Easily distracted. That was the common refrain of all Sienna’s report cards growing up. Obviously gifted but a stargazer, her lackadaisical attitude to academic achievement bemused and disappointed every hopeful, would-be mentor that thought they could find a way to reach her and focus that clearly brilliant intellect. Worse, she alienated the rest of her teachers with her inability to stay focused on the intended subject matter in favour of wild tangents. Her precociousness would have had her labelled with a learning disability if it weren’t for the fact that she still performed well.
At college this lack of focus grew into a 15 year journey through over a dozen majors: industrial chemistry, archaeology, anaesthesiology, sports science, psychology and computer science, to name a few. It was a cycle. She would perform solidly, aggravate her professors to no end and eventually shift into a semester long sabbatical chasing after some harebrained oddity of the current field long held as disproven before switching majors. Lysenkoism, phlogiston theory, psychomotor patterning, her obsession with finding a kernel of truth in pseudoscience knew no end or boundaries. Eventually she got herself expelled for trying to recreate the Stanford Prison Experiment. Most people were surprised it took that long.
With little to her name and a temperament that made holding down a steady job a chore, Sienna strayed into petty crime and larceny before her intelligence and chemistry background brought her into the world of drug manufacturing. As something that allows her a certain degree of financial freedom without having to play by most of societies’ rules it’s the first thing that’s really held her attention for long. There have been narrow misses and harrowing experiences in the two years she’s been doing it, but overall she tells herself it’s superior to her alternatives.
It also allows her the opportunity to pursue independent study. In her warehouse squat there are a dozen failing experiments and variations of past attempts running at any one time. The odd thing is that they occasionally bear fruit they shouldn’t. A brief successful replication of cold fusion and the spontaneous generation of maggots in spoiled food, she’s not quite sure yet how she got either result but they've emboldened her to keep trying. It’s only a matter of time before she considers the role of human will as an activator and falls headlong into pseudoscientific magick.
STATS
Personality: Sienna can never let any weird theory go. Undermining her intelligence is a certainty that nothing - no idea - can exist without at least some basis in truth. She can’t rest until she vindicates them all.
Rage: Different =/= wrong. People blinker themselves too quickly and miss so much because it’s easier to cling to what they think they know.
Noble: People trying to get clean. Sienna recognizes the damage addiction can do. She’ll do what she can to help people who genuinely want to change.
Fear: That her obsession has destroyed her potential (Self).
Obsession: Finding scientific breakthroughs in discarded theories.
Wound Threshold: 50.
Junk Scientist 60%* (Substitutes for Knowledge, Substitutes for Notice, Protects Unnatural.)
Meth Cook 40% (Substitutes for Secrecy, Protects Violence, Protects Self.)
Mad Science 20% (Versatility, Casts Rituals, Use Gutter Magick.)
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