User:Winter

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Basic Info


Race: Feline
Class: Snowbound Assassin
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bi
Relationship status: Single
Age: Somewhere in her early 20's

Appearance


Winter is only around 4'10 and her build is very slender. To look at her you would think her as fragile and harmless as a snowflake. Her Skin is a beautiful alabaster and her hair, as white as fresh snow, hangs half-way down her back. Her ears and slender tail are the same color as her hair. Her grey eyes can be anything from as penetrating as a bitter winter storm to as playful as a gentle dancing snowfall, depending on her mood and purpose. When her claws are out they look as if her nails have become white, grown longer and turned to points. They are as hard as diamonds and are razor sharp along the entirety of the claw. Winter possesses the ability to morph into a sleek, pure white, house cat. The transformation is quick but hardly instantaneous and her clothes don't change with her but simply fall off if she has not already removed them.

Personality


Winter is, usually, playful like a dancing snowflake but can turn as serious an avalanche at the drop of a hat. She tends to amuse herself more than others and her words can cut worse than an icy wind . She is always cold and serious when it comes to work. She likes to live comfortably but is not afraid to take a nap in a back alley or out in a muddy field. She has a sadistic tendencies and her favorite method of killing involves using her claws. She likes to feel the flesh part beneath her fingers. Winter is, amusingly, fond of the winter season. It isn't the cold, which never touches her, but the snow. She sometimes lays out in the snow unclothed during a light snowfall and watches the light flakes float down onto the ground and her hot skin. Winter is somewhat jealous of those that can use magic and seeks a way to learn some herself. She hates rats and all rat like creatures. She isn't afraid of them, she simply feels that they all need to die, slowly.

Fighting


In a fight speed and intelligence are her most valuable assets. She goes for her claws at close range and is familiar with a variety of ranged weapons, her preference being flat throwing knives.. She tends to shy away from poisons in combat, though she is not unfamiliar with them during work.

  • Winter has a six foot vertical jump.

Equipment


Winter is often found dressed in black, simply because it illuminates her features and makes her beauty stand out. She carries no fewer than 8 flat throwing knives on her person and often has more. She wears her shirt loose to hide that she has a belt strapped around the bottom of her ribs that may have any number of things attached to it from boxes, in which to carry things, to more knives and often her set of lock picks. She is not one for jewelry as she is quite satisfied with her appearance without such baubles.

Special Items

  • Satchel of holding crafted by Kattanos

Family


Winter has no family. At least none that she has ever met. She likes it that way. No liabilities.

History


Winter was born a slave in a land she cared so little about that she doesn't even remember its name. She was trained to kill from the very beginning. By the age of 8 she was purchased and killing for her master. She served him for ten years before he grew ill. On his death bed he freed her and told her to make the best of life. She thanked him by slitting his throat, meant as a mercy to end his suffering. She spent a few years traveling and doing bits of work here and there. Just enough to keep her in money and relative comfort. She doesn't know exactly how long she traveled. Time mattered little to her in the long run. She knew she was somewhere in her early twenties, but only that much.

Professionalism


Winter is a consummate professional. She never takes two jobs at once and she never gives up on a job until its finished. She also makes no secret that, once a job is done, she will have no issue taking a job to kill her previous employer. She is capable, and often willing, to do other jobs then just the ending of life. She excels at information gathering by many means. She's not a fan of common theft and often turns her nose up at such jobs. That said she will take the more interesting thievery jobs. She has no loyalty to anyone but herself.

Non-combat related skills


  • Winter can sew and do embroidery
  • Winter can cook with a decent amount of skill
  • Winter can play the harp. She isn't a master but would pass just fine most places.
  • Winter can sing, Hardly a master but far from unpleasant
  • Winter can speak six languages besides the common tongue of Hollow. All very foreign and useless in the place she finds herself.
  • Winter can sense the use of magic near her. She "smells" it. It's not a bad smell but not a good one either. I just is.

Kana


Seeking to build bonds and find out if she can care for something beyond herself, Winter decided to go shopping for a companion. She thought about a animal but she didn’t like the idea of being trailed by something that couldn’t clean up after itself or tell her where it hurt. So she went out to where one can buy people and did just like that. While browsing the wares she came upon a beautiful feline girl. Her name was Kana. Winter had to have her and so she does. Though the haggling got a little messy. Kana, like Winter, was born a slave. Her short hair is of a purple color that matches the short fur on her ears and tail and her eyes are of a golden color. While standing taller than her mistress it is only by about 2 inches. Kana is usually seen wearing a plain, black, knee length dress and carrying a satchel. Outwardly, Kana is gentle and shy. She is the type that gives her all to her mistress including her unquestioning loyalty and her entire heart. Kana possesses magic but in no way could be considered a mage. Her skills stop at about the level of starting a campfire or cooling a bowl of soup. She excels in household tasks and finds completing any assigned task fulfilling even should praise not be given. Kana’s past is relatively bland as she has spent most her life learning to be a household pet. (Kana is not a combat NPC. If do not get her physically involved in a fight I would appreciate it if you did not do so. Thank you.)

Snowbound


After a moment of sudden fear over a feeling of loneliness that she didn’t understand Winter fled into the frozen environment outside Frostmaw to seek out the only things that had ever made her feel safe and wanted. That would be the snow and the ice. Once safe from civilizations he shed her clothes and buried herself in a large pile of snow where she stayed with a single minded refusal to ever leave again. Things were just too complicated elsewhere. After days of lying there eating only snow she started to feel a warm sensation. Her first thought was of impending death. Maybe her immunity to cold had finally failed her and she was freezing to death. AS the feeling spreads she relaxes and lets it come. At least she’d die somewhere she felt safe. As the feeling consumed her she realized that she was not, in fact, dying. Confused, she starts to rise from the snow in search of a cause but is held fast. The snow closes in around her completely covering her. For a moment she’s afraid but for some reason she can’t hold onto it. As she lay there she hears a voice. A motherly voice. It tells her that she isn’t alone anymore and never will be again. It tells her that when she is weak, wounded or afraid to just return and she will be welcomed with frozen arms. As the warmth grows stronger Winter feels herself imbued with abilities she had not previously had. The voice tells her that she will always carry snow and ice with her in her heart and to let it be of use. The snow starts to fall away from her and the last thing she hears of the voice is the wish that she return to the world of people and find other things to feel her life besides just the world of frozen water. Crawling free she finds her clothes sitting nearby and completely dry. She gets dressed and starts back towards the city of Frostmaw. She still carried some of the warmth with her.

Powers

  • The snowbound can temporarily see in the heat spectrum. The effect can only be maintained for up to a minute and only be used every 3-5 minutes depending on the duration the effect was maintained.
  • The Snowbound can walk on snow soundless and without leaving footprints unless they choose to do otherwise.
  • The Snowbound can walk on even the thinnest ice without it breaking nor will they slip on it, unless they choose for those things to happen.
  • The snowbound have additional healing powers that are limited in that they are not useful in the immediate. Once surrounded by snow or ice (ice cube bath would do) their injuries will heal rapidly. In the immediate the snowbound may use their ice constructs to form a thin layer of ice that may cause the cessation of bleeding, but will do little else if the wound is serious enough. The snowbound do not scar.
  • The snowbound may create constructs of ice taking any form. As useful as this would seem it has massive drawbacks. All constructs take strength relative to their size. (A small throwing knife would be negligible but a sword would be noticed.) The time a construct takes to form is also relative to size. (the knife would seem instantaneous while the sword may take several seconds) Furthermore a construct will last only a few seconds once its contact with the snowbound is broken. Constructs may, in theory, be maintained as long as the snowbound wishes. However maintaining a construct takes strength and after about a minute the drain becomes much harsher.
  • The snowbound may summon a small snow storm to blind an opponent. The snow storm is small with only a radius of 3 feet and a height of 8 feet. Like constructs no longer in direct contact with the snowbound, the storm lasts only a few seconds. It also takes a noticeable toll on the snowbound and is unwise to be used more than a few times without rest.

Disadvantages

  • Can’t eat hot foods or drinks. (Must let food cool down and avoid such things as tea or coffee. Would burn the mouth and cause severe indigestion if she manages to swallow it.)
  • Ice constructs are more draining in hot weather.
  • More susceptible to heat stroke and must recover from it through normal means as the effort of using a construct would generate more heat than it would dissipate. (Basically limits how much she can do at one time in the heat.)
  • Aversion to fire. (Pretty to look at but she doesn’t want to be anywhere near it. May become violent if forced into close proximity of it.)
  • Intensified pain in the heat. (Everything hurts more than normal making lesser wounds less tolerable in a fight, or at all.)

Current Events


What is a friend?

  • Winter is trying to learn the idea of friendship. It may take awhile.
  • Finding it difficult to trust anyone that can just walk away on her, Witner has decided to get one that can't. She has purchased a feline slave by the name of Kana.
  • Is beginning to wonder if this is not pointless as everyday she finds the idea less and less appealing.