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Name : Lottie "Firefly"
Appearance/Description : 
Gender : Female // Race : Human // Age: 17

Personality :
Lottie is a street child through and through. She'll always try to keep her guard up around others, lest she be stabbed in the back as a fact of her life growing up. It is a caution that has rewarded her well, and she sees no reason to change. Although she has never been given a serious reason to change, only painful lessons when she became a bit [i]too[/i] trusting. Naturally the lack of any intimacy or trust has weighed on her considerable and while she'll never admit it, she yearns for a life where she doesn't have to keep one eye open in her sleep. She is ever the dreamer and hopeful that the day will come. Her ambitions are a manor being waited on hand and foot by others and the ones she can trust! Of course, she blames constant spells of bad luck...

Background : 
Her story is different every time someone asks her as she doesn't like telling it. She believes her past isn't interesting compared to what she wants to be. However, her stories all roughly align with the true story as she believes it. Her parents were deadbeats as she would call them, but they were probably never in a position to care for a child. She was given away sometime after being nursed by her true mother to a shady goods' dealer, Pops. She and the other orphan children under Pops never really knew him and he probably did not care much for them anyway. 

All the children were put to work in the backroom of one of his shops to make handicrafts and to those that could, make cheap magical applications. Lottie remembers making almost everything she'd see at the stalls: toys, fake relics, dysfunctional machines, and everything else in between. Perhaps Pops might be praised for his genius, but it was cruel with how he pitted the children against each other rewarding the ones that managed the best craft sales from the month. Of course since the counts were based on the money raised, Pops was easily bribed by money from his own children. They always did get the best room or a full supper every night. Lottie never got the chance to win.

Pops was very short-sighted, however. He only cared about profits and when disease would finally take him early, his stores crumbled from neglect. He never trusted anyone let alone someone to marry or foster an heir in. With his death, a group of nineteen orphans found themselves suddenly with nothing. Instinct took over and the older children turned to the habits that rewarded them, stealing and scamming. The other children as part of the family were invited, of course, but some of that had to be the value of cheap manpower. 

The Poppers might have started as a small inconvenience at first but soon grew into a real thorn eventually. From top-to-bottom every child had to earn their keep in the group. They were a family and while initially they were quite forgiving for each other, the harsh lessons of dwelling in the streets made them toughen up. They had to scrap for survival and skills learned by Lottie in this time were very roguish. She had never really been that good at anything, blaming her poor luck on everything. She was never one to give up, mind you, and it was her persistence and perhaps her "unluckiness" that had gifted her an opportunity that her siblings did not have.

By chance, she attempted to rob a magical scholar but was caught in the act by the man. Quite a generous person, he learned of Lottie's lot in life and offered to teach her magic. She was never quite good at being studious but was never into quitting believing magic would surely give her an edge in life, maybe wipe away the bad luck. However, because of her lack of ability to study, the scholar instead took a lesson out of the page of a magical system he had studied. The Nimble Runes system was something he had realized appealed to many uneducated people because they didn't have to learn anything other than hand signs. It was simple, and he could test this magical system out with an eager volunteer.

Lottie was given her choice on aspects to focus on. Manipulating luck was out of the question but she always thought that the shadows when stealing were always privy to luck. Having the guard pass you by without noticing you in the shadows or if you're unlucky, casting the light right into your direction... She believed it was related and chose those aspects. She received her first eight markings and was trained simply to start with.

Of course now she believes she has all the luck in the world and nothing could stop her.

Magic :
Deft fingers make for deft magic, at least that is the belief some have. Nimble Runes is a bit of an underground magic craft where masters carve partial magical runes into each segment of their fingers. Then by manipulating the position of their fingers during a cast, they can activate those runes to cast spells. Each finger, aside from thumbs, can hold two partial runes and the thumbs can pick up an additional one each meaning that twenty partial runes are what a practitioner of this magical vein system is limited to. As a result there is a general focus on one or two aspects of magical manipulation for any user in Nimble Runes. However, the variety of ways you can position your fingers can create a considerable arsenal of spells within those aspects of control.

Lottie has focused on the aspects of light and dark. As a trainee, she only has a total of 8 runes carved on each of her fingers with nothing on her thumbs. It is important to start slow with this craft to make sure you don't overwhelm yourself with the number of finger positions and spells at the start.

Right now, Lottie has memorized the following:
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[*]Torchlight (Full extension of right ring and pinkie fingers), creates beam of light from her fingers
[*]Snapflash (Full extension of right primary, ring, and pinkie fingers) creates sudden bright flash of light
[*]Deluminate (Full extension of left primary and middle fingers) weakens any light source within an eight meter radius
[*]Shadowmeld (Full extension of left middle, ring, and pinkie fingers) allows Lottie to meld into a strong shadow
[*]Cat's Eye (Full extension of right pinkie and left pinkie fingers) enhances Lottie's vision to see through the dark
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Equipment : 
Lottie does not have much. The clothes on her back, ragged as they are, have always been able to keep her warm on chilly nights. A collection of knives and shivs strapped to her person have always been useful. A lockpick, though she has never really been good at using one. 

CODE: [color=aba000][i]"You eva' go 'ungry at night? Ain't fun innit?"[/i][/color]

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I guess Firefly here can come from any major city, but I was thinking of a city in Amber Grove? I didn't see any city names, though.

I also hope you are okay with the bit of liberty taken on making my own bit from the magic system.