A Sore Thumb: Ways for a Chinese girl to stand out?

[Barendd Nobeard]

Missing a tooth. When she smiles, that'd be very noticeable.

So the PCs are watching a performance. "At the end, the tumblers smile demurely, and you can't help but notice one gap-toothed tumbler among the group...."

A few years later.... "You're walking down the street. A Chinese woman is walking toward you. She smiles in thanks at your group as you make room so she can stay on the sidewalk, and you can't help but notice the gap in her smile--she's missing a tooth."

But I like the glass eye best!

 

[Xath]

I'll be interested to see how your character turns out. (I think the glass eye idea is really cool, and then you could take the Murky Eyed flaw)

So far, our group has:

QD's character, above (Fast)

A rough and tumble frontier girl with a distinct talent for beating the crap out of people. (Smart/Strong)

A Doc Holiday-esque southern gentleman; fastest gun in the south?/west? (Cha/Fast)

A Russian Czarist cavalry soldier. (Fast)

 

[Darmanicus]

I'll be interested to see how your character turns out. (I think the glass eye idea is really cool, and then you could take the Murky Eyed flaw)

So far, our group has:

QD's character, above (Fast)

A rough and tumble frontier girl with a distinct talent for beating the crap out of people. (Smart/Strong)

A Doc Holiday-esque southern gentleman; fastest gun in the south?/west? (Cha/Fast)

A Russian Czarist cavalry soldier. (Fast)

Ah-ha, 3 for the false/glass eye, and if you take the improved familiar feat you could qualify for a mini-beholder!

Someone should make this a poll, MODS!!!???

 

[Psychotic Jim]

What about unusually large feet? This might make for an interesting character, considering the old practice of footbinding. Perhaps it relates somehow or is symbolic of her acrobatic ability and angry personality.

 

[Darmanicus]

Barendd, just checked out the start of that Worlds Largest Graveyard, what's this WLD all about? Is it still running? How do ya Join? etc.etc.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Missing a tooth. When she smiles, that'd be very noticeable.

So the PCs are watching a performance. "At the end, the tumblers smile demurely, and you can't help but notice one gap-toothed tumbler among the group...."

A few years later.... "You're walking down the street. A Chinese woman is walking toward you. She smiles in thanks at your group as you make room so she can stay on the sidewalk, and you can't help but notice the gap in her smile--she's missing a tooth."

But I like the glass eye best!

I like the missing tooth, distintive without being silly (Now if this was a Feng Shui game, I would go for the glass eye )

 

[Darmanicus]

I like the missing tooth, distintive without being silly (Now if this was a Feng Shui game, I would go for the glass eye )

3 fer the eye ha-ha!

C'mon Q-D, ya know it makes sense.

 

[Afrodyte]

A facial feature such as a mole (beauty mark) similar to Cindy Crawford's. It's common enough to seem natural but uncommon enough to be noticeable. In other words, she can still blend in if need be, but it's a bit harder than it would be.

Green eyes. If it's more Shanghai Knights than real history, why not go one step further and take something from "Big Trouble in Little China"?

Red hair. This one has anthropological evidence. I saw on a Discovery Channel program that there were some human remains in China many thousands of years old that had red hair. Apparently some Europeans made their way there and intermingled with the native population. I wish I could remember the program. Maybe I'll come across it again.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Red hair. This one has anthropological evidence. I saw on a Discovery Channel program that there were some human remains in China many thousands of years old that had red hair. Apparently some Europeans made their way there and intermingled with the native population. I wish I could remember the program. Maybe I'll come across it again.

Not too much of a leap, considering Japan's Ainu are/were considered Caucasian. Or course, there's probably more from real anthropolgists to parse that defiinition.

 

[Fate Lawson]

A simple shock/streak of white hair. Made even more memorable if she was wearing some kind of headcovering that fell off during the performance.