Aapo Aaponpoika
Nature: Caregiver | - | - | Demeanor: Loner |
Essence: Dynamic | - | - | Concept: Noodle Shop Owner |
Player Name: Excelsior | - | - | Tradition/Craft: Verbena |
Affinity Sphere: Life |
Attributes
Physical | Social | Mental | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Strength | 2 | Charisma | 1 | Perception | 3 |
Dexterity (nimble) | 4 | Manipulation | 2 | Intelligence | 3 |
Stamina | 2 | Appearance | 3 | Wits (combat reflexes) | 4 |
Specialty: Nimble, Combat reflexes.
Abilities
Talents | Skills | Knowledges | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alertness | 4 (Warning signs) | Animal Ken | 0 | Academics | 1 |
Athletics | 2 | Crafts (cooking) | 4 | Computers | 1 |
Awareness | 3 | Drive | 1 | Cosmology | 0 |
Brawl | 0 | Etiquette | Unknown | Finance | 0 |
Empathy | 1 | Firearms | 0 | Investigation | 0 |
Expression | 0 | Martial Arts | 3 (Hapkido) | Law | 0 |
Intimidation | 0 | Performance | 0 | Medicine | 3 |
Leadership | 0 | Stealth | 3 | Occult | 0 |
Streetwise | 1 | Survival | 1 | Politics | 0 |
Subterfuge | 1 | Technology | 0 | Science | 0 |
Other Talents | Other Skills | Other Knowledges | |||
Carousing | 0 | Meditation | 3 | Enigmas | 0 |
Intuition | 0 | 0 | Lore:Awakened | 1 | |
Seduction | 0 | 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
Correspondence | 2 |
Entropy | 2 |
Forces | 2 |
Life* | 2 |
Matter | 2 |
Mind | 2 |
Prime | 2 |
Spirit | 2 |
Time | 1 |
Resources
Arete: 3
Quintessence: 5
Willpower: 5
Backgrounds
Avatar | 5 |
Arcane | 3 |
Contacts | 3 |
Fame (for Mei Noodles' signature dish) | 1 |
Node (at the shop) | 1 |
Resources | 3 |
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 Avatar | 3 |
Language (Old Norse) | 1 |
Green Thumb | 1 |
Flaws:
Echoes (Smell of Vanilla) | 1 |
Lifesaver | 3 |
Shy | 1 |
Curiosity | 2 |
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.