Aapo Aaponpoika

   
Nature: Caregiver- | -Demeanor: Loner
Essence: Dynamic- | -Concept: Noodle Shop Owner
Player Name: Excelsior- | -Tradition/Craft: Verbena
Affinity Sphere: Life

Attributes

PhysicalSocialMental
Strength2Charisma1Perception3
Dexterity (nimble)4Manipulation2Intelligence3
Stamina2Appearance3Wits (combat reflexes)4

Specialty: Nimble, Combat reflexes.


Abilities

TalentsSkillsKnowledges
Alertness4 (Warning signs)Animal Ken0Academics1
Athletics2Crafts (cooking)4Computers1
Awareness3Drive1Cosmology0
Brawl0EtiquetteUnknownFinance0
Empathy1Firearms0Investigation0
Expression0Martial Arts3 (Hapkido)Law0
Intimidation0Performance0Medicine3
Leadership0Stealth3Occult0
Streetwise1Survival1Politics0
Subterfuge1Technology0Science0
Other TalentsOther SkillsOther Knowledges
Carousing0Meditation3Enigmas0
Intuition0 0Lore:Awakened1
Seduction0 0 0
 0 0 0
 0 0 0

Additional Abilities:
Martial Arts maneuvers: Snake Step, Joint Lock, Spinning Kick, Throw, Death Strike, Withering Grasp

Spheres

Correspondence2
Entropy2
Forces2
Life*2
Matter2
Mind2
Prime2
Spirit2
Time1

Resources

Arete: 3
Quintessence: 5
Willpower: 5

Backgrounds

Avatar5
Arcane3
Contacts3
Fame (for Mei Noodles' signature dish)1
Node (at the shop)1
Resources3

Contact Details:
Jason Kuntz - Loose-lipped Journalist who tends to always be out for a scoop and will give info he hears if it will end up in a better scoop (Like if Aapo hears anything too)
Mike - A homeless guy who gets a free meal every day, always happy to see Aapo and the staff and see if he hears anything.
Jack - Mike's homeless guy friend. Same deal as Mike.

Paradigm/Practice/Instruments

Paradigm:
Creation is Alive and Divine: The world, perhaps even the universe, is a living entity. That entity is either part of Divinity or else is Divinity itself. Gods and monsters exist, as do pain, horror, and death; that’s cool, though, because in the end good things come from all the suffering. Death sustains life, life gives way to death, and the whole thing is a cycle that perpetrates itself in an ultimately beneficial way. Magick flows from an understanding of that cycle and your place in it as an agent of change.
Practice:
Shamanism with Martial arts: perfecting spirit mind and body to channel the "divine" -- the health of the body is as important as its fitness so he uses medicine as well as keeping in physical (martial arts) and mental (meditation) shape
Instruments:
1. Dance and Movement
2. Vital Energy (Ki/Chi)
3. Symbols
4. Food and Brews
5. Prayers and Invocations
6. Cups and Vessels
7. Writings and Inscriptions
8. Herbs
9. Drugs and Concoctions

Merits and Flaws

Merits:

Manifest Avatar3
Language (Old Norse)1
Green Thumb1

Flaws:

Echoes (Smell of Vanilla)1
Lifesaver3
Shy1
Curiosity2

Description

Physical Description:
Aapo is a Finnish-American whose parents emigrated when he was very young. He has blonde hair, blue eyes, a stereotypical Nordic person. He is quite limber but doesn't look particularly strong.
Backstory:
Aapo was born in Minnesota about twenty years ago to a normal household. For one reason or another (probably because he's just so unobstrusive and not very charming), he always passed under the radar and was never approached by anyone for much of anything. His favorite thing in the world was, funnily enough, Ramen Noodles, but he hungered for more...surely there was more than just freeze-dried dehydrated ramen with sodium filled flavor packets in life! He ended up going to Culinary School and passing with unremarkable marks, studying Japanese cuisine and traditional methods of making high quality Ramen. Eventually he came to open up a noodle shop called "Mei Noodles" -- using the Japanese word for Noodle to effectively make a noodle shop called "Noodle Noodles" Moving to Starke, his tale begins as he opens his newly expanded and decently successful noodle shop to feed the hungry.

Additional Notes:
Property is the Mei Noodles noodle shop, where most of his resources come from.

Hapkido is a highly eclectic Korean martial art. It is a form of self-defense that employs joint locks, grappling, and throwing techniques similar to those of other martial arts, as well as kicks, punches, and other striking attacks. It also teaches the use of traditional weapons, including knife, sword, rope, ssang juhl bong (nunchaku), cane (ji pang ee), short stick (dan bong), and middle-length staff (joong bong, gun (analogous to the Japanese jō), and bō (Japanese), which vary in emphasis depending on the particular tradition examined.