Riley Scarlet

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


Race Age Height Weight Gender Relatives Hobbies
Human 24 (Mystery Arc), Early-Late 40s by current time 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 is a human rogue, and part of the Mystery Group one shot adventure

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.

Personality (Major WIP)

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 as she aged however.

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.

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.

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 and views High Elves in high regards.

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, bullets (despite lacking a firearm), 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.
  • Magical Aptitude: Despite being more stealth based, Riley has a hand in magical apptitude. This is mostly through a floating invisible hand.
  • 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.

Relationships (Major WIP)

  • Dr. Dimitri: Nicknamed Doc

--"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 - Riley views Raiah as a young sister, ever since first meeting her, shes viewed her as a cute but tormented soul.

--"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 - Despite not knowing him for long, Riley views Remus as a good person, nicknaming him Remi or Roman.

--"Remi! The Pig Overlord! Haha! He's a good guy, really! I really wanna' see him accomplish his mission of showing the Kouslands perform more charitable feats! Maybe not talk to people greiving in church though, religious types can be annoyingly very irrational from my experince."

--"Tizzy is from the Astral Plane, right? It's so bizarre, but hes also so tall! And his voice is fun to hear! I hope he can show us around the plane someday!"

Trivia

  • Riley’s main theme song is Driving in the Rain by Timecrawler 82, her alternate main themes are Sparkling Daydream by ZAQ and Don’t by NakamuraEmi
  • 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
  • Riley’s favorite food is wood elf ears served with a healthy spread of lemon juice and crushed raspberries, her favorite drink being goat milk
  • Riley is atheist, believing the ‘Gods’ to be just people who unlocked hidden science and unwilling to share
  • If in the real world, Riley would be Chinese-Irish mixed
  • Riley’s ring is a heirloom from her goblin parents. As such, shes never without it, even when showering or in bed. In-game, it allows a +1 save to save checks. But in-universe, she's so protective of it that she gains a small bit of adrenaline to protect it.
  • Riley’s last two siblings live in Meadowcraft
  • Riley's voice is inspired by Lena "Tracer" Oxton from Overwatch
  • By the current timeline, Riley would be in her early or late 40s