Hitomi Odom

**Hitomi Odom** was a female Human veterinarian. After being forcibly kept in suspended animation by LANDER, she was awakened and welcomed along with three others—Miranda Tomine, Samson Govea, and Shay Nerhesson—by the citizens of a small settlement called Crash Coast, situated on the planet Cephor III.

## Biography

### Early Life

Hitomi was born and raised on the planet Nolnimo, a new colony of the United Cassiopeian Republic located out in the eastern Central Expanse region of the Cassiopeia Galaxy. To help protect the colony, Hitomi and other colony children were given tutelage from respected privateers. Hitomi became a scout of sorts, learning how to effectively survive in the wilderness and how to expertly identify and utilize her surroundings. During scouting missions, Hitomi quickly grew a love for the different animals she saw and met in the Nolnimi wilderness.

### Adulthood: Career as a Veterinarian

By the time Odom was an adult, colonial presence on Nolnimo had greatly grown. Odom was able to observe the early development of her homeworld with her own eyes, throughout the course of many years. She decided to pursue a career as a veterinarian, hoping to interact more with animals and to help those in need of her assistance. Odom quickly became an effective and respected veterinarian on Nolnimo. Having been met with the suffering of animals in many instances throughout the course of her career, Odom became a vegetarian.

### Frozen in Time

When out on a trip through Nolnimo's unsettled wilderness, Odom unfortunately caught the unwanted attention of a secretive research organization known as LANDER. For purposes unknown to her, Odom was one day kidnapped by LANDER and kept at an undisclosed facility. Her capture was unable to be prevented or discovered in the act due to uncommonly perfect circumstances for such an act to take place. She was kept in stasis through LANDER's advanced technology, and went into suspended animation for many years. Odom, along with three other unwilling participants of some mysterious plan, was kept hidden away on a relatively unknown planet at the northeastern edge of the galaxy: Cephor III.

## Personality and Traits

Hitomi Odom was a Human woman with brown hair, narrow brick red eyes, and tanned skin. She kept her hair cut in a messy, wide bob. She had a bite scar on her left forearm from a prior experience with an animal, when out in the field.

Because of the teachings given to her early in life, Hitomi was a deeply cautious and observant person. While some considered her paranoid, others like her friends appreciated how thorough she was as a scout. She was a polite yet relatively reserved woman who strong sense of morality, especially when it came to animals. Hitomi was deeply nostalgic and often kept many different things in her inventory to commemorate important memories in her life. Many viewed Hitomi as a largely humble and inoffensive person, who was willing to cooperate with others for the betterment of the community with no questions asked. Hitomi's scout training made her a rather quick sleeper who didn't need much to feel fully rested.

## Skills and Abilities

Hitomi's best skills were as a medic, specifically in handling and tending to animals. Her veterinarian skills were largely appreciated in Crash Coast, as she was one of the only people (if not *the* only person) who knew anything about medically treating animals. Hitomi's early training by privateers gave her some knowledge on firearms and other weapons, which gave her the ability to defend herself rather well.

As a settler on Cephor III, Hitomi also acquired a handful of other helpful skills, with an acute understanding of construction, crafting, and mining for resources.

## Trivia

* Hitomi is based off of a randomly generated colonist character from the sandbox video game *RimWorld*.