Carolina Savari
She doesn’t really have any nicknames that most people know about, and the people who frequent and work in her far think highly of her, so won’t dare come up with one. There is one nickname for her among some of the crime families, and that is Red Widow, for several reasons.
Physical Description
Being taller than the average elf, she also has more angular features, a trait of Sun elves. She also has their typical long ears, which point almost directly outwards, and long eyebrows which go past the sides of her head. Her long red hair flows loose over her back with her bangs framing her face and down over her upper chest. She has legs which seem longer than normal, but that’s just a trick of the eye in how she tends to stand. She has a slender frame and a large bust.
She generally keeps her make-up pretty colourful. She keeps her nails short, and paints them dark purple. She usually paints her lips a pink/purple colour, with a light blush on her cheeks. She has fairly heavy eye shadow, starting purple, and moving to a pink colour as it goes upwards towards her long eye brows. She also puts a dark eye liner on her upper eye lid which trails upwards off on the outsides of her eyes.
Physical Quirks
She tends to move more like an exotic dancer, with a lot of hip movements, and tilting her hip when she stands still to appear to have longer legs than normal. She also tends to fix her hair, and twirls it in her hands when speaking to people. When she’s at the bar and not doing anything, she has an old coin which she will juggle over fingers.
Clothing Style
She tends towards a simple but elegant look, a one piece black dress with plunging neckline and long sleeves, and has open lapels. There are various parts of the dress which have transparent floral patterns on it, and she accentuates it with a thick red belt over her waist. She has a pair of red and black high heels that she adds to the outfit. On her right index finger, she will wear an armour ring with a sharp point made of a darkened steel. She also wears a necklace with a spider on it, which many assume is why she earned her nickname with the local crime families. She also has Celtic style earrings.
Mental Characteristics
Personal History
Born to an actual crime family, she was always surrounded by criminals, in this case an Irish crime family. She learned early on how to protect herself and from her father, who was head of the crime family, how to deal with the criminal world. She always was daddy’s little girl, and wanted to be just like him. She began to take a more active role in his business and criminal dealings, working and managing the family tavern, as well as helping with passing orders to various members of the family.
Soon enough, she was even helping her father interrogate people, which she had a knack for. Word of her involvement spread and her life became forfeit. She proposed an idea to her father; work with the police against the other families, invite cops into the tavern and use them as free protection. He was impressed with her ingenuity, and the plan went forwards. A week into the plan, someone from a rival family came to take her out, and her father got in the way, and he was killed. This just added to her credibility as wanting to work against local crime to the police, and made her life safer since she took over as head of the family.
Education
She started off in a private Catholic school, but by the end, it was safer for her to have private tutors. Although she never went to college, she did excel in chemistry, and she does dabble in it for dealing with “problems”.
Employment
The family tavern, Three Pints, is a traditional Irish pub, with both traditional and American food. It is one of the safest places in the city, since cops are almost always in there, or stopping by for a coffee. She also runs the Blarney crime family from the cellars. The name was taken as an homage to their Irish ancestry, without revealing who the family was.
Morality & Philosophy
She is ruthless, cold blooded and manipulative. She will do whatever it takes to get what she wants, be it seduce someone to get them to talk, or break their fingers to get the same. She is very greedy, but doesn’t want to move too fast, or get into things that might draw undue attention. While she has low moral standards, there are some lines even she won’t cross. She actually has cleaned up the area, as she doesn’t tolerate anything harder than morphine or opium being sold in her area. She also has personally gutted someone trying to get into child sex trafficking, and led police to a pedophile ring. She also will not allow any of her goons harm an animal. To her, innocents remain that way, and no one breaks that rule with her.
Personality
Motivation
For her, the attainment of power is the one thing that she craves most. While she is in charge of her family, she does want to increase her influence. She is trying to make a deal with the local Yakuza, and she’s had some run ins with the Triad that make her think it’s time they were gone. In the end, she wants keep her area safe from the other families, and she knows that while she is evil, she’s the lesser of the evils in town.
Likes & Dislikes
She loves to sing, and will happily join in on any Irish drinking tune. She really loves The Dropkick Murphys and the Irish Rovers, and will play them just as much as traditional Irish music in the tavern. She also is very fond of spiders, and the old fable of the Black Widow and the Frog, a regional variation of the Scorpion and the Frog fable. This is where she got her nickname from. She absolutely detests those who hurt innocents, be they children or animals, and will pay them back for slights done.
Virtues
Despite who she is, she actually does have some redeeming qualities. She is very loyal and protective of those she cares about, as well as any innocent. She is also very self sufficient, she literally could stop doing criminal activities any time, and still make more than enough from the bar to live well, but she wants to make sure the rest of her extended and adopted family are taken care of, so keeps it up.
Vices
Her love of drinking is probably the least offensive of her vices. She is cold blooded and ruthless. Torture comes just as easy to her as seduction, showing she really is a high functioning sociopath, and the only thing grounding her is her refusal to harm innocents and her twisted sense of honour and loyalty. She has no emotions, but is extremely skilled at faking them. She also displays a lot of narcissism, making things even more dangerous for those that cross her.
Quirks
While she does appear to be very caring towards her family, and those who work for her, this is just a clever deception from the manifestation of her seeing them as chess pieces. She doesn’t like to sacrifice any piece, and would rather set up a situation where she doesn’t lose. While this makes her a terrible chess player, it makes her an exceptional criminal mastermind.
Values
The only thing she really respects is might and power. Those who have it deserve respect, and those who have little don’t. Those with no power, the innocents, are to be protected, so they can GAIN power. Once they enter into the power game, then they are fair game. Animals are the one thing in this world that comes close to breaking through her sociopathic tendencies, which is why they also get a pass.
Sexual Style
While a relationship with this woman is remarkably dangerous, it can at least be pleasurable. She believes that most men just need to feel somewhat appreciated, and get a release to enjoy it, so she will make it worth their time. Besides, she can always use her sexual playthings as pawns in her games. She has a moderately healthy appetite for it, and tends to play the modest romantic, but when she does get into it, she wants to be in full control and while it will be intense and satisfying physically, after a couple times people start feeling like it was empty. She does enjoy the release herself, but it’s not really all that much different to the other things she does.
Social
Contacts & Relations
While her mother was a part of her life, she was kind of in the background, as she never wanted to be part of the criminal work. When her husband died, she said her goodbyes to her child, and moved back to Ireland, wanting to go back with her family. Now, the people of her extended family are the only ones left. She has a twisted kind of loyalty to them, and will do what she can to protect them, but only insofar as it serves her having more pieces she can use. She occasionally takes a boyfriend, but generally after a month, it fails and he leaves. Since she usually ends up using this to recruit new members, she never cares if they leave, as they are of no use to her. She doesn’t have any particular attachment to them, so they are safe from her looking for revenge. She also protects her employees, even those who aren’t in the crime work, as they provide useful cover.
Social Aptitude
She is a charming and very disarming individual, a useful and dangerous side of being a sociopath. She tends to be distrustful of people, especially ones she has never met, and will manipulate them in any way she can, either with feigned feminine charms, promises of favours, or outright threats, whichever is most appropriate and useful in the situation. She is quite a talker though, so tends to stick with persuasion, and she finds it’s more effective with the average person.
Religious Views
She was raised a devout Roman Catholic, like a proper Irish lady, and despite doing everything against the Bible, she still goes to church, still even goes into confession. Since she generally makes her goons do the dirty work, she doesn’t have to confess to too much violence, but her pastor suspects she’s likely hiding a lot more, but won’t push the matter. She honestly doesn’t care about it, but she knows it provides a useful cover, and is good PR.
Mannerisms
It’s hard to pinpoint one way of acting that fits her, as she will change it to suit the person and the situation. A literal social chameleon, she can change gears in an instant and go from pretending to be grieving one second, to running a blade over someone’s neck with a steel cold look in her eyes. She has mastered her acting to the point where only those close to her know that she doesn’t feel a thing, and that’s why there are extra loyal, as they know she would just as soon sacrifice them.
Hobbies & Pets
She enjoys telling riddles and will sometimes use them to pass along information in a roundabout way. She also is a practised hunter, having gone with her father deer hunting many times. She still keeps in practice with a rifle, even though she rarely goes anymore. She also likes to read astrology in the paper. She will tell each of her employees their horoscope as they start their shift. She doesn’t have a pet, as she knows that others do not share her refusal to harm animals, and doesn’t want any animal hurt for her. This is the closest she gets to having actual emotions.
Speech Style
She has a sharp Irish accent, and a musical voice, quite high and lilting. It actually sounds a lot like Enya, but with the accent of the lead singer of The Cranberries. She uses a lot of Irish turns of phrase as well as occasionally slips into Gaelic, usually when she’s cussing someone out for being stupid.
Political Affiliation & Activism
While she does present a friendly and supportive outward appearance to the local politicians, she could care less about them and their policies, until they make her job more difficult. She’s been known to tip off activists with false information about politicians making her activities harder by accusing them of things the activists hate, and letting them do the job of taking them out, so she never has to get involved.