Remnants of the Earth

James stood up, putting on a grim face and hiding something behind his back. He walked to his sister and past her, as if he was leaving the room. He actually stopped behind her and whispered with a very serious tone "Don't turn around.".
    James had a white leather box in his hand, which was about the same size as the hand itself. It was now open and he slipped something around Iliya's neck.

It was a silver chain with a gold sun and moon fused together.

"Do you feel like I'm hiding something from you?" Said James taking a bite out of his dessert. "Do you remember that surprise I had for you?"

He was hiding his hand under the table and bracing his mind, just to be sure she wouldn't spoil the surprise for herself.

James flicked his botch in the abyss below and leaned on the railing. "Sometimes, I feel sorry for myself for picking up smoking. Dad used to warn me not to do it while he had a pack of smoke in his pocket and one stuck between his lips." James sneered.

The stove's alarm rang from inside. "Shall we? I have some creme brulee waiting for us in the oven." He said, inviting Iliya to come back in.

"The first smoke I took made me cough until I turned purple and then vomit. I was sick for the next day, trying to faint that I had some kind of illness." He huffed on his smoke again and released the smoke out his nose slowly. " I'm a librarian, my job is borderline outlawed because of the nation-wide ban. Yes, you could say that it is mysterious."

He stood back and took a pose mocking those advertisement of male perfume. "How do I look? Mysterious Stranger enough for you?"

__________________QUICK STATS

Name Lavender Dorian Age 26 Gender Female Species Human Cyborg Ethnicity Aedolian Height 5'6" Occupation Former Military Pilot, Private Investigator, Deputized Officer, Bodyguard Residence Higher Strata, Haviah, Aedolis Birthday April, 18 Blood Type AB+ Sexuality [Unknown] Favorite Quote: Quote "Great Joy Follows Great Sorrow"-The Bible

((Art by: Nagrea Alex from: http://digital-art-gallery.com/picture/7445))


__________________IN-DEPTH STUFF

Physical Description

Build: Slender and short. Eye color: Hazel Hair color: Black with a dark metallic blue gleam Skin color: Fair Distinctive markings Horizontal eyebrow piercing and tiny chin tattoo

Considered sexy and attractive by most humans and other near-human races, Lavender is actually a cyborg (an organic mind in a mechanical body).

She has lush and pointy natural lips, which are a light pink. A small straight nose.
     Her hazel eyes are cybernetic but have been kept to their organic counter part. They are Hazel (mostly gold and hints of brown) and the iris is composed of many lenses.

Lavender has a delicate, but not frail, hourglass body shape. It is composed of a highly sophisticated aluminum-based alloy and a tendon-driven musculoskeletal system. This system is based on another model of robot, the Kenshiro. Thus naming her unique model the "Cm Kenshiro  Mk LVN-DR"(Custom made Kenshiro Marke Lavender).
     Lavender has a full cybernetic body, although her brain and other vital organs still remains. Her face and measurements are the same as when she was fully human. Her body is significantly lighter though.

She often wears form-fitting dark nano-fiber cloths. She does also sport the assault grade  combat suit, when needed.

______Personality

Optimistic and talkative, Lavender is someone who always try to see the bright side of things even in the darkest times. Despite her condition, she doesn't see herself as disabled nor infirm. She does, however, still fear heights and everything about flying. Every time she is exposed at the trigger of her phobia/PTSD, she falls into a major panic attack and freezes in place, memories of her past coming back.
     She never get depressed though, as she finds joy in every aspects of her life.

Over the years, some might say that Lavender became more Machine then Man. It is true that she became more blunt and rough on the edges but it shouldn't be considered as a form of dissociation, it is more of a professional deformation due to her new career.
     It is true though, that she has certain problem with her hardware. The mnemonic storage device in her brain is somewhat affecting her long term memory, making her remember things she never lived and learn different experience, but it has also the reverse effect. where she forgets things and memories. That is how she came to nickname James Calhaan "Master James" and "Master Calhaan", due to her memories and feelings getting scrambled.

______Magic/Abilities/Cyberware/Bioware

Cyber-/bio-ware:

·         Artificial Muscles (Cyber-limbs): They are more resilient and do not feel exhaustion. But they do not make Lavender stronger then a normal human of her size/sex/age.     ·         Cyber-eyes: Her eyes can adjust to every situation. Sporting a wide range of sensors, they can use an infrared and/or night vision captors. Lavender can also enhance here sight by "zooming" like a 105mm camera lens.     ·         Cyber-skin:Watertight. If the skin is damaged, it can easily be replaced. It can be pealed off easily for maintenance, although it is rare.     ·         Spur: A retractable spur is mounted in her left forearm.     ·         Cat-claws: are 2.5-centimeter, chromed steel or carbon fiber blades that slides out from beneath synthetic nail replacements.     ·         Cyber-gun: The cyber-gun is installed into her right cyber-arm. The gun fire by folding back the user’s hand at the wrist. To meet its stealth requirements, most of their parts are built from non-metallic compounds, while the remaining metallic parts are incorporated into the arm’s structure. The cyber-gun have internal magazines. The cyber-gun is equipped with a smart-gun systems, laser sights, silencers, and sound suppressors.      The gun is also equipped with a gyroscopic mount. The mount is in the arm itself. Once activated, the elbow and shoulder pops out of their socket and extends. The arm then serves as a counter weight and balances the recoil from the gun. The gyroscopic mount can also be used for other weapons as well.     ·         Mnemonic storage: Data-storage device, stored in the cranium and linked to the brain. Capacity of 100 TB of data. The data-jack is available behind her ear.

Skills:

·         Handgun training     ·         Small firearms training     ·         Bladed weapons training     ·         Hand-to-hand combat     ·         Cybernetic equipment maintenance

______History

Youth

·         Birth date: April, the 18th 10:43PM     ·         Birth place: Higher-Strata General Hospital     ·         Home town: Aedolis     ·         Homeworld: Earth     ·         Biological Father: Pilot Royal Nimbus Dorian von Sangorov     ·         Biological Mother: Dispatch Officer Novella Petrova von Sangorov

Lavender is the daughter of a retired Pilot Royal and his Dispatch Officer. Starting at a young age, her father Nimbus started training the little girl to martial arts and self-defense, never to harm others but to protect those she held dear. Around the age of 10, she started to train with guns and blades.
     At the age of 14, she started manifesting her father's psychic abilities. Taking the chance to do it, Nimbus drafted her immediately and watched over her training personally.She spent 5 years training. The stage 5 was long for Lavender, only the last dragon wanted to form a bond with her.

Icarus was it's name. They rode together for 2 years, bonding like no other. Until the accident.
     Lavender and Icarus were patrolling under Pilot Royal Dorian and his dragon, Sangorov, orders until something went wrong with Icarus' left wing. A "manufacturer defect" control said later.

Present
After the crash, Lavender got hospitalized for weeks. She had been severely burnt, every bone of her body were broken and twisted. Reports showed she had crashed in the wasteland between Haviah and another settlement. Her mother, Novella, died from the emotional shock.
     The doctor told Nimbus that there was a solution, transplanting her brain and organs into a cybernetic body. Reluctant at first, Nimbus had a long talk about it with Lavender. When she asked about her dragon though, her hopes were shattered. Icarus died on site, his neck was broken and almost entirely torn off.

So at the age of 21, Lavender became a cyborg. The doctor said that she cried during the operation, even though she was in near death coma for the most of the operation. It's at that time that Lavender lost all of her psionic abilities. She gained more then what she lost though, as her body was now enhanced and even better than her "old" body.
     Once rehabilitation done and relived from the hospital, she was 24. Lavender got quickly used to her new body. She quickly enrolled into the police as a deputized officer and started to work as a consultant for the more dirty work for the law. She also offers a private investigation service and bodyguard.

She met her now best friend, James Calhaan, by luck. She was leading a particularly complex investigation, when she stumbled on the National Memorial Library. She went on for insight and never regretted it.
     James was very helpful in her investigation, and she repaid him with a couple of beers. She came back each and every time she could to get help or hang around and helping the man with the archives.

She is now 26 and full of life, waiting for the next great thing to happen to her.

______Relationships
Best friend & source: James Calhaan  [Status: Alive] She started to call him "Master" from time to time.
Cousin: Lilicka "Red"  [Status: Alive]
Father: Pilot Royal Nimbus Dorian von Sangorov [Status: Alive]
Mother: Dispatch Officer Novella Petrova von Sangorov [Status: Deceased]
Dragon: Icarus [Status: Deceased]

______More information

((Bodysuit by Teruyuki and Yuka; found on pinterest))

Equipment:

·         Lawgiver Mk III     ·         Full body armor     ·         Hand held plasma cutter     ·         Spur     ·         Cat-Claws     ·         gyro-mounted Cyber-gun

((Prop replica of the Lawgiver mk II in the 2012 movie Dredd))

Full body armor: The plating on this armor is strong enough to withstand most handgun and automatic rifle calibers. It is build with a "smart" fabric, which reacts to toxins and chemical or biological attack by sealing the suit. In the helmet, a HUD (heads-up display) is available. On that display a lot of information is available ranging from map, coordinates, vital signs(which are relayed to the nearest medical station), a visor that is linked with the gun held by the user,messages,  etc. The helmet has also a built-in sustenance pack, which is an air filter (for any airborne danger) and a drinking tube in case of a situation preventing the user to take the helmet off.

Lawgiver Mk III: Polymer-framed Handgun. It has three fire modes: Semi(Semi-Auto), Rapid Fire(Full-Auto), and Silenced(Semi-Auto). It has a digital screen indicating the fire mode, the range to the target, how many ammo left in the magazine, and what type of rounds are to be fired.
     A magazine of the Lawgiver Mk III is carrying 50 FMJ (Full Metal Jacketed, or "Standard"), 25 AP (Armor-piercing), 25 IN (Incendiary) and 25 HE (High Explosive). The magazine is hence called a U-Mag (Universal Magazine).
     The Lawgiver Mk III is slightly different from its predecessor, the Mk II.

favorite:       ·         Color: Deep sky blue (#12186D)     ·         Animal: Japanese raccoon-dog (tanuki)     ·         Food/dish: --     ·         Dessert: Sorbet and Mille-feuille     ·         Drink: Mango juice     ·         Alcoholic beverage: Bailey's on Ice     ·         Taste: Strawberries & Chocolate     ·         Smell: Pine needles drying in the Sun     ·         Season: Autumn     ·         Place: --     ·         Holiday: Christmas     ·         Plant: Black or Blue Roses     ·         Literary genre: Horror/Thriller/Suspense/ Crime     ·         Movie genre: Sci-fi     ·         TV genre: --     ·         Music genre: Lounge and Classical/Baroque     ·         Clothing style: form fitting     ·         Game genre: tabletop (Chess)

Dislike:       ·         Color: Anything pastel and neon     ·         Animal: hamster     ·         Food/dish: Fish     ·         Dessert:     ·         Drink: Apple Juice     ·         Alcoholic beverage: Anything sour     ·         Taste:     ·         Smell: Decaying food     ·         Season: Winter     ·         Place: Augmentation Surgeon     ·         Holiday: Valentine's Day     ·         Plant: Tulips     ·         Literary genre: For kids     ·         Movie genre: Stupid Comedies     ·         TV genre: --     ·         Music genre: anything too noisy     ·         Clothing style: anything to slutty     ·         Game genre: video games

__________________WRITER'S NOTES

About Romance:
Lavender is available for romance and sexual relationships. I left her sexuality redacted because I still don't know where I want to go with Lavender.
     If you play with the intention to "go-down" with her and I keep her cold, it is because your character isn't what I believe someone (or something) she would like to have in her bed.

About Combat:
Could be interesting! I would like to see how she would handle herself in battle.

MISCELLANEOUS

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http://judgedredd.wikia.com/wiki/Lawgiver

"Have I? I didn't notice, I've been having such a great time. But now that you mention it..." He stood up, "I'm going on the terrace for a while. Do you mind coming with me?" He said, a glimmer of something in his eye.

James smiled kept smiling and went ahead. He pulled his sister's chair and waited for her to sit and went on the other side of the table to sit as well. "Now, tell me, how was your day? I know that we spoke about it a bit earlier but how is that  project of yours going? I herd that you were progressing quite well actually."

He took a bit out of his quiche and sipped his wine, listening to his sister.

James was on the phone when she came back. He had a grim look on his face, only nodding and letting small noises out his nose in answer at what the person on the other end of the line was saying."I see...I'm on it as soon as possible... Yes... Farewell" He hung up and sighed. James took and dropped his glasses on the counter. His right hand under his left arm and the left one massaging his temples.

"It's just some old trick that mom used to teach me when we were younger. It's almost nothing much." And as James said that, a small cloud appeared before his eyes and disappeared as quickly as it came. He reached for the rear pocket of his pants, grabbing the pack of cigarettes that was in it. After a moment of hesitation, he let go of it. "Do you want a glass of wine Dear?" He asked, his smile back on his face.

The day passed slowly for James. He chained smoked his new pack and another one after that. He didn't liked the way his sister left that morning. He could do something about it.

"But first, I'll need to run for supplies."

--*That Night*--

All the lights were off in the flat. Only the low but warm and welcoming light of many candles were lighting a way to the kitchen. The usual scent of cigarettes was gone and replaced by the perfume of many flowers.

On every table and desk on the way to the kitchen were filled with flower bouquet, all of her favorite. The table was set, a red tablecloth with a bouquet of roses set as the table's center. As Iliya approached the  kitchen, she could start to smell the scent of some fine cuisine James had prepared. Again, her favorite.

James was sitting next to the table, a cup off red wine in hand. "Welcome home... My love!" He said, putting an accent on the last two words.