[hider=Smuggler] [hider=OoC] [b] As a player, what is your preferred writing level? [/b] One paragraph or less [color=00a651]One to two paragraphs Several paragraphs[/color] Long stories with heavy collaboration [b] Is grammar and depth of writing important to you? [/b] To a point. [b] Are there any writing subjects you particularly enjoy exploring? [/b] Any really. Always up for a new adventure. [b] Is there anything you [i]really[/i] dislike and want to avoid like the plague? [/b] The actual plague... [b] Is there something you are uncomfortable with happening to your character? [/b] Not really. Maybe death but that's apart of life. [b] Do you have any short-term or long-term goals with this character? [/b] Short - Learning how to used ranged weapons (Firearms, etc) Long - Becoming apart of the rebellion. [/hider] [hider=Couriers Holonet Ad] [b] Name: [/b] Astra Mink [b] Species: [/b] Human [b] Age: [/b] Mid to late twenty's [b] Gender: [/b] Female [b] Specialization: [/b] Communication and helping to persuade buy's in conformation for her husband. [b] Current area of operation: [/b] Outer rim, Arkanis sector, Tatoo system, R-16, 43,000 light years from the core. [b] Known Skills: [/b] Astra is not known for much except for being lady Mink the love by Merit Mink's side. [b] Trained Techniques: [/b] Edged weapons defense, gun disarming, and weapons disarming. [b] Known associates: [/b] Merit Mink: Husband and boss. A weapons dealer/seller and gangster. Merit Mink's associates and buyers. [b] Favored Equipment and clothes: [/b] A red gem necklace given to her by her husband, a dirty unreadable coin from her childhood and a utility belt (which mainly has empty pockets). [b] Personality type: [/b] Astra is kind, very sheltered from most of the universe, rebellious and adventurous. [b] Known flaws: [/b] Naive, distracted a bit easily, and innocent towards a lot of situations. [/hider] [hider=Couriers Holonet Metadata Summary] [h3][sub]Detailed appearance. Imagery insufficient.[/sub][/h3] Astra stands about five foot six inches in height and weights around one-hundred and forty pounds. Having a gentle face with a heart shaped jawline with accompanying ocean blue doe eyes. Her blue ocean eyes usually popping under her dark long eye lashes and natural darker eye brows. Astra has uncommonly long rusty red hair that flows soothingly down past her hips. Appearing wavy and somewhat curling to her features her hair is fined but she has a lot. She appears to have a somewhat similar appearance to a porcelain doll with a round tipped yet small nose that fits her face quite well and medium full lips that stand out against her soft pale complexion. Her whole image is slightly stained with natural freckles that slightly dot along the left side to the right side of her cheeks. [h3][sub]Report on skills and talents, including level of skill.[/sub][/h3] Astra only knows intermediate levels of disarming weapons and firearms from people. Never actually having to use it except for the time she was escaping her jail. She has been trained to an expert level of defending herself with edged weapons. She also knows to an intermediate level of self defense. [h3][sub]Report on known combat experience, training and weapons training.[/sub][/h3] Merit Mink started having Astra trained a couple years after purchasing her from a human trafficking ship. He only was allowing her to learn self defense with and without edged weapons since he trusted she wouldn't use it against him. This let her have the years from late teens to early to mid twenty's of being trained in defense. She has only been trained and has not really used any of this out in an actual field of combat. The only combat she has been placed in was training combat brought up by Merit Mink. [h3][sub]Does the Courier have, or have they ever had, a bounty on them? Are they wanted?[/sub][/h3] A few years ago Astra had a bounty on her since her husband a gangster/arms dealer is in the line of work. That causes her life to be threatened somewhat more commonly then an average wife. Though, they tend to disappear. In recent time's Astra has the bounty over her head to bring her back to Mink, alive and unharmed. Since he found out she ran away he has had people searching for her. [h3][sub]Detailed notes on common/favored employers and any noteworthy contacts. [/sub][/h3] None except Merit Mink. [h3][sub]Detailed notes on known rivals and enemies.[/sub][/h3] All of Merit Mink's rival [h3][sub]List and description of other known associates.[/sub][/h3] [h3][sub]List of known belongings, including but not limited to planetary surface property, civilian and military vessels, vehicles, weapons, tools.[/sub][/h3] A common rusted blaster she found in her escape. Barely works most of the time unless you hit against something. It's an unknown model to her. [h3][sub]Psychological evaluation of Courier.[/sub][/h3] Not having knowledge of much of the outside world from a human trafficking ship and a gangsters guidelines for marriage. Astra is a medium sensitivity when it comes to common emotions. Though, she is a very sympathetic person especially to one's who have been kind to her or children. Having a heart causes her to care to much and put herself in harms way to help others. She can get overwhelmed easier then the average person of the universe towards conflict and negative situations. Astra is a child-like individual when it comes to a mental state. She is innocent compared to most her age. [h3][sub]List and description of known and suspected flaws. To be put into restricted database.[/sub][/h3] Innocence is one of Astra's greatest flaws to herself. For the universe is corrupted in so many ways and she is naive to most of those ways. She is only aware of the ways of the professionalized system of the gangster/arm dealings. Other then that her view on the world is new and blinded by her life as a sheltered wife to Merit Mink. Astra might lean to a more negative maybe even boarder line to depressive state when it comes to her way of thinking of her life. Feeling as her life is unfulfilling and always second guessing herself. She lacks a bit of confidence which could be a down fall in her case. [h3][sub]All known interests of the Courier.[/sub][/h3] Star gazing is one of her favorite things to do. She loves the universe and its beauty. Astra also enjoys swimming even though she barely ever does it. She tends to get erratic and hyper when she is by water. [h3][sub]Major achievements on record.[/sub][/h3] Escaping from her husbands reach. Now out in the unknown world trying to stay as far away from him as she can. [hider=Interview] [sub]No one really could say where the girl came from or when she was born. Found with no parents and no life behind her. The human traffickers that raided the planet scooped up Astra along with other orphaned children and runaways. These were very fragile memories that didn’t occur much anymore. Remembering the planet is only something of a dream before she started living on the metal body, she now calls a home. This ship was a bigger size and carried many people throughout the universe. Most every stop new creature, humanoids, and more were being boarded while one’s that use to call this place a hell hole, home or other disappeared. Not many seemed to question why people disappeared from this ship or had to start living here they all just seemed content with it. Astra didn’t know any different from the other’s her age. Being the innocent child, she was content with the meals she was given, the toys, the education. Along side other’s she was taught to read and write because they could be sold for more that way. Other then that they didn’t have much education brought up to them. Only reading and writing the common linguistics of the universe. Being raised in a metal ship meant a different lifestyle from the outside of the walls. Her and other children were grouped in quantities of ten or more to a room about eight by five feet. These rooms usually have rigged bunkbeds that went up to the ceiling. Usually about six or seven were stacked and secured to each other. The living corridor was not much of a sight to see either. On the different levels and sections of the living area. There was a bathroom to every single hall. Meaning about forty people were sharing a single bathroom. This was Astra’s life and she was perfectly fine with it. It all changed around the age of thirteen. When an older man named Merit Mink came on board of the human trafficking ship. He was looking for servants, guards, anything he could buy for cheap. The human traffickers made all the categorized individuals that fit the bill to get clean and dressed up. Most who were younger and grew up on the ship were used to being cleaned and dressed in nicer clothes from what they were use too. Then being put on display and rated to what was wanted. Merit seen Astra and instantly wanted her for her beautiful long locks of red burnt hair and big ocean blue doe eyes. She had the perfect appearance of a porcelain doll. To Merit it was the perfect appearance of what he wanted by his side for a servant or more. Astra was sold to Merit Mink for not a cheaper price since she was something he wanted. The human traffickers blinded him out of deals till he accepted, and they were happy with the profits. After being sold to Merit she didn’t fully understand why she had to leave her home. This confusion brought up the rebellious side of the little girl and she threw a quiet tantrum for weeks. Not talking to Merit or anyone of his servants. She chooses not to eat or drink. She was trying to ignore that she was sold away from and forced to live with somebody else. This went on for a few months off and on with not eating or drinking, trying to not talk to Merit at all, ignoring the servants and trying to escape the Mink household. Merit Mink finally exploded to this and yelled at Astra. Astra wasn’t used to this type of reaction a reaction of anger caused her to know fear. His yelling and words scared her, and she started to listen. After listening everything seemed to calm down, she wouldn’t get yelled at, she started making friends with the other servants, and she had to talk to Mr. Mink. A few years after being a servant in the household of the Mink. Astra was taught self defense and defense with edged weapons. She also was taught how to disarm weapons from opponents. Naturally being gifted with hand eye coordination and balance made learning these styles of combat easy for Astra. She enjoyed being able to let out her anger in these dueling’s. In the unknowing of Astra’s age, a birth certificate was forged stating she was nineteen. More or less: she was around that age it just wasn’t exact. No one knew the real age of the young woman, so it was guessed, and her birthday was darted to a specific date. Months after this forgery she was forcefully married to Merit Mink. It was not of her choosing and she did not agree to it at all. Astra threw hissy fits about it and the female servants all tried to talk her down from her outbursts. They stated she was lucky marrying into money, Merit Mink was a decent held man, he wasn’t unattractive looking to them, and if Astra sat pretty, she was able to do what she wanted. Disagreeing with everything she was told she tried running away again. She got about a day walk away from Merit Mink. Though, she was caught quickly and brought right back. Merit Mink ended up locking Astra in her room till the day of their marriage. She ended up calming down in the weeks in her room. Not being able to leave caused her to feel secluded and she would usually stay on her bed unless needed to be off. She also wouldn’t talk to Merit most of the time when he tried communicating. She usually would end up yelling at him and accusing him of keeping her prisoner. After awhile of screaming now nothings she accepted her fate in marrying the brute of a man, Merit Mink. A week before and after the wedding day Astra said nothing to anybody except when she said ‘I do’ to Merit Mink. This was a structured fate now that she would spend the rest of her life with a man she did not want to love. After years of marriage she ended up escaping and being able to stay away. Which is what she is doing now running away. [/sub] [/hider] [/hider] [/hider]