Muk & Bir

Muk (Left) and Bir (Right) in Tactical Uniform

"*We may be young but we sure know how to dive - Yeah we do, and we hope to do the team proud by it!*"
― **Muk and Bir talking about their free diving skills**
**Runica & Ramona Latior**, Codenames **Muk & Bir** respectfully, are two operatives of Chariot team.

## Profile

Muk and Bir were both conceived at the same time, and would grow and develop together as identical twins. They were soon born within the town of Kwajalein on the atoll of the same name, with Muk beating her sister out their mother's front door to be the first to take the first breath, becoming the elder of the two in the process (if only by a few minutes).

Their upbringing was rather uneventful, their family's residency on boats and rather secluded atoll's meant they were home-schooled by their mother and father whenever there was a break in the monotony of life. However, they were easily trained in their family's trade of fishing and became quite good at it, helping their parents whenever they could. They also started diving at this time, and the constant underwater expeditions trained up their lungs to hold their breath for much longer than any other person, with the two even challenging each other on who could hold their breath the longest, which aided this even more.

By the time they were teenagers, the twins were getting tired of the fishing life, they just wanted to be their teenage girl

## Appearance

The two twins may look similar and may be hard to distinguish from each other at a quick glance, but some differences do become apparent to tell the two apart.

* Muk wears a hairband, along with small flowers attached to it.
* Muk has her hair wavy and loose at the back, Bir meanwhile has hers tied up in a ponytail.
* Bir has a shark bite scar present on her left arm.

## Personality

The twins have very bubbly and outgoing personalities, they are also very helpful and try to do anything they can when outside an op, although they usually spend most of their time in the pool to keep on top of their breath training in the water. They can be seen as being stereotypical teenage girls and do some of the trendy things at the time, paddy cake being a favourite, though this all disappears on an operation and the two do take it seriously, as to not annoy any of the other operators.

The two girls also seem to have an element of shared psychosis present between them, it's hard to see both girls apart from each other and most of the time stay together, they have a habit of juggling sentences between each other when talking with a third party, and the two even sometimes mimic bodily movements, like stretching, turning heads etc.

Both sisters may be mostly the same in this regard, but they do have some uniqueness to the trained viewer, Bir is a bit more outgoing and more talkative, while Muk is a bit more reserved and calmer in a stressful situation.

## Trivia

* Their codenames are derived from the native Marshallese names for certain species of fish native to the islands waters.
	+ 'Muk' is the native name for the White-freckled surgeonfish (Acanthurus maculiceps)
	+ 'Bir' is the native name given to two different fish, the Achilles tang (Acanthurus achilles) and the Whitecheek surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricans).
* Being only 19 years old and the younger of the two, Bir is the youngest member of Chariot.