PLAYER: Liesel Förstner	CHARACTER: Franka Dietrich
PRONOUNS: she/her AGE: 27 ORIENTATION: Bisexual disaster LOCATION: New Jersey OCCUPATION: Cashier	GENDER: <F> AGE: Adult ENABLE PKMN SPEECH? Yes PAIN THRESHOLD: Reduced TRAINER CLASS: Gardener

OUT OF THE GAME Liesel Förstner loves playing video games, but you could be forgiven for assuming the opposite. She's terrible at them, and gets angry at them easily. Even back when she was a 10-year-old playing Pokemon for the first time, she would scream if she lost a battle and throw her Game Boy Advance across the room. (This treatment eventually broke it, though, and she was inconsolable. Her precious Pokemon, gone forever... She finally learned her lesson about throwing things when she's mad.) The fact of the matter is, though, Liesel has a rough life. Her degrading job as a supermarket cashier drains the life out of her, and she has to just sit there, customer service smile firmly affixed, and take it. Video games provided an environment where she could harmlessly get out all that frustration that built up over the work week. Yelling at things that didn't really matter with some friends was her catharsis. And maybe she even got to taste the satisfaction of victory, sometimes. (Not very often. Did I mention she's garbage at games?) Well, she thought it was a harmless outlet. Turns out her online friend group was completely sick of her, and they made a group chat to make fun of her impotent rage behind her back. When Liesel eventually found out about this, she was apoplectic. She left that friend group behind in a huff, but apparently seeing the back of her wasn't enough, because her old "friends" started to spread pernicious rumors about her. These rumors chased her from place to place and made it hard for her to find new friends. At this point, Liesel went from angry to downright vengeful, and hatched a plan to get back at the den of snakes. Apparently, if you get hurt in the game, you get hurt in real life. Well, if you pick the settings Liesel's too chicken to. But even if they didn't, Liesel can still embarrass her ex-friends by beating them silly in a fight. (The fact that she's STILL terrible at Pokemon battles has not occurred to her during the formation or implementation of this plan, though she has been studying Bulbapedia in preparation.) The VR gear was a little expensive on her shoestring budget, but she knew all her ex-friends were obsessed with the game. They'd never see it coming. And if she's being honest with herself, she's glad to have an excuse to finally play the thing herself. That childhood love for Pokemon never left her.

INSIDE THE GAME Of course, her quarry would recognize Liesel if she used any of her usual handles, or resembled herself (as she usually tries to replicate her own appearance in game). So she played around in character creation for a while before arriving at this look: a tall, handsome woman in a suit, which she chose for completely normal reasons. And as she worked, she came up with a fake personality to disguise herself further: "Franka Dietrich" may look serious and focused, but she's a big softie, really. Friendly and a little bit airheaded, Franka will talk your ear off about her husband (which Liesel is completely making up on the spot) or her IRL job as a building inspector (likewise). She's still getting used to this whole VR thing, so sometimes she gets disoriented or "lost." (Read: snooping where she shouldn't be.) Battle, however, seems to bring out her driven and competitive side, and sometimes even gets her a little frustrated. Despite her inexperience, Franka clearly does want to Get Good, and that's one trait Liesel can't hide.

FACE CLAIMS IRL CHARACTER [*code]ORIGINAL ART by Saga Liesel Förstner as herself[/code*] PLAYER CHARACTER [*code]ORIGINAL ART by Saga Franka Dietrich as Franka [/code*]

OOC NAME Saga

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