Laura Cruz

Overview
Full biography here.

Appearance
Hair: Black

Skin: White

Eyes: Amber

Height: 1,85m

Weight: 132kg

Markings: An intricate full-back picture of heaven’s gates on her back.

Face Claim: Owned art

Personality
Free-spirited, ambitious, friendly and not afraid of going against tradition. She isn’t particularly feminine and may seem quite tomboyish. Quite eccentric too, just for the joy of it. She also enjoys debate and talking. Sometimes just for sport - she just enjoys the activity of doing it. She's also has a perverse enjoyment of controversy and testing the limits of things. She's also pretty shameless, having reached a point where she doesn't seem to care what people think of her body or the stares she gets, finding it amusing rather than offensive.

History
She is the scion of a dentist of New Haven called Antonio Cruz, and he has tried to get her instructed into the art that he practices, but while she has shown herself to be a very competent intellectual and a promising new dentist, she has too much of a rebellious spirit. She didn’t want to become a dentist, she wanted to be an artist. And by combining her medical knowledge and her lust for art, she has opted to become a tattoo artist.

 

Her father at first didn’t support this career path, believing that it was just a “phase”, but has eventually conceded and has let her pursue it due to how determined and capable she seemed to be for this kind of business. However, despite that, he still wants her to return to dentistry, as he believes that he has a greater future there.

 

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Her mother was a prostitute, who suffers the rare medical condition of gigantomastia. That fit Antonio’s tastes, and eventually after years of hiring her services, they eventually became a couple. Laura inherited that genetic condition from her mother, and has been adamant until now about keeping her looks, because she enjoys the attention she gets from it. So she deals with it with diligent exercise and spending money on custom clothing.

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Through her intellectual brightness, she has designed the Calamari Tattoo Machine, which is simply a modified surgical dental machine. It consists of robotic arms which are puppeteed by a pair of joysticks further away, and it uses mirrors and lenses to allow her to see where the arms are. In all, it is designed to give her greater dexterity than what she could achieve with her mere human limbs and body, as it allows her to “zoom” into things and work within that zoomed scope without worrying about keeping a steady hand for miniscule details, because the machine can handle it for her via a system of in-build rails and stencils for certain micro-movements.