Rufo. The unexpected tourist 2

Rufo is a Fauvist Docent of the Ring, known for her aptitude in the art of delicate compositing of animal skins.

Rufo is a tall and well-built woman with straight, dark blue, hair, featuring lengthy sidelocks and three white feathers resting on the left side of her head. Her dark complexion is marked with white face paint under her blue eyes and along the bridge of her nose. She wears a dress shirt beneath a suit jacket, and ankle-length skirt, all in the Ring's signature white color. Her left arm (blue fur) and right digitigrade leg (green fluff and feathers) are composed of a chimeric blend of various animals ― including a claw seemingly belonging to a bear, and a large, bird-like foot ― similar to other Fauvists. The seams between the different animals that make up each limb are covered in gold-trimmed strips of cloth decorated with snaking brushstrokes. Atop the left side of her waist hangs a set of polished teeth and silver blades. She has a large plume of fur for a tail, a white center silhouetted by a pale blue bunch of fur.

Rufo carries a stitched-together mask made of a white wolf, decorated with two separate pairs of horns. Its mouth is sealed shut by the same strips of cloth seen on her chimeric limbs. The animal parts on her body aren't exactly a costume, but rather biological augmentations, thanks to a serum coursing through her blood. The augmentations can be removed, but even so, they remain directly connected to the user and remain sensitive. The fur and feathers become alive, and touching the wolf mask lying on the table will reverberate through Rufo like a voodoo doll.

Rufo was born in the Backstreets and was taken in by the Ring as a teenager, solely because surviving in the City alone without protection is impossible. The Ringfinger Syndicate is a "criminal" organization centered on art (Fauvism, Pointilism, Corporism, Macarbe Painting, and other Avant-garde movements). Thus, Rufo continued her life under the Syndicate's wing, learning various techniques from various Maestros until she herself rose to the rank of Docent.

Although her paintings have received acclaim and are even featured in some Fauvism exhibitions, she isn't satisfied. She depicted savage thirst and hunger in her paintings only because she herself was as hungry as a wolf at the time, not because she aspired to art. Moreover, she never truly enjoyed taking people's lives for material, but her rank left her no choice. She enjoyed teaching beginning students, explaining that art wasn't just the bloody mayhem so characteristic of the Ring participants, but the maestros used her more often as a fighting tool and her unnatural physical strength.

The serum is used by the Fauvists only during combat, but for Rufo it took on a different meaning. She used it regularly and in small doses until she became one with her "wild personality" and never lost control, unlike others (hence her immense physical strength). In Ring circles, Rufo presents herself as a very businesslike, serious, and artistically immersed individual, but her attempts to open up were usually met with skepticism and distancing.

Many feel the serum has negatively affected her consciousness, but she finds a certain joy in occasionally engaging in primitive and playful activities, as if she were a fluffy wolf, though such behavior is not very common in the Ring. She may deny it, but Rufo is not indifferent to affection, even if she seems unapproachable to those who don't know her well.

Aesthetics and integrity are still very important to Rufo as an artist. Her perceptions are somewhat detached from the present, or even distorted by the influence of the Ring's cruelty, but she hasn't caved in over the years and understands that art isn't worth human life (though she's been taught otherwise). Detail-oriented and occasionally furry-chaotic, Rufo doesn't fare well in social settings, and her speech often sounds like she's giving a lecture, but she's always open to trying something new.

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