Susan Blood is an Active Player Character played by iaincarter.

Susan Blood
Gender & Species:	Male, Valhallan
Organization:	Iron Company
Occupation:	Yeoman
Rank:	Novice
Current Placement:	Reactivated
Orders:	LINK TO ORDERS THREAD

• Susan is not a small man. At 19 years old, he stands at 7ft 2in (218.5cm) tall and masses 295 lbs (134kg) - he is in fact on the upper end of Valhallan norm. His muscles are well developed, but lean more towards athletic tone than the visual bulging of a bodybuilder. Susan is otherwise proportioned normally.

• Having spent a considerable portion of his life outdoors, Susan's skin is a pinkish-peach, pale in areas usually covered but otherwise tanned from exposure. He has the usual human male body hair - including chest, armpits and crotch. Susan agrees with the tribal notion of commemorating achievements with names and tattoos. To date he has an eight-pointed Aegishjalmur tattooed on his forehead, the ink a shade of red close to fresh blood. Susan has several scars left over from injuries sustained in fights and hunts.

• Susan's eyes are a cold, ocean blue with small flecks of light blue throughout. He has shaggy black hair, but usually keeps his head shaved bald. A black, garibaldi style beard dominates the lower half of his face and extends about three inches below Susan's chin. His ears are human normal, proportioned to his size and unpierced.

• Caring little for unnecessary primping, Susan's scent is his natural musk, lightened due to whatever cheap and functional soap he last used. As one might suspect from his size, Susan's voice is deep and gravelly, easily hitting bass notes. His posture is that of a confident individual who knows there is a good chance that they are the biggest and toughest person in the room. Susan tends towards a swift, steady gait not unlike that of a predator following the trail of it's prey.

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Susan (literally Sue's Son) was born on 9日 3月 YE 27 at the PLACE in BIGGER PLACE on the planet BIGGEST PLACE.

• Susan's grandfather (named 'Lightning Hands Sheathed in Blood', occasionally Hanz for short although if not given permission to use such by the man himself, doing so would earn you a beating for the blatant disrespect) embarrassed a man who had great influence with a rival chieftain, so at an Aletruce he was forced to vow that for seven generations, the children of his line would all be given embarrassing names. While only really a burden to the children, most adults on the receiving end of this vow consider it an easy source of character-building. Accordingly, Susan has a five-year younger brother named Juniper (June), a seven-year younger sister named Erica (Eric) and an eight-year old younger sibling named Valentine (Val).

• Susan's immediate family is involved in the mining and smelting of metal ores. Father Suzerain (Sue) is an experienced miner, often acting as a foreman with history of working just about every related job on-site. Susan's mother Davina (Dave) is an engineer, often involved in surveying land and planning for new mines although she has also been known to grab a sledge and help with the percussive maintenance routines often required to keep the Valhallan equipment operational. Susan also has the occasional uncle, aunt and cousin of varying degrees of relationship in near proximity.

• He was named Susan because he was literally 'Sue's son' and his parents thought it was funny. Naturally, upon the local kids learning his name, Susan was picked on. After the first beating resulting from him pushing back, his parents expressed their disappointment - not for picking the fight, but rather for not following through and ending it. That particular piece of parental disapproval would have a meaningful impact on a young Susan. It didn't take long after that for most of the local kids to learn not to provoke Susan into fighting.

• Susan made his first kill at the age of eight. Being large for his age, he quite easily got into fights with people older than himself and sometimes beating them required that they be put down hard and fast. Unfortunately, from time-to-time the resulting internal injuries or severity of the imparted wounds had mostly-unintentional side effects. Such as the aforementioned death - it turns out that while a rapid, hard blow to the solar plexus will cause your opponent all kinds of distress, it can upon occasion cause severe nerve damage that results in an increasing inability to breathe. After this incident, Susan determined to learn more about anatomy, so that such a result wouldn't be accidental next time.

• Initially, Susan's siblings were spared the traditional needling and bullying over their names as most children were intimidated by Susan. This necessitated an intervention where Susan promised to stay out of his siblings' fights. In return, he got access to one-on-one training, mostly in the form of brawling, grappling and knife-wielding from several adults in the family.

• By his mid-teens, Susan's parents knew he wasn't suited for the mining business. They'd had him try his hand at various trades but nothing seemed to truly catch his fancy - aside of course from the various fights, hunts and raids Susan managed to involve himself in. Unfortunately, by this point in time Susan was barred from most legitimate forms of fighting, having developed an admittedly deserved reputation for brutality. Or, as he put it, the swift and efficient decimation of his opponent's combat ability. Susan continued his general befuddlement at the concept of sportsmanship when it came to fighting.

• Eventually, Susan made the adult and mature decision for himself to join the Iron Company. It is purely coincidental that in the moments leading up to said decision, that he learned of just how much fighting he'd end up involved in as a member - add in the promise of further training to be a better fighter and Susan was sold on the idea. Leaving a 'Dear All, am off to join the Iron Company, love Susan' note stabbed onto the kitchen table, Susan took himself off to the nearest recruitment centre.

• The Iron Company took Susan in and trained him to be a better killer. Not really displaying much in the way of administrative or technical aptitude, his trainers put him on the Yeoman track and taught him accordingly until they decided it was time to put him to work.

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Growing Up

• Manual Labour - When most of the punishments growing up are based around back-breaking, laborious work, you learn how best to do such while minimising risk to yourself. Susan has experience of just about every ground-based method (and some water-based) of manually moving object X between point A and point B. This includes the use of beasts of burden as well as pulley systems, carts and barges.

• Mining - It's hard to grow up in a mining community and not pick up some knowledge and experience. Susan is able to safely work in a mine, identify most mining equipment and operate a good portion of it, albeit at a rookie level. This experience also extends into the smelting of the mined ores.

• Hunting - Susan knows the basics of how to track, trap, skin and otherwise harvest a variety of lifeforms. He is familiar with the operation and maintenance of common hunting gear and basic traps.

• Fighting - If there is one thing Susan would consider himself good at, it's fighting. He is a good brawler and melee fighter, tending towards powerful, targeted blows to weak points and vulnerable areas.

• Medicine - Susan learned that studying anatomy improved his combat effectiveness. As a side effect, he also learned basic medical assessment and first aid. This has proven useful on occasion to heal his own injuries after a particularly boisterous fight.

Basic Training (Iron Company)

• Iron Company Equipment - Susan has been trained in the operation and basic maintenance of common Iron Company equipment and weaponry. This also extends to how to use communications equipment effectively.

Hobbies & Interests

• Fighting
• Tribal traditions, including music, tattoos, contests, storytelling etc.
• Long-distance running
• Swimming

In decreasing order of subjective importance, Susan is currently connected to:

• His immediate family, consisting of:
  • Sue (Suzerain), father, born YE 04, mining foreman/consultant
  • Dave (Davina), mother, born YE 02, mining engineer/surveyor
  • June (Juniper), brother, born YE 32
  • Eric (Erica), sister, born YE 34
  • Val (Valentine), sibling, born YE 35, intersex and chooses their 'gender' for the day based on how they feel when they wake up.

Susan is potentially connected to:

• People from his home and nearby settlements
• Members of the Iron Company

Susan has the following equipment:

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Susan has the following personal property:

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The Financial Assets of Susan:

• Current bank balance of: BALANCE
• Current income of: INCOME - EMPLOYER

This page was created by iaincarter on the 16th September 2024 at 1248.

Reference pics for Susan: pic one - Olivier Richter, general build, pic two - forehead tattoo design

In the case iaincarter becomes inactive:

• Can this character be used as an NPC by a GM or FM? Yes
• Can this character be adopted after I've been gone for a year? Yes