BlackAndBlueEyes
10-20-07, 08:56 PM
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Name: Madison Freebird
Age: 24
Race: Human
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5'7
Weight: 105 lbs.
Occupation: Mercenary/bounty hunter
Personality: Madison is the type of person who keeps to herself as much as possible. She's neurotic, violent, and generally an unpleasant person to be around. However, she won't lash out at anyone unless she has a concrete reason to--be it job-related (like the person in question has a price on their head), or if they spill her drink all over her dress. On the flip side of the coin, she is very cunning and calculating, able to analyze the current situation and work her way out of it no matter the cost. Due to her withdrawn nature, her people skills leave something to be desired. Her trust is a hard thing to earn, and easily lost as well, but feels that there should be mutual trust between herself and anyone who pays for her services.
Appearance: Her facial features are thin and pale, her deep blue eyes, raven-black hair, and constantly vacant expression giving her a crow-like appearance. Her body follows suit: Thin and lacking in "assets". As for clothing, her tastes are rather conservative. Her favorite garment is a purple, long-sleeved velvet dress. The sides of the dress are slitted from the bottom up to halfway up the her thighs to allow easier movement, while the long sleeves act as a hiding place for her wire (more on that later). She also wears black, fingerless lace gloves that reach up to her elbows, black stockings, and black high-heeled leather boots. She has a sapphire brooch around her neck, but that's about as extravagant as she'll get. Overall, she isn't ugly, but she's not something most men (who weren't into creepy things) would look at twice.
History:
Madison was born into a family of bounty hunters, the youngest of four. She began her training in the family profession at the age of ten, and was allowed to join her brothers on the job at fifteen. However, her siblings had a tendency to ridicule and ignore her, and her parents always had other things to worry about than "her petty bitchings". This alienation, along with her mandatory teenage angst, pushed her away from her family and caused her to close herself off from the rest of existence over the next few years.
A particularly distasterous event occurred when she was 20. Madison and her eldest brother, Trevor, were tracking a bounty head when they were ambushed. In the fight that followed, Trevor was slain and Madison barely escaped with her life. When she returned to her family, her other two brothers blamed her for Trevor's death, and the proverbial fireworks went off. Madison flipped, attacking both of them. By the time her father was able to stop the fight, she had broken one of Justin's arms and completely shattered Michael's nose.
Of course, when you lash out at your family, there will always be consequences. In Madison's case, she was banished from the house, what remained of her family disowning her. Cutting her losses, she immediately set out to make a living performing odd jobs for anyone who had the money to pay for her expenses.
Lately, Madison has taken to fights in the Citadel and in the Dagas Pagoda to try and sharpen her skills, barely winning in the former and losing outright in the latter. These battles have pushed her to train harder than ever before.
Skills:
"I was trained in the art of kicking your ass!": Madison had been training in hand-to-hand combat since the age of eleven, and has above-average skill. Dodging and parrying the attacks of someone of equal skill is no great feat for her.
Mental disruption: Madison stumbled upon a latent ability that, by focusing her thoughts, she is able to mess with the perceptions of another person no more than seven feet away from her. As she emits the small, focused wave of psychic energy, the target's eyesight blurs and jumps around for several seconds while a wave of nausea passes through. She is only able to use this once per IC day (or once per battle), since the process leaves her feeling drained. She's working hard to develop this power further, hoping that she'll discover more of her hidden talents.
Chemistry: To pass the time between training sessions and missions, Madison has taken to reading books on how to concoct various potions and powders. Right now, she has the knowledge necessary to make minor healing potions and poisoning powders that are only strong enough to make the poor sucker who ingests it slightly ill.
The wire: A device strapped to her left wrist contains seven feet of retractable wire, very thin yet slightly weaker than iron. Attached to one end is a small weight, which will cause the wire to wrap around objects due to the laws of physics when Madison swings it. There's no skill really involved here, Madison uses wire primarily to choke her victims to death or to trip someone. A small button in the center of the spool can retract the wire back underneath her sleeve. Another latent skill she discovered allows her to mentally control her wire's movements up to four feet away from her hand. She can only move it three fourths as fast as she can physically move.
Dual-wielding knives: Strapped to the back of her belt is two steel knives, each measuring 8" long. Due to her below-average skill with these, she sees them only as a last resort.
"Shhhh!": A few busted jobs when she was starting out forced Madison to learn the art of stealth. She is very skilled at not making noises when she walks on a solid surface, like wood, marble, and so on. But, since nobody is perfect, she has yet to be able to silence her footsteps on gravel and the like.
Equipment:
A small leather satchel to carry anything she may pick up along her way
The spool of retractable wire, strapped to her left wrist and hidden by her sleeve
Two 8" steel kris daggers, purchased here (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=6195)
A small vial containing two grams of paralyzing powder--on average, half of a gram will be enough to paralyze for one minute
Name: Madison Freebird
Age: 24
Race: Human
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5'7
Weight: 105 lbs.
Occupation: Mercenary/bounty hunter
Personality: Madison is the type of person who keeps to herself as much as possible. She's neurotic, violent, and generally an unpleasant person to be around. However, she won't lash out at anyone unless she has a concrete reason to--be it job-related (like the person in question has a price on their head), or if they spill her drink all over her dress. On the flip side of the coin, she is very cunning and calculating, able to analyze the current situation and work her way out of it no matter the cost. Due to her withdrawn nature, her people skills leave something to be desired. Her trust is a hard thing to earn, and easily lost as well, but feels that there should be mutual trust between herself and anyone who pays for her services.
Appearance: Her facial features are thin and pale, her deep blue eyes, raven-black hair, and constantly vacant expression giving her a crow-like appearance. Her body follows suit: Thin and lacking in "assets". As for clothing, her tastes are rather conservative. Her favorite garment is a purple, long-sleeved velvet dress. The sides of the dress are slitted from the bottom up to halfway up the her thighs to allow easier movement, while the long sleeves act as a hiding place for her wire (more on that later). She also wears black, fingerless lace gloves that reach up to her elbows, black stockings, and black high-heeled leather boots. She has a sapphire brooch around her neck, but that's about as extravagant as she'll get. Overall, she isn't ugly, but she's not something most men (who weren't into creepy things) would look at twice.
History:
Madison was born into a family of bounty hunters, the youngest of four. She began her training in the family profession at the age of ten, and was allowed to join her brothers on the job at fifteen. However, her siblings had a tendency to ridicule and ignore her, and her parents always had other things to worry about than "her petty bitchings". This alienation, along with her mandatory teenage angst, pushed her away from her family and caused her to close herself off from the rest of existence over the next few years.
A particularly distasterous event occurred when she was 20. Madison and her eldest brother, Trevor, were tracking a bounty head when they were ambushed. In the fight that followed, Trevor was slain and Madison barely escaped with her life. When she returned to her family, her other two brothers blamed her for Trevor's death, and the proverbial fireworks went off. Madison flipped, attacking both of them. By the time her father was able to stop the fight, she had broken one of Justin's arms and completely shattered Michael's nose.
Of course, when you lash out at your family, there will always be consequences. In Madison's case, she was banished from the house, what remained of her family disowning her. Cutting her losses, she immediately set out to make a living performing odd jobs for anyone who had the money to pay for her expenses.
Lately, Madison has taken to fights in the Citadel and in the Dagas Pagoda to try and sharpen her skills, barely winning in the former and losing outright in the latter. These battles have pushed her to train harder than ever before.
Skills:
"I was trained in the art of kicking your ass!": Madison had been training in hand-to-hand combat since the age of eleven, and has above-average skill. Dodging and parrying the attacks of someone of equal skill is no great feat for her.
Mental disruption: Madison stumbled upon a latent ability that, by focusing her thoughts, she is able to mess with the perceptions of another person no more than seven feet away from her. As she emits the small, focused wave of psychic energy, the target's eyesight blurs and jumps around for several seconds while a wave of nausea passes through. She is only able to use this once per IC day (or once per battle), since the process leaves her feeling drained. She's working hard to develop this power further, hoping that she'll discover more of her hidden talents.
Chemistry: To pass the time between training sessions and missions, Madison has taken to reading books on how to concoct various potions and powders. Right now, she has the knowledge necessary to make minor healing potions and poisoning powders that are only strong enough to make the poor sucker who ingests it slightly ill.
The wire: A device strapped to her left wrist contains seven feet of retractable wire, very thin yet slightly weaker than iron. Attached to one end is a small weight, which will cause the wire to wrap around objects due to the laws of physics when Madison swings it. There's no skill really involved here, Madison uses wire primarily to choke her victims to death or to trip someone. A small button in the center of the spool can retract the wire back underneath her sleeve. Another latent skill she discovered allows her to mentally control her wire's movements up to four feet away from her hand. She can only move it three fourths as fast as she can physically move.
Dual-wielding knives: Strapped to the back of her belt is two steel knives, each measuring 8" long. Due to her below-average skill with these, she sees them only as a last resort.
"Shhhh!": A few busted jobs when she was starting out forced Madison to learn the art of stealth. She is very skilled at not making noises when she walks on a solid surface, like wood, marble, and so on. But, since nobody is perfect, she has yet to be able to silence her footsteps on gravel and the like.
Equipment:
A small leather satchel to carry anything she may pick up along her way
The spool of retractable wire, strapped to her left wrist and hidden by her sleeve
Two 8" steel kris daggers, purchased here (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=6195)
A small vial containing two grams of paralyzing powder--on average, half of a gram will be enough to paralyze for one minute