Berdina Toven

:"You zhink I can't play vithout my hearing, eh? I vill play on! I vill play on so loud, YOU'LL be lucky if you can hear vhen I'm done with you!" - Toven's vow to keep rocking after being deafened.
Berdina 'Buddy' Toven is a German metal musician and the lead singer, and composer, of the band Klangkiller. She is quite well-known for her strong, gruff voice, and for being totally deaf.
== Character ==
=== Appearance ===
She has shoulder-length, swept-back curly grey hair, as well as dark circles around her eyes and an affinity for leather jackets and studded belts.
=== Personality ===
Quite into the star life, Buddy is rather self-absorbed and indulgent. However, she has quite a lot of self-control and despite her rough, rowdy stage persona and affinity for the dirty life, she is very level-headed and respectful. Although she respects the feelings of others, she almost seems to shut them out in favour of her own company.
=== Skills and Abilities ===
She is an excellent musician and a strong vocalist. She's also a very intelligent problem-solver and has some good detective skills. In lieu of hearing, she can sense musical vibrations and compose via reverberation.
== History ==
Toven picked up music at a very young age and was considered a prodigy, taught by her musician father. She performed her first concert at 12, her first original piece at 14, and solved the case of her father's murder at 16. In retrospect, this may have affected her emotionally, but at the time Toven was considered a child wonder.
At the age of 20, she formed the band Weltohr with several friends. They became a hit, playing at gigs across the country, Toven's reputation landing them a number of venues. However, the loud music took its toll on her, and following an accident during an encore at a festival, Toven was struck completely deaf.
However, Toven refused to let this get her down. As Weltohr disbanded around her, she took to composing again, and learned how to compose and perform based entirely around feeling vibrations in the air and through the floor. Weltohr came back under the new name of Klangkiller, give or take a few members who had to be replaced as they didn't trust Toven's abilities, and crowds went wild.
Toven and Klangkiller now perform for enraptured audiences globally, and Toven still dabbles in solving crimes every now and then, although her compulsion to take matters into her own hands has gotten her into trouble on more than one occasion.
== Trivia ==
* Toven's name (B. Toven), appearance (her hair, at least) and history of being a child musical prodigy are all references to the real-life composer Ludwig Van Beethoven.
* Her former band, Weltohr, translates to 'World Ear' in German, while Klangkiller translates to Sound Killer.
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