Thread: The St. Anne (Character Thread)

Name Elaine 'El' Reid Portrait See more img300x300 Brief Description El is a small and unassuming woman, standing just three inches north of five feet. She's well muscled and she works to maintain her physique, often being found in a gym or improvising methods to keep up her fitness level with things that happen to be laying around. Often ship-bound, this translates to lending a hand to mechanics of the vessels she's on working large wrenches and doing heavy lifting. She's not a very curvy girl at all, a situation that tends to be exacerbated by her typical tomboyish dress in everyday environments or her armored body suit in more dangerous environs they tend to be obscured at best or concealed completely at worst. She keeps her red hair tied back into a haphazard bun on most days, it being too much work most days for her to bother, but when freed from that restriction it hangs to just below the line of her shoulders. Usual Gear Eight-round shotgun loaded with nonlethal gel rounds, heavy modern-style revolver loaded with standard ammunition, armored hardsuit with helmet, comms earpiece, combat knife, flask of high read flammable proof alcohol. Sexual Orientation Bi, heavy female preference OnsOffs F-List to Come Morning Watch Location Personal Quarters, Engine Room Mid-Watch Location Various Compartments, often wandering Evening Watch Location Personal Quarters, Observatory Deck for second watch, Personal Quarters Known Background Elaine was born on the military frigate ISDS Daring to two lifelong spacers and navy personnel to be raised in an identical environment. She started her 'schooling' by texts transmitted to the ship during port calls and various military documentaries and strategy books her parents were fond of. To say she was raised in an isolated and somewhat warlike nature woul be, at best, a polite understatement. She never even made planetfall until her thirteenth birthday. Eventually she enlisted in the fleet as well, at which point she and her parents parted ways. During that time she picked up her habit of imbibing the backroom shipboard rotgut seemingly in endless supply on every military vessel. It helped bring something other than dull monotony to shipboard life. It also served as a good disinfectant and painkiller as in a pinch. She served with the navy for a stretch before the vessel she found herself aboard faced a losing engagement in a pitched battle. She'd escaped in one of the life pods and, for her own reasons, never looked back, instead adopting the life of a transient and occasional lawbreaker before finding herself aboard the St. Anne. Unknown Background El was crippled at birth. She was born with a spinal deformation that left her completely paralyzed from the waist down. As it became apparent later in life, towards her teens, that her interests led along the same lines as those of her family, her parents were approached by a military cyberneticist with an offer. The offer was a simple one. He could cure their daughter in exchange for her lifelong military service. She would be a fully functional member of society - better, even - with cybernetics she could be better. Elaine was planning on a military career anyway. Her parents didn't hesitate. After several hours under the knife, the young woman took her first steps in her life with the aid of her new cybernetic spine. She'd received several other subtle augmentations as well, a unit to self-regulate adrenal levels, some biologically augmented musculature to even a direct interface jack at the base of her skull that allowed her to connect via hard-line to more advanced weapon, sensor and piloting systems. She was a prototype for a new ISD initiative, meant to serve as shock troops and hard-insert soldiers. They deployed her first on a line-vessel, intending to test her efficiency with ship-grade weaponry via the direct interface. During that time the ship she was serving as a gunner on the ISDS Dauntless that her final battle as a naval officer began. In truth it was Elaine who pitched the battle. The port side guns were commanded to fire on the unarmed elements of a convoy protected by several frigates. She refused the order then, upon being threatened with the possibility of court martial and the mandatory removal of her implants, she rebelled. Through her link she'd preloaded a shutdown program, fired a series of warning shots from the portside batteries, then fled to the escape pods. From then on she'd been fleeing navy 'reposessors' hunting for the traitor with the stolen cyberware.