Sydney Ratliff

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Basic Statistics

Name: Sydney Ratliff
Nickname: Syd
Meaning of name: Wide Meadow
Origin of name: England
Age: 26
Sex: Female
Blood type: O+
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: American
Race: Caucasian
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Current status: Single
Political Party: Supports the New Tucson Guard
Police/Criminal/Legal record: None
Birth date: April 17th
Birth place: Boulder City, Nevada
Current residence: New Tuscon
Occupation: Scavenger
Hobbies/Pastimes: Reading pre-war books, raiding abandoned settlements,
Talents/Skills/Powers: Repairing some technology/weapons(depending on what books she has read), able to understand written information easily

Past History

Hometown: Boulder City, Nevada
First Memory: Second Birthday Party
Most important childhood event that still affects him/her: The war
Why/How? It completely changed most aspects of her life, due to society basically collapsing, as well as leading to her brother’s death.
Other memories/events that still affects him/her and why/how: Leaving her family. Meant she had to fend for herself. Her brother dying in the war affects her due to having had a strong friendship with him. It generally just makes her a bit wary of becoming too close to those in the NTG or in similarly risky professions.
Past failures s/he would be embarrassed to have people know about and why: Her first tries raiding led to having to flee due to not being that skilled with weapons. It makes her feel weak. First attempts at hunting also led to failure for a similar reason.
Biggest role model: Her brother
Why? He wasn’t afraid to join the forces in World War 3 because he wanted to stand up for his country and what he believed in, even though it could have, and did, lead to his death.
Biggest disillusions from childhood: That the American Alliance would win the war and everything would turn out fine.
Backstory:
Syndey grew up in Boulder City, Nevada, not too far from the Arizona border. When the war started up, her brother Harrison joined the forces to help fight for his country. Sydney herself kept a close eye on the war by means of the news, helping support her country and its allies by any means she could. A year and a half later, news came to her family. Harrison had been killed in a battle in England.
Devastated, Sydney became a bit quieter and reserved as she went through the stages of grief. Her grades improved as she poured herself into her studies to try and get her mind off things. Then, the war turned nuclear. Her family, fearing that the nearby city of Las Vegas would be a target for bombings, moved southwards into California, though still near the Arizona border.
As time passed, the family moved and travelled, scavenging to survive. They joined a settlement in a district not far from New Tucson. Sydney, at age 17, wanted to continue travelling to see what other districts had to offer. After bickering between her and her father, he eventually consented and gave her a rifle and some clips for the gun, as well as some water and food to help her along. He taught her the basics she needed to know to survive, and sent her on her way.
As she travelled, she at first struggled and often considered giving up. Sydney wasn’t used to the hardships of fending for herself, let alone in a post-apocalyptic situation. Eventually, she managed to teach herself skills better than her father had explained from the process of learning from mistakes and near-death situations. She learned more about how to use the rifle, how to figure out which abandoned settlements and ruins would be worth checking out for food and supplies, and more importantly the skills of keeping care of her gun and eventually being able to recreate ammunition.
These skills came from either reading books she had found, or from finding settlements and learning them from trading food or other supplies in order to be taught. As time passed, she tired of travelling and eventually settled down in the District of New Tucson, where she still heads out to raid abandoned settlements and ruins in order to get items to sell or trade, or to get supplies for herself.


Physical Characteristics

Height: 5’3”
Weight: 110
Posture: Slightly hunched over
Build: Slightly muscular, though it shows well due to not having much body fat.
Skin: Pale. Not very tanned due to covering up.
Hair: Dirty blonde
Widow's peak? Slight
Eyes: Blue
Nose: Greek
Face shape: Heart
Expressions: Usually has a kind of bored or blank expression.
Describe their smile: Small and sort of shy, usually doesn’t show her teeth unless shes laughing. Not easy to notice unless you’re actually paying attention.
Hands: Kind of calloused due from working, though not scarred because she often wears gloves to protect them.
Feet: Average sized.
Tattoos/Scars? Left arm has a simple tattoo which has a design similar to her zodiac, Aries. She got this tattoo at age 19 for free from a settlement.
Glasses/Contacts? No
Left/Right handed? Left
Distinguishing features: Her outfit, due to it not really being easily copied. When she’s not in that, not much.
Who does s/he take after; mother or father? Mother. Her mother was more aloof and likely to travel or be curious about things, while her father preferred to stay in one place.
Style (Elegant, shabby, etc): Plain, slightly shabby.
How does s/he dress or what do they typically wear? Usually, when raiding, wears thicker clothing to protect her body and a gas mask. Otherwise, she usually wears just a simple tank top, her jeans and her boots.
Weapons: A rifle and a hunting knife.
Health: Fairly well off. Makes enough money to be able to afford a doctor if need be once in a while.
Hygiene: As good as possible
Physical Flaws: Isn’t too good at hand to hand combat due to hardly having to.
Physical Qualities: Is a fairly good shot, and is quite limber.

Characteristics

Are they generally balanced or clumsy? Balanced
Mannerisms/Poses/Movement: Though she hunches over slightly, she walks with almost a confident manner.
Describe their walk: Walks with quite a bit of confidence, though hunched slightly.
Describe their fighting style: Tends to fight from a distance using her rifle.
Habits/OCDs/Obsessions: If stressed out, tends to have a drink or smoke.
Speech: Often cuts words short as if trying to talk a bit too quickly (IE. Somethin’ t’, y’all.)
Do they curse, and if so, to what extent? Yes. It’s a fairly normal part of her vocabulary.
Write a piece of dialogue that this character might say (can be between someone else):
“You can’t have that unless you’ve got somethin’ good t’ trade for it.”
Describe their laugh: Kind of quiet, though audible enough. Usually causes her to smile a bit wider than usual.
Describe their sleep patterns (light/heavy sleeper, no sleep, sleeps too often, etc): Light sleeper who gets enough to get by.
Describe their dwelling/house: Small house just outside of the city. Keeps it locked up, and doesn’t keep her most valuable things (Ie. Gun) inside the house when she isn’t there.
Describe their bedroom: Small with a simple bed.
Describe their daily rituals: Usually starts off the day with a warm drink. If she found some, she sometimes has coffee or tea. Otherwise it may just be warm water.

Psychological/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Intelligence Level: Medium. Good at learning from books and similar things, as well as from being shown, so she has quite a bit of knowledge from both reading and being taught things.
Known Languages: English
Character's long-term goals/desires in life: To survive and stay alive
Character's short-term goals/desires in life: To learn as many skills as she can to stay mostly independent from others.
How self-confident is the character? Fairly normal. Self-confident in the abilities she has, but realizes she may need help from others.
How do they see him/herself? She’s confident and feels she is doing pretty good for what the world’s like.
How do they believe s/he is perceived by others? As someone who is confident and able to take care of themselves.
What is the character most proud of? Her abilities that help keep her from being super dependent on other people.
Is this character generally dominant or submissive? Submissive, but she isn’t afraid to stand up to people.
Patience level: Fairly high
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof? A combination, though mainly logic. When the time comes for needing emotion, though, she makes choices based on that.
Most at ease when: She is by herself in a more safe environment, or in the wilderness where she has a good vantage point.
Ill at ease when: She’s not able to keep a good eye out around herself, or around many people she thinks are dangerous.
Describe their sense of humor: Good, though she knows when to be serious.
If they could be described with one of the seven virtues, which would it be? Diligence
Optimist or Pessimist: Pessimist about other people generally. Otherwise, generally in the middle.
Introvert or extrovert: Introvert
Greatest Fear: Claustrophobia, Drowning
Biggest accomplishment: She feels her biggest accomplishment was her first successful kill with a gun.

Likes/Dislikes

Likes: Reading, learning, heights, and the wilderness.
Dislikes: Water, confined spaces
Color: Green
Clothing: Loose fitting/comfortable yet still protective in some way
Place: Mountains/cliffs
Room in the house and why: Bedroom. It feels like a safe place to her.
Food/drinks: Coffee, some alcohols
Simple Pleasures: Warm drinks or any simple luxuries (warm meals)
Where does this character like to hang out? Outside of the city usually, or within the more friendly bars and areas similar to that within New Tucson.
Where is this character's dream place to live? She always had wanted to live in the north.
Most prized possession: Her gun
Why? Her gun is basically what keeps her alive and feeds her if she is not able to scavenge food.

Emotional Characteristics

Describe character's sense of morals: Would not steal directly from people unless she doesn’t know shes doing it, would not kill without reason.
Describe character's sense of self-control: Good
Spontaneous or structured? Structured
Instinctual or logical? Instinct
How has this character most changed from youth? More focused on her survival than anything.
How have they remained the same? She still likes to read and learn.
Has this character dealt with the loss of someone they knew? Yes.
If so, who? Her brother
How has it affected them? It molded her into being more quiet and reserved, as well as having made her focus more on her studies.
How does this character deal with or react to:
Conflict/Danger: As logically as she can.Will try to avoid it when possible.
Rejection: Doesn’t let it bother her too much if she can.
Fear: Tries to not show her fear depending what it is shes scared of. Her claustrophobia/drowning fear will full out panic her, leading to her hyperventilating or just being full out scared.
Change: She’s used to it by now.
Loss: Bottles herself up and doesn’t show her emotions from it in public.
Sex/Flirting: She has no experience with sex and doesn’t really pay attention to flirting usually.
Pain: Tolerates it best she can within her limit.
Stress: Turns to creature comforts such as tobacco or alcohol
What does this character think/feel about?
Marriage: Doesn’t focus on it much because it’s not important to her
Children: Does not want children
Science/Technology: Important
Nature/Animals: Likes it
Their past: Misses it
Their future: Tries not to think about it
Drugs and alcohol: Doesn’t bother her much
Education: Important

Relationships with Others (Non-Married)


Describe their sense of trust: They trust people based on how they seem to present themselves, though generally she is still a bit wary within reason of others.



Family (they were raised with)

Immediate family members and their ages: Parents whom are probably deceased or fairly old by now.
Siblings (if any): Brother, Harrison

Spiritual Characteristics

Religion: Atheist
Does the character believe in a god or goddess? No
What are the character's spiritual beliefs?
Superstitions: Believes a little in karma
Astrological Zodiac: Aries