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Name Pilot Royal Donata Aeris Barnaba da Ryun
Alias Donna, Donato, Rosebud
Age 107
DOB January 7th
Gender Female
Species Ashman, Copperblooded
Ethnicity Aedolian
Height 5’2”
Occupation General of Travica
Residence Travica
Voiceclaim Shea Diamond (https://open.spotify.com/track/5j9Nptuxo6AzVbYZNa5AfL?si=hsifpc0dQ5KD7KguqiezpQ)
Playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0kExOdWW2RFiLhVirFY5jK?si=H6lw_Fd_TuKw38T2OszDeg): Warning May Contain Explicit or Mature Lyrics and Themes
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Physical Description
Age of Stone:
Donna was forged as her father’s pride and joy, his greatest achievement and accomplishment in life. She has a long, thick, wavy mane of bright red hair that while working she keeps in a tight contained bun but outside of work allows to be free and loose with intricate beads, braids, and barrettes. Unlike her people though, Donna does not keep a beard.
As she is an ashman, she has pale, grey skin and bright copper eyes. She also has the traditional copper inlay pattern. Her particular one forms a “necklace” around her neck with an open diamond-shaped “pendant” atop her sternum and a smaller open triangle at her back.
While average height for her people but rather short all around for Aedolis, Donna is built like a tank. She has a broad, heavily muscled chest and abs as well as strong shoulders and a bulging bicep. She takes great pride in her appearance and works hard to maintain the beauty and strength of her father’s creation.
Age of Machine:
Over a century old and a heavily decorated soldier means that Donna has gotten into her fair share of battles, scraps, and wars. As such she is a heavily decorated soldier and has had quite a few physical modifications to replace lost limbs.
She is missing her right arm just below the elbow, her left leg up to the hip, her left arm to the ball socket of the shoulder, and the lower, left side of her jawbone. All of these limbs and bones have been replaced with metal limbs and plating done in rose gold filigree. Her jaw is edged with and backed with synthetic tissue to form the appearance of a cheek below the plating. Her teeth on the lower left side have all been replaced with titanium teeth in the absence of the original jawbone as have a few of the teeth on the upper left side, specifically the molars. Donna is a bit self-conscious of her teeth so toothy grins tend to be rather small or only one side to hide the flashes of silver.
In addition to her missing limbs, Donna is also missing her left eye. The eye socket has scarred into copper stone and the eye itself has been replaced with a deep magenta, rutilated spinel. It is solely for aesthetic appeal however as Donna lacks the ability to see through it.
Age of Donna:
Her style of dress outside of her uniform tends to range from business professional to classy formal to modest casual. She likes clothing that is both feminine and complementary to her form. She is not shy about showing off her prosthetics or skin but she is a believer that less is more and some things should be kept private. Rose gold is her favourite colour for accents while professional and eveningwear tend to be deep, royal hues, casual daywear is usually brighter and more cheery. Her earlobes are pierced and she does tend to wear jewellery as well as makeup. She more prefers bracelets and earrings to other pieces. Also in favour of showing off her inlay she prefers to wear blouses with more open or plunging necklines and skip necklaces altogether to showcase her natural necklace instead.
Personality
- At work she is a soldier first and foremost. Donna values loyalty, accountability, punctuality, and organisation. She expects her soldiers’ best out of them and understands everyone has different limits but is also a perfectionist herself and holds her people to a very high standard. But she trusts them to be at the same caliber as her in their own rights. She fiercely protects her own as long as they have earned it. Lose her trust or go after her own and you will have the fiercest mama bear ever on your hands.
- Outside of work she is able to easily flip the switch from General to Donna. Outside of government affairs she’s bawdy, raunchy, and quick to laugh, with a tough but fair maternal instinct. She’s stubborn to a fault but fair. Donna’s quick to joke but even quicker to apologise for offense. She knows when to be polite and is not above admitting her faults and trying to overcome them. She expects the same of others and can become frustrated when they fail to follow through.
- Family is incredibly important to Donna. She would do anything for their love and approval. Anything that is but forsake who she is. She is unapologetic for her gender and her sexuality. And while she is reserved and polite with her family and their disapproval she refuses to bend on these matters. She’s applied so many times for the rights to ash of her own to make a child and has continued to be denied every time on the basis of her gender. Her stubbornness demands she continue though until either they break or she turns completely to stone. She feels she has every right to family as anyone else and longs for one of her own.
- That being said, Donna is also deeply romantic. She wants a partner and wants to woo and court a lady properly. However as confident and flirty as she can be to everyone, the moment her heart becomes involved she becomes an awkward and flustered mess. Donna wants to love and be loved in return but getting there has proven to be a rather tumultuous road up until now.
Things
- Loves to sing in the shower. Has forgotten is not alone in the work showers and belted out into song more times than she would care to admit.
- Is a very talented cook and considers it an insult to reject her food without trying it. Considers it the greatest insult however, to season her food without trying it.
- She does needlepoint and cross stitch in her spare time and takes great pride in the delicate and intricate nature of her art. She has several large pieces framed in her home that took her months to complete.
- Has a room in her home just dedicated to various arts and crafts. Sadly there are many things she’s always had the best intentions of starting and never seems to find the time for. “One day, soon” she’ll get to it though, or so she says.
- Favourite colour is pale peach or rose gold.
Magic/Abilities
Telepath: She has an average range and ability as a telepath.
Pyrokinetic: Donna is a firebaby and revels in the control of her ability. Over the years she’s been able to master several different techniques and abilities beyond basic control and manipulation of fire.
- Fire Aura: This ability allows her to envelope herself in flames as both a shield and an offensive barrier. Donna is both fire and heat tolerant to higher temperatures than are normal. She can however be burned if her flames become too hot or she endures them for too long. The colour and therefore the intensity of her flames are strictly dependent on her emotions. The more deeply or passionately she feels something, the more dangerous she becomes.
- Fire Breath: Donna is akin to a dragon in ashman form. She can breathe fire and takes great pride in this ability. The blaze is quite intense and has decent range however it can not be sustained indefinitely as it is physically taxing on her. Overuse or prolonged use renders her with a very sore throat that if pushed too far could burn her up from the inside out.
- Fire Combustion: The most dangerous use of Donna’s abilities is absorbing all of the oxygen in her vicinity to create a massive explosion. She is not immune to this power and while she can resist some of the damage and survive, some of her injuries are a direct result of having used this ability and getting burnt. If she’s using this then it’s a last resort and she’ll go down taking everything with her along the way.
- Fire Mimicry: With this ability, Donna is able to become a being made entirely of flames. It does make her more vulnerable to cryokinetic attacks however it also increases her speed, durability, and strength. When her flames run out though she’s done and faces a cooldown period where she cannot easily use any of her pyrokinetic abilities. While this was one of her most used abilities on the battlefield it takes extreme pacing and strategy to utilise it to its full capacity.
Typhokinetic: This is Donna’s weakest ability which allows her to manipulate smoke. She can use it as a cover screen, to asphyxiate someone, or as a form of communication. She cannot generate smoke like she can fire though so she requires a source in order to manipulate it. This is only problematic when she is unable to use her pyrokinesis such as in cases of stealth or close quarters.
Relationships
Barnaba Aeris Renatus da Ryun: Her father who up until her coming out was always incredibly proud and supportive of her. Recently he has been yo-yoing between being incredibly aggressive and vocal about her “throwing her life away” and being cruelly cold and silent. He is deeply disappointed in this madness she is displaying and while loves her deeply would see her return to being an honorable man once more. He refuses to use her correct pronouns or name. And he finds her attraction to women to be absolutely abhorrent given that that also means sleeping with people outside of his race. She finds interacting with him very difficult and still tries her best to be polite and calm in the face of his harsh words. She understands why this is difficult for him but refuses to go back to living a lie and not being her true self.
Renatus Aeris Giampiero da Ryun: Her Nonno who has not spoken a word to her since her social transition as a woman. He lives with her father and is getting slower and stiffer in old age. He will attend the few yearly family dinners they all have but spends the evenings completely ignoring her presence and will not even speak on such occasions.
Romano Laetus Pecorino da Samariel: Barnaba’s long-term boyfriend of over a century. He’s been a part of Donna’s life since her creation and she grew up viewing him as a second father. She has unfortunately not seen him since coming out as transgender as her father has banned him from ever interacting with her if he wants to continue to have a relationship with Barnaba until Donna decides to come to her senses. It’s heartbreaking for Donna though who has always had a close relationship with Romano and loves him quite deeply as family.
Aurora: Her shiny, metallic red male dragon who is known to be fiery, hot-headed and quick to action. Aurora pushes Donna as hard as her father once did to succeed and be the very best. He has his eye on her being the next Imperial.
History
Raised in a loving but strict household, Donna was taught loyalty and strength from an early age. She was her father’s greatest pride and joy and he took great pleasure in showing off her victories. He didn’t let it go to her head though and was always firm in grounding her with tough love.
Her pyrokinesis developed also at an early age and as soon as she was physically old enough, she was sent off to candidacy. The transition took some getting used to but her strict military upbringing was beneficial in preparing her for the regimen of aspiring Pilot life. She was eventually paired with Aurora and made a general combat operative sent off on various missions over the years. Donna rose through the ranks proving herself time and time again to be a valuable and loyal soldier of Aedolis much to her father’s delight.
The rift in their relationship would come after many failed attempts at relationships on her part both of her own and her father’s arranging was when she finally owned up and admitted who she is. Having reached the peak of her career, Donna felt she could be true to herself. She changed her name to Donata and began socially transitioning and presenting as female within the past five years. The final blow of her madness to him however was when she also came out as gay which ironically in a society of predominatly homosexual individuals, did not go over well. Donna remains true to herself even as she continues to face cultural and familial obstacles.
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