Age:
35
Race:
Batarian
Sex:
M
Biotic:
Yeah, what of it?
Profession:
Brawler Vanguard: A mix of biotics and punch, the Brawler Vanguard focuses on getting up close and personal with the enemy. Between Biotic Charge and his Blade Armor, the Brawler Vanguard always has the upper hand in close quarters combat. Personality:
Bralya cares about one thing. Credits. If you're buying, he'll do just about anything, take just about any job. He's confident, perhaps overly so, and generally keeps his cards close to the vest. That isn't to say he’s completely impersonal. Buy a few Batarian Ales for him, and he'll tell war stories that would rival a krogan’s. Probably because he stole them from a krogan.
To say Bralya is morally grey would be kind. There's not much he objects to, other than wasting perfectly good ale. He frowns upon the typical pole-up-the-ass approach of most turians. In fact, he has assisted in several of Proctor’s research projects in one way or another, usually either by holding the patient still or subduing them if they get out of hand. On the battlefield, he tends to taunt his enemy just before he charges in or lashes them closer.
Appearance:
Like most batarians, the defining feature for Bralya is his two pairs of eyes and cartilage ridges. His skin is lighter than many batarians, having a grayish brown hue. He wears polished bladed armor that looks like it would fit with any turian army, and sometimes wears a blue hood, either for fashion, stealth, or warmth. He has several piercings in his ears from his early mercenary days, and carries several scars. I mean, few batarians make it through basic training with blade armor without gaining a handful of scars.
In conversation, Bralya carries himself with an air of arrogance. Despite turians usually exceeding his two-meter tall frame, Bralya tends to overshadow many meeker turians just by sheer force of will. On the battlefield, Bralya moves quickly, using small pushes of his biotics to traverse short distances and his charge to bullrush enemies. His presence is almost a mix between a ghost and a bulldozer. Bralya is hard to pin down as he constantly charges between targets, and harder to kill as his charge bolsters his barriers and his armor slows down incoming damage. He is every human’s worst nightmare.
History:
Bralya grew up on the batarian homeworld of Khar’shan. In his youth, he was a decent kid: studied hard, made his parents proud, got into a fine university. But that wasn't enough for Bralya. He needed danger, adventure. He joined the military, got kicked out of the military, got involved with a local group of thugs, and found himself on the wrong side of the Hegemony. Rather than face the music, Bralya fled Khar’shan and claimed sanctuary in Palaven.
Still sore about the skirmishes on Enael, the turian government agreed to grant asylum under the condition that Bralya aid the turians in their self-defense efforts. Not being one to sit around and let some aliens tell him how to live his life, he did his best to find loopholes and shortcuts, claiming ignorance when Palaven caught him in the act. He joined an all-turian mercenary band for a while, claiming he thought they were an independent militia wing. He helped a turian create bombs to use in a terrorist attack against the Citadel, claiming he never knew what the target was.
Eventually, he came across Proctor, a turian after his own heart. Smart, conniving, and with a seemingly endless supply of cash, Proctor hired him to be a bodyguard several years ago. Apparently the gruesome experiments performed were all sanctioned by the turian government, or at least that is what Bralya chose to believe. Some of the particulars of the science exceeded Bralya’s training (well, most of it), but the exchange piqued his curiosity as well as his need for adventure. Eventually, Bralya would come to help Proctor in his experiments, and the turian became the closest thing to a friend that Bralya had for nearly a decade. But that was likely due to the credits that kept pouring into his bank account.
Talents:
- Biotic Charge - Smash into a target while encased in this biotic barrier, leveling your opponents. Invulnerable while this power is in effect. Refreshes barriers.
- Lash - Latch this biotic field onto enemies to jerk them towards you, doing massive damage in the process.
- Blade Armor - Reinforce armor with razor-sharp blades that damage enemies that melee. Less damage taken. More melee damage dealt.
- Biotic Dash - Dash a short distance with a biotic blink.
Equipment- Batarian Blade Armor - Armor reinforced with razor-sharp blades to keep enemies at bay and augment physical power.
- Biotic Implant - Augments biotic abilities.
- Light shotgun - If the dash, charge, punch combo didn't kill ya, how about a shotgun blast to the face?
- Enforcement Gauntlets - Pack a heavy punch with this gauntlet outfitted with an omni-blade.
Other:
Bralya actually follows a sort of code of honor that he picked up while with several mercenary groups. 1) Never rat out your employer. 2) Never get too attached. 3) Give your employer a chance to counter an offer, potentially at shotgun point. 4) Never turn down free credits.
