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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 3130313" data-attributes="member: 3087">Character conceptI'm going to be going away for few days on a trip. I will make a serious effort to get online but we're traveling with a purpose (wedding planning) and we may get either tight on time or To make sure I don't interrupt the flow I 'preemptively' made a character.He's non-traditional Irraka, or maybe he should just be a cresent moon... not sureObviously this can all change (he's a bit weak in terms of combat skills, etc.). I'm happy to change various stats/backgrounds/etc to work better with the game needs.Theodore "Camera" VanConcept: Underground illustratorAppearance[sblock] At first glance the black man in front of you simply looks large, then, seeing how bent his gaunt frame is you realize he must be tremendously sized. The way hisover sized and ill-matched clothing hangs from his frame, and his scraggly beard, and long dreadlocks add to his outlandish appearance. The writing tablet seems almost comically small in his immense charcoal-smeared hands.[/sblock]At first glance the black man in front of you simply looks large, then, seeing how bent his gaunt frame is you realize he must be tremendously sized. The over-sized and ill-matched clothing hanging from his gaunt frame, scraggly beard, and long dreadlocks add to his outlandish appearance. The writing tablet he clutches seems almost comically small in his immense charcoal-smeared hands.Background[sblock]Theodore Van the third grew up in a difficult neighborhood. The government built the projects his family lived in; poverty and violence was commonplace. His huge size was something of adeterrent ; he was always larger than his brothers and by the time he was 10 he would have been the height of a normal man if he ever stood up straight. But when he was that age his almost constant confinement in their mothers apartment had already given his form it's hunched appearance. The confinement was a simple fact of life, after one of his brothers wasparalyzed by a stray shot, he and his siblings almost never left save for furtive trips to school. The four walls of his shared bedroom were, for a boy of his imagination, an entire universe. Sitting alone in the room his mind carved out landscapes around him, vistas he could see whenever he closed his eyes.People often said that nothing seemed to bother Theodore very much, he seemed was easily distracted and unconcerned with events around him; as a child prone to long periods of quiet repose, once he discovered comic books he he would frantically scribble drawings. Even as a child he was obviously gifted. He could draw anything he had seen, even just once. His mother called him "camera". But he was utterly interested in mundane subjects for sketching; he was forever driven to draw the vast and improbable landscapes and creatures that seemed to flash through his eyes. The drawings wereiriee and off-putting and few paid them mind.He enjoyed school as well; if not so much the others there. He learned quickly to avoid others, traveling with his brothers whenever possible and avoiding conflict with others. His brothers liked this life less and complained frequently, but it seemedimminently natural to Theodore. In fact, for someone of his size he was positively gifted at avoiding detection. He slipped into class just before the bell rang and was always then second or third out the door. It was difficult not to notice the immense hunched figure as he trundled about but even his own classmates tended to presume that he was from some other year.And so he lived and years passed. His brothers grew up, one became a drug dealer but most managed to leave. And it was only Theodore and his mother in the apartment. Theodore went tocommunity college instead of high school. It was better there, classes were more interesting. He made a little bit of money traveling to the better parts of the city to sketch tourists on the weekends. He had less trouble in his neighborhood as well; his brother's reputation for for violence was well established, and everyone knew that Camera didn't have enough money to make it worth while.A few years back though people noticed a small change: Camera still moved like always, usually hunched over and near a wall, but he was moving more quickly. Like he had some place to go; he stopped going to school, except for thelibrary where he was hunched over computers forever reading forums and newsgroups devoted to the weird, to the impossible; he stopped drawing tourists. He had no money and ate infrequently. His visions got stronger, louder, more intricate and more consistent. His trips, alwaysfurtive routes through and between buildings became intricate, baroque, incomprehensible. He was sighted on rooftops, in condemned buildings, staring into open manholes, lying under abandoned cars. Camera had become convinced that he wasn't imagining things. He was seeing them. All he needed was to find a doorway.One day he came home and told his mother that he though that it was all true, that "they" were hiding the truth. The world wasn't really the world, that it was some kind of "taffy" covering another world. "I'm looking for a door through the taffy," he explained in a matter of fact voice.His mother sighed, picked up the phone and called his older brother to tell him, in a matter of fact voice, that Camera had finally lost it.[/sblock]How does he wind up in Colorado?Option 1[sblock]The projects are condemned by the government. Camera moves out to Colorado to live with relatives (or his brother's family)[/sblock]Option 2[sblock]The brother's wife has family in Colorado; including a sister who is a nurse practioner. They manage to get Camera to moved to Colorado where he is staying at a (lightly guarded) care facility for the mentally insane.[/sblock]Option 3[sblock]The family was in Denver all along. His mother lives in a nearby housing project, one of his brothers is a drug dealer there, the others have found work outside.(probably need to spend merits a bit differently if this is the case[/sblock]Game Stats[sblock]AttributesMental: Intelligence ** Wits *** Resolve ***Physical: Strength * Dexterity *** Stamina ***Socail: Presence * Manipulation ** Composure ***SkillsMental: Academics *** (Research), Computers *, Investigation ***, Occult *** (conspiracies and cults) (1 unspent)Physical: Larceny *, Stealth ***Social: Expression (Drawing) ****,  Streetwise **, Subterfuge*Merits: Edictic Memory (**), Giant (****), Contacts (* - Internet Conspiracy Hunters)Derived Traits: Defense 3, Health 9, Initiative 6, Willpower 6[/sblock]</blockquote>

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