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[b][u]Name[/u][/b]
Gisella Kabat

[b][u]Age[/u][/b]
18

[b][u]Nation[/u][/b]
Ostmark

[b][u]Rank[/u][/b]
Acting Squadron Leader (formerly)
Flight Lieutenant

[u][b]Striker Unit[/b][/u]
Messerschmitt Bf 109

[u][b]Weapon[/b][/u]
Solothurn 31M light MG

[u][b]Magical Ability[/b][/u]
Not only can she erect a magical shield in front of herself but she possesses the ability to create shields at a distance away from herself, allowing her to shield others at a distance.

[u][b]Animal Familiar[/b][/u]
Transylvanian Hound

[u][b]Personality[/b][/u]
She has been shaped by war and left cynical and abrasive, and that's on a good day.

[b][u]Bio/History[/u][/b]
Gisella was born in Ostmark and experienced it's fall to the Neuroi first hand. Though she would never speak about it, she still remembers the fear of those days, as cities were burned and hundreds died. While many fled Ostmark, many more remained trapped inside the nation's borders, forced to hide under the ruins of the buildings they once called home. Gisella was one of those poor souls.

When the call went out for those girls with magical talent to become Strike Witches, to combat the Neuroi, a young and idealistic Gisella volunteered. She received a crash training course in aerial combat and, among dozens of other recruits, was deployed, along with the floundering Ostmark military against the Neuroi invaders. Few survived their first engagement, but those who did were changed by the grim reality of the war over Ostmark.

Over the years Gisella became a veteran of dozens of missions against the Neuroi and got her fair share of scars to show for it, even losing her right eye. Many of her closest comrades were not as lucky. What had once been a concentrated effort to drive the Neuroi back had become a scattered resistance, behind enemy lines. A broken army fighting to reclaim a destroyed country. Finally word reached Ostmark that the 501st had destroyed not one, but two Neuroi Hives over western Europe and with this news came a renewed effort from the forces of the other nations to liberate Ostmark.

Gisella, having been operating in the role of Squadron Leader since the death of her predecessor, was just one of the few surviving Strike Witches who were recovered by the Allied forces that were sent to Ostmark. She, along with the other Strike Witches recovered from Ostmark were sent to RAF High Command for debriefing and some much deserved leave. Gisella, however, found the quiet after years of war to be unsettling and, when the new front opened up over Ming she requested to be allowed back into active service. High Command capitulated and accepted her request, however as she was never actually officially promoted to the rank of Squadron Leader, she was forced to accept a commission as a Flight Lieutenant.[/center]