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[i]“All you need to rise to the top is smarts, willpower, and patience. Those who disagree are either stupid or lazy.”[/i]


Lusser von Steigen, Bagon, Male[/center]


[u]Personality:[/u] Ambitious, perceptive, calculating, and smug. Not the type to make too many friends, but protective of those he does. Not above fighting dirty when the chips are down.

[u]Motivation:[/u] To ascend to the top, both in the air and in life.

[u]Biography:[/u] Lusser von Steigen was born to a declining family of bankers. His mother having died when he was young, it was up to his father to teach him the family trade. Lusser learned what he was taught exceedingly quickly, but couldn’t ignore his own unstable position in the world. He would sit and play solitaire by the window in his spare time, hoping that he would one day be a nobleman and could soar through the clouds.

He grew to be quite the rapscallion in his teenage years, getting into more and more fights as his father grew less and less able to keep a close eye on him in his old age and poor health. Growing exceedingly frustrated at his ability to progress in the world, Lusser sought to go outside and challenge others in one way or another, for some sense of fulfilment and experience. Eventually, his father realized that he wasn’t going to be around for much longer, and left him the last of his family’s savings before he passed away.

Unfortunately, it turned out that this money wasn’t quite as much as he needed. It was enough to keep him going for a little while, but it wasn’t nearly enough for the secure foundation he felt he needed. Finding that there were few openings for someone of his qualifications where he lived, he decided to put his other skills to use on the streets: He went from town to town, making money as one part showman, one part gambler, and one part swindler, picking up tidbits of information and gossip here and there as he went. Eventually, he heard tell of something that piqued his interest more than anything else; artifacts from the old world. He’d heard little of this “old world”, but determined that it must have had some value to have resulted in this new one. This, he decided as he parted another foolish Munchlax from his undeserved coin, was exactly the breakthrough he needed; this was the jackpot.

[u]Skills/Abilities:[/u] Lusser excels at card games, chess, and just about any game he can use to make a quick buck. He also excels at cheating at these very same games, using various sleights of hand to both deceive and entertain. Having learned from experience that losers rarely leave peacefully, he’s picked up a good number of techniques using his teeth, claws, forehead, and dagger. He can read and write in common, but other than phrases necessary for transactions, he’s far from fluent in other languages.

[u]Personal Effects:[/u] His coat and top hat, along with a small switchblade made to be stored in the sleeve. He also owns a deck or so of cards that he uses from time to time.