NAME: Theodora (Theo)
PARENT: Deirdre
AGE: 23
DESCRIPTION: Theo is a young woman of medium height(she stands about 5'9 in her high heels), incredibly thin, even gaunt, with the long limbs and impossible figure of a model. Her hair is long and thick and black, although she dyes the tips hot pink. Her face is thin, her complexion perfect, and although she isn't really very pretty, there is a charisma about her, a style and sensuality that makes her attractive. Her eyes are a stunningly pale blue and she tends to wear a lot of makeup, especially around her eyes. She has a large tattoo of a Chinese dragon in blue and silver all over her back, an elaborate rapier point downward tattooed on the inside of her left leg from thigh to ankle, and a bleeding rose tattooed on her stomach and hip on the right side of her body.

CLOTHES/EQUIPMENT: She's a clothes-horse, so she wears lots of different outfits, this is what she is wearing to start the story, a pretty typical look for her: knee-high black vinyl boots with stiletto heels, a belted, fitted jacket of red leather that stops a little more than halfway down her thigh, a smocklike dress of translucent black silk, a tiny bit shorter than the jacket, a spiked red velvet collar, lots of rings and bracelets, a wide designer belt bearing a set of plastic automatic pistols, and knives in each boot and sheathed inside the jacket, five in all. Also in pockets in her jacket Theo always carries handcuffs, lockpicks, aspirin, a toothbrush, cigarettes, a lighter, and lipstick. She has fake nails: fiberglass.
SYMBOL: The Chinese dragon in blue and silver, or a cross fitchee within a circle (looks like a cross with arrowheads at the top three points, and a point at the bottom, within a circle).

BACKGROUND: Theo was born into one of the more powerful gangs in Unreal City, the Carpathians, who controlled most of the downtown part of the city, the Sin Strip. Her father is the leader of the Carpathians, a man known as the Templar, and her mother, now deceased, was known as the Silver Lady, although her name was known to some. The Templar is the reflection of Prince Corwin in Unreal City, and the Silver Lady was the reflection of Princess Deirdre. Theo grew up on the streets and learned their secrets and their ways. She discovered how to make what she wanted out of what she had, and how to manipulate others, and how to work the technological magic of the city.

She was never particularly interested in joining a gang, although she is technically a member of the Carpathians, Theo is mostly a loner. She can come and go pretty much at will in all areas of the City except Central Park, where the Scarecrow and the Needle Gang hate her for her parentage. Theo's occupation is sort of a high-tech Indiana Jones. She is an adrenaline junkie, and she loves pretty things, especially old ones, so she travels throughout the city appropriating artifacts and either selling them to other people (or the Princess's museum) or keeping them for herself.

PERSONALITY: Three best words to describe Theo: capricious, mysterious, manipulative. She can be very nice – most of the time she cares about other people, uses her authority with various gangs to help innocents, and gives a good deal of money to charities, to the poor and to soup kitchens and other philanthropies. In fact, many of the poor and ordinary citizens of Unreal City consider Theo their personal goddess, a fact she appreciates intensely. She will probably help someone for no other reason than that they need help, and she is more than willing to put herself between an innocent and a whip. However, she is capricious, willful, not particularly loyal, and a bit materialistic. She often changes her mind about things, and can usually be counted on to get into as much trouble as can be found in any situation.

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