Shadowwalkers: John Hanrahan

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John Hanrahan :: Null

Attributes

Physical Attributes

DEXTERITY

STRENGTH

Mental Attributes

PERCEPTION

REASON

Social Attributes

AFFINITY

WILLPOWER

Roles and Knacks

FIXER

Organized Investigations

INFLUENCER

PERFORMER

RESEARCHER

SCRAPPER

Catholic Charities Athletic League Heavyweight Champion

Improvised Weapons

Distinctions/SFX

Null

When John was young, his foster brother Carl fell under the sway of a middling reenage Adept. But even a middling Adept is a problem for a scrappy high school kid just trying to get by. He asked around for some help, and eventually one of his cousin's friends suggested a ritual that she had read in some dusty old tome. A few candles and chalk-lines and chants later, and John found that he had less to worry about from the supernatural powers that infest New Trinadad.

Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a instead of a to represent your distinction.

United Metalworkers Shop Steward

John has spent his whole working life (including summers and weekends in high school) working in the New Trinadad Steel Mill. Over time, he's worked his way up to be the shop steward of the casting house - where the molten steel is poured into various molds and forms to make shippable product. Of course, being a union official in New Trinadad means more than just filling out grievance forms; it means protecting your people and their livelihood against the endless stream of criminals and monsters seeking to exert their own influence.

Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a instead of a to represent your distinction.

I'll Talk to the Supervisor: Spend 1 PP to step up or double Fixer when attempting to resolve trouble with organized authority.

Family Man

Ma and Pa Hanrahan are both gone, but John has somewhere between 7 and 13 siblings, depending on exactly what combination of biology and circumstance the counter thinks qualifies. All of them (and their families) still live in New Trinadad. Following in his parents' footsteps, John himself is married to Maria Henriquez, and they have three biological children and a rotating cast of formal and informal foster children in their own home. And all of this doesn't take into account the truly staggering number of Hanrahan and Henriquez aunts, uncles, cousins, and chosen family. If you speak to someone in a working class area of New Trinadad, there's a pretty good chance they're either related to John or are good friends with somebody who is.

Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a instead of a to represent your distinction.

Swapping Favors: Create a d8 Asset for the remainder of the scene representing help from a family member. Also Create a d8 Complication representing a reciprocal obligation.

Family Members

Immediate Family

• Maria Henriquez, wife. Age 43. Part-time accountant, part-time homemaker/foster parent.
• Felicia Hanrahan-Henriquez, oldest biological child. Age 22.
• Fernando Hanrahan-Henriquez, middle biological child. Age 20. University student majoring in History. Friends with Lucia.
• Frida Age 16.
  • Relationship with Emily: Being the youngest in a large family is tough, and Frida Hanrahan couldn't help but compare herself to her siblings. Even if they weren't exactly all star students or perfectly behaved, she did her best to never look like a disappointment next to them. That worked out well for her academic record, but earned her something of a reputation as a teacher's pet. Then when she started high school she was seated next to a girl named Emily that might have been her complete opposite - a goth girl who was always goofing off in class, at least when she wasn't making sarcastic remarks or simply sleeping in class. They probably would have never been more than resentful neighbors if another girl hadn't tried to bully Frida - Frida never found out for sure what happened, but a few days later the girl was practically in tears as she apologized - and giving a few nervous looks at Emily. After that Emily seemed to check on her every so often, and in turn Frida helped the girl out with studying from time to time - Emily always seemed to do well at tests in class, but her homework was a complete mess. It was an odd friendship, but one that persisted through their high school years.

Extended Family

• D'Eriq Prince, Maria's cousin's stepbrother. Works in loan origination at New Trinadad Credit Union.

Power Set

Warp and Weft Nulls are uncanny good at avoiding attacks of the Echo. If a supernatural effect can be physically avoided, however unlikely, the Null can avoid it, the unseen entropy within them warping space and time in their vicinity even if bound or unconscious. If an Echo effect does get through a Null's natural defenses step down its effect die by one regardless.

Thresher A Null's bare fists do devastating damage to supernatural creatures, the entropy within the Null shredding the weave of the other being's echo where it strikes, causing stress to accrue to the stress track of the Null player's choice (GM must disclose the current state of all the being's stress tracks at the time of the attack).

Internalized Entropy The same entropy field that surrounds the exterior of the Null's body eventually begins to run through their mind. If a supernatural effect can be mentally avoided or resisted - whether by willpower or perception - the Null can avoid it, the unseen entropy within them infusing their thought patterns even if bound or unconscious. If an Echo effect does get through a Null's natural defenses step down its effect die by one regardless.

SFX: Spend a pp to perform a single power in a high stakes action without needing to roll the dice.

Limit: [Lingering Entropy] If taken out, asleep, or unconscious, the Null Power Set remains active but no longer in the Null's direct control. Thresher in particular has potential to harm any supernatural being that touches the Null. Restore control when you awake.

Limit: [Exhaustion] Shut down any Null power to gain a pp. Activate an opportunity to restore the power..

Stress Tracks

Mortal Stress

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Psychic Stress

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Spiritual Stress

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Reputations

Positive

United Steel Workers (District 11): See character description for background.

Negative

The Sidhe: The presence of such a large concentration of iron in the form of the Steel Mill was interfering with some of the Sidhe's divinations, so they dispatched some faerie provocateurs and mortal retainers to try to cause enough problems to get the mill shut down. John (with the help of others, including some co-workers with pure, cold-rolled iron baseball bats) sent the Sidhe agents packing in materially worse condition than they arrived. Relations have been frosty at best since.

Bio/Background

John Hanrahan has built a life in New Trinadad on two pillars: his family and his union.

John was born 42 years ago in St. Bridgette's Hospital. It isn't entirely clear to him whether Edith and Thomas Hanrahan were his biological parents, but they're the only parents he ever knew, and by the time he was old enough to worry about it he wasn't worried about it. And they're both gone now, but their legacy lives on in the city through the dozen or better children (biological and otherwise) that they raised and which are now out in the city with their own biological and chosen families. John is approximately in the middle of the Hanrahan kids.

23 years ago, John met Maria Henriquez. They were married - in an elopement that did not make either family particularly happy - less than a month later. Felicia, their oldest, came along a year later. Since then, they've had two other biological children and have fostered half-a-dozen others (some officially through the government and some unofficially from family or friends). Their townhouse also regularly houses family and friends who need a roof for whatever reason.

The constant flow of people is messy and needy and expensive and John would not have it any other way.

And that is, in fact, how he ended up with an entropy field bound to his body. When they were teenagers, John's foster brother fell under the sway of some young Adept who was trying to start a cult. In normal circumstances, John would just have beat the brakes off of the weedy little guy who thought he was the next Jim Jones and dragged his brother back home. But, there was the whole magic thing. So, John did what he always did when he had a problem he couldn't solve - he sought a solution from a family member. Well, a friend of another cousin happened to be a bit of a ritualist herself, and after a very tense evening, she managed to bind an energy field to John that would give him the ability to deal with the Adept. After that came the beating and the dragging and the deprogramming.

The other constant in John's life has been his work at the New Trinadad Steel Mill. He's been employed there - a member of the United Metalworkers Local 19A - for 26 years now. John's talent for keeping his work crews in line and keeping them out of trouble with the bosses got him promoted to shop steward. His coworkers in the union aren't family, but their the next best thing. And he supports and protects them just like he does those bound to him by blood or marriage.

Living Situation

John and his family live in a converted duplex in the part of New Trinadad mostly populated by industrial workers. (I’m guessing that’s Grid 12-ish.) “Converted“ meaning that John and Maria own both halves - the two bedrooms in one side weren’t enough.

No supernatural means were involved in their purchase of the house - unless you count the magical interest rate that Maria’s cousin’s stepbrother, who works in loan origination at New Trinadad Credit Union, managed to score for them.

Vehicles

John owns an old (not cool retro old, just old) F-150 that is theoretically his daily driver, but approximately 75% of the time it’s being borrowed by one of his kids or a friend or extended family member to move or do renovations or other truck things. He mostly just gets rides to and from work with one of the other union members in his neighborhood.

John and Maria also own a slightly newer minivan (let’s say a Toyota Sienna). That is Maria’s primary vehicle, but John of course has access to it.

Both are owned free-and-clear, and despite their age and mileage are pretty well cared for. Neither is going to be on display at a car show any time soon, though.

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