Vera Streiker

Official portrait of Vera by Jacklyn Treuer

**Vera Streiker** is a human fighter from Ketterdam. She is played by Jacklyn Treuer.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Vera is a 5'10" albino woman, with pale skin, white hair often tied in a ponytail, and reddish-pink eyes. She wears a long-tailed jacket, a belt with pistol holsters, leggings with knee-high black boots with 1.5" heels over top, and a black, wide-brimmed hat. She has brown leather fingerless gloves, and the word "otkazat'sya" tattooed underneath her clavicle.

### **Personality**

A serious and focused character, Vera is noted to display sociopathic tendencies - not speaking often, acting relatively antisocial, as well as being generally uncaring about the people she works with; she prefers to work alone.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

Vera's father, Ivor Kaletsni, was a Durast from Novokribirsk, who moved to Ketterdam to avoid being drafted into the Second Army. While in Ketterdam, he met a talented tailor, whom he eventually married. The couple had twin daughters they named Vera and Lilliana - Vera was born albino, and Lilliana was grisha, a Durast like her father.

When the twins were at the age of 13, the couple got into some trouble with Pekka Rollins's gang, and Vera's parents were murdered in front of her and her sister. The event caused Vera to close in on herself, becoming antisocial and standoffish, though she still cares for her sister, who suffers from extreme PTSD attacks due to trauma. As she got older, Vera took to a life of bounty hunting, training herself to work with ruthless efficiency while using the money to support her and Lilliana.

### **Ketterdam Crawl Mini-Series**

Vera was hired by Kaz Brekker, in addition to three other individuals, to track down and dispose of an anti-grisha organization known as the Gilded Rose. Still taking an option to work alone, Vera opted to scale the side of the building and work from the upper floors downward. In doing so, she ended up causing a distraction for the other Antichrist members by bringing the guards of the Boreg Estate to her location, slaughtering most of them while the rest of the team dealt with their main target.

## **Relationships**

### **Irene Belladonna**

Vera knows assassins, and while she hasn't seen Irene's work up close, she knows that she's a capable combatant not to be trifled with. She views Irene as an equal in both skill and sociopathy.

### **Kaizen Melwor**

Kaizen is a little rough around the edges, but gets the job done, from what she's heard. She trusts him to be a capable fighter, and while he's not the most subtle, she has some respect for the Zemeni.

### **Raul Yul-Katkit**

An interesting figure, Raul intrigues Vera, but also shows a sense of innocence that she both envies and despises. Someone as young as he is shouldn't be exposed to the darker side of Ketterdam - or Ketterdam at all, really - but it also makes her wish for simpler days, before she knew of the city's cruelty. Nevertheless, he's a valuable member of the team, and is treated as such.

### **Kaz Brekker**

Vera is familiar with the infamous Bastard of the Barrel, especially since many clients have requested that he be a target. She has turned down all of said clients, knowing full well that even if she manages to take down Brekker himself, she will have a lot more enemies to deal with in the future.

### **Nina Zenik**

A formidable grisha, and someone Vera does not want on her list of enemies. Though Nina talks too much for her liking and insisted that her wardrobe needed some changes, Vera holds high respect for the Heartrender.

### **Lilliana Streiker**

Quite possibly the only person Vera truly cares about, Lilliana is the entire reason why Vera took up her current career. People pay a lot for hired gun, and what better way to obtain support for her sister than to use the tools she made for her. Though Lilliana was reluctant at first - having multiple PTSD attacks during the design and crafting process - she successfully crafted Vera's firearms using her abilities as a Durast. Vera has since gone to great lengths to prevent herself from having to request Lilliana's abilities again.

### **Austin Christ**

Vera watched Christ defeat both Kaizen and the house in a game of Hand of Fate - she is convinced the man was cheating, though could not see his cards. Austin was also revealed to be the owner of the company that installed the windows in the Boreg Estate, which Vera struggled with opening. She wants to put a bullet in the man's head just as much as Kaizen does.

## **Character Information**

### **Abilities**

#### **Fighter Abilities**

* Action Surge (1 use)
* Second Wind (1d10 + 9)
* Fighting Style: Two-Weapon Fighting
* Extra Attack
* Indomitable (1 use)
* Martial Archetype: Gunslinger
	+ Gunsmith
	+ Adept Marksman (3 Grit points, Grit DC 17)
		- Bullying Shot
		- Deadeye Shot
		- Violent Shot
	+ Quickdraw

### **Notable Items**

* 2 revolvers, crafted by Lilliana
* a long-barreled shotgun, purchased by Vera
* 2 handaxes
* Tinker's Tools
* Thieves' Tools

## **Appearances and mentions**

* Ketterdam Crawl Mini-Series (all episodes)

## **Quotations**

* "Well then, if you'll excuse me, I must be going."
* "You'll also be in the deepest shit if we get caught." (To Raul while going over the plan)
* "This is fine, thank you." (To Nina upon receiving her stealth outfit)

## **Trivia**

* The original concept for Vera had her as a dark elf by the name of Lillianna Sepharim. She was made a human after Jacklyn watched the Shadow & Bone Netflix series, and her name was changed to a Dutch inspired name "to sound more like Ketterdam".
	+ Lilliana was instead used as the name of Vera's sister.
	+ Vera's middle name, Snezhinka, is the Russian word for snowflake - a reference to her albino nature.
		- Jacklyn opted for the Russian word, partially because Ravkan is based on Russian (as well as other languages), and partially because the Dutch word (which Kerch's language is partially based on) sounded weird.
	+ Though in her full name, her surname is hyphenated, she prefers to only use her mother's surname, Streiker.
* Vera is albino, a condition that results from an inability to produce the pigment melanin. Though the condition is hereditary in real life, neither of Vera's parents were albino.
	+ Her low rolls when it comes to investigation could possibly be attributed to visual abnormalities that are usually present in albinos, but Vera appears to have no visual impediments when it comes to using her firearms, though it is possible she could have trained herself to counteract her potential poor vision.
* Vera has the lowest Intelligence of the Antichrist, but has been shown to not necessarily need high intellect in her line of work.
* During the infiltration of the Boreg Estate, the Antichrist made a bet to see who would cause the most casualties. Vera won this competition after killing most of the guards that advanced on her location, while the rest of the team dealt with the members of the Gilded Rose.
	+ Vera deposited all of the corpses in a single room on the third floor, which she nicknamed her corpse room.
	+ Her total body count was 9, beating Irene at 2 and Kaizen at 3-4.
* Vera's firearms have only misfired once.
* Vera is adept in hand-to-hand combat in addition to being at range, as she has shown to be quite skilled with her pair of handaxes.
* Vera's personality was inspired by Percival de Rolo III from *Critical Role*, as well as Celaena Sardothien from *Throne of Glass*.
* Otkazat'sya, the Ravkan word for abandoned or orphaned, is tattooed underneath her clavicle as a mark of pride - being orphaned allowed her to become the person she is today, though she does not deny the trauma caused by the event to both her and Lilliana.
* Though it was not mentioned during the game, Vera's jaw and fists clenched upon first hearing the goals of the Gilded Rose - to wipe out all grisha in Ketterdam.
	+ This is due to Vera's sister being grisha, showing that Vera is capable of caring about people, despite her inability to show it.
* Vera is aromantic and asexual, though it goes unmentioned in-game.
* Vera is the first character Jacklyn made a Spotify playlist for, initially starting it on a whim and "just for fun" before getting invested in it.