Mary Kate "EmKay" Bless

Mary Kate Bless is a Corsari woman who was born on Corsair but moved to Aegis to take part in Squad Mates. While there are Squad Mates arenas on all planets in the core worlds and beyond in the Dragon Protectorate, once she was scouted by the Bonded Fates she moved. Mary Kate is the grand daughter of Sabrina Bless, a general in the Corsari military.

Mary Kate herself didn't really have much interest in being a soldier however she joined Squad Mates like many others; to prepare for future wars. Mary Kate looks more in line with what you would see on a college campus sorority than on a Squad Mates field. To that end she's a sharpshooter that is most often sitting in a bunker or an outcropping somewhere picking HVTs off for her team. One can usually find her at some kind of personal care shop after matches once she gets paid.

## Trivia

1. Mary Kate prefers styling and profiling. She always modifies her outfit in some way to make it unique to her.
2. Mary Kate, while not particularly wealthy in her own right comes from a rich military family. She has an allowance to spend.
3. Mary Kate has a customized SR-338 sniper called the "Horizon Break". It's chambered in a TRAC version of the .338 Krenicka Magnum cartridge. It's capable of registering a killshot on almost any type of armor in the game.
4. Mary Kate carries some of the lightest kit into battle by design. Her rifle and it's ammo are heavy enough.
5. Mary Kate once missed a a shot on a VIP during a game because she noticed one of her nails was broken right when she was pulling the trigger. It's haunted her since and she now wears special gloves with hardened compartments at the finger tips to protect her nails and to prevent her from seeing them whenever she has her nails done.
6. Mary Kate believed that Rania needed friends despite how much she said she didn't. It became a goal of Mary Kate for Rania to call her "friend".
7. While she doesn't know that Rania makes her the origami cats, she keeps all of them in a box.
8. Mary Kate denies relationship requests from other Squad Mates players on a weekly basis. She almost doesn't read her mail anymore.
9. Mary Kate thinks Josephine has great skin and hair.
10. Mary Kate used to be apart of a registered Squad Mates team and even participated in lower championship levels. The team was the "Silver Hawks".
11. The Silver Hawks disbanded after their Captain died during a freak accident in a championship game. While they all understood it can happen during the game, the team still decided to do so, out of respect.
12. Mary Kate has a silver hawk tattoo covering the right side of her back with it's tail rapping around her stomach.
13. Anya picked Mary Kate up less than a week after her team disbanded. Mary Kate was a little less than happy at that and felt Anya was being a vulture but after getting an explanation from her as to why, she dropped the animosity.
14. Mary Kate does not like when people hit on her. Despite this, she was still thoroughly confused as to why Rania swung on the people who did.
15. Mary Kate was one of the first to vote to pursue a championship career with the Bonded Fates after their loss to the Dark Angels.
16. Mary Kate doesn't like pressure and tends to panic if she gets isolated from her team
17. Mary Kate doesn't like conflict. She is easily intimidated.
18. Classy and refined, Mary Kate does NOT like getting dirty.
19. She's clumsy. As Rania would say, "This girl can trip herself up even if you attached her to a crane and moved her through the air."
20. Mary Kate has a dream of playing a Squad Mates game with her Grand mother one day.
21. Though she doesn't look it, Mary Kate is one of the most experienced members of the Bonded Fates.