Paul "Emoticon" Laurentine

Cost: 398 : 398 = 115 + 283

Rolls: Dex 12- Int 12- Ego 13- Per 14-
OCV 6 DCV 7 ECV 7
Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12

Notes

Background

Emoticon is a seventeen year old French projective empath. His parents are high in French society; his mother has been a queen of the Parisian social scene for 20 years, and his father has served the French government on the diplomatic front (in varying capacities) for even longer. His home life has been moderately spoiled, and he's been raised to be strongly patriotic.

His powers manifested (you know what's coming) at puberty. His parents provided him with the best tutelage available in their use, which is to say probably not much. Still, he's had three years to work at it. At present, he's still limited by having to use the glyphs to project emotions; all of his powers except the mental defense require them. The glyphs look like abstract runes, in varying degrees of brightness. They do not photograph or videotape, and often people who have seen them describe them differently. He can pull off just about any emotion, but he can't do words.

His secret dream is to return France to her rightful place as leader of the world's nations, with an Order of Chivalry as the soul of France. He is not in the least warlike, however; it is his firm opinion that by showing the world the sterling traits of a Frenchman all will come to appreciate the potential of French leadership. He is a loon, but he is a loon who will work well with others by virtue of his lunacy.

Hook potential: his interest in knighthood has been encouraged by his father's older brother (Uncle Georges), who is one of those somewhat mysterious people who thrive in unclear government roles. It was this uncle who provided him with fencing and riding lessons, and it may have been this uncle who arranged for him to join UN PEACE.

Contacts

Henri Rober is the bureaucrat; he's French, which is how Paul met him originally. He is currently living in Geneva, with his wife and ten year old son -- Paul's spent some time with the son in between hospital visits. Henri is about 45, pudgy, adores his wife and family. He's as good at his job as you feel appropriate.

His off-hours interests are football and, like all good Frenchmen, food. His wife is an adequate cook but Henri would never admit that she's anything short of excellent.

It's possible that he's also working for Uncle Georges, if you feel like planting that hook. Paul likes him enough so that he'd feel obliged to help him if anything happened to his family. Paul's such a softie... oh, and he probably also knows Paul's dad.

Jack McCrea is a hard-hitting stringer for the International Herald- Tribune, who specializes in superhuman affairs. He's not a bad writer but he hasn't had an in, and it's been hard for him to get good stories particularly since he's based out of Europe -- most of the good stuff happens in the US, right? So he's 35, feeling edgy about where his career is going, and hungry.

Paul met him at one of the press conferences following Aleks' death, and being savvy enough to sense some hunger, decided to cultivate him as a contact -- he's willing to feed Jack info as possible. In the last couple of weeks, he leaked that a new Team One was forming and mentioned that there may be a team of superhumans with corporate sponsorship operating on the shady side of the law (probably not too useful a tip without more info, that last, but Paul wants Jack to be keeping an eye out for it).

Jack's from the US, and unmarried.

Total: 136
Unspent: 8

Total: 178 (128 experience, 25 Potential, 25 Potential Realized)