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<font color=lightpurple>'''*Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll!'''</font> ''Like a proper low brow citizen, Jasen is a drug addict and an alcoholic, frequents dive bars and strip clubs, buys his love by the hour, and usually finds his way to clubs with loud, angry, sometimes terrible music.''
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<font color=orange>'''*Working Stiff:'''</font> ''Jasen works as a graveyard shift janitor at the UC Prospect campus library, Wyldman Hall. He also owns and operates the Crypt nightclub, although he typically seems like nothing more than a bartender. Jasen also busks for money in various parks playing music, and sells his skills in linguistics.''
  
<font color=lightpurple>'''*Ambulance regular:'''</font> ''Jasen is incredibly accident prone and generally ends up on a first name basis with EMTs with as much time as he spends getting non-lethal injuries tended to, however he is rather violently opposed to hospital visits under any circumstances unless forced. (+note/read jasen/cursed)''
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<font color=orange>'''*Burn the Witch!:'''</font> ''He considers himself a witch, practicing archaic blood magic. Medieval alchemy, old school wizard enchanting, that kind of thing. He's not very good, zero formal training to speak of, he mostly blunders his way through his magical education alone.''
  
<font color=lightpurple>'''*Precinct regular:'''</font> ''He's also very opposed to visits to the police station, but he never gets much of a choice in that for SOME strange reason! He's very familiar with the drunk tank and holding cells. (+note/read jasen/policerecord)''
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<font color=orange>'''*Worst Luck Ever:'''</font> ''Okay maybe that's an exaggeration but his luck still isn't all that great. He's pretty damned accident prone, even when he seems like he should be perfectly safe, something is bound to go wrong for him in some weird chain reaction of annoyance.''
  
<font color=lightpurple>'''*Death and the Occult:'''</font> ''Jasen has a heavy interest in the occult, supernatural, and paranormal, if you share these interests then it's possible we'll run into each other at an appropriate shop. Part of this may stem from the dead girl that follows him around all the time. (+note/read jasen/haunted)''
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<font color=orange>'''*Gutter Punk Kinfolk:'''</font> ''Jasen's a Bone Gnawer Kinfolk, he has a natural affinity with rats and can even speak to them. Extremely tribeist, he's die hard in love with his tribe and he's 110% loyal to his family over anything else in the world. If he knew Ratkin, they'd be considered family too, most likely.''
  
<font color=lightpurple>'''*SOOPER GENIUS!:'''</font> ''You probably wouldn't expect it, but this irritating dope fiend that picks up hookers and knows his Maranda Rights by heart is also a brainiac. Fluent in many languages, knowledgable of libraries, and with an IQ that probably has something to do with his self destructive behavior. Smarts can be awfully depressing.''
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<font color=orange>'''*Momma:'''</font> ''Jasen worships the Rat totem, leaning heavily towards the Momma Rat aspect. He mothers after his tribemates fiercely, acting as a sort of Bone Gnawer bank, takes care of the local tribe colony, and makes sure his Gnawer family has everything they need to be healthy and happy without judgement or attempts to subvert their natural place in the urban jungle. Stray dogs, cats, and most especially rats can count on him for free food, warmth, and healing just as much as any bum on the street can. Everyone in the dust and grime that's looked down on by the rest of the city has a friend in Jasen.''
  
<font color=lightpurple>'''*Embarrassing Ancestry:'''</font> ''Are you a Silver Fang? *points and laughs!* Ha ha, fucker, we're totally related! The disappointing American branch of the Irish/English Flay family tree is low hanging and irritatingly ignoble. Honestly, you weak chinned twits should have known better than to let your kin come over to the New World, all that moonshine and hillbilly shaggin' done humped the nobility straight outta the family tree branch.
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<font color=orange>'''*Linguist:'''</font> ''Do you need to know a dead language? Want to impress your friends by flawlessly saying those ridiculously long Welsh names? Need something translated? Jasen's your guy. A little cash and a bottle of Irish whiskey will get your text discreetly and efficiently translated. If he doesn't know the language, he'll figure it out in record time.''
  
<font color=lightpurple>'''*Budding Witch:'''</font> ''After years spent studying, he finally figured out how to make this shit work! No formal training, no affiliations, he's blundering through the world of magic by himself with the help of books, dedication, and some know-how that's rather... Skewed.''
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<font color=orange>'''*Bad World View:'''</font> ''Jasen has Spirit Sight and no ability to turn it off. Seeing every plane of existence at once is, to put it mildly, extremely disconcerting. He acts and reacts to things most people can't see, often times coming off either mad as a hatter or just awkward and weird at the very least. It may be a merit, but for him it's a definite burden.''

Latest revision as of 18:39, 4 January 2018

*Working Stiff: Jasen works as a graveyard shift janitor at the UC Prospect campus library, Wyldman Hall. He also owns and operates the Crypt nightclub, although he typically seems like nothing more than a bartender. Jasen also busks for money in various parks playing music, and sells his skills in linguistics.

*Burn the Witch!: He considers himself a witch, practicing archaic blood magic. Medieval alchemy, old school wizard enchanting, that kind of thing. He's not very good, zero formal training to speak of, he mostly blunders his way through his magical education alone.

*Worst Luck Ever: Okay maybe that's an exaggeration but his luck still isn't all that great. He's pretty damned accident prone, even when he seems like he should be perfectly safe, something is bound to go wrong for him in some weird chain reaction of annoyance.

*Gutter Punk Kinfolk: Jasen's a Bone Gnawer Kinfolk, he has a natural affinity with rats and can even speak to them. Extremely tribeist, he's die hard in love with his tribe and he's 110% loyal to his family over anything else in the world. If he knew Ratkin, they'd be considered family too, most likely.

*Momma: Jasen worships the Rat totem, leaning heavily towards the Momma Rat aspect. He mothers after his tribemates fiercely, acting as a sort of Bone Gnawer bank, takes care of the local tribe colony, and makes sure his Gnawer family has everything they need to be healthy and happy without judgement or attempts to subvert their natural place in the urban jungle. Stray dogs, cats, and most especially rats can count on him for free food, warmth, and healing just as much as any bum on the street can. Everyone in the dust and grime that's looked down on by the rest of the city has a friend in Jasen.

*Linguist: Do you need to know a dead language? Want to impress your friends by flawlessly saying those ridiculously long Welsh names? Need something translated? Jasen's your guy. A little cash and a bottle of Irish whiskey will get your text discreetly and efficiently translated. If he doesn't know the language, he'll figure it out in record time.

*Bad World View: Jasen has Spirit Sight and no ability to turn it off. Seeing every plane of existence at once is, to put it mildly, extremely disconcerting. He acts and reacts to things most people can't see, often times coming off either mad as a hatter or just awkward and weird at the very least. It may be a merit, but for him it's a definite burden.