Name: Jaclyn Wu
Nickname: Jack
Street Artist Alias: (Fractal) Julia
Metatype: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Ethnicity: Chinese
Occupation: Street Artist, Mage
Jack is a short, delicate woman of Chinese descent. She has multiple facial piercings and tattoos covering both face and body. She wears her hair in long braids, often dyed in multiple bright colors (purple, red, yellow, green &c).
[Quality: Distinctive Style, -5]
She dresses in typical punk/goth style, with (fake) leather boots, pants and vest.
For protection she wears a leather duster, and sometimes a motorcycle helmet.
Born in Seattle, Jack grew up with her working class parents, both non awakened humans. Her magical aptitude was discovered early, when one day she was found in the streets outside her parents' apartment reshaping concrete just like she usually did with playdough at home.
Her parents weren't thrilled to have an awakened child. Nevertheless, having her best interests at heart they contacted a Hermetic mage hoping that he could school her. This apprenticeship didn't meet with much succeess as it turned out that Jack was completely uninterested in books and schooling, preferring to practice her own arts and techniques in what she considered "the real world". She left her assigned mentor while still in her teens, but still retains a somewhat frosty relationship with him, and they help eachother out occasionally.
[Contact: Johnathan Carpenter]
Jack stayed on the streets, learning the occasional spell here or there, using whatever sources she could learn from, or simply by setting her mind to it and developing her own versions of known spells. Meanwhile she continued her hobby of reshaping concrete, and turned that into her own, unique art form.
[Tradition: Chaos Magic]
Jack is till in contact with her parents, and visits them every now and then. They're currently in their sixties, and working life has not been very kind to them. They occasionally need financial support or other favors.
[Quality: Dependent, -3]
Never having had very much money (it turns out that street art isn't a very lucrative business), Jack decided to take a loan from The Triads in order to jump start a shadowrunner career. The debt is not huge - ¥20,000 - but it's one she cannot currently pay back.
[Quality: In Debt, -4]
Jack's a street artist. Her specialty is using her spells to create relief images in concrete. She is particularly fond of fractal patterns (and the Julia set in particular, earning her the moniker Fractal Julia), but will create any kind of image that currently strikes her fancy. She often colors her relief images using spray cans, turning them into a kind of three dimensional graffiti.
Creating this art has almost turned into a compulsion, and she will routinely create an image on any nearby concrete surface if she is not otherwise occupied.
[Quality: Signature, -10]
Having realized that street art doesn't pay the bills, and not being the least bit interested in working as a wage mage, Jack has decided to give running a go. She's aware that she's not perfectly suited for that kind of job, but is still confident that her repertoire of spells will be useful to any group that doesn't already have a mage.
Initially, at least, she's mostly in it for the money.
In combat, Jack mainly uses her Fling spell to catapult throwing weapons. She carries two tomahawks, some shuriken and a couple of high explosive grenades. As a backup, she also has a Defiance EX Shocker taser.
Jack used part of her Triads loan to buy an Entertainment Systems Cyclops unicycle:
Jack rents a cramped apartment in the rougher parts of Redmond. It's located on floor six in a worn down eight story building.
(Source: Rise of the Dragon)
Madame Rousseau is an awakened talismonger running an small shop in Redmond. Since the shop has been located in the neighborhood where Jack grew up, they have known eachother since shortly after Jack awakened. Their relationship is good, and they provide minor favors for eachother from time to time.
Luna is an elven fixer with an interest in street art that generally hangs out in the Banshee Nightclub in Redmond. She has learned to know Jack (or Fractal Julia) through her art activities. Luna occasionally passes Jack a simple job for free, and in exchange Jack creates a custom piece of art at Luna's request.
Franky is a dwarven street doc that operates in Redmond. Like Mme. Rousseau, Jack knows him mainly because she grew up in the neighborhood where he operates. Jack and Franky doesn't have any close relationship, but she has used his services once or twice after having gotten in trouble creating art in restricted areas.
Johnathan is Jack's former mentor. He tried to school her on and off for a few years just after she had awakened. Jack wasn't very impressed with the Hermetic style of magic use, and the apprenticeship never really worked very well. Nevertheless, the relationship between Johnathan and Jack never turned sour, and they eventually decided to part ways while deciding to respect eachothers' very different approach to magic.
They stay in touch and occasionally perform favors for eachother.
This character started out as a mix of Jack from the Mass Effect series, and Delirium from Sandman comic books. Attitude and abilities were based on Jack, the looks based on Delirium. She has obviously transformed into something else during development.