Elizabeth Hickman

From Changeling Venue

Seeming	Ogre Pending
Court	Pending Court
Freehold	No Freehold
Player	Emily Rathwaedht

Player: Emily Rathwaedht
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Contents 1 Overview 2 Stereotypes 3 Perceptions and Rumors 4 Contacts 5 Groups 6 Enemies 7 Character Connections

Overview

Mask: Elizabeth Hickman is an aged woman though she has not been aged by time. This young performer instead appears to have been aged by the weather itself. Both her skin and long black hair are weathered from too much exposure to the elements, and her eyes seem exhausted from the same hard labor that is evident within her taut and hardened shape. Even her clothes seem tired and drab-beyond-color from too much time spent living along the road. Although she is most often seen cloth in old black carhartt overalls and her yellow hoodie she is sometimes seen sporting a tired old house dress of one print or another, and always with an old beaten hat atop her thick black hair. Still most noticeable are the faint scars that decorate her body as though she had been cut apart and sewn back together once a very long time ago. Shadows seem to naturally collect around vague features that most recognize as having an almost undefinable ethnicity to them, her racial heritage concealed by the paler skin of her mother.

Mien: Slimshift or Slim appears to have been sewn together with yellowed leather for flesh and dense twine for thread. Several patches fashioned from old circus canvas have been made part of the stitching for decorative purposes as well. However the stitched together body still appears to be very much her own and it flexes and moves like any normal flesh would, exposing labor hardened muscle and bone in all the ordinary ways. Her black hair and dark eyes are natural though they too seem to have weathered over time. The stitches that hold it all together are thick and have blackened from blood and dirt both, crossing against her body and breaking her otherwise handsome appearance into a panopoly of old junked parts. Even her clothes seem tired and drab-beyond-color from too much time spent living along the road, whispered shadows collecting in the pits of her wardrobe even in the broad daylight and making the drab appear all the more fearsome. Although she is most often seen cloth in old black carhartt overalls and her yellow hoodie she is sometimes seen sporting a tired old house dress of one print or another, and always with an old beaten hat atop her thick black hair.

Stereotypes

Perceptions and Rumors

Perceptions

Untrustworthy Flaw: There are precious few changelings in the world who trust Slimshift after any fashion. Most say this is because she is one of the courtless, while others claim it is because she still uses the name of her keeper as one of her surnames. But the truth of the matter is that she spends an uncommon amount of time around children and in the places where children gather. Many have been the nights when she has been late to an event only to offer up the excuse that she was busy with a child, never explaining further. The fact that the following morning often reveals a crime of great violence targeting children only makes other changelings even more uneasy around the leathered carnie.

There are some who speak up for her, however, and her friends often know that Slimshift has in fact sworn herself to the protection of children from the unseen monsters of the world. Primarily because they remain her favorite audiences, though some believe there to be a deeper reason as well. Unfortunately few are willing to believe even those friends who speak uninvited on her behalf. The behavior of Slimshift is simply too ... too ... too guilty to be overlooked, and her unwillingness to ever explain more fully what she has been up to just smacks of criminal behavior to anyone who does not know her well. Naturally the tough but outgoing Slimshift is quite comfortable allowing the other changelings their gossip. She grew up surrounded by the hurtful whispered words of others, and weathering such slings and arrows is second to her nature.

Rumors

• She eats more than just glass. She eats the parents of children. While the children are forced to watch.
• She and Luna Max are really sisters.
• She and Max are not sisters, they are the same soul, torn in two by their Keeper.
• She is actually a spy and assassin for the winter court and claims to be courtless to avoid suspicion.
• She is actually a loyalist and is collecting nickels for her keeper, for some devious purpose.
• She may sound like a redneck but her mother was actually an immigrant from somewhere in eastern Europe... she has connections there, somewhere.

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Contacts

What She Says About Others

• PC: Althea Sexton: She's no rube. That's all I'm gonna let myself say. No rube could be so merciful.
• PC: Harlequin: Yeah, we grew up together in the same family circus back before either of us had been stolen away. What are the odds, right? I was older and she was prettier and that sure hasn't changed one bit. Topping that off? She's STILL the same self-indulgent upstaging glory-hog that she's always been, if not a bit worse. Pretty marvelous girl, if you ask me.

What Others Say About Her

• PC: Nycto Feraz: She only needs to learn to come out of her sister's shadow.
  
• PC: Harlequin: Ever notice how slime and slim are so similar yet different? Just a passing thought though. But in my elizie beans case, nothing could be father from the truth.
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Groups

Who She Associates With

• Cirque Nocturne: I done worked with these cirkies a few times. They got a weird modern aesthetic going on but they put on a pretty grand show all the same. Grand enough that I'm lookin forward to working with them again sometime, anyhow.
• Mammetum Entertainment: Well, I suppose they have quite a bit of sense for the business. Still, daresay its hard to find work for a lady geek like me these days. Even for folk with more than their fare share of sense.

Who She Observes

• Boulder Spring Court: Well I don't much care for their fun, though I daresay they got some big ideas ... and at least a few of them are sly, if you happen to catch my meaning, which counts for something I suppose.

Enemies

• NPC: Boss Wiley: This Gentry ringleader is a cruel and bitter master without an ounce of kindness in all his being, an old withered man with a mighty arm of steam driven clockwork and an all-seeing mechanical eye from which his sideshow prisoners can never escape. Boss Wiley manages his travelling circus and sideshow with a heart as cold as his metal parts and a calm temper as heated as the steam which powers them. In this circus one will find strange hobgoblins and other peculiar denizens capable of providing a diversion, as well as unfortunate changeling entertainers who are often subject to unspeakable humiliations and manipulations. These changeling entertainers are purchased from others amongst the Gentry and Boss Wiley keeps these unfortunates locked away in wheeled cages, like those used by the circus to put dangerous animals on display. Naturally the bars of these cages are wrapped with cruel biting thorns to discourage attempts at escape.

Character Connections

Definately looking for character connections. Different possibilities exist. Obviously anyone could have shared the experience of being a captive of Boss Wiley or even been a captive of the original True Fae who had her kidnapped to begin with. If you are playing an Ogre then you could be the very Ogre who dragged her off to Boss Wiley for his master, or if you are playing an Ogre or one of the Wizened you could be the gentle-handed woman that helped her escape and for whom she still holds the truest of fond feelings. Other possibilities for connection could involve her time riding the freight trains if your character was doing the same, or if you are playing some kind of circus or carnival oriented character she might know you from her human days or her time after the escape. Email me and let me know!