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10-31-2019, 05:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-01-2019, 10:12 PM by Seperallis.)
Alias: "Tao Yin"; sometimes just "Commander" aboard the Elysium, but he hates that one. Formerly "Basiliskos Resner," which is even sillier.
Alliance: Charon
Birthplace: Shizhen, just north of the old Sainam-Tieguo border, HPA.
Age: 39
Sex: Male
Appearance:
Tao Yin was once a soldier, and has striven to maintain that same fitness and readiness as a soldier for Charon; he has a fit build with strong shoulders, even if a change in age and diet has made him somewhat softer in the gut. Considered on the cusp of "middle age," the last several years have matured his soft face with hard edges.
He wears a pilot suit, complete with helmet, both when in the Gundams and when commanding operations on the bridge aboard the Elysium. When aboard the Elysium but not at his command post or in a Gundam cockpit, he tends to wear comfortable clothes that he can easily fit into said pilot suits, or slip out of quickly to change, such as plain t-shirts (usually white) and sweatpants (usually navy); when anywhere else, he likes to enjoy his newfound freedom of wardrobe with various plain or printed button-down shirts, maybe some heavier knitwear over top if it's cold, and comfortable slacks and casual footwear.
Tao Yin looks fairly typically Sainamese; his skin is of a typical South Ostaran complexion, if lighter than his parents due to spending his life in school and within mobile weapon cockpits instead of bent under the sun in fields or construction. Everything else about him is straight from his parents: his father's large eyebrows, hard nose and sparse facial hair, and his mother's dark eyes. His dark hair is cut tight to the sides of his head in something of an undercut, the top he has allowed grow in his time away from the military. He has noticed himself sounding more and more like how his father sounded, as his voice takes on more gravel with age; with his sparse beard, he has begun to look more like him, too.
At 5'10" he is a little tall for a Sainamese man, but that's just the way the military likes 'em; suits their propaganda better with tall, strong men on the front lines.
Tao Yin's body is riddled with various surgical scars from his time as a "test pilot". While the ones on his legs are the largest, from the time a Quolong he was testing exploded beneath him (a maintenance mistake; that mechanic, he heard, was "reassigned"), the symetrical scars on his cheeks are the most noticable since, well, he can't hide those. Other, similar-looking scars can be found in various places on his torso and arms, slowly-fading remnants of his mission in the HPA.
Personality:
Tao Yin by nature is endlessly curious; he loves to discover "how it works," whether the "it" is a thing or a person; as a child he spent much of his free time poking about on everything at home and even including his father's heavy work equipment, and that wonder has translated into his constantly poking about at learning how the Gundams work, despite being repeatedly and specifically told to not poke about in the Gundams. He also loves listening to people's stories: their histories, their problems, the things they like; every person is a different and interesting machine that ticks along in a different way.
To that end, he has a rather analytical mind, prefering to evaluate a topic, conversation, facts or other circumstances before coming forth with his own action or take in order to come at it with the best response. When he is at a disadvantage or when facts elude him, he learned as an HPA drone operator & mobile armor pilot to trust upon his acutely tuned intuition to find the best path; second-guessing himself, he has learned, tends to produce worse outcomes.
He's a generally polite and sociable person who tends to carry himself with a smile in all but somber occasions...or, sometimes, inappropriately in somber occasions. Even when disappointed or angry he remains civil, burying these emotions with such speed to go from fuming privately in one moment to being courteous and amicable, even outright joking with the topic of his frustrations. Life is too short, and impressions too permanent, waste either in anger; life needs to have more happy moments in it!
He generally dislikes open and emotional confrontations, electing to soothe and disarm while taking a moment to swallow his own pain or exasperations and "deal with them at a later time." He will quite happily launch himself at the problems of others before tackling his own, often attempting to turn the mood or offer rather unsolicited advice he will often attribute to his mother. He has great difficulty in addressing his own pain, either outright avoiding to deal with it or doing so inappropriately, until it physically breaks him.
He has a habit, a tick, of quickly tapping a hand or a heel when deep in thought, when addressing a difficult task, or when frustrated at not being able to do or understand something.
Charon saught him out as a test pilot for his knowledge and skill in experimental weaponry with the HPA, and he joined Charon after a decade of frustrations with internal HPA politics. He still believes strongly upon the propaganda fed to him as a child about the utopian ideals that the HPA strives to achieve and will defend them when pressed, but he believes just as strongly that the HPA leadership as it exists is incapable of creating that change.
The old order of the world must be wiped clean, so that the new one may rise.
Biography:
Tao Yin's family was taken to Tieguo as part of the HPA's "displaced persons resettlement program" during the lost decade to settle refugees into areas population-decimated by the fighting. Born in the winter of 1660, his childhood was defined by the relative goods shortages of the last years of the War, the post-War depression and uncertainty over mankind's future that immediately followed. Even so, HPA policy meant that the effort to repopulate and rebuild the Shizhen area made his family stable and cared for, and while certainly left wanting for some things, food, a home, and regular employment meant a life of relative ease within the town's hastily-erected barbed-wire perimeter.
While his father worked construction to rebuild and his mother worked the fields to stay fed, Tao Yin attended Pre-Education School in the mornings as a toddler to learn the basics of Tieguo language and mannerisms before coming home to his grandmother, seeing his parents for a short time in the afternoon before they too attended a night-version of Pre-Education School that he learned later mysteriously lacked a "P". Much of his childhood passed this way: go to school, play with friends, come home and see his family before bidding his parents good night as they left for classes. It was a simple life.
On the days he didn't have normal school, he still woke up early for morning civics classes - he liked these, they were more fun than his language and counting classes - before running off to see his dad at work. Always a pest, he would insist on climbing the big equipment and, when old enough, maybe running them every once in a while. He loved the power and control of these machines, and would learn their controls every chance he could: how to control them, how to fix them, how they worked; as a result, when the Aptitude Battery was administered, it came as no surprise that his practical skills came in at top marks, and when his other skills were shown to be less flattering, it seemed pretty natural and obvious to his family what his employment selection would be.
That's why it came as mildly surprising when he was targeted by "recruiters" and joined the HPA military as a technician and mobile armor pilot a year later. He spent much of his time training for a war he was assured would not come; they were a defense army for the people, sworn to defend the new future their people were building together from the regressive influences of the other big blocs, whose interests was to grind the masses into the dirt for the profit of a few.
That's why it came as mildly surprising when the HPA invaded Krinis, and Tao Yin was deployed to the north to preempt the Union's predicted counter-invasion, which came as expected...though the ferocity of the attack and the use of new, powerful, and autonomous weaponry forced Tao Yin and his other operator/pilots into a slowly retreating defense while HPA leadership devoted resources to other fronts. Their drones depleting, a still-green Tao Yin watched the people he trained with slowly dwindle over the next months as they broke encirclements and rushed to set up defenses, and to their credit their efforts did well to stall the advance in their area, but Union gains elsewhere had eroded the HPA negotiating position. After months of dogged fighting, the eerie calm of the pre-armistice ceasefire was almost too much to bear, and Tao Yin was relieved to be recalled from the front at the end of the war.
His reward/punishment (depending on who you ask) for not dying was to be promoted and reassigned as a "test pilot." He participated in the testing of most of the HPA's newest weaponry and technologies. It was exciting coming to work every day to face some new challenge and he did well at it, though it was less exciting when the challenges involved the operating lights and scalpels. He sometimes wondered why his fellow pilots were mostly "rifraf" like himself while his commanders were almost exclusively Tieguonese. Some years later and with countless commendations displayed over his left breast, he also found it odd that it seemed like some younger and less commendable officers were promoted over him. Nevertheless he did his duty as he was taught, and when the second Solar Wars arose, he took his experimental mobile suit into the field and piloted with all the skill he had been taught.
And just like he had been taught, he detonated said mobile suit, and disappeared into the jungle.
Since then, Tao Yin has been with Charon. To protect his family, he has completely dropped his name and exclusively used his assumed identities. He was the organization's first test pilot and participated in its first interventions. Over the years, he has trained the group's other pilots and engineers in control and operation of the Gundams. He field-tested the systems of the second-generation Gundams in Solhaven, and when Edward Borg left Elysium to assume direction of operations at Lethe, it was Tao Yin that was asked to assume leadership of the coming Gundam operations.
Mobile Suit
None
Alliance: Charon
Birthplace: Shizhen, just north of the old Sainam-Tieguo border, HPA.
Age: 39
Sex: Male
Appearance:
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Tao Yin was once a soldier, and has striven to maintain that same fitness and readiness as a soldier for Charon; he has a fit build with strong shoulders, even if a change in age and diet has made him somewhat softer in the gut. Considered on the cusp of "middle age," the last several years have matured his soft face with hard edges.
He wears a pilot suit, complete with helmet, both when in the Gundams and when commanding operations on the bridge aboard the Elysium. When aboard the Elysium but not at his command post or in a Gundam cockpit, he tends to wear comfortable clothes that he can easily fit into said pilot suits, or slip out of quickly to change, such as plain t-shirts (usually white) and sweatpants (usually navy); when anywhere else, he likes to enjoy his newfound freedom of wardrobe with various plain or printed button-down shirts, maybe some heavier knitwear over top if it's cold, and comfortable slacks and casual footwear.
Tao Yin looks fairly typically Sainamese; his skin is of a typical South Ostaran complexion, if lighter than his parents due to spending his life in school and within mobile weapon cockpits instead of bent under the sun in fields or construction. Everything else about him is straight from his parents: his father's large eyebrows, hard nose and sparse facial hair, and his mother's dark eyes. His dark hair is cut tight to the sides of his head in something of an undercut, the top he has allowed grow in his time away from the military. He has noticed himself sounding more and more like how his father sounded, as his voice takes on more gravel with age; with his sparse beard, he has begun to look more like him, too.
At 5'10" he is a little tall for a Sainamese man, but that's just the way the military likes 'em; suits their propaganda better with tall, strong men on the front lines.
Tao Yin's body is riddled with various surgical scars from his time as a "test pilot". While the ones on his legs are the largest, from the time a Quolong he was testing exploded beneath him (a maintenance mistake; that mechanic, he heard, was "reassigned"), the symetrical scars on his cheeks are the most noticable since, well, he can't hide those. Other, similar-looking scars can be found in various places on his torso and arms, slowly-fading remnants of his mission in the HPA.
Personality:
Tao Yin by nature is endlessly curious; he loves to discover "how it works," whether the "it" is a thing or a person; as a child he spent much of his free time poking about on everything at home and even including his father's heavy work equipment, and that wonder has translated into his constantly poking about at learning how the Gundams work, despite being repeatedly and specifically told to not poke about in the Gundams. He also loves listening to people's stories: their histories, their problems, the things they like; every person is a different and interesting machine that ticks along in a different way.
To that end, he has a rather analytical mind, prefering to evaluate a topic, conversation, facts or other circumstances before coming forth with his own action or take in order to come at it with the best response. When he is at a disadvantage or when facts elude him, he learned as an HPA drone operator & mobile armor pilot to trust upon his acutely tuned intuition to find the best path; second-guessing himself, he has learned, tends to produce worse outcomes.
He's a generally polite and sociable person who tends to carry himself with a smile in all but somber occasions...or, sometimes, inappropriately in somber occasions. Even when disappointed or angry he remains civil, burying these emotions with such speed to go from fuming privately in one moment to being courteous and amicable, even outright joking with the topic of his frustrations. Life is too short, and impressions too permanent, waste either in anger; life needs to have more happy moments in it!
He generally dislikes open and emotional confrontations, electing to soothe and disarm while taking a moment to swallow his own pain or exasperations and "deal with them at a later time." He will quite happily launch himself at the problems of others before tackling his own, often attempting to turn the mood or offer rather unsolicited advice he will often attribute to his mother. He has great difficulty in addressing his own pain, either outright avoiding to deal with it or doing so inappropriately, until it physically breaks him.
He has a habit, a tick, of quickly tapping a hand or a heel when deep in thought, when addressing a difficult task, or when frustrated at not being able to do or understand something.
Charon saught him out as a test pilot for his knowledge and skill in experimental weaponry with the HPA, and he joined Charon after a decade of frustrations with internal HPA politics. He still believes strongly upon the propaganda fed to him as a child about the utopian ideals that the HPA strives to achieve and will defend them when pressed, but he believes just as strongly that the HPA leadership as it exists is incapable of creating that change.
The old order of the world must be wiped clean, so that the new one may rise.
Biography:
Tao Yin's family was taken to Tieguo as part of the HPA's "displaced persons resettlement program" during the lost decade to settle refugees into areas population-decimated by the fighting. Born in the winter of 1660, his childhood was defined by the relative goods shortages of the last years of the War, the post-War depression and uncertainty over mankind's future that immediately followed. Even so, HPA policy meant that the effort to repopulate and rebuild the Shizhen area made his family stable and cared for, and while certainly left wanting for some things, food, a home, and regular employment meant a life of relative ease within the town's hastily-erected barbed-wire perimeter.
While his father worked construction to rebuild and his mother worked the fields to stay fed, Tao Yin attended Pre-Education School in the mornings as a toddler to learn the basics of Tieguo language and mannerisms before coming home to his grandmother, seeing his parents for a short time in the afternoon before they too attended a night-version of Pre-Education School that he learned later mysteriously lacked a "P". Much of his childhood passed this way: go to school, play with friends, come home and see his family before bidding his parents good night as they left for classes. It was a simple life.
On the days he didn't have normal school, he still woke up early for morning civics classes - he liked these, they were more fun than his language and counting classes - before running off to see his dad at work. Always a pest, he would insist on climbing the big equipment and, when old enough, maybe running them every once in a while. He loved the power and control of these machines, and would learn their controls every chance he could: how to control them, how to fix them, how they worked; as a result, when the Aptitude Battery was administered, it came as no surprise that his practical skills came in at top marks, and when his other skills were shown to be less flattering, it seemed pretty natural and obvious to his family what his employment selection would be.
That's why it came as mildly surprising when he was targeted by "recruiters" and joined the HPA military as a technician and mobile armor pilot a year later. He spent much of his time training for a war he was assured would not come; they were a defense army for the people, sworn to defend the new future their people were building together from the regressive influences of the other big blocs, whose interests was to grind the masses into the dirt for the profit of a few.
That's why it came as mildly surprising when the HPA invaded Krinis, and Tao Yin was deployed to the north to preempt the Union's predicted counter-invasion, which came as expected...though the ferocity of the attack and the use of new, powerful, and autonomous weaponry forced Tao Yin and his other operator/pilots into a slowly retreating defense while HPA leadership devoted resources to other fronts. Their drones depleting, a still-green Tao Yin watched the people he trained with slowly dwindle over the next months as they broke encirclements and rushed to set up defenses, and to their credit their efforts did well to stall the advance in their area, but Union gains elsewhere had eroded the HPA negotiating position. After months of dogged fighting, the eerie calm of the pre-armistice ceasefire was almost too much to bear, and Tao Yin was relieved to be recalled from the front at the end of the war.
His reward/punishment (depending on who you ask) for not dying was to be promoted and reassigned as a "test pilot." He participated in the testing of most of the HPA's newest weaponry and technologies. It was exciting coming to work every day to face some new challenge and he did well at it, though it was less exciting when the challenges involved the operating lights and scalpels. He sometimes wondered why his fellow pilots were mostly "rifraf" like himself while his commanders were almost exclusively Tieguonese. Some years later and with countless commendations displayed over his left breast, he also found it odd that it seemed like some younger and less commendable officers were promoted over him. Nevertheless he did his duty as he was taught, and when the second Solar Wars arose, he took his experimental mobile suit into the field and piloted with all the skill he had been taught.
And just like he had been taught, he detonated said mobile suit, and disappeared into the jungle.
Since then, Tao Yin has been with Charon. To protect his family, he has completely dropped his name and exclusively used his assumed identities. He was the organization's first test pilot and participated in its first interventions. Over the years, he has trained the group's other pilots and engineers in control and operation of the Gundams. He field-tested the systems of the second-generation Gundams in Solhaven, and when Edward Borg left Elysium to assume direction of operations at Lethe, it was Tao Yin that was asked to assume leadership of the coming Gundam operations.
Mobile Suit
None