Nico

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Nico is one of Anke's characters. Nico is immortal. She likes fun, seeing or learning interesting things and visiting new places.

1. Appearance

2. Personality

3. Skills and Abilities

4. History

5. D

6. Relationships with and views of other characters

1. Appearance

Human caucasian female; rather square jaw, strong eyebrows and nose; athletic build; is in loose-fitting clothing occasionally mistaken for male without consciously trying; looks around 20; 1,48m (4'10''); light brown hair usually worn more or less short; tends to practical clothes - not flat-soled shoes are highly unlikely, and she prefers trousers to skirts by some margin.

2. Personality

Nico may be slightly weird, but usually she's very easy-going.

She moves around a lot out of pure interest for sights and people.

Attitudes

• Religion - For herself, she mostly doesn't give a damn, preferring something like a humanist moral code. She's interested in the legend, folklore and history aspect of religions. Since she's been in places where gods were real, she's very careful with criticism, but sometimes fantics just grate on her nerves too much...
• Violence - She's gotten good at not being too bothered if she has to kill or cause lasting damage, but she avoids it when possible. If it's practical she'll mostly dodge and try to get away. Sparring and other "fights" where it's understood no party intends to cause lasting damage, on the other hand, she enjoys. She has no objection to killing animals for food.
• Sex - In principle she's open to casual relationships, but a) a bit picky and b) more interested in, say, chitchatting comparative mythology.
• Drugs - Nothing against drinking up to getting tipsy, if in appropriate company, but hard drugs or getting drunk to blackout are not her kind of thing.
• Rock'n'Roll - "Yay!"

3. Skills and Abilities

Nico keeps in shape; she's very quick and nimble. She likes moving - gymnastics, dancing, freeclimbing, you name it.

In a fight she's usually at least able to hold her own, having had training and experience in unarmed combat and with various weapons, but, as mentioned above, more likely to try to flee if nothing else is at stake. She's also a very good shot with a bow, crossbow or gun.

She has had many different (low- to medium qualification) jobs, but most of the skills picked up are at least half forgotten and would need some refreshing or experimenting.

A relatively weak gift for telepathy mainly helps her learning languages. With some effort she can pick up "broadcast thoughts" - things that the other party wants to communicate. She is likely to notice someone sniffing around in her thoughts (and will warn them not to get too curious).

4. History

She doesn't age, and if she's killed she turns up in another world; this way she's had quite a few lifetimes by now. When asked by a friend, she'd admit to a total age "somewhere in the four digit range", but generally she doesn't advertise this.

Her long-term memory is erratic; she tends to remember some things very clearly when reminded of them, but forgot long stretches of time. She cannot remember where she came from originally even if she tries, which frustrates her, so she avoids trying to remember.

5. D

Due to some events way in the past Nico has rudimentary shadows of a dragon personality stuck in her head. It is usually dormant, but can be either a great problem or a great help when active, since it commands some magic.

D is part of the reason why Nico moves around a lot, since it seems to get bored otherwise and arrange some excitement. It reacts badly to telepaths probing it, which so far usually had very bad consequences for the too curious telepath.

Nico has mentioned D to hardly anyone.

6. Relationships with and views of other characters

Daaren is one of her eldest friends, and they have met surprisingly often. She likes, trusts and respects him, and she really likes to tease him a bit to pull him out of himself.

She encountered Suitov at the Hallowe'en party. She knows he and Weft communicated psionically, but doesn't know if it's a mindbond or if either or both are telepaths, and I assume she wouldn't have asked. She also doesn't know of his title or position; She has heard "Iceheart" now, but her first guess it's a nickname used by Perry.

Weft was playing a rather jovial Red Death when Nico met him, so she may have an entirely wrong picture of him.

She also saw Jaina Jade (but doesn't know her name) and knows there's some connection with Suitov. Other people she saw at that party were Fara, Serpentine, Sebastian and Shii.

Outside of Pro, she has access to Everwhere (basically Anke's version of the cross-world Inn) and some acquaintances there.