Name: Rick (Lisa) Valor
Occupation: Healer/Artist
Description:
Dying is an mindshattering experience. Most peoples stay dead after the first time due to this.
Rick has a problem though. He can't stay dead, but he dosn't know about that.
After Rick's body has completely deteriorated after a fatal incident,
it respawns in in a secluded place usually after about 1-68 years
(Depending on outside circumstances. If shot in the head, for example,
Rick's body has sometimes been known to raise again merely 16 months later,
due to the lack of need to deconstruct and reconstruct his physiology, much. If he died
due to, let's say an atomic explotion however, his 'soul' would need time to sort out the
background interferance, removing stray particles and such, prolonging his recovery time.
Also, if no secluded spot can be found, his soul will wait untill one is available. If the whole planet was covered in infrastructure, and every area was monitored, it is quite possible that he wouldn't appear on that planet again. This is most unlikely however. I mean seriously, every single spot on the planet?)
After it has done so, Rick's body is usually fit for living again merely a few days later.
Due to the strange nature of the powers involved, Rick cannot remember anything of his previous life but his name(s),
but he often retains some of the knowlege and skills aquired during said life. This has led to a tremendeous buildup
of specialiced knowlege and cunning, due partially to the fact that he has a nack for understanding the human body,
and his musical affinity, and mostly due to that he carries over knowlege from life to life, loosing some, but gaining more than he looses, over time. This tends to lead to him picking up either a career in music, medicine or both.
Another strange quirk about his situation is that he switches gender after each death.
Standing at roughly 1.7 meters, with thick, short-cut black hair, a thick goatee and a clearly western apperance,
Rick has what could mostly be described as an average body.
He survives in the world by tagging along with others, helping out and lending
his skills to highest bidder.
Motivation: Rick is motivated by three things. Compassion, Music, and laughter. His confidence soars as he
helps others, and likewise shatters if he is put into a situation that he cannot change or be useful in.
A family person at heart, Rick enjoys being around large groups of peoples, and quickly feels lonely if put by himself.
Personality: Rick is a generally happy and carefree person. This is mainly due to
the fact that he cannot remember anything about his past, and therefore
has nothing to brood over. He seems very unserious and zany at first
glance, and this opinion often sticks. It is very rare for anyone to find Rick in
anything else than a happy mood, with a few uplifting words at his lips.
Underneath that zany exterior lies a very shrewd diplomat however,
and Rick can almost always talk his way out of, well, mostly anything.
Finding yourself butt-naked in an unfamiliar spot, with
no recollection of who you are, or how you got there, you have to
deal with the trauma somehow. Rick does so by joking it away.
"Why can't I remember anything? No matter. Wheeeee!"
It dosn't help any that you feel that you should be adressed by two different names either.
"Rick!"
"..."
"RICK!"
"wha? Oh me? I thought you were talking to someone else"
"It's just the two of us here"
"Oh."
Allegiances: Se motivation. Compassion, Music and laugher is the key to Rick's wellbeing.
Fighting Style: If pressed against the wall, with no other opinion, Rick falls back onto a
well honed style of fighting, wich he calls "KyiZU", or "Kick-you-in-groin-zu" wich basically focuses on
placing his foot in the general groin area of his opponent, in a variety of ways, whilst screaming or shouting.
If this fails however,he resorts to a sharp survival knife that he keeps strapped to his leg, underneath his pants.
Having taken the Hippocratic oath in a large amount of lives has claimed it's toll however, and Rick
only very relunctantly claims another life.
Skills and Abilities: Medicine, Herbalism, Climbing, Persuasion, Charisma, Swimming, Woodcrafting, singing/playing instruments, golfing.
Although unbeknownst to him, Rick is also fluent in a very large amount of languages.
Deficiencies: Gunslinging, lockpicking, building/repairing/dismantling Electronics, Being serious.
Rick has never been one to negotiate well with guns. Put one in his hands, and he is just as likely to shoot himself in the foot, kill the neighbours cat,
ruin your car, spill your drink, insult your wife and start a war, at the same time, as he is to actually hit anything.
Although he has lived as a semisuccessfull thief in one of his previous lives, Rick handles lockpicks like he handles guns. Extremely bad.
Rick is pretty sawy when it comes to USING electronical equipment, but anything else than that and he will most likely blow something up.
It probadly goes without saying, but being silly is also one of his major flaws, and nothing short of the dramatic death of a friend or a loved one will shut him up.
Equipment:
Rick carries around with him a backpack, wich he usually has filled to the brim with herbs, medicine and tools of his trade, along with a flute and some basic provisions.
He realises that the medecine alone makes his backpack worth ten times his life, so he guards it furiously.
Strapped to his left leg, he carries a survival knife, wich he managed to persuade a wandering tradesman to give him during the early days of his most recent reincarnation.
Other than that, he has nothing more than the clothing on his back, wich consists of a pair of shoes, socks, underwear, worn light brown pants, a darkish shirt and a bluish jacket.
