Naomi Lee
Darkly Verbena Mushihime-sama.
Background
A person with no friends. Naomi is a dark, dour and generally antisocial girl who keeps to herself and her strange obsession with critters creepy and crawly. Her short hair and eyes are an off-black dark brown, her skin tone is medium. She normally wears thigh highs, shorts, loose arm warmers and a hoodie but sometimes goes a bit over the top with the dominatrix thing. Although the youngest member of Idol House, she was also one of its earliest and has stuck by the chantry despite being abrasive at the best of times (and the cause of perpetual low level infestation of the chantry house). She is particularly antagonistic towards Charlotte, perhaps because she finds her a little too similar. At other times, however, when confidence levels in the chantry falter, it is always Naomi who is unshakeable, ready to take on hell alone with her swarms of insects, even if no one else will follow.
When she isn't advancing herself as a mage, she prowls the depths of the London street scene where she grew up, seemingly out of an insatiable desire to scare, dominate, hurt and poison. She once mentioned, in a rare moment when her hard carapace was down, that she knew she had blood from an old line of mages, but family is never mentioned and never anywhere to be seen. Her adoption into her tradition was probably a preventative measure - she is always the one voted most likely to fall to the Nephandi. Little do her chantrymates know that it's already happened – and almost for good, too.
Naomi despises almost anything cute or warm-blooded (bats being the main exception). As a result, she doesn't get along with the majority of the Tella Estate's more visible spirit inhabitants. Bearing in mind that she is a Verbena mage however, most stay out of her way, though a few - like Seamstress Cat - seem to have a special relationship. Perhaps in return, she stays out of their way – out of everyone's way. Sometimes, the only evidence she hasn't crawled off and overdosed somewhere is the exceptional health of the bee colonies maintained for orchard pollination. Though she's technically a full breadth gardener of the Tella Estate, it's hard to tell whether she keeps the bugs for the trees or the trees for the bugs. In battle, she makes egregious use of bugs both as weapon and as focus and can summon enormous swarms out of the trees and earth of the realm.
Vital Statistics
Name: Naomi H. Lee
Age: 18
Tradition: Verbena
Avatar: Primordial
Demeanor: Loner - I don't need you or anyone else.
Nature: Bravo - Lick it, worm.
Arete: 4
Quint: 3
Tass: -
Dox: 0
Damage:
Willpower: 5/7
Exp: 0/10
Init: +8
Move/Dash: 18/35yds
Attributes
Physical
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 5 (Acrobatics)
Stamina: 3
Social
Charisma: 1
Manipulation: 2
Appearance: 3
Mental
Perception: 4 (Predatory)
Intelligence: 1
Wits: 3
Abilities
Talents (13)
Alertness: 3
Athetics: 3
Awareness: 1
Dodge: 3
Intimidation: 1
Streetwise: 1
Subterfuge: 1
Skills (9)
Drive: 0
Etiquette: 1
Firearms: 1
Martial Arts: 3
Melee: 0
Stealth: 1
Survival: 3
Knowledges (5)
Cosmology: 1
Investigation: 1
Linguistics: 1 (English, Japanese)
Medicine: 1
Occult: 1
Spheres
Correspondence: 3
Entropy: 0
Forces: 0
Life: 3
Matter: 0
Mind: 2
Prime: 1
Spirit: 0
Time: 0
Backgrounds
Arcane: 5
Avatar: 5
Merits and Flaws
Animal Magnetism (1)
- Reduces difficulties by 2 for seduction or subterfuge
Catlike Agility (1)
- Reduces difficulties by 2 for all balance related rolls.
Self-Confident (5)
- When spending of willpower ahead of a roll of threshold 6+, the willpower is not lost unless you fail.
Dark Secret: Once fell to the charms of Calacthchan. (-1)
Echoes: Bug Princess (-1)
Obsession: Bugs (-2)
Overconfident (-1)
Sadism (-2)
Magic
Naomi is a Bug Princess so her greatest affinity is with bugs.
Foci
Most of Naomi's foci are either bugs or ways to propel or attract them. She also has limited generalist Verbena training however.
Blood
Breath
Bugs
Bug Whistle
Rotes
Summon Swarm (Life 2 or 3/Mind 2/optional Corr 2)
This calls up a huge swarm of vermin and directs them with simple commands, often to aggress upon the enemy. While it doesn't cause direct damage, the insects it summons are very much real and the effect could be anything from disorienting to deadly. A swarm of the honey bees that pollinate the orchards of the Tella Estate could very easily kill a person as could any swarm modified to deliver poison. In any event, the enemy is now covered with her foci. The more advanced version can produce swarms from seemingly nowhere and/or composed of bugs that shouldn't be in the area.
Spook (Life 2/Mind 2)
Bugs scare people and sufficient numbers, proximity or unfamiliarity is enough to cause a huge fright.