Yeah I figure even if we're pulling the plug on the story you guys deserve this still. Bonus content for characters we had rough plans for but hadn't introduced yet.
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Dawnstar of the Goldenscales(Theresa)
An ancient being that is the source of many folklore creatures.
More fascinated with humans than the others of its species it interacted with them much more.
The creature despite having no default gender identity developed a great fondness for a young human male. With him they discovered her blood when properly processed significantly extends human life spans and other medical miracles(exactly what depends on the processing method used). The young man asked Theresa to marry him.
This turned out to be a ruse and that is when Theresa was bound by her restraints.
The trauma it has endured by being imprisoned for so long has caused it to lose a great deal of self identity and personal history.
A guard dubbed the creature Theresa because in its current form it resembled his sister.
Almost forgotten, contained by secret organizations since before there was even a Terran Alliance, the creature was able to gain its freedom during the Liberation of Terra and it now seeks revenge on all those who benefitted.
Theresa is sharp and observant. Despite her severe isolation causing her to lose much of her personal history she is a quick study and she figured out very quickly the nature of how she presents to the guards and learned to use that.
So for her her body, and by extension sex(there are limits on that though due to her marriage vows), is a weapon in her arsenal. She’ll also act very young and demure, whatever her best read on the person/situation calls for.
Theresa does not blame all of humanity and thus does not want to see it go extinct but she is also not inclined to be particularly merciful. Only children get something of an automatic forgiveness from her. Even then she’s willing to bend on her rule if it is the only way and does not consider it her breaking her own rule if someone else does so because of her actions/plots.
Theresa hangs around with Mike’s Murderhobos because they are her scalpel or chainsaw, whichever she needs.
Mike G.
[author's note: Real Name: Michael Garrow]
Leader of the mercenary unit "Mike's Murderhobos"- Pilots a modified Thug battlemech, (This one has jump-jets). This man doesn't look like a mercenary leader at all, he looks like a middle-aged accountant.
Background: Mike does not discuss his background. Notably, he is a well traveled man, and speaks with a very bland colloquial accent in whatever language he's speaking in save one; in english, he speaks with a mild, lilting accent reminiscent of certain now-extinct minorities from the southeastern or lower midwestern portion of North America, though it's questionable whether his accent is more akin to eastern texas, or southern oklahoma.
Mike is seemingly completely amoral, beyond his bizarre ethics, an ethical structure that lasts for the duration of the job.
Ethics:
1. The contract is all. Regardless of what is paid, services must be rendered completely, and thoroughly.
2. Targets that die without being killed by Mike's Murderhobos are incomplete contracts, and restitution for the failure to kill the target must be repaid to the client as reimbursement in some form that the client will consent to.
3. All sales are final. The Client may not end the contract early once they have paid. Even if the client dies, the job has to be completed unless it is literally impossible to complete (see: premature death of a target).
4. Non-target deaths are to be avoided when possible, but are acceptable, though not counted toward contract completion.
5. Be courteous and polite, even when speaking with a target or a target's loved ones.
6. It's all business.
Mike is a cursed soul, always being reincarnated in the same family line. This is because the soul is that of the human that married Theresa and imprisoned her to save a family member who needed a medical miracle from her blood.
He is thus cursed to always be near Theresa and in her service until they consummate their marriage. This will not save his soul from a terrible fate in the afterlife.
Carl Nixon
Carl Nixon has a knack for spotting things. To the point many feel he is wasted in his
Orion but he refuses to pilot anything else. He proclaims he has a bond with it.
Personality notes: Carl Nixon while sober tends to come across as reasonable and accommodating, even somewhat passive. This impression is a mistake, and it only takes a few drinks to make this mistake achingly clear. The quiet, calm, methodical man will quietly, calmly, and methodically do remarkably unwise things while drunk. Sometimes these can be funny things, like pranking an arrogant or overbearing senior officer with an overcomplicated stunt, or arranging to paint an obscene mural on a large public space…or it can be darker and far more personal, such as beating an MP who was abusing his authority to prey on street people to the edge of death in Oslo-with that worthy's very own stun-baton.
The common thread in triggering 'Drunken Carl' is abuse of authority or position-he hates that, while sober, he can hold back, but get him buzzed and he simply…ceases to care enough about the consequences to stop.
Historical note: Carl was the survivor of a unit that was virtually annihilated during the periphery uprising after their commanding officer gave the locals a
reason to want to kill Star League troops.
