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★ ☆ ★ Private First Class DABIH ★ ☆ ★

"It burns into your heart, the darkness that you fear.
You were never free, and you never realized.
And love is a word you've never heard.
Your heart ain't cold 'cause it burns,
A desire to leave the mire.

This is my time now, no time for tears, to celebrate.
Put it in the air right now.
Never back down.

And we run, with a lonely heart
And we run, for this killing love
And we run, 'till the heavens above
Yeah we run, running in the dark
And we run, 'till we fall apart
And we run, 'till the heavens above."

Ailith 'a Svana │ full name │
26th December; 20 │ birthday and age │
Female │ gender │
Heterosexual │ sexual preference │
│ height and build │
│ hair and eyes │
Black, curled horns and goat-like eyes when using magic │ unique features │

appearance ╱

attire ╱

personality ╱ Dabih is complicated; she is proud, yet struggles to accept that she is enough. She follows ways of Hatoh, yet can be quite critical of them as well. She wishes to lead, be at the top of the chain, yet realizes she lacks the skill and natural gift to be leader. She is kind and caring, but often delivers it in backhanded manner. She is cynical, but when everyone else has lost hope, she will be the one to still hold onto it.

One thing for sure, this woman is all about efficiency. It's worked down into every fiber of her being. People and actions are meant to be efficient, for good of all. So, she's hard working and puts all she's got into everything she does. She's also loyal, to her people and to her squad mates. Ready to die for them kind of loyal. Although Pryxis might have doubts about it, because one thing she loves to do is tease him relentlessly about his uptight ways. But on the field, she never questions his choices. Or nearly never. At least not anymore.

Sometimes, she talks a lot, sometimes Dabih doesn't utter a word for days, absorbed in something, or just not feeling like playing the polite game. But when she puts on her game face, she makes for an excellent spy and infiltrator, able to merge into practically any crowd, despite her racial features (often, she uses them to her advantage). Some, envious of her, say that her magic has a role in this ability.

This woman can be quite short tempered, still working to always keep her temper in check when she's out of assumed role. She has started (and won) some bar brawls and is one of the most frequent users of their patrol's gym, to vent her anger about things. She loves to spar with her squad mates, learning their strengths and weaknesses, at the start often teaching them new and more efficient moves. She also doesn't mind being taught. In fact, when it comes to learning, she's surprisingly patient and can take long time to master a task as close to perfection, although you may hear things crashing against her room's wall in the process.

Often, she takes actions over words because they seem more true. Words can be twisted, as she very well knows, but if you do something, then you are more likely to mean it and will have harder time to back out of it. This is how she'd pursue romance, if someone caught her eye, although perhaps under Polaris' influence, she has grown to have a secret love for romantic gestures. In some ways, Dabih is a little like sponge, observing everything and taking notes, absorbing what suits her and sometimes even what doesn't.

A sure sign of her strangeness is that she is best of friends with Gemini, who is quite the opposite of her, in many ways. Perhaps the one thing to unite them is that they are both still trying to find their path in this life, a goal, something to truly tie their hearts to.

history ╱ Dabih comes from a strange race most often referred to as "brimstoners". It is not a praise, obviously, but quite correctly portrays their hot tempered nature and fits the world they hail from - Caernus - that is more alike Hell than humans thought a whole planet could be. Her race was once savage and brutal, using their horns in fights of dominance, until their leaders slowly united and brought iron fist upon their people, focusing their attention on progress than simply fighting to survive, so that their harsh homeworld would not swallow its inhabitants whole.

It is unclear if Hatoh came as result of these changes or was reason for it, if it was created by these leaders or a higher power laid these rules that lead brimstoners' lives in every way. In fact, Hatoh has long since spread from their race and their planet, gathering followers among many other. It is a strict religion, where everyone has their role they must fulfill, given by their talents and skills. Some say, it eliminates free will, but most like the certainty it brings along with. There is no starvation or long running diseases, because enough people work in each branch and everyone is given job to provide for themselves.

Culture wise, they have long since moved past their savage ways and have grown to appreciate beauty, especially once they started to travel stars and learned how gorgeous other planets can be. Rough and frail, beautiful and sturdy are strongly entwined in every aspect of their crafts. Dabih is especially close to these aspects, because her father was an expert craftsman while her mother served as captain - Hatoh doesn't discriminate upon genders in any way, for efficiency is the most important.

She stayed with her father most of her childhood, on Caernus, while her mother traveled the stars and brought order to colonies and their territorial disputes. Until one day her job claimed her life and her father quickly remarried - not quite by his choice, but he thought half a family could harm his daughter. However, Ailith that had never lived up to her mother's expectations as brave warrior, felt even further unbalanced by the new and fierce Caernian woman in their household.

But perhaps it was for the best, as Ailith pushed herself all in training, trying to find her one excellent talent so she could move into adult life and make her parents proud. As strange as it was, the harder she tried, the more her trainers seemed displeased and frustrated. Only later she was told that it was hard to pinpoint her one excellent trait as she had plenty of them, yet also many drawbacks that created unique bag of traits that were not quite suited for most jobs. In simpler words, they did not know where to put her. Far too independent and unbelieving to be Hatoh infiltrator, but possessing great deal of cunning and sneakiness. Powerful enough to go in battlefield, but hardly capable of leading a squad or fitting in most of them, yet not one to work alone. Possessing great magic, yet no interest to become a simple vessel for her power, guided by others, as moth Caernians do when using magic. Curious, yet dismissing of all that she did not understand fully...

Long story short, they pushed her towards Stargazer Patrol, as it was good move to increase their reputation among other races, gave her name that she secretly despises for it carries both promise of great victory and failure, and she was accepted. Conflicted, she felt both proud and angered, to be pushed out of her community. Her pride prevented her from feeling good under a human's command, especially at first, until he earned her respect. Still, there was also great deal of joy, to be learning of other cultures and doing good deeds for the world. The novelty of it all wore off quickly enough, though, leaving the rather cynical Dabih her squad mates know now.

Companion │ class │
Private first class │ rank │
Compound bow x │main weapon │
Shield x Metal petal blades of flowers she wears │ secondary weapon│
Hircygnus x | animal │
Suddenly swoops from above on her hircygnus, pelting enemies with ranged attacks │ trademark attack│

★ ☆ ★ Strengths ★ ☆ ★
Agile;
Hardworking;
Gifted;
Magical;

★ ☆ ★ Weaknesses ★ ☆ ★
Complicated; What she shows and feels often are two different things and not only her peers, but she herself also, often don't quite understand why she does things the way she does and her quick temper tends to get the best of her
Magical; As her magic is earth and fire centered, it is hard if not impossible to use at space stations and other similar locations
Disliked; Her race is feared, yet disliked for both actual and made-up facts. She does not raise the prestige of her Stargazer patrol for sure

★ ☆ ★ Private GEMINI ★ ☆ ★

"I've been losing myself in anger
So much broken by the rage
Losing myself to madness
And the game's been played

Tell me why am I still here when it’s all gone
I’m living with the ghost of yesterday
Tell me why I’m wasting away,
Tell me how to break my own chains,
‘Cause I’m losing after all,
How can I escape this grim fate
Tell me how to face one more day,
‘Cause I’m wasting away

If I could turn the hands of time
I would but here I am"

Nikolaos Eadgar Havelock │ full name │
xxx; 23 │ birthday and age │
Male │ gender │
Heterosexual │ sexual preference │
│ height and build │
│ hair and eyes │
│ unique features │

appearance ╱

attire ╱

personality ╱

history ╱ Nikolaos Eadgar and Nereus Samson Havelocks were born in prestigious, long family line. As children, the boys were spoiled to no end by all women of the palace that were unable to resist their dimpled smiles and shining eyes, and strictly watched over by their father although he, too, was not immune to twins' charm. But a skipped lesson or two did little harm anyway because they were brilliant. What one couldn't learn with ease, the other mastered effortlessly and the other way around.

As all kids, they sometimes argued and fought, but as they grew, the more inseparable they became. They balanced each other perfectly and as their interests were so different, they didn't have to rival for the first place in subjects that mattered most to them. And being showered with love and affection from every side, there was no reason for jealousy to be born.

Nikolaos always excelled at all physical prowess related matters, although his intelligence was never lacking either, whereas Nereus liked to groom his intellect and focus on tricking his opponents rather than beating them with brute force. Where one was hot headed, other thought things over thrice, but both were cheerful, boastful, yet very kind to everyone around them. They didn't pride themselves in their riches, seemingly ignoring this particular aspect of their lives. Their two younger sisters idolized them and they were always protective, teasing older brothers girls often dream to have.

It was no wonder when they both joined Stargazer Patrol. They were to make their parents, their whole family proud. Everything seemed to go according to plan until about half a year before their 21st birthday. Gruesome accident robbed Nereus Samson of life. The information how it happened was never released to public and is firmly sealed into Gemini's mind, yet never spoken. Changes that Nikolaos, then known as Regulus, leader of his young squad, went through after his twins' death showed him from worst side possible.

He became easily enraged, extremely violent, careless, fought with his squad and blamed everyone (especially himself) for Nereus' death. He fell into drinking for few months until he was given a simple choice: either he'd clean up his act and make something of his brother's remembrance or he'd be expelled from Stargazers. He thrashed like beast in cage, yelled that he just wants to see them all go down in flames, but after a week of calming down, he decided to start all over, as much as it was in his power.

With his 21st birthday, he changes his name to Gemini, obviously to honor his twin, and transferred to Pryxis patrol. Aside from their lieutenant and Dabih, probably no one knows just what transpired in his life before that. He likes to keep it that way, too. These 2 years, he's been clean of drinking although he smokes a lot.

Weapon │ class │
Private │ rank │
│main weapon │
│ secondary weapon |
│ trademark attack│

★ ☆ ★ Strengths ★ ☆ ★
Cheerful;
Fast;
Influental;
Strong;

★ ☆ ★ Weaknesses ★ ☆ ★
Berserker;
Reckless;
Unfocused;