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It's taken a little over a year, but I finally marked off the last two boxes on my Game Store Owner boon last week. And that makes me curious: What kinds of characters have other Starfinder GMs out there applied this boon to?
My game store owner is Anohana, proprietor of Blue Shift Games on Absalom Station (portraits here and here). I very much used the boon as the starting point of her concept, and she's just reached 4th level (mostly through GM credit, but I have played her a couple of times, and hope to again at some cons this year).
I made her a samsaran vidgamer witchwarper. She routinely gets flashes from past lives, virtual realities, and alternate worlds, respectively, so occasionally gets a little confused about which reality she's operating at every given moment. But that rich array of experiences gives her plenty of inspiration for new game material. She's a member of the Advocates faction, because she sees playing games as an excellent way to help people bond with others, and escape from their own troubles for a time.
Anohana was born to lashunta parents on Castrovel, so had vestigial antennae, but did not actually possess telepathy until very recently, when she was finally able to afford a limited telepathy graft. She has also learned a couple of spells that duplicate innate lashunta magic, because her family identity remains important to her. As a samsaran, she matured and ages more slowly than the rest of her family, so she doesn't look much older than her nephew Query, who provides tech support for her store--and occasionally her Starfinder missions. (Anohona may be a vidgamer, but she's hopeless with any other tech.)
Because I don't know how many more new characters I'll be making for SFS 1E with 2E on the horizon, I am also loading up Anohana with as many boons as I can. Besides Game Store Owner and Samsaran Admittance, she also started off as the beneficiary of two boons earned by my high-level Wayfinder PC: Alien Allies (apply a race boon without using the Personal boon slot) and Forum Member (stat boost to a new 1st-level protege). With her Personal slot freed up, I was able to finally give someone the Possessed Augmentation boon that I received at my first SFS con game a few years ago. (You can see hers in her portraits.)