Name: Ros MacFarlane
Aliases: Mac, Chief
Titles: Chief Pilot
Age: 35
Place of Origin: Grusk
Kingdom: Grusk, but she is not blindly patriotic
Gender: Female
Eyes: Dark Grey
Hair: Dark brown with purplish hew
Day To Day Attire: Mac prefers comfortable clothing. She sticks closely to her pilot attire. Leather pants, well-worn boots, loose shirts, darker in color as to obscure any stains she might acquire while tinkering with the airship’s engines and systems. A pilot scarf, hat and goggles, completing the ensemble. A leather jacket is also part of her wardrobe whenever the weather is being fickle.
Strengths: Dexterity, Mac is very good with her hands; Calm under pressure, Ros is a very calm person and doesn’t often allow the pressure of a situation to influence her judgement or actions; Good internal compass, Mac has an exceptional internal compass and is uniquely qualified to her pilot position as she rarely gets lost and always seems to know the correct direction, or how to find her way with navigation.
Weaknesses: Limp - Mac’s right leg was badly injured during an airship crash when she was a young mate. She cannot run at full speed anymore and the limp is more pronounced in cold weather. Defiance of authority – In Mac’s eyes if someone hasn’t earned their authority, they are not deserving of it and she won’t bat an eye telling them just that.
Easygoing * Direct * Steadfast * Unapologetic
Sexuality: Pansexual, but does prefer the company of ladies
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Mac is outgoing, quirky and easygoing individual. That is not to say she can’t be serious. Not at all. She is always serious, it is just that her manner or attitude is friendly and jovial and welcoming. She is almost always calm to the point of annoyance. Intent and attentive to her surroundings and the people in her vicinity. She will offer help whenever one is asked of her and is not beyond sharing her knowledge with whomever is willing to learn. She especially likes teaching people new things and watching them apply the knowledge they received from her in practice.
Although outgoing and friendly Mac has few real friends she trusts implicitly and considers family. She is very loyal to those elect individuals and would go through hell and high water for them. She is frank and direct and honest almost to a fault. She will tell you the truth even if she knows it would hurt you. But she feels that in the end lies hurt far more whenever revealed. And to her experience they always do get revealed.
She has a side to her that is more, well, let’s say, quirkier, than some people would feel comfortable with. But whatever she does in private is no one else’s business really, right.
A listing of skills, such as horseback riding or cooking. Levels include novice (1 pt), apprentice (2 pt), journeyman (3 pt), expert (4 pt), master (5 pt). Each character can spend 21 points & only two skills can be mastered. If your character knows magic, it counts as a skill.
- Airship Pilot (Master): Ros is one of the best airship pilots in her home country. She has a natural predisposition for it with her innate sense of direction and almost impeccable internal compass. She knows the ins and outs of her ship to perfection, as well as all her moods and quirks. She will be the first to tell you that flying an airship is not a science. It is a sort of art, as the ships are just as temperamental, if not more so, as humans can be.
- Navigation (Master): As a pilot Mac needs navigation in her work like fish needs water to swim. Even with her internal compass she needs to know where her ship is in relation to its destination to be able to guide her there. To that end she has mastered the art of navigation by any means possible.
- Tinkering/Engineer (Expert): As a daughter and the sister of two esteemed engineers, as well as a pilot who likes to know the nuts and bolts of her ship, Ros is very proficient in tinkering. She is not as good as her dad and big brother, but she can hold her own and is qualified to replace the chief engineer of her ship for short periods of time, should the need ever arise.
- Cooking (Journeyman): Mac loves cooking. It relaxes her and excites her at the same time. She loves to experiment in the kitchen. To read a recipe and then completely ignore it and make stuff up as she goes. Also as the only remaining woman in her family, she kind of has to take care of her brother and father who cannot cook to save their lives. It's becoming a chore however and she doesn't want that, so she's decided on hiring them a maid, or at the very least, a cook.
- Marksmanship (Journeyman): As a former pilot in Grusk's army Mac is a proficient marksmen with several firearms. She is no dead-shot, but she can fire and hit her target most often than not.
- Chemistry (Novice): In her spare time Ros has adopted the habit of dabbling in chemistry. She is still mainly reading a lot and compiling information, before venturing into practical experimentation territory.
Parents: Ros has one surviving parent, her father Stanton MacFarlane. Her mother Lilia MacFarlane Nee O'Tool died when Mac was twelve years old. Ros loves her father dearly. And not only because he's the only parent she and her brother are left with. All members of their family were very close. Their parents loved each other and even though they fought and argued like any two normal people did, their children knew it was nothing serious or out of the ordinary. Mac's mother had been a military nurse and had died during one of the battle campaigns to defend their home land against foreign intruders. She was posthumously honored as a hero.
Siblings: Ros has one surviving sibling, her older brother Roy. She also had a sister, Moyra, who was the eldest of the three siblings who died during the accident which left Mac lame in the right leg. Mac's relationship with both her siblings had been the typical one. The children loved each other but there was also a healthy amount of sibling rivalry between them. Nothing too serious or alarming. But something that served to spur the children to excel.
Childhood: Ros had a happy childhood as much as any citizen of Grusk could have a happy childhood in a country constantly defending itself against foreign invaders. Still, she had two loving parents, caring and supporting older brother and sister and their family wanted for nothing thanks to her father's work with the engineering corps of Grusk's army.
Mac was a happy and bright child. Curious about the world and how things worked. She quickly took to her father's profession, but had also inherited her mother's caring nature. Stanton taught Ros and Roy every little thing about tinkering and engineering they wanted to learn, but it quickly became apparent that her brother was far more proficient at it than her and excelled at the craft. Ros was good, but never really had that passion about tinkering like her brother did. A passion which he shared with their father.
When their mother had passed in the line of duty when Mac had been twelve, her older sister Moyra, twenty at the time had taken the rains of the woman of the house. She began taking care of a lot of the things their mother had done while she was still alive. And little Ros found herself following her big sister's every move. She wanted to be just like her when she grew up and so she tried to follow in her footsteps. When Moyra joined the army to become airship pilot, Mac stayed at home with her father and brother and applied to her studies so that she too one day would be able to become a pilot like her big sister.
And one day her dream came true and she was appointed as a mate on the airship to which her big sister was second pilot. Soon after, their ship was engaged in a short but vicious skirmish at the border of Grusk by air pirates. They'd managed to defeat the ruffians, but their ship was badly damaged and crashed taking the lives of several of its crewmates. Including her big sister. And Mac was left lame for life.
Adulthood: After the crash and the long period of convalescence, Mac was even more determined to prove herself. At the age of twenty-five she got her
wings and was appointed second pilot of the Airship Intrepid of the Grusk Air Armada. At the age of thirty-two she became the chief pilot of the Grusk Air Armada flagship - Whisper. A marvel of engineering, the ship was the fastest and the stealthiest of all Grusk Airships. Her brother was among its chief designers.
Special Moments: The deaths of her mother and sister left her with a feeling of hollowness that could never really be filled. It really hammered in the lesson that there would always be people out there who wanted what didn't belong to them. And with people like that peace was rarely possible.
The moment when she was appointed chief pilot to the Whisper will always be seared into her memory as one of pride in her accomplishment. The thing she'd worked so hard for had come to pass and she would always remember the gleam of pride in her father's and brother's eyes as she was receiving her commission.
Current Events: At thirty-five, after having seen battle a number of times, with foreign invaders and pirates alike, she is a little bit disillusioned with the war effort in general. But is still a patriot none the less and should her country be in peril, she would answer the call. She has, however, retired from active duty and is currently captain and chief pilot to a small cargo airship - Little Starburst, transporting goods for merchants. It is a quiet life, not very much excitement or chances for adventuring, but she likes it. She has time enough to spend with her father and brother. To engage in brainstorming sessions with them about tinkering and engineering. She also has a bit of free time for herself, for cooking and dabbling in chemistry - her new hobby. And who knows, one of these days she might meet the woman of her dreams who'll laugh at her silly jokes and enjoy a night of quiet stargazing from the deck of her airship.
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Character Quote: Be tender, and she’ll surrender. Offend her and she will harden her heart.Theme Song: I See FireAura Color: Indigo
Scent: Sage
Anything Else: Mac likes to sing when she's piloting her airship, or working on her engines. She has a pleasant husky voice and is actually rather good. She usually sings boisterous upbeat songs, but has been known to perform some sad, heavy ones as well.
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