Post by casey on Dec 9, 2012 15:23:33 GMT -6
| NAME: | Keanu D'Arco | ||||
| DEED NAME: | Eyes That See | AUSPICE: | Theurge | BREED: | Homid |
| CHRONICLE: | Hunters Hunted (Luna's Sentiel Pack) | TRIBE: | Uktena | CONCEPT: | Umbral Explorer |
| Rank | Cliath |
| Experiance | 46 |
| ATTRIBUTES | |||||
| PHYSICAL | SOCIAL | MENTAL | |||
| STRENGTH: | 2 | CHARISMA: | 2 | PERCEPTION: | 4 - Keen Eyed |
| DEXTERITY: | 3 | MANIPULATION: | 1 | INTELLIGENCE: | 3 |
| STAMINA: | 4 | APPEARANCE: | 3 | WITS: | 4 - Swift Thinker |
| ABILITIES | |||||
| TALENTS | SKILLS | KNOWLEDGES | |||
| ALERTNESS: | 2 | ANIMAL KEN: | 0 | COMPUTER: | 0 |
| ATHLETICS: | 1 | CRAFTS: | 0 | ENIGMAS: | 2 |
| BRAWL: | 3 | DRIVE: | 0 | INVESTIGATION: | 2 |
| DODGE: | 3 | ETIQUETTE: | 0 | LAW: | 0 |
| EMPATHY: | 0 | FIREARMS: | 0 | LINGUISTICS: | 1 |
| EXPRESSION: | 0 | LEADERSHIP: | 0 | MEDICINE: | 1 |
| INTIMIDATION: | 1 | MELEE: | 2 | OCCULT: | 3 |
| PRIMAL-URGE: | 3 | PERFORMANCE: | 0 | POLITICS: | 0 |
| STREETWISE: | 0 | STEALTH: | 1 | RITUALS: | 3 |
| SUBTERFUGE: | 0 | SURVIVAL: | 2 | SCIENCE: | 0 |
| MERITS |
| Concentration +1 |
| Immune to Wyrm Emanations +6 |
| None |
| None |
| None |
| FLAWS |
| Jinx -3 |
| Suspicion Magnet -4 |
| None |
| None |
| None |
| BACKGROUNDS |
| Ancestors 2 |
| Fetish 3 |
| Resources 2 |
| Rites 2 |
| Garou Lore 2 |
| Uktena Lore 2 |
| Umbra Lore 2 |
| None |
| GIFTS |
| Master of Fire (H-1) |
| Spirit Speech (A-1) |
| Uncloak the Hidden (T-1) |
| Sense Wyrm |
| Sense Magic |
| Rite of Ostracism |
| Find the Portent |
| None |
| None |
| RITES: | Minor Rites- Bone Rhythms Breath of Gaia Greet the Sun Prayer for the Prey -Level One Rites- Rite of Cleansing Rite of Talisman Dedication Rite of Binding Rite of the Questing Stone -Level Two Rites- Rite of Summoning Rite of the Winter Wind Rite of Awakening |
| RENOWN | TRAITS | ||
| GLORY | 0 | RAGE | 4 |
| HONOR | 0) | GNOSIS | 5 |
| WISDOM | 3 | WILLPOWER | 8 |
| Freebie Points Use |
| Ancestors 2 - 2pts |
| Resources 2 - 2pts |
| Willpower 8 - 5pts |
| Rage 4 - 2pts |
| Gnosis 4 - 6pts |
| Wits 4 - 5pts |
| GEAR |
| iPhone 4s |
| Fang Dagger |
| Backpack of Rites Supplies |
| None |
| None |
| AGE: | 21 | HEIGHT: | 5'10" | WEIGHT: | 150 lbs |
| EYE COLOR: | Hazel | HAIR COLOR: | Brown | BIRTH MARKS: | None |
| TATTOOS: | Uktena Glyph (Left Pec) | SCARS: | None |
| DESCRIPTION: | Keanu is exotic, to put it to a word. With the fair skin of his Italian father and the slivered almond eyes of his Japanese mother, the biracial Eurasian has looks easily remembered and not often seen. He's not exceedingly tall, standing a couple inches shy of six feet. But he's got a thin and wiry build with broad shoulders and a frame laced with compact, lean muscle. He keeps his chocolate brown hair cut short in a military style. He's typically seen wearing a thin v-neck sweater, jeans, and old but sturdy brown moccasin boots gifted to him by an Uktena Elder following his completion of his Rite of Passage. He keeps his phone on him whether its dead or working, and he's always got his fang dagger hanging at ihs hip, sheathed in a homemade deerskin sheath he crafted himself. As a wolf, Keanu appears to be something of a throwback. The Yamamotos were an ancient line in Japan, and their true garou links also bred with the Honshu Wolf prior to its extinction around the time the family journeyed to America. As such, his lupine form is nearly identicale to the Honshu wolf that went extinct in the 1840s. His wolven form has a narrow head with a long muzzle, narrow eyes, and short but floppy ears, and his legs are longer. His brown coat of fur is thick but short except his tail is bush, and the fur of his paws and forelegs is cream colored fading into brown as it goes up. |
| BACKGROUND: | Keanu was born the 11th of April in the year 1991 to Antonio "Little Tony" D'Arco and his second wife Kailani Yamamoto-D'Arco. Little Tony was a IT Personnel for the Navy stationed out of San Francisco at the time, and Kyong was a school teacher at a local high school. Kailani was also an active part of the Garou community of the San Francisco area. Kailani was half Hawaiian on her mother's side and half Japanese on her father's, and it was from her father that Kyong had inherited the Garou Legacy. The Yamamotos were originally Hakken Kinfolk from the island nation of Japan. They immigrated to San Francisco in the 1850s, both chasing the fables of mountainous gold and intending to scout out the land for wolf kin to take back home. Gold and glory might have been what brought the Yamamotos to California, but it was success in business that kept them there. Operating out of Little Japan near to downtown, the family owned several businesses.. businesses which were siezed from them nearly a hundred years later at the onset of the United States' entrance into the Second World War. Before this time, the Yamamoto's had allied with the Glass Walkers of the city, but the Walkers turned against them like the rest of the nation after Pearl Harbor, despite their desperate pleas and their vast efforts to prove their innocence. The family was cast out from Garou society, and they were in turn thrown into chains and locked away in the Internment Camps established by the government to keep the Japanese-American community in a place they could be "monitored". Many died there in the camps, but the imprisonment and inglorious death of a clan of Kin did not pass by all Garou eyes blindly. The Uktena, a tribe known for their support of the racially oppressed and were eager to shame the Wyrmcomers where ever possible, heard of their desperate situation. Posing as members of the guard at the camps, the Tribe cared for and protected the Yamamoto clan and their brethren. They promised them freedom, and it was Uktena Kin and Garou who at last cast down the gates and freed the Japanese from their prisons at the end of the War. In return, the Yamamotos offered themselves to be used as servants and aides by the Tribe. The Uktena accepted their offer, which was as they had planned, and adopted the Kinfolk clan as their own. The adoption was sealed when the Uktena Elder of San Francisco Valley gave a fetish, a powerful gift, Fang Dagger to the head of the family Denjiro Yamamoto to be passed down his line, or to any True Born garou, of the family as a token of their adoption into the Uktena Tribe. This dagger was passed down through the decades to the direct descendants of Denjiro until the birth of Kailani, the only child of her father who had inherited it. Though she was a woman, as the only grandchild of Denjiro, Kailani would be the first of the family's Grandmothers instead of Grandfather. It was a duty she accepted with honor, and she recieved the dagger when she came of age. It was into this rich heritage that Keanu was born, during the waning crescent moon of April 11, 1991. A month after his birth the true born son of the very elder who had given the fetish to Denjiro approached Kailani, claiming that her son had been born True and would eventually be the first true Uktena born of their line. Curious and anxious, she allowed the man to take her son with him, deep into the red wood forests outside the city where he underwent the Baptism by Fire. Six years later Little Tony, who was unaware of his wife's secrets, left the military to pursue a private sector career with an IT compay based out of Seattle, Washington. When his wife seemed nervous and unhappy about the move, he was rather confused. The new job came with a far better pay and benefits package, and she had always dreamed of leaving San Francisco. Kailani, however, was nervous because she feared that the Uktena would believe they were running from their debt to the Tribe by leaving the city before his First Change. And so late one night, she snuck from the house to meet with the Elders of the tribe to explain her situation. Much to her surprise, the Elders assured her that the Uktena would still know when his Change came, and their brothers to the north would come for him when the time was right. Much relieved, Kailani informed her husband that she'd changed her mind. She was prepared and ready to move. Seeing her true excitement now that her worries were past, he arranged for them to be moved within the month. They arrived in Seattle then when Keanu was only six years old, and he only has the vaguest dreams of moonlight and redwoods as his sole memory of his origins.. His youth in Seattle was -almost- typical except for the fact that he had trouble making friends. Not only did he seem to radiate a predatory aura, but he also seemed to have trouble with other kids liking him.. believing him. Even adults tended to look at him skeptically when he tried to explain himself. It was like there was an inbred trait about him that caused others to not believe him, and it frustrated him.. it made him angry. He was just turning seventeen when that rage reached its boiling point. He'd witnessed something terrible.. though he wasn't sure what it was. A man had been looming over a woman as if he were kisisng her neck, but there was a trickle of blood. She sighed and fell limp in the man's hand at the end of the alley he normally cut through on his way from home. He ran.. ran in the opposite direction screaming for help. No one would listen.. they all thought he was crazy or a bratty kid telling epic stories. Even his own mother didn't believe him.. that is until he erupted into his First Change at the frustration. Needless to say, Kailani barely survived the encounter with her son upon his First Change that night, and even before she'd recovered, he'd ran off into the night.. fearful that his father would kill him when he didn't believe it was an accident. He'd missed how his son had caused such damage of course. Keanu was very nearly to Portland before the Uktena of the Seattle area caught up with him. They took him in and taught him their ways. It was a year though before he returned home to see his mother again. It was a year before he completed his Rite of Passage and officially became a member of the tribe. During that year, he also learned a remedy for his technological difficulties. Unlike most children his age and of his generation, Keanu was never big into indoors activities for one very specific reason. Technology just seemed to hate him. It was like he was cursed. He broke every cell phone and computer he ever touched until he gave up. It allowed for a sort of more independent and freeing childhood though as he spent most of his time outdoors. When he was a cub amongst the Uktena though, he learned the reason.. sort of. Technology spirits didn't trust him. He was not of the Glass Walkers.. and at one time that very tribe had shunned his family. The Tech Spirits never understood why the Walkers shunned the Yamamotos, but they upheld their loyalty to that Tribe by ignoring or sabotaging the efforts of that family's true born Garou. One Spirit, a Spirit of Communication who'd evolved into a being related to WiFi did not buy so easily into the humdrum. The spirit didn't see any reason to shun the Yamamotos or their true garou heir. To that spirit, who he later named Suri after the tech on his phone, Keanu was a model Garou and a true lover of Gaia and her bounty. The spirit later named Suri agreed to be bound thusly to his phone, and Suri advocates for her friend. Without her, he is helpless with technology and its spirits. For two years after his inception into the Tribe, Keanu studied with the Uktena around Seattle. The trouble he caused technology and his will to learn more about the Garou and the spirits drove him further and further away from Seattle and the mortal world however. He found the spirits fascinating, their world amazing, and he longed to reunite it with the Earth one day. The only way he saw to do that was to persue a life of exploration into the Umbra and its secrets.. but the city and its Weaver influence made it difficult to even look across, much less actually pass through the Gauntlet. And so, over the last two years he's drifted further and further from the heavy Weaver lands of Seattle until at last he's come upon the Northern Cascades National Park. Here amongst its tranquility and Wyld influence, he hopes to find places easier to enter the Umbra so that he may continue to better hsi knowledge of the Umbra, searching there in the realm of all possibility to find the key to reuniting Gaia's torn halves.. her body from her spirit. |
