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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Magdalena Novak-Lau: Wife! Madly in love.
• Barbara “Babs” Morgan: Close friend and ex-crewmate.
• Diana Diaz: Close friend and ex-crewmate.