Dar’Kenai Chalco

Physical Appearance

• Medium length dark brown hair
• Pink eyes
• Medium in height
• Relatively fit with a slender build
• Light brown skin
• 6 piercings per ear, 3 upper, 3 lower

Clothing Style

Dar’Kenai tends to wear a rather business casual style that blends classic lab worker attire with a more sci-fi flare. He often dresses in primarily silver or white outfits with black, green, or blue accents, or when in the field he will wear primarily black and silver outfits with similar accents instead. He often wears high collared shirts of varying sleeve length depending on the weather along with a jacket or a vest if outdoors. He tends to wear coordinating pants that aren't too casual but also not too dressy and are comfortable to move around in when he's working on his projects, and his shoes tend to follow the same trend. Dar’Kenai prefers to have a clean and simple look while never compromising his comfort and mobility, since he tends to be on the move or traveling often. While in formal presentations, his outfits will be a little dressier than business casual, but while in the field he'll usually dress more casually (although he always still looks well put together).

His earrings are usually silver, and he frequently wears a headset or earpiece to keep in communication with others. He almost always is wearing a wrist communicator for other functions that tap into his Tek rifting. His gloves are usually white or silver depending on the color scheme of his outfit, and he wears a small pendent that is in the shape of the MC*Corp. logo.

Personality

Dar’Kenai is an optimistic and inventive engineer/inventor with a brilliant and innovative mind. He is very creative and curious, and he enjoys exploring new topics and working through challenges and puzzles on the path to finding new solutions that can benefit society as a whole. He is always eager to take risks and think outside the box, and he's never one to back down from thinking through difficult problems or finding ways to optimize current solutions. His work and projects tend to keep him very busy or on-the-move depending on what his goals currently are, and he prefers to be working on some kind of task at all times rather than having idle time. Although he can sometimes be a touch intimidating to talk to due to his intellect, he's a kind and down to earth person that's easy to approach. He is a little socially awkward simply because he's spent most of his life working on his inventions/company and not much interacting with others outside of a professional setting, but he genuinely tries his best to be friendly and connect with those willing to meet him halfway.

Despite seeming like a typical intellectual and a bit awkward socially at times, Dar’Kenai is anything but shy and does best in social situations that are more professional in nature. He is very open and at ease when speaking to associates and customers, and it's very obvious in how he speaks how much of a deep passion his has for his work. He is confident, headstrong, and never afraid to make mistakes or push the envelope. He also has a very strong sense of justice and wishes to improve the lives of as maybe people as he can, hoping his work will touch the lives of everyone on Crystaless and be able to improve them or ease their troubles even a little with his inventions. However, Dar’Kenai can get a little too overzealous about his work at times, especially with his very hands-on attitude about his work. He prefers to work on his projects as directly as possible and dislikes feeling any disconnect between the products his company puts out and either his or his sister's input. He also doesn't like the idea that he should leave "menial" tasks to others when he could easily do them himself, which causes problems sometimes since quite a few people in the corporation, including his sister, advise him to take a step back and let others handle things sometimes.

Abilities

• Tek rifting - rank 4/5
• Skilled at piloting Air Mechs, particularly the hoverboard variation

Strengths

• Intelligent, inventive, hard working, and creative
• Moral, compassionate, supportive, and selfless
• Generous, down to earth, just, and confident
• Organized, mature, responsible, and self motivated

Weaknesses

• Has trouble comfortably connecting to others personally and gets flustered by personal/intimate questions
• A bit of a workaholic, rarely stops to relax, and often distracted by his work or his own thoughts
• Values work-safety for others but tends to be more reckless with his own working conditions
• A bit of a perfectionist and can get hung up on making sure everything is set to the highest standards

Backstory

Dar’Kenai grew up with his older sister, Mil'Kesta, raising him after their parents died shortly after Dar’Kenai‘s birth from a Clone attack. The two lived in Factesk where both of them learned engineering from their parents' colleagues, and Dar’Kenai was known as a prodigy in math and electronic sciences, especially with his natural knack for Tek rifting. Even at a young age, Dar’Kenai was always building things and inventing new devices, many of which were beyond what even the senior engineers could imagine. The lab workers praised the boy's creativity and eagerness to try new tactics no matter how outlandish.

Together Dar’Kenai and Mil'Kesta ended up creating their own independent technology business, their claim to fame coming from their revolutionary designs for hover technology, which ended up improving previous air/spacecraft all across Crystaless. With their inventions being used in nearly every region, their business boomed and they became richer than even some royalty of the planet. Dar’Kenai and his sister only used their wealth to upgrade their lab facilities, improve conditions for their workers, and work toward even bigger and better inventions. Dar’Kenai was known as the most successful businessman in Crystaless before he reached his teen years.

One of the company's newer and most successful projects was the creation of Air Mechs, which were personal vehicles catered to individuals and their rifting network to better coordinate the rider and the machine. Over the years their business built a city on an island they owned, which eventually became Air City, a testing zone for the Mechs where people from all walks of life were invited to in order to experiment with the coordination between rider and vehicle. MC*Corp. sent out invitations to all corners of Crystaless, seeking out all types to ensure that the Mechs could accommodate anyone. All residents of Air City have their living expenses covered by the company and are granted free Mechs as long as they cooperate with testing procedures.

Before Air City's completion, Dar’Kenai and Mil'Kesta got involved in the mayhem caused by the Dark Matter. Dar’Kenai was possessed while performing an evaluation of a large ship he developed as a prototype for flying cities, but he was freed when Mackerby Rainstle and his companions intervened. They encountered each other again after Dar’Kenai and his sister returned to Factesk, where Mil'Kesta was then possessed by the Dark Matter and subsequently liberated by Mac. The two made it a point to invite Mac and Mara to Air City once construction and preparations were completed.

Due to his very involved nature in his work, Dar’Kenai was very social and interactive with all the residents of Air City once it opened. He ended up making many friends, something he wasn't particularly accustomed to due to how busy he was with his previous work, and his invitation to Mac and Mara ended up saving his island project when Shaderesk Demrile attacked. Dar’Kenai continues the development and improvement of the Mech along with coming up with new inventions and advances for Crystaless technology.

Trivia:

Theme song: Flying Pyramid

Associated song: Machine Passage