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<font color=orange>'''*SOOPER GENIUS!:'''</font> ''You probably wouldn't expect it, but this gutter punk with with apparent drug addled brain damage is a total brainiac. He doesn't know everything, YET, but he has a voracious appetite for knowledge, is made almost entirely out of useless facts, and loves, LOVES books. He's also quite interested in linguistics.''
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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=orange>'''*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>'''*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=orange>'''*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 and bloody.''
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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=orange>'''*Spirit Sight:'''</font> ''Whatever drugs Jasen's been getting into seem to have finally gotten to him. Twitchy, nervous and generally weirded out or terrified by his surroundings, he seems to hallucinate a whole hell of a lot, talks to himself and tends to enter animated conversations with random objects, or just stands there staring at nothing with drooling fascination.''
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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=orange>'''*Minimum Wage Joe:'''</font> ''Jasen works as a janitor at a library and sometimes plays music out in parks and such for small change. He doesn't make much money at all and has quite a lot of respect for those that work shit jobs for shit pay.
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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.''
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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.''
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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 17:39, 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.