Miriel

Jasmine "Jaz" Taylor 

• Overview
• Notable Stats
• RP Hooks
• Gallery
• Quotes
• About Hands
• Jaz's Playlist
• More info
• Folks
• Logs

Overview

Full Name:	Jasmine Taylor
Faction:	Traditions
Tradition:	Dreamspeakers
Essence:	Dynamic
Date of Birth:	02/02/1998
Age:	25
Height:	5'6"
Weight:	145 lbs
Eye Colour:	Brown
Hair Colour:	Brown
Demeanor:	Rebel
Photo Reference:	Kate Bush

Notable Stats

Charisma:	Specialty: Amusing
Intelligence:	Specialty: Well-Read
Merits
Enchanting Voice This is something she was born with; she uses it to good advantage when she does the voice-overs for her cat videos on TikTok.
Flaws
Echoes 1. If you put all your clothes on inside-out, her magic won't affect you. 2. She cannot enter a home without an invitation.
Strangeness Her Strangeness around her Spirit magic involves spirits occasionally dropping in that weren't invited, though they're not usually problematic. They will just do something weird and go. For the other spheres, there is a sense of something... other around her when the Strangeness kicks in. Sometimes a cold breeze, or a weird glint to her eye for a scene, or some other unexpected thing that can't be explained.

Quotes

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More info

Wanna know more?

• College major: Computer Science/Video Production
• Deft at puzzles.
• Afraid of heights.

RP Hooks

Personal

• Jaz and Hands: This well-known-within-the-culture TikTok duo is a woman (who we mostly know through voiceover) and an orange polydactyl long-haired tabby cat who make funny videos. A few of them have gone seriously viral, enough that she's made a fair amount of money and put it away to live on once the whole TikTok fad dies out. She's often filming Hands' antics, and has a leash and harness for him -- when he's not riding her shoulders. He's usually with her, though he seems to go unnoticed by most people unless they really pay attention. She also spoils him. Shocker. Crazy Cat Lady Alert!
• Witchy Woman: Jaz presents as a stereotypical witchy white girl, with lots of crystals, a pentagram, and typically 'mystical' symbols all about her. Hippie clothes? Check. Blessed Be bumper sticker? Check. Lots of occultish silver jewelry? Check.
• The Girl Who Survived the Dorm Fall: There is an urban legend at UC Prospect about a junior who fell off the roof of a dorm during a party, and somehow caught a fire escape in mid-air and landed safely, rather than falling to her death. While the story's become outlandishly exaggerated, that actually happened to Jaz five years ago. It was the moment of her Awakening, no less. So no, it's not a urban legend. Dorm Fall Girl is real!

Mage

• Node Guardian: Jaz wound up as the guardian of a not-insignificant Node here in Prospect. Her former mentor, Jay Walker-Between, was a Dreamspeaker master who had been scarce over the past few years, since he took on a student (that being Jaz), but he was known as an eclectic sort of shaman, a spirit-speaker of the urban type, and his death was quite recent as the result of pattern bleeding thanks to Paradox.
• Dreamspeaker with a twist: Jaz is very much a child of modern paganism and uses a lot of its trappings in her workings. She is most gifted in Spirit, of course, but has other skills as well. She is atypical for a shaman, and in fact, calls herself a 'spirit witch.'

Short-term goals

• Figure out what her life will look like moving forward: She has no idea what her life looks like alone; she and Jay were very close, and she feels isolated now, with just her familiar 'Hands' aka Fortuno to keep her company.
• Meet up with other mages: Jaz has been pretty isolated between learning from her mentor and producing her work on TikTok, and wants to make allies and friends.
• Learn more ways to defend the Node: She's aware that she's not the most potent mage out there, and tending a Node is no easy feat. She is determined to become better able to tend and defend her charge.

Longer-term topics

• Ethics and the Shaman: Ethical interaction with spirits is important to Jaz. Having a Familiar, once she understands the details of how it came to be, is another ethical quandary that will affect her. The ethics of magic itself is a huge topic that she will find endlessly compelling.
• Where does an outsider fit?: She really lives on the edges and fringes of society, and it begs the question of where she actually fits, where her life will go, and what sort of life she will be building for herself moving forward.

Gallery

About Hands

Name:

Fortuno Gatto Esq. (also known as "Hands" on TikTok due to his polydactyl paws)

What the hell is he?:
Animal familiar - housecat, long-haired polydactyl orange tabby

Some noteworthy capabilities:

• Hide: The difficulty for rolls to spot or find the familiar are at +3. So if you're trying to notice him on Jaz's shoulders, you might not succeed even though he's right there. Tricksy cat!
• Read and write and speech: Yes, he talks. And reads, and can even write. The polydactyl paws let him manipulate child-sized pens and implements with some facility. He prefers a miniature Bluetooth keyboard.
• Darksight: He can see better than most cats, even, in the dark.
• Telepathic communication: Like all familiars, he can talk through mindspeech to Jaz, and vice versa. Yes, he is absolutely snarking about you in private. He's a cat. Get used to it.
  
  

Can I pet him?

Ask the cat. He might be in the mood, he might not. Do not grope the cat without consent, thanks! Injuries from touching without permission are entirely your fault, and will likely earn you a dirty look from Jaz as well.

Jaz's Playlist

• Blue Oyster Cult, "Astronomy"
• The Church, "Under the Milky Way"
• Collective Soul, "Shine"
• Counting Crows, "Colorblind"
• Danielle Dax, "When I Was Young"
• Eagles, "Witchy Woman"
• Kate Bush, "The Red Shoes"
• Love and Rockets, "So Alive"
• Nina Gordon, "Tonight and the Rest of My Life"
• Sisters of Mercy, "Lights"
• Sly and the Family Stone, "Stand"
• Stone Roses, "Love Spreads"
• Waterboys, "The Whole of the Moon"

Folks

• Trent - I have no idea what to make of him. He's friendly, but I think we have very little in common, aside from the obvious fact that we're both Mages.

Logs

• 2023.03.22 Meeting Trent