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Name: Mici
Age: 25+ (much +)
Contact: [Bad username or site: chelicerae @ ”plurk.com”]
Other Characters: N/A
Interests: I love organic RP and plots that focus a bit more in encouraging deep CR - so memory things, forced intimacy, communication snafus, things like that. I do like political intrigue! Also quests. I'm a fan of characters going out to do accomplish tasks.


Name: Luana Marcos
Canon/OC: OC
Canon Point: Age 18, after a year of her being in Ouro Fino protecting the human world from the idiocy of the Brazilian supernatural community.
Journal: pyrazine
Age: 18

Canon World

It’s exactly our world, with iPhones and television and Donald Trump as president, only the “legends are true” - there are fairies in Ireland and cryptids in the United States and liminal spaces every whichway people look. Luana lives in Brazil, specifically in the state of Minas Gerais, and she’s a lobo-guara shifter. Her job is to be the gatekeeper between the supernatural world and the human world, which is what all the shifter do, because they can “walk between worlds”. The supernatural community needs to be protected from humans who destroy the environment, and also need to be guarded from ruining humans lives. The shifters - of which every country and group of legends have ones that fit in without standing out - do that guard duty. Essentially they are the supernatural police department.

History

Luana was born in Rio; her mother was a human, but her father was a shifter. Her father stuck around for a couple of years before he was killed in the favela. Her mother’s life fell apart, and in her depression they had to move to the favela, and she started having a lot reckless sex. As a result, Luana has six siblings, but the rest are human.

At six she shifted for the first time, and had to learn how to be a shifter almost by herself. This was a pretty startling thing, and she managed, somehow, to keep it a secret from her mother (possibly because her mother was busy with so many kids and her own problems). Her life was pretty typical of a poor kid: she went to school (not a good one) and got into trouble (a lot of it) until she dropped out of school at age fourteen. She spent three years getting into trouble with other kids, even though she would love better education, but didn’t see any point in going to her shitty school.

This was fine, right up until in a shift, she almost killed someone in a fight. They came in with a gun, and she replied with teeth to the neck, and horrified, she ran and hid. But the other shifters in the area caught wind of her, untrained and running wild, and went to her mother in the guise of police with only one option: they wouldn’t arrest her for assault if she was sent away to a “boarding school” in the interior of the country. Her mom, bullied and overwhelmed, sent Luana away.

Where she went was sort of like boarding school. It was a town called Ouro Fino, in the mountains of the state of Minas Gerais. It’s a tiny town, but the mountains of the states are rife with creatures like the Curupira, the Cuca, the Caipora; Brazilian supernatural spirits that are coming down from the forests and the jungles, as well as Chupacabras and other strange new creatures to Brazil. She was forced to learn to behave like a shifter by a small pack of other lobo-guara, to harness her anger, to learn to deal with the supernatural world, and to protect humans.

Personality

Luana is someone who has a lot of resentments for what she did and didn’t get out of life. She grew up taking care of her siblings, without a father, hiding the fact that she was a shifter. She wanted a better school but didn’t get it. She wanted better, but couldn’t figure out how to get it.

That said, she’s deeply loyal and infinitely stubborn, wanting to find a better way to make it in the world for herself. That’s what led her to her gang - not an official gang, mind, but a gang no less - of young delinquents. She isn’t really a leader, but a follower, someone who wants to have someone to serve. This has worked well to her benefit, as it made her transition to Minas easier than it should have been. While she tries to rebel at first, stern discipline and strict consequences for her actions makes her shape up. Given a job, she’s extremely practical. She has an urge to impress people, to make it seem like she’s smart, or fast, or strong.

She is, in a lot of ways though, like a typical teenage girl. She’s got a bunch of hormones, a deep need to roll her eyes and sigh, and an urge to lie on her back and scream that this is all bullshit. She has an anger problem that she’s trying to manage, and a snarling mess of an inferiority complex when it comes to her job and her abilities, which makes her want to prove herself. She does not, however, have an inferiority complex about her looks. She knows she’s hot. She’s 100% comfortable, at least, with that.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths:
She’s a lobo-guara shifter, or a maned wolf, or one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maned_wolf. This means she can transform into a maned wolf at will. Being a shifter also makes her slightly faster, stronger, and with better senses than humans. She’s also immune to illusory magic, and any magic that comes from Brazilian spirits. She is not, however, immune to other magic at all. This means she can see through invisibility spells, magical disguises, and sees anything that is disguised by magic as their actual shape.

Weaknesses
When she shifts, she is much weaker to her own self-control and sometimes loses her rational human side and thoughts to emotion. This also means that if she spends too much time as a wolf - like days - she can forget herself, and it makes shifting back to human very difficult to almost impossible. Her ability to see through illusions is sometimes a weakness - she can’t always protect herself from horrific things, and she also isn’t capable of recognizing subterfuge. Additionally, the fact that she is immune to illusory magic doesn’t mean shit against physical magic. She is way more easily harmed by magic spells, easier to knock around, easier to hurt.

Suggested Nerfs

I am not familiar with Dragon Age powers, so I will accept nerfing suggestions if needed as per the mods recommendations.

Arrival Inventory

A cell phone (that will not work even slightly, and just be a brick - it won’t even turn on). This is mostly for comedic value and personal character suffering.
A mano figa charm (this thing that she wears around her neck. This is a charm that in her world wards off evil spirits, and when she shifts, it’s been enchanted by the Caipora to stay with her. In this world, it won’t ward off anything, but I’d like it to remain enchanted to stay with her when she shifts.
A large carnival headdress - she’s coming through right before carnival and she’s dreaming about the one in rio that she desperately wishes she could go to.
A pair of drumsticks with giant rubber chickens on the end. Shit got weird.


'Human'ization

So she looks like a normal human, no pointy ears, nothing special. She just shifts into a wolf at will.

Fit

I like the idea of playing her in a game where she’s going to have to really develop as a person, and give her a chance to be in a game where her skills are useful as a whole, and where she doesn’t necessarily have to be secretive about who and what she is. I want her to be a little bit quest-driven, so I want her to have a chance to help, and get to play this character in a setting where that is a boon and a definite bonus as a character trait. I also want her to be in a setting where she’s not comfortable right away, but where she can learn to be both valuable and resourceful.

I’m also interested in the aspect of this game that takes away technology, that makes it old-timey, and that deals with the rift/dimension travel. She is a character learning about the supernatural and I want to be able to explore that too.

Finally, I’ve never been able to find a good fitting game for a character with such non-western mythology surrounding her. I think that having a game where that’s not even an issue would be a good fit and would be fun to explore.


I. link to the TDM

II. Sleeping on the job is highly frowned upon, and so Luana doesn’t do it, per say. Instead she’s sitting back and watching the people come and go and wondering if a person can die of boredom. Rio was always exciting, there was always music and people going around and something to do and see and smell.

Minas is.

Minas.

The problem with Minas, she decides as she sits in the square and watches the one person who is out on the street in the summer heat, is that the things to do here that alleviate boredom are job related, which means that they feel more like responsibility than fun. She misses fun. There are no cute guys to flirt with. There are no pranks to play that won’t land her in trouble with Aluisio, the head of her pack.

The only things to do here are to make sure the Caipora doesn’t mess with anything.

She lifts her head and sees if she can smell anything interesting. She’s got nothing. There’s someone on the corner who might be smoking weed, or they might be doused by a skunk. Here, it’s probably the latter, but she would need to get up and check, and that’s none of her business.

None of her business, that is, until she hears a whistling noise and catches a flash of red and brown. Fuck, she thinks, getting up. Saci-perere. It’s the Saci-perere, or maybe, a Saci-perere, she’s still not sure if there’s more than one. The whirlwind is going now, and the humans, they only see the dust, but she sees him in the middle of it, one-legged and laughing, his pipe dangling from the corner of his mouth as he runs with a line of laundry in one hand.

She gets up then and starts making her way in that direction. He’s laughing and dragging underwear in his wake. It’s not a big deal - it’s probably Dona Lourdes’ laundry, because she always puts it out on Tuesday and oh, god, she knows that, because that’s all there is to know around here - but still.

This is her job.

She might not like Minas, and she might not even like responsibility, but she’ll do it, and prove to them she’s worth something more than just a pretty face.