[hider=Izumi Dare][center][hider=Image][img]https://www.halopedia.org/images/a/a6/HW-ProfEllenAnders-Portrait.png[/img][/hider][/center]
[b][u]Name:[/u][/b] Izumi M. Dare ("It's pronounced 'Dah-RAY'!")
[b][u]Species:[/u][/b] Human
[b][u]Age:[/u][/b] 25
[b][u]Gender:[/u][/b] Female
[b][u]Height:[/u][/b] 5'10" (177.7 cm)
[b][u]Weight:[/u][/b] 114 lbs (51.7 kg) ("You NEVER ask a woman that! What are you, a moron!?")
[b][u]Personality:[/u][/b] Izumi is, for lack of a better term, a tsundere. She dislikes interacting with people, but this is because she feels awkward and uncomfortable around those she's not familiar with. She covers up this fact by acting cold, snarky, and aggressive towards others. Having been raised by a single mother for the majority of her life, Dare can take care of herself quite well. In an interesting quirk, she is quite fond of animals, particularly cute ones; in fact, she's been known to go out of her way on a hunt to get a cute/young creature out of harm's way (whatever you do, NEVER bring up the "[url=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2f/3c/13/2f3c134cadf692f34130b91390f486ab.jpg]Horned Lemur[/url] Incident" when she's around; she's still so embarrassed about the incident that she's been known to thrash those who even [i]mention[/i] Horned Lemurs in everyday conversation). Izumi is more than a bit of a gun nut, and on her time off she can often be found in her workshop, repairing and modifying weapons and armor brought to her. She's so much of a gun nut that she's been known to ask if she could "tweak" a teammate's weapons or armor [i]in the middle of a fight[/i]. If you want to see her excited about anything, just bring up guns when talking to her... assuming you have more than an hour to kill.
[b][u]History:[/u][/b] Twenty-six years ago the CEO and owner of DareTek-- one of the largest interstellar defense contractors this side of the Milky Way-- had an affair with his secretary. As with many tales like this, said secretary discovered she was pregnant, and was subsequently fired when she told her boss. In exchange for her silence, Mr. Dare agreed to financially support her until her daughter was an adult. While it was never an extravagant amount of money, it was enough to let Izumi live a somewhat normal life. Well, almost; while other little girls asked for dolls and birthday parties, Izumi asked for combat mecha and trips to firing ranges. Unfortunately, that changed when she turned sixteen, when her mother died during a pandemic on her home planet. Before she died, however, she revealed that Izumi was the illegitimate child of one William Dare... and, therefor, an heiress (technically speaking, anyway). Through a series of misadventures, she met her father. In an interesting twist, Dare confessed to his wife that he'd had an affair; what followed was nothing short of the most spectacularly messy divorce seen in the ([i]very[/i]) long history of Dare family divorces. Afterwards, Dare even thanked Izumi ("She always was a drama queen," he told her), and said that if she ever needed anything to ask. Her favor? Pull a few strings with his connections at GAHL, and provide training and weaponry (however she still has to pay him back for the weapons and armor). Now, at twenty-five, she's finished training, and is ready for a real hunt.
[b][u]Weapons/Supplies:[/u][/b] A set of [url=https://www.halopedia.org/images/a/a8/Halo3_ODST_Dare.png]semi-powered armor[/url] (semi-powered in the sense that it uses just enough energy to move as if she isn't wearing armor); she has four guns, but only ever takes two at once on a mission at a time-- a custom [url=http://img07.deviantart.net/9013/i/2016/020/0/8/pmg___akbp_by_jettryu-d9oprin.png]assault rifle[/url] (5.45x39mm HEIAP rounds; 30-round box magazine; safe, semi-auto, & 3-round burst-fire; "In my defense, we go after some damn big critters. I'd rather blow money on overkill than wind up as a snack."); a [url=http://img14.deviantart.net/a90b/i/2015/323/4/b/maul_inspired_over_and_under_shotgun_by_jettryu-d9h81pn.png]custom-made shotgun[/url] (12-gauge; seven-round stacked-projectile tube magazine, with both lethal and LTL rounds; semi-automatic, and both barrels can be fired at once if needed; "I'm not saying this is for zombies, but this would be GREAT to have if we run into some."; a [url=http://img03.deviantart.net/ddb8/i/2016/041/d/3/pmg_m7_inspired_smg_by_jettryu-d9r9le2.png]custom-made submachine gun[/url] (9mm subsonic ammunition; 30-round box magazine; equipped with integral suppressor; "Nothing makes me feel better than the sound of automatic gunfire, but sometimes you have to get shit done quietly. God, I hate jobs like that."); a [url=http://img06.deviantart.net/0665/i/2016/041/2/9/pmg_directed_energy_pistol_by_jettryu-d9r9lem.png]directed energy pistol[/url] ("Don't ask whose body I got this off of. Seriously, don't."); and a [url=https://www.halopedia.org/images/8/8e/HR-CurvedCombatKnife-Replica.jpg]combat knife[/url], which she keeps on her person at all times.
[b][u]Misc:[/u][/b] - Despite her love of animals, Izumi [i]HATES[/I] bugs. Really, anything that could be classified as a "Bug-type" in Pokemon, she hates, and tends to go overkill when dealing with extremely large ones (and, by "overkill," absolutely NO weapon is out of the question when killing large bugs, including high-explosives).
- Touching anything in her workshop without express permission is forbidden; the last person who touched a grav-wrench got whacked so hard with it he forgot his own name.
- With the computer built into her helmet, she can track a target that she's hit with her energy pistol ("The bolts give off a unique radiation signature. Want to see if I can track [i]you[/i] with it? I'll give you a ten-minute head start.")
- Dare has a rather strange, dark sense of humor; for example, when screwed over by a partner/boyfriend she once had, she shaved him bald in his sleep, and super-glued a dead bird to his butt.
- Because of the above, Izumi may or may not have sworn off getting romantically involved with men.[/hider]