Maris Fero
Riff-raff, Street Rat.
NAME: Maris Fero
FACTION: Shrikes - Efavan Youth Gang
(formerly) Tratten's Brats - Efavan Youth Gang
Iron Fist Consortium
RANK: Youth Gang Leader
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 19
SEX: Female
HEIGHT: 5’3
WEIGHT: 130lbs
EYES: Grey-green
HAIR: Black
SKIN: Porcelain
FORCE SENSITIVE: Awakened violently on Efavan.
+ Street smarts - Growing up and living in the rough part of an already terrible neighbourhood, Maris knows how to act around thugs and crooks, and how to survive on the mean streets.
+ Quick as a cat - Always fast already, her force awakening has brought Maris’s dexterity to new levels of excellence. Initially, she used most of that talent to better steal or escape from trouble. Now that she has some training behind her Maris uses these talents for infiltration and also in her newly found passion for dance.
+ Roll with the Punches - Despite her slight stature as a youth Fero was quite the scrappy fighter. Though not the strongest, or possessing any great technique, she can take a hit like a champ.
+ One with the Shadows - A life running, hiding and listening has further enhanced the girl's natural talent with stealth and subterfuge. Far more comfortable in the cool dark, her recently awoken abilities to utilise the force to bolster this talent for stealth is a considerable advantage.
+ Natural Mimic - Though she possesses no shapeshifting capabilities Maris has harboured a fascination with mimicry and deception from a young age. Her practice of this skill has almost become a problematic compulsion to mirror those around her.
+ Prodigious Intelligence - For as long as she can remember Maris has always known she was the smartest person in the room, then again for most of her life she’s been surrounded thugs, bullies, and other street criminals. Still given the chance to learn she adapts quickly and has a surprising appetite for new knowledge that will help give her an advantage.
- Hubris - For as long as she can remember Maris has always known she was the smartest person in the room - and she has a hard time accepting that she might not be the smartest person in the room.
- Sociopathic Liar - If there is something she wants or something that will make her life easier, Maris has no problem lying to achieve her goals, her own priorities are always first in line.
- System Dropout - She has never been officially educated, though she can read and count she has no formal schooling and only a vague impression of what that even entails for “normal” people.
- Smartass - She has a mouth, and though she can be charming to get what she wants, the kid is just as likely to offer abrasive insults and backtalk.
- Looking for Trouble - Growing pains were trouble when it came to the force, as she awakened to her force ability Maris attracted unwanted attention as well as suffering from odd dreams, strange impulses and the occasional uncanny coincidence or accident that just happened to coincide with her wishes. She had only recently come to recognise the nature of these incidents and is still relatively untested in the extent of her power.
- Lightweight - Maris build could not be described as powerful or brawny. She's a slender creature with delicate features and though she has trained her muscles the lack of personal mass limits the brute force she can put behind her strikes and she is very capable of being knocked or thrown around by bigger opponents if and when they land a blow. Additionally, her relative size gives her a lower tolerance to alcohol and toxins.
The raven-haired youth dresses in the fashions of the urban night-lifers she grew up around. From living in the shadowed streets below the glitzy neon broadways of the casino cities the youth's skin is pale, her eyes dark and her expression seems to rest at a self-approving smirk.
Her movements are economical and precise and she does her best to stay out of the spotlight whenever possible.
Hatching
Maris was raised on the crime-infested sublevels of Efavan, the capital city of Vorzyd V. Her mother, Turil Moz was a renowned smuggler who sold up her ship and set up a business as a fence for a Hutt investor with interests on the Gambler’s world. Turil fell pregnant and though she never spoke of the father it was widely rumoured that he was a fellow smuggler and gun runner and that Turil had arranged for the man’s death shortly after Maris’ birth.
For her first few years, Maris was living in relative luxury. The life of crime paid for her comfort and her Mother - though never a deeply caring woman - at least felt an obligation to protect her daughter.
Eventually, the life Turil led and the company she kept caught up with the crime boss and Turil was taken hostage by one of the rival criminal empires. Maris was left in the hands of hardened criminals, few of whom cared for the well being of a spoiled ten-year-old. The girl was given over to a scowling, scarred old Besalisk named ‘Tratten’; The ageing thug ruled over a gang of youths who ran petty street crime in their city territory.
Take Wing
It was a tough life, and Maris learned to fight for her place in it. She quickly learned that her mother’s name was more trouble than it was worth, and Maris Moz became Maris Fero. She was a quick study and seemed naturally inclined to the work, quick reflexes and a winning smile made her a natural at many of the cons and games the gangs would run.
Turi, Maris’ mother, eventually returned from her ordeal, though she was a changed woman. She never again rose to prominence or power and though she still sought out Maris the youth actively avoided being reunited with the woman, recognising the loss in status she might suffer at the association.
By the age of seventeen, she’s was one of a handful of strong and driven youths engaged in a power struggle to be the defacto leader of the combined youth gangs of Efavan. The gang wars for power were getting vicious, and for that moment none had achieved a decisive advantage.
Growing pains were troublesome, and as she awakened to her nascent force ability Maris is attracting unwanted attention as well as suffering from strange dreams, strange emotional outbursts and the occasional uncanny coincidence or accident that just happened to coincide with her wishes. She still had little idea that she is the source of these surprising situations.
A series of unexpected killings of both high and low profile criminals sent shockwaves through the entire strata of illegal enterprises. With no obvious ringleader or instigator, the deaths caused rapidly escalating unrest and increased the tension between all of the major factions and their proxy factions amongst the gangs.
The brawling, ambushes and raids were heating up, the tensions were rising. There was only so much longer things could go before deaths occur.
The Shrike's First
Of the many youth gangs of Efavan, five organisations stood out above the rest: The Shrike (Maris' peers and allies, who had been under Tratten); the Carriks - burly, thuggish and widespread; the Oddballs - misfits and outcasts, the alien and the edge cases; The Lower-L crew - underdogs under a charismatic leader with aspirations of greatness; the Balo's Boys - an all-male gang of grinning stim users.
Maris completed her rise to the de facto leader of the Shrike. In light of the conflicts tearing the underworld’s fragile alliances apart, the young woman had set her eyes on a greater goal. Step one would be to arrange the downfall of her rivals.
Having engineered a serious clash between Balo’s Boys and Lower-L, Maris used her influence and personal history with the Lower-L leader Kaperko to arrange a meeting of the minds. The situation had been engineered to precisely to cause the maximum antagonism to the Lower-L leader in the hopes of escalating the situation further. During the meeting, an altercation broke out and Naetin Kaperko was observed to have pushed Balo over the edge to his death. Naetin Kaperko insisted he had not acted on his urge, but moments before Maris had been urging him to do so and even imagined herself pushing the young man in Naet’s place.
In the chaos that followed Maris summoned the remaining gang leaders to parley, relaying what she had witnessed, with evidence given by one of Kaperko’s own gang members who vouched to have seen the same chain of events as the Shrike, and had not been close enough to hear Maris telling Naet to act on his wishes.
The decisions to act was made unanimously, and together with their respective lieutenants, the gangers set out to bring justice to Naet Kaperko for slaying Balo at a parley. The chase was violent and cost the lives of many of the Lower-L gangers who tried to defend Naet, eventually, he was cornered atop a high walkway that led only out to a final, fatal drop. There, silhouetted against the mega-casino skyline, Kaperko was judged and executed on Maris’ evidence.
The Maze of Thorns
In the wake of Kaperko’s death and the fall of Balo, the gang war became heated in short order, the Shrikes and the Carriks both expanded into the territory left by their rivals and even the Oddballs managed to add to their numbers with ‘refugees’ of the trouble.
At the same time mob bosses and crime lords alike had ignited their own war above the gangs and were too busy killing or backstabbing each other care much for the qualms of teenagers and thugs. Tratten was dead, so too were many of the other mob affiliates who had once kept a semblance of respectability to the gangland diplomacy.
Troubles came to a head once more when Maris underestimated the sheer doggedness of the Carrik leader, Akro Mallit, and ended up almost losing a desperate fight with the much larger opponent. Always scrappy and tough to keep down, during that fight something else seemed to fuel Maris strength. Rage and frustration mixed with a fair degree of shame over getting herself into the situation, and in her rage the young woman overcame the monstrous Carrik’s attack and eventually had to be physically restrained to stop her killing the young man.
Whilst recovering from her attack Maris had the word spread that she had indeed killed Akro Mallit, when in fact she had abducted her critically injured rival and was busy extracting information from her captive with fairly rudimentary interrogation techniques.
The result of this information source was felt keenly by the Carriks. The Shrike had always had a remarkable reputation for intelligence gathering, but the ease with which they targeted Carrik safehouses, caches and key players convinced the rival gang that they must have a mole. A bloody and angry purge of the Carriks’ possible traitors simply sent more disgruntled gangers to their rivals open arms. From five rivals Maris had removed two forever and the time rapidly approached when she planned to remove the final obstacles to her ascendancy.
The Scattered Nests
The stage was set for Maris to finish off the fatally wounded Carrik gang. With a tentative peace in play with the Oddball leader Ku Melort, Maris had arranged a final ambush in which the Shrike and Oddballs would act in concert to crush the final resistance of the Carrik hierarchy under the control of Akro’s brother, Herk Mallit.
Unfortunately for the Shrike, in an unforeseeable change of fortune new players had come to Vorzyd looking to capitalise on the destabilized criminal underworld. [member="Enyo Typhos"] and her Iron First Consortium had come to an arrangement to use the activities the Oddball gang under Ku Melort and were headed to take the reigns of the Carriks as well.
Maris, headstrong as ever, was frustrated to see her plans falling apart and moved to act, looking to turn the situation to her favour. She hoped, somewhat forlornly, that she might be able to convince the newcomers to let her finish of the Carriks and the Oddballs, then take their place as sole leader of Efavan’s gangs.
Typhos had other plans, introducing herself to Maris with a Force Push that nearly knocked the Shrike leader out, she choked her next and offered the young woman an ultimatum. Join or Die. The choice was simple.
Amongst the Thorns
Maris made herself invaluable to the Iron Fist’s war to control the underworld of Efavan, though she did not yet understand why the mob boss had taken such a careful interest in her.
Together, Maris and Enyo planned and carried out the successful attack on the MezNez Casino, a former Hutt holding on Vorzyd. During the infiltration, Maris showed much of her talent for stealth, quick wits and ingenuity but she also discovered a perplexing ability to will people to ignore her presence - a gift she could not explain or understand. A little later into the assault Maris was ambushed by a group of Carriks who chose the confusion of the attack to attempt to assassinate her. Despite her injuries sustained in the attack, Maris survived, utilising a force push to disarm and wrongfoot her attackers. In a mirror of the ability Enyo had used on her, Maris had overcome the gangers, and with Enyo watching she execute those who had tried to kill her, taking a life by her own hand for the first time.
Following the successful capture of the Casino Maris was taken on as Enyo’s student and started to learn more of her capabilities. In this time she came into contact with Enyo’s sister [member="Amara Zarides"] and other members of the Iron Fist consortium. She was a talented student, and her natural ability and experience of Efavan made her a natural choice to act as a local enforcer for Enyo, who had businesses and other dealings often far from Efavan.
SHIP:
She wishes.
KILLS:
No PC Kills.
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
Post the names of any bounties you have delivered and the amount of money you gained from it. If possible, include a link to the thread in which it happened.
MASTERS:
- [member="Enyo Typhos"] - First Master, Boss, Leader of the Iron Fist Consortium and Robobadass Terminatrix.
- Bang Bang (soloish, some back story, might go somewhere)
- Aggressive Takeover (Darth Vitium, Arms Deal, First Meeting)
- Two is Company... (Solo, further backstory in the wake of Bang Band and Aggressive takeover)
- Nails in a coffin. (Enyo Typhos, First Encounter, [member="Enyo Typhos"] interferes in the best laid plans, Maris is recruited.)
- The Mighty MezNez (Enyo Typhos, Raid, [member="Enyo Typhos"] and Maris go say hello to Bogo.)
- Life on the other side (Maris, following the MezNez attack and her Awakening.)
- Temple of Greed and Gluttony (Maris, following the MezNez attack and her Awakening, [member="Gerard Lussk"])
- CAS-4-12b (Maris, Arms Deal Heist? With [member="Darth Abyss"])
- Iron and Velvet (Maris meets Amara)
- Arabesque (Maris dances, get interrupted by the kool-aid [member="Amara Zarides"] then gets sent to Hoth on a secret mission with Darth Libertas and Thuella. Meets her first proper Sith. With Amara and Enyo.)
- Placeholder (Master Name, Skill, Theme)
NOTABLE SKILLS:
- Climbing
- Sleight of Hand
- Misdirection
- Mimicry
- Acting
- Contortion
- Larceny
QUOTES:
Maris Fero speaking to Enyo Typos said:
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