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Name: Blaze-37
Nickname: Blaze (used by everyone). Her original template/iteration was named Brynhild Marshall, but that’s more of a former alias.
Age: 4 going on 8-900 (canon is really, really unclear on the timespan between the game’s era and present day but it’s on the order of centuries).
Sex: Female.
Race: Exo – she will also refer to herself as human unless using the term in a strictly biological sense.
Sexual Orientation: Roughly speaking, bisexual although she hasn’t explored that aspect of herself at all (within memory). Bryn was heterosexual, so either numerous reboots have caused some personality drift or human minds interact oddly with a mechanoid body. (It’s both.)
Socioeconomic level as a child: Lower-middle class… whatever that meant in Golden Age utopia.
Socioeconomic level as an adult: ‘Help I am a money factory.’ Guardians are responsible for bringing in the material used as currency in the Last City, and she doesn’t even have to buy food, so…
Birth date: About the turn of the twenty-third century, for Bryn. Blaze was built sometime in the following hundred years or so.
Birth place: Her original birthplace was on terraformed Venus, in the colony centred around the intellectual paradise of the Ishtar Academy. She was resurrected around Alang on the North Indian coast.
Current residence: A one-room, one-person jumpship shared with Ghost.
Occupation: Guardian
Title/Rank: ‘Guardian’ or ‘Titan’. Not much hierarchy in the Tower.
Hobbies/Pastimes: Listening to stories/history lessons, embroidery and other repairs, races and arena matches, dancing in odd places, finding new things to fight. She’s attempted to take up crochet a couple of times but lacks the patience to sit and work at it.
Talents/Skills/Powers: She’s a robot space soldier with all the training that entails. She’s proficient with a range of vehicles, military equipment and especially weaponry from her universe, plus field maintenance of the same. She’s also tolerably fluent in a number of the more common Earth languages… which is to say, their Golden Age (and sometimes City Age) descendants.
Blaze carries the Traveller’s Light – basically space magic which has some odd effects on her and the equipment she uses – both physically and metaphysically (creatures of the Dark are drawn her way, AI hiveminds can’t simulate or predict her properly). Over time and use her weapons and armor become infused with her Light, altering their properties to make them more effective… particularly against the Darkness, of course.
Like all Guardians, her Ghost can resurrect her within seconds even if she’s been physically atomized. This effect is inhibited within areas corrupted by a powerful source of Darkness. As a Titan, her Light gives her super strength and makes her physically more durable; she can use it to ‘lift’ herself in long arcing bounds across the battlefield or jet up quickly to break contact.
Her specific subclassfor now is Striker, using rapid aggression and close-quarters combat to draw fire and shatter enemy lines/positions. This means she gets to channel Light into the form of lightning through her fists, grenades (she favors flashbangs) and catapulting herself at people with the Fist of Havoc.
Past History
Hometown: The Last City
First Memory: Waking up in a pile of mud and debris to see Ghost. They got jumped by Fallen shortly after and some asshole dreg jammed a shock dagger in her back.
Most important childhood event that still affects him/her: She doesn’t remember her technical childhood. Gonna define this loosely and say it’s her resurrection as a Guardian/waking up in the ruins of the world she was created to defend.
Why/How? That set the foundation for everything she’s become since: it’s where she gained her abilities, the point where she started making sense of who she is, where she met Ghost; it’s the point where she got her first look at what the Darkness did to her world… and threw herself into destroying the enemies in front of her rather than stop to deal with the magnitude of that.
It was the practical choice at the time, but she’s never developed an alternative response.
Other memories/events that still affects him/her and why/how: Seeing the City and the Traveller for the first time: after nothing but hundreds of miles of dead cities and wilderness, finding a living, buzzing stronghold of humanity defiant brought a sense of proud elation she’s held onto ever since.
Finding the Nexus was important in a bunch of ways, but it’s given her a vision of what her people should have had: the freedom to spread their wings and explore the universe(s) beyond their walls. Of course, it’s also given her tales of the terrible things done by iterations of humanity who never met the Traveler, making her all the more loyal to their silent not-a-god for uplifting them.
And then there was getting hit by an LOL and de-aged into a human. That was a pretty huge one. She still hasn’t figured out how to come to terms with it.
Past failures she would be embarrassed to have people know about and why: Blaze is a forthright sort, so she won’t deny her mistakes or go out of her way to avoid admitting them. There are plenty of things that she’ll be at least a little embarrassed about if they come up, though. Mission/training pratfalls tend to get laughed off (it’s all fun and games until a civilian gets hurt) but she does regret things like failing to kill a Fallen Baroness on a strike mission. Losing a limb is no big deal – losing a mission objective has actual consequences for her comrades.
In the Nexus she’s particularly embarrassed by her reactions to certain LOLs – she did not handle the bodyswap as well as she’d have expected, and felt humbled that Harrow (a being of ~dark magic~) was better able to stay positive and aid others.
Biggest role model: Oh, boy. Blaze has a few. Biggest, though? Commander Zavala.
Why? He’s her leader, the mentor for young Titans, and a noble, kind man whose first and only concern is defending the City. Besides which he’s a legendarily badass warrior. Blaze’s respect for him is more solid and personal than the hero-worship she directs at other legends, and her desire to emulate him is a moderating influence on her. Zavala taught her what it meant to be a Titan when she was newly-reborn and kind of lost: she thinks of his example a lot when she encounters confused newcomers in the Nexus.
(Honorable mentions: Wei Ning, a past Titan who embodied Blaze’s aggressive battle philosophy, and Kaolin Sorn, the first other Guardian she met.)
Biggest challenge from childhood: Adapting to her new life without getting perma-killed. ): As far as Bryn goes I’m not sure, but I know she didn’t fit in with her parents’ scientific inclinations. They were uneasy about her joining up with the Defence Corps – and they were really unhappy about her long-term goal of a career in private security. It’s very likely they knew something she didn’t.
Physical Characteristics
Height: About six feet, plus two or three inches from the plate armor.
Weight: A Lot. It’s not all concentrated in her center – her armor’s designed to balance weight where it’ll aid movement and momentum. So, for example, her gauntlets and boots are particularly heavy – even before the inertial sinks kick in. No dramatic rope bridge fights for her, is the point.
Posture: Straight-backed but typically relaxed. Tensing up just slows you down.
Build: Thinner than might be expected: her armor adds bulk and masks how the oddities of an Exo frame. She doesn’t need muscle mass anyway. She’s got some serious hips though.
Skin: White, black, with some bright yellow markings. The pattern’s somewhat more complex under her clothes, a bit like an oversized butterfly. Worth noting: the Exo sense of touch is vastly more sensitive than human standard, unlike most of their other senses. Wearing clothes serves (among other purposes) to help damp down an otherwise distracting source of input.
Hair: None.
Eyes: Glowing golden yellow.
Describe their smile: No real expressiveness around the mouth, so all that happens is the plates around her eyes shift up a bit in a subtle ^_^
Tattoos/Scars? She has one or two on her back that she hasn’t caught and had Ghost fix yet.
Glasses/Contacts? Nope.
Left/Right handed? Preferentially right.
Distinguishing features: A nice pair of slender antennae. They’re as sensitive to touch as the rest of her; since she wears her helmet so much it rarely comes up. (Snow tickles though.) Also, something I have never remembered to mention in an intro: the inside of her mouth/lights up when she speaks, the same color as her eyes.
Who does she take after; mother or father? No idea.
Style (Elegant, shabby, etc): Durable, practical, simple. Bright and colorful is good for drawing fire but she’s only fussy about any emblems on her clothes.
How does she dress or what do they typically wear? Plate armor over a padded undersuit: swept-back helm, padded shoulders, typically colored white and/or black.
Other outfits one might find in their wardrobe: A set of human clothes, for LOL emergencies. A collection of paper masks for the Festival of the Lost. And of course, the knitted panda hat Steve gave her.
Jewelry: None. Exos tend to favor paint markings or textile accessories for contrast.
Other accessories: The embroidered mark clipped at her right hip. Which she wears changes over time, but she's been wearing the Mark of Resolve for a while now.
Weapons: Ask Hughes about her weapons cache. Her preference is hand-to-hand combat, but otherwise her primary weapon is a short-burst pulse rifle for accuracy and speed at range. Typically she combines this with a shotgun and rocket launcher.
Health: Physically excellent when she isn’t dead. There’s rarely an in-between.
Hygiene: Perfunctory. She takes frequent decon showers after missions, but expends most effort on cleaning her armor and equipment.
Physical Flaws: She’s heavy and very easy to hear coming. She generates a lot of heat when she’s exerting herself physically and computationally, and she’s developed a habit of routing the excess through her armor plates to radiate it off. Useful for her organic friends in the winter, but it does make her light up in infrared.
Physical Qualities: Immunity to fatigue, disease and greatly reduced need for sleep; heightened sense of touch. She doesn’t eat, but she can drink certain fluids – they’re only synthesized in the City so she more often ‘drinks’ the charge from large power packs for a buzz. When she is injured, she bleeds coolant.
Name: Blaze-37
Nickname: Blaze (used by everyone). Her original template/iteration was named Brynhild Marshall, but that’s more of a former alias.
Age: 4 going on 8-900 (canon is really, really unclear on the timespan between the game’s era and present day but it’s on the order of centuries).
Sex: Female.
Race: Exo – she will also refer to herself as human unless using the term in a strictly biological sense.
Sexual Orientation: Roughly speaking, bisexual although she hasn’t explored that aspect of herself at all (within memory). Bryn was heterosexual, so either numerous reboots have caused some personality drift or human minds interact oddly with a mechanoid body. (It’s both.)
Socioeconomic level as a child: Lower-middle class… whatever that meant in Golden Age utopia.
Socioeconomic level as an adult: ‘Help I am a money factory.’ Guardians are responsible for bringing in the material used as currency in the Last City, and she doesn’t even have to buy food, so…
Birth date: About the turn of the twenty-third century, for Bryn. Blaze was built sometime in the following hundred years or so.
Birth place: Her original birthplace was on terraformed Venus, in the colony centred around the intellectual paradise of the Ishtar Academy. She was resurrected around Alang on the North Indian coast.
Current residence: A one-room, one-person jumpship shared with Ghost.
Occupation: Guardian
Title/Rank: ‘Guardian’ or ‘Titan’. Not much hierarchy in the Tower.
Hobbies/Pastimes: Listening to stories/history lessons, embroidery and other repairs, races and arena matches, dancing in odd places, finding new things to fight. She’s attempted to take up crochet a couple of times but lacks the patience to sit and work at it.
Talents/Skills/Powers: She’s a robot space soldier with all the training that entails. She’s proficient with a range of vehicles, military equipment and especially weaponry from her universe, plus field maintenance of the same. She’s also tolerably fluent in a number of the more common Earth languages… which is to say, their Golden Age (and sometimes City Age) descendants.
Blaze carries the Traveller’s Light – basically space magic which has some odd effects on her and the equipment she uses – both physically and metaphysically (creatures of the Dark are drawn her way, AI hiveminds can’t simulate or predict her properly). Over time and use her weapons and armor become infused with her Light, altering their properties to make them more effective… particularly against the Darkness, of course.
Like all Guardians, her Ghost can resurrect her within seconds even if she’s been physically atomized. This effect is inhibited within areas corrupted by a powerful source of Darkness. As a Titan, her Light gives her super strength and makes her physically more durable; she can use it to ‘lift’ herself in long arcing bounds across the battlefield or jet up quickly to break contact.
Her specific subclass
Past History
Hometown: The Last City
First Memory: Waking up in a pile of mud and debris to see Ghost. They got jumped by Fallen shortly after and some asshole dreg jammed a shock dagger in her back.
Most important childhood event that still affects him/her: She doesn’t remember her technical childhood. Gonna define this loosely and say it’s her resurrection as a Guardian/waking up in the ruins of the world she was created to defend.
Why/How? That set the foundation for everything she’s become since: it’s where she gained her abilities, the point where she started making sense of who she is, where she met Ghost; it’s the point where she got her first look at what the Darkness did to her world… and threw herself into destroying the enemies in front of her rather than stop to deal with the magnitude of that.
It was the practical choice at the time, but she’s never developed an alternative response.
Other memories/events that still affects him/her and why/how: Seeing the City and the Traveller for the first time: after nothing but hundreds of miles of dead cities and wilderness, finding a living, buzzing stronghold of humanity defiant brought a sense of proud elation she’s held onto ever since.
Finding the Nexus was important in a bunch of ways, but it’s given her a vision of what her people should have had: the freedom to spread their wings and explore the universe(s) beyond their walls. Of course, it’s also given her tales of the terrible things done by iterations of humanity who never met the Traveler, making her all the more loyal to their silent not-a-god for uplifting them.
And then there was getting hit by an LOL and de-aged into a human. That was a pretty huge one. She still hasn’t figured out how to come to terms with it.
Past failures she would be embarrassed to have people know about and why: Blaze is a forthright sort, so she won’t deny her mistakes or go out of her way to avoid admitting them. There are plenty of things that she’ll be at least a little embarrassed about if they come up, though. Mission/training pratfalls tend to get laughed off (it’s all fun and games until a civilian gets hurt) but she does regret things like failing to kill a Fallen Baroness on a strike mission. Losing a limb is no big deal – losing a mission objective has actual consequences for her comrades.
In the Nexus she’s particularly embarrassed by her reactions to certain LOLs – she did not handle the bodyswap as well as she’d have expected, and felt humbled that Harrow (a being of ~dark magic~) was better able to stay positive and aid others.
Biggest role model: Oh, boy. Blaze has a few. Biggest, though? Commander Zavala.
Why? He’s her leader, the mentor for young Titans, and a noble, kind man whose first and only concern is defending the City. Besides which he’s a legendarily badass warrior. Blaze’s respect for him is more solid and personal than the hero-worship she directs at other legends, and her desire to emulate him is a moderating influence on her. Zavala taught her what it meant to be a Titan when she was newly-reborn and kind of lost: she thinks of his example a lot when she encounters confused newcomers in the Nexus.
(Honorable mentions: Wei Ning, a past Titan who embodied Blaze’s aggressive battle philosophy, and Kaolin Sorn, the first other Guardian she met.)
Biggest challenge from childhood: Adapting to her new life without getting perma-killed. ): As far as Bryn goes I’m not sure, but I know she didn’t fit in with her parents’ scientific inclinations. They were uneasy about her joining up with the Defence Corps – and they were really unhappy about her long-term goal of a career in private security. It’s very likely they knew something she didn’t.
Physical Characteristics
Height: About six feet, plus two or three inches from the plate armor.
Weight: A Lot. It’s not all concentrated in her center – her armor’s designed to balance weight where it’ll aid movement and momentum. So, for example, her gauntlets and boots are particularly heavy – even before the inertial sinks kick in. No dramatic rope bridge fights for her, is the point.
Posture: Straight-backed but typically relaxed. Tensing up just slows you down.
Build: Thinner than might be expected: her armor adds bulk and masks how the oddities of an Exo frame. She doesn’t need muscle mass anyway. She’s got some serious hips though.
Skin: White, black, with some bright yellow markings. The pattern’s somewhat more complex under her clothes, a bit like an oversized butterfly. Worth noting: the Exo sense of touch is vastly more sensitive than human standard, unlike most of their other senses. Wearing clothes serves (among other purposes) to help damp down an otherwise distracting source of input.
Hair: None.
Eyes: Glowing golden yellow.
Describe their smile: No real expressiveness around the mouth, so all that happens is the plates around her eyes shift up a bit in a subtle ^_^
Tattoos/Scars? She has one or two on her back that she hasn’t caught and had Ghost fix yet.
Glasses/Contacts? Nope.
Left/Right handed? Preferentially right.
Distinguishing features: A nice pair of slender antennae. They’re as sensitive to touch as the rest of her; since she wears her helmet so much it rarely comes up. (Snow tickles though.) Also, something I have never remembered to mention in an intro: the inside of her mouth/lights up when she speaks, the same color as her eyes.
Who does she take after; mother or father? No idea.
Style (Elegant, shabby, etc): Durable, practical, simple. Bright and colorful is good for drawing fire but she’s only fussy about any emblems on her clothes.
How does she dress or what do they typically wear? Plate armor over a padded undersuit: swept-back helm, padded shoulders, typically colored white and/or black.
Other outfits one might find in their wardrobe: A set of human clothes, for LOL emergencies. A collection of paper masks for the Festival of the Lost. And of course, the knitted panda hat Steve gave her.
Jewelry: None. Exos tend to favor paint markings or textile accessories for contrast.
Other accessories: The embroidered mark clipped at her right hip. Which she wears changes over time, but she's been wearing the Mark of Resolve for a while now.
Weapons: Ask Hughes about her weapons cache. Her preference is hand-to-hand combat, but otherwise her primary weapon is a short-burst pulse rifle for accuracy and speed at range. Typically she combines this with a shotgun and rocket launcher.
Health: Physically excellent when she isn’t dead. There’s rarely an in-between.
Hygiene: Perfunctory. She takes frequent decon showers after missions, but expends most effort on cleaning her armor and equipment.
Physical Flaws: She’s heavy and very easy to hear coming. She generates a lot of heat when she’s exerting herself physically and computationally, and she’s developed a habit of routing the excess through her armor plates to radiate it off. Useful for her organic friends in the winter, but it does make her light up in infrared.
Physical Qualities: Immunity to fatigue, disease and greatly reduced need for sleep; heightened sense of touch. She doesn’t eat, but she can drink certain fluids – they’re only synthesized in the City so she more often ‘drinks’ the charge from large power packs for a buzz. When she is injured, she bleeds coolant.
