Allie Flashpan

Allison Corcoran Lloyd (better known by her nickname "") was a war orphan of the Irish War of Independence who was adopted by Gordon Lloyd Flashpan after they met during his interactions with the CLAIN. Allie grew up with the heroism of her adoptive father's family, and quickly went off herself to explore the aether, using her aunt Katya's connections to the Knights Mercantile in order to gain rank and opportunities in the newly opened Pin Jump trade route.
Allie was inseparable from her lifelong friend Jessie Smitts, who was constantly watching Allie's back and covering her through all of her insane stunts.
== Personality ==
Allie maintained a deep and abiding sense of wonder of the universe throughout her life, from the days she spent roaming the occult swamps of Ireland and meeting Flashpan's fae side of the family, to her journey into the Deep Aether. She approached her scientific inquiry with the broad brush of the natural philosopher, never focusing solely on one source of knowledge, but instead flitting from aetherics to linguistics to engineering to botany and biology. Allie's knack for picking up just about anything served her well, and she was able to learn just about any craft at an absurd speed.
She inherited a keen sense of justice from her adoptive family, and constantly fought for the safety and fair treatment of the innocent and the powerless where she could - even at a severe risk to her own life. Though she often could not stop her more bloodthirsty comrades, she did her best to save the lives of people like Miri Akari, who were innocents caught up in the struggles of the Naga.
Allie did not want to see more people turned into war orphans like herself; she was deeply disturbed by the cavalier attitude towards life carried by the perfect princes, even those considered to be her expedition's "allies."
The scars of Ireland did not leave her and she carried an abiding hatred for elves and all things murderous and imperial - perhaps a strange position for one of the Knights Mercantile, but one not entirely out of line.
== History ==
=== Early Life ===
Allie was born Allison Corcoran to Daniel and Rachel Corcoran, a pair of Irish philosophers and labor agitators in Dublin. Her childhood was tumultuous, as her parents were constantly moving to avoid arrest by local authorities. She did not have very much schooling, but her parents did their best to fill her in on the essentials. With every move, Allie's ability to get along with other children declined, and she quickly became lonely and despondent. When the Irish War of Independence began, she was only 5 years old. Her parents took her with them as they went into hiding in the shanty towns around the city.
=== The Bakers Quarter Massacre ===
Out in the countryside, the Borderers had started another guerrilla campaign against the Dragoons. Tensions on the streets were raised to a fever pitch as RIC soldiers were deployed to preempt any strikes or labor riots. Just days before, a fight had broken out in the streets outside of the Dublin Arms Company factory, as socialist supporters attempted to shut down the factory in protest of poor pay and overwork in order to make quotas for shipments to the Fialta front. Sensing that the time was right to begin a truly mass movement, Patrick Connolly gathered the other socialist leaders, forming a mutual-defense compact which was to be called the CLAIN. Patrick then held a rally, the first socialist rally in public for quite some time. Unfortunately, the RIC and Dragoons had gotten wind of this socialist gathering.
Luck was not on the side of the Corcoran family. Daniel and Rachel had studiously avoided contact with other socialist groups for years, but when Connolly himself invited them to join his new organization (being a fan of their work), they could hardly refuse. It was thus that the entire family found itself at the center of the worst massacre in Irish history. Intending to break up the gathering as usual, the Dragoons brought up a cavalry squadron to charge the gathering. Much to the shock of the dragoons commander, the entire unit was wiped out by an ambush set up by Connolly's chief of staff, Ellie Collins, which practically destroyed an entire city block with explosives in the process. The gathering scattered in the face of the explosions, but the Dragoons moved quickly to surround the district - the old Bakers' quarter of the city - where the rally had taken place. Unwilling to take any chances, their commander ordered his brigade's artillery to level the place before the dragoons moved in, on foot, to indiscriminately eliminate this hotbed of rebel activity.
As thousands were dying in the streets, Allie and her family managed to make its way through the ruins into the large complex which formerly held the ovens of the city bakery, desperately trying to find a group of socialist fighters to escape with. They could see the bullets crackling across the masonry as they ducked into the basement of the old cracker factory. A few terrified boys with rifles huddled in one corner, while to their dismay, the family saw that the entrance to the city's subway system was blocked by a solid steel gate, which several others were struggling to open. 
Then they heard a grinding shriek, like the sound of a train derailing onto a platform filled with passengers. Across the room, the ceiling collapsed, and out of the chalky smoke stepped two towering men, clad in steel boarding armor and wearing the contemptuous smirk of an elf who knows there is not a thing in the world that could touch him. The Dragoons much feared Aetherborne division had joined the fight, and it looked like they were looking forward to having some fun on their extended vacation. The Irish boys managed a few panicked shots from their rusty schulz-rifles, but a quick burst from the pair's shiny new light machineguns carelessly threw them into the rubble pile. The first of the Dragoons drew a grisly falchion and stepped over to hack those by the door to pieces, but the second man decided that he liked the look of these Irish intellectuals. Allie could only stare in terror, the casual smirk set against the silver-blonde hair of this Elvish Dragoon forever burned into her memory as he tore apart her father limb from limb, tossing each in turn into the lap of Allie's sobbing mother. When at last he tired of this and crushed in her father's skull, he decided he rather enjoyed the way her mother quivered in fear. To wring some more of that out of her, the dragoon picked up Allie and held her hovering just above her mother, nonchalantly cutting away at her chest and watching the stricken face of Rachel Corcoran as he walked his knife, stroke by stroke, towards her daughter's throat. Perhaps in this last moment losing all of her sanity, Allie's mother jumped at the armored man, knocking Allie out of his hand in his surprise. Angered by this defiant interruption of his entertainment, he picked up Rachel by the neck, tore off her shirt, and began to carve a gruesome rendition of the Dragoons emblem into her exposed stomach. Too weak to even cry, Allie could only watch the elf as he tore apart her mother's flesh with sadistic glee and watched her wild eyes flit around in terror. 
Mercifully, Rachel Corcoran's suffering was cut short when a blast threw the steel gate spinning off of its hinges, beheading the Dragoon nearest to it and carrying him smashing into the second, reducing her into a mush between the two. In through this breach leapt Ellie Collins and a handful of CLAIN saboteurs, who had come to rescue their comrades trapped in the basements of the factory. Surveying the carnage (after putting a bullet through the Elf's sorry brain pan), she was dismayed to find only Allie among the living. Knowing that more Dragoons were certainly on the way, she scooped up little Allie and took her to safety through the tunnel system. 
=== CLAIN, Flashpan, Adoption ===
=== Growing up a Flashpan ===
=== Deep Ether Expedition into Naga Space ===
=== Spires of Aeldrum ===
== Trivia ==
Allie is the most recent character in the Hill family, the largest PC generating family in the Aeldrum universe, which has had the distinction of producing 4 player characters (and several notable NPCs)
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