"It's funny. I've always wanted to go to space, and never thought technology would advance far enough in my lifetime that I'd ever have a chance to get there. Now I'm here... and I wonder if I made the right choice."
Name
Tahlia Spade
Role
Crewmate 1 (Pilot)
Age
25
Gender
Female
Reputation
In a nutshell, Tahlia has a reputation for being level-headed, quiet, calm, and even somewhat icy. She often comes off as being cold and calculating, not letting her emotions show through and always putting thought into what she does. Despite her somewhat withdrawn attitude, she always tries to be the best that she can in everything that she does. Of course, that isn't so important anymore, seeing as how she'll only ever see 5 other people in her life again. She still works and tries hard, but not as much as she once did. She is also very honest, sometimes too honest, and she'll sometimes say something that someone else may find off-putting. She tries to keep a lid on those sorts of things, but every now and then something slips out. She also has a sometimes annoying habit of trying to learn everything about everything about everyone. One more detail worth noting is that she has a hard time trusting people, and seems to be judgmental about certain things.
Appearance
Tahlia has very pale skin and a skinny but athletic build. Her eyes are brown and her hair blond. She has a pair of wings tattooed on her back, a winged sword tattooed on her left bicep, and a wolf on her right.
Height
170 cm
Weight
62 kg
Positive Traits
Calm
Intelligent
Confident
Honest
Negative Traits
Judgmental
Distrusting
Nosy
Personality Description
Tahlia is the type of person who is very cautious and deliberate about everything she does. This is complimented by her analytical and scientific thought process, often leading her decision-making to be strongly based upon logic and reason. She can be indecisive at times, however, and she can seem as though she's wasting time when she's trying to figure out how to proceed with something. The only exception to this is when she's flying, in which case her feelings tend to take over somewhat. She still maintains her best judgment, but her actions become guided more by feeling than deliberate thought.
Tahlia tends to keep to herself, opting to observe people from the sidelines and gauge their behavior. She's not very trusting, and likes to have an idea of how a person is before she talks to them. She can be harshly judgmental about people before even talking to them for herself, having a tendency to believe her instincts when she gets a bad feeling about someone. She believes a lot of her own preconceptions, leading her to a slight sense of self-righteousness in many cases. She's smart, and confident, and the two working together make her seem pretentious on occasion, though she never tries to act like she knows something if she doesn't think she has 100% clarification on it, and she knows when she's been proven wrong.
Once you get to know her, though, Tahlia is actually a very trustworthy and caring person with a strong sense of honor and respect. She knows that she has problems when it comes to being overconfident, and she tries to monitor herself in that regard. She tries her best to respect others' opinions, even if she doesn't agree with them, and she's good about giving credit where it's due. Her friends know that she tries her best, and ultimately that's all she cares about.
Likes
Flying
Martial arts
Writing
Science
Space
Dislikes
Politics
Stupid humor
Ignorance
Assholes
Skills
Piloting
Martial arts training (Muay Thai)
Weapons training
Singing
Quirks
Can be seen meditating from time to time
Gets embarrassed easily at certain things
Usually finds something to do with her hands when bored; typically twirling pens
Pet Peeves
Redundant use of acronyms (PIN Number, ATM Machine, etc)
Excessively loud music
Excessive joking/not taking things seriously
Weaknesses
Sometimes forgetful
Has a hard time forgiving herself for mistakes
Sometimes acts recklessly
Fears
Spiders and similar insects
Ledges
Disease
History
Tahlia was born in Japan to Michael and Persephone Spade. Her father was in the US Air Force while her mother was mostly a stay at home mom, though she often found things to do to earn a little extra income. Her father got stationed in England and then in Colorado before getting stationed in Israel when Tahlia was seven. This would be the place Tahlia would call home for nearly 10 years.
Her father being a sergeant by that point, they lived off base while in Israel. It was the first time Tahlia went to a public school, and even though she went to an English speaking school it was still a big change for her. She took it in stride though and made several friends in a relatively short timespan. The fact that she was American helped with that in some regard, but it didn't change anything. She also did very well in school itself, and took a liking to science in particular. Going into high school, she set herself on becoming a physics major once she got into college. She excelled in all of her science classes, and was well on her way to graduating in the top 3%. And then everything went to hell.
When Tahlia was in her Junior year, terrorist attacks in Israel spiked. One of Tahlia's close friends was killed in one such attack, and Tahlia herself nearly lost her own life in another. After that happened, her father told Tahlia and Persephone that they were getting on the next plane back to the US and they had 6 hours to pack. Tahlia was bitter, though. She wanted to make the terrorists pay for what they did. As soon as they got to the states and settled in, Tahlia redirected her efforts to training for the Army. Her father's death some weeks later motivated her to train even harder. She enlisted as soon as she turned 18.
Tahlia far outperformed everyone in basic training in every way. She was the best recruit in her company, getting perfect scores in physical training, marksmanship, and the end of course test. She performed just as well in infantry school, and went on to her first deployment expecting to begin taking her vengeance. She didn't expect that she would be waiting for a while. On all of her deployments, including her last deployment which she voluntarily extended three times, she never once saw combat, either because of commanders who didn't want to see a woman die in battle, or because of crazy stupid luck.
She finally got tired of it and left the Army after three years, though she wasn't entirely sure what to do afterwards. She pretty much started floating around trying to find a stable job for a while. She eventually ended up trying to take flying lessons on a whim, and found it to be one of the most enjoyable things she had done. She used her GI bill to pay for her pilot's license and ended up becoming a bush pilot for a few years. That is, until things REALLY went to hell.
Once the world pretty much began ending, Tahlia took it upon herself to use her flying skills to help evacuate people from places that were in particular danger. Flying became like a calling to her, and she began to test her skills by landing and taking off from extremely short airstrips. She would do over 200 flights and save roughly three times that number of people when she heard about Cryonautics. Skeptical as she was, she decided to apply for the program. Imagine her surprise when she was actually selected. She was as interested as she was apprehensive. She would be one of only six people left alive after the Earth has gone. She almost wondered if it would be worth living with six complete strangers throughout who knows how long of a process. Still though, it was a chance at saving the human race. Who could turn that down?
Tahlia Spade
Age: 25 | Role: Crewmate 1 - The Pilot | Friends ☺ | Romantic Interest ♥ | Neutral ◑ | Friends with benefits/flirtation/together ♥♥ | Enemies ☠
◑Benji Baker◑
"He seems harmless enough, despite his peculiarities. I'd almost say he's too innocent. I'm not sure if I'm annoyed or envious because of it."
Benji comes off as being sort of like the Mad Hatter. Talkative and friendly, but nutty and unpredictable. Tahlia doesn't like unpredictable, but she doesn't see any good reason not to give him the benefit of the doubt. Who knows, maybe his outgoing behavior will help her open up a bit more.
Tahlia Spade
"What's there to say about myself? I'm probably the most physically capable person here, possibly mentally as well. Not to say I don't appreciate the others' specialties."
Tahlia is easily the most resilient of the crew, most likely doubling as the muscle on top of being the pilot. Though why the project would need a pilot, Tahlia was still unsure. Regardless, being the only one with military experience, she would likely end up having to give at least someone else some sort of training. But maybe not. Who knew what the future held at this point.
◑Echo Montigawitz◑
"The Jack, or I suppose Jane of all trades, and she's got the work ethic to back it up. The poster child of the project as well... As long as that detail doesn't go to her head, I don't mind."
Tahlia doesn't really think much of Echo. She seems like a busy bee, and to be perfectly honest, Tahlia doesn't really want to get in the way of her doing her thing. For that reason alone, she tries to avoid her when she looks busy. She undoubtedly has a good sense of duty about her, and Tahlia can respect that.
?Ailbeart Rend?
"Who's this guy? I mean, I know he's some successful businessman, but I don't really follow that sort of thing, so why should I care?"
Tahlia has heard of Rend on more than one occasion, but typically doesn't bother herself with people she doesn't directly know, so she really doesn't know much about him, other than he's some successful rich guy.
☺Yaz Cormick☺
"She's as kind as she is good with computers. I don't doubt we'll get along, if nothing else. On a side note, I wonder what happened to her arm."
Yaz seems like the more stable version of Benji; kind, bubbly, and enthusiastic, but also more fragile. She hopes that Yaz doesn't become a liability in that sense, but somehow Tahlia suspects she's stronger than she appears. Call it instinct, but Tahlia feels like there's more in common between them than either of them know.
◑/☠Owen Childs◑/☠
"He's cool, when he's not busy being an irreverent prick. Ughhh, I shouldn't say that, but he can really get on my damn nerves sometimes. I don't understand how he can flip between sincere and sarcastic so easily."
Owen needs to learn to keep himself in check sometimes. He's cool about 90 percent of the time, but the other 10 percent drives Tahlia crazy. She tries to tolerate it, but she wonders how long that will last. She doesn't want to dislike him, and his psychology knowledge interests her a lot, but he's the most off-putting person on this crew that she knows.
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