Character Creation Challenge 2023 14: I Was A Teenage Ghost

Character Creation Challenge 2023

31 Buffy The Vampire Slayer characters

14: I Was A Teenage Ghost

One of my earliest Buffy character ideas. 

Neither Buffy nor Angel had a ghost in the regular cast, although Willow spent Halloween as one, Cordelia had Phantom Dennis as a roommate, and Spike’s soul was incorporeal for a chunk of Angel season five.

As such, the setting rules for ghosts are a bit handwavy. And the game rules likewise, there’s no official Ghost Quality. I’ve DIYed this kind of thing since my first Buffy PBP.

Borrowing from Being Human and the RPG MonsterHearts, a ghost who’s visible most of the time and can make herself substantial so she can pass for still alive, but reverts to normal ghostiness sometimes, and can be harmed by mortal means. And since she can pick things up with her ghostly hands like Spike learns to I haven’t given her telekinesis.

Minda Baker

Type: White Hat

Bailee Madison

Description: Usually visible but unobtrusive

Example quote: “Boo, I guess?”

Minda died recently in a botched cult sacrifice, and due to it going a bit wrong she’s still in the world. She can see and hear, touch and feel, and move things like normal. But sometimes when she’s startled or scared she dissipates, and when it gets too much she becomes invisible. And it gets too much more and more around this one member of the slayer’s gang... 

Attributes (15)

Strength 2

Dexterity 2

Constitution 2

Intelligence 3

Perception 2

Willpower 4

Skills (15)

Acrobatics 1

Art 1

Computers 0

Crime 1

Doctor 1

Driving 0

Getting Medieval 0

Gun Fu 0

Influence 1

Knowledge 2

Kung Fu 3

Languages 0

Mr. Fix-It 0

Notice 3

Occultism 2

Science 0

Sports 0

Wild Card 0

Qualities (15 + 8 from Drawbacks)

Attractiveness 2 (2)

Hard To Kill Twice 2 (2)

Insubstantial (house rule) (I figure this is a Quality if you can turn it on and off, and it takes a couple of rounds to switch deliberately - and sometimes she switches involuntarily when failing a Fear test) (6)

Invisible (from The Magic Box) (house rule: controllable but flares up under stress) (10)

The Sight (3)

Drawbacks (8)

Adversary (among other things, the demon cult that killed her) (3)

Emotional Problems (Fear of Rejection) (1)

Mental Problems (Phobia 2: robed figures with daggers) (1)

Secret (not known to be dead) (3)

“Life” Points 32

Drama Points 20