[center][hider=Ailita and Batto] [b]Name:[/b] Ailita Ironside // Batto [b]Age:[/b] 24 // Unknown [b]Gender[/b] Female // Male [b]Race:[/b] Human // Parasitic Symbiote [b]Culture:[/b] Space Scrapper // Batto is just Batto [b]Racial Features:[/b] Typical Human // Varies with each host [b]Appearance[/b] [hider=Ailita] [img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c4/a0/68/c4a068957ca92165d87faa3152797bea.jpg[/img] [img]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/saviorfaire/images/a/ab/2314368-640x786_5309_mechanic_girl_2d_illustration_girl_woman_anime_picture_image_digital_art.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140209173640[/img] Artists Unknown [/hider] Ailita is on the smaller side, standing at about 5'3". She has a curvy, athletic build with strong muscled arms. Her hair is mostly straight but on more humid days will begin to take on a wave. It is black/purple in colour. Her eyes are a stormy grey and her skin is only lightly tanned due to vitamin D regimens (healthy tanning booth). She was born on a warm planet and lived for the most part on a spaceship with others from the same planet so warm temperatures have always been to her liking. She dresses in loose clothing, a mechanic's jumper and tank tops. She wears her hair up a lot of the time but will let it down when feeling relaxed. [hider=Batto] [img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/4e/af/4e4eaff1f3e2b63f4096f005f513cf7f.jpg[/img] [/hider] Batto is Batto. He appears usually as a tattoo across Ailita's back but, in dire situations, may take a physical form. His form may travel around her body but the roots stay in place. He has the appearance of a vibrantly coloured, feathered snake. When he is in tattoo form he appears more tribal and geometrical looking. He also has 'roots' which appear as other images and that give Ailita power. [b]Occupation[/b] Ailita works as a mechanic for hire. Currently she is searching for a new ship to work on. For now, she takes freelance jobs fixing various items and parts. Batto is Batto [b]Training:[/b] [list] [*] Scraping - Taking apart objects without breaking them [*] Fixing - Putting things back together. [*] Mechanics - She can fix absolutely anything and make it run perfectly [/list] Batto is Batto [b]Powers:[/b] Ailita does not know what her powers truly are. As far as she knows her only abilities come from Batto. However, she has the ability to speak to objects to make them work or to take on characteristics. For example, a gun she fixes can cause the user to appear more threatening or an umbrella making the person holding it appear more attractive. Eventually, she may even be able to speak objects to life. For now they just 'speak' meaning more like a connection with the objects - a feeling. They relay how they should work and fit with others. They do not provide past life experiences or information on their owners. Batto gives his host abilities to protect itself, thereby giving him a continued place to live. These abilities come from the roots he plants in his host and stems from the hosts' own abilities and personality. With Ailita he can give her skin armour, turn her arms into weapons, and even give her far sight. He can leave his host's body for a limited time and take physical form to attack. This leaves him quite weak though and he only does it in dire situations. [b]Equipment:[/b] [list] [*] Mechanics tools [*] Clothing [*] Random earth memorabilia [*] Batto [/list] Batto is Batto. And all he has in Ailita. [b]Motivation:[/b] Ailita lives her life and just wants to continue doing so. She has no thoughts beyond just her next meal and what tomorrow might bring. Her only loyalties are to Lantus Ironside (a human scrapper) and so does not consider herself a part of any faction. The only thing that really makes sense to her are machines. Batto wants to live. Batto loves Ailita. [b]Personality:[/b] Ailita is a positive woman with a lot of love to give the world. She thinks the best of people until proven otherwise. Despite her history, she believes everyone deserves a chance. She is full of smiles and sunshine. She just wants to see the people around her smiling too. Ailita is outgoing and makes friends easily due to her chatty nature. She enjoys even the smallest of pleasures - the warmth of a bed, a delicious meal, and messing around with machinery parts. Batto is a purely instinctual being. He can only speak through Ailita and mostly shares his thoughts with her. He is not someone to think deep thoughts. His main goal is to protect Ailita and himself. [b]Flaws:[/b] Ailita is innocent and gullible in nature. She is easy to trick and take advantage of. She is also child-like, not having a true childhood she developed to be an eternal optimist, which can lead her to dark and dangerous places. She has an intense fear of the cold as well as rain and thunderstorms since she has never experienced these things in her lifetime. The sounds of gunshots and people's deaths do not bother her, it is a fact of life. Batto does not have emotional substance. He loves Ailita and will protect and care for her. However, when it comes to others he is wary and sometimes aggressive. He is an animal and behaves like an animal should. [b]Bio:[/b] Ailita was born on a desert planet. Her family was a tribe stuck in the old ways. They were humans who had crashed onto the planet, forgetting the ways of technology. The crew split apart to become a number of tribes in the area. They gathered water from morning dew and by processing the bodies of those that died. Water was a precious commodity. They fought with spear and blade. No match for a rival tribe who had aligned themselves with an invading, advanced force. They had come to mine on this mineral-rich planet. They gave the opposing tribes guns and grenades. With the limited resources (valuable only to those who lives their - water, food) of their planet, it was only a matter of time before the rival tribe came and slaughtered her family. She was left battered and bruised. A man who had murdered her mother and her mother in turn killed him. He'd had a parasite attached to him, Batto, who found Ailita's warm flesh after his host's death. The two bonded immediately and he began to sprout roots within her. It was rare for a creature of Batto's race to connect so quickly with another life form. The two were soulmates and Batto knew he would not live beyond Ailita. This was his end and from their union, eventually, more like him would be born. A man called Oomgatta took the child, merely three years at this time, as his own and raised her as his future bride. When she was 8 years old Oomgatta began to treat her as a man should treat his bride. This left her broken and obedient - unsure of men and the world. She spent four more years abused by Oomgatta, though he treated her kindly in other ways she was simply not prepared to be a woman yet. She even miscarried shortly after she turned twelve. Oomgatta sold her off to an off-world trader to whom he owed a debt after losing much during a game of chance. Oomgatta was addicted to drink and gambling. The man who he traded her off to was called Lantus Ironside. He was a scrapper, having come to the planet for some fun and resupply. She was to be a mere worker and serving girl, preparing meals and cleaning up after the crew. However, one night about a week after the trade, Ailita came to him asking when she was to provide him with wifely duties. Lantus was outraged and captured Oomgatta. Ailita never knew he was there on the ship nor did know how long Lantus kept and tortured the man who would molest a young girl. After Oomgatta's death, Lantus adopted Ailita and gave her the last name Ironside. He brought her up as his daughter and gave her an education. She learned how to read and they discovered her affinity with technology. She was trained as a ship mechanic which bled into other realms of fixing things. She had a natural knack for it, stating that the machines and objects spoke to her. Lantus spoiled her and for her 13th birthday purchased an old earth comic book. It was from that point on she fell in love with old earth objects, collecting them when she could find them. And Lantus bought her what he could find. During her time growing up, she and Batto became extremely close. Their thoughts sometimes blended. He did everything in his power to keep her safe though there was not much he could do unless she was in a weakened state. Sometimes he could leave her body but this took a great toll on him. Ailita never had a friend as close as Batto. Only Lantus knew the secret of the strange parasite. After becoming an adult, Lantus urged her to go her own way and make her own life. He was but a call away should she ever need him but he wanted her to learn independence. So she left, going from ship to ship, searching for the place she could call home and all the while perfecting her skills. ----- Batto has no true memories of his past. They are useless and his body does not store them. He has muscle memory and his roots grow deep, knowing what to do based on past experiences but without knowledge of what they are. He knows this is his last host but knows and cares not what comes beyond that. His whole mind is on survival and Ailita. Batto knows not if there are others like him or if he is the last. And Batto does not care. For Batto is just Batto. [b]Extra Info:[/b] Batto appears dragon blooded but he is really just a fancy snake. [/hider][/center]