Xina

Gnome / Artificer

Submitted character story

You are the tinkerer who turns guilt into gunpowder, grief into gears that click and whir loud enough to drown out memory. You took the King's Road because straight lines are easier than looking back, and you played the Shadow Investigator because you know exactly what hunters look like when they come for blood. The screams you carry never fade, so you learned to make louder noises, bright enough and wild enough that your hands stay busy and your thoughts stay scattered. Every stolen trinket, every powder keg, every manic grin is a way to keep moving, because stillness means remembering what hiding cost your parents while you did nothing. Your table will remember the chaos and the cleverness, the gnome with revolvers who made them laugh, and they will never quite see the girl who survived by staying silent.

Defining moment: Bounty hunters come to Xina's family's neighbor hood ransacking and burning everything looking for a thief they were hired to bring back dead or alive. Xina knew they were looking for her. Her parents told her to hide and no matter what happens to stay hidden and that they would take care of things. She heard her parents screams and was stuck listening to them being slaughtered trying to protect her. 

Friendly but Mischievous, Clever, Cleptomaniac, Loves Explosions