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[b]Name:[/b] Celeste Zum Deikum/Cassandra Troia.

[b]Age: [/b] 24

[b]Gender:[/b] Female.

[b]Bio:[/b] Celeste remembers her father as a kind man, albeit stressed due to his work in keeping Side 3 free from the Earth Federation. Growing up, she would later see that despite this kindness, he did not see her as his heir, despite being his oldest child in this timeline, and the seed of resentment was planted in her. Her brother, Casval, was more precious to their father than she was, and also had a streak of... ruthlessness? Courage? Or even cruelty masking as strength? Either way, the two siblings tried to love each other, but as she tried to educate herself in politics, tactics, and even the un-woman-like art of strategy, relations between her and her father grew colder and her brother and younger sister blamed her.

The Zabi Family's spies caught onto these tensions, and they tried to send Ghiren, the most attractive of their sons, to seduce her. She spat in his face, moved by a 'sixth sense' which saw a darkness in the young man. Her father, believing that she was at fault, sent her away to a remote portion of Side 3, where she was quickly forgotten... Too quickly.

In the place of her soft exile, a small town set in artificial rolling hills on the far side of a colony, she discovered that she was one of the Newtypes her father preached about and revered, but not expected his daughter to be. She had the power to sense people's feelings, their nature, and eventually, the ability to influence their thoughts. For a brief moment, she thought about trying to gain her father's recognition by showing him this power or maybe even using it on him and her family to make them all respect her as they should. Then, Zeon Zum Deikum died or was assassinated, and then his successor, Degwin Dogdo Zabi, sent several men to take her into custody so she can be married off to Ghiren. But by then, she sprung her trap.

By being kind and generous to the townsfolk, she gained their love. And by using her power to peek into the hearts of the men and women sent after her, by playing to their hopes and dreams, by [i]refusing[/i] to control their minds and emotions directly and instead revealing to them why they were wrong, and that there is a better way to achieve spacenoid independence, she gained their trust. And when she next disappeared, she had a set of loyal guards with her.

Years later, as a war between the Federation and Zeon drew closer, there were rumors of a 'Lady in White' in Side 6, Riah, who called herself 'Cassandra Troia'. She drew large crowds to her, warning of the consequences of war, the billions of people killed and millions left traumatized, of the damage to the Earth's ecosystem and the normalization of mass atrocities, of the legacy of hatred that will scar civilized space and create a cycle of war, brief truces, and war again that would last until the last human was dead.

This did not go unanswered; many tried to shut her up, or even assassinate her, but all failed, or even worse for her enemies, were converted to her side. Eventually, she was donated a ship by a sympathetic member of the Riah Autonomous region, a ship technically flagged as a 'civilian' one but with more weapons than usual. Her plans now are to wait for the war, gather disillusioned people and deserters from both sides to her banner, and bring peace... Even if she had to resort to force and hypocrisy to do it!

[b]Skills:[/b] A gifted public speaker who is no slouch at practical politics, able to gain the loyalty of not just fighting folk, but also logisticians, financiers, and accountants, aka the people who can keep a fleet running.

[b]Personality:[/b] A pure-hearted hypocrite, a daughter at odds with her family, but who still loves them deep inside. A believer in the justice of her cause who nevertheless is willing to examine said cause for flaws and switch her methods to 'something better' if the latter can be found. And finally, someone who wants the love of a father who is now too dead to give his acknowledgment. 

These contradictions point to the fact that Celeste Zum Deikum/Cassandra Troia is a woman trying to make her way in a man's world as best as she could, yet plays the feminine roles of peacemaker, mother, and nurturer. This is not a weakness in her view, for what she desires is something she knows both men and women want - Peace and the prosperity that can come with it. Nevertheless, she resents the sexism in which her father had treated her and does not want to restrict others from following their dreams because of their gender...

[b]Newtype(Including Rank E to A)[Y/N]:[/b] Y, Rank A.