Steven Joshua Matthews
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:08 pm
Player Name: Joshua Kyle Trudell
Character Name: Steven Joshua Matthews
Age: 27
Race: Half-Gnome ( Gnomish Mother / Human Father )
Physical Description:
Possessions:
Character Name: Steven Joshua Matthews
Age: 27
Race: Half-Gnome ( Gnomish Mother / Human Father )
Physical Description:
- Eyes: Greyish Amber
Hair: Short White
Skin: Swarthy
Height: 4'0"
Weight: 50 lbs.
Steven stands at an intimidating four feet tall, and weighs close to fifty pounds. He has stark white hair due to several of his mother's intellectual mishaps, and a swarthy complexion due to a large amount of time under the sun. His hair is half an inch long, kept in no particular style, and he also has a full goatee which he maintains at a neat quarter inch. He sports a pair of denim pants, a thick cotton shirt, cotton socks, and amber leather ankle boots that match his greyish amber eyes.
Possessions:
- 37 Bishani
Pocket Multi-Tool & Army Knife- - Claw Hammer
- Eraser
- Knife
- Pencil
- Pliers
- Saw
- Screwdriver
- Straight Edge
- Tape Measure
- Wrench
- - Claw Hammer
- Mechanic
- - due to the years under his mother's tutelage, Steven has a decent understanding of mechanics, and can also invent, and try to modify, or repair very basic mechanical technologies.
- - after spending many years working odd jobs on the streets, Steven has picked up a very innocent set of street smarts.
- - because of spending a good deal of years running packages around town, Steven is able to run at a normal pace, but can run for a sustained time several times without rest.
- Curious (Mechanic)
- - because of the nature of inventing mechanical devices, Steven's curiosity caries into other parts of life, and can easily land him in trouble. (It is a weakness because he doesn't have control over it, unlike if he were inquisitive to mechanical devices.)
- - due to having a smaller body for his race, and spending a lot of time burning off energy, he has improved his metabolism to the point where he needs a lot of food to sustain himself, and will take major losses to his performance if he is unfed.
- - after spending years on the street with no major negative situations, Steven has become quite overconfident in his skills, and my jump into something over his head without thinking.
- Steven was born, and raised in Marn. His gnomish mother was a fairly well recognized gnomish engineer, and he has no memories of his human father. He was raised solely by his mother, and although she was out working a lot, Steven still had a strong relationship with her. All he knows of his father is that he was his mother's lover for only a short time, and left before he even knew she was pregnant.
At a young age Steven's mother started teaching him what it is to be a gnome, and what it is to be a mechanic. Soon though they discovered that his human side didn't allow for him to use the same magic as his kin, and so he started trying to find a way to build as well as his kin without the need for their innate magic. Even at the age of twenty seven, he still can't match the quality of his gnomish kin's work even in the most basic of mechanics.
Over the years Steven learned a lot by performing odd jobs while his mother was away at work, and learned quite a bit about city life. He quickly found work transporting small packages within the city for those who didn't want to pay a lot on magical delivery, or other more extravagant methods. At the age of twenty seven (around the age at which I would consider a Half-Gnome's start of adulthood) Steven set out to look for adventure, leaving his mother to another of her odd lovers, (currently a young dwarfish woman) and her life as a mechanic.
- Steven is a very liberal guy. Given that he is half gnome, half human he has experienced what it is to be different, and can appreciate what it's like to want to belong. The handful gnomes he encountered over his first twenty seven years were fairly understanding, and his mother of course was a very loving parent. Other races didn't much notice his differences, and just assumed he was an abnormally large gnome as he reached adulthood. On one such occasion, a human merchant offered Steven a fair pay to advertise his exotic wares, by standing and shouting that even a giant gnome found them odd, and rare. He promptly agreed to the deal, and made sure he was paid partially upfront. After a small time as some gnomes passed by, and some other races who had worked with Steven came to realize what was happening. They quickly inquired the merchant as to where he had found such a tall gnome, and as the merchant started weaving some tall tale, Steven made his escape knowing he wasn't to be paid the other half of his wages.
Steven learned to be a hard worker, and appreciate a good job done from his mother. His mother is a hard working, and well known gnomish mechanic, and instilled these virtues into him from a very young age. Although his mother was a hard worker, she also showed him that play is just as important in a good life. She would often come home with a different lover from week to week (varying in age, gender, and race) and showed him threw example to let loose when you didn't need to be serious. Nearing Steven's coming of adulthood, his mother took him out to a local tavern that was mainly inhabited by gnomes who worked in the Industrial District of Marn. She quickly drank him under the table, and left him to a fun night with a cute gnomish bar maid.
- Steven's main goal in life is to learn a way to match his gnomish kin in workmanship without having the same innate magic that they use, or by finding a way to obtain his kin's magic. Other than a strong desire to become a great gnomish mechanic, Steven also wishes to set out, and enjoy his life by seeing the world, and having a few adventures like the ones his mother told him, as he was drifting off to sleep as a child.
