People who have a passion for something they are great at usually eventually run into the fact that they’ll never be the best at it. It’s simple logic, out of everyone, why would it be a given individual over all the other possible contenders? There also has to be a best, in that intersection between incredible talent, driving discipline and opportunity, and Stefan Weismuller had the fortune to be that person. It has become the focus of his life to the exclusion of all else.
Stefan is fast, scary fast. If it weren’t for the fact that he openly espouses the use of performance enhancing drugs to reach beyond the merely human he’d be a multiple olympic medalist. Growing up it was never about the accolades that came with his dynamite athletic prowess, in being better than everyone else at one specific thing he feels objectively elevated above other people. Naturally this attitude rubs most people the wrong way. It’s cost him more than competitive sports, spoiling personal relationships and enviable career opportunities that he honestly doesn’t really care about.
It’s also given him a very dedicated niche following of speed and athletics nuts with a Randian bent towards glorifying individual performance. Across social media and his YouTube channel this gives him the echo chamber he needs to support his worldview and continue his project of building himself into a hyper-focused marvel of velocity. It also means that his ego is egg-shell thin and he is prone to picking fights and taking on challengers.
It’s one of these fights that saw him soundly beaten by semi-anonymous parkourist “Manifickfak” in a sprawling rooftop chase that Stefan swears was rigged. His GoPro didn’t pick it up but he knows he saw his opponent duck into a stairwell in one building and simultaneously emerge from one on another. Unwilling to let it go he’s posted a series of “exposée” videos that don’t prove much of anything but allege a lot of different types of trickery while he doggedly pursues the truth he knows he saw. The idea that he was beaten cleanly just can’t compute. That’s fair in this case, he wasn’t. The truth is that Manifickfak is a high-level avatar of the Pilgrim, now on the Sleeper shit-list for publicly indulging herself in this debacle.
On the edge of falling into the occult underground, Stefan presents a unique threat and resource to its denizens. Someone who is supremely skilled in a mundane way and hellbent as any adept, likely to make big waves in ways few expect. Given his attitude towards drugs it’s likely that Stefan will see the potential magick has to improve his performance as a goldmine.
STATS
Personality: Wilful, aggressive and headstrong. Stefan lives, breathes and eats his obsession with speed. His entire life revolves around training, exercising, dieting, researching and tweaking himself for peak performance. He’d be at a complete loss without it.
Rage: Being beaten at what makes him special.
Noble: Remembering the elderly. Stefan worries about getting older being stripped of the characteristics that define him, it’s why he visits his grandparents so often.
Fear: Crippling injury (Violence).
Obsession: I am the fastest!
Wound Threshold: 50.
World’s Fastest Man 95%* (Substitutes for Pursuit, Substitutes for Fitness, Provides Initiative.)
D-List Celebrity 25% (Substitutes for Status, Substitutes for Lie, Protects Helplessness.)
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