Name: Beryl "Otter" Harken
Age: 24
Sex: Female
Profession/Rank: Test Pilot
Appearance: Personality: Beryl is a woman of rather extreme emotions. Thankfully for those around her most of those emotions very,
very positive. The kind of older sister many an orphan only dream of having. She takes a personal interest in the well-being of those around her. Quickly forming friendships or almost quasi-family bonds with particularly close friends.
Of course those emotional extremes apply to her less pleasant feelings as well. In particular her anger. Oh she gets annoyed more or less the same as anyone else, but if something makes her truly angry it triggers a deeply set rage that won't rest until the source has been dealt with.
Skills: Beryl Harken is the consummate athlete. She excels at anything including hand/eye coordination, three dimensional awareness or physical acuity. But what she particularly excels at is swimming. To anyone watching she seems more like an aquatic animal rather than a land born mammal. In fact that's where she got her nickname from. One of her fellow swim team members called her that back at the academy and it's stuck to her ever since.
It's those natural talents that earned her spot in the seat of an Assault Walker more than any booksmarts. While she got passable grades in military school it was her ability to translate her physical ability and personal awareness into highly fluid Walker movements that earned her a spot in the cockpit.
Weakness: If she isn't careful Beryl's rage can consume her. Driving her with single minded determination to the point where she ignores her own well-being. Additionally, while she is extremely caring towards friends and allies. She has trouble extending that same mercy towards those she considers enemies. Even if the rules of war calls for it.
History: Beryl was abandoned in the steps of a church while she was still a baby. Not even old enough to remember the faces of her parents. So as she grew up she considered herself more a daughter of the orphanage than anything else. The Father who cared for her and her many siblings
was her father as far as she was concerned. While she was eventually adopted the young woman never forgot her first home, a significant portion of her paycheck still makes its way there through various gifts and donations.
It was from her newly adopted mother, Lasai Harken, that she received her last name. The years the two spent together were happy ones even if they aren't particularly wealthy. Lasai had enough financial leeway to raise a child but not much more. So when Beryl turned eighteen she join the Federation Armed Forces. It wasn't a very hard decision, a steady job, free higher level education and at the time the military was doing a lot more civil work than military. Helping out disaster victims held a certain appeal to her distinctly Christian morals.
The next four years were spent as a ground pounder at a quiet military base while she got her psych degree from one of the nearby colleges. After that, Officer Training School where she switched to the Walker Corp. Her natural talents made picking up Scout piloting easy. Or as easy as learning how to pilot a giant multi ton humanoid mass of advanced electronics and machinery could be. When her commanders were convinced she could actually walk in the advanced war machines she was shipped off to Horizon to act as a test pilot for experimental Scout designs.
Equipment:Keys
Wallet
Phone
9mm pistol
Multitool
Belt knife
Boot knife
Backup knife
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