Phoebe

Phoebe

Source: Final Fantasy XIII

Awakening	Second
Focus	Insight
Gender	Female
Status	Alive
Species	Human
First Appearance	Capital and Cabinet

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History

A Second Awakened of Curiosity, Phoebe was a core member of the project that discovered the Pattern, which shook her to the core. A firm supporter of the First Awoken trend for fortification and defence, it was the main reason that she played such a leading role in Project Insight. With the discovery of the Shiplord’s pattern, that support has only become stronger. She lost everything in the Week of Sorrows and would accept any price to stop that happening again.

Statistics

Martial:	14+2 = 16
	A childhood spent fighting for her life after everything she knew was snatched away by the Sorrows shaped a mind of cold precision to a sharpness so fine that it would often cut itself. Not a novice, but she has no desire to master war. It would cost her too much.
Diplomacy:	12-4+4+2 = 14
	Since she the Sorrows, Phoebe barely interacted with her classmates, and there was no Circle in her Institute to draw her out. In time she learnt to overcome the barriers she placed around herself, but it was always the work of necessity. Until Nightfalls, at least.
Stewardship:	14-2+2+2 = 16
	Generally capable, her place as a leader for Insight was responsible for honing her skills as an administrator.
Intrigue:	18+2 = 20
	Making it appear that everything was fine even when it wasn’t was something Phoebe had always been good at. After the Sorrows, it became her only defence from a world gone mad. Few have ever pierced the cloak she wraps around her sorrow, but for those sensitive enough, it’s easy to see.
Learning:	17+4+2 = 23
	Gifted with a mind a match to your own, Phoebe has followed a very focused path in her studies since Awakening as a Potential. She isn’t your equal in general knowledge, but where it comes to Insight, she has few peers.
Practice:	19+4+2+2 = 27
	The strength of a mind drawn in around itself lent well to Phoebe’s Focus when she Awakened, and she’s grown stronger in its use ever since, rising with Vega’s help from the pain of Nightfalls even more so.

Traits and Titles

Child of the Second Secret: Born before the Week of Sorrows, Phoebe benefitted from the same basic bioengineering package as you. +2 Martial

A Mind of Ice and Steel: Phoebe lost everything in the Sorrows. Family, wealth, home, all burned out beneath her feet leaving her with nothing and no one. In response, her mind turned in on itself, searching deeper and deeper for clarity that could free her from the pain. +4 Learning, +4 Practice
 -  Lost to the World: She spent much of her early life after the Sorrows knowing better the cool hands of synthetic tutors, the most common staff in the Institutes. It sharpened her mind, but it also lost her much of her humanity. +2 Intrigue, +2 Learning, +2 Practice, -4 Diplomacy, -2 Stewardship
 -  Found by Miracle: Not all of it, though. She’ll never be one well suited to friends, but as the world flowered, she was found by one of the true miracles that flowed into the world between the Elder’s passing and the Third’s waking. Reaching out to find a path, she found one among many others. +4 Diplomacy

Seeker of Insight: That path was Insight, even though she’d never imagined being so much a part of it. For all that she will try to hide it, without Phoebe, Project Insight would never have existed. And from leading it, she learnt much. +4 Stewardship

The Reforged: And never more than in the aftermath of the event that almost shattered her world a second. The consequences of Nightfalls were catastrophic for Insight, and Phoebe herself. Yet she endured and, with Vega’s help, rebuilt not just herself but the project that had become alike to a second family. +2 Diplomacy, +2 Practice