Name:  Olivia (generally shortened to Liv) Brent. 

Age:  21

Faction: She has tenuous links with The Lost, but has been known to work with just about anyone willing to pay. 

Gender:  Female

Appearance: At first glance, Liv does not appear physically intimidating; with a short stature (just over 5ft), her father’s slender facial structure, and white-blond flyaway hair, she looks like she’d blow away in a strong breeze. However, her tendency to wear excessively baggy hoodies hides the fact that she’s actually quite muscular, and carrying some sort of weapon. 

Nationality: She has both Icelandic and English heritage.

Personality:  Liv was born a fighter, and will probably die one. Her moral compass tends to skew in the direction that is most likely to help her (and possibly the few people she calls friends) survive the longest, and she’s accustomed to giving everything she’s got just to live another day. She has little patience for people she perceives to be incompetent or having given up, and doesn’t hesitate to make her grievances known, which can make her seem callous and difficult to get along with at first. However, anyone who takes the time to get to know her will soon discover a deep seated optimism that things can, and will, get better, and if she can just endure a little while longer, she’ll live to see the day that they do.

 Equipment: She carries at least one knife on her at all times, that number is usually closer to five or six though, and she also has a small pistol that she is adept at concealing. She usually has a first aid kit containing a few essentials like bandages, painkillers, antiseptic, and one of those shiny foil thermal blankets. If she’s going to be away from her small bedsit for longer than a day or two, she carries a tatty old black backpack with a spare change of clothes, and sometimes supplies such as food or water, depending on what she’s doing. Due to her line of work, she sometimes also carries a small cassette recorder that she can keep in her pocket.

Skills: As a child, Liv spent a lot of time getting into scraps with opponents who were bigger, stronger, and older than she was. Of course, she spent a lot of the time getting beaten to a pulp (much to her parents’ disdain), but she also got a lot of experience. As she matured, she learnt how to fight smart, and figured out that her greatest asset was her speed and knowledge of how to hit people where it hurts. As she got older, she sought out the tutelage of more experienced combatants, and refined her skills further, also learning how to fight with melee weapons and guns. The fact that she is still relatively young, and hasn’t received any kind of steady/professional training may put her at a disadvantage, but she has a lot of potential in this area.

 Liv also has fairly decent information gathering skills, something she picked up on the job. Whilst not the best (or most expensive) PI around, Liv can find information quite quickly, and has numerous connections to the criminal underbelly, mostly people who knew her growing up.

Due to her impoverished upbringing, Liv also learnt how to make resources go further. Before she died, her mother made sure to ensure her daughter had at least a rudimentary knowledge of how to cook something out of nothing, and get the most out of a pair of shoes or piece of clothing.

History:  Liv’s life started out in much the same way as a lot of people in the city; her mother, heavily pregnant and completely alone, fled to one of the poorest areas to have and raise her child alone. Still baring the scars of an abusive marriage, life was tough and unforgiving, and when the baby came along, it got worse. From an early age, Liv got used to looking after herself whilst her mother worked (she had about five different jobs), and like many children in the neighbourhood, she spent more time playing outside of their cramped grotty bedsit than living in it. Liv started to work unofficially around the time she was ten, generally just relaying messages discretely, but sometimes delivering ‘packages’ and other odd jobs for the numerous shady characters who operated in her area. 

By the time Liv was sixteen, she had a steady job waitressing at a local café (the owner of which was teaching her how to read and write, and a variety of other academic subjects), and several other ‘side jobs’. She was, however, the only person bringing home a decent wage, as her mother was disabled by an illness that would have been diagnosed as major depressive disorder if they’d been able to afford a doctor. They struggled, and even though there wasn’t always food on the table, they managed. That is, until tragedy struck, and Liv came home to find her mother dead, having taken her own life.

 Other: Liv stayed near the area she grew up in, but she now rents a different grotty bedsit, which she operates out of. She’ll generally take any kind of job that pays well, and has worked as a mercenary, a contract killer, and a courier, but most frequently she finds herself working as a PI, finding blackmail material and whether people’s partners have cheated or not.