Appearance

Physical Description

Wirey-lanky sort of muscular? Visibly fit, but maybe not terribly well fed.

Facial Features

Varios Piercings - Currently a nose ring and a variety of ear piercings.


One of her canines is capped with gold.

Identifying Characteristics

Cuts her own hair, very poorly. Probably the first thing most people notice about her - she has the sides mostly shaved, but unevenly. There’s long bits near her ears and a mid-length mohawk thing going on.

Apparel & Accessories

Dapper likes warm tones and loud patterns. Most of her clothing is stolen, scavenged, repurposed, and/or poorly repaired.

Mentality

Personal history

Age 0:
Born to the Vriende, a nomad clan of the Changing Desert, to parents Saffron and Adom.


Childhood and Youth 0-17ish:
Travelling with the Vriende! The Vriende typically make a meandering annual primarily dictated by by the schedule of the biannual Grand Caravan of the dwarves in Dvarg Mark. 2-3 months after the first Grand Caravan of the year, the Vriennde find their way to an approved entrance to Dvarg Mark, purchase as many of the highly-sought-after trade goods at they can afford and carry, and then they journey up through Siota, Varcrast, then east and north along the coast to Ornesk, West along the north coast to Viraka. They generally reach Viraka about a month before the second Grand Caravan of the year sets out.
 
Some other small nomad Tribes try to make both "off-caravan" cycles, but the Vriende usually only do the one and then meander back south much more slowly, making their way through the various smaller encampments and temporary settlements of the desert in a slowly snaking path from Viraka to Varcrast. Along this leg of their journey, they run odd jobs, scavenge what they can, and mostly just focus on making relationships and connections with other desert nomads. There's a lot of partying.
 
During this leg of the journey, many members of the tribe wander off on side jobs, or to fulfill the needs of the tribe that must be met off of this typical route. The Vriende number only half as many folks when they arrive back in Varcrast as they had when they left it. Those that stray know to meet back at the entrance to Dvag Mark at the appropriate time of year. One of Dapper's fondest childhood memories was the time her parents agreed to rush ahead and venture south to Grenzlinie to arrange for a shipment of something (Dapper has no memory of what exactly) from Grenzlinie that the Vriende promised to procure for someone in Ornesk. It wasn't Grenzlinie or this region that captivated her, and her father complained the whole time. but the new-ness of the situation and getting to travel with only her parents on a special task felt magical.
 
Age 17-25
At 17, Dapper volunteered to run a small cache of something or other up from another tribe they encuontered on their way back to Varcrast from Viraka to small town on the coast with two others her age. It was a short trip, fast enough to reconnect with the Vriende in Varcrast, but she was hooked. She loved new, loved the adventure of it, and loved the people she met along the way.
 
She started making her own connections and taking on her own side-jobs.
 
By 22, she was making her own trades and drops outside of the Vriende's usual markets (this sort of side hustle was something encouraged by her clan, not something to hide). 23 was the first year her solo-trips occupied so much of her time that she missed a clan gathering at Dvarg Mark and decided to roll with it and keep doing her own thing until the next one. At 25 she realized that at least half of her work was in some way shady or "illegal" but decided this was a fun fact and not something worth trying to change.
 
Age 26+
At this point, Dapper more or less stopped trying to make it back to the Vriende's gathering at Dvarg Mark. She still tries to meet up with the Vriende somewhere once a year or so, but only stays with them for a couple months at a time.
 
 
At 26 (352 PA) was also the first year that Dapper spent a meaningful amount of time in Tact. She'd stopped there very briefly twice before on sketchy courier/drop jobs, and she knew it was rife with opportunity resulting from the influx of people brought in by The Homecoming, and then when she stopped on another drop job and saw the population boom brought on by refugees from Reticence, she decided to stay for a couple of months to build relationships, working odd jobs and doing her connecting-people thing.
 
"A couple of months" turned in to almost six, and by the time she left to catch back up with the Vriende in Viraka, she had a reputation with small part of the immigrant community as a decent fixer who could help find you safe work (honest or otherwise) and some vague connections to the local thieves guild. She only stayed with the Vriende for six weeks before heading straight back to Tact.
 
At 27, she rescued Gryas from some scummy fuckwaffles running shifter-kid pit fights. The scummy fuckwaffles had actually hired Dapper to forge identity papers for Gryas, lying outright about who Gryas was to them or why a shifter kid would need false papers, and the whole situation smelled. Dapper figured out what they were really doing and decided this was a business line she couldn't cross. Turning on them to save the kid was very foolish, and very costly, and hurt her reputation in some ways with some people. It also resulted in 3 dead fight-runners and four different hard-won favors cashed in to get the kid to safety.
 
Dapper kind of tried to wash her hands of the whole incident, feeling good about getting the kid out and set up somewhere safe, and moved on to the next thing, except a week later Gry ran away from the people Dapper had set her up with, tracked Dapper down in a city of thousands, broke into the room Dapper was staying in quietly, and Dapper woke up to find her curled up on her floor. This repeated three more times over the course of a six months before Dapper gave up and decided to just let Gry stay with her. By that point she'd realized Gry was already her best friend and things were infinitely more entertaining with her around than not.
 
Dapper started taking Gry on jobs, and they turned out to be amazing partners.
 
That brings us to now, at age 32.

Personality

Social

Birthplace

Somewhere on the road in the Changing Desert

Current Residence

Tact