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She gave his hand a squeeze back before releasing him. "Go ahead, and thank you for asking." Kielen stretched her arms above her head before sliding out of her leather jacket, tossing it over a lounge chair before turning to face him, back and elbows resting on the rail and long legs crossed at the ankle.

She waited long enough for him to take several calming puffs before raising her chin. "So what happened Thursday?"

She accepted the glass gratefully but leaned up to kiss his cheeks before taking indulging in the wine. "You take very good care of your Queen. I'm pleased, that all sounds sinfully delicious." Kielen giggled, her emerald eyes dancing with mischief. "Come keep me company? That view behind you begs to be honored don't you think?"

Her words were not a question but a command as she brushed past him, taking one of his hands in hers as she pulled him to follow her out to the railing. Heat and sea air assaulted her senses. "They keep you busy at work this week or did you get some time for rest and reflection?"

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Name Rika Zumei
Alias CapnSmiley
Age 31
DOB October 11th
Gender Female
Species Anathanti/Human
Ethnicity Rulastinian
Height 5’4”
Occupation Military Physical Therapist
Residence Haviah, Aedolis


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Physical Description

Rika has long, thick, straight, waist-length, black hair that she usually keeps in a high ponytail or a messy bun. Her appearance is an unblemished, smooth, cool olive skin tone with warm, dark brown, almond-shaped eyes and full lips always in a wide grin. She has a short, boyish frame with a heart-shaped face, a flatter nose, and ever so slightly pointed ears.

Her usual attire consists of comfortable exercise outfits, a pair of earbuds, and her trusted wheel-heeled sneakers. She prefers natural makeup with a little bit of gloss to heavy or bright colours. Rika’s clothing colour schemes tend to range from neutrals to bright but not obnoxious pastels. Robin’s egg blues and lavenders seem to heavily feature within her wardrobe.

Personality

Rika is an optimistic person without being full of toxic positivity. She is confident and independent, happy with herself and where she is in life and isn’t going to let someone else’s sourness bring her down. While perky, friendly, and always eager to help, Rika also values her peace and alone time.

Growing up in her tight-knit family, family has always been an important thing to her and she would one day love to be a mom but until then she’s more than happy to keep on climbing to wherever her wheels take her. She does get lonely being on her own away from home, but does her best to not let it get to her too much and take what opportunities she can to do fun things or hang out with friends.

Things

• Wears wheel-heeled sneakers and likes to always roll around in them.
• Avid hairbrush singer and spontaneous dancer
• Highly superstitious and is only justified in the fact that whenever she breaks one of her rules something bad does indeed happen
• Does not under any circumstances wear anything red and has an unconscious habit of covering things that are coloured red.
• Loves exercise like going for runs, rock-climbing, or yoga but also enjoys curling up with a sappy movie, junkfood, and a facemask.

Magic/Abilities

~Does unwavering optimism in the face of surely nay-sayers count?
~Trained Military Soldier and Medcorp Certified

Relationships

Family: Rika was raised by her single father along with her 3 older sisters. She is the baby of the family and was raised in a very loving and warm yet regimented home. Her family is close and she talks with them nearly daily and has regular video chats with them every month.

Koro: A very loved (and spoiled) fluffy, white samoyed that is Rika’s pride and joy. He’s groomed daily and taken on all of Rika’s daily runs. He’s also been therapy trained and so sometimes makes appearances at her job (when he isn’t busy sleeping of course). He’s a big love and very protective of his human but warms up quickly to others and is very obedient.

History

Rika was born into a warm and loving military household. Her father had always wanted to be a parent but never found a partner to settle down with while busy advancing his military career. He saved up enough to get a surrogate and not long after he had his firstborn. The twins came two years later. Three toddlers were a bit much so it would be another ten years before Rika, the last of the brood came into their lives to complete the family.

Rika and her sisters were trained to be confident young women who were in charge of their own bodies and destinies, but to also embrace their passions and interests. As the baby of the family Rika was always doted on by the whole family. The boys at school certainly learned quickly to not pull her pigtails unless they wanted her big sisters to show up.

Like their father before them all the girls ended up in different sectors of the military with Little Rika even making it into DoSaM where she proudly serves her country getting the country’s finest back on their feet again.

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Name Mato Tu
Alias 4K_PSI, DO NOT call her Tomato
Age 24
DOB April 4th
Gender Female
Species Human
Ethnicity Adelan
Height 5’6”
Occupation Military, works closely with Seekers
Residence Ryun, Aedolis


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Physical Description

Mato is a stocky, compact woman for her short stature who makes up for it with 10,000 pounds of attitude. She has light brown skin, dark brown almost black eyes and long, straight black hair that reaches to midthigh and is traditionally kept up in a high ponytail. Sharp cheekbones are accented by six halfmoon shaped scars on each cheek with the lines closer to her eyes being the most faded and the ones at the bottom of her jaw being the freshest while still being a few years old.

Her expression is usually that of some form of contempt, disgust, or disinterest only made more severe by the deep scars that bisect her face from above her right eyebrow, over her nose, and deep into her left cheek. The inside of both her forearms by the elbow crease are also marked up with intersecting thin, raised scars of varying ages from repeated cutting. Some are even still fresh cuts. The only other significant scar she has is a four inch horizontal scar a few inches below her belly button that is quite old and healed quite pale. All of her teeth have also been sharpened into points giving her a very sharklike grin.

Mato has several piercings. These include standard earlobes, a sharkbite set on her lower lip, and a pair of hoops in her left brow. She also wears a leather cord necklace with a shark tooth around her neck. As for tattoos, she has an inch wide pastel purple ribbon tattoo around her throat that ties off into a pretty bow with long tails in the back. The tails reach to midback. She wants to get sleeves down but hasn’t found a design she likes yet. Outside of her uniform, Mato still prefers combat boots, dark jeans and tops with a black, high-collared, leather jacket.

Personality

She is a very tough, take no shit, independent type woman. Mato is rough around the edges and not about to let anyone stand in her way or tell her no. She’s a fierce soldier who has gotten into trouble more than once for getting combative or too aggressive but for the most part has managed to earn herself enough respect to make her way up through the ranks. She will always speak her mind and doesn’t back down from a challenge easily.

Mato is not impressed by material wealth and instead places her focus on strength and honor. Much of her time is spent on trying to be better than she is to make her family proud and provide for them. She has little interest in the puppy eyes of “children” and has sent many a suitor running with their tail between their legs. She does not smile often but when a toothy grin does appear, do not be fooled for it is usually a threat that if not heeded will soon be acted upon.

With regards to her family she is protective and private to the point of not even discussing them with her coworkers. Plenty are unaware she even has a son let alone his name or age. She prefers to keep her private life private and her work life where it belongs, at work.

Things

• Owns a pair of brass knuckles and very much knows how to use them.
• First generation military and proud of it, but salty over not being a telepath so can’t be a Pilot.
• Lives with three grandparents, two parents, and young son.
• Loves to surf and has been doing it her entire life.
• Gives names to inanimate objects.
• Has an ongoing war with technology where things malfunction and then they are brutally sacrificed.

Magic/Abilities

Hemokinetic: Mato is able to manipulate the blood in her body and others’s to achieve different endgoals.

• Blood Clotting: Mato can cause her own open wounds to clot quickly so that she does not bleed out. She has far more trouble performing this trick on others though.
• Neurocognitive Deficit: She can reverse the flow of blood to cause unconsciousness. She is limited in the number of people she can do this to at one time and she runs the risk of also causing herself to pass out if she isn’t careful.
• Paralysis Inducement: By stopping a target's blood in their veins, Mato can cause the victim to become paralysed. Holding it for too long can cause the individual to die.
• Paralysis Inducement: By stopping a target's blood in their veins, Mato can cause the victim to become paralysed. Holding it for too long can cause the individual to die.
• Bloodflow Enhancement: By increasing her rate of bloodflow, Mato can choose to do ONE of the following for herself for a limited amount of time: enhanced speed, enhanced stamina, enhanced endurance, or enhanced regeneration. The use of this ability can also be quite fatal if she does not check herself as she can quite literally tear her muscles clean off the bone by pushing her body to impossible limits with the enhancement. Enhanced regeneration is the most deadly and risky however as to use it means her entire body has to shut down to bare minimum function in order to divert all her energy to healing. It is not an efficient process nor one she is ever keen on using. She cannot be using any other ability while also using this one.
• Hemo-Precognition: An ability that bears great cultural significance for Mato. She possesses the ability via blood-letting to catch shifting visions of the future. It is easy to become lost in these visions and to bleed herself dry if she is not careful. It is however, a ritual she partakes in regularly though not excessively as part of her own religious practices.

Martial Artist: Mato is also trained extensively in a very brutal form of martial arts which has kept her safe and protected despite her small size.


Relationships

Family: Mato has a close bond with her family and everything she does is in support of them. Thanks to her working in the military they have been able to move into a better home but, all her life Mato has lived with her two maternal grandmothers, paternal grandmother and grandfather, her mother and father. Her paternal grandmother has since passed away, having not lived long enough to meet her great-grandson, Isi. Isi is Mato’s pride and joy as he continues to grow into a little soldier all of his own. He’s just turned ten. Mato has no siblings.

History

Mato grew up a pretty normal life surrounded by family and nothing life-altering. Her family are followers of some old Adelan traditions accounting for some of her scars and teeth which they also share. But, the choice to follow in their footsteps was her own.

Her biggest grievance growing up was that she was not a telepath. For, while from an early age she showed an aptitude for blood manipulation, without the ability to communicate via her mind, she would never become a Pilot, her greatest dream. Mato would spend hours daily trying with all her might to will herself into hearing others’s thoughts or sending her own but to no avail.

This point in her history has led her to be rather bitter about people who DO get to become Pilots as she will never have the honor of being a “7 gill” and earning her final pair of cheek scars. She is recognised as a fierce warrior in her community all the same and high ranking in accordance to the old traditions.

Currently she lives with her family in a nice home in Ryun by the water. Her parents and grandparents care for her son Isi while she works. His father is not part of the picture, nor is he someone that Mato ever talks about.

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Yet

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A favour from the loser?

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You will be sorely disappointed then.

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Maybe don't have it out during laser tag next time then

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Haha don't sit too long though. Don't want that tail of yours going numb and falling off