Jaqui Hrasai

"Could you please wear something a little less tight Jaqui, your butt is pretty huge and I'm concerned those trousers will not hold." Gretchen complaining at Jaqui after catching a glimpse of the trouser stress lines on Jaqui's butt shortly after meeting each other.
Jaqui is a Selde ex-bounty hunter who captained the Kelnari. Her name is pronounced "Ja-Kwee". She is normally overly friendly to the point many consider her to be obnoxious and annoying, but will get snappy and defensive when either herself or those she loves are threatened.
==Profile==
*Name: Jaqui Arnae Hrasai
*Birth Date: 1934
*Height: 14ft 11in
*Species: Selde
*Gender: Female
*Weight: 24,627 Kg
==Overview==
Born a twin but orphaned at birth as her parents were too poor to afford twins and had to give up one of their children in order to raise the other. Jaqui was raised in a military orphanage until the age of 16 where she was enrolled into the military and spent two years in boot camp. While she was growing up, orphanage staff's attempts to teach her discipline failed horrifically, with Jaqui often being a nuisance and fiddling with things, with the latter being the sole reason she wasn't kicked out, as orphanage staff thought she would have potential as an engineer.
Having been kicked out of the military primarily due to incompetence in 1955 after serving as a trainee engineer onboard a Nerkeral Class frigate for only three years. She was stripped of her uniform but strangely was allowed to keep her rifle because she had mutilated it to a point where repairing it cost more than getting a new one and the quartermaster who inspected it genuinely thought it couldn't be made functional again without almost an entire rifle worth of spare parts and allowed Jaqui to keep it on the logic that her fiddling had decommissioned it into nothing more than a decorative object.
Having spent a few years living on the street doing odd jobs just to earn food money, she decided she wanted to try hunting her own food and found herself wandering into a forest where she bumped into a Selde Giant who was in the forest casually hunting for food. Upon seeing Jaqui's well built figure and shabby clothes, the Selde Giant saw Jaqui as an easy meal that nobody would miss, licking her lips before she swiftly grabbed Jaqui around the waist and muttered 'I haven't seen any game yet, and I am feeling hungry, and I am sure nobody will miss you midget!'. While the Selde Giant was muttering to Jaqui, Jaqui managed to get her hand on her rifle and managed to fire a shot from one of her rifles extra barrels at the Selde Giant, causing her to drop Jaqui to the ground and growl 'You little...' before Jaqui shouted 'Just because we are smaller than you does NOT make us your food you fat beast'. To this, the Selde Giant who was impressed at Jaqui's display, just laughed before calmly offering Jaqui a job as her personal bounty hunter, reminding Jaqui at any hesitation she showed that refusal would result in her being the Giant's lunch. Jaqui accepted the job after a few minutes of back and forth peppered with constant threats to her life.
Jaqui continued being the personal bounty hunter for her Giant employer for several decades, enjoying the job and even convincing her Giant employer to not hunt the innocent, eventually obtaining her own starship in 1967, the Caival-Class Kelnari, as a reward for catching a target her Giant employer thought was impossible to catch, which allowed her to track targets beyond Seldeynia. She had to give up being a Giant's private bounty hunter and become a general bounty hunter in 1986 after the Selde Giant she worked for became one of Gargantine's meals due to her interfering with military business (a fate indirectly caused by Jaqui's hunting). This career eventually ended with Jaqui hunting Gretchen Serai which resulted in the two becoming friends and the end of Jaqui's career as a bounty hunter.
Jaqui's method of finding Gretchen Serai was to follow and scan any non-Selde, Algranian, Sealachan or Shadraxian vessel looking for Selde lifesigns, after coming to the conclusion that a wanted Selde was not going to be safe on any of those vessels. She eventually stumbled across Gretchen's commandeered freighter, the ICV Halnen, through blind luck, just outside of Selde space in the first month of 2012, where she decided to help Gretchen after hearing why Gretchen was wanted (something Jaqui would often do with her bounties, especially those who were ex-military, letting those who she believed to be innocent go), rather than take her back to Seldeynia to claim the significant bounty that Gargantine had placed on her head. The reason Jaqui did this was partly due to her growing hatred of the corrupt Selde Military, specifically it's leader Gargantine Kersal, and partly because she thought Gretchen was attractive.
Jaqui decided, with no input or argument from Gretchen, that keeping the Halnen going was better than keeping the Kelnari due to it's nature as a Selde vessel making it easier to track. Instead of abandoning it, she decided to strip the Kelnari for parts (mostly for it's Soul Crystals, weapons and shield emitters) and was a much greater help at doing this than Gretchen had expected.
== Love ==
Upon finding Gretchen Serai in early 2012, Jaqui quickly fell in love with the older, uptight ex-captain. She openly shows her affection and does her best to make Gretchen smile, ranging from performing out of nowhere cuddles to flicking Gretchen's ponytail around.
Gretchen does not feel the same way, often seeing Jaqui as an undisciplined irritant who is overly friendly, believing strongly that Jaqui is hiding something. Despite this, Gretchen does value Jaqui as a friend albeit one that can be obnoxious at times. While Jaqui is undisciplined and can be extremely annoying, the friendliness is genuine.
==Skill==
Jaqui's skill as a bounty hunter was debatable, as she is often under equipped and lacking enough intelligence to perform her tasks well. Despite this, she is known to catch her targets and treat them more fairly than most bounty hunters. Some say her lack of intelligence is an act, and she is actually smart and competent, but this is untrue, as she just gets lucky very often, relying on the bounty's stupidity to land in her poorly conceived traps. An example of one of these traps involved just dropping active stunmines (an energy blast designed to not kill a normal Selde, just disable her for about an hour) in an easily avoided grid pattern, while burying a few along the easily avoided parts. Should her target manage to avoid accidentally stepping on one of the hidden mines, Jaqui typically waits just outside the minefield's outer edge behind a rock or tree just to shoot her target with a stun shot.
==Combat Style==
Jaqui relies on her customised rifle for combat, and is completely useless without it, having adapted so much to the rifle that she no longer knows how to use a normal Selde rifle very well. She also has no idea how to fight at close range, often throwing clumsy punches or swinging her rifle about with no clue.
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