I’m going to paste the quick physical description I scrawled down on my charsheet, and then I’ll elaborate:
[QUOTE=Omi no Kami’s character sheet]
Lucia Sigrid is pale, thin, reasonably athletic, probably female, and definitely Caucasian. However, it’s very difficult to establish anything beyond that at a glance. She sports a black business suit tailored with the sharp, crisp lines that used to be quite popular among politicians, high-level executives, and apparently with her clothier. The suit is extremely well-tailored, and it would look quite nice on her, but but the overall effect is shattered by the alarming number of tightly packed bags and pouches have been slung and strapped about her torso. A thick mass of wires leads from one bag to the commlink strapped to her hip, but it’s otherwise impossible to tell what she’s carrying at a distance. As if the bags weren’t enough, she is trailed by a large robot that has been equipped with a heavy cargo basket, apparently purchased from the same company that builds baggage carriers for civilian airports and the like. Judging by the robot’s jerky, hesitant movement, the pathing logic isn’t much better than that of the airport models, but the chasis and treads have both been painted a fashionable silver and polished to a bright shine, a glossy logo reading “Suvi Industries” having been carefully stenciled and airbrushed on one side. In jarring contrast to the paraprofessional look of her equipment, the (probably) young woman has pulled her bright blonde hair into two short, absurdly high tails that hang from her head like a bad anime character, and anybody who creeps close enough to get a look at the display on her commlink would see a screen covered in various comic books, with no useful applications in sight. However, her face is set in the professional frown that seems to be issued to every business consultant under the sun, and a pair of thick, pitch-black wraparound glasses completely hide her eyes, making it difficult to get a read on the woman. Finishing off her ensemble is a pair of fingerless, wire-covered gloves which, judging by way she absently twitches and twists her hands, support some form of VR interface.
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Alright, so let’s talk about what would’ve been obvious on the run, hmm… well first off, it’s a little tough to figure out where Lucia comes from: sometimes she speaks with an unmistakable Slavic accent of some sort, sometimes she speaks with a British accent, and other times she sounds like any Seattle native. There doesn’t seem to be any clear trigger for one accent or the other, although the British accent seems to occur most frequently when she’s trying to be formal.
Personality-wise she’s a little distant, but she has decent social skills and seems to be reasonably easy to get along with. Reasonably easy, that is, for a rigger: she always seems to be occupied with about half a dozen electronic tasks that the rest of the party doesn’t have insight into, and she has the maddening habit of ignoring or marginalizing anything that has the bad luck of not directly interesting her. She’s extremely professional when it comes to Runs, but during long periods of waiting or downtime she has the habit of tuning the world out in deference to her comics and music, and largely ignoring the party until it’s time to work again. She tends to strictly control her physical mannerisms, rarely showing any of the vague or distracted body language that people come to expect from some deckers, but she must have some fairly heavy modifications fit into her equipment, as she’s never removed her gloves or sunglasses glasses. (She does, however, occasionally pull her glasses down to glance around, and her eyes appear to be completely normal and implant-free.)
Regarding her actual tactics Lucia is somewhat useless in a firefight, but she utilizes a number of small drones as scouts and occasionally intelligence gatherers. While she’s produced a number of small drones from her vast array of bags when the situation required it, she only appears to own one large unit: the cargo drone that jerkily follows her about in public is actually a Steel Lynx that’s been equipped with a light machine gun, and covered with a fake cargo basket as to not alarm anyone in public. While on mission the drone moved quite smoothly and accurately, which would seem to imply that the awkward maneuvering capabilities it normally demonstrates in public result from conscious instructions from the operator.
In addition to her drones Lucia seems to have filled most of her bags with a startling array of electronics: microphones, cameras, jamming devices, and the like. She’s also a little paranoid about electronic security, as one of the first things she did upon meeting the rest of the party was to try and convince them to let her run a Tag Eraser over both of them, in an attempt to burn out any un-hardened bugs that either member had unknowingly picked up.
The second thing she did was to ask the party to turn on all of the electronics that they were carrying and intended to bring upon the mission. She cheerily forgave the party in advance if they intended to lie and “neglect” to turn on some of their gear, but it seems as if she wanted to get an accurate idea of the party’s electronic footprint, in order to tell instantly if a new signal started transmitting from the party’s location.
On the topic of her paranoia, she carries a pair of expensive-looking headphones that completely cover her ears, and she insisted on wearing them throughout the first run. She never seemed to have a problem hearing the party, so she’s apparently jacked into an external microphone or three, but it certainly doesn’t help her look any less eccentric.
Finally, Lucia carries a commlink at all times, but it’s an extremely basic model mounted with a cheap OS and no peripherals or detectable enhancements. She frequently pulls it out and pretends to operate it, and she does a very good job at pretending, but she has never actually used it to do anything that the party has noticed. This is probably because she doesn’t actually need hardware to interface with most of the hardware that the party encounters: in fact, she appears to be a technomancer with a really, really good Rigger/Decker costume.
Although she never mentioned this fact up front she doesn’t seem to be particularly concerned about hiding it, and will in fact readily admit it if asked by anyone in her party. However, her Rigger Act is extremely well thought out, and she does a very convincing job of selling herself as an ordinary techhead to anyone and everyone else. (In fact, it’s likely that she only admitted the source of her abilities to the party because they were Awakened: it’s impossible to guess how she would’ve acted if she wasn’t reasonably sure that her deception would’ve been instantly discovered.)
ED: Oh yes! And I assumed it was kind of implied, but she is an absolutely enormous fan of Japanese pop culture: her commlink is filled with various types of Swedish and Japanese comics, most casual conversations that she becomes involved in will inevitably turn to such topics, and she seems to be entirely unaware of the fact that 90% of the world doesn’t get her references.
