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[hr][h2][color=#0080ff]Kaela “Stitch” Veyra[/color][/h2][hr]
[color=ff3838][sub][b]History[/b][/sub][/color]
[justify]Kaela Veyra was born and raised in the Martian industrial districts — the kind where everything was painted in rust, blood, or dust. Her father, a stubborn surfacecraft mechanic, taught her early on that broken things can always be fixed — if you have the tools, the time, and the will. When she wasn’t elbow-deep in engine grease, Kaela apprenticed under a back-alley Ripper Doc named Dr. Harel, who worked out of a forgotten hab block. Under his tutelage she learned the delicate balance of cybernetic surgery — cutting, welding, rewiring, and improvising with scavenged tech.

Everything changed the night Dr. Harel botched an implant job on a local gang boss’s son. The kid bled out on the table, and the gang retaliated with brutal precision. Kaela survived only because her father called in an old favor from a passing ship captain. She was smuggled off-world in the dead of night, with nothing but a bloodstained toolkit, a few scavenged implants, and the resolve never to end up helpless again. Now she works aboard the crew’s ship as its de facto medic, mechanic, and cybernetic specialist — a patchwork survivor keeping everyone stitched together, one way or another.[/justify]

[color=ff3838][sub][b]Personality & Reputation[/b][/sub][/color]
[justify]Kaela is quiet, observant, and surgical — in every sense of the word. She rarely wastes words, preferring action over chatter, and has a dark sense of humor that surfaces when the situation gets tense. Those who know her well describe her as fiercely loyal and surprisingly compassionate beneath the hard edge, though she has little patience for stupidity or recklessness.

Reputation-wise, Kaela is something of a ghost. Few outside Mars even know she exists, and those who do often whisper that she’s cursed — always walking away from disasters that kill everyone else. To her crew, she’s indispensable, but to strangers, she’s just another pale, scarred drifter with a gaze like a scalpel.[/justify]

[color=ff3838][sub][b]Appearance[/b][/sub][/color]
[justify]Kaela’s body is a living roadmap of old wounds — fine surgical scars crisscross her pale skin, some from her own experiments with cybernetics, others from surviving the gang slaughter on Mars. Her black hair is cropped short for practicality, often falling messily over her face. Her eyes are sharp and tired, a pale gray-green that seems to weigh and measure everything they look at. She wears practical, minimal clothing most of the time — easy to clean, easy to move in — and often sports a utility belt stuffed with tools, injector guns, and medkits.[/justify]

[color=ff3838][sub][b]Strengths & Limitations[/b][/sub][/color]
[justify][b]Strengths:[/b] Expert cybernetic surgeon and mechanic, calm under pressure, improvisational genius when working with scrap tech, highly resilient to pain and trauma.
[b]Limitations:[/b] Struggles with trust outside of her crew, haunted by guilt over surviving when others didn’t, suffers from occasional nerve pain from old injuries and self-installed implants, has a tendency to push herself to physical exhaustion rather than admit weakness.[/justify]

[color=ff3838][sub][b]Miscellaneous[/b][/sub][/color]
[justify][list][*] Has no official record on most colonies — technically “dead” back on Mars.
[*] Carries a custom autoinjector loaded with painkillers and coagulants.
[*] Owns a small surgical kit that once belonged to Dr. Harel.
[*] Nicknamed “Stitch” by the crew for her ability to put anyone back together — meat, metal, or both.
[*] Secretly collects old Martian tech manuals as bedtime reading.[/list][/justify][/color][/cell][cell][sub][sup][color=2e2c2c]____________________________________________________________________________[/color][/sup][/sub][hr][color=Gainsboro][h3]◤ [sub]“Everything can be fixed. Even you.”[/sub][/h3][/color]
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[hr][color=ff3838][b]Full Name:[/b][/color] Kaela Veyra
[color=ff3838][b]Age:[/b][/color] 27
[color=ff3838][b]Homeworld:[/b][/color] Mars — Tharsis Industrial Zone
[color=ff3838][b]Occupation:[/b][/color] Cybernetic Surgeon, Ship Mechanic
[color=ff3838][b]Affiliation(s):[/b][/color] Independent Crew (PC ship), Former apprentice of Dr. Harel (Deceased)
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