Yup, there were a couple details in there that I didn’t want to disclose to anyone but the GM for the time being for story reasons. Anyways, this is the version of the sheet with that info removed:
Name: Billie Harker
Age: 22
Weapons: suppressed 416 Rigby safari rifle (or its fictional equivalent, I’m not sure how hard it would be to get the real thing in this setting) and a hunting knife.
Equipment: echolocation device built into Billie’s hat (upon activation the antennae attached to the sides of the hat send a high pitch signal that bounces back from surrounding objects and creates a visual depiction of the surrounding area in her goggles. In an open field has reach of up to 50 feet. This device is used for hunting as it allows to locate prey that would otherwise be obscured from the hunter’s eyes), a package of fast-acting painkillers and a big flask usually filled with some kind of cheap low quality alcohol.
Appearance: Billie is 5’10”, lanky but well built, has long messy black hair and a darker skin tone. Has tattoos with an antler-like pattern around her collarbone and burn-like markings on her lower arms and cheeks. Slouches a little most of the time.
Her attire consists of heavy duty cargo pants with a camo pattern decked out with numerous belts and orange suspenders over a white bodysuit, custom steel toed boots, an olive green cap with goggles over it, an armband with several feathers on her left arm, a choker and a pair of pointed earrings. Billie wears round glasses due to her bad eyesight.
(Character drawing is done by yours truly as always)
Personality: Billie is outwardly harsh and ill-tempered. She isn’t talkative and prefers not to speak unless she absolutely has to. She has a very straightforward way of speaking and she has no regard for her words potentially hurting others. Billie is pessimistic and cynical and has a hard time connecting with people often deliberately pushing them away by being a total jerk. Her temper isn’t helped by her being a certain level of drunk most of the time.
Billie seems to have no regard for her own life and she’s not afraid of putting herself in danger when needed. Moreover, she is always actively looking for dangerous situations to put herself into. This unhealthy self-destructive tendency was caused by a traumatic experience in Billie’s past.
She shows all signs of a person who hates themselves for their past actions.
History: Billie is a Purgatory local who grew up and lived her entire life in a forested area on the outskirts of the town. From a young age she went hunting with her late grandfather and eventually learned everything about it from him. The hobby essentially became her only passion in life. She didn’t like school and didn’t pay nearly enough attention to her studies, graduating with barely passable grades, and moved onto college when the event that would change her entire life occurred. The only remarkable thing about Billie’s academic years was that she always found herself in bad company. One fateful night, this bad company of good-for-nothing college kids which Billie was a part of got unreasonably drunk and pressured a kid from a local school who happened to be nearby into entering a location which was believed to be the home of a monster, according to many local urban legends. Billie and her peers didn’t believe in the paranormal, being teenagers who thought that this sort of stuff was lame, and were only hoping to scare the kid, however that changed when the monster turned out to be real and they had to rush what was left of the kid to the hospital.
Driven by a tremendous amount of guilt, Billie spent all of her college funds on an operation for the kid in a futile attempt to save him. When he was reported dead, she began spiraling, blaming herself for everything that happened and thinking that her attempts to right the situation were for nothing. Not being able to afford college, abandoned by her friends and estranged by her parents for what she had done, her life was ruined. She wasn’t able to cope with the weight of the situation she had found herself in and took up drinking. She spent the next four years of her life working odd jobs around the town, none of which was enough for a normal life.
In her search for means to get by, she agreed to be the test subject in a shady experimental genetic modification program, receiving a solid sum of money in return. The genetic modifications she received were unlike anything that had ever been done before, but they came with serious side effects. So the experiment was ultimately deemed a failure.
After the incident, it became clear to Billie that supernatural beings were real and she became obsessed with them. For the past four years she’s been attempting to hunt them, even if all her efforts were fruitless. Her ultimate goal is to hunt down the thing that killed the kid in order to avenge him, or die trying. She joined the squad in an attempt to get closer to what she’s looking for, not knowing that the person she’s trying to avenge is actually alive and a part of the same squad as well.
genetic modifications:
(I’m making this a separate section because there’s a lot of important info and I don’t know where else to put it)
Billie’s genetic modification is very unusual in nature. It allows her to restructure her body at will into a form with increased speed, agility, toughness, strength and sharper senses. This modification was a part of a failed experiment to create genetically modified soldiers that appear to be completely normal people most of the time in every way, but can morph into efficient killing machines when needed, with the ability to turn back, making them perfect for covert operations. The modification Billie possesses is extremely flawed and comes with many drawbacks, making it completely useless for its intended purpose.
Billie’s altered form possesses more muscle mass, longer limbs (she’s much taller in this form, approaching 8 feet when not hunched over), digitigrade legs that allow significantly faster running, bone-like growths on lower arms and cheeks that offer protection and extra offensive capabilities in the form of claws; as well as increased hearing, sense of smell and eyesight, which means that she doesn’t need her glasses when in this form.
Drawbacks: transformation to and from this state is extremely painful, meaning that Billie needs to take painkillers each time she does it in order to tolerate it, and her painkiller supply is limited. Maintaining this form is extremely tiring, so she can only maintain it for a short period of time (around 10 minutes) and she’s completely exhausted both mentally and physically after turning back. The transformation takes a lot of energy, meaning that Billie needs to eat a lot afterwards in order to restore it. Due to how inconvenient it is, she resorts to using it only when it can’t be avoided.
Trivia:
One of Billie’s jobs was working as a tattoo artist, and she made her tattoos herself.
Her favorite band is Red Hot Chili Peppers (if they exist in this setting of course)
Note: my and @Ghid’s characters were made in close collaboration between the two of us, so their backstories are directly linked to each other (the anonymous source of money from Oswin’s backstory is my character and the kid from my character’s backstory is Oswin). Basically, one wouldn’t be a full character without the other.
Plot twist: it was me this entire time
Edit:
I wonder where she gets her height standards from, if she thinks that’s massive lol