Sophie Lyons
Madame, Widow Sophie Ann Lyons
Sophie was a pickpocket, trained by her parents at such a young age she literally could never remember a time in her life when she was not a thief. A bright, pretty little girl, Sophie used her wide, blue eyes to good advantage as she cut a wide swathe through the market districts, cutting purses with a sharpened copper coin. Her mother had a hard and fast rule; if Sophie and her siblings did not cut at least three purses, they would need to spend three nights on the streets. Her eldest brother, Hugh, would fail the day's test on purpose to stay and protect his little sister in the nefarious dark of night, but he was killed by a knife while Sophie was still quite young, so she had to learn to stand up for herself, and a fighter she was. By the time her mother died, when Sophie was nine years old, she was the only sibling left. Indeed, it was only Sophie and her hard drinking father, who quickly died of the bottle after his wife died. Sophie found herself, of necessity, becoming the proverbial "point man" for the little criminal organization, and then, a cat burglar. When she was thirteen, she was running over a hundred child pickpockets and a blackmail scheme that targeted unfaithful husbands, priests, and politicians. Her first foray into smuggling and the first time she got busted seemed to coincide nicely; she easily paid the bail money, and simply smuggled her entire crew out of Greynor in the dead of night. They headed north, to Craysilt. Wiser, and hopefully able to wring even more of a profit out of the Royal and Noble berks said to be thronging the place, she and her orphan pickpockets snuck out of town utterly silently, stowing themselves in the steerage of Sophie's very first merchant vessel,The Kate and Aaron. It was there, in communion with the stinking bilge of a merchant vessel, that the Kate's Lads street gang was born. It took them some time to acclimate themselves to the colder, busier, and much older city. Greynor is stretched out, a sort of 'wheel' of one storey buildings and canals, all connected by bridges. Craysilt, however, was plumb full of stone, multi-storey structures and was built far enough inland to have a sewer system ripe (har, har) for the hiding.
Oh, she started small, did ol' Sophie. Her and her small army of cutpurses got to work immediately, quickly amassing enough coin for Sophie to acquire permanent lodgings for them all by purchasing a derelict mansion under a male pseudonym; a man that had been dead for years. She paid her taxes (the ones she would admit to owing) early each third of the year, keeping the tax man at bay, and soon had 'the goods' on the taxman himself. With plenty of room in the old manor house, she got to fixing it up, buttering up the construction workers the entire time, and when it was all spiffy-clean and restored to its antebellum glory, Sophie started hiring 'the girls'. The girls, in turn, were all loyal to Sophie, to their criminal collective, and before too long every politician in the neighborhood owed her favors...favors almost always consisting of looking in the other direction while
Kate's Lads conducted Business. At the time of her death, Sophie was the wealthiest single person in Craysilt, and that includes the person of the High King. I mean, of course the The High Kingdom had way more, but let's take the comparison at face value, shall we?
Tenets of Faith
Lastai the luxuriant teaches us that sensual pleasures are to be enjoyed, and she is not shy about teaching the proper mortals the proper ways to enjoy them.
All of them.
Holidays
Midsummer's day, Midwinter's day, and the Harvest Moon are all called days of the badger, wherein feasts are held, and once everyone is good and tipsy, they start having crazy group sex with each other.
Divine Goals & Aspirations
To bring pleasure to all, far and wide!
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Sophie is quite physically fit and attractive.
Body Features
Blonde hair, on the short side, with wide blue eyes and a just too adorable little button nose.
Identifying Characteristics
Her eyes were very distinctive; deep set, said to smolder in the candlelight.
Physical quirks
She was somehow born with a superior dexterity, and was known as one of the rare beauties of the world.
Special abilities
She was known to 'pull second-storey jobs', or catburglar, but no one ever caught her.
Specialized Equipment
Theives' tools, carriages, forgery kits, sharpened coins, hidden weapons.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
After a tough childhood, Sophie ended up killing it as an adult.
Gender Identity
Female
Sexuality
Sophie was bi-sexual
Education
Uneducated, 100% self taught to read and write, and to do sums.
Employment
Herself.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Her accomplishments were many and surprisingly varied.
Failures & Embarrassments
She lost her family's ancestral 'turf' in Greynor.
Mental Trauma
Her childhood was one long trauma.
Intellectual Characteristics
She is smart as a whip, clever as a fox, and deep as the mines of Mount Grey.
Morality & Philosophy
Her entire philosophy revolves around immorality, so she has that going for her.
Taboos
Robbing or conning the poor, poisoning.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Money, power, and privilege.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
She is street smart in a brilliant and unusual way that did her well.
Likes & Dislikes
Disliked bullies, and 'johns' that abused her girls, in a truly murderous fashion.
Virtues & Personality perks
She loved her girls!
Vices & Personality flaws
She saw everyone as a walking piggy-bank.
Personality Quirks
She used to blow the errant hair off of her face with an amusing 'pffft' sound.
Hygiene
Meticulously clean.
Social
Religious Views
Sophie was never taught the mysteries of religion.
Social Aptitude
She was a top notch social engineer.
Mannerisms
Sophie went from being a wharf-rat cutpurse to a minor noble in the brand new house of Lyons.
Hobbies & Pets
She...ummm...enjoyed sex games with men in zippered leather masks and too-tight leather pants, sporting nipple clamps and chains. Often, connecting the nipple clamps. We aren't going to talk about the...cages...
Speech
She had a high voice with which she learned to affect a noble and well educated accent.
Wealth & Financial state
She was enormously wealthy, essentially buying herself into the nobility.
Alignment
True Nuetral
Current Location
Species
Ethnicity
Other Ethnicities/Cultures
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Madame
Date of Birth
23rd of May
Date of Death
3rd of Juno
Life
5301 NG
5412 NG
111 years old
Circumstances of Birth
Born to an elven mother and human father
Circumstances of Death
Old age finally caught up to her
Birthplace
Greynor
Children
Current Residence
Birkwud Cemetary, Craysilt.
Gender
Female
Eyes
Big and blue
Hair
Long and blonde, curled ever so cutely
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
White
Height
5'6"
Weight
100
Quotes & Catchphrases
Come on back, now, fellers! The girls'll be awaitin' on you!
Aligned Organization
Other Affiliations
Ruled Locations
Character Prototype
Sophie Lyons!
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