Astrid

Astrid, the Valkyrie

### Folder Link

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zbbrppiZRkCrZIGQZzeShzkDO2NhjtfH?usp=sharing

# Character Information

### Summary

Adept-rigger with drones for every occasion!

### Goals

* Get enough money to buy a plane

* Get skilled enough to be the very best stunt-driver around

* Break into the trid-scene in hollywood and retire from

## Background

Anne was born somewhere in Los Angeles to some mid level corp slave parents on the rise, a loving dad who was happy she was alive, and a mom who felt children were a hinderance to her upward climb. As such, they never had another. Her dad raised her like he would a son, teaching her about cars, planes, trains, engineering and the like. Her earliest memory is of him taking her to the local races, and she instantly fell in love with fast moving machines.

At six, she had learned how to hotwire the family car (thanks to easy to follow instructions on the matrix). One quiet night, she took it out for a spin, just once around the block, having jury rigged pedals for her feet to reach the pedals. This continued for a week, until her parents saw the car leaving the driveway. Assuming it was stolen, they called the police. Her mother was livid upon discovering Anne was the thief. Her mother enrolled her in all the after school programs she could, music, dance, singing, everything and anything to get her away from cars, as the it was ruining her image in the corp.

Anne soon fell in love with performing, she loved watching the trids (and especially the racing ones), and wanted to be a performer. Her mother encouraged this, as it kept Anne out of trouble and kept her so busy she hardly noticed when her Dad stopped coming home one day. Anne's mom was rising through the ranks again. But children are children, and they aren't perfect. During recitals and practices her mom would occasionally attend, and if Anne messed up in the slightest of ways she would criticize her, not on the car ride home, no, but publicly. A few times she even would come marching up to the stage positively shrieking at Anne's imperfections. After years of this abuse (and a particularly explosive and embarrassing confrontation between her mother, the choir director, and a saxaphone player in front of a large crowd), Anne ran offstage in tears to a jeering laughing crowd. Once in the parking lot, she hotwired a car and drove off into the night.

Crowds in general became a problem for her... she would get anxious and terrified that they were all looking at her, judging her for her smallest mistakes. She would sprint away from her parents to escape, and cars go a lot faster than legs. The police had no choice but to jail her until her parents could pick her up and during one of her many stays, she met her future Fixer, Natalia Fuentes. Amazed a kid so young could take the cops for a chase, and so often, she began "picking her up from school" to go on odd jobs, and so Anne was driving regularly before other kids could read the street signs, and was emerging as one of the best getaway drivers around the age normal kids were learning traffic signals. By the time Anne was a teen, she was stealing cars to order, driving the boosts to any one of the chop shops in the city. Now, when Anne sees a new car in the 'hood, what Anne sees is the fee in Nuyen. Her mother couldn't wait to throw her out of the house the moment she was officially an adult.

Anne became a driver for TRI-D specializing in some "natural" circuits (no rigging/magic), she felt for the first time like she was achieving her dreams, but that low on the circuit means you don't quit your day job. One evening she spotted a gloriously tricked out Mustang. She drove around Seattle for hours on it. She couldn't even dare take it to a chop shop. She felt FREE behind the wheel, without realising how long she had been driving, she eventually made it to an empty deserted park, or rather was called to it. Standing in the middle was a great 8 legged horse. Without words she felt an immediate kinship and she understood... her raw natural racing talent had never been hers alone. As suddenly as he had appeared, the stallion was gone, as was the car! Anne investigated the eight legged horse with a matrix search and soon realised that it could only be Sleipnir, Odin's horse of myth and legend! She soon found a group of Norse practitioners (called The Einherjar) in Seattle. Her career on the "natural" circuit was clearly over. She stole cars all the way up the coast till she could make it, and they taught her how to hone her innate magical talents.

Since making it to Seattle, she's set up a small repair garage... with no customers. She's expanded into drones. She's built up security GMC Sidewinder sold for scrap at auction that was deemed totalled by the corp. Zooming down the road is where she feels she's alive, and she still dreams of one day being a professional stuntwoman for a TRI-D studio, but she needs to pay the bills. Though she isn't above boosting the occasional vehicle , she specializes in rapid extraction for other shadowrunners. She tries not to get her hands dirty, thievery is one thing - outright murder she is much more squeamish to, but she'll do whatever it takes to keep running free. Sleipnir still appears to her and guides her in safe directions when running.

Seattle didn't work out for her. After a particularly bad op and the complete wrecking of her Sidewinder, she had to scrimp and save until she could replace it. By the tiime she had, she had tired of the grey skies and oppressive atmosphere, and decided to return to her home in the CFS.

Durring her runner career before joining the market, Astrid flew to space, stopping a CFD laden ship from plummeting into the west coast, earning her National Fame.

## Narrative Significant Qualities

* Fame National

* Creature of Comfort Middle

* Phobia (Common, Moderate) (Crowds)

* Mentor's Mask (Sleipnir)

## Run History

- Many great adventures before joining FM.

- Two Party System

- Arm the Poor

- THE NUMBERS SWITCH! WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!

- Angry Knights

- Turnabout is Fair Play

- A Diplomatic Delivery

- A Blue Pearl

- Man Down

- Boom Boom Boom Boom...

- Bravo Six

## Affiliations

### Contacts

Baltair Lìosach - 5/2

Natalia Fuentes - 2/3

The Fashion Mafia - 3/1G

Azumja Yoko - 1/1

Croqutte - 4/1

Callow Mc Tir - 4/1

Spanner - 4/2

Tori - 4/3

Rusty and Ricky 7/4

### Organizations

Evo - 3 rep

Horizon - 25 rep

# In Character Information

## Symbols and Signatures

### Meishi

The interior of her vehicle, named *Sleipnir*, is decorated entirely in Norse runes, and her workshop is very much so themed the same.

## Matrix Search Table

 3
 6+

## Shadow Community Table

 3
 6+

## Assensing Table

 2
 3
 4
 5+

## SINs

Andrea Frostad, UCAS, R6

```
 Drivers
 Magic
 Firearms
 Marine
 Security Contractor
 Drone
 Pilot

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## Media Mentions

Fame, National - Part of a UCAS team returning from Mars that intercepted rogue monads attempting to infect the West Coast with CFD via a crashed spaceship.