Aurora O'Malley

Charlie Bowater

**Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley** is a member of Squad 312.

## Biography

### Early Life

Aurora grew up with her parents and her younger sister Callie. Her parents worked for Ad Astra Incorporated and she was present at the launch of the Octavia III expedition her parents were to attend. Aurora and Callie were looking ahead to a year of boarding school, breaks spent stranded with friends. About two months later they told Aurora's mother that she wouldn't be a part of the mission.

For years Aurora trained to be part of the expedition as well. She spent years studying every centimeter of the planet, fought tooth and nail for her apprenticeship, and got to be a part of the third shipment of colonists to Octavia III for *Exploration and Cartography*. She was going to be supervised by Patrice Radke.

On her seventeenth birthday, Aurora clashed with her father when he told her that he fell in love with Patrice, while not even being divorced from his wife yet. She was also extremely mad at him for him forgetting her birthday.

Auri I said goodbye to her mom and her little sister the day before she left for the expedition. While she hadn't talked to her father again, she kept a professional relationship with Patrice.

She was supposed to travel with the spacecraft Hadfield to Octavia III but never made it due to t disappearing in the Fold. Instead, she was trapped in cryosleep in the wreckage.

### Aurora Rising

Aurora is still in cryosleep in the wreckage of the Hadfield when Tyler Jones unintentionally discovers and rescues her. Aurora is brought to Aurora Academy and disoriented when she wakes, having strange visions that she interprets as dreams.

She is devastated when she discovers that she was in cryosleep for over 200 years, realizing that her family, along with all of her friends are gone. At the same time, she gets to know her savior Tyler as well as his sister Scarlett and their friend Cat. She spends sometime between sleep, visits of doctors and more visions before Tyler visits her, bringing her a uniglass as a gift, which she names Magellan. After Tyler leaves for his first mission, Auri asks Magellan about Octavia III and learns that allegedly there was never a colony established on the planet. She also asks about her father, only to learn that there is no record of him in any Terran colonial database.

Auri is then visited by Battle Leader de Stoy, who tells her that she will be taken home, while secretly warning her about what is to come and slipping her a written message. Auri proceeds to steal into the ship of Squad 312 and arrives undiscovered on Sagan Station, only then to be discovered by Kaliis Gilwraeth, whom she has seen in one of her visions before. The Station is then attacked by The Unbroken, the followers of the Starslayer. Right as the enemy ship docks, one of the refugees tries to attack Kal, causing Auri to set free an unknown power to defend him after she saw this exact scene play out in her vision of Kal. In this process, her right iris turns white. When a ship from the Terran Defense Force interferes, Tyler tries to convince Auri to go with the TDF while she pleads to them about not saying anything about her. She reveals that de Stoy told her to flee, but the squad is undecided whether to believe her or not. It is revealed that the TDF is accompanied by five members of the GIA, who tell Auri they are there to escort her home. None of the squad interferes, so they take Auri onto their ship.

Auri is then taken into a prison cell to be interrogated. [...] When Tyler and Kal find her in an attempt to break out, she is unconscious, her now-dead guards rendered unrecognizable. They meet with the rest of the squad and escape into the Fold.

When Scar takes the first shift to keep watch over their ship, she encounters Auri, who broke out of her sleeping chamber and allegedly sleepwalks through the ship. Scarlett soon discovers that Auri is in a different state as she uses Telekinesis to keep Scar in check while changing the course of the ship. Ultimately Zila arrives, stuns Aurora, and thus rescues Scar. Afterward, the squad discusses what to do with the unconscious Aurora. They realize that Auri changed the course to Sempiternity when Auri herself wakes up again. They decide to return to the Academy when Auri again uses her power to stop the spaceship until Tyler agrees to follow her course.

The squad arrives at the World Ship and immediately splits up to gather clothes, information and find a place to lie low. Tyler takes Kal and Auri into a bar to get caught up on gossip and find the information they need. There is also a group of Unbroken presents, who provoke an argument which then ends in a bar fight between the groups. Shortly after, both Scar and Zila arrive from their shopping spree - just in time to see a shipwide broadcast of a picture of Auri, showing her to be a fugitive. Together they flee to the den of Dariel, a distant cousin of Fin. There, the squad settles down and tries to come up with a plan for the following days before finally going to sleep. While asleep, Auri's powers overcome her again, letting her paint a strange figure over and over again on every surface in the room they share. With the help of Dariel, they identify it as an artifact of the Eshvaren Empire that was a part of an exhibition of the Bianchi Museum. Auri then admits that she heard about the Eshvaren in her visions, causing the squad to discuss whether they should keep going or not.

Both Tyler and Scar leave for the museum later, trying to gather information about the statue, only to find that the statue is now a private exhibit in Casseldon Bianchi's collection. They also learn about a Masquerade to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the World Ship. Later on, Scar convinces Cat to go on a date with Declan and Lachlan, two security guards, while the rest of the squads waits in a cheap hotel until they are unconscious after Scar sedated them. Kal and Ty steal their uniforms to get into the Security area of the ship, helping Fin to hack into the video system.

Back at Dariel's den, the squad collectively takes a look at Bianchi's office, trying to come up with a plan on how to break into it and steal the statue in the process without getting caught. Auri then mentions that she had a vision about a masquerade ball. They remember the Masquerade about to take place and make a plan on how to go through with their heist.

Scar provides her brother, Auri, Cat, and herself with outfits for the Masquerade, which they visit together, while Zila and Kal break into the security system. The original plan fails after Fin doesn't reply over comms anymore and when Scar branches off to go back to the den, Auri, Cat, and Ty detonate the bomb, destroying the gravity system of the World ship in the process. They proceed to break into the menagerie of Bianchi to get access to his office. They encounter the last living specimen of the Ultrasaurs, which attacks them. Auri falls unconscious and again uses her power to protect both Cat and Ty and kills the Ultrasaur while doing so. At the same time, she broke the glass that separated the menagerie from Bianchi's office, opening a way into it. Bianchi himself storms his office, followed by a GIA operative. it is revealed that Cat struck a deal with the GIA in which she sold Auri to grant the squad immunity. A fight ensues between Cat and Tyler, ending in the two of them and Auri being taken away by the GIA. The operatives turn out to be Scar and Zila, who got the uniforms from the true operatives who stormed Dariel's home. Right after striking the deal, Cat told Tyler all about it and together the squad made a plan involving outsmarting the GIA and Bianchi. Together they flee to the Longbow, where they meet with Kal, Fin, and Dariel. Auri reveals that she stole the statue while Cat and Ty were fighting. She also hands Dariel another relic as compensation before the squad finally leaves Sempiternity behind.

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## Personality

Aurora is an ambivert, being a little awkward and quiet when first meeting people, but not being afraid to make her point known if she feels it's important. She is extremely hard-working and determined, almost to the point of being stubborn. She can have mood swings of excitement to anxiety in high-pressure situations (Or just in general). She can be fiery and a little rude when disliking someone, and extremely gentle and caring when she does like them. She is a bit of a dreamer, sometimes getting lost in thought, or more accurately, emotions.

## Physical Description

Auri is half-Chinese, having several features of her heritage. She is slender, with her dark hair cut into a bob. It has a white streak running through it. Her skin is a light brown, and she has freckles across her cheeks. After the end of Aurora Burning when she fires the Neridaa, she develops cracks blooming from her right eye, that get progressively deeper when she fires it any time after that.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Telekinesis**: *To be added*
* **Precognition**: Auri is able to see several scenes playing out in her head like visions. The periods of time between the vision and the happening itself vary greatly.

## Relationships

Auri is in a romantic relationship with Kal.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Auri went to sixteen different schools.
* Her father always called her by her middle name.
* Auri's mental signature is midnight blue with a dust of silver, starlight, and nebulas.