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Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Stacy
Email: Have it
AIM (if you have one): Have it
Character Name: Sydney Ashcroft
Character LJ (if applicable): sydney_ashcroft
Physical description (face, build, weight): 5’9” 157lbs brown hair, brown eyes
Age: 25
PB: (If using one.) Jennifer Garner
Abilities: Sydney possesses eidetic memory which allows her to remember with perfect clarity everything she reads, smells, hears and feels. Her perfect memory allows her to learn new things with ease. She is fluent in over 34 languages and learns new ones when the urge strikes her. She has also had martial arts training, earning a second degree black belt in Kenpo karate.
Weaknesses and flaws: Sydney is a normal human with normal human frailties
Character location/Home: Los Angeles
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Hero
Relatives (living/dead?): Jake and Charlotte Ashcroft (deceased), Bryn Ashcroft (sister), Zoey (daughter)
Backstory: Sydney Lauren Ashcroft was born to Jake and Charlotte Ashcroft four years after her sister Bryn. Sydney had a normal childhood, growing up with her sister and parents. The family travelled frequently and the two girls learned much of the world and different cultures. With her mutant gifts, she excelled at school and learned at an accelerated pace. She loved reading and the challenge of learning new languages. Her father was a history professor at UC Berkeley and Sydney frequently went to work with her father, spending many hours sitting in his office or in his classes. This time with her father helped her develop a love of history and inspired her to study to become a history professor. However, her parents were killed in a car accident while she was a sophomore in college. The tragic event caused her to withdraw from school and led to a period of reckless behavior. It was during this time that she became pregnant and gave birth to a girl, Zoey. With no money of her own and being a single parent, Sydney was unable to return to school. She took part time jobs waitressing and as working as a research assistant to an old colleague of her father’s while trying to raise her daughter Zoey. Her sister Bryn helped in the form of being a babysitter while Sydney was working. With her gift of languages and ability to learn new ones fairly quickly and easily, Sydney eventually started working freelance in translation services. She has worked for a wide variety of clients from book publishers to a few freelance jobs for Stark Inc.
How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: She will be hired by Tony Stark to work with the Defenders.
What are you planning to do with this character? She will be the cultural liaison for the Defenders and help them get adjusted to Earth culture and life. She will move into the West Coast Avengers compound with her daughter and work with the Defenders fulltime.
What do you want to see happen with this character?: She is support staff for the Defenders. Not much planned for development except for fulltime employment and raising her daughter. She would love to go back to school and eventually earn her degree.
Sample post: “Mom! Come watch the movie with me!” Sydney Ashcoft paused in her work and looked away from the computer screen and over at her five year old daughter. She automatically smiled when she looked at Zoey. “In a few moments, sweetheart. I’m just finishing up a few things and then I’ll be done for the day.” “You promised!” Zoey reminded her mother. “I know and I will be over there to watch Beauty and the Beast with you. It’s my favorite movie and I wouldn’t miss it for the world.” “Can we have popcorn?” Sydney smiled again. “Of course. We can’t watch a movie without popcorn. I think we may have some root beer and ice cream in there for root beer floats.” “Ooooooooh! Yay!” Sydney laughed. “Popcorn and root beer floats it is. But I need five minutes to get this done, okay?” “Okay, Mommy.” Syd turned to face the computer. Just five more minutes and she’d be done translating this manual into Japanese from English. Then she could spend some time with her daughter. Known languages:
English (native), Spanish, French, Russian, German, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Arabic, Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Tamil, Swahili, Italian, Farsi (Persian language), Turkish, Hungarian, Kurdi, Maasai, Luyia, Azerbaijani (Southern), Chechen, Korean, Tagalog (Filipino), Polish, Hawaiian, Thai, Dutch, Portuguese, Hindi, Punjabi, Thai and Indonesian
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