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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8483472" data-attributes="member: 30538">Sparrow<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-tckrffL/0/b93a94a3/M/Fleshblood_03-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Her first life was painful, sad and hopeless. The life she has led since her second birth is still all those things, but it differs from her first in that she has a purpose. Even if that purpose is impossible to fulfill, and she suspects that it is, she will keep striving to achieve it until she dies for the second time. Her one bit of hope is that her second death will be her last.She has chosen to forget the name she was given as a child, in the settlement at Kitselas. That person is dead, now, and had been even before her life truly ended. She likewise chooses to forget the faces of her parents, whom she did not understand and who did not understand her. She left home twenty years ago, when she was just shy of sixteen years, and traveled to Prince George, where she found the only sort of work that someone without prospects could expect to find. Painful, sad and hopeless as it was, she at least took comfort that the men who passed through her life did not care about what was wrong with her body, as long as she satisfied their needs.After two years of this, weary in body and soul, she ignored her better judgement and got into a car with a prospective customer and found herself taken down <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears" target="_blank">the Highway of Tears</a>, but only a short distance. He had a knife, and he would likely have used it regardless of what he discovered about his victim, but probably afterwards instead of beforehand. Despite that, she managed to get away from him and flee into forest before she collapsed from her wound. Before she passed out, she wondered not why she was dying, but why she had ever been born.And then a sparrow carried her half-way into the land of the dead, before turning back to return her to life, with the journey imbuing in her the power to hear the hidden voices of the living and the dead, with the latter also teaching her many of their secrets. Or her injury and her panic combined to awaken certain latent psychic abilities she possessed, which allowed her to unconsciously learn many different skills and talents. As Sparrow dislikes the person who suggested that alternate explanation, she has understandably ignored it. Regardless of the nature of her powers, Sparrow has used them ever since to try and prevent further assaults, abductions and murders along the Highway of Tears, and to avenge what she cannot prevent. It is a truly never-ending battle, and sometimes Sparrow wonders if she has not been blessed, but actually cursed. Will more violence really help matters? Will the deaths of those she hunts truly ease the suffering of their victims or their loved ones? Regardless, that is the only tool that she has in her arsenal, so that is what she uses.Sparrow has not encountered many other superpowers in the course of her career, as she focuses on mundane and banal evils rather than supervillainy. An exception to this was when her path crossed that of Maureen Summerisle, the person who proposed the 'alternative' explanation mentioned above. Had they not just come out of a struggle where Sparrow was attempting to help an understandably angry ghost whom Maureen casually killed, she might have been more inclined to consider her theories. As it happens, Sparrow will probably try to kick the crap out of Maureen if they ever meet again. For her part, Maureen views Sparrow as a kook best left to her own devices.Sparrow -- PL 7Abilities:STR 0 | STA 1 | AGL 2 | DEX 2 | FGT 3 | INT 1 | AWE 4 | PRE 3Powers:Striking Strength: Strength-based Damage 2 - 2 pointsVoices of the Spirits: Enhanced Advantages 4 (Assessment, Contacts, Jack-of-all-trades, Well-informed); Enhanced Defenses 6 (Dodge 3, Parry 3); Enhanced Intellect 4, Limited to benefiting Jack-of-all-trades; Mind Reading 7, Limited to emotions, Subtle; Senses 5 (danger sense, postcognition) - 19 pointsAdvantages:Assessment, Contacts, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll, Evasion 2, Great Endurance, Hide in Plain Sight, Improved Defense, Improved Initiative, Improved Trip, Jack-of-all-trades, Move-by Action, Power Attack, Uncanny Dodge, Well-informed.Skills:Athletics 5 (+5), Close Combat: Unarmed 3 (+6), Expertise: Religion 5 (+9), Expertise: Streetwise 6 (+7), Insight 7 (+11), Investigation 8 (+9), Perception 6 (+10), Persuasion 6 (+9), Stealth 6 (+8).Offense:Initiative +6Unarmed +8 (Close Damage 2)Defense:Dodge 9/6, Parry 11/8, Fortitude 4, Toughness 3/1, Will 8.Totals:Abilities 32 + Powers 29 + Advantages 12 + Skills 26 + Defenses 16 = 115 pointsOffensive PL: 5Defensive PL: 7Resistance PL: 6Skill PL: 6Complications:Justice--Motivation. Mysterious & Enigmatic. Prejudice (First Nations, transgender.) Unhoused.</blockquote>

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