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Ryo Venn
Topic Started: Mar 9 2013, 03:34 AM (27 Views)
First_Knight_Scott
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IDENTITY
Name: Ryo Tara Venn. Probably not her real name, and probably coined by her.
Nicknames: Jester, Solitaire, Unknown (large) number of expendable false IDs and credentials
Species: Human (Genetically altered.)
Age: 20...Ish. Give or take a year
Birthplace: "On some backwater station somewhere?" Unknown.
Job: SpecOps Agent, Assassin, Pirate, Treasure hunter, Ex-Runner (Corp merc. Thief, saboteur and agent)

APPEARANCE
Hair: Black
Skin: Pale
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5ft 9in
Weight: 118lb
Tattoos: Knife wielding Jester silouhette on inner right wrist, Nikos Malik's sigil on her left inner wrist, along with a barcode
Scars: Various scars and burns on arms and back, long scar across stomach, burn marks left from a shock collar on back of neck

CLOTHING
Usually something heavy duty and hard wearing. Military surplus being a favourite, along with some kind of dangeous looking boots. She does have a love of anything brightly coloured, though.
Wears elbow length fingerless glovesto hide her scars and brands, and usually lightly armoured gauntlets over those
Has recently taken to wearing a grey Imperial Officer's cap with an evil grinning jester face in place of usual badge. Where she got it is probably best left unasked

EQUIPMENT
+Two custom blasters
+Two long, slightly claw-curved vibroknives usually kept on her belts.
+Combat knife
+Several throwing knives
+Microfilament grappling system attached to one glove on a gauntlet, good for utility or combat. Also carries several wire and hook canisters if she need to leave one behind somewhere.
+Datapad/Comm with holo functionality built into the other gauntlet.
+Thanks to her incredibly fast metabolism, Ryo usually carries cereal bars or sugary food with her.

VEHICLES
+Custom speeder bike, fully built by Ryo but with a design loosely based on the Nighthawk. Nicknamed the Banshee, due to the scream it gives when being pushed in overdrive - Something Ryo is known for doing simply as she's a speedfreak.

ABILITIES
+Physically, chemically and psychologically conditioned and Trained from childhood by an Imperial Agent. As such, she tends to be very resourceful and stealthy, and has proven to be elite in close combat. She has good understanding of tactics and strategy. Incredibly agile and acrobatic, something of a signature being her making her skills look like a dance.
+Trained to be highly resistant to torture. The fact that she's damn stubborn only helps more
+Highly talented hacker and mechanic, possesses a near-supernatural ability to understand and fix (or break) mechanics and electronics. She seems to know instinctively when things 'feel', 'look' or 'sound' broken or out of place
+Adept pilot, if a bit of a speedfreak. She can fly just about anything given a bit of time to get a feel for it
+Especially adept fighting in close quarters such as ship interiors or corridors, but knows her way around a sniper rifle if it comes to it
+Fluent in Basic and Huttese, and can at least negotiate a deal or throw casual abuse in a dozen or so other languages. She tends to put on a mix and ever shifting mash of accents, but naturally speaks in a highly typical 'Imperial' accent, despite efforts otherwise

PERSONALITY
+General traits: Wilful, sarcastic, cracks jokes especially when under pressure. Friendly and loyal to a fault when she gets to know and trust somebody. Tends to come across as happy-go-lucky and carefree, but will shift into a cold, highly calculating, 'professional' mindset when need be with little to no warning or middle ground. Has an underlying, incredibly introspective and self-doubting side, but tends to not show this if possible. She will also go to great lengths to not talk about her childhood.
+Phobias: Ending up on some Hutt's wall or something. More precisely as Ryo has a fear of being frozen or paralyzed. Secretly fears losing people she cares about, though tries to cover this up or just not get involved with people in the first place.
+Quirks: Tends to distrust strangers, especially the nice ones. Seems to try to either learn as much as she can about someone or drive them away with her sarcasm or bitterness. Can be very quick to anger. Ryo also hates slavers with a passion. She also prefers to perch on chairs or sit on the floor. She also seems to compare warfare to a theatrical production, and seems to refer to either chaos or fate frequently. Making her question her humanity can have unpredictable effects.
+Habits: Tilts her head frequently when thinking, tends to absently play with knives, tools or coins when not busy.

BACKGROUND
To Ryo's knowledge, she was sold into the slave trade so her drug addict parents could pay for a fix. That's enough to make anyone bitter about their upbringing. Except, for Ryo, things went downhill from there. Bought by one Imperial Agent Nikos Marik, a three year old Ryo was brought up onboard outlaw space stations and aboard Imperial ships and facilities, trained and used as a tool for the agent. Over the following years, Ryo was 'trained' to shoot, fight, infiltrate, steal and even resist the effects of torture, or suffer for resisting. In essence, she was turned into nothing short of a weapon. Somehow, she survived everything that was thrown at her, though not without the conditioning leaving long lasting side-effects on her mind. Not least, her apparent belief in fate of some kind, and her frequently referring to warfare and combat using theatrical or musical terms.

When she was thirteen, Ryo saw an opportunity to get her freedom from the man and the regime she had come to despise. Practice duelling Marik with vibroblades, Ryo turned her training on the man who made her the weapon she had become and remorselessly cut him down, leaving him for dead. Taking his valuables, Ryo sold everything she could and bought passage onboard the ship of a group of privateers. Turning out to have a natural affinity for mechanics and electronics alongside her combat and stealth conditioning, Ryo ended up putting this to use on the streets as she hopped planet to planet, frequently as a stowaway, inspired by the pirates to live independently and look out for those she could.

Over time, Ryo learned to let go of her past, and forged herself a new identity as a freelancer for hire, ever furthering her abilities and learning to put her old history behind her, though never forget it. Recent events have left her hunting many people for revenge, though. A job on Nar Shaddaa went bad and she ended up being caught, then put to use as a slave fighter in a Hutt's deathmatch arenas, until she managed to spring her escape in a bloody effort referred to by survivors and the press as a 'Dance of death'.

Rather than dwell on her past and her nature, Ryo prefers to try and be happy-go-lucky and often comes across as almost childlike and hyperactive. After all, she's not really had too much of an opportunity. Never for a moment, though, does she believe she is no longer a weapon.

A non-exhaustive list of her criminal record, spread across many aliases and false identities includes a combined 400+ counts of Theft, Hacking private and Imperial security systems, Impersonating an Imperial Agent, Armed robbery, Sabotage, Theft of speeders and speeder bikes, Inciting riots, Falsifying identification data, Arson, Murder, Smuggling and Piracy, amongst others.
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