TTRPG CHARACTER 4: MAJORIE "JURY" DAW

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BASIC INFO NAME: Marjorie "Jury" Daw GAME: Monsterhearts 2 SKIN: The Unseen SEX: AFAB STATS HOT: -1 COLD: 2 VOLATILE: 1 DARK: -1 LOOK Peering through bangs EYES Translucent eyes. ORIGIN Someone else's problem

JURY Witness, Loner, Extortionist BACKGROUND Monsterhearts 2 is a game of literal metaphor: in which that kid is literally a vampire, but they're also a drain on everyone around them, who uses charm to bypass other people's boundaries and get what they want. High school is messy and terrifying, and the secret monster double lives everyone is leading only amps that up. Jury is "the unseen", a monster that is perfectly transparent, unseen even by cameras. The cause isn't even something of their own doing— the bystander to an event with more overt consequences for others, Jury was already a cold outsider so no one even realised Jury's change. Resentful at others for their own lonliness, Jury has not been using their newfound invisibility for good. No, it's blackmailing time. Without a social circle, Jury is making good friends with untouchability and being totally unaccountable, out less for money and more for torment. There's also another side to Jury's plight. The reason Jury didn't get to close to anyone to begin with, and another reason this condition is both a torment and a blessing. Puberty was a betrayal, and being perceived as female and having others treat them that way is hard. It's easier to just be apart from everyone, if they can't be who they actually are. Who Jury is— who he is inside his head— isn't percieved by anyone. They don't see him. They just see the body he wears, and now they don't even see that. He now has to do make-up to make his skin visible, foundation and blush to try and mimic actual skin, a wig atop invisible hair, and his clothes hang off a hated feminine frame. His choices are thus: put effort into being perceived as a false self, or shed the disguise and not be perceived at all— there's freedom in separating himself from how others perceive him, but it's very lonely. He resents having this choice: deep down, he'd like not to be lonely, but not enough to give up on who he is. ABILITIES See right through you: You are perfectly transparent. Nothing including cameras can see you. This only affects your body, not anything you wear or carry. You can still be sensed by anything but sight. Interacting with others normally may involve wearing bandages, full covered clothing, or a mask. If your disguised and your nature is exposed roll Cold. On a hit, you can retain self-control and make a hasty escape. On a 7-9, you are enraged and embarrassed. All onlookers get a string on you. Blackmailer: When you spy on someone in a private moment, take a string. When you a spend a string to offer experience, keep the string if they refuse. EDITORIAL Character number 4! Since Monsterhearts 2 is a very textually queer game, I wanted to make a character that spoke to my experience being a queer teenager. There was a lot less trans awareness I feel when I was in high school. That said, while Jury ended up stepping out of the social sphere entirely, I ended up volunteering at an LGBT center downtown. I think there's enough common ground though that he'd be an interesting character to play. His playbook is an unofficial one, rather than one of the starter ones. You can find the supplement it's from here.

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