Goshe Barrus

**Goshe Barrus** was a female Perditan Praeliorian who formerly served the Praeliorian Empire as elite officer. After rescuing the Dremirian Celena from imperial execution, Barrus defected from the Empire and fled with Celena to the hidden planet of Harmonia. She remained an ally to Morna Aznaré and the Harmonian Separatists ever since.

## Biography

### Early Life and Career

In 5923 ASA, Goshe Barrus was born on the frozen moon of Perdita, which orbited the planet Praelior, the capital of the Praeliorian Empire. Goshe faced heavy conditioning throughout her life, as someone who was raised within an imperial environment that constantly stressed order, bureaucracy, and the extreme hatred of Dremirians. In spite of the world around her pressuring her to give in to this malice, Goshe always felt as if something was wrong with the Empire. These feelings of uneased eventually turned into distaste and ultimately resentment.

By 5953 ASA, Goshe began her career as an Elite, tasked with hunting down Dremirians all across the fractured Dreamer Worlds. Her colleagues considered Goshe largely unsuccessful, as she was known to have had strikingly low counts of Dremirian deaths during her hunts.

In reality, Goshe had—at some point during her career—made contact with the Harmonian Separatists, of which she shared a distaste for the Empire's warmongering attitude and brutality against the Dremirian people. While she reported low death counts on her records, Goshe had been actually working with the Harmonian Separatists to free captured Dremirians from the Empire and deliver them to safety on the distant Outer Expanse planet of Harmonia. On top of these rescue and relocation efforts, Goshe had also been sending valuable information to the Separatists regarding the state of the Empire in the modern era.

### Defecting from the Empire, Joining the Separatists

In the early half of the year 5957 ASA, a young Dremirian woman by the name of Celena was taken from her homeworld and brought to the imperial capital of Aznaria to be placed into servitude. Celena was considered "defective" by her Praeliorian captors because of a natural deformity that gave her a childlike physique and mind. Because of this supposed defectiveness, Celena was instead set on a path to be executed and ground into dust, as the Empire saw no value in someone they deemed defective.

The decision to rescue Celena on Goshe's part was rather impulsive, as Goshe did not have enough time to properly decide and weigh the consequences of her actions. Not able to let Celena die, Goshe fled from the Empire with Celena by her side, marking her as a traitor of the Empire. The punishment for such treason was death, but Goshe made many efforts to ensure that she and Celena were never to be found.

Having safely found a home on Harmonia, Goshe continued to work with the Separatists on a more secretive and behind-the-scenes level in comparison to her espionage work as an Elite.

## Personality and Traits

Goshe was a Praeliorian woman and, as such, had completely white skin, white hair, and white eyes devoid of any visible pupils or irises. As a former Elite, she wore light-grey face paint that matched the color of her own blood, as all Elites did. She was known to be somewhat taller than most of her friends and allies.

A thoughtful and wise individual, Goshe was someone who naturally leaned on the side of giving extensive thought to most things. She was capable of understanding complex issues and situations, and as a result, she was able to make difficult decisions. She was clever and nimble, as most things pertaining to academia and general thought processes came rather easily to her.

Goshe always had a distaste for tyranny and needless brutality, favoring the values of pacifism and peace above all. She could not stand for the injustice and cruelty and was willing to risk her life and livelihood to fight against it. Because of how much Goshe had witnessed during her time as an imperial officer, she grew somewhat wistful and melancholic. Despite this, Goshe still possessed a great level of kindness and compassion for others, especially towards Dremirians who were at risk of being subjected to the ferocity of the Praeliorian Empire. Above all, Goshe was a firm believer of peace and justice.

## Skills and Abilities

As a former Elite, Goshe was able to defend herself in combat and was often swift and agile. She generally steered away from combat unless she deemed it necessary. Goshe was also a skilled strategist and tactician. As a Harmonian Separatist, she developed skills in minor healing magic.

## Trivia

* Goshe was originally named Goshenite as a former *Steven Universe* fan character.
	+ Her surname Barrus comes from the Barrus Farm locality in Goshen, Massachusetts. The Barrus Farm locality was where the mineral goshenite was originally described from.
* The *Steven Universe* character of Goshe was created after Esper Aznaré's *Steven Universe* counterpart, Esperanza Diamond, was made into the Diamond ruler of Praelior. Goshe was made as a high-ranking official that shared the same rank as Kyalonis Amillís, Pyrana Nirrót, and Cirioma Thystamel, before defecting from the Empire after saving an off-color Gem from execution. Goshe's story remains considerably the same in the *Conjuring Cosmos* continuity.