(Originally posted Friday 10-21-16)
One of the cool things with using pictures to help generate ideas is that, depending on the picture, some of the work is done for you and you can instead focus on filling in the blanks.
In this pic the woman is clearly a badass already so my first thought was solo assassin for hire. Then I thought, what if she worked for someone instead? And who could that be? Going back to my Isabella Racine character I remembered she likes strong women working for her.
So now that I know she has connections with Isabella, I decided to make her Former French Intelligence and she is in fact Isabella’s right hand woman. Since she’s French I look up French names and decide on Levina Cadence. Her name in French means Flash; Rhythmic (which I thought appropriate)
Levina is mixed race with her father being from Africa but both her parents are French citizens. Going back to the picture, I decide she’s a close assault specialist as well as fast attacks. She likes motorcycles and uses them frequently in hit and run attacks.
While Levina hasn’t appeared in person in any stories yet, she was mentioned in the Thornton Twins novella (Coming Summer 2017) as having history with the twins.
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