[OOC] Application/Profile - Elegante
Your Name: Stefan
Age: 21
Username: dragoon1940
Email: dragoon1940 @ gmail.com
IM: dragoon1940
Character Name: Alita
Series: Battle Angel Alita
Timeline: Just after she departs Alhambra and is beginning her search for Ido and Nova again, as well as meeting Lou.
Background:
Alita’s story actually began two hundred and twenty one years in the past from her own present. She was born with on Mars and given the name Yoko. Within her universe, the various bodies of the solar system had been colonized following the Earth being struck by a huge meteorite and the long winter that followed. However, humanity was once again ripped apart by war. On Mars, Alita’s world was torn apart.
Her and another girl called Erika were forced to walk through a minefield for the entertainment of a group of soldiers. Threatened with death and unable to go any further, they prepared themselves for death. Then they were saved by a mysterious woman using the art of Panzer Kunst, a martial art developed for fighting military cyborgs and opponents larger than the practitioner. Their savior’s name was Gelda and she took both Yoko and Erika in. Yoko and Erika were both trained in the art of Panzer Kunst from a young age.
Although initially reluctant and feeling that she was inadequate compared to both Erika and Gelda, she improved. Of the rest of her childhood and adolescence little is known, besides that she served and trained at the secret academy of Grünthal on Mars. What is known is that in approximately ES 391 (2348 AD) she was dispatched on a terrorist mission to upload a virus known as “Program Guinevere” into the Melchizedek computer aboard the orbiting space station of Kethares. By this point fully cybernetic (a human brian and spinal column inside of a mechanical body), she succeeded in her mission, annihilating security forces who tried to stop her. The end result was the destruction of several colony craft and the deaths of over 400,000 people. However, while attempting to escape, she was captured by the “Blue Widow”, a female mercenary, and sentenced to death via orbital burn-up.
She was sent hurtling into the atmosphere and somehow, her brain, skull and portions of her torso survived. She lay dormant for two hundred years before a man by the name of Daisuke Ido discovered her in the Scrapyard, the city that had formed underneath Tiphares, the floating city that sat opposite of Kethares and provided the anchor for the space elevator. Upon being brought back to life, she had no memory of her old life or her old name. Ido christened her Alita. For a brief period she had no real body, but was shortly up and about on her (new) feet, with all the energy, enthusiasm and curiosity of a child or young teenager. She became suspicious of where exactly Ido was getting his body parts for her and after he continued to go out night after night, she eventually tailed him. She discovered (somewhat to her relief) that Ido was a hunter warrior; a bounty hunter. She immediately determined to follow in his footsteps, despite Ido’s objections.
Arrogant, head-strong and proud, her first fight was with Makaku, a huge cyborg who was addicted to the natural endorphin produced by brains. Despite her superior speed and her instinctive use of the Panzer Kunst, her body was virtually destroyed. Ido was forced to intervene and was almost killed saving her. With both sides retreating to lick their wounds, Ido placed Alita into a Berserker Body, a cyborg left over from the Interstellar Wars. It gave her power, speed and durability. Combined with her Panzer Kust, it made her a formidable combatant.
Makaku in the meantime had equipped himself with a powerful new body and had become obsessed with Alita. He tracked her down and despite her attempts to get other hunter warriors to aid her, she was eventually forced to fight him one-on-one in the sewers beneath Scrapyard. In a long, drawn out battle, she was able to activate the abilities of her new body and eventually defeat Makaku. During the fight she learned of his past and that he had been given his power by a doctor known as Desty Nova. This would not be the last time she would encounter the name. However, the fight also instilled her the knowledge that she must always keep trying, always strive for something better. To give up and accept defeat would never be in her nature, except at the very lowest points of her life.
Shortly after becoming a hunter warrior, she fell in love with a young man named Hugo. Infatuated, she bemoaned the fact that with her Berserker body she couldn’t risk getting close to him or holding him or else she might tear him apart. He was only a baseline human, after all. However, Hugo had been gathering and saving money in a vain effort to reach Tiphares. In fact, no one from the Earth was ever allowed to ascend to Tiphares - the grounders were fit only to produce food and pats for Tiphares. In exchange Tiphares gave them trash, refuse and their exiles.
To rise his money Hugo had been stealing spines from cyborgs. However, he was finally caught and forced to flee from other hunter warriors, including one who attempted to orchestrate Alita’s downfall for a perceived slight - one Zapan. In a desperate bid to save him after he was mortally injured, Alita hooked Hugo’s head into her own life support system to keep him alive and to fool the authorities. Zapan was injured trying to uncover the ruse. It succeeded, at least partially, and Hugo was transferred to a new cyborg body.
However, Hugo went nearly mad with grief after learning that he could never truly reach Tiphares and attempted to climb one of the giant support tubes to the hanging city above Scrapyard. Alita pursued him and had finally convinced him to return with her. Unfortunately, he was killed by a Tiphares security measure.
Torn by grief, Alita fled her home, leaving Ido behind in an effort to drown out her grief. She eventually entered the motorball circuit, where she began to compete. Her skill and speed proved of extreme value in the deadly sport. Cyborgs chased after a specially designed ball, dodging obstacle hazards and attempting to destroy each other in their bids to win.
She enjoyed the competition and the fighting as she tried to lose herself and soothe her grief. She was given a pair of Damascus blades (later reforged into one), which she used in the Panzer Kunst style of “elbow blades”. These would become her primary weapon for much of her life.
She moved up to the Second Division and despite having to fight to keep her number, her bravado and pride were ever present. After a confrontation with the champion of the sport, Jashugan, she is issued a challenge - to defeat him and better herself. She set about putting together a five-man team to challenge him (as he is First Division and she is Second). After putting her team together, they faced Jashugan in a vicious motorball match. All of her teammates were dispatched within minutes. Despite her own innate skill and use of Panzer Kunst, she seemed to be in trouble.
After a vicious fight and just when it seemed she had beat him, Jashugan rose again through pure willpower and defeated her, before finally dying due to extensive surgery performed on him when he was younger to increase his performance and save his life. Said surgery was performed by one Desty Nova.
From that fight, however, she would draw inspiration. Despite her defeat, Jashugan had taught her a valuable listen - to draw her own strength from within herself. To better herself. To never give up. To endure.
She retired from the motorball circuit and returned to her friends in the Scrapyard. For a time, she was blissfully content and happy, playing piano for a bar operated by friends and training other hunter warriors in unarmed combat. It was destined to end.
Zapan, who had lost his face and eventually gone insane, returned in an attempt to get revenge on Alita. With the assistance of another hunter warrior, he was killed. Or so it was thought.
Her berserker body had been sold off during her motorball days in order to fund her competition. Now, Ido was attempting to get it back in her hands in order to stop the powerful weapon from getting into the wrong hands. He discovered that it had been sold to the same Desty Nova that had performed cybersurgery on both Makaru and Jashugan and he determined to go and buy the body back. When he failed to return, Alita began to worry - until a girl with a truck arrived to inform her that Ido had sent her to pick Alita up. Upon her arrival to Nova’s house, she found it in ruins, with Nova and his little crew calmly sitting atop their packed items.
Nova passed her a box, telling her that “Ido was inside”. Inside, Alita discovered a hand, parts of Ido’s head and other body parts. Nova had released the limits on the Berserker body and the nanomachines that made it up had immediately tried to find a brain to use - it found Zapan’s, whom Nova had recovered and revived. Zapan and the Berserker suit had trashed the house and left, killing Ido in the process.
In a blind rage and accusing them of killing Ido, Alita slaughtered Nova and his followers. They stood up again to her amazement. Nova explained that he and all of his followers had regenerative nanites in their bodies, which helped prevent them from being killed. He also explained he could bring Ido back to life, but that Alita would have to destroy the Beserker suit. With that, he gave her a liquid which, when shot into the Berserker, would cause it to discombobulate. Alita left to go face down Zapan, who had been trashing his way through the Scrapyard. Nova left town for parts unknown.
As she prepared for the showdown with Zapan, she was confronted by a crowd of angry Scrapyard citizens, demanding she give herself up to the insane Zapan so the destruction of Scrapyard would end. Disgusted, Alita refused, preferring to die fighting on her feet for herself then to submit and die as a slave for the majority. She applied the formula given to her by Nova to six bullets and loaded them into a revolver, despite the fact that owning or firing a firearm was against factory (and hence Scrapyard) law.
She confronted Zapan again and after a long, drawn out battle, she finally destroyed him. However, most of her body was destroyed during the fighting. She was confined by factory authorities and condemned for ‘disposal’ for violating factory law and using a sidearm. However, at the last possible moment, Tiphares intervened. They had been watching her since she was a hunter warrior and her skills and abilities impressed them greatly. She was made an offer - become an agent for the Ground Investigation Bureau. At first, she refused, claiming she would rather die on her feet then become a slave to Tiphares. However, they pointed out that one of her assignments would be to track down Nova, who was an exile from Tiphares and after brief consideration, she accepted, if only for the chance to find Ido again.
She spent ten years as a TUNED agent, completing missions for Tiphares. She was given a new body, one with new powers and abilities. They came at a price, however. She was equipped with a Pavlovian “shock collar” that would allow her handlers to shock her should she disobey orders.
Ten years after vanishing from Scrapyard, she was on an escort mission aboard one of Tiphares’ resource-hauling trains. The trains delivered food and raw materials from outlying farms to Scrapyard, where they were then shipped up to Tiphares. A group known as the Barjack had begun operating out of the wastelands surrounding these farms (and scrapyard). Opposed to Tiphares rule over the impoverished ground-dwellers, they attacked virtually anyone who came across their path, destroying Tiphares convoys and fighting an all out war against their skyborne oppressors.
When the train she was escorting was attacked, she helped defeat the attackers and took their leaders’ brain for later interrogation. In the process she also rescued a young man named Figure, who had signed on as a mercenary, as well as his companion, Yolg. Figure was practitioner of a martial art designed to be used against cyborgs and despite the fact that she kept beating him, he continued to challenge her.
Alone in the wilds, the trio journeyed together for a short time before her controller ordered her to abandon them. With great reluctance, she left them, taking her buggy. However, she returned to rescue them from an oncoming super-tornado - all three were picked up and dropped in an abandoned city. Temporarily confined by Figure and out of contact with Control, all she could do was wait. However, they attracted the attention of a group of Barjack soldiers who attacked them. In an intense battle, Figure and Alita successfully fended off scores of Barjack soldiers until they were betrayed by Figure’s companion, who deserted to the side of Barjack for the sake of seeing his wife and child again. Figure was thought killed when a building collapsed on him, while Alita was imprisoned to be taken back to Barjack’s main encampment.
Figure was alive. He intervened to save her from the Barjack troops. Together, they trekked across the desert, with Figure carrying her on his back (she’d had her feet blown off). Out of food and water, at the end of their limit, they collapsed. They’d come to care deeply for each other. At peace, they prepared for the end - only to be interrupted by a rainstorm, which also happened to pelt them with fish.
Rejuvenated, the two successfully made it to Figure’s hometown of Alhambra, where Alita recuperated before setting out again. She was on her way to finally find Nova - and hopefully Ido. She’d learned from her experiences in the desert and from Figure - true freedom was being in full control of your life, free to die or live as you chose. And she embraced it. She made a promise to Figure to return to Alhambra - and him - one day, once she’d accomplished her mission.
Setting forth once again, she was introduced (via comms) to her new ‘operator’ - a young woman named Lou Collins. Almost immediately afterward she was forced to fend off assassins sent by Desty Nova, who gave her a message - if she wanted to find him, she would have to find and defeat Den, leader of the Barjack. Even more determined than ever to track down Ido and Nova, she prepared for the fight of her life.
Of course, that was when life decided to throw her a curveball and send her to the Elegante.
Spoken / written languages: English. Possibly German.
Abilities: Alita is an incredibly skilled practitioner of Panzer Kunst, a martial arts method designed for use against military cyborgs and larger opponents. In adddition to the obvious cobat prowess, she can read opponents exceedingly well. She is also one of three or four practitioners left in the known universe. She has developed her own "style" and is incredibly deadly, even unarmed. She is fast (being able to move faster than the speed of sound), strong and quick-thinking. Her reaction times are far above the human norm. In addition she is skilled in a variety of weapons, including pistols, longarms and various melee weapons. She’s highly athletic and able to perform incredible feats of acrobatics.
Her brain cells are suffused with an advanced polymer rather than water, which hardens upon traumatic impact, thus lessening the amount of damage that her brain actually takes.
Her current body (provided by Tiphares) is a "soft" body, created and maintained by nanomachines. It tends to overheat in extreme temperature conditions. She can withstand great deals of damage and can survive having her limbs (except for her head) removed from her body. As long as her brain remains alive, she can be transplanted to another cyborg body. At least in her universe.
Items: Lice probes - can be used to scout an area for traps or instability, which will then be marked on her vision. Not a weapon.
Desert robes, cat suit, body armor, equipment straps - self explanatory.
Third Person Sample: It was hot. Then again, it was always hot out here. The desert rolled away beneath Alita’s feet, stretchingto the horizon; a never ending sea of sand and rock. Her boots scraped over stone and then she smoothly slid down the opposite side of the outcropping, her robes billowing out behind her for a moment to reveal her lightly armored frame underneath. The wind ruffled her hair, sand flicking into her face. She squinted, raising a hand as she shielded her eyes from the sun. Another day spent walking. Another day serving TUNE. Ten long years by herself, being shocked, being sent hither and thither to kill, collect and do Tiphares’s dirty work.
Finally at the end of it all, she’d been taught how to be free by a man named Figure. The man she loved. She glanced over her shoulder, back the way she’d came. A lone trail of footprints stretching out under the baking sun. She thought she finally understood. Nothing in life was meaningless. Everyone she’d met, everyone she’d befriended or loved or hated or fought - it was all for something. Her experiences made her who she was, just as the people she’d met were shaped by her. As she’d been shaped by the man she’d left behind.
Figure.
But she had a mission. A purpose. A place. She was going to find Ido. She was going to find Nova. She was going to beat Den and get back the man who had been so much like a father to her over the years. The one who had pulled her from the scrap and given her life. She wouldn’t fail. She couldn’t. She adjusted her robe again and turned away, trekking onwards. She wasn’t slowing down now. She was closer then she’d been in years and Barjack or no Barjack, she was going to find Ido.
First Person Sample: This thing is… a bit old-fashioned, but I guess it’ll have to do. Hello? Is there anyone out there. This is Operative A-1 to control. My digital com-link has either been disconnected or damaged - I can’t raise you on the normal channels. Please come in. Hey, Lou! Are you there? Damn. Figures I’m broadcasting in the open too…
Preferred Quarters: None.
Age: 21
Username: dragoon1940
Email: dragoon1940 @ gmail.com
IM: dragoon1940
Character Name: Alita
Series: Battle Angel Alita
Timeline: Just after she departs Alhambra and is beginning her search for Ido and Nova again, as well as meeting Lou.
Background:
Alita’s story actually began two hundred and twenty one years in the past from her own present. She was born with on Mars and given the name Yoko. Within her universe, the various bodies of the solar system had been colonized following the Earth being struck by a huge meteorite and the long winter that followed. However, humanity was once again ripped apart by war. On Mars, Alita’s world was torn apart.
Her and another girl called Erika were forced to walk through a minefield for the entertainment of a group of soldiers. Threatened with death and unable to go any further, they prepared themselves for death. Then they were saved by a mysterious woman using the art of Panzer Kunst, a martial art developed for fighting military cyborgs and opponents larger than the practitioner. Their savior’s name was Gelda and she took both Yoko and Erika in. Yoko and Erika were both trained in the art of Panzer Kunst from a young age.
Although initially reluctant and feeling that she was inadequate compared to both Erika and Gelda, she improved. Of the rest of her childhood and adolescence little is known, besides that she served and trained at the secret academy of Grünthal on Mars. What is known is that in approximately ES 391 (2348 AD) she was dispatched on a terrorist mission to upload a virus known as “Program Guinevere” into the Melchizedek computer aboard the orbiting space station of Kethares. By this point fully cybernetic (a human brian and spinal column inside of a mechanical body), she succeeded in her mission, annihilating security forces who tried to stop her. The end result was the destruction of several colony craft and the deaths of over 400,000 people. However, while attempting to escape, she was captured by the “Blue Widow”, a female mercenary, and sentenced to death via orbital burn-up.
She was sent hurtling into the atmosphere and somehow, her brain, skull and portions of her torso survived. She lay dormant for two hundred years before a man by the name of Daisuke Ido discovered her in the Scrapyard, the city that had formed underneath Tiphares, the floating city that sat opposite of Kethares and provided the anchor for the space elevator. Upon being brought back to life, she had no memory of her old life or her old name. Ido christened her Alita. For a brief period she had no real body, but was shortly up and about on her (new) feet, with all the energy, enthusiasm and curiosity of a child or young teenager. She became suspicious of where exactly Ido was getting his body parts for her and after he continued to go out night after night, she eventually tailed him. She discovered (somewhat to her relief) that Ido was a hunter warrior; a bounty hunter. She immediately determined to follow in his footsteps, despite Ido’s objections.
Arrogant, head-strong and proud, her first fight was with Makaku, a huge cyborg who was addicted to the natural endorphin produced by brains. Despite her superior speed and her instinctive use of the Panzer Kunst, her body was virtually destroyed. Ido was forced to intervene and was almost killed saving her. With both sides retreating to lick their wounds, Ido placed Alita into a Berserker Body, a cyborg left over from the Interstellar Wars. It gave her power, speed and durability. Combined with her Panzer Kust, it made her a formidable combatant.
Makaku in the meantime had equipped himself with a powerful new body and had become obsessed with Alita. He tracked her down and despite her attempts to get other hunter warriors to aid her, she was eventually forced to fight him one-on-one in the sewers beneath Scrapyard. In a long, drawn out battle, she was able to activate the abilities of her new body and eventually defeat Makaku. During the fight she learned of his past and that he had been given his power by a doctor known as Desty Nova. This would not be the last time she would encounter the name. However, the fight also instilled her the knowledge that she must always keep trying, always strive for something better. To give up and accept defeat would never be in her nature, except at the very lowest points of her life.
Shortly after becoming a hunter warrior, she fell in love with a young man named Hugo. Infatuated, she bemoaned the fact that with her Berserker body she couldn’t risk getting close to him or holding him or else she might tear him apart. He was only a baseline human, after all. However, Hugo had been gathering and saving money in a vain effort to reach Tiphares. In fact, no one from the Earth was ever allowed to ascend to Tiphares - the grounders were fit only to produce food and pats for Tiphares. In exchange Tiphares gave them trash, refuse and their exiles.
To rise his money Hugo had been stealing spines from cyborgs. However, he was finally caught and forced to flee from other hunter warriors, including one who attempted to orchestrate Alita’s downfall for a perceived slight - one Zapan. In a desperate bid to save him after he was mortally injured, Alita hooked Hugo’s head into her own life support system to keep him alive and to fool the authorities. Zapan was injured trying to uncover the ruse. It succeeded, at least partially, and Hugo was transferred to a new cyborg body.
However, Hugo went nearly mad with grief after learning that he could never truly reach Tiphares and attempted to climb one of the giant support tubes to the hanging city above Scrapyard. Alita pursued him and had finally convinced him to return with her. Unfortunately, he was killed by a Tiphares security measure.
Torn by grief, Alita fled her home, leaving Ido behind in an effort to drown out her grief. She eventually entered the motorball circuit, where she began to compete. Her skill and speed proved of extreme value in the deadly sport. Cyborgs chased after a specially designed ball, dodging obstacle hazards and attempting to destroy each other in their bids to win.
She enjoyed the competition and the fighting as she tried to lose herself and soothe her grief. She was given a pair of Damascus blades (later reforged into one), which she used in the Panzer Kunst style of “elbow blades”. These would become her primary weapon for much of her life.
She moved up to the Second Division and despite having to fight to keep her number, her bravado and pride were ever present. After a confrontation with the champion of the sport, Jashugan, she is issued a challenge - to defeat him and better herself. She set about putting together a five-man team to challenge him (as he is First Division and she is Second). After putting her team together, they faced Jashugan in a vicious motorball match. All of her teammates were dispatched within minutes. Despite her own innate skill and use of Panzer Kunst, she seemed to be in trouble.
After a vicious fight and just when it seemed she had beat him, Jashugan rose again through pure willpower and defeated her, before finally dying due to extensive surgery performed on him when he was younger to increase his performance and save his life. Said surgery was performed by one Desty Nova.
From that fight, however, she would draw inspiration. Despite her defeat, Jashugan had taught her a valuable listen - to draw her own strength from within herself. To better herself. To never give up. To endure.
She retired from the motorball circuit and returned to her friends in the Scrapyard. For a time, she was blissfully content and happy, playing piano for a bar operated by friends and training other hunter warriors in unarmed combat. It was destined to end.
Zapan, who had lost his face and eventually gone insane, returned in an attempt to get revenge on Alita. With the assistance of another hunter warrior, he was killed. Or so it was thought.
Her berserker body had been sold off during her motorball days in order to fund her competition. Now, Ido was attempting to get it back in her hands in order to stop the powerful weapon from getting into the wrong hands. He discovered that it had been sold to the same Desty Nova that had performed cybersurgery on both Makaru and Jashugan and he determined to go and buy the body back. When he failed to return, Alita began to worry - until a girl with a truck arrived to inform her that Ido had sent her to pick Alita up. Upon her arrival to Nova’s house, she found it in ruins, with Nova and his little crew calmly sitting atop their packed items.
Nova passed her a box, telling her that “Ido was inside”. Inside, Alita discovered a hand, parts of Ido’s head and other body parts. Nova had released the limits on the Berserker body and the nanomachines that made it up had immediately tried to find a brain to use - it found Zapan’s, whom Nova had recovered and revived. Zapan and the Berserker suit had trashed the house and left, killing Ido in the process.
In a blind rage and accusing them of killing Ido, Alita slaughtered Nova and his followers. They stood up again to her amazement. Nova explained that he and all of his followers had regenerative nanites in their bodies, which helped prevent them from being killed. He also explained he could bring Ido back to life, but that Alita would have to destroy the Beserker suit. With that, he gave her a liquid which, when shot into the Berserker, would cause it to discombobulate. Alita left to go face down Zapan, who had been trashing his way through the Scrapyard. Nova left town for parts unknown.
As she prepared for the showdown with Zapan, she was confronted by a crowd of angry Scrapyard citizens, demanding she give herself up to the insane Zapan so the destruction of Scrapyard would end. Disgusted, Alita refused, preferring to die fighting on her feet for herself then to submit and die as a slave for the majority. She applied the formula given to her by Nova to six bullets and loaded them into a revolver, despite the fact that owning or firing a firearm was against factory (and hence Scrapyard) law.
She confronted Zapan again and after a long, drawn out battle, she finally destroyed him. However, most of her body was destroyed during the fighting. She was confined by factory authorities and condemned for ‘disposal’ for violating factory law and using a sidearm. However, at the last possible moment, Tiphares intervened. They had been watching her since she was a hunter warrior and her skills and abilities impressed them greatly. She was made an offer - become an agent for the Ground Investigation Bureau. At first, she refused, claiming she would rather die on her feet then become a slave to Tiphares. However, they pointed out that one of her assignments would be to track down Nova, who was an exile from Tiphares and after brief consideration, she accepted, if only for the chance to find Ido again.
She spent ten years as a TUNED agent, completing missions for Tiphares. She was given a new body, one with new powers and abilities. They came at a price, however. She was equipped with a Pavlovian “shock collar” that would allow her handlers to shock her should she disobey orders.
Ten years after vanishing from Scrapyard, she was on an escort mission aboard one of Tiphares’ resource-hauling trains. The trains delivered food and raw materials from outlying farms to Scrapyard, where they were then shipped up to Tiphares. A group known as the Barjack had begun operating out of the wastelands surrounding these farms (and scrapyard). Opposed to Tiphares rule over the impoverished ground-dwellers, they attacked virtually anyone who came across their path, destroying Tiphares convoys and fighting an all out war against their skyborne oppressors.
When the train she was escorting was attacked, she helped defeat the attackers and took their leaders’ brain for later interrogation. In the process she also rescued a young man named Figure, who had signed on as a mercenary, as well as his companion, Yolg. Figure was practitioner of a martial art designed to be used against cyborgs and despite the fact that she kept beating him, he continued to challenge her.
Alone in the wilds, the trio journeyed together for a short time before her controller ordered her to abandon them. With great reluctance, she left them, taking her buggy. However, she returned to rescue them from an oncoming super-tornado - all three were picked up and dropped in an abandoned city. Temporarily confined by Figure and out of contact with Control, all she could do was wait. However, they attracted the attention of a group of Barjack soldiers who attacked them. In an intense battle, Figure and Alita successfully fended off scores of Barjack soldiers until they were betrayed by Figure’s companion, who deserted to the side of Barjack for the sake of seeing his wife and child again. Figure was thought killed when a building collapsed on him, while Alita was imprisoned to be taken back to Barjack’s main encampment.
Figure was alive. He intervened to save her from the Barjack troops. Together, they trekked across the desert, with Figure carrying her on his back (she’d had her feet blown off). Out of food and water, at the end of their limit, they collapsed. They’d come to care deeply for each other. At peace, they prepared for the end - only to be interrupted by a rainstorm, which also happened to pelt them with fish.
Rejuvenated, the two successfully made it to Figure’s hometown of Alhambra, where Alita recuperated before setting out again. She was on her way to finally find Nova - and hopefully Ido. She’d learned from her experiences in the desert and from Figure - true freedom was being in full control of your life, free to die or live as you chose. And she embraced it. She made a promise to Figure to return to Alhambra - and him - one day, once she’d accomplished her mission.
Setting forth once again, she was introduced (via comms) to her new ‘operator’ - a young woman named Lou Collins. Almost immediately afterward she was forced to fend off assassins sent by Desty Nova, who gave her a message - if she wanted to find him, she would have to find and defeat Den, leader of the Barjack. Even more determined than ever to track down Ido and Nova, she prepared for the fight of her life.
Of course, that was when life decided to throw her a curveball and send her to the Elegante.
Spoken / written languages: English. Possibly German.
Abilities: Alita is an incredibly skilled practitioner of Panzer Kunst, a martial arts method designed for use against military cyborgs and larger opponents. In adddition to the obvious cobat prowess, she can read opponents exceedingly well. She is also one of three or four practitioners left in the known universe. She has developed her own "style" and is incredibly deadly, even unarmed. She is fast (being able to move faster than the speed of sound), strong and quick-thinking. Her reaction times are far above the human norm. In addition she is skilled in a variety of weapons, including pistols, longarms and various melee weapons. She’s highly athletic and able to perform incredible feats of acrobatics.
Her brain cells are suffused with an advanced polymer rather than water, which hardens upon traumatic impact, thus lessening the amount of damage that her brain actually takes.
Her current body (provided by Tiphares) is a "soft" body, created and maintained by nanomachines. It tends to overheat in extreme temperature conditions. She can withstand great deals of damage and can survive having her limbs (except for her head) removed from her body. As long as her brain remains alive, she can be transplanted to another cyborg body. At least in her universe.
Items: Lice probes - can be used to scout an area for traps or instability, which will then be marked on her vision. Not a weapon.
Desert robes, cat suit, body armor, equipment straps - self explanatory.
Third Person Sample: It was hot. Then again, it was always hot out here. The desert rolled away beneath Alita’s feet, stretchingto the horizon; a never ending sea of sand and rock. Her boots scraped over stone and then she smoothly slid down the opposite side of the outcropping, her robes billowing out behind her for a moment to reveal her lightly armored frame underneath. The wind ruffled her hair, sand flicking into her face. She squinted, raising a hand as she shielded her eyes from the sun. Another day spent walking. Another day serving TUNE. Ten long years by herself, being shocked, being sent hither and thither to kill, collect and do Tiphares’s dirty work.
Finally at the end of it all, she’d been taught how to be free by a man named Figure. The man she loved. She glanced over her shoulder, back the way she’d came. A lone trail of footprints stretching out under the baking sun. She thought she finally understood. Nothing in life was meaningless. Everyone she’d met, everyone she’d befriended or loved or hated or fought - it was all for something. Her experiences made her who she was, just as the people she’d met were shaped by her. As she’d been shaped by the man she’d left behind.
Figure.
But she had a mission. A purpose. A place. She was going to find Ido. She was going to find Nova. She was going to beat Den and get back the man who had been so much like a father to her over the years. The one who had pulled her from the scrap and given her life. She wouldn’t fail. She couldn’t. She adjusted her robe again and turned away, trekking onwards. She wasn’t slowing down now. She was closer then she’d been in years and Barjack or no Barjack, she was going to find Ido.
First Person Sample: This thing is… a bit old-fashioned, but I guess it’ll have to do. Hello? Is there anyone out there. This is Operative A-1 to control. My digital com-link has either been disconnected or damaged - I can’t raise you on the normal channels. Please come in. Hey, Lou! Are you there? Damn. Figures I’m broadcasting in the open too…
Preferred Quarters: None.