Nixie

At A Glance

Handle: Nixie

Legal name: Gail Ridley

Tradition: Orphan

Essence: Dynamic

Nature: Idealist

Demeanor: Innovator

Player: Ral

Description

An unapologetic furry who casts magic by embodying her fursonas to adopt their personalities and abilities.

Gail is the city's premier wielder of what fursuiters call "the magic": the kayfabe they use to pretend to be their character, to expect others to play along, and the sense of embodying them as not-quite-separate people, who externalize facets of the wearer's self. By playing her characters and immersing herself in the fiction of being them, she can express their traits and abilities.

She's heavily involved in the furry community, both in Montreal and globally. She's made a name for herself through art, suit making commissions, and streaming, where she has a small but extremely devoted following. At the campaign start, Helene is her only close non-furry friend.

Her attitude towards the city's Traditions ranges from awkwardly polite to awkwardly distant. She has the conviction in her paradigm to use it to warp reality, but isn't oblivious to how goofy her method looks to others. Fortunately, her characters are much more confident than she is.

She has a soft heart, and tries to see the good in people, except for fascists and vampires.

Attributes

PHYSICAL:

Strength 2

Dexterity 4 (Clever Hands)

Stamina 2

SOCIAL:

Charisma 5 (Expressive)

Manipulation 2

Appearance 5 (In Costume)

MENTAL:

Perception 2

Intelligence 4 (Creative)

Wits 2

Willpower: 9

Abilities

TALENTS

Alertness 1

Awareness 1

Art 5 (Sculpting, Painting, CAD, Dance, Music)

Athletics 4 (Dodgeball)

Brawl 3

Empathy 1

Expression 3

Blatancy 1

SKILLS

Craft 3 (Tailoring, Electronics, Fabrication)

Drive 1

Firearms 1

Technology 3

KNOWLEDGES

Computer 3

Medicine 1

Academics 1

Techno Lore 1 (campaign freebie)

Magick

Arete: 4 (Arete Quality: Art Focus)

Life: 3

Matter: 3

Mind: 2

Entropy: 1

Backgrounds/Merits

BACKGROUNDS

Resources 1

Cult 1

Dream 5

Avatar 2

Allies 2

MERITS

Jack-of-all-trades (2)

Enchanting Feature (2)

Artistically Gifted (1)

Mechanical Aptitude (1)

Computer Aptitude (1)

FLAWS

Whimsy (-1)

Soft-hearted (-1)

Crucial component (-2) - Requires personal "charms" of her characters to cast the simplest magic, and can't cast anything powerful without suiting up. (Except to make a suit)

Obsession (-2) - Entirely way too into the fandom. Extremely Online. Blows cash on commissions. Has almost no non-furry friends.

Cultural Other (mild) (-1)

Echoes (-1) - Fursuits will blink, look right at you, make facial expressions, though you aren't sure of it.

Freebie Point Spending

Arete (4)

Willpower (4)

Backgrounds-over-7 (3)

+2 Abilities (4)

Friends

Proja - Nonbinary raccoon techie who works at some godforsaken commercial spying company and hates it and secretly undermines it.

Dynu - Coyote; ethnic background in southeast asia; cultural background in watching too much disney and then being too online; knows a lot about cars; knows a guy who knows a guy; we have literally no idea where they get their money; owns an extremely freaky monster-yote suit that Gail made. Cool but kind of bitter.

Fursonas

Hazel - Cute, friendly, bouncy fox. White and pink with intense, purple following-eyes and neon green "skin" trim. (she/her)

Bradley - Longboard otter; "himbo energy"; combine "punk" and "surfer". Plays vaporwave on a bluetooth speaker. (he/him)

Viv - A colorful trickster bird. Whistles a lot. (he/him)

Tristan - Reverse tigerstripe (black with orange stripes) smilodon. ("femme fatalis") (she/her) [WIP]

Spike - the armored protogen ("black cheese") (they/them) [WIP]

note: Every suit but Spike has magentic eyebrows, 3D following eyes, and a movable jaw.