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Below we have the perfect cypher flavor for you to use to fully capture your ideal sultry, seductive, and coldly calculating character, the heartthrob fatale. (Big shoutout to Kayla not just for creating this fun flavor but for finding a good gender-neutral name to capture it.)

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Day Eight - Flavor

Setting: -
Genre(s): Noir, Fantasy, Modern, Sci-Fi, Superhero

Heartthrob Fatale

Characters with the heartthrob fatale flavor are the brooding, seductive focus of any room that they enter and are just as likely to draw distress and disaster as they are lingering eyes. These characters bend those around them to take on the hardship and danger their bad luck (or bad decisions) has pulled toward them—though fate often has other plans. Characters with this flavor know their worth and do what they want unapologetically and this strong, confident nature is the lure that attracts others into unwittingly becoming their shields.

If your setting is not noir-focused, this character may go for a less overtly dramatic version of the heartthrob fatale by focusing instead on the aspects of drawing others in to manipulate them into protecting them or doing their dirty work. For non-magic or magic-light settings, we suggest that any abilities that directly alter others, like Erase Memories, be described as the result of expert manipulation rather than a supernatural effect on the target.

The full description for each listed ability below can be found in Chapter 9 of the Cypher System Rulebook or for free at Old Gus' Cypher System Reference Document.

First-Tier Heartthrob Fatale Abilities

• Contortionist
• Demeanor of Command
• Erase Memories
• Fast Talk
• Negotiate

Second-Tier Heartthrob Fatale Abilities

• Babel
• Danger Instinct
• Enthrall
• Perfect Stranger
• Unexpected Betrayal

Third-Tier Heartthrob Fatale Abilities

• Flamboyant Boast
• Got a Feeling
• Grand Deception
• Know Their Faults
• Spot Weakness

Fourth-Tier Heartthrob Fatale Abilities

• Captivate or Inspire
• Center of Attention
• Group Friendship
• Taking Advantage

Fifth-Tier Heartthrob Fatale Abilities

• Asserting Your Privilege
• Knowing the Unknown
• Lethal Ploy
• Suggestion

Sixth-Tier Heartthrob Fatale Abilities

• All-Out Con
• Dirty Fighter
• Do You Know Who I Am?
• Twisting the Knife

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