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Name: Rubiana "Ruby" Starfeather
Age: 19
Job: MAX FIRE Mechanic
Personality: Enthusiastic about her work and outgoing, Ruby's love of people is only second to her love of machinery. Her energy levels are perpetually high when she has someone or something to interact with, keeping an obvious interest in those she's talking to or the machines she's working on. When no one is around and she has nothing to do, however, it's an entirely different story--she sleeps often and constantly, seemingly recharging for her next flurry of activity. 
Skills: A prodigy engineer and mechanic, broken machines speak to Ruby Starfeather like no one else. She seems to have an almost preternatural sense for whatever's going wrong with whatever device she's repairing. This progresses to an almost irritating degree at times, pausing mid-conversation because she heard one click from a servo that shouldn't have been there. Her talents are mostly limited to fixing things that are broken, her creativity focused on inventing unorthodox repairs that somehow work rather than creating new technology. She's as equally good at the software side of things. Even given an almost unrealistically short span of time and woefully inadequate materials, she can usually get a mecha running again--but it might not be up to its old specifications or look anything like what its supposed to.

Ruby's not a gifted fighter or mech pilot, though many errant MAX FIRE staffers have been on the receiving end of a blow from a spanner if they don't take proper care of their machinery. Otherwise she's somewhat talented at chess, and not a slouch at cooking, though she can be a little absentminded.
Short Bio: A resident of nowhere Nebraska, Rubiana's childhood passed mostly uneventfully. She got her start fixing farm equipment, regularly skipping her more boring classes to meddle with nearby machinery, until her talents caught the attention of a larger farming corporation that hired her to repair more complex devices. MAX FIRE headhunted her from said corporation, and she was more than eager to deal with the most complex devices on the market. 
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