[hider=Yeva Baumgartner] [center][IMG]http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/Mechakitten/Yeva%20Title.png~original[/IMG] [IMG]http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/Mechakitten/Fee%20Carmichael_2.png~original[/IMG][/center] [center][hr] [sub][b]"And they say that somewhere, there's a somebody for you, and they say it as if you'll meet them-- as if they're not one in trillions-- and that the possibility of dying alone is but a dream. Save yourself the suffering of searching and take what you can get."[/b][/sub] [/center][hr] [color=fff200][u][b]Name[/b][/u][/color] [indent]Yeva Baumgartner[/indent] [color=fff200][u][b]Age[/b][/u][/color] [indent]34[/indent] [color=fff200][u][b]Appearance[/b][/u][/color] [indent]Yeva is average height with a slightly heavy build and her skin is a warm brown. Her hair is wavy, ear length, and a noticeable shade of dark brown. Usually she keeps it loose with very little care for what "style" it's in though, she tends to pull it up into a small ponytail when working. A set of blue-green eyes stare tiredly from a rather average face that could blend in easily in a crowd. She smiles often, despite her seemingly perpetual weariness, and her voice is soft and sweet. A dark blue jacket, made of a wind and rain resistant material, is never far from her. It sports white stripes on the sleeves and red tags on each side of the zipper with white embroidered lettering-- the left reads her surname and the right reads A.L.C.. She often wears a long sleeved shirt no matter the weather, often claiming to be cold even while sweating. A pair of non eventful blue jeans and black leather work-boots final out her loose sense of the word "fashion." Yeva clearly prefers functional, practical, and useful clothing.[/indent] [color=fff200][u][b]Traits[/b][/u][/color] [indent]Cooking and silence are two of Yeva's favorite things. She is known for her long silences or excited conversation about a new recipe with little to no in between. Yeva's presence is subtle but she isn't usually huddled off alone somewhere. She takes joy in being around people and simply listening and laughing along with conversation. More often than not Yeva smells of desserts, because she has a rather notorious sweet tooth. While Yeva's not difficult to talk to, she tends to end a conversation if she's not in the mood for it, which is easy to tell by her thousand-mile stare mid conversation. In contrast, Yeva is by no means a cold person, and often speaks from a place of empathy and care for those that choose to confide in her-- which happens to be many people, even strangers. Indeed, Yeva tends to attract attention rather than seek it. She's a very good listener that can keep a secret better than the dead. Yeva's communication skills are by no means terrible-- she has been known to effectively mediate and negotiate with a professional ease-- and she does posses a rather dry, sarcastic, dark sense of humor.[/indent] [color=fff200][u][b]Past[/b][/u][/color] [indent]What is known about Yeva's is largely general ideas and half-truths... Yeva was born on an unnamed ship en-route to Jupiter. Callisto is where Yeva insists her home was, though this is more in a territorial sense, than physical. Her parents have been dead for a very long time and she often speaks of growing up alone and on the streets or in the wilderness. Roaming the hills and searching for food, scavenging piles of discarded tech, and avoiding handcuffs and citations are things Yeva speaks of with a mix of emotions. She was found rather accidentally by the crew of the Absolute Magnitude-- apparently when a bounty hunt lead them deep into the forest. The bounty target had already been caught by Yeva's well laid trap by the time the crew came upon the scene. Yeva keeps many details about herself carefully unspoken. Her jacket, branded with the obvious A.L.C. name plate for instance, is a subject she generally deflects questions about. Though a lot of her past has been discussed, this jacket is still something of a lingering mystery, along with how she developed such excellent cooking skills, despite her past.[/indent] [color=fff200][u][b]Strengths[/b][/u][/color] [indent][color=f7941d]Culinary Arts:[/color] Yeva could be described as a culinary prodigy. If someone on the crew wants it, she will go to great lengths to replicate the flavors, based on nothing more than a description, often with a high rate of success. She lives to cook and cooks to live. Yeva enjoys cooking fresh meals with "old school" natural ingredients. [color=f7941d]Communication Equipment:[/color] Her experience with a multitude of communicaton's devices from satellite to ancient era radio waves makes her something of a go-to for signal help. Yeva is by no means an expert, of course, but she knows a great deal and can often figure things out if given enough time and room to concentrate. That being said, Yeva has been defeated by a few odd pieces of equipment. [color=f7941d]Scrappy Fighting Skills:[/color] No professional training teaches someone to bite their opponent, throw dirt into their eyes, and run away. Yeva learned to fight somewhere rough and definitely not because she wanted to. Her skills are wild, focused on escape, and able to be countered by someone with expertise in fighting-- if the unpredictability doesn't manage to overwhelm them, that is. [color=f7941d]Wilderness Survival:[/color] Homelessness and a nomadic life have granted Yeva a good skillset of "old world" survival techniques, using little or nothing in order to scrape by. She seems to open up as a person while placed in the woods or mountains-- even taking something of a more vocal advisor role when necessary. She also knows how to hunt, track, and trap animals with ease-- techniques easily applied to people when necessary. [color=f7941d]Hunting Crossbow:[/color] Yeva is somewhat skilled at using a crossbow. She obtained one at some point in time and often talks about how the ammunition is "reusable" and how it was good to have while in the wild. She doesn't often bring it with her, but it looks to be very meticulously maintained with a few scratches from use and age.[/indent] [color=fff200] [u][b]Weaknesses[/b][/u][/color] [indent][color=00a651]Interpersonal Difficulties:[/color] Yeva often becomes frustrated with people to the point she can lapse into a day's worth of silence. Some things are learned only by interacting with others through life and Yeva simply hasn't had a lot of interaction with anyone. This can lead to a lot of misunderstandings and social difficulties for Yeva. She never vocalizes her frustrations and tends to bear them silently leading to a lot of grudge holding. [color=00a651]Weak Willed:[/color] Yeva can be frustratingly quick to back down from a fight, argument, or disagreement. Instead of trying to work things out or compromise, she will often agree for the sake of agreement, and can be easily pushed over when it comes to her opinions. Yeva chooses to not voice her perspective often as a result, even when it would probably be beneficial to do so. [color=00a651]Physically Weak:[/color] Yeva has muscle enough to mountain climb, walk long distances, and carry weight on her back-- it's more practical muscle than combat focused muscle. She has endurance rather than strength and can struggle with a heavy box. Running is not something she does willingly at all. Yeva is of the opinion that if she has to run, everything has probably gone to shit, and she may as well die at a leisurely pace. [color=00a651]High Fear of Animals:[/color] Severe trauma was apparently suffered at the claws or jaws of an animal at some point in her past. As a result, if an animal shows any signs of aggressiveness, Yeva can become nearly paralyzed with fear or the extreme opposite-- highly aggressive and likely to harm the animal without thinking. [color=00a651]Terrible Immune System:[/color] She has purchased a wide variety of cloth masks to keep over her face for when she is ill-- which is often-- and has to cook a meal for everyone. Yeva is usually either ill or recovering from an illness, some of which leave her with fevers and chills afterward. A lot of the time she can become ill with none of the rest of the crew catching the illness at all. When Yeva's "not sick" she tends to have a sniffle anyway.[/indent] [/hider]