Erika Weiss: The No-Show
Residence: Wallside Peaksangle, Sestra Primus, planet Sestra
Age: 31Job: Inspector for the Administratum
Medium-length brown hair, green eyes, 6'5", Athletic build.
Erika was born to a member of the Adepta Sororitas. The product of a moment of impiety, Erika early on was raised in Jaq's Crook by her father, a well-meaning pit fighter and manufactorum worker named Dieterich Weiss. Due to the circumstances of her mother's position in the Orders Hospitaller she could never be claimed by her mother, Grite Ohrstein. That did not stop her mother from seeing her when she could. Grite's connections at being raised to a Curia Advance, with her scandal well hidden, allowed her to make connections with several different figures of the Sestrite upper crust and Erika was able to attend a boarding school for training administratum members in the northern portion of the content of Fortisia known as Saint Drau's. Erika was raised to be an inspector for the administratum with her schooling showing her to have a curious demeanor and a good eye at sussing out secrets, mysteries, and reading account logs. She would investigate different merchant guilds, noble houses, and other powers of Sestra to see that they were paying their share of the Tithe in full.
Erika never cared much about being essentially a bastard. She has a good relationship with both of her parents. She took after her father in his fighting ability and her mother in her persistence and tenacity. She was sadly ineligible to join the Adepta Sororitas as she was not Schola Progenium raised nor a special enough case to be recruited. That did not stop her from taking inspiration from the brawny and resilient Sisters of Battle. She trained herself to be a steadfast fighter. Back in school and now she can be found lifting weights, sprinting, and generally exercising to keep an athletic figure and strength. She took to fist fighting and convinced her father to teach her how to fight. She trained on her own when she couldn't see him. Her size, build, and training made her a brutal brawler. She loved it. She was almost expelled from Saint Drau's for essentially holding a fight club that included several students. She was allowed to stay due to intervention by patrons of the school spurred by her mother.
Starting service in the administratum when she was twenty-one, Erika felt pride in her work and a sense of satisfaction at essentially having all these large organizations at her mercy as an inspector. With a wrong allocation of resources or another impropriety, she could essentially snap her fingers and the administratum could sanction anyone. It wasn't that simple, however. Furthermore, the Administratum's definition of impropriety did not always match her own. She became frustrated with what she would see as unfairness to downright cruelty done by these powers. They suffered no consequences for their actions. Erika became downtrodden and jaded over time by the things she saw all over Sestra.
This came to a head with her introduction to the Hellenbrecht sisters. Nominally the prim and proper scions of a powerful trade house, they were vicious predators at night and serially tortured murdered those they could catch during off-hours. Erika could not prove with evidence that they did this without legal access to their holdings nor that it truthfully interfered with the Tithe because they were smart in their coverups. The sisters' parents were rich and powerful enough to cover over their predations. In a moment of rage at her impotence, she smashed a wardrobe open. Out of it fell a white ski-mask. It was a keepsake from one of the few times away from St. Drau's she could spend with her mother. Along with this, she felt inspired from tales she heard about a masked and armoured individual in black garb waging his personal war against the Underworld of Sestra.
She put together an ad-hoc disguise and went stalking in the night. She found the sisters and followed them to their usual haunt. She waited until they found a victim and took them away. She was able to follow them to a basement in Peaksangle. Erika freed the victim, took picts of the entire incidence into the basement, defended herself when they discovered her and beat a confession out of the sisters to be given in recorded form to the SPED. They were taken away. For the first time, Erika felt she could dole out true justice.
She went out into the night continuously. She went after gangs, abusers, the corrupt, and the vile. She never gave herself a name and obstinately refused to answer questions trying to get one out of her. With her blank appearance and her penchant to disappear after saving victims or away from reporters, she was given the appellation "the No-Show". She upgraded her costume to a dark blue trenchcoat, hat, and suit. She upgraded from the white ski-mask to a white head mask she stole from a burgeoning gang of thugs called the Ivory Riders. Her outfit is unisex and it is difficult to tell whether she is a man or a woman sometimes leading to her being called Mr. No-Show and Miss No-Show. To befuddle those that attempt to place her she also uses an audio modulator with her normal suit to give her an unnaturally deep voice. She has steadily upgraded her weaponry from gloved fists to brass knuckles and to now a mixture of shock gear for her upper body and magnetically enhanced dueling greaves for her lower body. Along with that, she has in her gear a grapnel and line, a hand cannon, manacles, investigative gear, an auspex, pict recorder, and photo-visors. She is an extremely efficient and brutal fighter along with being a proficient investigator and interrogator. Furthermore, she excels at stealthy skullduggery to make up for her working alone.
Now, at the start of the Vigilante campaign Who Shot Ya, she is currently investigating the Network, a rumored cartel of different powers around Sestra that hold great influence over events of the planet. She is worried they will inhibit the tithe along with being an unchecked power over Sestra. She is a veteran Vigilante with about nine years under her belt.
Erika used to be in a league known as Bulwark that included her, the Black Rook, the Sunshine Ranger, and one other until an incident in the city of Batlzerburg four years before the time of the vigilante campaign. Preparing an ambush for a resurfacing pirate outfit, the Black Rook made a snap decision to begin it too early and it led to the death of her friend Mackenzie Day, otherwise known as the Cat Burglar, a stealthy and acrobatic vigilante that worked with the No-Show since their early days. Since then, Erika has forsworn all leagues and partners and has decided to work on her own. She has a burning hatred for the Black Rook and will only very reluctantly work with him again.
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