my character
ok, here i go. i might have changed some details, and i am sure you will like to add something else, but this is the character concept and all the details i could come up with. if you have any suggestion, question, or whatnot, i'll answer it. after all, it's your game!
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NAME: Robert White
AGE: 36 years old
GENDER: Male
HEIGHT: 6 foot 1 inch
WEIGHT: 165 pounds
EYES: hazel
HAIR: dark brown
SKIN: white, pale
STR: 14 (+2)
DEX: 11 (+0)
CON: 10 (+0)
INT: 18 (+4)
WIS: 18 (+4)
CHA: 12 (+1)
HP: 16 (10+6+2*CON modifier)
SKILLS: Computer use [2]; concentration [2]; craft (mechanical) [5]; craft (structural) [6]; Craft (visual arts) [1]; Disable device [1]; Gather information [1]; Investigate [1]; Knowlege (technology) [1]; Listen [2]; Repair [1]; Research [2]; Spot [1] (they should add up to 24 skill points)
REVISED SKILLS: since i've lost completely track of what system are we using, i'll have this other entry telling which skill slot i'm talking, with the x4 skill points at first level. i have no idea if this is correct, because, as i said, i don't know if it should follow the d20 modern srd rules or not...
anyway:
balance [2]; bluff [1]; computer use [5]; concentration [3]; craft (mechanical) [6]; craft (structural) [7]; craft (visual arts) [2]; demolitions [2]; diplomacy [1]; disable device [2]; drive [3]; gather information [2]; hide [1]; investigate [2]; knowledge (art) [3]; knowledge (civics) [1]; knowledge (technology) [2]; listen [3]; move silently [1]; read/ write language (french) [2]; repair [2]; research [3]; search [1]; sense motive [1]; speak language (french) [1]; spot [2]; swim [1]
FEATS: i'm not sure if i can have 2 or 3. i will give you a list of five, starting with those i would like to take first, so that, if i should gain another level, you would know automatically what i would like to get.
Attentive; Endurance; Builder (mechanical and structural); Far shot; Focused
-BACKGROUND INFORMATION-
Family & Contacts:
Father: Timothy White, mathematician. (born 1947)
Mother: Laura Doyle, school teacher. (born 1953)
Brother (twin): James White. (born 1974, dead 1986)
Contact: Professor Thomas Ryner (in Boston. He used Robert as a young aide in his New Orleans reconsctruction team.); Paul Tenner (in Liverpool. He is an old childhood friend. He and Robert kept in contact throughout the years, first by regular mail, and now by msn and emails.)
Personal History:
Born in Liverpool, uk, the 25th of november 1974.
After a relatively uneventful and quiet childhood, the life of Robert was shaked by the death of his twin, James, in a car accident. Robert broke his right arm in the accident, and her mother broke a leg, but they stayed alive. Robert secretly blamed his father for the death of James, but he never voiced openly his accusations. He was (and still is) afraid of his father, whose insistence and ideas about life and how to live it is a heavy burden to bear.
After the death of James, the Whites moved to Boston. A job offer was the perfect excuse to move aways from Liverpool and their memory filled home. Robert didn't like Boston. He never managed to be accepted by other kids of his age, and found the school boring and meaningless. He developed a love for figurative arts and paintings, but his father's casual mocking of his creations made him uneasy. For that reason, and for the insistence of his parents, Robert decided to enroll in the engineering courses at Harvard. He graduated with honours in 1996.
After some years in apprendiship in the engineering studio of Thomas Ryner, he managed to get a job as naval engineer. By that time, unable to come to compromise with his job to find a place for painting in his life, he decided to never paint again, and to dedicate his life to research and work.
He has published a number of interesting an promising studies that have made him famous in some engineering circles. He has a good job, and a good pay, with excellent prospectives for the future.
He married a month ago to Emily, a secretary of the studio where he is currently working (the Sender & Lewis inc., in Miami), succumbing to the insistences of his parents to "settle down and start a family".
Despite all this success, Robert doesn't love his job any more than he loves his wife Emily. He despises his colleagues and has no much respect for his published works. He feels very lonely and depressed and he has started to drink with alarming regularity. He realises that Emily loves him, but he has lost respect for himself when he decided to give up on painting, feeling that he sold out for money. That lack of respect makes him bitter and aloof. Sometimes he can't help but mistreating Emily for her desire to understand him and to be by his side.
Robert has a battle going on inside him. on one hand, we would really like to forget his past, his bitterness, his grudges with his father, move on and fit in. on the other he would like to have died on James behalf, on that sunday evening of 24 years ago.
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