Appearance: She stands at 180cm or 5’ 11” and sports a heavy frame accustomed to life on the battlefield or simply physical exertion in general. Short raven black hair is pulled tightly into a mid length ponytail, hidden under a pristine scarlet beret. Her hardened hazel eyes are hidden under a pair of mirrored aviators. Whipcord hard muscles coil tightly under skin marred by a life of fighting and physical action. Her facial features are typical for a Kurdish woman, but have an unusual hard edge to them that seems to be tempered with a softer rounding in some areas. She has strapped to her thigh inside her pants a large fighting knife. She tends to dress in a manner that belies her wealth, sticking to practical clothing such as cargo pants and a simple non sleeved shirt, usually form fitting and black.
Full Name Azade “Damn the Torpedoes!” Nahai. Also known by her former callsign Juggernaut.
Age 24
Sex Female
Sexuality Pansexual
Characteristics Azade is clearly an extremely intelligent individual, able to formulate plans of action on the fly to adapt to any situation as well as perform advanced mathematics in her head and has the entire contents of MCDP 1.3 memorized. She has a confident demeanor that more than explains her history of bold actions- albeit successful ones. She's definitely approachable, but not what one might term amiable, with a past full of violence leaving its mark.
She speaks in a forceful and direct manner, used to shouting over the din of combat and arguments over where to eat, which is louder is still up for debate. While she might have been an officer in the military she’s not overbearing.
Intelligent and confident, Azade could've been an engineer or a scientist, maybe even a doctor. Born outside the United States in Israel to Kurdish parents, she was brought into the country at the age of fourteen. She grew like most any other child, though she never quite lost her accent. Sucessful in school, her life had been on track to receive a degree in mechanical engineering- one which took a sudden turn as Israel came under concerted attack from its neighboring countries once more. Azade wasted no time in abandoning her university career and enlisting in the USMC, quickly rising the the position of 1st Lieutenant and commanding the unit she was assigned with courage that earned her several commendations.
Her most notable achievement in the USMC was also the one that lead to her medical discharge- comandeering a tank and leading a suicide charge that somehow managed to break the enemy line. Maybe it was the tank thundering towards them, maybe it was the woman in the tank screaming bloody murder, or maybe it was simply the sudden volume of fire, but the enemy line retreated. 1st Lieutenant Azade Nahai was seriously wounded in the action and had to be medevaced for internal bleeding and shock.
She received an honorable discharge for medical reasons on her twenty first birthday.
Bitter over her injuries, Azade nonetheless managed a rapid recovery despite her doctor's hesitance about her ever being in fighting condition again. Scraping together some money to leave the state she lived in, she made for the Southeastern Seaboard, landing there with some fascinating stories to tell and not a lot else.
Azade drifted about afterwards, managing to stay afloat doing odd jobs and taking vacations in the wilderness, honing her survival skills until they were razor edged. She even found a significant other during this point in her life, spending much of her time with her new girlfriend and at one point even traveling with her on volunteer work in South America. Returning to her new home after four months with a new outlook on some things, Azade went to work with a new vigor.
At one point this landed her a television show of her own, wherein she was dropped with almost nothing but her clothes, a backpack, and a small tool of some sort into various hostile conditions such as the Amazon rainforest or the Atacama desert, with an emphasis on how to survive with minimal supplies in an SHTF scenario. The show (When Stuff Hits The Fan) ran for two years and four whole seasons, and raised her to, if not fame, at least public awareness. Using the money she gained from the series, she attended university and earned a degree in environmental science. Around this same time she and her girlfriend separated on good terms, albeit still strained.
She wasn’t too fond of fame, and only spoke on things she considered vitally important to society. This somehow landed her even more fame, despite only being some woman who’d had a survival TV show, and she was eventually approached with an offer of a second gig, which she accepted. At this time she was branching into other things, and saw the television gig as merely a way to make money, instead beginning to turn her attention to writing and finally taking the time to relax.
She also became a big gamer.
The series she had been approached to star in, known as Carbon Footprint, was part survival series, part multi-episode documentary on human environmental impact and the best ways to balance it. It was still in the works when the apocalypse struck, and Azade herself was on a connecting flight, intending to then fly to Atlanta for business reasons. She as usual had disdained notions of what someone with money would dress like, instead opting for similar garb to what she might've worn on an episode of WSHTF.
Skills & Abilities
Strength - Azade is strong, a lifetime of military training and experience tempering her physique in the fires of combat. There’s strong, then there’s Army strong, and then there’s USMC strong.
Pride - A weakness of hers, Azade is proud and reluctant to admit defeat or that someone else might be right while she is wrong. While she’s perfectly capable of realizing somebody might know about something more than she does, it pains her to do so and she tends to subconciously resent that person, at least until they’ve proven they genuinely know their stuff, even then resentment may linger.
Survival Skills- Azade has recieved actual training in how to survive in the wilderness. She then honed these skills in various parts of the world, albeit on camera. She has survived being dropped into the Amazon rainforest with nothing but the clothes on her back, a backpack, a small knife, and a camera crew.
Military Experience- Azade has recieved training in the USMC in hand to hand combat using a variety of tools, including her hands, as well as actual hand to hand engagements honing her skills further.
Honey, I burned down the kitchen - Azade can’t cook. At all. She can however, eat almost anything.
Damn the Torpedoes! - Azade is not averse to seemingly reckless attacks and other actions, and this can either succeed spectacularly or fail specactularly.
TV Star - Azade is a celebrity, and well known throughout the western world, especially among upper-middle class people. Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on present company.
