Serafina Baxter

Serafina is an American mercenary, of English and Italian origin, working in Tokyo, Japan. She currently has loose ties to the Inquisitors.

Serafina Baxter
Characteristics
Name	Serafina Baxter
User	/u/we7887
Species	Human
Status	Alive
Age	30
Gender	Female
Birthday	23/12
Height	5'8"
Weight	65kg
Blood Type	A-
Affiliations	NA
Ward	17th Ward
Quinque	NA
Rank	NA
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Appearance

Sera would likely go unnoticed in most western countries, possessing a reasonably plain face and build. She's fairly athletic, but one wouldn't be able to tell the exact extent under her casual attire. Just that she was quite thin and narrow. She shies away from any excess makeup or jewelry, usually just opting for loose shirts and well fitted jeans on a day to day basis. For missions or assignments, she usually just wears navy trousers and a hoodie of the same shade.

Her hair is black, strait, and normally tied back in a ponytail, to avoid the requirement of ever doing anything with it. Her eyes are a dull green, but possess a certain 'keenness' to them. As for her skin tone, it is a light olive, closer to her mediterranean half than her norman. There are a number of substantial nicks and scrapes across her entire body, but, again, nothing that would ever be seen normally.

Personality

To be frank, Sera isn't the most moral of people. She is often times extremely dishonest, driven by greed and self desire alone. Her only responsibility is to herself, and she's quite happy that way. After a life of being forced into doing what others wanted, she's finally got the ability to work towards her own goals and influence, and can be quite relentless in holding onto that freedom. She has little issue when it comes to petty crime, or even the killing of killers, but isn't so morally bankrupt that she'd ever torture people for fun or kill innocents on an order. No, she's merely taken on her own view of how things should be done, something she wouldn't easily be dissuaded from. Sera can be quite close-minded in her views and options, and has trouble taking on criticism from others.

That's not to say that she's all terrible of course, no one is. She considers herself to have a relatively stable moral compass, and will rarely talk herself up or accept credit from others. As long as she gets what she wants, she's happy. To contrast, she's a very confident person, in both her combat ability and intelligence. This often leads to her being fairly cocky, internally. However, she usually has sense enough to never let that cloud her judgement in serious situations.

As long as it's of no major cost to her, Sera can be very kind to others. She fears being, or being seen as, useless. So, she will often do a fair bit to help. Whether this is business related, or simply personal.

She can rub along well with others, or not, if she wishes. She's adaptable enough socially that she can befriend who she wants to befriend, and isolate those who she sees as being a bother. Sadly enough, she's come to approach most such situations with this analytical distance. It's been years for her, since having any more than shallow friends or acquaintances. Along with this, she's very good at keeping relatively calm and collected. At least outwardly. Even if she's terrified, or pumped up on adrenalin. Generally, she'll act quite relaxed, often making light of others or calling their bluff.

Serafina has no real hatred towards Ghouls, but that doesn't mean she minds killing them at all. In her previous life, that was almost a weekly routine. It's the same with people really. As long as they're not people. Once you put a life, family and personality to what would otherwise be a name and face, it makes it much weightier to take it all away. She's even refused jobs in the past if it all got too real. Despite there being a sizable paycheck waiting at the end of it all.

History

To be written

Powers and Abilities

Expert Acrobat: From a young age, Sera was forced into doing acrobatics. Although never really enjoying it all that much, she eventually got to the point where it felt like a waste to quit, and continued it until the age of 18. From then on out, she incorporated it into her future career and combat style. Often she'll perform complex and flexible movements to evade damage, gain vantage points, and escape from foes.

Expert Covert Operative: Not being terribly powerful or outstandingly skilled in combat, Sera tended to prefer, and excel, at the more subtle missions and operations dealt out by her employers. Through the past decade, she's picked up a number of skills and experiences that currently serve her well in Japan. Including those in areas such as infiltration, reconnaissance, and sabotage.

Adept Markswoman: Like most in her previous line of work, Sera has received a fair amount of training in the use of basic firearms. She's no sniper or lone ranger, but she's certainly proficient enough to meet her target when calm.

Adept Close Combatant: Akin to her training with long range weapons, Sera can also boast much higher than average close combat skills. Pure hand to hand she struggles with, mainly due to a lack of any substantial strength, but give her a knife and she's legitimately dangrous (To humans). She'll incorporate her agility wherever she can, and although this burns through her stamina very quickly, it's effective for the short period of time where she can manage.

Multilinguist: Sera's mother ensured that she learn italian, insisting on her using it most of the time at home when her father wasn't there. As such, she picked up that second language fairly quickly, after English. She learnt Japanese and French to a basic level in high school, but never really got a full grasp of the former until she was required to converse with a plethora of native speakers, for her former job.

Trivia

• Serafina's name means 'fiery one'. Combined with her last name, Baxter (an old english title for bakers), it can be thought of as fiery baker. At a stretch, 'Toast'.