Nelyo
One Of God's Mistakes
Feanorion Mafia
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Post by Nelyo on Apr 29, 2010 21:24:47 GMT
Name: Jonathan (you can call me Johnny) Hotshot Height: 6'1" Weight: 170 Age: 28 Job: Freelance space-courier, gambler and part-time hero.
Description: Human, of average build, with messy ginger hair and moustache. His eyes are grey, and full of mischief. Hotshot havours old-fashioned clothes in the style of Victorian military uniforms. He usually wears a long overcoat, and a brown stetson hat that he won in a poker game. Hotshot is left-handed and uses his right hand as little as possible. His right hand is always covered by a glove. In fact this is because his right arm, from the elbow downwards, is an artificial one following a serious injury sustained a year ago during the Veridian Rebellion. He's still not quite got used to it, and he still experiences quite a bit of pain from it.
Personality: A cad, a rake, a gambler and a drinker. Hotshot takes risks but is also something of a coward, and does not like to put himself into direct danger. He generally doesn't do anything out of pure altruism, but only where he sees some kind of personal profit, whether financial or in reputation. However he is generally good-hearted.
Character History: Hotshot's career as a space pilot began at the New Terran Space Academy, from which he was dishonourably discharged for drunken and lewd behaviour. Since then he's been variously employed as a steward on a cruise ship, a civilian relief pilot on a Merchant Highliner, a security officer, a mercenary on the rebel side in the Rigellian Civil War, where he was a helicopter pilot for almost six weeks before getting captured and spending three years in a prison camp.
Most recently he's a freelance with a ship, the Prospero, which he won in a poker game, and with which he aided the rebel Veridians during their war of independence there last year.
His Ship and Crew: The Prospero is a small ship that looks like a junk-heap with a couple of engines bolted to it. However looks are deceptive. The Prospero is very fast and while it's armaments are minimal, the ship's computer, named Ariel, is of advanced Kuylaxian technology, built and programmed by Zil's grandfather. The Prospero has a jump-drive, which enables it to travel long distances very quickly, but after each jump, it's drive must be re-charged for several days by collecting solar radiation from a nearby star.
The only other crew-member is Zil, who is the Kuylaxian engineer. Kuylaxians are very short, squat and extremely hairy. Not hairy like a dwarf. Hairy like a bear. Zil never, ever leaves the ship and he has a close emotional bond with Ariel.
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