Basic Info
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Setting notes and disclaimer:
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Part of the "Charahub Exodus". Originally made for a one-on-one MSN roleplay in 2011. The roleplay was nicknamed "Astral Purgatory" and took massive influences from Mass Effect and Starcraft series, due to my game master being a fanboy of those franchises. I can not vouch for how much of her setting is "original content" or "ripoff" because I hadn't played either of those series at the time but I'm fond of her nonetheless. It was a fun and prolific roleplay.
Profile
Alaya Vipin Engel
Engel is a soldier by heart and mind, human asian by race and a complete nutjob by fashion sense.
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Nickname
Engel
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Age
26
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Occupation
Militant. First lietenant of Monica04
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Species
Self-proclaimed human
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Gender
Female
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Sexuality
Bi
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Voice
Low-end of female vocal range. Sounds just like
that woman from Vexille trailer
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Themesong
Chiaki Ishikawa - Uninstall
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Playlist
Astral Purgatory playlist
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Setting
Sci-fi dystopian future Courtesy of my GM, and my own faulty memory:
Earth has dissapeared, but humanity has travelled far across the galaxy, starting colonies, mixing races and then diversifying again. Contact with non-human races has been established twice, but both times with negative outcomes. Humans are at war against the hive-minded shagalites, desperately trying to protect their colonies against an opponent a thousand times superior in numbers, while being completely ignored by the energy-based hequras, as if human kind was nothing but a pest on this galaxy. -
Personality
She appears strict and untalkative, with high demands for her subordinates. She hides her emotions behind a facade of stoic punctuality, in fear of appearing weak to those around her and avoids close relationships, if ever possible, concentrating on attaining allies, not friends. Only Engel herself knows how much of this is pretence and how much is actual numbness to the joys and sorrows of the world. She finds comfort in giving and receiving orders, but can do without, if necessary. In situations where she is forced to be in control she may develop feelings of paranoia towards her subordinates. In crisis situations Engel tries to mentally evaluate the case and not to panic, having developed a habit of analyzing thinking.
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Appearance
She stands over 1,8 metres in height and appears too muscular for modern conventional beauty standards. Engels athletic build comes from the amounts of physical exercise she goes through every day, giving her body a discernible masculinity. That masculinity is somewhat softened by her obviously female features. Her skin is naturally dark, with slight tanning lines on her wrists and neck. Engels lips are thin and her brown eyes appear asiatic in shape. She shaves her head and body, leaving only a single black ponytail on the back of her head, possibly as a fashion statement. Although she has taken part in quite a few battles she has no noticeable scars to show off, mostly due to the fact that she started her career in military as a sniper and was thus kept away from close combat (also, chameleon fabric).
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Good at
Shooting, most certainly. Basic survival, anatomy, physiology, physical actions requiring stamina or stealth. Math, to a certain extent – rarely thinks in numbers, but evaluates things and situations in everyday life the same way most people solve numerical equations. Virtual reality games. Creating neutral internal monologues.
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Bad at
Cooking, house chores and other activities that have been taken over by computers. Expressing her emotions to anyone, including herself. Handling civilian problems. Politics. Appears somewhat eccentric to both her military peers and civilians.
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Backstory
Engel was born and raised in the Unionrepublic of Naiden. Her father was in the army and her mother was an engineer. The girl had no brothers or sisters and she was pampered from a young age. As a child her favorite passtime activities were basically virtual reality simulators and chasing other kids with laser pointers. The girl admired her father and found his occupation nothing but exciting, imagining war as a make-belief game with bigger laser pointers.
As a pre-teen she made some attempts at joining subcultures or looking unconventional. By the age of thirteen the girl had attained a heightened interest towards guns, considering it an alternative hobby, and, encouraged by her father, gave military school a try, expecting it to be an easy challenge.
She quickly came to regret her decision, but was supported by her father to go all the way through...until he died in combat when she was sixteen. Engel finished her educational journey at the age of seventeen and enrolled into Naidens military forces as a sniper, working her way up the ranks from there on. She still contacts her mother from time to time and visits her when she's off-duty, but they've grown distant.
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Roleplay-story
One-on-one MSN roleplay, with me playing Engel and the GM everyone else (as well as guiding the story and describing the environments).
Engel led her troops against a shagalite attack, but was caught in a crossfire between shagalites and a hequrean warship after which she woke up on the planets surface - naked, with no equipment and no recollection of why she was there. Eventually it turned out that, somehow, fifty thousand years had passed - shagalites had continued their conquest, humans had bettered themselves through genetic engineering until they fell both mentally and appearance-wise straight into the uncanny valley and the whole hequrean civilization, their whole race, had dissapeared about seven centuries ago. Lost and confused Engel located the ruined wreck of Monica04 and traded it's antique technology for a smaller and newer spaceship. She was soon joined by a scientist named Rymon and his little sister Mara, who was a shagal-human hybrid due to being the unwilling participant of multiple scientific experiments. And thus the trio embarked on a journey to find out the reasons of this unforeseen timetravel and discover the true fate of hequras, for they are the key to unlocking this mystery. On their quest they meet bureaucrats, shagalites, space pirates, new allies, ancient ruins and an entity only referred to as The Void.
...and the hequras. After which my GM got sick of the game and postponed it at EXACTLY the moment when Engel was about to learn what the hell it's all about.
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Jisador Y. Engel
Father
Deceased.
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Sugi R. Vipin
Mother
Dead as-of-roleplay.
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Atal Belal Kimacia
Crush?
Fellow crewmate (Leader of airforce division on Monica04) whom she'd been smitten with for years but never got together due to rank differences. In the roleplay the crush got transferred to the AI of SloreiV2B spaceship, since she modelled the AIs holographic representation and personality after Atal, pining to have a familiar face in her new environment.
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Rymon Mesones
Travel companion in the roleplay
A sapiens' (human-descendant) whomm Engel picked up, along with his sister, from a group of space-outlaws. He became her personal "head of research" and "cultural interpretor".
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Mara Mesones
Unwanted travel companion in the roleplay
Rymons' little sister who's slowly taking on more shagalite-like qualities as a result of experiments that had been conducted on her. In Engels opinion she's a creepy little monster who should be put out of her mysery and the only reason that the woman isn't taking a bullet to the girls' head is out of respect to Rymon.
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Favorite color?
Blood red, though wears blue due to her uniform
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Does your character collect anything?
Firearms
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Favorite artist?
Were she into art she'd like Gustav Klimt
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Kind of clothing?
On duty she wears a three-piece blue and white uniform, with the logo of her faction imprinted under the right shoulder. Off-duty she appears to prefer bright colors and intricate geometrical patterns. Basically think of Gustav Klimts works and apply his use of colors on her attire. The clothes she chooses to wear are always unisex, cut in a way that widens her shoulders and flattens her chest. The only piece of jewellery she accepts is a single hoop earring.
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First memory?
Her dad, Jaisal, giving her a piggiback ride when her legs got tired
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Favorite animal?
Camelspider
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Least favorite animal?
Shagalites, whom she considers to be no more than beasts
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What element would they be?
Iron
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Alignment?
Lawful neutral
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Deadly sin that best represents them?
Pride
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Which animal would they be?
A rottweiler dog
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Socioeconomic level?
Military personnel (quite well off).
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Socioeconomic level as a child?
High middleclass
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Blood type?
B+
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Hobbies?
Engel was a weapon geek - everything else she did or knew was just side-knowledge. By now she takes more interest in other areas, like foreign culture or tactics, but can still recite the top three guns of nearly every weapon class. She enjoys virtual reality games and uses them to keep her skills sharp.
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Special skills / talents?
The only thing she's really good at is shooting people - and she knows it
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Patience level?
God-like, until a minor detail makes her snap
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Regrets?
In her backstory? Not spending more time with her dad. In-game? Letting Mara live.
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Favorite place?
Her ship. It's a place of home, work and security all at the same time.
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Role model?
Her father, Jaisal Engel
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Favorite foods?
Coffee, rice, marmelade, coffee, cherry tomatoes, dark chocolate, coffee
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Dream place to live?
A world without shagalites - the details could be figured out as she goes along
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Mode of transportation?
Anything earth-bound. Motorcycles and armored vehicles are preferred.
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Weapon
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Most appropriate TV trope(s)?
Action Girl, Anti-Hero, Cool Starship (Monica04 & SloreiV2B), Hive Mind (shagalites), Lost Technology (hequras), Sufficiently Advanced Aliens (hequras, sapiens's), Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, Space Does Not Work This Way, Rule Of Cool, Timeskip (FIFTY THOUSAND YEARS!), Frickin' Laser Beams, Hybrid Monster (Mara, Engel to some sapiens's), Last of His Kind (strictly she's the last human - and as much as Rymon and The Void are concerned the last hequra)
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Smells like?
Coco-butter body cream with a tint of coffee and - sometimes after using her powers - of burnt plastic.
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How do they feel about love?
She believes love to be a useless hinderance - nothing more than hormonal fluctuations that will pass with time, if ignored. Nevertheless fostered a deep crush on a crewmate for the better part of a decade.
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Home town?
Sector 43 of the colony of Ajnabee
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Where they live now?
n the backstory? On Monica04, as it patrols across The Empire of Naiden. In-game? On SloreiV2B, fulfilling her quest wherever it may take her.
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Makes a living by?
Military service - all living costs are covered and she sends most of the money she makes to her mother.
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Jung Personality Type?
ISTJ
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Fears or phobias?
She's afraid of forgetting, and of eternity - of living so long that she forgets her memories, forgets who she is. She's also terrified of the shagalites - not of individuals or groups of them, but this species as a whole - the way their hivemind works, how they swarm, how they kill, how they infect...
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Race, ethnicity and nationality?
Asian, The citizen of Federal Union-Republic of Naiden, colony of Ajnabee
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Music they listen to?
Imagine Skrillex...IN SPACE!
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What turns them on?
Short hair coupled with the combination of androgynous appearance and forceful personality.
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What turns them off?
Gender stereotypes, ukes
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If they transitioned from their world to ours, how would they react?
She'd sit in front of an empty refrigerator waiting for the food to respawn until she died of starvation.
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Does their universe have a god?
The hequras say there is, the humans say there isn't, the shagals eat you either way.
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Personal problems?
Grief over the loss of her crew-mates and friends, cultural differences and fear of appearing weak to her adversaries, being the last of her kind (because sapiens's can not be considered to be ''humans'').
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Religious and to what extent? Any spiritual beliefs?
Engel is an atheist - does not believe in god and looks down on those who do, seeing them as people who can't handle the harsh light of reality. Neither does she believe in the existence of afterlife or souls. She feels that such worldviews have made her life easier, for she is not afraid to die, nor to take lives, but can still see the value of a human life. It takes her long to accept new ideas and change her concept of reality.
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Kind of student if they attend/were to attend school? (e.g. class clown, straight A)
Engel was - before starting her military career - a bit of a tag-along, trying out different stereotypes and being generally far too free-spirited for her time and place. Military school broke that tendency down real quick.
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Random fact!
She once tried to make out with a hologram.
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Do ghosts or supernatural entities exist in their’ world?
Not to her knowledge.
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Most important person in their life
There is no definite answer. In her backstory there were her crush Atal and her friend Fjorel. In the roleplay there was Rymon.
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Favorite object?
In-game? The hard drive of SloreiV2B spaceship, because it contains all the data from Monica04 along with personal information of her now dead crewmates, allowing her to create virtual simulations of them.
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When did you create this character?
She was born back in 2008 as someone I could practice mechanical wings on (thus the last name) and fleshed out for roleplays in 2010.
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If your character has a significant other, what would their song be?
Flux Pavillion - Digital Controller for SloreiV2B's AI, which is modelled after Atal.
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What was your character like as a child?
During her first few years Engel was a merry, happy child. The sort who enjoyed videogames and chasing little boys with laser pointers, jumped on bed and missed her daddy whenever he had to leave.
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What is something other people assume about your character?
In-Game? Due to humans being technically extinct (having gone through thousands of years of evolution) the NPCs assume she's just a really short weird-looking sapiens.
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Do they like the name they were given?
Yes, but she's more used to people calling her by her last name
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Your character is now anime! Reaction?
SUCCESS! Now I can read smutfics about her and laugh at the ridiculous pairings!
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Nervous habits?
She starts marching back and forth when nervous, and drinking lots of coffee
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Addictions?
Coffee,with cream, no sugar.
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Languages spoken
Naiidian (common), some sierran and the soldiers' nonverbal signs are also diverse enough to communicate simple ideas and constitute as a language.
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Have they ever wanted to commit suicide?
Yes. In-game, when she realized that hequras do not possess the technology to travel back in time, she can not change her past and she will never see any of her friends or family ever again. She eventually went back into denial and continued her quest out of sheer stubborness.
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How has their look/design changed over time?
She started out as a template for drawing mechanical wings (thus, ''Engel'') - an asian with one to three pairs of robot limbs wearing a revealing red sari. Eventually I vetoed the wings and replaced them with mechanical arms and an eye. Then those were vetoed as well and the sari-bikini replaced with military uniforms and Klimt-esque suits
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If they could have one thing in the world?
Timetravel
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Would your character be willing to sacrifice order and sanity to live in a crazy fantasy world where anything was possible, or do all in their power to prevent that from happening?
Prevent it. Order is all this universe is left with
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