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[h3]Character Description[/h3]
[list]Name: Saeyeon Kim
Species: Human
Sex: Female
Age: 28
Reason for being on the ship: Captured during a raid and held as an “unlawful combatant”[/list]
Appearance: [img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1201577438589755592/1488975085057347676/20260330224341_1.png?ex=69cebb9c&is=69cd6a1c&hm=42cde7887086d6e6bf90b4f10c5aed019598c2765b72d2f1e95c5cf27481155b&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1371&height=778[/img]
[h3]Strengths and Weaknesses[/h3]
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Skills: Military training, vocal mimicry and ventriloquism.
Weaknesses: Decent chance that she might be brainwashed by warlord scientists when captured at a prison camp. Also might be imagining someone[/list]

[h3]Background:[/h3]
[list]Backstory: Kim Saeyeon was born and raised in Sejong City, South Korea. Growing up, she was active in performance arts and took part in her high school and college drama and theater clubs. Though after graduating from college with a degree in accounting, she decided to enlist in the South Korean Army, having found the acting scene to be quite limiting and overcompetitive after finding minimal luck in community theaters and extras in shows and commercials. She also couldn’t bear to continue working as a cast member at some theme park for more than a couple of years.

In the military, she developed important skills such as teamwork, survival, and energy weapons training and found herself part of the Army Special Warfare Command, 707th Battalion. She remained in the military for a few years and was honorably discharged. Still needing ways to make a living since her Seoul apartment isn’t that affordable even sharing with a roommate, Saeyeon took up work as an accountant. It paid the bills but it wasn't really a job that she wanted for the most part.

When the United Nations started to send mercenaries to the Andromeda galaxy, she quickly volunteered, eager to visit another galaxy and get some excitement in her life. Working alongside other UN backed mercenaries, Kim took part in fighting warlord soldiers, guarded refugee camps, and provided security escorts. Occasionally, she would use her ventriloquist skills to perform with a puppet for the refugee youths and if some of the other mercenaries are up for it, little stage plays. The job had its ups and downs but she found it preferable to working at an office job. 

At least until rather recently during a mission, her unit was ambushed in a raid by warlord soldiers with her being one of the few survivors and was knocked out. Saeyeon was taken to a labor camp after her capture. She doesn’t remember much about her experience there. She remembered being woken up by Kiellar doctors there and then being sent to work under grueling conditions. She remembered that she struck up an unlikely friendship with a Kieller female named Vesol of Rirbrach. Vesol was a soldier who was disillusioned by the Command, ultimately opposed the Command and their many warlords and was arrested as an anarchist. She also remembered that Vesol led a bunch of inmates to riot and break out from the camp. Kim herself took part in the uprising and was close to escaping with some of the other inmates but the uprising failed when the guards were reinforced and many were mercilessly gunned down. 

Saeyeon and the remaining inmates were taken by Mazdul ships to be sent to another labor camp and she was separated from the other inmates who took part in the uprising. She didn’t see Vesol after the guards fired upon the inmates but in the ship she was in, she swore of seeing a familiar face. Kim also has felt some headaches while in the ship, possibly a fever of some sort. 
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