Nikolina "Lee" Fabricio

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Nikolina Fabricio
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Joined: Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:02 pm
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Race: Wick
: The obligatory street kid and orphan of Thorns.
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Thu Jan 31, 2019 2:14 pm

Nikolina (Lee/Sparrow) Fabricio

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Race: Wick
Birthday: Loshis 10 2707
Age: 12
FC: Dafne Keen
Place of Origin: Vienda, Anaxas
Current Location: Travelling
Occupation: Street urchin (busker, thief, general odd jobs)
Player Name: Rachel/jadeowl

Physical Description

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Nikolina is a nondescript child, with brown hair and big, light brown eyes. She's small for her age, both in height and weight. She uses this as a tool, choosing to appear younger or older depending on the situation. She's not unhealthily underweight, though, as Abélard Devereaux, a Seventen friend of her deceased father, does what he can to ensure she's fed. She's just not very muscular. Nikolina keeps her hair long and shaggy, since she hardly has regular access to a barber.

Overall, she can easily blend into the crowd and uses this to her benefit. The only thing that really makes her stick out is the fact that she often wears her ferret around her neck like a scarf.

Being a street kid, she wears whatever she and Abélard can find. Her only constant is a newsboy cap, which was a gift from Abélard during her first winter on the streets. He showed her how to wrap her hair around her ears and stick some cloth under her cap to keep her ears warm. It was the one brand-new thing he was able to sneak past his wife and she treasures it greatly.

Personality

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Three words describe Nikolina: resourceful, resilient, and reckless. She will do whatever she needs to do to survive. She is always looking for the next mark and has no issue manipulating people if it means she'll have a warm place to sleep or a full belly. She's a friendly girl in general, but she will pretend to be extra friendly or cheerful if she thinks it will get her something she needs.

She's also not afraid to play with her gender presentation. She wears boys' clothes in general, but she can play up her femininity or pretend to be a boy if it will get her ahead. She often tucks her hair under her cap and goes by Lee, though, knowing that boys sometimes have it easier than girls on the street.

Nikolina has very little fear, as she figures she'll just meet her da again if she dies and is reborn. Luckily, she's smart enough to know when someone's a good mark or a dangerous one. She tends to focus on drunk or drug-addled people, knowing their reflexes are slow and she's more likely to get away if she's fast enough. She's resourceful enough that she can get herself of anything short of a severe, life-threatening situation. She has no issue with hard work and often does odd machinery jobs or busking. She has a pretty singing voice, which earned her the nickname Sparrow from her father. But if she can't raise enough money by working, she has no issue stealing what she needs to survive and, in fact, has trained her ferret Onna to help her out with that.

Some would say that Nikolina has an unusual amount of good luck because she always seems to land on her feet. But it's not so much luck that helps Nikolina as an innate ability to bounce back from whatever's thrown her way. She's fiercely determined to live and always does her best to turn any situation into her favor, even if she's not sure she can. Nikolina herself believes that the gods will always watch out for her, even if they are the ones that took her da from her. She doesn't see her father's death as a reason to doubt her faith. She just figures that it was her da's time to go.

Racial Attitudes

Galdori: Nikolina's da made it clear that, while he was raising her as a galdor and planning on trying to get her into Brunnhold, other galdori would see her as a lesser creature just because her mother was a wick. She's always nervous around galdori, expecting them to suddenly turn on her as soon as they find out she's a wick. As a result, she rarely picks galdori as marks, unless they're very drunk or high.

She's not sure what she thinks of the fact that the galdori are in power. Her galdor father told her it was only what was right, but she sees how many kids are on the streets and how the galdori-owned factory orphanages work and she is starting to doubt that the galdori mean to do what's best for the lower races.

Humans: Nikolina doesn't have a real opinion of humans. Her father tried to teach her that they were lesser than galdori, but she knows that, as a wick, she has human in her bloodline. So she can't fully buy into the galdori beliefs her da tried to instill into her. She basically sees them as being just another type of person who's trying to make a living on Vita. They're most often her marks, though that's simply because she's intimidated by galdori and doesn't see many wicks.

Wicks: Nikolina finds wicks fascinating, but she doesn't know what to think of them outside of that. She was raised as a galdor and then lived on the streets, so she hasn't had a lot of interaction with them.

Passives: Nikolina has no opinion of passives, though she generally thinks of them as dangerous because that's what her father told her they were.

Backstory

Nikolina's life began in an unusual way and, to this day, it's continued in this manner.

Nikolina's mother, Gabrjela, was a wick prostitute in Vienda. Her father was a successful machinist named Spencer Fabricio who owned his own shop. He frequented the brothel that Gabrjela was employed at and, unbeknownst to Gabrjela, fell in love with her. He saved up for a bit and, when Gabrjela found out she was pregnant, he decided to buy her from the brothel, naively thinking that she loved him as much as he loved her.

Unfortunately, Gabrjela didn't return Spencer's feelings, just seeing him as someone who bought her to keep her for his permanent pleasure rather than someone who legitimately loved her. Less than a week after Nikolina's birth, Gabrjela disappeared, leaving Spencer to raise Nikolina alone.

Spencer loved Nikolina fiercely and decided he would raise her as a galdor, telling anyone who asked that his wife died in childbirth. Spencer never hid the truth of Nikolina bloodline from her, though, knowing that the best way to keep her safe was to make sure she knew how dangerous it would be if her "fellow" galdori found out she was a wick. Spencer's sole servant, Landon, agreed to keep his and Nikolina's secret, but only after Spencer bought his silence with a few concords. Landon was never overly friendly with Nikolina, finding the idea that a galdor would pretend his wick child was a galdor deeply disturbing.

As soon as Nikolina could walk, Spencer brought her to the shop and taught her how to tinker with machinery. He also taught her to read and write, though she's not completely literate. Spencer also taught her galdori etiquette and other things that most galdori children pick up from the day they're born. He eventually planned on trying to enroll her in Brunnhold.

But those plans never came to pass, as Nikolina found her father dead one early Yaris day when she was 7 1/2 years old. To this day, she doesn't know how he died. The truth of the matter is that a rival machinist had poisoned him so an invention of Spencer's wouldn't be brought to market to compete with his. Spencer's last birthday gift to her Nikolina was a white ferret with a black-streaked tail that she named Onnastick after her favorite dinner. Nikolina calls her Onna for short.

Landon refused to take care of "Spencer's bastard" and Spencer's shop was quickly sold in an estate sale. Nikolina knew that her father had family, but he never told her anything about them outside of the fact that he was estranged from them.

As quickly as that, Nikolina lost both her father and her home.

One of Spencer's friends was a Seventen named Abélard Devereaux. Abélard was the only person outside of Nikolina, her deceased father, and Landon that knew that Nikolina's mother was a wick. He and Spencer had been friends since childhood and, while he didn't approve of Spencer bedding a wick, he also saw that his friend was helplessly in love. When Nikolina was orphaned and turned out onto the streets, he decided wanted to adopt her and take care of her. He wasn't even fond of wicks, but this particular wick was his last tie to his best friend. Unfortunately, his wife refused to take in an orphan child, regardless of who the father of that child was, so Abélard found a place for Nikolina in an orphanage.

Nikolina didn't stay in the orphanage for long, though, because the matron told her she couldn't keep her ferret. A month after she was placed in the orphanage, Abélard found her on his doorstep, telling him that she wasn't going back. He placed her in 2 other orphanages and she left those, too, for other reasons.

Abélard eventually gave up and told Nikolina she would have to stay on the streets if she didn't stay in the next orphanage. He was horrified when she said not to bother putting her in another orphanage because she'd never stay in one. Then she disappeared for a month, which made Abélard sick with worry.

Abélard was infinitely relieved when she showed up on his doorstep again, though her bruises and weight loss made him nauseous. He made her promise to let him help her out, though he would have to be careful to make sure his wife didn't find out that he was helping her. Over the next couple years, he bought her secondhand clothes and slipped her a few hats when he could. He also gave her an old dagger of his, though his meeting with her always had to be clandestine and quick, so she had to learn how to use it mostly on her own.

Nikolina tried to join several street gangs, but they generally rejected her because she seemed "too much like a golly". Between Abélard's help, odd jobs, busking, and outright theft, Nikolina never worried too much about surviving on the streets. Her ferret Onna turned out to be eager to help her steal food, especially since she always shared with her pet. This was another reason she was rejected from some street gangs, as they saw her as two mouths to feed instead of one.

Shortly after her 10th birthday, Nikolina was scooped up by a factory hiring agent one night. At first, she didn't mind the work because they put her in with the group of kids that were responsible for fixing the machinery and they saw her ferret as a tool to use to make her a more efficient machinist. She didn't like the orphanage, but the fact that they employed her made her try to tough it out. But after she saw a friend get killed, she decided to leave. It was a difficult place to escape, but Nikolina is nothing if not resourceful.

Once again, she showed up on Abélard's doorstep. She had managed to get a note to him while she was at the factory, so he hadn't been too worried about her. He just chalked up her reappearance to her dislike of orphanages. He agreed to start helping her again.

The Vienda riots happened a couple months after Nikolina returned to the streets. Abélard got her a message and told her to meet him in one of their usual meeting spots. When she got there, he shoved a backpack at her and told her she had to get out of town. Even though he wasn't aware of the fact that wicks would quickly be banned from Vienda, he feared for her safety. She didn't have a field, but Abélard knew that the Seventen would be cracking down on wicks and there would be an increased chance of her being found out.

In the bag, there were a couple tallies' worth of hats, some clothing, supplies, and a map. With a heavy heart, Nikolina gave Abélard a hug and left with her ferret, planning on heading to Old Rose Harbor.

But Nikolina found herself unable to leave. Vienda was her only home and the idea of traveling alone between cities terrified her. Plus her father was buried there. Instead, she kept moving from squat to squat, spending the money she had been given only when absolutely necessary. She stayed away from Abélard's house and watched as the groups of wick children she was used to seeing disappeared.

She knew her time was limited. The Seventen would start patrolling the Dives more frequently and she knew she wasn't good enough at hiding to stay safe forever. In late Achtus, when the last of the wick street kids disappeared and the patrols became events that happened 3 or more times a day, she realized it was time to go.

Just as she was getting ready to leave, she met a Gioran wick named Xav. Xav quickly took Lee under their wing and they began traveling together. They visited Surwood Isle before landing in Old Rose Harbor, where they've settled down for the meanwhile.

Aptitude Skills

Mental

Average

Physical

Average

Social

Good

Focus Skills

Combat

Dagger: Beginner

Linguistics

Estuan: Fluent, semi-literate (equivalent of 1st-2nd grade in US)
Estuan Sign: Broken
Tek: Broken

Magic

n/a. Lee has not been tested and, therefore, doesn't use magic.

Professional

Busker: Beginner
Machinist: Beginner
Thief: Beginner


Career and Income

Occupation

Nikolina is a busker, machinist, and thief.

Income and Wealth Level

Lee is destitute and either steals or charms her way into getting everything she needs. Her only income is what she can make doing odd jobs, busking, and stealing.

Housing and Inventory

Housing: Type

Lee currently lives on the streets, squatting where she can.

Inventory


• One backpack
• One dagger
• 3 outfits (shirts and pants, poor quality)
• One sweater (poor quality)
• One winter jacket (poor quality)
• One newsboy cap (good quality)
• One pair of shoes (poor quality)
• One road map of Anaxas
• One bedroll (very good)
• One ferret, white with a black-streaked tail, named Onnastick

Goals

Short-term Goals

• Find someplace warm to live for the winter.

Long-term Goals

• TBD

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