I'm prepping for #camoNanowrimo.
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Tell me about my protagonist.
What I know about her:
* she's female
* She's skilled in safecracking
* She has a strong reason to want the Treasure/info/thing in the vault.
Okay, I have a semi-loner safecracker who taught herself because a distant relative left her a safe. She has some sort of lycanthropy; her family has hidden secrets about it. The vault has the key to her power, or at least that's what she's been led to believe.
She wears soft clothes that don't rub, carries a stim necklace in a pocket and her ancestor's decoder ring in her other pocket. She panics under extreme pressure, which has made the adventure of ~~
~ made the adventure of getting to this point tricky. The blonde streak in her hair mirrors a wolf's head marking.
#campNanoWrimo
She needs some more skills. How does she problem solve? What does she value? (Self reliance, knowledge, privacy)
@aldersprig Also, I love the idea of the journal being her ancestor's explorations into using the jewellery to control the shapeshifting, with a side of "here's all the family drama that my exploration is causing but they're just sour that I won't buy their silly curse nonsense." So, there's a chance for some events to be echoes of her ancestor's actions, which gives you a nice layered effect in the narrative structure.
@aldersprig This is starting to sound like a story about the price of honesty. "Shapeshifter stealing back the tools to control her gifts from a family that tells itself they're just cursed and have to live with it" sounds like a great setup for all kinds of trust, honesty, and betrayal setups. So... con jobs? Diplomacy? Psychiatry? What kinds of skills or careers require a high degree of charisma and trust? Fence/Appraiser?