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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allura" data-source="post: 2121282" data-attributes="member: 17473">AkeruWell, since it looks like this thread is back on top again, let me see if I can interest someone in a slightly different project, a character from Shadowrun.  If you haven't heard of it, Shadowrun's set about 60 years in the future of Earth and is a cyberpunk with fantasy elements. The PCs are usually criminals ("shadowrunners") who, most often, are hired by one corporation to steal something from another (prototype, data, people, whatever...).  So, my character is Akeru, a physical mage.    Her magic manifests as both superior physical abilities as well as spells, spirit summoning and perceiving astral space. Her magic has a Japanese slant to it: the spirits she summons look like her female ancestors (and usually give her an earful <g>), she uses calligraphy or katas to focus, etc.She used to be a vampire - yes, "used" to be.  Technically she has some remnants of this in her apperance, but I'd prefer if it stayed subtle.Stats:Race: Human, Japanese (3/4)-AmericanHeight: 5'1"Hair: Black, straight, and long (mid-back)Eyes: brownAge: 23 (well, 29, actually, but she looks 23)Weight: Slender (not sure of the number)Weapons: She almost always has/wields a katana/wakazashi set, both magical.  The katana enhances her fighting skills, and the wakazashi enhances her magic.  She also has a (modern) bow in a back harness, and a collection of knives in various spots (thigh, back, boot).Clothing:  Usually tailored, expensive clothes.   Armored (leather) jacket.  Description: Akeru is the team leader, and most of her friends are her fellow shadowrunners.  She's formed them into an elite team; they really can pick & choose their jobs, and they act as true professionals.  Mr. Johnson knows better then to mess with them, because he'll simply lose one of the most valuable street assets available.  Not only that, but they're perfectly capable of surviving, then coming back for revenge.  At the same time, this is a team that will go out of it's way to use non-lethal methods, because security guards are "just doing their jobs."  She's three-quarters Japanese; the rest is UCAS "mutt".  She started off as a physical adept, then was turned into a vampire by her former lover.  Relatively recently, though, events transpired which made her human again - something theoretically impossible.  In exchange, she seems to have aquired the powers of a shaman as well.  She now carries the wakazashi that is the mate to the katana she has carried for years.  Both weapons are as much a part of her as anything else.  She avoids guns, a strange quirk to have in the time period the year 2058.  She has many skills, everything from fighting to flying a plane, and frankly, has too much money - she owns 2 motorcycles, a fancy van, and a boat!  She 'runs because she doesn't know anything else to do.  She was taught to be a leader, to be a manager, and chose to be a fighter; now she leads "her team," and is determined that they should be the best of the best....and always survive.Note: I attempted to do a portrait using <a href="http://www.heromachine.com/" target="_blank">Heromachine</a>, and it's up on my blog if you want a closer look here: <a href="http://allura.blogdrive.com/archive/184.html" target="_blank">She</a>'s the middle picture.Thank you very much to anyone who does this portrait!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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