Ira Lavender

## Prospector Extraordinairre

"If I die, send my remains to Dawson Severov. Sure he'll get one hell of a kick out of knowing he outlived me."

### Origin

New Los Angeles, Mira. Formerly London, England.

### Occupation

BLADE - Prospector Division

**Ira Lavender** is an Original Character based in the ***Xenoblade Chronicles X*** universe.

Her family on her Father's side is unique. Her father's side of the family has a unique talent that's very rarely passed on genetically. It allows certain members of this family to be able to pick up and learn things exceptionally quickly - even the most unorthodox and unfamiliar can be learnt at an exceptional rate. She's the 2nd person to have actually inherited this in just over 3 generations.

## Canon

Ira was born in England on the 3rd of March, 2034 AD. Her life is pretty unremarkable, all things considered.

Though, she herself was a pretty wild child, never really 'settling down', even into her teens, and she'd tackle anything head on with high levels of motivation, or with none at all. There was really no in-between for her. Especially due to the remarkable ease of which she was able to learn new (and complex) topics. Granted, she never really pursued a lot of those new skills, for some reason. Was it boredom? Probably.

Anyways, just before she'd turned 17, her family started having.. issues, when her uncle finally returned from military service. It was sudden, to say the least. Now, Her uncle was far from a good person - in fact, he's a bit of a bastard. Anyways, the two were, unfortunately, forced to spend a fair amount of time together. It wasn't that bad compared to how it could've been.

Then, one day, he just, up and vanished. No trace, other then a single post-it note that said 'See 'ya soon.' Weird. Anyways, Ira ended up finishing school, and ended up deciding to pursue a career as an Archeologist. Which, went surprisingly well.

Well, until The 11th hour. Earth was caught within a massive (and I do mean MASSIVE) conflict between two alien races. One was Dubbed 'Ghosts', while the other was retroactively discovered to be the 'Ganglion'. Anyways, at the time, she had been in California, doing what basically amounted to 'assistance' with a certain site. Again, until everything started going to shit. The Project Exodus had begun taking in people - and she just so happened to be selected to be part of the crew of 'The White Whale'. Initially, she objected - after all, she wasn't remotely qualified to be in that position.

Then, it all went dark. Well, more like she was knocked out for what was basically a month. To this day, she still doesn't know what.

By the time she even woke up, Earth was long gone, and she was now in a fresh new Mimeosome. Surrounded by Child Prodigies, Military Veterans, and Societies Top %, she naturally felt out of place. Took her a while for the absolute soul-crushing horror that 'oh shit, earth and everyone I ever knew is fucking gone.' From there, she basically resigned herself to her quarters in an attempt to cope.

**Quick lightning round of things that happened after then:**

The White Whale was forced to make an emergency landing on a planet later dubbed as 'Mira' two years after the Earths' destruction.

Ira's Lifepod was found in Noctilum - a land of dense, alien rainforests by a man named Lao Huang, who took her under his wing as she joined BLADE. BLADE is an acronym - Builders of a Legacy After the Destruction of Earth. She ended up joining the Prospectors division.

From there, Ira learnt how to use a Sniper Rifle, and how to use a Knife (which became her two primary weapons of choice.)

Due to her remarkably quick learning, and her Mimeosome's endurance, it only took her a few months to really get the hang of using a Sniper Rifle. When she was deemed 'competent enough', She was pawed off to a team of 3 - A casual Australian Man, a rather Judgemental and moody Russian teenager, and a mature, battle-hardened Brazillian Woman who led the ground. Seth, Dawson, and Violet respectively.

From there, the team has grown - personally. Despite their differences in Division and personality, the four are a lethal team tasked with taking on some of the highest profile targets BLADE has to offer.

From there, several events have happened throughout her life on Mira. Too many to go into detail in, unfortunately.

## Pre-Paradise

Ira doesn't actually know what happened. As far as she was concerned, she'd just finished up a job quelling some uppity Indigens that had gotten too close to NLA's west gate. She went to sleep, and the next day, she woke up in her barracks to find it completely and utterly empty. Not uncommon by any means. She made herself breakfast (Toast and Scrambled eggs), and stepped out to find that she was not in NLA anymore. She tried to contact literally anyone, but to no avail. She was alone here.

## Plot Involvement

Ira's spent most of her time so far mapping out the hotel from in her Skell. She sent her FrontierNav information to an individual in the Public Chat named StarkIndustries - Tony Stark.

Past that brief interaction, Ira joined a quest to fight some robots for Mann Co's CEO, SAXTON HALE, alongside several members of the Gravel Wars Mercenaries - namely the Engineer, the Demoman, and the Medic. With them, Kratos, Tony Stark, and Dismas the Highwayman.

## Character Relationships

* *Alyss Lyons -* An OC. A common chatroom companion of hers.

## Trivia

* Ira is my oldest OC, having been originally been made in early 2016. She has been through nearly 5 separate revisions.
* Ira is part of a 'RPVerse' for Xenoblade Chronicles X, of which functions almost like a fanmade extended universe.