Lisetta "Lise" Grains
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Akashic Brotherhood
Roda d'Oro of the Li-Hai
Adept of the Crossroads Chantry
Description
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 141 lb.
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Medium simple brown
Clothing: Red and blue casual
Comportment/Cadence: Confident
Distinctions: Attractive and snappily-dressed woman with an insatiably hungry look in her eye--the look of someone content but never satisfied
Supernatural Qualities: Easily blends into crowd despite a secret smile frequently playing across her lips
Accoutrements: Light jewelry
Traits: Appearance 4 (inspiring); Style 4 (street fashion); Arcane 3; Animal Magnetism
"Was that really the best you've got? C'mon!"
History
Date of Birth: September 10th, 1977
Home: Evansville, Indiana, United States
Family: Jed and Terry Grains (parents), Hilary (older sister), Jeanette (younger sister)
The Awakening: Preordainment (middle-class upbringing off dad's factory union job; always into competitive sports: gymnastics, track, tennis, cheer, but didn't Awaken till she tried capoeira, which happened to be an Akashic "gate" school, during which the music and energy of the activity exploded her consciousness to a meditative level of peak performance), 1994
Mentor: Conrado Assis Pinho
The Test: Trial by Combat (she had to spar her teacher and his best students to increasing levels of challenge: the batizado)
Comrades: Sakori Hayashoto, Jacqueline Rosaleen, Camden Holt, Katylin Meresy
Key Event #1: Awe & Wonder (once fully initiated in the Akashic Brotherhood, she took full advantage of the Roda d'Oro's rather permissive and open-ended training regimen and purpose in the Ascension War to self-focus and train and compete her way through college)
Key Event #2: Awe & Wonder (she became a professional cheerleader, not for any sport franchise but as a competitive choreographer and performer at the national level, using that also to reach out to more athletic mysticks or Wild Talent cases slipping through the Traditions' cracks)
Key Event #3: War (only reluctantly did Lise ever actually fight, such as when the Crossroads Chantry made an all-hands-on-deck call to defend against a Technocratic assault on the old chantryhouse, and she stood among those bravely defending those mages escaping, laying low several Men in Black)
Transition: Defeat (though she and other mysticks survived and escaped that assault and retreated to the current chantryhouse, it left her even more opposed to senseless combat, and she returned entirely to teaching and seeking new potential mages, as well as other supernatural allies)
Coaching Gridiron (Sanctum)
Location: Old Swinney Rec Center, Kansas City University, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Structure: Apartment
Stock: Roda circles painted on floor; punching bags and training dummies arranged in challenge circles; grid-iron lines for multiple trainees
Traits: Arcane 4
Significant Other
Name: Camden Holt; 2008
Nature: Romantic
Camden
Weakness
Coming Full-Circle
Lise is an open-minded, big-hearted, and kind soul. The problem with that in this world is obvious: too many would take advantage of her openness and cut straight to the bone.
Likelihood of Corruption
Low.
Lise is one of the good guys out there: smart, gentle, and caring, and still not hesitant to cartwheel-kick a monster right in the face.
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