Character Name: Ava Weaver
Aptitude Skills Used: Mental
Focus Skills Used: Healer, Business Owner
Income Tier: Poor
Advancement Request Thread List(s):
Mental (Good to Excellent):
1. No Surrender
2. The Tools We Have
3. For my next trick...
4. Summer Nights
5. Cadenza
6. Tea and Tension
Justification: In these threads, Ava demonstrates a range of mental skills. She has little in the way of formal education, but has undertaken a good deal of self-teaching over her lifetime, and continues to do so. She uses her mind to think her way through a variety of difficult situations (The Tools We Have, Cadenza), practices her skills as a translator (Tea and Tension), does her best to understand the soul (No Surrender), helps plan with other resistance operators (For my next trick...) and studies living conversation in the hope of using that knowledge against her enemies (Summer nights).
With the increase in mental skill, I'd also like to advance Ava's knowledge of Tek to fluent.
Mimic (New Skill):
1. What we now know
2. Misdirected
3. No Surrender
Justification: Ava has always had something of a knack for imitating others. With this request, I'd like to formalize that into an actual skill. As a child in the Rose, she imitated neighbors, wicks, and unfortunately dangerous galdori (What we now know); as an adult, she remembers these skills (Misdirected) and even helps Tom Cooke learn to wear the mask of Anatole Vauquelin (No Surrender).
Income Tier (Poor to Average):
1. Summer 2717: Welcome to the Neighborhood
2. Spring 2719: Keep Your Secrets
3. Rainy Season 2719: Souls and Silk
Justification: Ava works hard as a shopkeeper, including these three threads across different seasons; in each, she sells fabrics to a character (PC or NPC) written by another player.