All living things steal. Plants steal the squandered energy from sunlight, fighting each other and the environment to do it best. Predators rob their prey of life to prolong their own. Offspring con nourishment and protection from their parents. Theft is survival.
Tulip’s philosophy took time to get to that point and as a kid this core belief was unexamined. The hand to mouth reality of her situation was invisible since she lacked the perspective to see that things could have been different. Her parents could have taught her otherwise, if only they’d known better themselves, but instead their disinterest taught her that taking without permission was a fact of life and an expression of strength and cunning.
It was Sherridan Kellogg that gave her the catalyst for adepthood. Sherridan was well-off, well liked, she didn’t have real struggle. Her interest in delinquency was purely licentious and her friendship with Tulip purely a product of a desire to rebel. Tulip grew to resent this dynamic and feel as though her use to Sherridan was a far more compelling form of theft than shoplifting. So Tulip quietly gathered incriminating material and anonymously destroyed her, socially manoeuvring to take her incarcerated friend’s place in the school’s pecking order.
That theft of Sherridan’s cachet was the first of more than Tulip can remember. She’s a become a socially-lethal chameleon, slicing deftly through people’s foibles to cloak herself in the pieces of their lives she can take for herself. Quite literally, thanks to her command of cryptomancy. The security and power she’s found stealing people’s lives is greater than any physical theft. Flitting from one patchwork identity to the nest, Tulip is an incorrigible social climber in whichever milieu she lands. At home in just about any environment the only limit to her power seems to be the harm she does taking it from others.
STATS
Personality: Prone to nonchalantly straying across boundaries, Tulip playfully presses her luck with people so they’ll let their guard down when she really goes for the kill.
Rage: Social humiliation.
Noble: Fresh starts. Tulip starts over all the time, she can appreciate how difficult it is for people without her powers to do the same.
Fear: Having no rock to crawl under if her schemes go wrong (Helplessness).
Obsession: Build herself a new life from the things she steals from others.
Wound Threshold: 50.
Social Parasite 60% (Substitutes for Lie, Protects Self, Coerces Self.)
Cryptomancy 60%* (Adept, Casts Rituals, Use Gutter Magick.)
Shock Gauges
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