^ CYNTHIA LAU || | {{:characters:cl:cynthia.png?400&direct}} || | **PB:** Kelly Hu || | **Gender:** | Female | | **Age:** | 58 | | **Birthday:** | June 6th | | **Occupation:** | Retired; town busybody | | **Pinterest:** | radiance | | **Storyline:** | [[setting:rosethorn|]] | | **Affiliation:** | None | | **Family:** | Wife | ======= Cynthia Lau-Novak======= ---- Town busybody (when she's not off on fabulous vacations with her wife) who bakes prizewinning pies, fosters cats, and has a colorful past. ===== Appearance ===== ---- * Salt and pepper hair, long, plenty of volume * Very dark brown eyes * Only 5'3'' but //feels// taller * Body still banging and she knows it * Favors bold patterns and plunging necklines in dresses and tops * Lots of sequin pantsuits, sometimes blouseless * Always smells good * Perfect mauve lipstick * Great posture * Very serious about self-maintenance * Has no visible source of income but always looks Expensive ===== Personality ===== ---- * Fearless * Vivacious, but in a very genteel and refined way (it's a front) * Velvet glove over iron fist vibe; sweet, but could and would kill you if you gave her a reason * A quick analytical mind, but she leads with her heart * Trusts her gut feeling because it's rarely wrong * Nosy as fuck * Needs to put her fingers in all the pies because she Loves being busy * Morally a bit flexible but generally a law-abiding citizen these days * Bit of an adrenaline junkie * Ride or die for her people * A bit hotheaded back in the day but has mellowed considerably * Genuinely loves Rosethorn and wants to better the community ===== Abilities ===== ---- * Baseline human * Grew up doing martial arts * Was a dancer through college and still quite bendy * Could maybe still kick your ass in heels if necessary * Social chameleon * Very quick study ===== History ===== ---- * Born in Honolulu, HI; of mixed Chinese, Polynesian, and white descent * An only child * Dad ran a dojo so grew up doing martial arts * Mom wanted her to do more 'girly' things so also signed her up for dance lessons and dance became a lifelong love * Went to a fine arts college for dance * Moved to New York City after graduation to pursue a professional dance career, but ended up entangled in the arts scene instead * Got into a relationship with a high society girl who jetset her around the globe; always canny, Cynthia learned to read and mirror subtle social cues, blending in seamlessly with various social groups * Eventually was introduced to the shady underbelly of the arts world and was intrigued * Didn't //mean// to become a world-class thief, it just sort of happened? And it was //fun// so she kept doing it * Eventually was recruited into what she didn't know at the time was a mostly PWSA heist crew by Barbara Morgan, a witch * The crew needed humans to perform certain tasks that were warded against PWSA (generally when stealing magical artifacts) and sometimes just to serve as a face for the group * This is where Cynthia met and eventually fell in love with Magdalena Novak, her future wife * While most humans generally were rotated out of the crew in a few years, Cynthia got along so well with Babs and Magda that she stuck with it * By the time she embarked on a romantic relationship with Magda, the crew was in discussions of letting her in on the secret * When they finally did so, she was very surprised, but took it in stride -- it explained a few things she had noticed over the years * Married Magdalena in Paris, where they met, in 2013 when France legalized same sex marriage and they decided to retire * Moved to Rosethorn and has been a community fixture since ===== Relationships ===== ---- * **Magdalena Novak-Lau:** Wife! Madly in love. * **Barbara "Babs" Morgan:** Close friend and ex-crewmate. * **Diana Diaz:** Close friend and ex-crewmate. ===== Gallery ===== ---- {{gallery>:characters:cl?lightbox&~5&purge=true&random&random}} ~~NOTOC~~ {{tag> characters inactive rosethorn}}