Riley Scarlet

Howdy, love, name's Riley Scarlet! A pleasure to meet you!
-Riley introducing herself

Life itself is hard, improving things in general takes time and can't be done in a single lifetime for most races- probably even for the longer lived ones like elves and dwarves. However, that doesn't mean you can't find enjoyment in the world or try to improve your life for the better. Helping others can be a reward in itself, or it can be finding joy in song and napping. I may have lost my parents- two sets in fact, but I love living and helping others live! In fact, I'd say that while life itself is a bizarre thing, its seeing how others operate and knowing you can influence the life of one that makes it worthwhile.

-Riley's philosphy

Race	Age	Height	Weight	Gender	Relatives	Hobbies
Human	24	172 cm (5'6)	49 kg (110 lbs)	Female	Unnamed Parents (Deceased), Goblin Parents (Deceased), Two Surviving Goblin Step-Siblings	Traveling, Counting coins, Playing with animals

Riley Scarlet
Born	1703 ???
Occupation	Detective
Years active	???-present
Era	Age of Passage
Organization	Mystery Inc
Height	5 ft 6 in (172 cm)

Riley is a human rogue, and part of the Mystery Group one shot adventure

Riley's D&D Beyond Sheet

YouTube playlist

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Appearence

Standing at 5'6, Riley has short black hair and matching eyes. This is hard to see due to her preference for black trenchcoats over a black slacks and top. Alongside her trenchcoat is a matching hood and mask she wears over her nose. She wears a ruby ring that was a gift from her parents on her left pinkie. She has a small cut along the right side of her lips. After Mystery Inc obtained their offical badges, she keeps it proudly on her breastpocket whenever she goes on a case... but it still has mustard stains from a hot dog eating contest

Personality

Despite her look, Riley is very outgoing and friendly to anyone she meets. This makes her very trusting and to a point, naive to others to the point she seems unaware of her surroundings. Because of this, Riley is able to confuse or disturb others, making her unorthodox and out there. While outgoing, this allows Riley unusually perceptive and seem unassuming, but also childlike and highly immature for her age. This has likely mellowed out by her second job.

Riley also has a soft spot for children and animals, despising bullying and harm. When it comes to helping those she generally likes, she can surprisingly stop being an airhead and show open malice and preparation to kill if someone she cares for is in danger, as well as show maturity and a willingness to talk to others who are feeling down. By the second job and rather it's due to the serious nature of the job, or instincts, she can show a high distrust to anyone she meets, often due to the serious nature of the case,

She’s also not a picky eater, partially due to being raised by goblins and viewing all meat as meat, and not eating it before it goes to waste as disgusting and a waste of perfectly good meat. Because of this, she can partake in cannibalism or eating other sentient races as well as someone who would eat a hamburger and not see an issue with it. Despite this, she refuses to kill another sentient being for food. Despite this, watching someone die in front of her can be truamatizing and make her freeze in place.

Riley also has a distrust for wood elves, as her adoptive parents were killed by Wood Elves. She however, rarely allows that to get by when money is an option or something important is going on and views High Elves in high regards. However, after spending time in Val-Aldin among others, she has lost this predjudace after meeting some and even admits she probably had her trauma take over at then.

Thanks to spending time in Val-Aldin and Hadley as well, Riley is calmer than before, but no less a tease, often bothering the Noble Agency with Remus and even showing a crafty side as she even came up with plans for breaking into The Inkatath Institute to see Raiah in recovery.

Backstory (Spoilers and Major WIP)

Raised by less-than-bright but well meaning goblins after wood elves attacked her family’s carriage, Riley was raised by a growing family which expanded from a single mother and father to 20 siblings. At some point, 18 of these siblings were slaughtered or died of natural causes, her parents as well. Mistaken for a stockholm shocked child, Riley was brought in and raised by a small family of assassins and spies. Teased and mocked for being known as ‘The Goblin Child’ and a mark on her head from a head injury, Riley was used to having food thrown at her and pelted with pebbles or even poisoned and attacked by her own new family.

By 16, the young woman would leave, aiming to find a new life in Meadowcraft. She’s been searching for the village ever since, even at the ripe age of 24.

Equipment

Riley typically dresses light, but is outfitted with a few daggers and a rapier for offense, a shortbow, and her family ring. She also carries a tent, as well as rope

Powers and Abilities

• Deceptive Intellect: Despite her general odd behavior and airheadedness, Riley has displayed moments of catching onto clues faster than she lets on, often able to trick others into thinking she wasn’t paying attention. This goes into her insane perceptiveness, where shes able to deduce small scratches of expert lockpicks and spot Raiah's expert pickpocketing

• Magical Aptitude: Despite being more stealth based, Riley has a hand in magical apptitude. This is mostly through a floating invisible hand. She also began to study magic as a student at Val-Aldin

• Silver Tongue: Riley is almost capable of making friends easily, even if for a limited time

• Flame Control: Riley has limited ability to conjure flames on her hands

• Illusions: Riley is capable of limited illusionary abilities.

• Sleep Inducement: Riley is capable of putting others to sleep, this is hard to do unless the enemy is somewhat weary already

• Magic Armor: Riley can conjure a mage based armor to enhance her durability

• Spirit Animal Communication: Riley is able to communicate to small animals with telepathy. She typically names these animals and can use them to aid in tasks such as finding locks and hidden routes with insects or arachnids.

• Poison Manipulation: Riley has limited experience with creating a spray of poison.

• Magical Shielding: Riley can conjure spectre shields for protecting herself

• Minor Fate Rewriting: Riley can cause minor disadvantages to enemies and give the benefit to nearby allies with a word.

Relationships

• Cody Brody

--"The weed he partakes in is... not my fancy… but hes so nice to everyone even with his plight. I hope he remains that way.”

• Dr. Dimitri

--"Doc is a really smart man! Although, the world is most definetly a map, not a globe- wait... according to this experiment... huh... I owe him an apology, the world is a globe! I wonder... would he turn me into a vampire if I asked?"

• Raiah Theron

--"Raiah is an adorable little flower. Being known as the 'goblin girl', I can relate to her being bullied. I bet she'll grow to be a major badass! And when she does, I'll be so happy! I miss her so much."

• Remus

--"Remi is a fun guy! A rich guy in fact! I did take some gold for a sandwich more often then not, but he often surprises me in ways I can't fanthom - for better or worse."

• Ti'zzirrith

--"Tizzy is the closest thing to a screwball here! No wait, thats me, not him- haha! But I like his ideas and skills. I should ask him for some tutoring too- I got some spells in mind that I think he can help me with."

• Lucien Vol

--"Me and the team were uncertain if we could help Raiah fight her demons with our set of skills, Mr. Vol helped us with that by taking her in to people who can help her. I appreciate that a lot! Also, how does he get his horns so sharp? Let alone find shirts that don't rip when he tries them on?"

• Dusk

--"Ms. Dusk's oath to - 'beat up the bad guy' for her Gods is admirable! I like her energy too!

• Vuulkaaren Quegoth

--"Mr. Quegoth's love for J Edgar Allen is what got me into trying to get to take classes. Hes teaching me Draconic as well! I'm just happy to have someone to talk over an author who was important in my darker days."

Trivia

• Riley’s main theme songs are Driving in the Rain by Timecrawler 82, Sparkling Daydream by ZAQ, Don’t by NakamuraEmi, and Drift from Guilty Gear Strive

• Riley is made to be a parody of the edgelord archetype, from her backstory to her personality being a complete inverse and actions. In turn, it ended up turning her into a chunnibyo

• Originally, Riley was made to be a cyberpunk character in a story - completely different attitude however. Some primary inspirations for her D&D characterization were Star-Lord from Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tracer from Overwatch, and Sakuya Izayoi from Touhou Project

• Riley’s favorite food are scones and cooked rabbit, her favorite drink being goat milk

• Riley likely follows Apatheism, believing the ‘Gods’ to be just people who unlocked hidden science and unwilling to share while also believing she can't rely on higher powers to dictate her way of living. Her possible view on life in general may be Absurdism

• Riley’s ring is a heirloom from her goblin parents. As such, shes never without it, even when showering or in bed.

• When growing up, Riley was an advent reader of J Edgar Alan, finding his poetry something to reflect on her depression of losing two sets of parents.

• Riley's dream jobs are to work as a seamstress, at an orphanage, or open a textile shop.