Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa
Author	/u/ShellMerc
Civilian name	Samantha "Sami" Jones
Alignment	Hero
Affiliation	New Horizon (Devilfish)
PRT Classification	Thinker, Changer,
Born	(1998-10-31) October 31, 1998 Las Vegas, Nevada
Status	Active

Character Sheet

Appearance

Sami’s physical appearance is fluid, at least the less permanent aspects are. When using her power her hair and eye colour shift as part of the minor changes to her body, after releasing an aspect her hair colour does not shift back, but does change again when she uses a new one. Her eyes are affected by power-caused heterochromia, shifting one at a time whenever she uses an aspect. Her height fluctuates between 5’2” and 5’8” as she uses her aspects.

Samantha had leather black hair and sable eyes before her trigger, and stood originally at 5’4” but always wished to be taller.

Equipment and Resources

Wealth Level: 6

Equipment

• Cell phone
• First aid kit
• Handcuffs and Zipties
• A company SUV, loaded with minor (non-tinkertech) versions of her Aspect gear.
• Top of the line laptop for research purposes (Definitely not used for games)

Skills and Specializations

• Loves musicals, knows the words to many of them by heart
• Can play the guitar, read tablature
• Power enhanced researching, categorization, and analytics
• Aspect dependent (Listed in Aspect posts)

Mentality

A mousy personality, non-confrontational but driven to succeed no matter the odds. Sami is ready to face the facts when laid out before her, but is always looking for more; the evidence, the understanding of the situations she’s in… Unless she’s relying on her Aspects, their personalities are built by her, they become the people she wishes to be, the people that her research says these legendary figures are meant to be.

Power

• Trigger type: Single Natural Thinker, Changer

Her thinker power is a broad spectrum skill thinker, allowing her to develop 'aspects' based on personalities of fictional or non-fictional beings and install them to gain access to the skills and abilities developed within the aspect 'file' of that specific persona. She can develop any number of these aspects but requires time for research and development of different designs, the profiles can be only be used one at a time and in order to be used at full effectiveness they need gear as their power does not have a trump rating.

The changer aspect of her power tweaks her body slightly to be more in line with the aspect as designed, changing her hair and eye colour while also increasing muscle mass or flexibility to allow her to make use of the physical skills of her aspects.

E.g. Arthur Pendragon would help with her Eloquence, Leadership, and a skill in Sword fighting along with blonde hair and a single blue eye while Sherlock Holmes would give her increased Cold Reading or Investigation and brown hair with a single grey eye.

• Example:

“Set,” there was a short pause as she cycled through her options… Sherlock, Arthur Pendragon, Helsing; and so many others that she’d only begun working on, smaller and less solid than her core choices. “Start.”

Bidden into her mind Tabula Rasa’s view changed, her body flexing with muscle memory she’d never trained for, skills taking hold as though she practiced them every day. Her left hand rested on the blade at her hip; it wasn’t Excalibur but it had served her well so far. The shield on her back didn’t feel like Wynebgwrthucher, but that didn’t matter at the moment. The smell of the building, this wasn’t a time for combat or heroics, she was here relying on Arthur for his statesmanship, his eloquence, and his leadership.

She already felt taller, as she did every time she called on Arthur, her muscles filling out. Out of the corner of her eye she watched as Sherlock’s brown was washed away by the King of Knight’s blonde. A few feet and she was stepping out onto the stage, into the heat of the lights, the flashing of press cameras going off in her eyes. She smiled, head held high with the power of the Pendragon.

Backstory

Samantha Jones; straight A student, 4.0 GPA, valedictorian, and scholarship winner. All through her youth she’d been told that she was capable of great things, of changing the world… And she was going to, her studies ranged from comp-sci to mythology to law, she’d spent her free time that could have been used for socializing with her peers to make connections in the academic community and in the business world.

After she triggered, once she understood what her powers represented she created her first Aspect, Sherlock Holmes, and with her power she tore her way through the red tape, through the investigation that her school claimed to have done into the counter plagiarism claim she’d made. She crushed them, tore down their objections and presented her findings. She was contacted by New Horizon with a job offer within a week.

+++TRIGGER+++ Sami was repeatedly mocked and ridiculed by her compatriots in the academic community… ‘Why was she doing this?’ ‘What was she doing here?’ ‘Your work isn’t worth anything.’ People would walk through her in the hallways, her papers always seemed to be graded unfairly by the professors she studied under while others succeeded and advanced around her.

She was teetering on the edge of losing her scholarship with every report, every study, every exam that wasn’t standardized, and it was starting to eat at her. She finally had her chance with her Master’s Thesis, two years of her life was dedicated to the project. Every spare moment she had, every scrap of energy.

When the time came to submit her work, what felt like the culmination of everything she’d been pushing towards for the past six years of course work, of extra classes, of spirit breaking effort, the committee all but laughed her out of the room. They had already read everything she’d submitted, nearly a week before, when another student had finished their own thesis and when it was brought out they matched nearly word for word.

They’d brought the other student in, and he had stated with certainty that his work was original… After all, why would he wait a week after it was complete to submit it?

Fake. Copier. Lazy. Rip off artist. Plagiarist.

Trigger.