Dunno about the name yet. Naming things svck. I like names like Misha and Jonah and Siobhan but I'm pretty sure at least like two of those are male names and I don't know how popular they are either. She'd be tall for a woman at 1.77cm, lean and wiry cuz she's active (obviously) and forgets to eat. Short blonde hair bleached almost white by the sun [I'm only going with blonde if we can change the eyebrow color independently cuz I seriously can't stand super blonde eyebrows] with green/hazel eyes. Sharp, angular features. Attractive in like a pointy way if that makes sense. Her shoulders would be peeling and covered in freckles since she usually wears a tank top [she hordes sunscreen tho. Or makes her own. What's the expiration date on sunscreen? People would probably have used it all anyway], she's got quite a few scars but none of them appear serious enough to have been life threatening. She moves with a kind of calculated efficiency, like she knows exactly how much energy needs to be expended to get where she's going.
SPECIAL: 1117963, the high charisma is primarily due to 1) an impressive personal 'presence' 2) arresting looks 3) the knowledge of which inputs generally give the desired outputs.
BACKGROUND: Father was a mechanic and mother was a grade school teacher. She had an older brother by about 4 years. When she was 12 she and her mother were in car accident, she came out relatively unscathed but watched her mother die. It was one of those defining moments in a person's life. Her mother bled out and she couldn't do anything, she couldn't do anything because she lacked the knowledge to know that she could do something. Up until that point she'd wanted to become a gymnast, it now switched over to a nebulous desire to ~know~ things. Specifically thing that could help people, but the emphasis was on knowledge. The fear of helplessness and, specifically, helplessness because of not knowing enough remains a core feature for her. Her father was a kind and well meaning man but he really had no idea what to do with a girl who was just about to hit puberty.
Cuz of her scintillating intellect she graduated early at 16 and got a full scholarship to UMB and I actually googled that [censored] and I thought a doctorates in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology sounded suitably impressive. Something vaguely to do with medicine before that. Though maybe more theory than practice. Anywhoo she met her husband-to-be at uni for the first time, he was loud, irreverent, large, charismatic in the traditional sense and she didn't pay him much thought at the time. After she scooped up her doctorates she skedaddled off to join the war effort (I have NO idea whether any of this coincides with the timeline) both because she liked the idea of saving lives but also because with the threat of nuclear war looming she figured it was the best place to get some of that knowledge/insight/understanding she craved. The government/military had taken an interest in her published works and aptitude scores and wanted to recruit her into the science division but because of a convenient (for me) clerical error they just missed her and she spent some time in the field. She'd meet her husband-to-be here again and they'd keep in contact this time. Eventually the military found her and she's shuffled off to the science division.
Kinda hazy how it goes from there. I mean she has to unjoin military at some point I assume. Though maybe not. Why do I think that? Anyway assuming she does it'll either have to be because she got pregnant with Shaun or she discovered something she didn't particularly like. Though neither of those really sound completely like her... maybe both, at the same time? Maybe something else? Hmmm.
She doesn't like her family in law very much, she got used to her husband's larger than life nature over time and even grew to love it, not so much his entire extended family. She grew apart from her father during her teenage years because teenagers but they've grown closer over the years. He's somewhat lonely since he's never remarried and he feels awkward around his son whose gay, he tries to supportive but he's generally discomfited with the idea. He's delighted when Shaun is born and wants to be more of an active presence in his life.
MORALITY/MINDSET: Quiet. Deeply curious. Single-minded verging on obsessive on whatever she interested in atm. Cautious EXCEPT if her curiosity is aroused, for instance if she has reason to believe there is something interesting at the bottom of a cave she'd go in without much forethought but if she got wind of someone wanting to kill her she'd circle around them before going in for the kill. If that makes sense. She'd want to know about them, who they are, what they're capable of, why they want to kill her and have an exit strategy planned beforehand.
She was never a super nice person but in the pre-war world her desire to know (to avoid helplessness) was extended to those closest to her. If she knew things she could protect them better too. The death of all of that has atrophied that 'closest to' element, she know desires to know primarily to protect herself. Always somewhat aloof she know has thick emotional walls between her and everyone else, she might laugh with you and play Caravan with you and drink with you and probably even screw you but if you die tomorrow she'll bury you and move on.
Desire to know has also been supplemented by the discovery that she simply enjoys exploration, finding things, adventure. Freedom. Danger too but not just for the adrenaline rush, primarily it's the sense of control, competence and dominance she gets from surviving. To a degree this is true of violence and killing too but she isn't really willing to admit that.
She helps people if it doesn't cost her too much ('too much' varies though) or she's properly compensated ('properly' varies too). She has lots of casual six cuz that's the only time her brain shuts up completely. She avoids thinking about the concept of family if she can, if she can't and she's reminded of her family specifically... have you ever seen someone's neck tense up so bad their head shakes? It's like that. With her, cuz she's thin, you can actually see the neck muscles tense up. I also like to imagine the thought comes with like a brief burst of static or white noise or something. Like yah know when you hear something awful or shocking and your brain just kinda derps out for a second? Like that.
Ruthless when necessary. Necessary tends to be if you tried to kill her, might pose a threat in future or your continued well-being is detrimental to her. She only takes charge/responsibility of others if she considers everyone else up for the position to be incompetent. She prefers going around obstacles if she can't she dismantles them bit by bit before coming in like a wrecking ball. She is dismissive of old world nostalgia at best and derisive of it at worst, she would not support something like the NCR for instance.
ASSORTED PECCADILLOES: She chews her nails, sometimes to the quick. She avoids her ring finger but she isn't consciously aware of the fact so it's noticeably longer than the other nails. She doesn't have her wedding ring anymore though. Dunno if I'm going to have drop it or sell it. Assuming you can ofc. She sometimes counts the letters in a sentence, if they add up to an equal number they're good if they add up to an unequal number they're bad. She generally only sleeps about 3 hours at a time. She talks to herself when she's lost in thought. She completely ignores children, as in she doesn't even acknowledge their existence unless they speak to her directly/she really needs to for whatever reason. She enjoys swimming and gardening, 'specially planting things that don't generally inhabit the same place in the wild. She also hordes books. And her favorite colour is yellow.
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