Ragamuffin
Appearance
Ragamuffin is a rather cute figure, even for a Rous. Cleaning herself rather thoroughly as a habit picked up from her fathers, a pair of Dwarves whom raised her. She keeps her hair short, so as to keep it from getting in the way, and adorns herself in a mass of several oversized cloaks and garments (all stolen) of variable quality. This has three purposes, first and foremost to disguise her nature and activities as she seems alike to any number of nondescript, cozied-up homeless beggars. Second, it has many layers of pockets and hidey-holes to stash all of her tools of the trade, from lock-picking kits to small hammers to a brass bell with string. Finally, it serves as a rather soft home for her and her pet rat, Geefer, as she will usually curl up in her rags and simply drift off from wherever she has stashed herself.
Skills and Abilities
Ragamuffin is highly acrobatic; she can twist and contort, as well as squeeze, in ways most people cannot anticipate. Additionally, she has honed her manual and athletic dexterity to its peak, able to utilize leaps, rolls, and kicks to maneuver in three dimensions fluidly. All, of course, while picking pockets and stealing jewelry. She is a skilled lock-breaker, able to crack combination safes, key safes, vault doors, and on occasion magical wards (though preparation is always needed for every attack).
Finally, Ragamuffin has a knack for survival, able to bounce, roll, or simply be lucky. When her life is on the line, she is practically impossible to catch through raw dumb luck. When a job goes bad, she knows she can get out. She always does, and she always will. Or, so she hopes. Better then to have a few contingencies all the same.
Finally, Ragamuffin has a knack for survival, able to bounce, roll, or simply be lucky. When her life is on the line, she is practically impossible to catch through raw dumb luck. When a job goes bad, she knows she can get out. She always does, and she always will. Or, so she hopes. Better then to have a few contingencies all the same.
Personality
Ragamuffin is pretty exemplary of her kind; she's cowardly, greedy, vain, and subtle. However, she isn't a cut-throat nor finds murder to sit well with her. She isn't gentle, but more likely to find pity or compassion in her heart than most Rous having been raised by two caring fathers that tried their best. While the Dorf life isn't for Ragamuffin, she has internalized their values of grudges, slights, and balances due. As such, while she does steal, she doesn't steal from the needy nor from those without substance already. Her preferred targets are the affluent, the famous, and the proud. The sort to have a trinket worth swiping for posterity and the kinds to hold a grudge.
She enjoys being known, despite having to constantly be hidden for survival, as she is proud of herself and who she is. She prefers to invest her earnings, usually into majority shares of a variety of Squeak-easies and coaching houses, though having a supply readily available for bribes and black-market magic is minded. She also donates significant funds to public houses and kitchens, paying it forwards for the next Gutter-Belle to emerge. If another thief of her skill rises from the under-classes of all Arethil's societies, she will consider her legacy iron-clad and secured.
Finally, Ragamuffin is deathly-terrified of intimacy. She is aware of how many Rousmothers come to be, and as such avoids proximity to men as much as possible. When forced to be near or in their presence, she keeps her tail-knife buckled and dagger in-hand. While she doesn't like to kill and considers it the sign of a poor thief, she has even less of a fondness for death or worse, and will readily cause harm to anyone attempting to get too close.
She enjoys being known, despite having to constantly be hidden for survival, as she is proud of herself and who she is. She prefers to invest her earnings, usually into majority shares of a variety of Squeak-easies and coaching houses, though having a supply readily available for bribes and black-market magic is minded. She also donates significant funds to public houses and kitchens, paying it forwards for the next Gutter-Belle to emerge. If another thief of her skill rises from the under-classes of all Arethil's societies, she will consider her legacy iron-clad and secured.
Finally, Ragamuffin is deathly-terrified of intimacy. She is aware of how many Rousmothers come to be, and as such avoids proximity to men as much as possible. When forced to be near or in their presence, she keeps her tail-knife buckled and dagger in-hand. While she doesn't like to kill and considers it the sign of a poor thief, she has even less of a fondness for death or worse, and will readily cause harm to anyone attempting to get too close.
Biography & Lore
Raised in a DwarfHold by a ranger and a brewmaster, Ragamuffin was mistaken for a kobold in a rather comical discovery when her father Yurric found her in one of the mining tunnels. Thinking she was someone's lunch basket, he took her home only to discover the shivering Rouschild curled up, having gorged herself and fallen asleep on dwarven cheese and sausages. Not having the heart, Vathog introduced the small youth to Lunn, his partner, and the two decided to raise the creature as their own.
Trouble during her childhood was certainly evident when she reached maturity after only a year, showing aptitude for the tunnel-scouting but no fondness for hard, honest work. Eventually, in an effort to please her fathers, she began to swipe ore nuggets while out, and claiming she had gathered them herself. Obviously, the claims of a thieving rat somewhere in the mines ousted her immediately, and after a tanning she had the reality of things explained to her:
The Rous, who she was part of, were a problem in dwarven tunnels. Given rous activity in the area, the blame wasn't solely on the strange, hidden child of the Buggmann's, but if she was to survive she would need to hide herself better. Given that she wouldn't integrate into dwarven society as another productive part of the clan, her fathers decided to help her discover her own path forwards. Her first forays above ground and in the furthest reaches of the mining tunnels did not go well, a botched job on a human blacksmith and a narrowly-avoided disaster during scouting mission against a rous caravan further helping her to learn her skills and limits.
Her fathers loved her as best they could, being honest dwarves with an adopted rat as a child, though due to differences Ragamuffin left home at the age of three. She still writes, and hopes to return home when she's found her place; slowly, this little rous urchin is trying to find where she belongs. She won't integrate fully into rous society, and would never be fully accepted as a member of the Buggmann clan. Despite it all, she's set her sights on where she truly belongs: The great family of thieves and survivors, the beggars, the vagabonds, and herself, the ragamuffins.
Trouble during her childhood was certainly evident when she reached maturity after only a year, showing aptitude for the tunnel-scouting but no fondness for hard, honest work. Eventually, in an effort to please her fathers, she began to swipe ore nuggets while out, and claiming she had gathered them herself. Obviously, the claims of a thieving rat somewhere in the mines ousted her immediately, and after a tanning she had the reality of things explained to her:
The Rous, who she was part of, were a problem in dwarven tunnels. Given rous activity in the area, the blame wasn't solely on the strange, hidden child of the Buggmann's, but if she was to survive she would need to hide herself better. Given that she wouldn't integrate into dwarven society as another productive part of the clan, her fathers decided to help her discover her own path forwards. Her first forays above ground and in the furthest reaches of the mining tunnels did not go well, a botched job on a human blacksmith and a narrowly-avoided disaster during scouting mission against a rous caravan further helping her to learn her skills and limits.
Her fathers loved her as best they could, being honest dwarves with an adopted rat as a child, though due to differences Ragamuffin left home at the age of three. She still writes, and hopes to return home when she's found her place; slowly, this little rous urchin is trying to find where she belongs. She won't integrate fully into rous society, and would never be fully accepted as a member of the Buggmann clan. Despite it all, she's set her sights on where she truly belongs: The great family of thieves and survivors, the beggars, the vagabonds, and herself, the ragamuffins.
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