Treade Blinton

Treade Blinton is an astronomer and head of the UNWD's Spaceand SETI Division.
== Character ==
=== Appearance ===
Treade has long brown hair, usually kept in a French plait. She nowadays usually wears the standard-issue Purple Shirt uniform whilst in the UNWD base, but prefers to wear a suit to other work and at home. She has a strong Yorkshire accent too.
=== Personality ===
Dissatisfied with the dull job she had at the Near Earth Meteor Observatory in Harrogate, Treade yearned for the chance to work in a more exciting, proactive role. In working for the UNWD, she found herself taken seriously and her work treated as vitally important. She therefore has since developed a little of an ego. She tends to trust her own judgement on things more than allowing others' input. This is made up for by the fact she is usually right about everything, so no worries.
=== Skills ===
Treade trained as an astronomer and showed herself to be highly organised and scientifically-minded. She can handle many issues at once with a cool head, making her perfect for a leadership role in the UNWD.
== History ==
Working on mundane daily meteor checks (requiring her to confirm things that ten other observatories had already seen as a backup) at the Near Earth Meteor Observatory, Treade didn't have anything interesting to do until one night, in which a mysterious object appeared only for the telescope she was manning. The object crashed in Yorkshire without anyone but her noticing... until Agent ? showed up at her office and explained how the object was in fact a cloaked alien vessel that only she could have identified on her telescope's readings. Rather than agree to simply keep quiet about the issue (after deleting the records of it on the server), Treade offered to help out the UNWD in analysing the alien tech found at the crash site. She was hired and worked as a researcher, slowly working her way up the ranks during the investigation until it was finished, after which she was promoted to head of the new Space and SETI Division. As well as looking out for further alien sightings, she was put in control of the NEST satellite programme, arranging for all the satellites to be secretly put in orbit alongside government spy satellites.
== Trivia ==
* Her hair has a similarity to Stella's younger style, from the beginning of her origin comic.
* The name 'Treade' comes from a misreading of the cat name 'Treacle' on a commission Cai did.
* The character originally appeared in a short story Cai wrote then lost amongst so many other written things. If ever he finds it again he'll show y'all.
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Category:Females
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Category:Scientists