Here's my character outline. I hope she's decent.
Makenna “Eventide” Aleshire
Physical Appearance
? Homeworld: Bonadan
? Age: 23
? Species: human
? Native Language: basic
? Gender: female
? Skin Color: white/tan
? Height: 5’6”
? Weight: 130 lbs.
? Hair Color: auburn with blond streaks
? Facial Hair: none
? Eye Color: brown
? Scars: left shoulder and right calf to knee
? Tattoos: symbol of her former pirate band on her upper back between her shoulder blades
Physical Description:
Makenna is above average in height. Her hair is a deep auburn with a couple of blonde streaks from a random hair dye experience. It is long, somewhat curly, and is almost always tied in a ponytail that is laid over her shoulder. Her eyes are deep brown. Her left shoulder contains many knife scars from a hand-to-hand fight she had with a guard once. There is also a long scar that crosses up from her right calf to her knee from an incident involving an escape and falling off a hover bike. Her physical build is more slender than muscular, allowing her to be quick on her feet, but her overall strength is small. This is why she prefers fighting from a distance rather than hand-to-hand. She is always walking with confidence, shoulders back and chest forward.
Personality:
Makenna’s name means “born of fire”, and she rightly represents this idea. She is persistent, idealistic, feisty, and stubborn with a knack for the occasional flippant comment. She also loves a good competition and will give her all to win (though her attitude when she loses is not always pleasant). While she was a pirate and was required to follow the rules, Makenna was used to being on a similar level to her peers, making her seem rebellious in the eyes of authority figures. After all, respect was earned, not granted by position. She likes to speak sarcastically to her friends, though her sarcasm can come off as blunt and arrogant to many. Overall, Makenna is a generally happy person, though people that rub her the wrong way may remain on her personal black list. Her idealism makes her optimistic, but it can also lead her into pessimism/depression when reality finally hits her. She also has a tendency to rely on luck when luck shouldn’t be a factor. Somehow though she has managed to dodge the bullet more than once. Due to her past, she has a hard time leaving people she cares about to fend for themselves, and she will disobey orders if a friend is in danger and she can help them.
Character’s Background:
Makenna was born on Bonadan to her parents Kale and Selene Aleshire. She has two brothers, one younger and one older. Her older brother is named Collin and her younger brother is named Ethan. Her parents worked for the corporate overlords on Bonadan, and they were known for following the rules, else they’d be killed. When Collin was old enough to leave, he left his family to find a life of his own and “explore the world”. As Makenna neared the age where she could work, she was thrust into the corporate world her parents worked in. But Makenna was stubborn, and she had a tendency to resist the authority there. Eventually she did wrong in the eyes of the overlords, and no amount of apology could right her wrong. The overlords sought out her family, and killed her mother as a lesson for her behavior. They also trapped her into servitude, keeping her from her father and brother.
Makenna was 16 at this time, and she was sick of being a slave to the corporate overlords, but she had no choice because if she tried to defy them, they would kill her family and leave her alive. Of course, her fate changed when a band of pirates decided to raid Bonadan. They took several items, as well as some of the people as hostages, Makenna being one of them. After the pirates had made off with their loot, they gave the hostages a choice: to join them or be left on a planet to fend for themselves (since they would not kill them). Makenna jumped at the chance to join the pirates, after all, their life looked like more fun than her life had been on Bonadan.
So Makenna lived out the next several years as a pirate. The band she had joined was not affiliated with any specific organization. They were a small rogue group that had joined together after their lives had been destroyed by wars on other planets. Though they were small, they had the gall to raid planets that had fairly decent security. They used their small size and general autonomy to get into places they weren’t allowed. It was during this time that Makenna learned how to fire a weapon and to fly simple craft, though she wasn’t often allowed to fly for any important missions. Her best friend in the group was a man named Tamran. He reminded her of her older brother, and she went to him for almost everything.
Of course, the good situation wasn’t meant to last. One of their raids led into disaster because their leader had become too cocky. Their planned surprise attack met with ambush, and the pirates were either killed or scattered. Each of them lost contact, and Makenna was left to fend for herself with the ship she had gotten back to and used as an escape. She never received contact from any of the pirates, but she refuses to think that they are all dead. The reality of the situation made her both weary and angry, but she knew that she couldn’t just give everything up because she still had a life to live. It was on one of the planets that she had visited that she learned about the Vast Empire, and while she had never considered joining any sort of military anything, the idea of being able to fly into battle intrigued her, so she decided to sign up.
And now we are brought to this instance, where Makenna attempts to make a name for herself in the VEN.
