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Blessed Solstice, Feliz Navidad, Happy Hannukah... have a PTSD child soldier with a massive chip on her shoulder and a Destiny she doesn't want...
First, the super-duper important points:
* Is pretty much married to make-the-shot. She might flirt with you, but she doesn't mean it. You make a move on him, she'll drop you.
* Usually wears oversized boots, ripped tights, a large men's shirt belted as a dress, and a trench coat and Red Infantry hat. These are the only clothes she owns, and someone is going to need to stage a shopping intervention.
* Can make anything into a weapon, and loves her guns like they were people. Please don't try to touch her guns.
* Makita does speak English fluently - she had very highly paid tutors while she was training for the Olympic team - but she has a very faint Nokgorkan (Chechen) accent that other characters are free to pick up on. She is fluent in Russian, Nokgorkan, and English.
* A wolf in temperament as well as duty: stubborn, loyal, impulsive, brilliant, and determined. She'll do whatever it takes to free her people, and the enemy of her enemy is her friend.
* Does not/will not answer to the name Valentina Galilei.
Pre-Canon/Fandom History:
The daughter of former Red Infantry soldier Rudov Galilei, Valentina Galilei was being trained for a life as a world-class gymnast. The breakup of the URRS, however, shattered her dreams of competing on the national team. The Nokgorkan government claimed sovereignty from the former republics, and despite allowing other satellite nations to cede peacefully from the URRS, the Red Fleet was immediately deployed to quell this uprising, and the war of Nokgorka began. For three hundred years Nokgorka had strained against the collar slapped upon it by the State, existing in a near-constant state of simmering rebellion, and now every man, woman, and child has risen up throw off the rule of the Commonwealth. They will live free or die.
So ended Valentina, and began Makita.
At 5'2" with startling green eyes and choppy brown hair, Makita is now one of the "wolves of Nokgorka", a member of the resistance militia fighting the Red Fleet. Despite her young age, Makita is an experienced veteran soldier. She started fighting three years ago, when she was thirteen, assisting her Papa at the battle for the oil fields at Kali Gorge, and she has honed her skills under the tutelage of her father and Proto in the brutal street battles for Bahamut, the capital of her home republic. Now sixteen and considered one of the best Wolves that the Nokgorkan Elders have at their disposal, she has combined her athletic skills, lightning-fast reflexes and hard-earned survival skills into a lethal combination.
What Makita doesn't know is that she's been chosen by Higher Powers. There is a mission that only she can fulfill, all the odds are stacked against her, and the destiny of the world -- and the entire Spiritrealm -- rests on her ability to do the impossible.
Makita and Proto are coming to Fandom directly after the events of Run Makita Run, towards the beginning of the series. Her father has just died and she's the sole survivor of the downtown region of Bahamut, as one of the Red commanders just incinerated his own people to try and decimate the Gorkan resistance. She's been given a mission; to find a woman named 'Maya Antares', and deliver the letter that her father gave his life to protect.
Powers? AHAHAHA.
Makita is one of the best damn 'wolves on the streets of Bahamut, and is respected accordingly. She's deadly with a pair of machine guns, or her hammer and scythe, and when operating solo, has been mistaken for a squad of fifteen men. She can wipe out a Red landing party between one breath and the next, and her agility and grace would be termed superhuman in some worlds. All of Makita's 'superhuman' abilities, however, stem from years upon years of training. She is faster than you, stronger than you, and more ruthless.
It is, however, implied that she is a latent telekinetic -- as Urik Antares eventually offers to teach her how to wield an infantry hook, a weapon used by telekinetic soldiers in the Red Army -- but she has not yet accessed that ability.
For those that are telepaths/mind readers/empaths/etc; like all members of the Gorkan resistance, Makita and Proto have both used telepathic relays extensively. They can't hear you unless you hook in to them first, and they've got pretty solid shields to keep from getting hacked by Red Sorceresses, but feel free to pick up on them feeling different. They possess the ability to go 'radio silent' and be completely invisible to a telepathic scan, but neither would flip out at a voice in their heads.
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The Red Star is an ongoing graphic-novel format series by Christian Gossett set in a scifi/fantasy world described by Gossett as "Mythic [Soviet] Russia", which was inspired by both Russian folklore and military history. The series is heavily reminiscent of a post-World War II Soviet Russia mixing technology and sorcery.
Makita and Proto are coming from the end of issue five (the annual), basically, but don't let that stop you from reading the whole thing... we like having people to squee with.
http://www.archangel-studios.com/comics/redstar/frame.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Star
http://www.rushin-doll.net/stuff/redstar01-09+annual.zip
http://www.rushin-doll.net/stuff/redstarV201-05.zip
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First, the super-duper important points:
* Is pretty much married to make-the-shot. She might flirt with you, but she doesn't mean it. You make a move on him, she'll drop you.
* Usually wears oversized boots, ripped tights, a large men's shirt belted as a dress, and a trench coat and Red Infantry hat. These are the only clothes she owns, and someone is going to need to stage a shopping intervention.
* Can make anything into a weapon, and loves her guns like they were people. Please don't try to touch her guns.
* Makita does speak English fluently - she had very highly paid tutors while she was training for the Olympic team - but she has a very faint Nokgorkan (Chechen) accent that other characters are free to pick up on. She is fluent in Russian, Nokgorkan, and English.
* A wolf in temperament as well as duty: stubborn, loyal, impulsive, brilliant, and determined. She'll do whatever it takes to free her people, and the enemy of her enemy is her friend.
* Does not/will not answer to the name Valentina Galilei.
Pre-Canon/Fandom History:
The daughter of former Red Infantry soldier Rudov Galilei, Valentina Galilei was being trained for a life as a world-class gymnast. The breakup of the URRS, however, shattered her dreams of competing on the national team. The Nokgorkan government claimed sovereignty from the former republics, and despite allowing other satellite nations to cede peacefully from the URRS, the Red Fleet was immediately deployed to quell this uprising, and the war of Nokgorka began. For three hundred years Nokgorka had strained against the collar slapped upon it by the State, existing in a near-constant state of simmering rebellion, and now every man, woman, and child has risen up throw off the rule of the Commonwealth. They will live free or die.
So ended Valentina, and began Makita.
At 5'2" with startling green eyes and choppy brown hair, Makita is now one of the "wolves of Nokgorka", a member of the resistance militia fighting the Red Fleet. Despite her young age, Makita is an experienced veteran soldier. She started fighting three years ago, when she was thirteen, assisting her Papa at the battle for the oil fields at Kali Gorge, and she has honed her skills under the tutelage of her father and Proto in the brutal street battles for Bahamut, the capital of her home republic. Now sixteen and considered one of the best Wolves that the Nokgorkan Elders have at their disposal, she has combined her athletic skills, lightning-fast reflexes and hard-earned survival skills into a lethal combination.
What Makita doesn't know is that she's been chosen by Higher Powers. There is a mission that only she can fulfill, all the odds are stacked against her, and the destiny of the world -- and the entire Spiritrealm -- rests on her ability to do the impossible.
Makita and Proto are coming to Fandom directly after the events of Run Makita Run, towards the beginning of the series. Her father has just died and she's the sole survivor of the downtown region of Bahamut, as one of the Red commanders just incinerated his own people to try and decimate the Gorkan resistance. She's been given a mission; to find a woman named 'Maya Antares', and deliver the letter that her father gave his life to protect.
Powers? AHAHAHA.
Makita is one of the best damn 'wolves on the streets of Bahamut, and is respected accordingly. She's deadly with a pair of machine guns, or her hammer and scythe, and when operating solo, has been mistaken for a squad of fifteen men. She can wipe out a Red landing party between one breath and the next, and her agility and grace would be termed superhuman in some worlds. All of Makita's 'superhuman' abilities, however, stem from years upon years of training. She is faster than you, stronger than you, and more ruthless.
It is, however, implied that she is a latent telekinetic -- as Urik Antares eventually offers to teach her how to wield an infantry hook, a weapon used by telekinetic soldiers in the Red Army -- but she has not yet accessed that ability.
For those that are telepaths/mind readers/empaths/etc; like all members of the Gorkan resistance, Makita and Proto have both used telepathic relays extensively. They can't hear you unless you hook in to them first, and they've got pretty solid shields to keep from getting hacked by Red Sorceresses, but feel free to pick up on them feeling different. They possess the ability to go 'radio silent' and be completely invisible to a telepathic scan, but neither would flip out at a voice in their heads.
Your Canon Is Shiny And I Wish to Subscribe To Your Newsletter
The Red Star is an ongoing graphic-novel format series by Christian Gossett set in a scifi/fantasy world described by Gossett as "Mythic [Soviet] Russia", which was inspired by both Russian folklore and military history. The series is heavily reminiscent of a post-World War II Soviet Russia mixing technology and sorcery.
Makita and Proto are coming from the end of issue five (the annual), basically, but don't let that stop you from reading the whole thing... we like having people to squee with.
http://www.archangel-studios.com/comics/redstar/frame.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Star
http://www.rushin-doll.net/stuff/redstar01-09+annual.zip
http://www.rushin-doll.net/stuff/redstarV201-05.zip
Questions // Comments // Donations of Pie?