Cecilia Tanner

[ToteMaus]

Cecilia Tanner

Introduction

What I mainly want feedback on is: Believability, motivations, and personality. But any feedback on other areas would be more than welcome!

Games the Character has been involved with

The Adventures of the Ulster and her Crew, both Legal and Otherwise

Basics

Name: Cecilia Tanner


Age: 32


Gender: Female


Occupation: Starship Pilot

• Appearance
• Personality
• History
• Equipment
• Skills

• Appearance
  
  Height: 5'7"
  
  
  Weight: 106 lbs (On her home planet, which has lower gravity than Earth, plus prolonged exposure to low gravity causes lower muscle and bone density, which further reduces weight over time)
  
  
  Hair: Umber, usually kept shaven or close cropped
  
  
  Eyes: Dark blue
  
  
  Body: Lithe, skinny, somewhat boyish.
  
  
  Attire: She usually wears an olive green or beige flight suit, with patches of all the ships she's served on sewn on.
  
  
  She is very pale, since she spends most of her time on space ships or stations, so gets very little sunlight. Her features are rounded and soft, with a gently curving jawline and a somewhat weak chin. She has a small, slightly upturned and flat nose. Her lips are fairly average, with a very slight cupid's bow. Cecilia's ears are quite narrow, and her lobes are small and almost, but not quite, attached. Her almond shaped eyes are a deep blue, the colour of Earth's oceans as seen from space. Her hair is a dark shade of burnt umber, and is very clean and soft, at least, it would be soft and silky if she didn't usually keep it shaved or close cropped, which she does for convenience in microgravity.
  
  
  
• Personality
  
  Cecilia is rash, impulsive, and a little selfish. She is a thrill seeker, forever following her own heart, wherever her sudden whims or impulses will take her. As for matters of morality, she will help others in need if it is not to her direct detriment. She does not like it when others suffer, but will rarely do anything to stop this suffering unless it is suitably safe or easy for her to do.
  
  
  
• History
  
  Cecilia was born on Ishtar Terra, one of the floating tower cities on Venus. Her father was an important lawyer, and her mother was an accountant for one of the corporations that had established themselves on Venus. Soon after Cecilia's birth, her mother retired so that she could spend all her time with Cecilia and her older brother. Cecilia was a rather difficult child, mainly owing to her unconquerable urge to explore. To her, the swirling masses of yellow and orange clouds of her homeworld beckoned to be probed for all the secrets they might hold. Her parents insisted that she receive a college education, despite her desire to go out and see the universe. After a four year education in astrophysics that she thoroughly hated, she joined a surface prospecting team. She spent five years working daily on the harsh surface, scanning the planet for ore. When she was twenty eight, her everlasting itch to explore all things unknown made her bored of the surface. She took a job as a cargo hand on one of the giant rigid airships that plied the yellow skies of Venus, moving goods from city to city. Eventually, even the beautiful skies of Venus proved too small for her, and she signed aboard the crew of the SS Argent Arrow as a navigator. Eventually, she ended up on a certain earth spacedock in need of a new ship to work on.
  
  
  
• Equipment
  
  She has a Sig P220 that she keeps in a black hip holster and a wrist mounted PDA and communicator.
  
  
  
• Skills
  
  She is proficient at starship piloting and navigation, as well as being a fairly skilled gunslinger. She also has some knowledge of engineering and a few repair skills.
  
  
  

 

[Bone2pick]

This following is intended to be constructive.


Her appearance was well done; it reads like you gave that section the most love. Personality is believable, but not memorable. I couldn't find any motivations for her other than exploration. If that's true then I'd suggest developing her motivations more.


I didn't see a fleshed out human relationship in her history — that would have added a nice layer of complexity. And I couldn't figure out why she's a skilled gunslinger, any particular reason?

 

[ToteMaus]

Thanks for the input! Her motivations are mainly intended for her to be the living in the moment type, with very few, if any long term goals. I will consider adding some relationships to the background, they were left out not because of a lack of them in the character history, but more for brevity. As for gunslinging. That comes from an in-universe lore thingy. The shipping lanes are very pirate ridden, so self defence skills are common and necessary amongst spacers.

 

[AkuTheWolfOkami]

1. Her Personality is very cookie cutter, and boring, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.


2. Her history doesn't do anything for her development to why she is the way she is besides "I don't like this, i don't like that. I want to do this." That is, the History is extremely barebones and offers nothing but statements, and no development.


3. As mentioned above, there's nothing in her history that dictates why she'd be a gunslinger.


Overall, the character is fine for a character that is an auxiliary or an NPC.