Character:Zilla Nimitz

A character for Cyberpunk 2020, Chalkline's house rules, character created by Shadowjack.

A gleefully stereotypical triggergrrl, following in the footsteps of Revy Two-Hands and Molly Millions. I came across the nickname "Zilla" in a list of German names, and immediately knew it was the right one.

Description

Cecilia "Zilla" Nimitz, known to law enforcement under various aliases. Female; age about 20 (b. 1990?); dirty blonde, grey eyes, light skin tending toward tan. Small but tough. Heart tattoo on upper right back.

Stats & Skills

Attractiveness 4

• Personal Grooming 2
• Wardrobe & Style 2

Body 5 (Average)

• Endurance 7
• Swimming 7

Carry: 50kg Dead Lift: 200kg BTM: -2

Cool 7

• Interrogation 3
• Intimidate 6
• Oratory 3
• Resistance 7
• Streetwise 6

Empathy 6

• Human Perception 8
• Interview 3
• Leadership 1
• Seduction 4
• Social 2
• Persuasion 7
• Perform 1

Intelligence 6

• Accounting 1
• Awareness 10
• Bureaucracy 1
• Communications 2
• Computer 2
• Education & General Knowledge 2
• Expert: Religion 1
• Forage 1
• Hide/Evade 7
• History 1
• Information Gathering 5
• Instruction 1
• Pilot: Sailboat 2
• Scrounging 3
• Wilderness Survival 2

Languages

• German 6 (native)
• Cantonese 3
• English 6
• French 3
• Hindi 4
• Italian 1
• Polish 2
• Portuguese 3
• Russian 4
• Spanish 4

Luck 6

Current Luck: 6

Movement 8

Run: 24m Leap: 2m

Reflexes 8

• Athletics 7
• Brawling 6
• Dance 1
• Dodge/Escape 7
• Drive: Powerboat 4
• Drive: Wheeled 7
• Handgun 8
• Heavy Weapons 1
• Melee 8
• Motorcycle 4
• Parachute 1
• Rifleman 8
• Skateboard 2
• Snow Ski 3
• Stealth 5

Technical Aptitude 5

• Basic Tech 2
• First Aid 2
• Lockpicking 1
• Paint/Draw 1
• Photography 4
• Play Guitar 2
• Scuba 5
• Weaponsmith 2

Notes

Chalkline's house rules have a different skill list and allotment rules, and include default skill amounts. The skill numbers above include the freebies.

For reference, the tagged skills were:

• Three at +8
  • Awareness/Notice (incredibly sharp )
  • Handgun (natural born killer)
  • Rifleman (an assault rifle is a girl's best friend)
• Four at +7
  • Endurance (refuses to quit)
  • Hide/Evade (small and easy to overlook)
  • Melee (doesn't hold back)
  • Resistance (holds her liquor)
• Five at +6
  • Athletics (wants to take up parkour)
  • Dodge/Escape (hard to hold)
  • Human Perception (knows when she's being screwed over)
  • Intimidate (scary eyes and doesn't quit)
  • Streetwise (been around and around)
• Seven at +5
  • Brawling (likes to tussle)
  • Drive: Wheeled (backup getaway driver)
  • Information Gathering (in tune with the modern world)
  • Persuasion (cute girl fast talk)
  • Scuba (favorite pastime)
  • Stealth (experienced criminal)
  • Swimming (loves to bodyboard)

Inventory

Chalkline mentioned a taste for detailed kit lists, and I can oblige.

Background

Born Cecilia Nimitz in East Germany just around the time of Reunification, and grew up on the bad side of a bad town. Lived in the U.S. for a time with other family, and ended up living and working in that shady interzone that cyberpunk characters know so well.

Cheerful; brutal; might be cute if she cleaned up, which she doesn't, of course. About what you'd expect for the archetype.

Her best friend in the whole world is her M16A3 assault rifle. That's the full auto version.

She's made a name for herself lately in the Los Angeles underworld riding shotgun for couriers or doing enforcement work. But she likes to travel, and has been to many countries, sometimes for work, and sometimes just as a tourist. She's only been in prison once. She does not count her kills.

Lately, those who know her may have noticed a sudden shyness in her, which seems to have to do with something that happened on a job in France that went bad. It's known she was shot up pretty badly. She laughed off the obvious rumors and ordered another beer. And pulled a knife on one guy who pressed too hard, since she's that kind of a gal.

What maybe only one or two other people know, thanks to a prolonged bar crawl last Christmas: When she was wounded badly back in France, she thought she encountered God. What she thinks happened between the two of them is something she's refused to talk about. It hasn't stopped her from working the streets like before, though, whatever it was. Well, any gunslinger has to be a little crazy, right?

Sanchez hired her because he knows she's travelled, she's a sharp fighter who can sometimes play well with others, and she's lately turned down work with people like human traffickers, which suggests she might not be the type to turn around and re-sell the rescuee. In the team, she fills the role of the "loose cannon that you point at the enemy", though I figure she's also good at playing the smiling tourist girl and gathering intel with her cellphone camera. But the lady plays drunk mumbletypeg and sleeps with an assault rifle. She ain't no-how sane and pleasant company.