FallingTowardstheSun:Shaiya

Ensign Shaiya Angstrom, acting captain

Stats

Attractiveness [ATT] 6

Body Type [BOD] 6

Cool [CL] 8

Empathy [EMP] 6

Intelligence [INT] 10

Education [EDU] 10

Luck [LUCK] 5

Movement Allowance [MA] 5

Reflexes [REF] 10

Technical Ability [TECH] 4

Skills

Action Skills

Mecha Piloting = 15 (+5)

Mecha Gunnery = 15 (+5)

Mecha Melee = 12 (+2)

Shuttle Pilot = 13 (+3)

Motorcycle = 11 (+1)

Blade = 11 (+1)

Stealth = 11 (+1)

Zero G = 13 (+3)

Social Skills

Leadership - COOL based = 13 (+5)

Persuasion & Fast Talk = 12 (+4)

Human Perception = 12 (+6)

Wardrobe & Style = 11 (+3)

Personal Grooming = 11 (+3)

Social = 10 (+4)

Mental Skills

Expert (Tactics) = 15 (+5)

Expert (Military History) = 12 (+2)

Bio

Personal Information

Age 16

Height 5'4"

Weight 44 kg

Ethnicity: Spacenoid, Irish/Asian ancestry

Loyalties: Earth Federation Forces

Goals: Cut down Neo-Zeon forces enough that the Earth Sphere is safe for families.

Opinions: Militaristic, technocratic

Sexuality: Bi, went to an all-girls academy, more interest in than experience with guys

Characteristics

Shaiya is sharp as a razor and can speak with confidence on just about every subject. The social rigors of the Athena Academy helped curb that trait. She acts seriously for her age and doesn't have any peers to hang out with on the John B. There's quite a gulf of life experience between her and the other officers, so she keeps to herself, reading much of the time. She has a strong sense of right and wrong (Zeon remnants, Titans holdouts, pirates and terrorists are wrong) and that's something she doesn't hesitate to speak up on.

Shaiya is a 5'6” young woman, her build on the slender side, with pale amber skin thanks to her mixed Asian and Scottish heritage. She has bright red hair cut short on the back and sides with bangs that are usually slicked straight back along the top of her head. She's almost always in uniform and they're always sharply creased. She has a pilot suit for vacuum situations instead of a standard normal suit, as one of the reserve MS pilots. Shaiya has no piercings and keeps her makeup in reserve for special occasions. Her posture is always military correct, or as much as possible in micro gravity.

Decorating her wall is her academy sword, based on the old American 1913 model cavalry saber. It's grip shows considerable use... fencing classes were part of the curriculum. She doesn't have any duelling scars... at least none visible.

She is also a latent Newtype, though she and those she knows put any enhanced insight down to natural skill.

History

Shaiya Angstrom was born just after the end of the One Year War to May and Jun Angstrom, a pair of Federation intelligence operatives during the war. The oldest of three children, her family lived on Side One, Colony 4 (El Dorado). As the Titans' excesses grew and the Gryps war continued, her parents, concerned about their children's futures, struck a blow in their own way, acquiring a video of Titans and Neo Zeon members working out an alliance. It was the centerpiece of a book putting forth that the Titans were as bad as the worst Zeon terrorists. It was an instant sensation, but caused a firestorm of controversy in both pro-Titans and pro-Zeon regions. The death threats started pouring in, along with an actual bomb at the publisher's office, one big enough to take out the building! They went underground, leaving their children with friends of the family until the threat has subsided.

Shaiya didn't like this one bit and had a childish grudge against Zeonic remnants, one she's honed and nutured to this day. A prodigy, she was admitted to Athena Academy, an exclusive private military school for girls and rose to the head of the class for her tactical prowess, graduating with honors. Too young to enter the Federation Academy upon graduation at 16, her piloting and academic scores were notable enough that she found herself given an officer's berth on the OSM's Sloop John B, an assignment that would give her the experience to transfer into the Federation fleet proper in a couple of years. Someone in Londo Bell had her eye on her and arranged the posting to get her in service as smoothly as possible, it seems.

LifePath

Family

Middle Class

Family Situation: Something special about parents - Parents in Hiding

Family Status: Good

Siblings: 2.

Younger Sister (15), Dislikes her

Younger Brother (14), Hates her.

Friends

Friends: 5

-Male Foster Parent

-Female Foster Parent

-Male Like a Big Brother

After her parents went missing, Shaiya and her sibs were taken care of by friends of the family, a husband and wife with their own kid, until she went to the academy.

-Female Ex-lover

-Female Old School Pal

Shaiya attended an all-girls military academy and is still close to a couple of girls from her class, one she was VERY close to.

Enemies

Enemies: None. No personal ones, at least.

Romantic Life

Romantic Life: Uninvolved right now. Romance between classmates at school bloomed rapidly and withered almost as rapidly. And there's no dating scene in deep space.

Appearance

Hair Color: Red

Hair Style: Short and swept back

Eye Color: Amber

Personality

Personality: Intellectual

Value Most: Knowledge

Valued Possession: A book (the one her parents wrote)

Person Most Valued: Yourself

Age: 16