Physical Disabilities: Damage to her right eye from the scar that goes across her forehead (almost always hidden by makeup)
Job: Professional wrestler, part time streamer
Degree: Highschool diploma
Lives in: Nakano, Tokyo (regularly travels)
Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, New Orleans French, some German (the swear words), Some Korean
Eyes: Dark brown, almost black
Hair: black, extremely curly, with a white streak on her left side, often braided in protective styles
Accent: Either polite midwestern accent, or back alley Chicago street. Her Japanese pronunciation is incredibly good but she does badly on purpose sometimes for the Show
Vehicle: She had a shitty stickshift pickup truck until she moved to Japan, now she relies on public transportation.
Weapons: Barbed wire baseball bat, steel chair, wrestling gloves with thumbtacks poking through the knuckles
Main Hobbies: Feeding/befriending crows, parkour, cooking, streaming, collecting shiny things
Favorite Food: karē (Japanese curry)
Scent: Spices from the kitchen and whatever cologne she’s wearing this month
Theme: My Name is by Once Monsters
Fun Facts: She ran away from home at 7 years old after watching an episode of Full House that made her realize she was being abused. She has incredibly sticky fingers when she’s dissociating or in distress, which has resulted in her owning a very expensive watch she stole from a man on the fbi most wanted list. She has befriended many flocks of crows across the US and one in Japan. She spends what little spare time she has with her little sister, Ruth, and what little extra money she has goes straight to vetted charities.
Special Interests: Wrestling, Video games, classic literature, fantasy, charity, Entertaining, storytelling, birds (specifically Corvids), Streetart/tagging.
Stims: card tricks, twisting her silver rings, drumming on anything nearby, singing whatever is stuck in her head
Comfort Objects: two silver rings, an incredibly expensive gold watch that she never wears, glass baubles and shiny trinkets she’s collected, the Ocarina and flute Mouse made her years ago, her Knife from *********
Family: Ruth, Mouse, Tom, Todd, Marcus, Laney.
Friends: Fox, Firebird, Carlos, Alex.
Enemies: Her Parents, Mrs. Briggs(Highschool English teacher),
Pets: several flocks of crows recognize her, bring her gifts.
Brief Personality: Mags is at her best entertaining people. Whether it’s on a street corner with a guitar, in front of a computer playing games with friends, or setting up story-arcs for her pro-wrestling persona, she’s confident and knows how to work a crowd to her advantage. Call her an entertainer, or a con artist, it’s all the same to her. She is completely capable of holding herself as a professional adult and can snip and snide her way through a PTA with the best of them, despite her age. Given the choice, however, she’d prefer to drop into a back-alley accent- although it always seems to be from a different area, with a frankly outrageous mix of slang terms from every city she’s ever been to- and showing her rough background with pride.
CW: Magpie had a really fucked up childhood. TW for Child abuse and child trafficking.
Brief Backstory: Born into a family that valued appearances over all else, ****** had a rough start. Her parents married more because they thought it would look nice than the fact that they loved, or even liked, each other. The abuse started young and continued until a teacher in her elementary school reported mysterious injuries to CPS, who conducted an investigation and found nothing wrong, then continued until she was seven. ******, upon watching an episode of Full House that touched on abuse and connecting that to the weird social services lady that Mom said to lie too, came to a realization that what was happening might not be normal. She ran away two weeks later, on the last day of school. She simply got off the bus at the wrong stop and started walking.
****** miraculously survived a few weeks on the street before Tom and a few of his buddies found her beneath a park bench. Their first approach was to ‘scare her straight’ and take her home, but they quickly realized that the little girl was clearly more afraid of her parents than them, and eventually got her to admit that she had been abused and CPS Would do nothing about it. Not knowing what else to do and refusing to leave a seven year old alone on the streets, they took her in. They also eventually picked up on the fact that she flinched every time they called her name and started trying out nicknames, eventually settling on Magpie. After a few months, Tom clocked onto the fact that he wasn’t in the best crowd, as someone had given Mags a hit of something and taught her how to pick pockets. He figured that was probably bad. He jumped ship and took Mags with him to work with Mouse and Todd.
By the time Magpie was ten, Laney had also joined the group, and the two had become best friends. Laney had the whole horror thing going on, and Mags had learned that if she gave Crows scraps they’d follow her and give her things. Everything culminated in the two of them “haunting” an abandoned house for a month straight and Magpie ‘accidentally’ teaching a murder of crows to divebomb people when she whistled. Luckily for them, the only responsible figures around at the time was a 13-year-old Mouse and 14-year-old Todd, who both thought that was hilarious. The two of them also developed a surprisingly good street magic routine, raising money for “Unhoused Youth in the Local Area” and spewing off statistics if asked- they just never elaborated that the unhoused youth in question was them the whole time. The two learned how to escape handcuffs and zipties as part of the act, which came in handy a little while later.
Mags was 15 when she learned about her little sister, a two year old named Ruth, living in the same abusive home she had grown up in. She let herself get caught and returned to her parents custody, where she was beaten, starved, and abused. Mags kept herself between her parents and her sister, taking over the childcare as much as she could and doing everything she could to make sure her parents were never left alone with Ruth. Her parents spread rumors about her through the PTA; they had high standing in a lot of local communities and used that to discredit their daughter as a lost cause who constantly started fights and lied habitually. They did everything they could to be the victims of the story, doing their best for a child who had “gone through so much” and “was really good, deep down” as they undermined her whole life. They put her in wrestling school as an excuse for the bruises. The school graded her lower than the other kids and she got detention nearly every day, no matter what she did. She managed to make friends with the smarter/nerdier kids by protecting them from bullies.
Magpie had planned to sue for custody of Ruth when she turned 18, but life threw a wrench in the works. Her parents beat her and slammed her face into the kitchen counter, nearly killing her. A neighbor called the police, thinking it was a robbery, and they were caught red handed. Mags spent 16 days in a coma before waking up and exposing her parents abuse- she’d taken some advice and documented everything that had happened in the past three years. She managed to get a small apartment with the money she got suing for mental and physical damages, and custody of her sister. She worked part time at a barber shop for a while and started doing basic jobs in the pro wrestling community.
Now, Mags’ wrestling career is picking up and she’s moved to Japan with her sister to pursue it. She keeps in touch with the other streetrats by playing online games with them and doing watch parties of all the shows they missed in their childhoods. They started streaming so they could play together and connect with other friends all around, but that started picking up and now they’re making some good income from Twitch as well.
