Saturday, 28 January 2023

Character Creation Challenge 2023 28: Your Demon Pal

Character Creation Challenge 2023

31 Buffy The Vampire Slayer characters

28: Your Demon Pal

Demons in the Buffyverse started out as, well, demons, monstrous things from Hell inimical to humanity and life in general. Then we started seeing not-so-bad ones and the term started to be used for people-type beings from other dimensions. Don’t look at the cosmology too closely. When creating a series, make a decision and allow for a few edge cases so it doesn’t get morally weird to have the Scoobies slaying demons on a weekly basis.

Along the way we got characters like Lorne in Angel, who has green skin and blood red horns and eyes but is a total sweetie. We also got some grumpily helpful snitches, human and otherwise. I had one in The Watch House, and after I found this company making suitably bumpy prosthetics and showing them off in photo shoots when looking for visual references I’ve had this guy turn up a few times in Buffy games since. In motion. He could be fun to play as an outside perspective.

Red
Type: White Hat

Adam for The Scream Team


Description: red, horned, also schlubby
Example quote: “No, the Devil’s my cousin. Guy gets a title, thinks he’s a big deal.”

Red is the Devil’s cousin. “Devil” is a title, usually kept within a few families, and not all family members are in the running, so some of them have to make a living selling black market mystical artefacts and trading information with the forces of good and evil equally. He can usually be found in a back booth in a dive bar in town, but sometimes has to make himself scarce.

Attributes (15 + 2 from Nerd)
Strength 2
Dexterity 3
Constitution 2
Intelligence 3
Perception 4
Willpower 3

Skills (15 + 2 from Nerd + 5 from Drawbacks)
Acrobatics 2
Art 1
Computers 0
Crime 3
Doctor 1
Driving 1
Getting Medieval 1
Gun Fu 0
Influence 2
Knowledge 2
Kung Fu 2
Languages 1
Mr. Fix-It 1
Notice 2
Occultism 3
Science 0
Sports 0
Wild Card 0

Qualities (10 + 4 from Drawbacks)
Acute Senses (Night Vision) (2)
Contacts (occult underworld) (3)
Nerd (3)
Nerves Of Steel (3)
Resistance (Fire 3) (3)

Drawbacks (9)
Adversary (beings he’s crossed) (3)
Attractiveness -2 (2)
Covetous (Greed 2) (2)
Secret (keeps his head down) (2)

Life Points 26
Drama Points 20

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