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Name: Luca 'raven' Wolfgang
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Rank: Peasant
Element: Dark
Appearance:

________ Luca has pale skin that burns fairly easily and is prone to dark circles under her eyes – whether sleep or eyeliner – and marked in places by freckles, including several that clump in the shape of Great Britain on her nose where there was a scar when she was a bit younger. There are tattoos covering almost every inch of her body – a huge wings-folded raven on her back, and both sleeves are covered in murders of ravens coalescing into a wolf snapping at the moon on one hand and a lion batting at the sun on the other. Her chest has a huge back tree on it, in which roost dozens of ravens. The roots extend downwards and crows sit on the skulls and roots that trace down her legs. Her knuckles have arcane symbols on them.

________ Her hair is a deep coppery-brown color that highlights in the sun and is quite bland and boring otherwise, locked into dreads to halfway down her back. Between and around dark copper strands are looped ribbons, braids and beads, bright strings of metal and glass, small silver crucifixes and wooden beads the size of eggs. Usually gathered into a ponytail or kept in relative order by a headscarf, Luca’s hair almost has a life of its own.

________ Fairly average in height, Luca appears taller than she is because of a fairly slight build. Her face is slightly round and makes her looks younger than she is. Luca usually dresses in a way that isn’t particularly flattering: wide cargo pants or baggy jeans; flannel shirts under battered hoodies and either one of her two jeans jackets (black or faded blue) or her black leather coat. Her jeans often lack knees and many of her hoodies are without elbows. All collars and cuffs are fraying.

________ Luca is usually seen bearing a collection of weapons, although she's had training in many martial arts and is proficient in several of them. Her favorite weapon is the pair of samurai katana she usually wears at her belt unless the law’s getting involved; if she has to hide her weapons it’s a butterfly knife in her pocket. Her fighting style is a mix of Capoeira, hip-hop breakdancing, ninja, and kickboxing that makes her quite a spectacle to watch although she prefers a lot of room to maneuver.

Personality:

________ Luca’s a jerk – she’s infuriating, always looking to picks fights, and not particularly bright. To sum her up in single words wouldn’t take a dictionary or very much imagination: angry, sullen, pissed-off, annoying, bossy, astringent, mordant, rude, arrogant, thingyy, violent, pugnacious, feminist, messy and lazy. Usually seen lounging on street corners smoking or crouched in doorways deep in conversation with homeless people, she swings between violent and too lazy to get involved. When her honor is at risk, she’ll get worked up, but she often lets other people sort out their own problems unless she feels like starting something and starts backing up the underdog.

________ Unemployed and slumming it, Luca’s current living standards aren’t improving her character. She’s been sleeping with a lot of ex-boyfriends to get cash, occasionally doing magic tricks on the streets or showing off her fighting ability. A lot of the money she does manage to make comes from suicide pay going up against established, famous fighters out of town or really tough guys in gambling dens. Not too bothered about who she sleeps with, what she eats, drinks or smokes, Luca has a policy commonly called ‘the glass is half full, although that’s only because some other bastard drank a half of it before I could knock him out’ – aka, life’s alright and live for today, but distrust everybody even though you can take them on if they turn out to be bad.

________ Luca likes loud music, kung-fu and fantasy movies, cats, ravens and wolves but not dogs, cigarettes but not cigars. She can’t read all too well.

History:

________ When still very young, Luca fell down a crack in the pavement, landing in the sewers and the underground kingdoms of the Urban Faerie and the Rat Empire. This usually wouldn’t have been such a great or unfortunate occurrence and in most cases she would have been sent right back up onto the pavement – however, Luca managed to choose the time and the place that after sliding through tunnels and sewers, she landed right in front of King Rat and interrupted a very important ritual he was performing. Faerie whisked her away to a holding cell, where she sat trying to see if she still had a shadow, because she knew that her soul was in her shadow.

________ She was taken before the Rat King, who told her that she would work five years as his servant as punishment and then be returned topside. This didn’t both Luca much – she was unhappy at home and she liked the darkness of the sewers and the thick hum of dark street magic. She set straight to work, five years old and not very tall, but it was soon decided she wasn’t strong enough to work unaided – without a magical bone in her body, she could barely do the tasks set her. After much discussion, the then six-year-old was given improved strength and speed, a little magic of her own (enough to create or douse a small flame, although fire was closer to her heart than water,) and the ability to tap into the flows of dark, modern magic that flowed through cities and sewers. She completed her servitude and was sent back topside.

________ After two weeks sleeping rough, Luca was picked up by the authorities. She spent the next seven years in foster homes and orphanages, thinking that the magic she’d been gifted had left her. Upon discovering it in fact hadn’t and she could still set teacher’s toupees on fire, Luca began to use magic a lot more, often for selfish an malicious purposes. The fae and the rats weren’t pleased, and kidnapped her as she slept outside in a doorway, too drunk to walk home to the orphanage. They drew her animal spirit out of her, the raven, and told it to stop her using magic selfishly – faerie gifts, once given, can’t be removed, and they couldn’t take the magic back. The raven part of her was tattooed on her body in the elaborate full-body design that covers her now. Luca was not pleased and it took a long time before she stopped braving the angry pain caused by the raven just to spite the fae.

________ Luca has been traveling for years now, adding to the skills she learned in the subterranean kingdoms of the city and dojos she visited in every city she stayed long enough to concentrate on. She still stubbornly uses a little magic sometimes, and it’s easier when she’s not being selfish: the small things she can do, the magic that is all her own – the much more powerful voodoo of the cities is harder to reach and channel thanks to the raven she’s dubbed Poe tattooed on her back.

Roleplay Sample:

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