Reyna Hoshi

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=The Pilot=
A Phoenix Collective pilot. Like most mercenaries, little of her personal history is known, though Gavin is aware that she was a statistician before the war responsible for interpreting sociological data for corporations. Although she has the skills to go higher, supposedly laziness keeps her in an average mercenary grade. In truth even this is part of a facade, encouraging her enemies to underestimate her.
She met with Gavin Malkin in Chicago in 2019 for the first time in what was apparently many years, mostly to insult him, but concluded their meeting with an encouragement to retire now that he had a chance at a happy life. 
A few months later, Reyna would be contacted by the Big Seven with a high-profile job involving various things, the primary of which involved the assassination of Michael Garcon, a pilot on his way to becoming king of Quebec, and the elimination of the rogue Chosen AI, Blackjack. After doing some investigation, Reyna uncovered the full details of the plan, and realized that the pilot that killed Garcon would also take the fall for his death. Reyna instead decided that she would take on a partner for the job and let them become the scapegoat in her stead, remembering Gavin and deciding he was a perfect fit for the role due to being a reasonably skilled pilot that had been thrown out by his team and become an outcast in the pilot community. Erratic, suicidal actions would be expected, and his death would ultimately go unmissed by anyone. Although Gavin was reluctant at first, already familiar with Reyna's sociopathy, Reyna succeeded in pressuring him to join her on her mission.
The partnership did not last long. After traveling to Sept-Îles, the two encountered a small ship and suit belonging to the Romanov Empire. While Gavin fought the Russian suit, Reyna disabled the boat and sent Shi to recover Blackjack Γ, before fleeing the scene. As expected, the fighting had attracted the attention of the Knights of Montreal, leading to Gavin being captured and taken directly to the Knight's base. In the meantime, Reyna would continue to travel north, eventually reaching Manicouagan Reservoir, where the original Blackjack was hidden. After extracting the AI, she would then proceed to Montreal to address the issue with Gavin and Garcon. Here Gavin actually exceeded her expectations, having already succeeded in killing Garcon, destroying Blackjack Δ, and working his way through the Knights. Reyna covertly joined the fight, taking advantage of the poor weather and the Knights fear to keep the upper hand with Gavin. By morning, the Knights had been wiped out, and Part One of the job had been taken care of. 
Reyna brought Intersect Thunderbolt and its unconscious but still-living pilot to the ACS Arrow Reforged, which had been on regular patrol along the border, along the way dropping off Shi equipped with Blackjack's MEM. Shi uploaded Blackjack into the Arrow Reforged, and the two AI took control of the space battleship, laying waste to the already ruined city of Montreal. Reyna deployed in her suit once again under the guise of stopping the hijacked battleship, and Gavin, despite still recovering from the battle the night prior, insisted on joining her, as Reyna had predicted he would. This gave Reyna the chance to execute the final part of the plan, shooting Intersect Thunderbolt down after it had launched from the Arrow. Reyna and the Bigs now had everything they needed to wrap up the border dispute. Gavin was taken back to the ship and put into custody, destined for a quick execution. Shi, however, decided to challenge Reyna in a bid to prove that she wasn't completely heartless, threatening to reveal her nature as another Chosen AI to ACC. She eventually succeeded in forcing Reyna to haggle with the Bigs for a better deal for Gavin using the recovered memory of Ellis Castelli agreeing to spy on the Engineers for the Bigs. Afterwards, she would bring Gavin back to Chicago, meeting Lenn Lee for the first and last time, before parting ways with Gavin again.
Unfortunately, although she was not responsible for killing the pilot in question, her actions as the official agent of the Bigs during the battle at Sept-Îles had earmarked her for revenge by the Romanov Empire. Reyna had also run afoul of the Mexican Authority, leading to them getting back at her by kidnapping Shi. Understanding that the Romanovs getting their hands on a man-made AI could be a very bad thing, Reyna approached Gavin once again for assistance in rescuing her. Having already been left to die by her once not very long ago, Gavin was very reluctant to accompany her again, but Reyna was able to convince him by stressing the legitimacy of this job compared to the previous one, even ensuring Gavin was temporarily reinstated as an official mercenary with the Phoenix Collective before heading to Cancun. Here Reyna did most of the heavily lifting, using her pilot enhancements to kill her way through the Sinaloa crimeboss' men until coming across a Rybot and Romanov agent going by the codename Trekhglazyy Pauk. Reyna and Gavin were able work together to defeat the Rybot, but Gavin had been incapacitated by the machine, leaving Reyna to face Pauk alone. With his cybernetic enhancements and training, Pauk was more than a match for Reyna and easily defeated her. Reyna, anticipating Pauk killing her and taking her cyberbrain with him back to Russia, regretted allowing herself to feel sympathy for Tabrisa and putting herself at risk to save her. Luckily for Reyna, Gavin would manage to drag himself to the scene of the fight and shoot Pauk from behind, allowing Reyna to kill him. This proved to be the last time Reyna and Gavin would work together as mercenaries.
In 2020, Reyna would join the China War as a free agent after the Armor Corps officially left the area. She appeared as a participant in Che En Lin's recruitment tournament, but in spite of her bravado was solidly defeated by Red Knight. Choosing to forfeit at the last moment, she wound up attending a bizarre series of encounters with the other "Loser" Pilots. Realizing the grander stakes at play once Che's identity was revealed, she attempted to rally the other Pilots to Che's aid. Unfortunately, the other Pilots were too confused in the chaos to listen to her, and Reyna left the island empty-handed.
==Personality ==
A confident woman with a cool temperament and the ability to find amusement in the worst of situations. Although she acts mischievous, she is actually quite rational, observant, and manipulative. She has little respect for others and considers most people nothing more than a source of entertainment for her, priding herself on her ability to reduce people to their base character traits. 
Despite hiding her intentions behind a playful attitude, she is a ruthless mercenary through and through, and will do whatever is required to accomplish her goals. Selfish, profit-driven, and a compulsive liar, she laughs at the concept of a fair fight and prefers to engage only when victory is absolutely certain, or when the enemy can't properly fight back.
== Appearance ==
Approximately 171cm tall with long blue hair and yellow eyes (TE is anime shut up). She's somewhat unusually tall for someone of Asiatic descent, which she attributes to being born and raised in the United States.
Unlike most Pilots, she is usually armed, and has displayed some skill with firearms. However, Reyna has admitted that she cheats as much as possible with her cyberbrain when it comes to gunfighting and had no experience with shooting before becoming a Pilot. For personal defense, she carries a Beretta 8000 pistol in a shoulder holster, usually under a jacket of some kind.
==Relations & Allies==
===Hanse Behörde===
Lyn Wong (Hai-ko): Lyn seems to consider Reyna a friend, which Reyna finds amusing considering it would be based off the incident that saw her swindling Lyn of $300.
===Phoenix Collective===
Carcer Carmine (Marauder): Reyna expressed a favorable opinion of Marauder during her meeting with Gavin, though this may have been sarcastic.
Elena Wagner (Weltraumlicht): Apparently a fan of the reclusive sniper, for whatever reason.
Gavin Malkin (Intersect Thunderbolt): Gavin bears the extremely dubious honour of being one of the very few people Reyna has anything resembling a personal attachment to, meaning that he is a primary victim of her manipulative and occasionally even cruel treatment of others. Based off their past history as teammates, each knows the other's capabilities well enough to consider the other more a threat than worth dealing with directly, and Reyna herself finds far and away more entertainment and use from Gavin as someone to kick around than as a corpse.
Shi Nanashi: Reyna's AI companion, whom she generally treats as a servant, but occasionally shows signs of what appears to be genuine concern for Flügel's wayward daughter, as she seems to dislike it when she complains Reyna doesn't care about anyone other than herself.
=The Suit=
Category:PACYOA: TE
Category:Heavy
Category:Phoenix Collective