Bridget MacLeod
Name: Bridget Elisabeth MacLeod Height: 5'4" Weight: 121 lbs Hair: Red/Strawberry Blonde Eyes: Blue Handedness: Left Date of Birth: October 8th, 1981 (Libra/Rooster) Age: 21 Degrees & Certifications: Network Technology ATA CompTIA A+, CCNA, DFE University of California, Berkeley Influence: 3 (unmodified) Charisma: 2 Attractiveness: 2 Description: This highly calculating yet outwardly aloof woman often wears loose fitting linen blouses, long sleeve t-shirts, or similar tops; jeans, capris, or occasionally men's cargo pants; and sandals or Sketchers sneakers. On her left wrist she sometimes wears a wrist mala of sandal wood (Buddhist prayer beads), and on her right wrist a simple analog watch. Each of her ears has three pierced holes in which she usually wears small silver hoop earrings. On her right thumb (because it's the finger it fits) she always wears a tungsten puzzle ring (originally thought to be a silver alloy). She has no tattoos or significant scars. |
| Background: Growing up for Bridget was pretty normal for the most part. In school she was mostly a good kid and had friends. And she has always been sharp, a 4.0 student before 4.0 even was a term she knew meant something. She graduated a Jerome High School in Dublin, OH with Honors (Class of 1999) and went on to Berkeley College in California on a Scholarship to study computer science. Bridget had both parents growing up until she was twelve, when they separated. Bridget never understood why, but apparently it was for the safety of her and her mom as da still loved them both. Da still visited when he could, but apparently his business somehow put his family at risk. She always imagined her father as some sort of spy or special agent, but never really knew what he did. And mom didn't talk about what she knew of it, afraid it might encourage her daughter to find more trouble. Da wanted Bridget to learn martial arts. Mom refused until Da talked her into T'ai Chi. By the time Mom realized there was a fighting component to the art, her daughter had already been a student of the art for 5 years. Bridget has been an student of the art since the age of 10 and still practices regularly, occasionally leading more basic classes in lieu of the Master in her current dojo. Bridget has placed in six tournaments since the age of 13 performing forms, sword forms, and most recently two fighting tournaments. In high school she took up Yoga with her Mom, and then free running with some of the local kids when it became more exposed as an athletic art. Thankfully to this date most of her bumps and bruises came from the free running and weren't more serious than the occasional sprain or small cut. Da wanted Bridget to learn some basic firearms safety. Mom refused and so Da snuck her out shooting on occasion. Growing up with Mom and Da was a very spiritual, but not religious experience. Mom is a fairly normal druidic style pagan and Da didn't argue for or against it, always answering Bridget's questions with another question. Da obviously had his own ideas on karma and spirituality, but preferred nurturing his daughters ideas without bringing in his own ideas to influence her. __________ So now Bridget is in her second year of college. On top of being a martial artist and becoming a bonafide computer nerd, one of her new friends introduced her to two things: table-top RPG's and LARPing. So now one weekend a month she runs off to hit people with foam swords and birdseed packets, as well as has a regular Friday night Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition game (when not LARPing of course). At LARP she currently plays an elvish mage who also carries a sword and her current D&D character is the cutest little Halfling Rogue. |
Recommended Reading:
Jim Butcher - Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight
Barbara Hambly - Dragonsbane, Dragonshadow, Knight of the Demon Queen, Dragonstar
Laurell K. Hamilton - Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus in Chains
Jennifer Roberson - Sword-Dancer, Sword-Singer, Sword-Maker, Sword-Breaker, Sword-Born, Sword-Sworn
L. J. Smith - The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening, The Struggle, The Fury, Dark Reunion