Maddy Black

   
Nature: Benefactor- | -Demeanor: Pedagogue
Essence: Dynamic- | -Concept: Martial Arts Instructor
Player Name: Lacarmencita- | -Tradition/Craft: Akashic Brotherhood
Affinity Sphere: Life

Attributes

PhysicalSocialMental
Strength (Raw Power)4Charisma2Perception3
Dexterity (Nimble)4Manipulation1Intelligence2
Stamina (Tough as Nails)4Appearance3Wits3

Abilities

TalentsSkillsKnowledges
Alertness3Animal KenUnknownAcademics (Philosophy)2
Athletics3Crafts (Weaponsmithing)1Computers1
Awareness3DriveUnknownCosmology1
BrawlUnknownEtiquette1FinanceUnknown
Empathy2FirearmsUnknownInvestigationUnknown
Expression2Melee1LawUnknown
IntimidationUnknownPerformanceUnknownMedicine (Alternate Healing Techniques)1
LeadershipUnknownStealth1OccultUnknown
StreetwiseUnknownSurvival1Politics1
SubterfugeUnknownTechnology1ScienceUnknown
Other TalentsOther SkillsOther Knowledges
Do (External/Forceful Style)4Martial Arts3Enigmas2
Art0Acrobatics2Esoterica (Yoga)2
Seduction0Meditation3Lore (Gallain)1
 0Riding0Belief Systems0
 0Traps0Rites0

Martial Arts Maneuvers:
Martial Arts 3/Do 4 MA Maneuvers
1: Snake Step, Dragon Tail Sweep, Counter Throw, Elbow/Knee Strike
2: Joint Lock, Spinning Kick, Vital Strike, Deflecting Block
3: Thunder Kick, Withering Grasp, Nerve/Pressure Point Strike, Death Strike
4: Snap Kick, Hard Strike

Do Maneuvers
1: None
2: Kiaijutsu
3: Plum Flower Blossom
4: Typhoon Kick

!Spheres
Correspondence: 3
Entropy: 2
Forces: 2
Life*** (Affinity, Mastery): 3*
Matter***: 2*
Mind***: 2*
Prime: 2
Spirit***: 3
Time: 3

Resources

Arete: 3
Quintessence: 5
Willpower: 7

Backgrounds

Avatar: 5
Resources 1
Fame: 1 (Successful Fitness/Health/Martial Arts Youtube star)
Mentor: 4 (The Akashic Mage who found her after she awakened. Agreed to mentor her after she saved his son's and daughters lives in her awakening)
Node: 1 (In school)

Paradigm/Practice/Instruments

Focus:
Paradigm: Bring back the Golden Age!
Practice: Faith/Martial Arts
Instruments:
1. Bodywork (Yoga Poses, Life Personalized Instrument)
2. Energy (Chi)
3. Meditation
4. Sex and Sensuality
5. Voice and Vocalizations
6. Weapons
7. Armor
8. Writings, Inscriptions and Runes
9. Dances and Movement

Merits and Flaws

Merits:
Acute Senses (3)
Too Tough to Die (5)
Fae Blooded (Troll: Titans Power) (4)
Flaws:
The Bard's Tongue (1)
Family Issues (2)
Persistent Parents (2)
Old Flame (2)
Ward (3)

Description

Physical Description:
Maddy is a lovely, athletic young woman who is 6'2" tall.
Backstory:
Madeline Black, also known as Maddy or "The Black Tiger" on Youtube was born May 21, 1994 in Saint Augustine, Florida. Her mother had always been sick and her father, a businessman, insisted she get a career. It was when she was a teenager growing up that she found her would-be Akashic Mentor John White's "White Tiger Martial Arts Academy" and fell in love with martial arts, even to the exclusion of actually focusing on her career like her father wanted.
At 18 when she graduated high school she had her son Matthew Black with her then boyfriend Oscar Weston. Though Weston still gives her a hard time about Matthew, leaving him and what his child support pays for.
As she became more skilled at martial arts, John allowed her to begin teaching beginners courses. She became friends with John when she ended up saving his son Zak and Daughter Alicia from thugs. It was in this moment her eyes were opened and she awoke to her magical power. This was also when John found them having sensed his children were in danger. Grateful that his student had helped his children so greatly, the respected Akashic agreed to take her under his wing and show her the even deeper lessons of reality as taught by the brotherhood.

  Her grandmother was a tall woman, what the fae called a troll. Maddy was always confused why only she seemed to see that her Granny was blue and looked like a faerie creature, but her grandmother never quite explained her kinain blood, wanting to wait until she was old enough to understand (but unfortunately passing away before that time ever came). Still, her noble grandmother taught her the Troll way: Never fail to be kind but always protect and always love, and never ever break a solemn promise or oath.

Now she teaches self defense and is a reasonably successful YouTube star with self defense and fitness videos. Outside of her education she is a strong yet feminine person who has taken her late grandmother's teaching to heart but even so she could never bring herself to lie (she saw it as unkind). Her soft spoken nature belies the strength within, she can switch from loving mother to angry tiger mama and back easily when the need arises.
Her avatar contextualizes himself to her as Sampson, a character representing strength in her faith, a muscle bound mesopotamian man with long hair never touched by a razor (because the Sampson he is based on lost his strength if he ever cut his hair) (Avatar Nature: Visionary, Avatar Demeanor: Benefactor)
Additional Notes:
Maddy AKA "The Black Tiger" is an avid martial artist and a tough cookie, though to her son Matthew she is Mommy.
Her personalized instrument is Yoga Poses for life
Awakening: seeing the children of her mentor in danger was the moment she first felt magic and sprang into action, taking them down? That was her first taste that there was something more to life.

Titan’s Power — A troll grows most in power when they’re out fulfilling their duties.\\ A troll gains an additional Bruised health level and dot of Strength when they take up their first oath, even if that takes the Trait above 5.\\ Upon their second oath, the troll gains two extra dots of strength and two additional Bruised health levels (with a maximum total of nine health levels). See p. 264 for more on oaths.

Wonders

Life Connection Wonder Set : two Trinket 2 Data2/Life2 (pendants) and of an Artifact Data3/Cor3 (bracelets) The 4 pieces are unique and can only work with each other. If one of the pieces is lost, the matching piece becomes useless. Also the artifact doesn't work if one or both wearers are in the umbra.
Strong electronic interference (such as generators) can disrupt the functioning of the Trinket. The pendant is equipped with an electronic component that makes its color switch from green to orange if the wearer of the matching pendant loses health levels/takes damage. The wearer of the pendant that changed color can then insert the pendant in the bracelet like a key.
Roll Arete 3 diff 3 and instantly heal up to 6 levels bashing/lethal for the wearer of the other bracelet. The healed Mage takes 1 Paradox. The Mage who healed takes the damage instead but will benefit from a -2 diff to cast a healing spell on themselves.
(Giovanni has one Pendant and One Bracelet)

Tomes:
1x Life 3/Mind 3
1x Spirit 3/Matter 3

Eight Limbs of Do

• Dharmamukti (9): Unarmed combat techniques of the Dharma Clasped Hand. Both adapting and inspiring other martial arts techniques, this limb comprises the most obvious form of Do, but only one of its many applications.

Associated Abilities: Alertness (3), Athletics (3), Do (3)

• Dhyana (8): The Limb of Meditation, focused upon calming an excitable mind. Refined as a way to escape the clutches of egotism and attachment, Dhyana employs mandalas, the Five Asian Elements, meditative movement practices, and the greater realm beyond Self.

Associated Abilities: Awareness (3), Enigmas (2), Meditation (3)

• Jivahasta (4): The Hand of Life, a study of healing arts and bodywork.

Associated Abilities: Esoterica (Bodywork, Herbalism, Yoga) (2) Medicine (Alternate Healing Techniques) (1), Survival (1)

• Karma (1): Devotion to humble labor, the perfect focus of small things, and one’s place within an infinite cosmos, epitomized by the saying, “Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.”

Associated Abilities: Art (all kinds) (0), Crafts (all non-martial specialties) (0), Etiquette (1)

• Prajna (1): The study of ethics and philosophy. Just as a devotee of the Way refines his body for war, he must also refine his mind with kindness, compassion, and the stillness of perfect harmony.

Associated Abilities: Academics (Philosophy) (0), Belief Systems (0), Cosmology (1)

• Shastamarga (4): The Way of Weapons, intended to expand bodily awareness into the tools that extend the body’s reach. By focusing on weapons, the craftsmanship involved, and the awful consequences of their use and abuse, a devotee learns to judge the implications of her own actions upon the greater whole.

Associated Abilities: Academics (Strategy) (2), Crafts (Weaponsmithing) (1), Melee (1)

• Sunyakaya (4): The Limb of the Empty Body, cultivating the ability to disappear. Based as it is upon the removal of ego through the concealment of identity, this limb has more practical uses as well.

Associated Abilities: Meditation (3), Stealth (1), Subterfuge (0)

• Tricanmarga (7): The Way of the Triple Struggle, balancing out the forces of Dynamism, Stasis, and Entropy (seen as Tiger, Phoenix, and Dragon) within one’s own self and then – by extension – reaching greater harmony with the world beyond that self.

Associated Abilities: Acrobatics (2), Athletics (3), Esoterica (Body Control, Yoga) (2)