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 bugs. 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 goth/dominatrix/insert-alternative-fashion thing.
Naomi is one of the youngest members of the chantry and comes across as a pick-up off the street rather than a chantry brat. No family of hers is ever to be seen. She is basically hostile by default but is less abrasive to some people than others. The streets of Plymouth are her prowling ground to sate her insatiable desire to scare, dominate, hurt and poison. Other times, she stays out of everyone's way and the only reminder of her existence is the perpetual low-level infestation of the chantry house. Her natural way of magic is through the use of 'bugs' which, ignoring artificial Technocratic divisions, readily includes worms, leeches and small crabs.
Naomi was born in the UK but spent many years in Okinawa after losing both parents. There, she underwent training under her (great?) grandmother, the powerful eastern Verbena master Hoshifuri Yaesei. She is a descendent of the Hoshifuri clan of Japan and Ryukyu, said to have dominion over insects. The clan once controlled Hoshifuri, an island in the Ryukyu archipelago inhabited by giant insects. The domain was pushed into the umbra during the Technocratic encroachment on East Asia during the 19th century. The master recently vanished during one of her many umbral journeys in search of the lost realm and Naomi was returned to the UK by the embassy.
Lore (Naomi)
1: She is 1/4 Japanese.
2: Her grandmother was a powerful mage.
3: Actually, that's 1/4 Ryukyuan and her Verbena training is an East Asian branch rather than local so she's technically a shrine maiden or something.
4: The H in her name stands for Hoshifuri.
5: Hoshifuri Yaesei vanished into the deep umbra in search of Hoshifuri island.
Vital Statistics
Name: Naomi H. Lee
Age: 17
Tradition: Verbena
Avatar: Primordial
- It looks like a gigantic conflation of spiritually significant bugs and carries the sense that it is a Queen.
Demeanor: Loner - I don't need you or anyone else.
Nature: Bravo - Lick it, worm.
Arete: 3
Quint: 3
Tass: -
Dox: 0
Damage: -
Willpower: 7/7 [11]
Exp:
Init: +8
Move/Dash: 18/35yds
Attributes
Physical [56]
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 5 (Lightning Reflexes)
Stamina: 3
Social [32+20]
Charisma: 1
Manipulation: 3
Appearance: 5 (Wild)
Mental [24+4]
Perception: 3
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 3
Abilities [80+7]
Alertness: 2 [5]
Athetics: 2 [5]
Awareness: 2 [5]
Brawl: 3 [9]
Dodge: 3 [9]
Intimidation: 2 [5]
Linguistics: 1 (English, Japanese) [3]
Medicine: 2 [5]
Melee: 3 [9]
Seduction: 2 [5]
Streetwise: 2 [5]
Style: 3 [9]
Subterfuge: 1 [3]
Survival: 1 [3]
Academics (Cosmology): 1 [2]
Area knowledge (Okinawa): 3 [5]
Spheres [65+18]
Correspondence: 0
Entropy: 0
Forces: 0
Life: 3
Matter: 0
Mind: 0
Prime: 2
Spirit: 3
Time: 0
Backgrounds [21+3]
Arcane: 5
Avatar: 3
Merits [18]
Animal Magnetism [3]
- Reduces difficulties by 2 for rolls having to do with being animally magnetic.
Catlike Agility [3]
- Reduces difficulties by 2 for rolls having to do with balance.
Double Jointed [3]
- Reduces difficulties by 2 for rolls having to do with bodily flexibility.
Parlour Trick [3]
- Bugs out the throat.
Spirit Sight [6]
- Can see spirits naturally, interpreting them as insects, and are somewhat more likely to play ball. No difficulty reduction.
Flaws [-21]
Child [-3]
- Looks like (and is) a juvenile delinquent.
Obsession [-6]
- The bug princess likes her bugs.
Sadism [-6]
- Personal issues manifesting as cruelty and hurtfulness to others. Must roll willpower to stop combat.
Short Fuse [-6]
- Naomi has a quick temper. Must roll willpower to avoid lashing out when ticked off by something.
Gear and Magic
Gear
Switchblade (Str+1) - Not really a proper weapon as far as Naomi's concerned (her ritual weapon is a pair of kama), but convenient and concealable when a bit of cutting is called for and highly available in the UK as well.
Tekko (Str+1) - Okinawan iron knuckles. Concealable and wielded as a pair. Deals bashing. Uses Brawl rather than Melee to strike.