Rory "Valiant" Cirno

**Player:** Saz

**Name:** Rory “Valiant” Cirno

**Age:** 25 (27 Post Kanycak Time Skip)

**Gender:** Female

**Role:** Pilot (Original) Ship’s Captain and Pilot (Current)

**Faction:** New Empire (Pre-defection) Wings Of Helios (Post Defection)

**Personality:** Typically sarcastic and easy going she can have a fiery temper when agitated. Her fearlessness is secondly only by her unbreakable will power. Physically and emotionally tough, raised to be very independent. She is also a very driven woman when she finds a task she wants to complete. Proud of her femininity and being a woman who has accomplished what she has.

**Likes:** Physical sports, boxing, weight lifting, motorcycle, racing, mobile suits, dogs, singing

**Dislikes:** Brussel Sprouts, Bullies, cockiness

**Notable Skills:** Violence of Action, and tactical mindset. Honor is not in her vocabulary when it comes to the battlefield fully willing to use disadvantages to her own advantage. She is a good tactician as she is a fighter. She is an excellent all around and mid-ranged fighter. She is a talented boxer, and can sing very well.

**Life Goal:** To retire somewhere warm and tropical away from war and have a family of her own. To be with her sisters.

## **Special Role: Coordinator**

SEED Factor **The Engine:** This SEED factor is an alternate personality focused around absolute survival by any means necessary, it's so focused on survival and winning it will sacrifice even its own allies or innocents to win. Originally it manifested an uncontrollable beast in her mind that took her over without hesitation or mercy. After much struggle Valiant managed to bring it under her control mostly. The Engine now bound to her will inside her mind. Currently The Engine sits as a constant voice in her subconscious, a demon that stands at her shoulder goading and trying to influence her actions.

## **Physique:**

Red hair, blue and golden splotched eyes. (Originally fully blue, damaged by Kanycak’s atmosphere) Valiant stands at a mighty 5,0 in height, she is short and stock with tan skin. Her body has wide hips, thick legs, and broad shoulders with thicker arms. Despite this she is strong and tone, and not extremely muscled looking until she is straining. Despite standing at 5,0 her size is not one to be underestimated. Her coordinator genes have increased her strength to roughly that of a strong 6,3 male human. She is also covered in numerous tattoos from her youth and military time. Two full sleeves, a back tattoo.

## **Tattoo Description:**

**Upper Right arm and shoulder:** A flowing raven haired, fair skinned woman wrapped and bound in chains. Her eyes and mouth covered with two separate sashes, tears of treble, and bass clefs fall beneath the sash like tears. The word Anima is tattooed on the bound woman as well. Uncolored

**Lower Right Arm:** chains from the above tattoo come around her forearm rounding it in a band at the top then playing down into a chain cuff near her hand. With the words "Cast In The Name Of God" in the chain band and "Ye Guilty" tattooed to look like it was cut down her forearm. Blood droplets dripping from the letters. Other inscriptions include "save me" and "we'll never be together but you'll forever be in my heart." Written in glitching text and binary, enough to be fragmented but readable.

**Left Upper Arm:** Her upper arm is a large collage of trash polka art style centered around a phrase of "angelus reprobi propero agmine, suspendentes in ligno et memento mori" written amongst the colors

Google Translates roughly into "The fallen angel marched to the hanging tree to remember death"

**Left Lower Arm:** The Trash polka comes to an end with her arm ending in several rune Bands that have different phrases on each " All Is Dust,” “I Am The End”, “Iron Within, Iron Without” and “In Midnight Clad.”

**Back:** A black furred lion with red and black wings. Holding a silver sword and black sword. The word Griever is written down the right side of her spine.

**Left side:** The Engine Quote from her favorite book, *Armor* By John Steakley, written on her rib cage. *"From a distant place, the frightened Felix scanned himself. He recognized little. Still, what he saw was a comfort of sorts and he concentrated himself toward it, toward the coldness, the callous machine-like. The engine, he thought. It's not me. It's my Engine. It will work when I cannot. It will examine and determine and choose and, at last, act. It will do all this while I cower inside.* "

**Upper Stomach:** Sharp lines that push out into a set of military aviation wings underneath each breast Two more lines push down around either side of the belly button then push inward to Roman numeral "DCCLXXXVI" (786) For her squadron on Zonia and Sark

**Left breast:** Roman numeral **VI**LXXXI (6081) for her birth year.

**Left upper thigh and hip through pant line:** Assortment of basic tribal lines

## **History:**

Her childhood home was set along the coastline along a beautiful ocean on the planet Samudra(Sanskirt for ocean) located in the New Empire. Her father, her mother, her sister, and herself all lived a quiet life; the faction war was a distant afterthought, something that was just reported on TV. Her father, a former professional boxer and soldier, taught her how to box, and work on vehicles. The two built an extremely close bond, while her sister tended to stick with her mother.

Years later, the atmosphere around their home began to change, their mother closer to the TV, their father became a bit more silent and distant his thoughts elsewhere. One day while Rory was down on the beach surfing, and swimming two large shadows appeared in the sky above her. The shadows where two mobile suits fighting to the death, they fought tooth and nail until the final blow was struck sending the defeated suit crashing directly into their yard. The resulting explosion destroyed her home and killed her mother, Aliya her sister was also lost during the explosion thought to be dead.

The funeral was a few days later, and the years after were hard for her father and herself. The two still pushed on, building a new home for themselves. Her father stayed strong for his daughter, but Rory even at her age could tell the man was hurting underneath it all. As Rory began to grow and become more independent she found herself more at odds with her father and falling into a rougher crowd. For her teen years she was a common face with the local authorities for fighting and street racing, her recklessness and dumb bravery earning her the nickname “Valiant.” among her peers. When asked by her father why she does these things. She told him. “I just sort of disappear for a while, nothing matters, no pain, no sadness, it's better than any drug, any drink, anything.” Little did she realize these were the first signs of The Engine beginning to manifest. Around her 18th birthday, her father and her had a massive argument, every feeling and emotion laid out on the table. Years and years of bottled up depression and sadness coming out, and in the end reconciliation, and a reforming of their old bond. Valiant finally recognizing the fast path to self destruction she was on went with a recommendation from her father, a year later she joined the New Empire Military as a pilot.

Her time in basic training was a breeze though her time at the pilot academy was initially a rough transition for the headstrong woman. Unlike basic where she could just keep her head down and power through everything. She found herself at odds with many individuals in leadership positions and other students, especially those who were prejudiced against her for being both a woman and a coordinator. After many bloody and violent fights she eventually adjusted, finding her path and ways of dealing with those who shuddered at her presence. She graduated in the lower middle of her class, despite her high pilot scores.

From here she was transferred far, far away. Her first unit The 786th Interception Team, Echo Company ”Eagles”  in-charge of dealing with pirates on the jungle planet Zonia. She was assigned an MS-05B Zaku I as her first machine. Despite the old machine she fought well, she found her place on the battlefield, with her comrades and her first real love of the Zaku I. After a year and a half of struggle the pirates were finally quashed, and she has risen to the rank of Specialist. After defeating the pirate threat the 786th was assigned to a new mission, assisting in the subjugation of Sark from the Legion Of Arcadia. The Sark system conflict later became known as some of the bloodiest tooth and nail jungle fighting of the faction wars. Not only involving the Legion and Empire but the civilian population of the planet that wouldn’t bow to either of the factions. During this time Valiant would receive a combat promotion to Sergeant, and lead her forces and friends into battle. Almost instantly they were cut down before her eyes, she was frozen in horror, but something in her awoke to complete the mission. The 786th would almost be completely wiped out in battle, after this it would just become a stream of new recruits going into the meat grinder for slaughter. Valiant, one of the many leaders who were forced to lead them to their deaths.

Years later, the Sark conflict would come to an end, ending in a collective New Empire loss. 25 now Valiant, with the weight of what she endured on Sark still with her she was reassigned to the Medraut with a new mobile suit. A ZGMF-1017 Mobile Ginn, her new mission was to combat drop into Al-Jadri late in the conflict. Though with a severe lack of proper information, or any orders beyond just drop. She entered the battle, with very little exchanged fire she ran across the “Blades Of Freedom” Mercenary ship “Aries”

This is where she first met Shirou Akimachi and the crew of the Aries. She would immediately find herself at home fitting in with the eccentric crew of the vessel, an old feeling she had from the days in the 786th before Sark. Though it couldn’t last as duty called her back to the New Empire, with a change of leadership aboard the Medraut she returned to the ship. After the battle it would become clear that the old leadership aboard were attempting to get rid of her because of her past record.

After a short and intense battle with a Virgo Pirate squad destroyed her Ginn, she was promoted to Mobile Suit Commander for her leadership, leading the MS team of the Medraut against the powerful pirate opponent and defeating them. She was then transferred to the Breakthrough, her damaged Ginn was rebuilt into a ZGMF-1017M Ginn High Maneuver Type, and given a new squad to lead. The forward reconnaissance scout squad “Anima'' their next mission was to investigate rumors of an Old Empire Relic on the planet of Kanycak.

Upon arrival on Kanycak, Valiant’s team was sent forward to investigate Legion forces that had preemptively occupied the system. Unfortunately they were caught in the crossfire of the Libra’s main beam cannon that heavily damaged the Breakthrough forcing the squad to land on the planet using debris as reentry shields. Alone with no reinforcements of any kind. The squad stood against the Legion invasion Anima earned their infamy among the Legion forces by shooting down over 80 mobile suits per pilot. Damaged in the battle and forced to fall back, the forces of the Old Empire AI “The Keeper” came to life engaging the remaining Legion forces from a hidden mountain base. With field repairs finished Anima Squad pushed through the Legion and Old Empire forces into the mountain base fighting through the facility to the top of the mountain, losing one of their own in the process. Here they fought alongside Legion to defeat the Gundam X and GX-Bit’s of The Keeper. With the Keeper defeated, a tense and temporary peace came to the Orion Spur for a couple years. After the battle she sang a beautiful song to both factions in remembrance of those lost earning the nickname “Songstress of Kanycak”

During the Gralian Ball Of Peace one of Valiant’s squad members went missing in Gralia Beta. The team followed their squadmates' signal down into the Gralia Beta sewers where they came face to face with the enemy of the Old Empire, the Ancient machine’s known as Encantando’s. The mental assault on the team was almost more than they could handle, but they escaped barely. Months later Valiant’s Engine was forcibly activated by Sera due to the connection established from the Encantando. She went on a massive rampage, killing thousands, stealing the RX-78-6 Mudrock, and the Garencieres Class *Ender’s Game*.

Valiant was tasked by Sera with defending the Library, the Mother knowing that soon it would be discovered after the events of Gralia Beta’s Sewers. Sometime prior to this Valiant managed to break the control The Engine had over her, though elected to still defend the library against her former friends. Using the Legion crew she had taken on during her assault on the supply base, they rebuilt the Mudrock into the Emperor Mudrock. Valiant engaged in battle, eventually was defeated. Broken, defeated, and with nowhere to go, she reunited with her twin sister Aliya whom she had discovered during the Mjolnir battle, and found a new half sister Nataly. Unsure of where to turn and what to do, she made a few calls to the one person she knew who’d take her in and protect her. Shirou Akimachi who had grown to lead the faction Wings of Helios, where she now resides working as a sort of black ops Captain for the faction.

After this she gave a choice to her Ender’s Game crew whether they wanted to stay or leave. Understanding that most of them are now fugitives against the Legion in the same boat as her, many elect to stay with her and become a part of Helios. The Ender’s Game was retro-fitted for its new purpose in Wings Of Helios then called to Kanycak once more to investigate strange happenings, Valiant and her new team rushed into a mysterious Ancient Station known as Walkure Station, where they were chasing the signal to the ancient and powerful mobile suit G-Saviour. After solving the strange puzzles thrown at them, they found themselves teleported to a unknown place. Unbeknownst to them at the time, they had gone back 3000 years to Earth. Here Valiant met the Ancient machine Valkryie, showing her compassion and kindness she was awarded The G-Saviour, and returned to Walkure station with her team.

Not long after the return of Kanycak the HS Ender’s Game joined the massive incident on the planet of Tikal, Valiant now equipped with the G-Saviour and her new squad officially dubbed “The Fallen Angel’s” the team fought into the planet's core to stop the World Gate from bringing more Ancient AI machines into the system, and bring the World Gate’s defenses online.

After the massive battle, The Ender’s Game and her crew returned to the Solaris to rearm and rebuild the G-Saviour into the G3-Saviour. Her crews next task go to the planet Hecatoncheires to investigate a powerful machine that was destabilizing the power balance on the planet, though quickly she was pulled off this mission to pursue the rock star Tiago “El Tigre” Yamada and The Shooting Stars after they stole a Gundam from The Wings Of Helios. This is her current mission and location.

**Family:** Father Alive, Mother Deceased, Fraternal twin sister Aliya Cirno Vancechariot, Half Sister, Nataly Scharnhorst Vancechariot