Renata Hodges

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Renata Hodges
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Renata Hodges

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Player Name: Salmon Max
Google Handle: Salmon Ma
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Name: Renata Hodges - Freshman
Experience: 4
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d6, Strength d6, Vigor d8
Charisma: 0; Pace: 8; Parry: 5; Toughness: 6; Academics: 0

Major: Kinesiology

Skills: (15)
  • Driving 1d4
  • Fighting 1d6
  • Intimidation 1d6
  • Persuasion 1d4
  • Lockpicking 1d4
  • Notice 1d4
  • Knowledge: Criminal Justice 1d6
  • Knowledge: Kinesiology 1d6
  • Shooting 1d4
  • Stealth 1d4
  • Swimming 1d4
Languages: English

Hindrances
  • Heroic
  • Quirk: Anger management issues
  • Overprotective Parents
Edges
  • Human: Noble (wealthy, politically influential family)
  • Hindrance: Fleet Footed
Semester Allowance: 1000
Gear
Backpack, laptop, smartphone
Stungun, touch atk, fatigue + shaken on failed Vigor -2; 150

Vehicle:
Used SUV: Accel 20/Top Speed 40, Toughness 14 (3), Seats 8 (driver + 7); luxury features, 4WD
Glitch: -2 Driving to start when under pressure

Extracurricular Activities: ?
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Renata Hodges
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Re: Renata Hodges

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Advances
Initial Advances: (From Hindrances): Fleet Footed, +1d Vigor
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Renata Hodges
Posts: 54
Joined: Fri Oct 26, 2018 1:06 pm

Re: Renata Hodges

Post by Renata Hodges »

Renata is the only daughter of Thomas and Isabella Hodges. She has two brothers as well, an older one who is in graduate school now, and a younger one who is midway through high school. Her family moved to Texas after Tom Hodges tried unsuccessfully to run for governor of Massachusetts, their previous state of residence. Isabella is originally from Texas though, and has roots in the area.

Her older brother Bradford, with some good-naturedly oblivious egging on from his old man, was a big influence on Renata's growing up. At first she was kind of shy and kept to herself; often intimidated by his physical size and brashness. Even so, they got along 'okay,' mostly...if only because she gave him the deference that he wanted. However, as her younger brother Tucker started getting older, more and more friction developed between him and Brad. Tuck is a smart kid, a lover of fiction and science and the two combined. When Brad started picking on him more and more, Renata started coming to his defense. This soured her relationship with Bradford, but it also pulled her out of her shell.

By the time Renata was in high school, Brad was in college and not at home as much. But it was around that time that Tom started getting into politics in earnest...as in not just running around to Isabella's parties and mingling and fundraising, but actually running for office. Until that point, Thomas and Renata had had a good relationship, like he had with just about everyone. Unrelentingly charming and affable, Tom was a hard man not to get along with. On the campaign trail though, Renata saw a different side to him. A capacity for calculated manipulation she'd never noticed...but had to wonder in retrospect if he hadn't always had. Her relationship with her mother had always been strained, with Isabella always trying to get 'her little girl' to be a princess and despairing of Renata's lack of interest, but the growing distance between her and her dad was really hard on her.

It all came to a head during the last year of high school for Renata, when her dad was in the thick of his bid for the governorship. He barely had any time, and kept trying to involve the kids in the campaign activities, and Isabella was stressed and even harder to get along with, and it all just kind of exploded at school when Ren was involved in a series of fights. The timing was poor, politically, and even though there was nothing to suggest the situation contributed to Tom's loss, and certainly HE didn't seem to blame her, both Isabella and Bradford...who'd been all-in on supporting the run...privately seemed to blame her sometimes. And of course, Renata kind of blamed herself as well.

Even after all that though, Tom and Isabella were able to pull a few strings in Texas to get Renata into ETU (or so they say, Ren has no idea if she would have gotten in on her own or not). Even there though, there was friction. Renata initially signed up as a Criminal Justice major, intending to become a police officer. Thomas had a rare moment when he flatly denied Ren on that. They had a big fight over it, which ended with Renata reminding him he couldn't actually stop her from taking it as a major, and Tom telling her that he could definitely ensure she wouldn't get hired as a police officer...making the degree worthless to her.

So, feeling defeated and helpless and angry, Renata took 'kinesiology' with an eye for sports medicine or the like, a nod to her successful high school athletics participation. That got the nod from her parents, but she still studied police law and justice on the side, as a quiet kind of spite.

Renata's relationships with her family are strained therefore, though not broken. Thomas and she love each other, but Tom feels like she needs guidence and a firm hand to keep her from making mistakes like she's been making. Isabella still believes Renata's troubles come from her needlessly complicating her life with things that her daughter doesn't need and shouldn't want. Brad's just tired of his bratty little sister always trying to grab the spotlight and make everything about herself. Of all of them, Tuck is the family member Renata still has a good relationship with. Of course, now that she's in college they won't be seeing as much of each other as they have in the past.
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