Ursa-Minor
Ms. Aoi Saito (a.k.a. Ursa-Minor, Shochu)
Written by: Null Kit
I won't lie, I was not filled with confidence when our Barkeep informed us he had sourced our much-needed magical support from the alleyway behind his eatery, but as I would learn, fixers have procured respectable talent from even more questionable corners of the sprawl. Despite being five years my junior in experience as a shadowrunner, Ursa-Minor has so far shown a respectable degree of competance as The Cabinet's in-house Hermetic mage, albeit one unwilling to work freelance unless for 'worthwhile causes'. Procuring information on someone so far off the local paper-trails was difficult, but through exchanging of favors with our mutual benefactor, this should be sufficient to meet the standards of this data-cache.Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Ursa-Minor's physique shows traits typical of the Dwarf metatype and Japanese phenotype with two major exceptions. The first and most obvious is a series of scarring along the right half of the body consistant with extreme burnings, causing complete blindness in the right eye and various movement issues on the right side of the body due to skin-contracture. The second of note is that Ursa-Minor's frame is comparatively small in stature even by the standards of Dwarves, as a result of multiple years spend in a state of mild to moderate malnutrition.
She's been getting better with the last part ever since she traded some favors to the folk at the Rampart to let her park her camper-van inside their lot and get around the outsider's mark-up on produce. Hell, all the fruits and veggies their hydroponics are growing, she's probably eating better than most folk in the city proper...
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Ursa-Minor's personal history has been among the tougher challenges of sourcing this data-cache, burdened further by Barkeep own meddling in obscuring portions of it for reasons I have yet to gleam. Most of this article will be based on what I have been told and permitted to share by Ursa-Minor personally, but I cannot personally guarantee its truth.
Aoi claims to have been born in the southern outskirts of the Osaka prefecture to Yuto and Mei Saito, a small but well-to-do family of esteemed pencil-pushers in the Renraku megacorp. Japan's cultural issues with anti-metahuman bigotry meant little to the old money this family had. Private schools, fine foods, and when magical potential was found in Aoi, the luxuries only intensified, she was to be the shining star of her small family-of-three.
Late into Aoi's teens, the Saito household was set ablaze. The official report was an electrical fault, while Aoi herself claims Yakuza involvement, though I'm not entirely sure believe either of these things myself. Whatever the cause, only Aoi survived the ensuing blaze when a good samaritan allegedly rescured her from the blaze, mutlated but alive.
Whatever happened amidst the subsequent recovery has been subject to heavy purging from any possible source, as far as my own investigations go, but it was evidently enough for Aoi to abandon her family's name and fortune to illegally make her way to Raleigh NC and eke out an illegal life in the cold alleys.
Whatever magical talents Aoi retained from her old life were not only respectable enough to avoid the risks expected of living among the homeless, but eventually got the notice of our very own Barkeep who saw opportunity in the mutilated hobo scouring his neighborhood for delicious handouts. Negotiations were quick, even by Barkeep's standards, and Aoi has been a member of The Cabinet since under the callsignof Shochu, despite her repeated claims of disliking the drink.
Education
Ursa-Minor's educational record is one of the most intact fragments of her past that I've managed to find and confirm as being sufficiently true to fact. Numerous prestigious corporate education programs are listed (albeit with no specifics in location), each one a badge of prestige in its own way, but with the exception of arcana-related studies she has shown consistently below-average academic scores across the board.
Roasted by the Kitten, a fate I wouldn't wish on anybody...
Accomplishments & Achievements
Despite numerous accolades accrued in her short career as a Shadowrunner, Ursa-Minor apparently considers her survival as a transient on the streets of Raleigh to be her crowning achievement.
Morality & Philosophy
Ursa-Minor's philosophy has shown to be the most pronounced and black-and-white of the group, with clear-cut opinions of who is good and who deserves immolation. The mental gymnastics involved to have such views whilst also being a shadowrunner must be impressive.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Ursa-Minor has publically proclaimed retribution to whatever force immolated her parents to be her primary motivation, and includes a desire to hone her skills and make enough money to survive in the meantime. I only believe in two of those things, myself.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Ursa-Minor's talent as a Hermetic mage is a slightly unexpected one, as all early records show an education leaning towards Shintoist paradigms of spellcasting and Ursa currently harbors attitudes more suited towards Shamanistic mages. Whatever the case, she has shown a strong talent as the group's dedicated magical support, demonstrating spellcasting and summoning capabilities strongly optimised towards the infiltration and combat needs of a typical shadowrun. Tragically, this demonstrated ability in deceptive magic has done nothing to improve her rather lacking person-to-person skills, no doubt something linked to her extremely memorable appearance.
Likes & Dislikes
Despite living a shockingly spartan lifestyle outside of her current 'job', I have it on good authority that Ursa-Minor shows interests almost stereotypical of a young Japanese women: Soaps, stand-up comedy, anime, the such.
Wealth & Financial state
Despite having lived a comfortable lifestyle in the past, Ursa-Minor seems content in leaving most of her earnings in a trustee-owned bank account and living nomadically in a modest motorhome (formerly a beat-up van), albeit now eating more regularly.
Age
31
Birthplace
Osaka, Japan
Children
Current Residence
N/A
Pronouns
She/Her
Eyes
Brown
Hair
Black, medium-length
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Tanned
Height
3'4''
Weight
119 lbs
Aligned Organization
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