Name: Shu Ruan<br/>Concept: Ratty Technician<br/>Mark: Ratlike ears, slightly extended nose, and rat whiskers<br/><br/>Passion: Glory<br/><br/>Traits<br/>1. Genius Weaponcrafter<br/>2. Screw Safety Standards - I<em>Know</em>What I'm Doing!<br/>3. (reserved)<br/><br/>Skills<br/>1. Gadgets (+4)<br/>2. Engineer (+3)<br/>3. Firearms (+2)<br/><br/>Stats<br/>Wounds: 3<br/>Defense: 4<br/>AP:  10<br/>SP: 0<br/>CP 0 (max of 6)<br/><br/>Background Package: Savant<br/>Specialist Package: Weaponsmith<br/><br/>Powers<br/>1. Charge Boost<br/>2. Maneuver Boost<br/>3. Resilience<br/>4. Resilience<br/>5. Immediate Imbuement<br/>6. Soulbound Weapon<br/>7. Soulsmith<br/>8. Weapon Upgrade<br/>9. Zap<br/><br/>Background<br/>1. Shu has three brothers and two sisters; he's the fourth child.  His extended family is also large (even if they aren't counting eighteen generations back) and generally known for being bright, but most of them are scholars or artisans or something -- it's pretty rare for one of them to be an engineer, and sometimes he wonders if they don't look down on him for it.<br/>2. ...Well, maybe some of them do a bit, but for the most part his family was just annoyed by the way his brilliance was matched only by his hubris.  Shu's experiments were successful quite a lot of the time, but he never seemed to learn from the occasions when they weren't, and his failures to take reasonable safety precautions followed him all the way through his school years and beyond.<br/>3. Needless to say, by the time he'd earned his degrees, Shu was finding himself with any number of very good reasons not to stay in one place for too long.  He's not exactly a bad person at heart, and in truth he's helped a fair few people out in his wanderings, but he never quite managed to learn his lesson properly -- right up until his reckless behavior landed him in Lei Gong's clutches.<br/><br/>Links<br/>1. Shu's former mentor, Ming Xu, doesn't really hate or even dislike him...but she's painfully disappointed in her pupil for being such a reckless idiot.  She's usually pretty forgiving -- she wouldn't be nearly so upset if<em>she'd</em>been the only one hurt.<br/>2. The town of Xiang's Crossing has largely mixed feelings on Shu.  He probably wouldn't be arrested if he went back there or anything, though -- most of the locals will reluctantly admit that the collateral damage he caused driving off those bandits wasn't as bad as letting them have their way with the town.<br/>3. Shu's sister, Nuo, undoubtedly intends to kick his ass if she ever sees him again; she's lost far too many moderately valuable possessions to the fallout from his experiments over the years (it doesn't help that their rooms were adjacent while they were growing up).  She<em>might</em>forgive him after beating him senseless.  Maybe.<br/><br/>Soulbound Weapons: 2 slots each, adjustable rather quickly on the fly (but tend to be overly large firearms)<br/>Default weapon choices:<br/>Pneumatoplanar Force Cannon: Power Strike, Multi Strike<br/>Worryingly Outsized Grenade Launcher: Area Strike, Fire Aura<br/><br/>-IN PROGRESS-