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04-29-2019, 02:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-24-2019, 03:16 PM by Seperallis.)
Name: Liina Valtonen
Rank: Civilian
Alias: [N/A]
Alliance: Karjelinn
Birthplace: Lohkuva, Karjelinn
Age: 32
Sex: Female
Appearance:
Pic
Liina is on the taller side for a Karjelinnian woman at 178 cm (5’10”) but otherwise, with blonde hair, grey eyes, and fair skin, blends in with the rest of her countrymen. She has an athletic build and is more angular than curvy.
For work purposes, Liina’s attire is that of a business professional, usually a pencil skirt or trousers, blouse, and blazer with a comfortable pair of flats or penny loafers. Outside of work, she aims for a clothing style that speaks of effort that went into making her ensemble look effortless: jeans that fit perfectly with a light linen top that blouses just right when tucked in, matching athletic leggings and tops, and so on. She tends to stick to neutral colors (khaki, navy, cream, black, grey, etc.) and deep jewel tones (wine red, indigo, emerald green, etc.) for her clothing. She wears makeup on a daily basis, although not heavily unless for a special event (a date, a party, etc.). Because she’s already so tall, she usually avoids high heels. Liina likes fashion, but more important than trends to her are classic pieces that fit well. She views clothing as a way to express herself.
Liina has a thin white gold necklace that she wears almost always, taking it off only to bathe. The necklace was a gift from her father when she entered university.
She also has a small tattoo on the outside of her right ankle of a snowdrop flower with its stem curved into a heart shape - a small piece of artwork dedicated to a childhood friend who passed away in early adulthood.
There is a scar on her left knee from an old sports injury.
Personality:
Liina is Type A to the core: analytical, deadline-driven, and detail-oriented. She is a natural leader and not afraid of taking charge of subordinates. She has been described as staunchly uncompromising (or rather, a “hard-ass”) and ruthlessly perfectionist. However, she is also charismatic and can sway emotions and direct a group toward a common goal with ease. She is efficient and confident and comfortable with coming up with solutions on the fly.
In relationships of all types, she prefers to be the dominant one and can certainly come across as cold or distant. Liina keeps her focus on the long term and the mutual benefit that will come from any partnership, and so, if it seems a friendship or romantic relationship is floundering, she is quick to cut her losses - no hard feelings. Certainly, there are friendships she has maintained for years, even decades, and when she finds a friend or partner that complements her well, she puts as much effort into showing her affection for them as she possibly can. Acquaintances and friends by circumstance interest her little, and she instead seeks out those who share similar passions and who she feels can encourage mutual personal growth.
Liina’s happiness in life comes in large part from her successes in her career, and she is highly driven to perform well and receive recognition. She is not above using people to get what she needs, but she is mindful to minimize the harm she does to others in her pursuit of personal achievement.
In general, she is a rule-follower rather than a rule-breaker, and she prefers to follow exhaust known methods before doing any wayfaring. She doesn’t do well with spontaneity, good or bad.
Liina’s personality type would be best described as ENTJ.
Her goal at this point in her life is to continue advancing in her journalism career.
Biography:
Liina was born first of three children in a city near the coast at the eastern border of Karjelinn. Her childhood was fairly unremarkable - her parents divorced while she was in primary school, but as they remained on generally amicable terms, she and her siblings were able to maintain a good relationship with both of them. With old money in the family, Liina grew up well-off and privileged to enjoy equestrian club, private tutors, and other such luxuries. As a result, however, she discovered as she aged that she was also sheltered.
Her first foray into the world of journalistic reporting was a school newspaper club in secondary school. From there, a love of journalism was sparked. With an aptitude for public speaking and research to boot, Liina’s career path seemed chosen fairly early.
As she advanced through her courses in university and her interest in reporting grew, so did her knowledge about areas of the world that weren’t blanketed in perfectly manicured lawns and surrounded in whitewashed fencing. She took particular interests in the struggles of combat veterans returning home, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the over-prescription of drugs to “manage” shellshock. If, through her aptitude and passion for uncovering a good scoop, she could help soldiers recover from the battlefield and help improve programs to reintegrate them back into civilian life, Liina decided she would be fulfilled.
Liina’s first and current job is with the Karjelinnian Public Media Alliance (KPMA), the national public news network. Currently, she is a lead editor for their print branch and has recently taken an assignment abroad to investigate ways in which other nations are helping their veterans reintegrate more successfully than Karjelinn has been able to.
Although she travels frequently enough to practically live out of a suitcase, Liina’s mailing address is an apartment in downtown Roavenalev, Karjelinn. Her younger brother (the middle child) is an engineer in the Karjelinnan Federal Navy currently on deployment and her younger sister (the youngest child) is a veterinarian in their hometown. Liina stays in contact when she can, especially with her baby sister, with whom she’s always had a close relationship. Her parents are both retired and insist on Liina visiting them for brunches and the occasional vacation when her schedule allows. She and her on-again-off-again boyfriend are currently off-again, but hopeful.
Mobile Suit
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Name: Soraya Kheramati
Alias: Melinoë
Alliance: Charon
Birthplace: Andisheh, A’sir
Age: 21
Sex: Female
Appearance:
[Pic - like this but more anime]
[Pic - Seriously, it’s really hard to find anime characters that are both androgynous and brown]
With a lean muscled build, a sharply contoured face, and a close-cropped hairstyle, Soraya is often mistaken for a young man. Her voice, then, is almost jarringly feminine by contrast and catches many new acquaintances off-guard.
She looks typically A’sirian with olive skin peppered with light freckles, thick dark hair, and light brown eyes, but her style of dress strays from the classic colorful kaftans and fashionable modern maxi skirts in favor of more practical clothing: jeans, sweaters, hoodies, sweatpants — typically from bargain bins and resale stores, as often from the menswear section as not. She finds no use for makeup, perfumes or jewelry and finds that she looks awkward and unfamiliar in things like dresses or bathing suits.
When with Charon, she typically stays in her flight suit, unzipping it to her waist and tying the extra around herself for comfort.
She measures in around 5’6” (167 cm).
She has a large scar originating between her index and middle finger and trailing up almost to the bend in her elbow on her left side from a workplace accident as a girl, and several small pockmarks on her face as a result of a pox as a toddler. Her left flank is covered in burn scars, but these typically aren’t visible.
Personality: Soraya is often embarrassed by her lack of formal education and, as a result, is a woman of few words. She’s a good listener and can retain information well.
She can be quick to anger, but quicker still to annoy. To avoid the insufferability of others, she has become standoffish and withdrawn. Internally, she’s struggling to reconcile her semi-misanthropy with her desire to benefit mankind.
Perhaps despite this, once Soraya forms a rare bond with someone, it will be extremely profound. Cross or wound her, however, and you will be placed on her black list forever.
Although typically kind and helpful to her comrades while on the job, she does not often banter or fraternize, preferring to stay on the sidelines.
It can be difficult for Soraya to process strong negative emotions - fear, despair, and so on - and she has the tendency to convert any painful feeling into anger. Although she’s been doing better about this recently, she still finds it icky to express these emotions.
She’s good at thinking on the fly and can adapt to a major change in plans easily. She can also be brave to a fault and may rush headlong into a situation without complete information, although when there are other’s lives on the line, she is more careful than when it’s only her own at stake.
She was motivated to accept Charon’s invitation by the knowledge that she could finally make a difference for the people of her homeland.
While living her assigned identity [see Biography], Soraya uses the opportunity to practice all the “feminine” traits she missed out on as a girl - daintiness, coyness, demure, grace, and so on. Thus far, she hasn’t found these natural and has not been successful in adapting these into her daily life while with Charon (though not for the lack of occasionally startling her comrades by practicing on them).
Her personality type would best be described as ISTP.
Biography: Soraya was born the oldest daughter out of six to a local master glazier and his wife in a small mountain village. With no sons in the family, she was raised as a bacha posh — a daughter presented as a son — and trained in her father’s trade from a young age, acting as the man of the house when he was away on extended business. Because of these responsibilities, Soraya never felt particularly close to her sisters or female peers, and she understood that her chances of one day being a wife herself had become jeopardized. Despite this, she does not resent her parents for her upbringing; she understood then that they were doing the best they could with the limited resources they had, and she accepted that her sacrifices meant that her sisters would be able to have a better life as they would not be selected for the same treatment. Additionally, she was grateful for the limited schooling she was able to receive and the opportunity to play football with the boys. Soraya and the other daughters were treated well by their parents and never questioned whether or not they were loved.
During Soraya’s childhood, international relations between A’sir and its neighbors were strained, and domestic instability made an already hardscrabble life more difficult. Domestic terrorism from extremist sects plagued A’sir, although most of the incidents took place near more important towns than Soraya’s little village. At the age of 12, her country became the battleground for a war that did not directly involve their people, and the sound of missiles and jet engines overhead soon replaced the songs of the calls to prayer and the bustle of open air markets. The flow of imported goods into A’sir became limited as demands by “allies” for A’sirian commodities increased. Small villages like Soraya’s were overrun by foreign soldiers who quartered themselves in stolen homes to set up defensive outposts before being sucked dry of any and all resources. Soraya’s family, along with the rest of their village, were shipped toward the A’sirian interior. She was haunted by the resigned faces of men and the mourning of women forced to leave the only home they’d known as their children begged for food and water, but she remained a strong elder ”brother” for her sisters.
At the age of 15, Soraya’s family was again uprooted from the refugee camp where they’d settled as conflict pushed northward. While en route to the capital via train, an IED was detonated by a local insurgent group, derailing the train and killing many of the passengers, including all of Soraya’s family save for herself and the second born sister. The two of them spent several weeks recovering in a military hospital, during which time Soraya developed an intense hatred of the world and recoiled even further inward until the medical staff came to believe she was mute.
Once recovered, Soraya and her sister were placed in foster care in a refugee camp. Soraya refused to bond with this new family and grew even more estranged from her sister until one night, she left the camp under the cover of darkness, determined to return to her home village and take up arms against the invading forces. Her plans would be intercepted when, along the way, she would witness a Charon intervention. Enamored with this seemingly godlike force, Soraya watched the intervention from a covert location and, when the battle had ended in a Charon victory, emerged onto the battlefield and demanded (terrified) to know who this powerful organization was. With no reply given before the Charon pilot fell back, Soraya promised herself that she would one day find out and join them.
At 16, Soraya became a rebel fighter under the self-appointed [male] name Meherzad. She was strong from a childhood of physical labor and good with a gun. She and her comrades went up against foreign and domestic enemies alike, and for the first time, Soraya felt she was making a difference. As Meherzad, she always kept an eye out for the mysterious and awesome power that she encountered once, but it wouldn’t be until she was 19 that she would find them again. This time, when she approached and demanded that they accept her into their fold, this force - Charon - confirmed they had, indeed, been watching the brave, broken, and possibly insane girl they had first seen four years prior; that they had seen her misguided attempts to better the world by leaving an indiscriminate trail of dead; that they had a better way; and that there was a position within their organization for people like her.
Currently, her assigned identity has her living in the LU (Angiris) as Taraneh Qasemi, a 23 year old university graduate of International Trade and Business, when she’s not deployed with Charon. She works various odd jobs when there to add to her Charon stipend. She is not sure what has become of her little sister but believes her to still be in A’sir and married to a local mosque leader.
Mobile Suit
GX-005 Gundam Asphodel
Rank: Civilian
Alias: [N/A]
Alliance: Karjelinn
Birthplace: Lohkuva, Karjelinn
Age: 32
Sex: Female
Appearance:
Pic
Liina is on the taller side for a Karjelinnian woman at 178 cm (5’10”) but otherwise, with blonde hair, grey eyes, and fair skin, blends in with the rest of her countrymen. She has an athletic build and is more angular than curvy.
For work purposes, Liina’s attire is that of a business professional, usually a pencil skirt or trousers, blouse, and blazer with a comfortable pair of flats or penny loafers. Outside of work, she aims for a clothing style that speaks of effort that went into making her ensemble look effortless: jeans that fit perfectly with a light linen top that blouses just right when tucked in, matching athletic leggings and tops, and so on. She tends to stick to neutral colors (khaki, navy, cream, black, grey, etc.) and deep jewel tones (wine red, indigo, emerald green, etc.) for her clothing. She wears makeup on a daily basis, although not heavily unless for a special event (a date, a party, etc.). Because she’s already so tall, she usually avoids high heels. Liina likes fashion, but more important than trends to her are classic pieces that fit well. She views clothing as a way to express herself.
Liina has a thin white gold necklace that she wears almost always, taking it off only to bathe. The necklace was a gift from her father when she entered university.
She also has a small tattoo on the outside of her right ankle of a snowdrop flower with its stem curved into a heart shape - a small piece of artwork dedicated to a childhood friend who passed away in early adulthood.
There is a scar on her left knee from an old sports injury.
Personality:
Liina is Type A to the core: analytical, deadline-driven, and detail-oriented. She is a natural leader and not afraid of taking charge of subordinates. She has been described as staunchly uncompromising (or rather, a “hard-ass”) and ruthlessly perfectionist. However, she is also charismatic and can sway emotions and direct a group toward a common goal with ease. She is efficient and confident and comfortable with coming up with solutions on the fly.
In relationships of all types, she prefers to be the dominant one and can certainly come across as cold or distant. Liina keeps her focus on the long term and the mutual benefit that will come from any partnership, and so, if it seems a friendship or romantic relationship is floundering, she is quick to cut her losses - no hard feelings. Certainly, there are friendships she has maintained for years, even decades, and when she finds a friend or partner that complements her well, she puts as much effort into showing her affection for them as she possibly can. Acquaintances and friends by circumstance interest her little, and she instead seeks out those who share similar passions and who she feels can encourage mutual personal growth.
Liina’s happiness in life comes in large part from her successes in her career, and she is highly driven to perform well and receive recognition. She is not above using people to get what she needs, but she is mindful to minimize the harm she does to others in her pursuit of personal achievement.
In general, she is a rule-follower rather than a rule-breaker, and she prefers to follow exhaust known methods before doing any wayfaring. She doesn’t do well with spontaneity, good or bad.
Liina’s personality type would be best described as ENTJ.
Her goal at this point in her life is to continue advancing in her journalism career.
Biography:
Liina was born first of three children in a city near the coast at the eastern border of Karjelinn. Her childhood was fairly unremarkable - her parents divorced while she was in primary school, but as they remained on generally amicable terms, she and her siblings were able to maintain a good relationship with both of them. With old money in the family, Liina grew up well-off and privileged to enjoy equestrian club, private tutors, and other such luxuries. As a result, however, she discovered as she aged that she was also sheltered.
Her first foray into the world of journalistic reporting was a school newspaper club in secondary school. From there, a love of journalism was sparked. With an aptitude for public speaking and research to boot, Liina’s career path seemed chosen fairly early.
As she advanced through her courses in university and her interest in reporting grew, so did her knowledge about areas of the world that weren’t blanketed in perfectly manicured lawns and surrounded in whitewashed fencing. She took particular interests in the struggles of combat veterans returning home, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the over-prescription of drugs to “manage” shellshock. If, through her aptitude and passion for uncovering a good scoop, she could help soldiers recover from the battlefield and help improve programs to reintegrate them back into civilian life, Liina decided she would be fulfilled.
Liina’s first and current job is with the Karjelinnian Public Media Alliance (KPMA), the national public news network. Currently, she is a lead editor for their print branch and has recently taken an assignment abroad to investigate ways in which other nations are helping their veterans reintegrate more successfully than Karjelinn has been able to.
Although she travels frequently enough to practically live out of a suitcase, Liina’s mailing address is an apartment in downtown Roavenalev, Karjelinn. Her younger brother (the middle child) is an engineer in the Karjelinnan Federal Navy currently on deployment and her younger sister (the youngest child) is a veterinarian in their hometown. Liina stays in contact when she can, especially with her baby sister, with whom she’s always had a close relationship. Her parents are both retired and insist on Liina visiting them for brunches and the occasional vacation when her schedule allows. She and her on-again-off-again boyfriend are currently off-again, but hopeful.
Mobile Suit
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Name: Soraya Kheramati
Alias: Melinoë
Alliance: Charon
Birthplace: Andisheh, A’sir
Age: 21
Sex: Female
Appearance:
[Pic - like this but more anime]
[Pic - Seriously, it’s really hard to find anime characters that are both androgynous and brown]
With a lean muscled build, a sharply contoured face, and a close-cropped hairstyle, Soraya is often mistaken for a young man. Her voice, then, is almost jarringly feminine by contrast and catches many new acquaintances off-guard.
She looks typically A’sirian with olive skin peppered with light freckles, thick dark hair, and light brown eyes, but her style of dress strays from the classic colorful kaftans and fashionable modern maxi skirts in favor of more practical clothing: jeans, sweaters, hoodies, sweatpants — typically from bargain bins and resale stores, as often from the menswear section as not. She finds no use for makeup, perfumes or jewelry and finds that she looks awkward and unfamiliar in things like dresses or bathing suits.
When with Charon, she typically stays in her flight suit, unzipping it to her waist and tying the extra around herself for comfort.
She measures in around 5’6” (167 cm).
She has a large scar originating between her index and middle finger and trailing up almost to the bend in her elbow on her left side from a workplace accident as a girl, and several small pockmarks on her face as a result of a pox as a toddler. Her left flank is covered in burn scars, but these typically aren’t visible.
Personality: Soraya is often embarrassed by her lack of formal education and, as a result, is a woman of few words. She’s a good listener and can retain information well.
She can be quick to anger, but quicker still to annoy. To avoid the insufferability of others, she has become standoffish and withdrawn. Internally, she’s struggling to reconcile her semi-misanthropy with her desire to benefit mankind.
Perhaps despite this, once Soraya forms a rare bond with someone, it will be extremely profound. Cross or wound her, however, and you will be placed on her black list forever.
Although typically kind and helpful to her comrades while on the job, she does not often banter or fraternize, preferring to stay on the sidelines.
It can be difficult for Soraya to process strong negative emotions - fear, despair, and so on - and she has the tendency to convert any painful feeling into anger. Although she’s been doing better about this recently, she still finds it icky to express these emotions.
She’s good at thinking on the fly and can adapt to a major change in plans easily. She can also be brave to a fault and may rush headlong into a situation without complete information, although when there are other’s lives on the line, she is more careful than when it’s only her own at stake.
She was motivated to accept Charon’s invitation by the knowledge that she could finally make a difference for the people of her homeland.
While living her assigned identity [see Biography], Soraya uses the opportunity to practice all the “feminine” traits she missed out on as a girl - daintiness, coyness, demure, grace, and so on. Thus far, she hasn’t found these natural and has not been successful in adapting these into her daily life while with Charon (though not for the lack of occasionally startling her comrades by practicing on them).
Her personality type would best be described as ISTP.
Biography: Soraya was born the oldest daughter out of six to a local master glazier and his wife in a small mountain village. With no sons in the family, she was raised as a bacha posh — a daughter presented as a son — and trained in her father’s trade from a young age, acting as the man of the house when he was away on extended business. Because of these responsibilities, Soraya never felt particularly close to her sisters or female peers, and she understood that her chances of one day being a wife herself had become jeopardized. Despite this, she does not resent her parents for her upbringing; she understood then that they were doing the best they could with the limited resources they had, and she accepted that her sacrifices meant that her sisters would be able to have a better life as they would not be selected for the same treatment. Additionally, she was grateful for the limited schooling she was able to receive and the opportunity to play football with the boys. Soraya and the other daughters were treated well by their parents and never questioned whether or not they were loved.
During Soraya’s childhood, international relations between A’sir and its neighbors were strained, and domestic instability made an already hardscrabble life more difficult. Domestic terrorism from extremist sects plagued A’sir, although most of the incidents took place near more important towns than Soraya’s little village. At the age of 12, her country became the battleground for a war that did not directly involve their people, and the sound of missiles and jet engines overhead soon replaced the songs of the calls to prayer and the bustle of open air markets. The flow of imported goods into A’sir became limited as demands by “allies” for A’sirian commodities increased. Small villages like Soraya’s were overrun by foreign soldiers who quartered themselves in stolen homes to set up defensive outposts before being sucked dry of any and all resources. Soraya’s family, along with the rest of their village, were shipped toward the A’sirian interior. She was haunted by the resigned faces of men and the mourning of women forced to leave the only home they’d known as their children begged for food and water, but she remained a strong elder ”brother” for her sisters.
At the age of 15, Soraya’s family was again uprooted from the refugee camp where they’d settled as conflict pushed northward. While en route to the capital via train, an IED was detonated by a local insurgent group, derailing the train and killing many of the passengers, including all of Soraya’s family save for herself and the second born sister. The two of them spent several weeks recovering in a military hospital, during which time Soraya developed an intense hatred of the world and recoiled even further inward until the medical staff came to believe she was mute.
Once recovered, Soraya and her sister were placed in foster care in a refugee camp. Soraya refused to bond with this new family and grew even more estranged from her sister until one night, she left the camp under the cover of darkness, determined to return to her home village and take up arms against the invading forces. Her plans would be intercepted when, along the way, she would witness a Charon intervention. Enamored with this seemingly godlike force, Soraya watched the intervention from a covert location and, when the battle had ended in a Charon victory, emerged onto the battlefield and demanded (terrified) to know who this powerful organization was. With no reply given before the Charon pilot fell back, Soraya promised herself that she would one day find out and join them.
At 16, Soraya became a rebel fighter under the self-appointed [male] name Meherzad. She was strong from a childhood of physical labor and good with a gun. She and her comrades went up against foreign and domestic enemies alike, and for the first time, Soraya felt she was making a difference. As Meherzad, she always kept an eye out for the mysterious and awesome power that she encountered once, but it wouldn’t be until she was 19 that she would find them again. This time, when she approached and demanded that they accept her into their fold, this force - Charon - confirmed they had, indeed, been watching the brave, broken, and possibly insane girl they had first seen four years prior; that they had seen her misguided attempts to better the world by leaving an indiscriminate trail of dead; that they had a better way; and that there was a position within their organization for people like her.
Currently, her assigned identity has her living in the LU (Angiris) as Taraneh Qasemi, a 23 year old university graduate of International Trade and Business, when she’s not deployed with Charon. She works various odd jobs when there to add to her Charon stipend. She is not sure what has become of her little sister but believes her to still be in A’sir and married to a local mosque leader.
Mobile Suit
GX-005 Gundam Asphodel