Post by Kitten on Nov 15, 2007 14:26:19 GMT -5
Name: Leonora Himmel-Friedman (Himmel’s her maiden name) (Leo, Lee, Nora)
Player: Kitten
Chronicle: Las Vegas by Night
Nature: Caregiver
Demeanor: Confidant
Residence: Las Vegas
Age: 22
Sex: Female
Concept: Young widow/mother
Model Used: Jennifer Lamiriqui
-Attributes- (6/4/3)
Strength: **
Dexterity: **
Stamina: **
Charisma: ***
Manipulation: *
Appearance: ***
Perception: ***
Intelligence: ***
Wits: ***
-Abilities- (11/7/4)
Talents
Acting:
Alertness:**
Athletics: **
Dodge: **
Brawl: **
Empathy: ***
Intimidation:
Leadership: **
Streetwise:
Subterfuge:
Skills
Animal Ken: **
Drive: **
Etiquette: ***
Firearms: ***
Melee:
Music: ***
Repair: **
Security:
Stealth:
Survival:
Knowledge
Bureaucracy:
Computer: ***
Finance: *
Investigation: **
Law:
Linguistics: *** (German, French, Spanish…English native tongue)
Medicine: **
Occult:
Politics:
Science: ***
Backgrounds- (5 points)
Resources: *
Contacts: *
Virtues (7 Points)
Conscience: ***
Self-Control: ***
Courage: ****
Humanity: ******
Willpower: ****
Bloodpool: (10 points)
Freebie Points: 21
Flaws/Merits: 7 maximum
Merits:
Light Sleeper (1 pt. Merit)
You wake quickly from nearby commotion.
Perfect Balance (1 pt. Merit)
Your sense of balance is superb. –2 difficulty to all balance-related rolls
Good Listener (1 pt. Merit)
You have a keen interest in people, and they open up to you. –2 difficulty to Social rolls when talking to people.
Good Sense of Character (2 pt. Merit)
You have an innate instinct for reading a person. –2 difficulty to Perception rolls based on assessing a person.
Concentration (1 pt. Merit)
Less affected by any penalties stemming from distracting circumstances.
Healthy Cynicism (1 pt. Merit)
You are good at separating truth from fiction; -2 difficulty to any roll to perceive a lie.
Flaws:
Allergic (3pt Flaw): Asthma
An allergy to a substance, the commonality and danger of which affects the value of the Flaw.
This includes Asthma, Hay Fever, and other such Flaws.
Low Alcohol Tolerance (1 pt. Flaw)
Alcohol goes straight to your head. Double any penalties you suffer for consuming alcohol.
Children (1 pt. Flaw)
You have children, and you can’t help but care for them. If you go three days without seeing them, you cease regaining Willpower until you do again.
Phobia (2 pt Flaw) (Claustrophobia)
Overpowering fear of stated thing. Courage roll required to remain near it. Think your Phobia through. A phobia of Winnie the Pooh or the Dungeons and Dragons movie is not going to get approved.
History:
Leo was born in a small, but well off, town in Alabama, to a pretty well to do family. So for the most part she was a pretty privileged child. When she was younger she was a bit awkward, a little on the chubby side… so she got picked on a lot in school. In fact it got so bad around 6th grade that she was taken out to be home schooled. Actually it was a large incident that made her parents take her out, which is actually the incident that caused her to be claustrophobic. After a basketball game, some boys that did not particularly like her… locked her inside the janitor’s closet. She remained there the whole night, everyone going frantic to find the lost little girl. It wasn’t until morning when the janitor, heard her screaming. After that day she was removed from school for nearly 2 years, until she insisted on going back in high school. She was a smart kid and at this point had gone from the ‘ugly duckling’ into the beautiful swan. So she knew that the teasing wouldn’t be an issue anymore, at best she’d have to deal with people not believing she was who she said she was. But oh well. So back to public school she went, to study with the rest of the students. She joined the track team as well as the swim team, her first year back. Which allowed her to get in a little better with some of the more popular students. The next year she joined the cheerleading team as well as a few academic after school programs. One of them just happened to be a extra curricular choir and music class, which is where she met the man she was going to fall deeply in love with and marry. He wasn’t one of the most popular boys, not really a jock… but he was cute enough and a serious charmer, and beyond that he had a lot of singing talent. It took a long time for them to hook up, and by the time they were halfway through their junior highschool year… he finally asked her out, which she said yes to. It was the night of the Junior Prom to be exact. From that moment on they were inseparable. On their graduation day, Benjamin Friedman (her boyfriend) asked her to marry him, with a beautiful silver and amethyst engagement ring. She accepted the engagement, against her parents wishes and married him that same year. They were a beautiful and happy couple, and as most young couples…struggled a bit but they never let it get in the way of their love. To help support them a little Ben joined the army, which worked for the most part. The following year Leo found out she was pregnant and all too soon following that announcement was another… Ben was to leave for war. This left Leo heartbroken, but there was little choice in it. She struggled a bit with depression, but the letters and phone calls, the video mail helped too. Ben even got to go home for the birth of his little boy… Michael Friedman. But that glorious moment would only last so long before tragedy struck again. 5 months after the birth of their son, Leo received a letter stating that her husband had been killed in the course of the war.
In one large swoop Leo’s whole world came crashing down around her. She lost the only man she had ever loved, and Michael had lost his father…a man he would never get to know now outside pictures and Leo’s memories. Depression hit Leo hard and she nearly destroyed herself, if not for the help of her friends, she probably would have. Finally she decided to take their advice and she packed her things and moved. She moved back home to her small town in Alabama for a few years, in hopes to repair what damage was done with her relationship with her parents… but after nearly 3 years of trying her hope is pretty much dead of that. It took that many years for her to gather up enough money to move again. So packing herself up and her son…. Leo has decided to move to Las Vegas. She already has a job set up, an old friend offered her a waitressing job… and granted the apartment she has rented isn’t the best, it’s at least something. Maybe this time she’ll be able to start over, and go back to school. Maybe she can make a life for herself, and move on… for Michael, her son she sure hopes so.