Big Damned Heroes: C1

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Brother Foresight

(Brother Shenmouyanlu)



Gender Identity: Cisgender male
Age: 20 years
Appearance and Demeanor: Reckless Whirlwind Liu is an attractive, physically fit young man. Being a monk, he has a shaved head and wears simple robes. He generally fights with an iron staff gifted him by his teachers. He has an easy-going, friendly, sunny disposition, even when he is in the middle of a fight or protesting against injustices.

Distinctions

Profession: Wanderer Seeking to Learn Wisdom and Discipline 1d8/1d4
Background: Shaolin Buddhist Monk 1d8/1d4
Quirk: A Kind Heart and a Foolish Mind 1d8/1d4

Attributes

Guile: 1d6
Nerve: 1d8
Reflexes: 1d10
Savvy: 1d6

Roles

• Crowd Control & Tactical Response: 1d10
  • Kung Fu: 1d8
  • Parkour: 1d6
• Diplomacy & Command: 1d6
• Environmental Threats: 1d6
• Mechanics & Engineering: 1d8
  • Breaking & Entering 1d6
• Networks & Systems: 1d4
• Piloting & Navigation: 1d4
• Trauma & Medicine: 1d6

Signature Assets

Iron Staff 1d8

SFX

• Big Damn Hero: Once per scene, step up or double one Attribute die for an action. Ones (1s) and twos (2s) count as hitches for the roll.
• Daredevil (Shaolin Buddhist Monk): When performing a risky feat of athletics or acrobatics, double Reflexes.
• Hinder: Sometimes a Distinction works against you. Roll 1d4 instead of 1d8 and gain 1 PP.
• Other People’s Troubles (A Kind Heart and a Foolish Mind): When trying to persuade a stranger to let you help them when you have nothing to gain, step up Guile from 1d6 to 1d8.

Backstory

Brother Foresight—born Guan Bai—is the child of high-ranking Triad members. While his parents intended him to follow in their footsteps, it quickly became clear to them that he would never make a good criminal. Although a skilled fighter, he was too kind-hearted and naïve to make a good Triad member. They had to shelter him from much of what the Triad did, for the simple reason that he would cheerfully blurt out such information to strangers. When he showed an interest in becoming a Buddhist monk, they not only gave him their blessing, but packed him off as quickly as possible to get him out of their hair.

Guan Bai found his way to a Shaolin monastery, where his martial arts skills and kind heart were appreciated. His clueless, however, remained a problem. When he was formally ordained as a monk, his teachers gave him the religious name Brother Foresight (Shenmouyanlu) as something to aspire to. Unfortunately, he has not made much progress in that direction. He also had a history of sneaking out of the monastery and breaking into places he didn’t belong—not out of malice, but out of naïve curiosity and a lack of discipline. His teachers had to intervene on his behalf enough times that it became a problem. Deciding he would not learn the lessons he need in the monastery, his teachers have sent Brother Foresight to wander the world, in the hope that he might learn a little wisdom and discipline. So far, he hasn’t.

Brother Foresight has not hesitated to leap into fights to help people he saw being bullied or otherwise unfairly treated. In one case, he beat up the son of a corrupt local magistrate and his goons—something that has put him on the Alliance’s radar. Officially, they want to question him as part of their investigation into local corruption. But do they actually want to cover that corruption up?