Name: Ava Zayan
Age: 16

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Style/Levels: Puppets - 5 | Summoning - 5 | Weaponry (Crossbow) - 2

Weapons: A small crossbow attached to each arm, hidden by her sleeves. The arrows are coated with poison. Her glass earrings contain poison as well, and smashing them releases a cloud of deadly fumes. The antidotes to all of her poisons is inside the fake diamonds of her rings.

Current Abilities:

Puppets - Level 1

Etra One:
Puppet Strings - Attaches invisible strands of wire to objects and people through touch. She can change the length and elasticity of the wire. The wire originates from her fingertips.

Etra Two:
Scorpion Puppet - A metal scorpion puppet that Ava controls. It can be made quite small, making it easy to carry around, but it becomes quite large for combat purposes. Ava usually has it stuck to her back like a creepy backpack. The scorpion has many deadly weapons, most of which also involve poison but are not magic in nature.

Etra Three:
Pyrrhic Victory - Destroying the scorpion puppet to the point that it is no longer able to function activates its fail-safe. Deadly poison gas is released, enough to fill a large hall full of people and leave no survivors.

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Personality: Ava couldn't care less about you're existence. If you serve no purpose to her, then there is no reason for you to exist, and she would gladly see you dead. It's a good thing she's too lazy to go about killing everyone she wishes dead, because she honestly puts no value on any human life that isn't her own. Ava is empty on the inside, and that terrifies her. She needs something to fill her. She needs to feel something, anything. She thinks she might feel something, something small and buried deep for sure, but something nonetheless, as she watches the life leave another human being, but at the same time, that terrifies her as well. If she does nothing, she is empty, but she isn't sure she wants to fill herself with the blood of the innocent, no matter how insignificant they are in the grand scheme of things. Anger, fear, apathy, cruelty, and sadness: those are the things Ava is made of.

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History: Daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, Ava could have had it all. If only she had been born whole, she would have had it all. But Ava is a broken soul, full of an irresistible hate and need to act on it. First it was a woman who made advanced on her betrothed, and then it was her betrothed when he made advances towards her. Her father came later. She'd actually had a reason for killing him though: she'd wanted his money. A foolish little girl holding that much wealth was quick to attract the vultures, and they tricked her out of every cent of her father's wealth. That was a mistake on their part. They'd seen a little girl as easy prey, but when they looked again she had become death. She got most of her money back by simply taking it from the dead. A few since have tried to cheat her, all meeting the same ends. No one ever tied any of the deaths back to her though. Her poison left no traces, and besides... she was just one little girl.

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Why are you on this journey?: To find something that will make her feel, whether that be love, death, or simply a new drug she hasn't tried on herself yet.
Miscellaneous: Ava hates you and wants you to go kill yourself.

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Relationship Sheet

Celosia Alesea - Bitch needs to get over herself
Sinpher 'Sin' Randol - The creep is plotting something
Zico al'Sorna - Reminds her of her ex-betrothed, and that is not a good thing
Viento Platinado - Loser is using up her valuable oxygen
Tyrell Varn - Let's see how you deal when your muscles stop obeying your brain
Jitters - What the hell are you supposed to be
Nathimys Bayias - A mad dog that needs to be put down
Joscelin Voclain - Is she stupid?
Atalee Vayshalum - Let's see if your god will save you
Freya Yates - Apathetic curiosity

Some people, when they start an RPG, come up with a Hero like this:
He's the best kind of killer and the kind of killing he does isn't
pretty. He's a bad man who lives by his own rules and those who
cross him come away with one fewer extremity. Don't walk in his
shadow, because doom and gloom follow him wherever he goes.
He doesn't play well with others, because he's a lone wolf, a
shadow-browed killer who won't get close to anybody because
getting close means losing and he ain't gonna lose ever again.

Who wants to party with this guy? When we're talking about 7th Sea stories, we're talking about "ensemble stories." Ensemble stories revolve around a group rather than just one individual. While D'Artagnan may be the viewpoint character of The Three Musketeers, the story is about a team of men and their mission to save the King of France. Lord Percy may indeed be the Scarlet Pimpernel, but his league of agents, informers and friends make the story work. In the end, even Captain Blood must recognize that his own personal agenda is not as important as the lives of the men who followed him for so many years.

When you first sit down and think of the kind of Hero you want to play, keep all of that in mind. You are going to be a part of a group, and you have to find your own niche within that group. That doesn't mean the group has to swallow your style (after all, everyone has his own favorite musketeer), but your style should complement the group you join. If your group looks like it's going to be Sailing in search of the hidden Seventh Sea, then you should make a Hero who's interested in such a quest. On the other hand, sometimes contradictory Heroes make the perfect complement to a group.

That same nautical search could do well with a Church scholar who sneers at the prospect of a "lost sea" and is along for the ride to make sure somebody on the boat has his perspective straight. Of course, the scholar isn't going to sabotage any evidence the party might stumble on; that would be obfuscating the Creator's Truth, something no honest scholar would never do. "But what if my Hero isn't honest?" you ask. "What if I want to play someone who wants to sabotage the party's goal?"

Ask yourself this: Would you want to play with a character in the party who was putting your Hero at risk? If a Hero acts against the best interests of the group, how would that group rationally respond? Would you trust that Hero after you found out he was doing less than honorable things, or would you just throw him over the side and let the mermaids have him? In a nutshell, playing a Hero who acts against the rest of the party asks the other players to accommodate your character concept by compromising their own. That's having fun at everyone else's expense, and it's not the kind of fun we're looking for.