the moment, I'm trying to avoid 'ware, as it doesn't really make sense backstory-wise.
Full backstory (draft) for those interested:
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Ikeda Mayumi
Mayumi is a twenty-year-old barista, failing actress, and sometime thief. The elf has a past her coworkers might not suspect - the daughter of a wealthy Japanese businessman, she was separated from her parents during a family vacation to Manhattan at the age of seven. Unable to understand the language and failing to reconnect with anyone she knew, she eventually had to take to the streets and try to support herself. She learned English along the way, and eventually landed (fairly) steady job at a coffee shop in a nicer part of town. She lives paycheck to paycheck off this job, barely making rent each month. She supplements this income with a bit of breaking & entering and petty thievery, though she would rather leave all this behind and take up a job as an actress. Unfortunately, she has very little talent, a fact she has refused to accept thus far.
Helping in her less savory activities is her well-hidden magical background. A moderately powerful adept, she is preternaturally quick when it matters, and able to get in and out of most situations without being noticed. She is a capable martial artist, having learned some bits of Kenpo online over the years.
She is a SINner, having been registered by a shelter she was at for some time early on. The SIN records her several stays in juvenile correctional facilities, caused by her early failures in burglary. These stays were all short, one way or another, and the most recent is some distance in her past - she hasn't been caught for some time.
She has some residual bias against Koreans, a result of her Japanese upbringing. She doesn't really know why, but anything Korean will draw instant disdain from her. She has experimented with recreational drugs (what street urchin hasn't?), but swore them off after a particularly bad experience with a BTL.
Slim and raven-haired, "Ikemayu" stands about 5 feet 5 inches. She wears fairly common low-class fashion, dressing a bit better for her shifts at the cafe. She carries a sensible taser in her handbag, and a less common Morissey Elan broken down into her various pieces of jewelry and other accoutrement.
So, points in Stealth and Lockpicking for the B&E/theft, fighting skills for personal defense in the slums, Con for thieving and bad acting, and Negotiation for fencing what she manages to steal.