[CHAR] The Underwater world of Atlas: The Beginning

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"Born and raised in such a place that enforces separation is disgusting." - Nyai'Baatwe upon leaving the Caverns of Kilfi.

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Nyai’Baatwe from the Caverns of Kilfi

Nyai is what many have called the girl while growing up in the Caverns of Kilfi. A peaceful place to many was a place of conflict for the young girl. The masters always were afraid of her anger and frustration. If they spent more time with her and understood she was having a difficult time controlling her powers; they would have been able to stop her from leaving.
At the age of sixteen, Nyai decided she did not belong in such a place and left without a word. Her parents were devastated the next morning, but she felt like they would be better off without a daughter that barely could make a spark while they were teachers in such a magical place.

Upon leaving, Nyai'Baatwe adventured to Oceania where she helped make parts for the giant sailing and fishing boats for the oceans. Months went by and she was a hard worker, everyone enjoyed her time, but she decided to travel the world some more. Going from Oceania to the city of Ortish...it was a mistake...

Large crowds for such a size, she was being shoved, and tugged till she tripped over in the mud. Feeling the pressure of a foot stepping on her hand, "Ah!" she cried out while grabbing her hand away from the person who wasn't watching where they were going. Everyone was completely different from Oceanie, rude, and didn't care at all.

"Hey you need to watch where you are going!-" she began while standing herself up "-don't you know it's rude to step on people!" Nyai called the individual out and terror ran across her face when they turned around. It was a large man with many tattoos and scars. He seemed like the type she should have not called out and she slowly stepped away while he got closer.
The man sniffed her before grabbing her shirt collar and lifting her up quickly in one swipe, "You shouldn't fall down and let people step on you, now should you?" He asked while she grabbed at his wrist for support. She couldn't even wrap her hands around the size of his bones let alone the muscle he had around his limbs.

"I...uhm...-" stuttering was the only thing she could do before he dropped her on her ass, "-ow!" She whined out while watching him walk away.

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Rough estimate of height, weight, and age: 5'6", 125 lbs, and 25-30.

Occupation : Pirate Captain of the Andorsa[4 years sailing as one]

Quick Skills: Hand-to-hand combat, long range weapons [spears, bows, crossbows, throwing knives], intermediate to advance survival skills, and navigating.

Advanced Skills: Advanced survival skills, shipwright, magic, and bargaining.

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Backstory:

Nyai-Baatwe was born and raised to parents who were teachers in the Caverns of Kilfi. This meant she was directly going to have abilities and maybe more advanced than her bloodline. While being raised, she was taught from a young age what magic blessed individuals needed to do and how they needed to do it.
Many, many attempts of her trying her best, everyone watched while the young child couldn't help curse herself and her abilities. She barely could make mist appear from her finger tips or help a plant not wilt while the other children accelerated. Being competitive caused impatience in the young girl and allowed her to fall behind more. After years of training, Nyai was still in what they called 'the yearlings' this meant you have been in physical training for less than five years; sadly she has been practicing since the age of three. Meaning that the young girl was six years too old for the rank she was placed in.

Completely devastated, Nyai decided to run away from home at the age of sixteen. She did this without a word and no one has heard from her since. Masters and others who have traveled out of the caverns have noticed her on ships, but they are not socialized with her anymore, only a faded image.

This led to the young girl working as a shipwright in Oceanie for months. Learning the trades of how to create and fix wooden boats from the knowledge the civilization had. Learning the different ways of the marsh-based society, she wanted to travel more, and she set off to the City of Ortish.
Upon entering such a city, she had regretted ever adventuring here, but she learned a lot from the people. What brought her to Ortish was the money and work opportunity. The guy she worked for in Oceania wrote a letter to his cousin who held a boating shop in Ortish. Soon enough she was working with the most sarcastic, bloodthirsty, and sleaziest people you could ever meet.
All these people and experiences shaped the young girl to the woman she is today; she is known as the Captain of the Andorsa, one of the most ruthless pirate yet most respectful pirate crew you will ever meet.

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[DarkStar]

Name: Sarah Kruze
Age: 22
Height and weight: 5"3 103 lbs

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Where are you from? The Colony Atlas

Quick skills: Convincing lying, good with children and able to throw her voice.

Advanced skills: Hacking, self-taught from a young age. She found a glitch in a library terminal which she exploited to elevate her access from children's literature to more adult topics. Ever since then she learned more and more. Most of her knowledge comes from a small highly illegal book that resided in her families personal collection. Mechanical design and repair, this knowledge is mostly theoretical and comes from handed-down information through the generations and books from the family library. She has some limited experience from fixing the occasional clock and watch that survived the end of the surface. Electronics, again, mostly theoretical, since parts are quite rare indeed to tinker with and without a college education? Pretty inaccessible. This comes from the Atlas library and a few dozen books in the family library.

Backstory: Sarah comes from what was effective nobility. A descendant of Tenna Kruze, whom without, the Atili just simply would have been a figment of Asmus' imagination. Her skills in multidisciplinary engineering were simply legendary and the family continued on in her name, every expansion and major project the Atili commenced had A Kruze at its helm or involved. That was until about 40 years ago when Lindon Azure became convinced through calculation that the surface world was habitable. Of course, the government had known this for some time, but Lindon was quick to try and spread that information in a way that was provable and easy to understand. The funny thing was, his father, and his father's father all knew this. It just was never spoken, they knew the culture of the government, they'd worked within its inner circles all their lives. He'd committed the gravest of sins, and he paid for it with his life. His son Andrew thought well of his father, and quickly dragged the family's name through the mud. By the time Sarah was born? The family's once-legendary finances were rotten. Much of the wealth of the Kruze family was in its connections and ability to get things done. With Lindon disappeared and his son obsessed with his father's work and vanishing the connections the family had maintained had dried up, once Sarah was of age for university? Well, they simply didn't have the finances, nor the connections to get her education to be formalized. It didn't mean she didn't have the legendary Kruze mind, it's just she didn't have that piece of paper to work in the fields they were famous for.

With that, Sarah began to fall in with the wrong crowds, rebels, degenerates, free thinkers. It only served to tarnish her family's name more, it didn't matter too much though, the reality was, the name was already mud. There was little she could do to recover, nor build the name back to what it once was. A few families stuck by them, but they were of lesser provenance and couldn't do much to help. Now? She's among the better hackers in the atli, and she's found quite some information that could get her vanished like her grandfather, she refused to let her dad in on anything, he was close enough to being disappeared as it was, but she wanted nothing more than vengeance on the government for their crimes. For that list is long and varied.

[Tsukai]

Jotun "Rook" Dietrich

Age: Roughly 16

Height and weight: 5'6" 135lbs

Appearance

Where From: Atlas.

Occupation: 'Round the clock Survival

Quick skills: Fighting, Long distance running, persuasion.

Advanced skills: Advanced Electronics, Cartography

Backstory:

Jotun's upbringing was mostly motherless, since his mom died during childbirth. The only time he had a motherlike figure is when he would be at Lumin's house and his parents would show up. To Jotun, Lumin had an awesome set up, where his parents would only be there once in a while for a quick visit. Jotun's home life was less favorable his father was a raging alcoholic, he didn't even know what his dad did for work he just knew that he was home often and never really seemed to go anywhere other than to restock his liquor. In his fathers eyes Jotun was a fuck up and didn't deserve him as a father. He would regularly get to the point of physical aggression when drinking which is where Jotun developed his fighting skills.

One day, Lumin came over and knocked on his living quarters door, Jotun met him out in the hallways since his dad was already drunk for the day. Lumin explained that he hadn't seen his parents in multiple days and was starting to get worried. Since Lumin's parents were more like parents to him he told Lumin to go pack a bag and meet him back at his place in an hour. He headed back inside and packed all the essential things like lots of dry food and some clothes, taking quite a few water bottles as well. The backpack was heavy. He stepped outside his living quarters at the predetermined time and saw Lumin heading his way. "Now, Let's go find your parents" He said and they headed off into the halls in the direction they always watched Lumin's parents go.

[SpaceByn]

Name: Bai Ling
Age: late 20s
Body Type: Slim and average height
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From: The port originaly but has sinced move to live and work in the gardens.
Occupation: Botonist
Quick Skills: Identify plants and their needs and uses.
Advanced skill: Masters in biology and botony from an Atli uni.
Backstory: Bai grew up in the port and discovered they had an affinity to plant life. as a child he discovered nutriouscious mushrooms that grew in the less well maintained parts of the port and cultivated them to help feed himself and the other poor kids around him. When security discovered his unlicensed farm he was refered to a university where he was given a scholarship to get a masters in biology and botony which lead to him being employed in the gardens to help maintain the artificial ecosystem. The longer he has worked in the gardens the more his affinity with plants has grown, he is able to sense when the ecosystem is out of balance and which plants are failing and why.

[Meglegere]

Lumin "Bishop" Wright

Age: Around 15

Height and Weight: 5'2, 110 pounds

Appearance

Where are you from: Atlas

Occupation: Living is a full-time job

Quick Skills: Sewing, enough fighting to defend himself, long-distance running, and the ability to squeeze into small spaces thanks to his size

Advanced skills: Basic first aid, Adept learner

Backstory: Lumin was born to parents who seemed to always be working. He would spend long nights in his room reading any and every book he could get his hands on. He planned on becoming an engineer and working in one of the centers to prove to his parents that he deserved their undivided attention. Although Lumin’s parents always checked upon him at least once every few days, he felt as if they were only making sure he was still alive and didn’t always care how he felt. After a particularly long break without seeing his parents, Lumin started to get worried. He went to his only close friend that he felt he could talk to, Jotun, and asked for advice on what to do. Jotun simply said, “pack a bag and meet me back here in an hour”. Lumin decided to pack a few of his favorite books, a couple of snacks, and some clothes. When Lumin got back Jotun told him the plan, “Now, we go find your parents”.

[Kidgoat]

Nicolai Casmore

Name: Nicolai Casmore

Age: 35-45

Height and weight: 5’6”, 157 lbs

Reference picture or description: A sort of chubby man with downturned eyes and a slightly wrinkled face. His hair is auburn and his pupils are some shade of brown.

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Where are you from? Somewhere close to America, Atlas. He resides out in the halls, closer to the artificial mines.

Occupation: Miner

Quick skills: Navigation and Perception

Advanced skills: As a miner, he’s learned how to operate the equipment moderately well. Alongside that, he’s been taught how to identify defects in the equipment and repair surface-level problems.

Backstory He’s had a comparatively boring life so far. Born in the ports. A relatively ok homelife, both mother and father were technically there but the father was always out looking for work. His father had always avoided work involving contracts and such simply because he never liked the idea of being bound to something he didn’t love, so he spent a lot of time doing odd jobs that robots couldn’t easily replace. This worked well when it was only him and his mother, however after Nicolai was born he realized he didn’t want to raise a child in a place like the ports. So around the time Nicolai was 6, he decided to finally get a job in the mining union to try to get his family in an apartment somewhere in Atlas. A few years later they ended up in America, but though their living conditions had improved nothing really changed. He still had a fairly distant relationship with his parents and though he was able to make a few friends, nobody really stayed in touch with him after highschool. After finishing school he didn’t have the passion to pursue anything. Despite his father’s advice to start exploring what made him happy and his warnings not to join, he eventually followed after his father and signed up to be in the mining union in order to maintain his lifestyle.

Somewhere along the years, as he was working, he realized his father wasn’t in the mines with him. Confused about what might’ve happened, he started to search for him. However, as the weeks went by, as the realization that his father had disappeared out of nowhere hit him, it crushed him. He literally popped out of existence, and there was nothing he could do to find him. Afterwards he dove himself into his work, blocking out the outside world and neglecting everything else other than food and mining. It took him several years to finally realize that working himself so hard was going to take a toll on him, and that he’d have to accept what happened if he was going to move on.

Present day, he still lives a pretty monotonous life for the most part. He’s lived with the fact that his father was gone fairly well, if only to make sure it didn’t interfere with his life again. He drifted apart from his family’s apartment, moving to one of the rooms along the halls. He’s been mining for 20 something years now, even though all the excitement that came with the job had faded away a long time ago. The typical banter across the mine keeps some of the dullness at bay, and the sudden disappearances of workmates every now and again add that small hint of fear to his life, but otherwise it moves slowly. Well, up until now probably. Maybe. We’ll see.

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Alexander Defu II

"Anyone can make it if they try and suffer enough,"
~ Alexander Defu in an interview with the press of Atlas.

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Name
Alexander Klaus Defu the Second
Age
25
Height & Weight
6'2" & approximately 175 lbs

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Quick Skills: Communication, manipulation, writing, leadership, reading, researching, and creative thinking.

Advanced Skills: Innovation, engineering, up to date technical knowledge, critical reasoning, entrepreneurship, and quietness.

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The Origins of Alexander Defu II

Growing up in the Ports of the Atli, the lower class of society had a rough origin, but he made it through the scraps. One of the only individuals in 400 years to have gone from having nothing to being a billionaire.

His story began at the Ports, Water Down Orphanage, where he and many other children were dropped off because their parents either passed away or couldn’t afford them. The orphanage is one of the only places that the government funds in the Ports and a lot of people will purposely drop their children off to have hope at a better life.
Alexander Defu the II was dropped off at an older age, his father died in a mining accident which their mother couldn’t believe. She cursed the government and claimed that Alexander the I did not die in such an accident and that the claim by the government officials was fake. They were covering something else up.
Multiple times the government has claimed that Delta Defu had mental problems upon mental problems and no one should believe her. Before marrying Alexander, she was a perfectly normal girl and Alexander the I was known to be an activist and figuring out how to escape the Atli society because he swore that there was life outside the man-made walls.

After the death of his father and his mother becoming more active in being against the government, she got sick under unknown circumstances while Alexander the II was around the age of twelve. None of the Port doctors could figure out why she was sick and she would claim that the government used biological warfare against the people of Atlas, this was one of those times she swore before passing away.
She lived her last few months in the Port Hospital before being sent home to die, Alexander stayed up all night with her while she slowly passed away trying to stay strong for her child.

“Mother you can let go-” begging the woman to let go, “-you do not have to suffer anymore,” he cried while trying to stay strong for his mother. That night was life changing to the young boy, watching his mother pass, and being sent to an orphanage the next day without any warning. Government officials came in and took him away. The last time he saw his mother, she was lying completely still and lifeless on her bed. He never even got to go to a funeral.

A promise was made the night of her death, he promised that he would figure out who caused her and his father’s death, and he would get back on them. No one but them knew about this promise and Alexander began his new life out of ambition and determination.

The Ports had no child labor laws, so he went on to find different jobs. Maybe a new job every week which was overwhelming, exhausting, and out of this world [not in a goodway]. All the money he would receive from such drastic jobs, he spent the coin on tipping the robot. He wanted the scholarship coin and he was determined to get it.

Finally, one day, he got it! He was amazed and somebody tried to steal it. Alexander was fifteen years old and an older man tried to take the coin away from him. Multiple people were asking to look at the coin in assumption, Alexander realized most wanted to take it from him. Either for their children or their own gain, he wouldn’t show anybody, and that day he ran all the way to the center.

Going up to the counter and putting the coin in the ladies face, “I have one, I have one, please register me!” he begged before she took it. Amazed that she was seeing a dirty Port child with a university coin. She assumed he stole it from somebody and asked him to sit down. She not shalantly went through the tapes and watched the hallways and realized that the child won it fair and square.
After hours of sitting there, Alexander was told that he was registered into school and university. That he needed to fill out some paperwork and make his new journey to Atlas Colony for boarding school as soon as possible.

That’s when his whole life flipped around, he was put in boarding school, and nicely the government pays for everything when you win a coin. They paid for his room and board, extra necessities, and they even gave the young man a spending budget of 2000 digitals a month. This was enough to buy extra clothes, meals, or other things that he needed for school.
After participating in boarding school and becoming known as a young entrepreneur, Alexander created his first business before even reaching college. He was focused on the Atlas stock markets and was making bank from his extracurricular activities focusing on business and accounting.

While going to college the young Alexander Defu completed a doctorate in nuclear engineering, a masters in political science, and two bachelor degrees in mechanical & robotics engineering and electrical engineering. On top of all his school based achievements the young man has picked up many hobbies in different fields of advanced learning and has a job teaching as a professor at the Advanced Technology Learning Academic School [A.T.L.A.S], one of the best universities in Atlas.

The young man is accused by the news broadcasters to be the secret leader of the Surface Finders. No one knows who or where the activist group started, but they are the ones that cause the most trouble in the government's eyes. His house can be found around the Americas Atlas, yet not many know where he exactly lives or has ever been to his house.
Though a lot of people know the young billionaire by his story. He is the founder and CEO of Defu Technology and Research center, a privatized company that restricts government access (one of the biggest reasons the media always triggers to him being a cultist, a leader of an activist group, etc...).