[hider=ᴇɪᴋᴏ ɴɪᴇʙᴏ][center][img]http://i.imgur.com/21rQr1i.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/ZnqYusy.jpg?1[/img][/center] [hr][hr][indent][indent][indent][color=8c8685]"Music makes me forget myself, my real position; it transports me to some other position not my own. Under the influence of music it seems to me that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I can do what I cannot do. I explain it by the fact that music acts like yawning, like laughter: I am not sleepy, but I yawn when I see someone yawning; there is nothing for me to laugh at, but I laugh when I hear people laughing. Music carries me immediately and directly into the mental condition in which the man was who composed it. My soul merges with his and together with him I pass from one condition into another, but why this happens I don't know." [right]Leo Tolstoy, [i]The Kreutzer Sonata[/i][/right][/color][/indent][/indent][/indent][hr][hr] [color=934641][u][b]Name[/b][/u][/color] [indent]Eiko Niebo[/indent] [color=934641][u][b]Age[/b][/u][/color] [indent]27[/indent] [color=934641][u][b]Appearance[/b][/u][/color] [indent]Eiko is a lean, olive-skinned girl with a tempting and suggestive sway guarded by an almost all-too-cliché sarcastically stoic demeanor, which just so happens to wear on her attitude of involuntary conformism towards such stereotypes which only adds to her own self-annoyance. So, she could change her outfit and look a bit less lusty, but hey now, if she’s going drift around pointlessly in this painful existence, why not offer some entertainment with a skimpish black one-piece? And sure, her breasts are a bit small and yawning, but if perky and youthful isn’t in the least bit interesting, at least her bare, toned thighs have some sort of substance, especially when she’s walking. And, those dark red lines outlining her piece don’t hurt when accentuating her feminine physique. She thinks she looks pretty fucking sexy, anyways, and if no one else does — whatever — their loss. Although, Eiko is above average height, a little more height for intimidation added by her black boots, matching in gesture and design with her short one-piece, wouldn’t hurt with anything, right? Yeah, Eiko thought the same, as well. The soles even have some phenomenal gripping and weigh nearly nothing, which upgraded her kicking game post the addition of these accessories. Her pale, white hair is kept short and choppy, cut with bangs and decorated with her trusty black and gray goggles that occasionally cover her arrogantly worn yellow eyes. An unlit cigarette butt usually sticks out of her thin lips. Sometimes, she’ll even light and smoke it. However, the rolled tobacco and paper pressed simply in-between her lips is enough to keep her round, austere face from looking too vulnerable. She wouldn’t want to catch too many people off guard with her pinch-able cheeks and button nose. It gets a bit lagging after a while, anyways. Oh, and the ‘earmuffs’ are obviously good for more than muffling out loud crossfire sounds. They are also headphones that can play music and help her communicate with the rest of the crew along with other various nearby channels.[/indent] [color=934641][u][b]Traits[/b][/u][/color] [indent]As an outwardly-looking perfunctory type of character, Eiko has no problem going-with-the-flow, even if she’ll openly grumble against it from time-to-time. It’s not that she doesn’t have a backbone, but her collectivist style of living sometimes gets the best of her. Don’t get her wrong, though, she has passions — like the thrill of hearing a gun cock click right before all hell breaks loose, spending precious time gently lubricating her plasma rifle, and slirping down cheap, steaming noodles with poor, overly salty seasoning, and, as always, getting to know her co-workers. One of her pastimes is simply listening to music. Unlike her cliché appearance, though, Eiko has no real set genre of music to which she listens and thoroughly enjoys space travel for the experience of listening to the various and different music-types around the Solar System. It also saddens her a bit whenever a song gets stuck in her head, and she has no real means of listening to it after [i]Absolute Magnitude[/i] gets directed to the next mission. So, hearing Eiko make a half-assed hum when not wearing her headphones isn’t too uncommon. Eiko also spends time practicing the art of Silat. Her own personal [i]Pencak[/i] is often times silently demonstrated to whatever music is playing in her headgear. She’s also usually up for a good sparring and taunting foreplay beforehand, and if you want to see her smile, poke in her ego a bit. She’s a good sport — for the most part. [hider=History]Don’t be fooled by Eiko’s Japanese first name, she’s not from Mars. Although, she does hold quite a bit of Martian blood in her. Someone down the line pulled himself up by his bootstraps and made a voyage from Mars to lead a better life, away from all the convolution and crime of the shadow planet. It must not have been too far down the line because Eiko’s first bounty was hunting down her older brother, Jun, a Gold fugitive, initiated with the men of the yakuza. Okay, so, she didn’t really, really hunt him down. She had that sisterly insight on things, which was, of course, Jun’s mistake. Eiko needed the money, and well, the rest is history. Her father, Ken Niebo, also worked as a Licensed Weapons Dealer. This worked in favor of Eiko’s knowledge of munition, but it also helped introduce her brother to the darker side of some innocent seemingly customers. Without either, though, Eiko knows she wouldn’t be where she is today, and she’s still deciding if that’s good or bad or just some absurd fate she’ll never truly understand that might as well be drowned out by the sound of music. [hider=Hidden History]Ken Niebo was no Captain of Industry, having been born and raised on one of the ultra-wealthy moons of Jupiter, but he knew guns — just like his father, his grandfather, and presumably his great-grandfather. So, yeah, it could pretty much be hypothesized that The Niebo Family were some sort of weapon dealers back on Mars. However, Ken’s grandfather liked to look at things a bit differently, and by differently, he just never spoke of how or why the Niebos were into the gun slinging and selling. [i]It just was.[/i] Of course, [i]It just was[/i] wasn’t good enough for Jun, and therefore, it wasn’t good enough for Eiko, either. It probably would have been okay for Eiko because she wasn’t always the deepest thinker as a child, but she looked up to her Goddamn brother. He was her hero. Everything she could do, he could do better, and everything he could do, she wanted to be able to do. Like, when he started smoking cigarettes, Eiko was right behind him. In fact, speaking of cigarettes, it was this little dirty habit that lead Eiko into pirating. Not only were cigarettes just kind of an expensive habit for an underaged girl like herself, but hey, it also gave her some cool points with the older guy. Anyways, Jun wasn’t really a hero or a good guy, but Eiko just was really [i]not[/i] the deepest thinker like that. Her brother was a knight to her, not that she’d ever use that kind of terminology in a serious manner, but pedantics-shemantics. However you wanna word it, Jun was pretty aware of his little sister’s eager feelings towards him, and he was ready and willing to use her eagerness. There was even this unspoken rule Jun’s ‘buddies’ immediately picked up on: sure, his dumb broad of a sister was no angel, but she was better off not knowing the truth about Jun. Jun had charisma like that. He pulled people with his charm. So, it wasn't really a big surprise that when he went looking for trouble, trying to figure out the secret history of his surname, he found the trouble he was looking for, and the assumption was spot on: Weapon Dealers. Dirty, filthy, rich weapon dealers -- the complete opposite of the modest family business working humble hours to make ends meet. That's all they’d ever be on Jupiter, poor, grimy weapon dealers. Not on Mars. So what if he had to wash his hands of someone else’s blood every now and again? The amount of power he could accumulate in a small amount of time -- milking his last name’s legacy. Niebo was a blast from the past, some niche legend that the older generation occasionally recalled from some memorable story. This was his calling: bringing life back to his family’s name, and he wasn't going to leave Eiko behind… yet. Eiko never saw her family as poor. They lived on Jupiter for all such sake, but her brother knew how to work her. She was, after all, a naive, physically underdeveloped fifteen year old girl at the time. She didn't have Jun’s exact charisma, but she could smile cute and fake a pretty twinkle in an unsuspecting manner. She also knew how to whip a gun like she’d been doing it her whole life (because she had). He started her out with small jobs, kind of like the stealing of cigarettes and pocket change but a bit bigger and with more responsibility and backlash if failed. It didn't take long for Eiko to start junking on the adrenaline and thrill of the rewards, and in return, Jun let her know [i]what was up.[/i] He never gave her the full story, though. Hell, he didn't even give his best friend the full story. He was so hush-hush it made some people wonder how he got so much business and trust. Eiko knew it was his silence that gave him the authority, and she respected him for it. So did his best friend, Wesley Jderoiu. Others might have respected him for being tall, angry, murderous -- but not Eiko, nor Wes. They both respected and loved Jun; and maybe it was Eiko and Wes’ understanding of Jun that made their relationship; or maybe it was something else. Either way, the big guy never fully approved. There could have been a conglomerate of reasons as to why Jun despised their interests in each other: age, business, drugs, insight; the list could go on. However, Eiko has the hardest time understanding why Jun threw Wes to the wolves. It was not as if he just discarded Wes for any good reason. Anyone could have taken Wes’ place. It was a fucking suicide mission, and Wes had no bloody clue. Jun played him like a pawn. And, Eiko? Well, Eiko couldn’t believe it had taken her so long to figure out what her brother was doing. Power. Greed. Hunger. Slowly, Eiko let herself drift out of Jun’s group. It was as if, after Wes’ death, Jun was different. He wasn’t remorseful or even the least bit empathetic (nor sympathetic) towards Eiko. If anything, he gave her the cold shoulder. It was as if he was trying to teach her a lesson for something she didn’t know she had done wrong, and eventually, she was a nobody to him -- until she turned his ass in. Granted, it took her several years to do it. Moping aside, it took a while before she could work her way back into the system after seeing the proceeds of her brother’s worth. He wasn’t [i]just[/i] pawning people, he was pawning parties; and the stakes were kind of high. No one had to thank Eiko for her work, though. Getting a hold of her brother, and hearing the sound of his jovial voice, excited to see her ‘back from being a crybaby over her Wes’ much needed and selfless sacrifice’ before seeing the shock on his face as his kid sister nearly killed him and then proceeded to trade him in for a really nice reward was good enough, materially, anyways. She was still Eiko, Jun’s dumb broad of a sister, and Wes was dead. The last decade of her life was some brainwashed black market con-job. She could go home and look her parents in the eyes and tell them about the time she killed a guy while strip teasing for him, or how she almost killed Jun instead of turning his body in for a bounty. She was a criminal. There was really no going back. She was no prodigal daughter; and everything her family had worked so hard for: God, she [i]was[/i] a dumb broad (not that she was about to admit it out loud). At least, she's got music to drown her out... and now, [i]The Magnitude[/i]. [/hider][/hider][/indent] [color=934641][u][b]Strengths[/b][/u][/color] [indent][color=934641][i]Savvy[/i][/color] She's not exactly a ‘Jill-of-all-Trades (and Master of None),’ but she is a quick learner with agile reflexes and fine motor control skills. Give her a few tools, and she can fix a lot of problems. Well, the non-existential-crisis problems, usually. But, don’t worry; she can fix the existential-crisis ones, too, even if the methods are generally fatal as her good hand-eye-coordination makes quite a useful combination when using rifle, her preferred weapon of choice. She has a metal tiger claw on hand for out-of-ammo emergencies and close-encounters, though. [color=934641][i]Weapons Specialist[/i][/color] She's got good hand-eye-coordination, so detonating and deactivating are all fair play. Plus, her father was a Licensed Weapon Dealer. What could she not know? (A bit, but hey -- no one's perfect, and that's not saying she ain't a specialist.) In regards to things like gun fire control -- this is generally when Eiko slides her goggles over her eyes. She's never sure when she's going to be blasting heavy artillery at attacking ships or have an electro-mechanical analog ballistic computer screen blaring at her light eyes. Those radar screens can also give quite the headache in heated moments... But, whatever, she's got her lucky goggles. Eiko is also more than capable of operating large fire munitions that aren't so technical. Just don't ask her to properly aim one of those 19th century canons, 'cause that's above her pay-grade. [color=934641][i]Athletic[/i][/color] Eiko is probably more athletic than she is intelligent, but that doesn’t mean she’s a dumb broad. She’s a quick learner, remember? And, although, her mood seems rather impatient and satirical, Eiko is (almost) a Master in Silat, and is quite adaptable and all for playing a good game of charades when it comes down to a quick pro tempore acting gig to get a buck for a bounty. She is usually a good sport, after all. [color=934641][i]Curious[/i][/color] Her curiosity could either be a pro or a con, but she prefers to think of it as a positive characteristic. It seems like a decent trait to have when socializing, escaping from a tight situation, or treasure hunting. It kind of adds a similar seasoning like bravery or courage to her charm. As well, if she wasn’t curious, she’d have blown her brains out by now due to not particularly giving a damn about what was going to happen next — actually, that’s one of her over-used, running-inside jokes she keeps to herself, so don’t question her insanity too much. [color=934641][i]Honest[/i][/color] Even though Eiko comes off as hasty or superficial, she is a bit of a blunt truth seeker. To say she’ll never tell a lie would be a lie in itself. She’s a flawed creature just like the rest of ‘em. With that said, she thinks playing with sugar-coated bullshit seems like an inefficient waste of time, anyways. If you want her thoughts or reasoning, Eiko will beat the bush as many times as she deems necessary as opposed to skirting the issue or missing the mark. So yes, Eiko will tell it how it is (from her standpoint, ‘cause that’s probably the best she can do). However, if she truthfully needs to withhold information in exchange for something she can’t get any other way, she might just do so.[/indent] [color=934641][u][b]Weaknesses[/b][/u][/color] [indent][color=934641][i]Nosy[/i][/color] She’s not just curious, but she is also nosy and has the tendency to ask inappropriate questions in a careless pursuit to know more about a person. She’s also fair game for pretending to listen to her headphones but actually be eavesdropping on a conversation. If they didn’t wanna be heard, why would they make it so easy for her to hear them? She wouldn’t go so far as to snoop through someone’s room, but that’s not to say she wouldn’t tinker given the [i]golden[/i] opportunity. [color=934641][i]Impatient[/i][/color] Maybe if Eiko had more patience she would have actually mastered Silat or wouldn’t constantly try to pry personal information out of people, or [i]something[/i], but such is not the case. So, here she is on [i]Absolute Magnitude,[/i] attempting to piece together everyone’s stories like she’ll never understand her own without knowing everything about everyone else, first. Likewise, Eiko can be rash or careless, and her curiosity does not always help to edge some of those brazen or cheeky impulses. So far, her recklessness hasn’t gotten herself killed, yet, but that fact alone isn’t saying much about any comrades. [color=934641][i]Selfish[/i][/color] Sure, Eiko is honest and wants to get to know everyone, and yes, she is even out there bounty hunting, capturing criminals for the good of society. However, at the end of the day, she’s really just doing it for herself, and if she ends up helping people along the way — hey, more power to her. Unfortunately, she’ll save herself before putting her neck on the line. She’s not actually trying to get herself killed; it’s the Adrenalin rush. So, if she does put her neck on the line, it was probably more for the Adrenalin of a calculated risk and low-key status report than the actual selfless, heroic act. [color=934641][i]Offensive[/i][/color] Operating munitions isn't necessarily the job for a defensive person. Although, deactivating could be defensive. However, in all seriousness, Eiko aims to kill not wound, and this little knack comes at a price along side of how honesty isn't always nice. So, Eiko's strong point really isn't particularly in polite manners or thinking. That's not how you get the job done. With that said, losing a wits battle has always been a peeve, so a gruff attitude can easily be unveiled to shield the intellectual blows. Oh yeah, the good sport thing -- it was [i]for the most part[/i]. Unfortunately, her temperament or annoyed, careless attitude is definitely a present fixture on her face, which is not the most pleasant thing to have in close quarters. That's not to say she's always getting into fights -- just look at her general complacency, and besides, music is medicine for the soul. Why else would she be so addicted to her headphones? Plus, fighting with coworkers isn't really efficient, but sometimes, it's hard to bottle excess emotions. So, maybe a good sparring match to tame the flames?[/indent][/hider] [@DeadbeatWalking], I added a [i]Hidden History Hider[/i] inside the [i]History Hider.[/i]