Amelia Arra Sans

### Relatives

Arasko Sans (Father), Unknown mother, Qisa Tryse (surrogate mother), Riko Tryse (surrogate sister)

### Eye color

blue

*"Passion through pain, truth through trial. She is the shield, the sword, and armor."*

**Amelia Arra Sans**, preferring to go by her middle name, is a human born as a colonist on the planet Perma, growing up as the daughter of renowned ship mechanic Arasko Sans. A raid on the colony left Arra an orphan and she was adopted into the neighboring Tryse family. Vowing to never let another colony fall victim to the same fate that hers did, and eager to find answers to who the attackers exactly were, she enlisted at the age of eighteen to become a Colonial Marine and, by age twenty-six, had been awarded the position of Major attache to the Alliance vessel, the *Vigil*.

## Appearance

Arra is a dark-skinned human girl of Najarron descent, with sapphire-blue eyes and short, raven dark hair. In the past, she wore this hair long but cut it once she began her life as a marine. She has a lean body with modest musculature honed from years of training in the corp. She often wears leather flight jackets with flight pants and cargo boots and fingerless gloves for civilian wear. As a marine attache, she wears an Alliance Lieutenant-Commander uniform matching her equivalent rank in the Alliance Navy albeit without sleeves.

She has taken to wearing her hair in an undercut style, with the top of her hair favoring her right side. She bears a tattoo on her left wrist of the Najarron word for "Memory" in honor of her father. She speaks with a rough inflection grown from years of being in the Marines, though she is soft with those she cares about.

## Personality

Temperamental, passionate, and proud of her family history, Arra is a hard worker and strives to live up to her father's ideals. Skeptical of most strangers she meets, she nonetheless has a grounded moral center and seeks to help those she feels are disenfranchised, helpless, or oppressed, namely colonists far from the care of the Core.

Arra misses her father dearly, and defends the Sans' name and pride fiercely when she feels her family and their struggles are being disrespected or disregarded. She keeps a holo portrait of her father in her quarters at all times, and looks at it when in times of great stress or sadness.

Arra is close to the Tryse family and acts as a daughter of sorts to them, though retains her family name and identity as a Sans. She treats her surrogate mother, Qisa, with equal parts respect, love, and fear that a daughter would give to a legitimate mother. The two are close and Qisa trusts Arra to keep Riko out of danger, nicknaming her "kitu", a small and seemingly cuddly but temperamental creature found on Saleo. In return, Arra calls Qisa "mom" and does her best to help lighten the family's load. Qisa has taught Arra how to fight properly with Saleluki tactics such as "leading the enemy" and "striking fast and hard." The two love each other and have fought to protect one another on numerous occasions, with Qisa expressing that she would gladly die for Arra if need be.

Riko has remained Arra's "sister" ever since their childhood, and the two have been inseparable throughout their lives. Sharing the same interests and, eventually, similar mannerisms such as sloppy eating and rough housing as children, Riko and Arra have bonded to such an extent that the two rarely go long without the other's company. Arra is often tasked with keeping the easily-distracted and naive Nurunian safe. The two have dreamt of one day buying a freighter and become free traders in the frontier regions, living lives of adventure and prosperity though Arra's need for answers and vengeance against the ones who stole her father changed these plans.

While hotheaded, Arra is very mature and often serves as the level-headed foil to Riko's energetic and brash self. She is a hopeless romantic and seeks to one day meet a strong and handsome Vilor or Kandarrian man to marry, though she keeps this to herself mostly.

## History

Born to Arasko Sans and an unknown, human mother, Amelia grew up most of her life on the colony world of Perma. At a young age, Amelia was told by her father that her mother had died in an accident. She was taught how to maintain ships and drifters by her father. During elementary school, Arra met and befriended Riko Tryse, a fellow social outcast among the cliques of their school, and the two have been inseparable ever since.