Name: Kachina
Alias: Cat
Metatype: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Ethnicity: Sioux / African
Occupation: Adept / Street Brawler / Courier
Physical Adept, with focus on gymnastics and parkour like abilites.
Cat is a young woman with dark skin. She is fairly tall, and wears her long black hair in braids.
She is extremely athletic, and spends several hours per day running around the city of Seattle, dressed in her prized black Urban Explorer's Jumpsuit.
Cat's generally carefree person who doesn't put a very high value on material possessions or social expectations. She values personal freedom above most other things.
The fact that she has lived all her life on the streets, combined with her values has given her a strong disdain for upper class society. She is uncomfortable around rich people [Prejudiced (Specific, Biased): Rich People (Life style: Luxury), SR5 82] and considers costly life styles to be a decadent waste of money [Hobo with a Shotgun, RF 155].
She cares a lot about her former street gang, without which she has no doubt she wouldn't have survived her childhood.
Born on the streets. Grew up on the streets. Her mother descended from Native Americans, and her father from African Americans. Her parents never lived together, and Cat was mostly raised by her mother alone.
At a young age she joined, or was adopted by - it's a matter of definition - a loosely formed gang of young women and girls commonly known as The Sisters. The gang consists mainly of kids whose parents are uninterested or incabapable of taking care of their children. They mostly just try to survive and stay out of trouble.
To begin with, Cat mostly ran deliveries - goods and messages - all over the city for the Sisters' benefit. When she got a bit older, her older "sisters" tought her the basics of fighting with knives and blades.
As a young teenager, Cat realized that she was capable of pushing her body beyond the limits of her peers and even the older members of the gang. She decided to put this ability of hers to use, and started teaching herself techniques that would help protect the gang.
Lately, Cat has been starting to drift away from the gang. She believes she can become a successful runner if only she could find a good team. At the same time, she checks in with the Sisters frequently. If they're in serious trouble, she doesn't hesitate to help.
At Age 15, Cat formed a connection with her mentor spirit. She started noticing it as a vision of a horse galopping near her when she was running her courier missions (free lance, or for The Sisters) - even though most or all of her runs took her through highly urban areas. It gradually came closer to her, competing against her, pushing her to run faster and take more extreme measures to stay moving. At the same time she learned by studying its movements.
She has never really communicated with the spirit, and thus she doesn't know its name. She simply thinks of it as Horse. It mostly shows up when she's running, always encouraging her to run faster or perform ever more daring stunts on her journies through the city.
Mostly Horse is only visible to Cat herself, but sometimes it seems to merge with her, lending her its strength. When this happens, others can also see the an image of the beast superimposed over Cat, or even of Cat riding a horse, when she's performing athletic feats [Mentor's Mask, FA 182].
Cat's first grade Initiation consisted of a month long competition with Horse. She spent whole days running together with Horse, letting it impart its knowledge of how to move freely and quickly. At the end of the Initiation she had been granted the ability to run at tremendous speed as long as she kept running [Movement, SR5 399], something that has made her one of the most efficient couriers in the city.
Big Sis' is the informal leader of The Sisters. At 28, she is by far the oldest, and presumably of the wisest of the gang. She has formed and inherited an impressive network over the years, which she mainly uses to keep her sisters out of trouble.
She is fiercly loyal to the gang and its former members, but cautious and takes few risks.
Delphine (presumably not her original name) is a dwarven fixer obsessed with fashion. She has a modest network of connection, and uses most of her proceeds on the latest fashion clothing and cosmetics.
Cat met Delphine when she started looking for runner jobs.
Joe is an ork running a pawn shop in the seedier parts of town. His store has the usual safety measures; a metal cage you enter through, counter behind bullet proof glass and perhaps even some magical defenses. He trades in pretty much everything, but of course high value items seldom passes through his shop.
He has a reputation for dealing fairly with people, and expect to be dealt fairly with in turn. If you rip him off, he is likely to come after you in one way or another.
Joe has dealt with The Sisters for several years, buying some of goods they "acquired", and supplying them with gear in turn.
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