Name: Riley Thaster
Sex: Female
Age: 23
Appearance: Overally fairly unremarkable, Riley standing tall measures to be 5' 6". She has long, brunette hair that is often tied back to avoid any nuance from stray strands of hair. She has bright hazel eyes with a somewhat sharp, well defined jaw. Riley's overall build is about average, not particularly muscular, nor pudgy. Upon her chest sits modest B cub breasts, if one were to care about such things.
Outside of a hazmat suit, Riley typically wears a simple outfit of a white t-shit with a gray sweat jacket over it, blue jeans, and hiking boots. She carries her tools and other related gadgets on her belt.
Skills: Riley is exellent at technological tasks ranging from repairs on a motorcycle to patching up broken code for a piece of software. Truely she makes for a powerful engineer and technician.
Despite Riley's technical prowess, she doesn't shine quite as brightly in a combat situation. While physically in great condition, she doesn't have much in the way for practical skills needed for fights. She does somewhat make up for the lack of skill with naturally strong intuition and overall ability to improvise on the spot. In terms of weapons she uses firearms, specifically pistols.
Traits: Needless to say, Riley is pretty intelligent and very knowledgable with technology of many kinds. When it comes to work she is virtually no nonsense in any way, often times dedicating herself to a single task without much in the way of breaks.
Personality: Independent, headstrong and antisocial are the main descriptors for Riley, although antisocial is perhaps too strong of a word, standoffish being better. Socially she doesn't make efforts to find friends and companionship, not to say a random chat with a stranger isn't unwelcomed. Underneath a surface of indifference, Riley is really just a normal human being who can joke around, speak freely and overall act sociable, problem is one would have to do some warming up first. One thing to mention is Riley above all else despises idiots, or at least someone who appears idiotic.
Backstory: When the domes were first sealed, Riley became another classic case of an orphaned child. What became of her family was unknown, its been assumed they simply never made it to safety and choked on toxic air like so many others. After so much time Riley doesn't care about her lost family anymore, nor does she remember their faces, still at the age of seven at the time, the experience of losing a family was painful.
Fortunately an old couple took her in, which gave her a good second lease on life. While not wealthy and lived in the lower sections of the dome, Riley received an education from her foster parents. They gave her books about all kinds of subjects, history, science, some art, and mathematics. Later on she continued her learning by experimenting with any scrap she could find, old diesel engines, ancient tube monitors, and later on even learning some basic programming.
All things must come to an end sometime, and for her adopted parents it was their time, it was peaceful really being from advanced age. At the age of sixteen, again Riley was alone. Not all was hopeless as she had the skills to find a living, many people around needed help with maintaining slowly degrading machines. So that's what she did, in exchange for looking at broken down radios and other such appliances, Riley was able to scrap enough cash together, plus on top of selling nicknacks made from salvage on the side.
Much more recently Riley is living a somewhat stable life, making enough income from odd jobs and salvage its not a glamorous life by any means but still better than nothing. While Riley likes to think of herself as a self-made engineer, she's really just a run of the mill scavenger who is just living life in the present.
Equipment: Other then a personal workshop's worth of tools, Riley doesn't carry much. Good salvage is often far from the dome, so she's sure to carry enough food to last four days, and that's with two meals a day. Her suit and gas mask arenothing too fancy, but after a close call with a tear she ended up reinforcing the air lines with extra metal. An A6 "Predator" Hand Cannon serves as her main weapon. The Predator is known to have very good penetration and general stopping power, however its offestted by considerably high recoil and a heavy weight even for a pistol. Riley has a total of 35 rounds, the hand cannon itself can be loaded with six.
Other: I was thinking about using an actual gun, but decided to make up the Predator instead. Basically just think of the whole thing as a heavy revolver, complete with the classic revolving chamber.
